Bluedragon

The 3 forces of WoW

When playing WoW, you have 3 things to contend with:

Movement (moving your character out of AoE or into position)
Casting Spells
Targeting

The default control scheme is crap. Bye.

I’m trying to figure out how to control these 3 things. Playing with a new layout. Having everything hotkeyed, leaving my mouse free to target whatever I need and to use for movement.

I still catch myself clicking on my spells with my mouse button, but I’m trying to train myself not to. In easy fights, I almost don’t need the mouse at all (using wasd to get into position, then cast spells with hotkeys and tab for targeting).

Sadly 30 buttons isn’t enough. That seems a bit insane to me. While its boring to click just a few keys over and over, 30 different spells (during combat, there’s other things like buffs/etc that are not hot keyed because they are out of combat mostly) is pretty nuts.

Attempting a new layout

Updated:

I’m trying to setup a new layout/UI. The focuses are:
1. All buttons are shortcuts, used on the left hand only, leaving my right hand on the mouse always. And avoiding clicking on spells.
2. Most important things near the middle, least important near the sides.

Facebook vs WordPress

I guess I have lots of control (even source) over wordpress blog (though little time to play with it) but it seems to me that facebook is just another blog (with gawd aweful games! Stop playing farmville!).

My DK needs some tanking gear

From

WowHead

Back:
VH http://www.wowhead.com/?item=43363

Chest:
OK http://www.wowhead.com/?item=43279

Waist:
OC http://www.wowhead.com/?item=36952

Wrist:
UP http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37040

Ring:
OK http://www.wowhead.com/?item=43277

Neck:
UP http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37053

2H
UP http://www.wowhead.com/?item=35576

Main Hand:
Quest: http://www.wowhead.com/?item=44735
Quest: http://www.wowhead.com/?item=44734
HOL: http://www.wowhead.com/?item=36984

OffHand:
DTK http://www.wowhead.com/?item=35630

Instances:
Gundrak has no tank gear.
UK has no tank gear.
Nexus has no tank gear.

Obtained:
Leg VH http://www.wowhead.com/?item=43353 9/2/2009
Ring AN http://www.wowhead.com/?item=35661 9/2/2009

Ares

Oh, this is pretty old news: I got a new system, and named it Ares (god of war) since it has an Intel i7 CPU with an ATI video card (ask me where I work if you don’t get the reference).

Ordered May 22, arrived June 7th or so.

Case: Nzxt Apollo Gaming Tower Case w/420W Power Supply Black
Power Supply: 750 Watt — Corsair CMPSU-750TX Power Supply Quad SLI Ready
Processor: Intel® Core™ i7 920 Processor (4x 2.66GHz/8MB L3 Cache)
Processor Cooling: Certified CPU Fan and Heatsink
Motherboard: Asus P6T Intel X58 Chipset CrossFire and SLI Supported w/7.1 Sound, Triple-Channel DDR3, Gb LAN, S-ATA Raid, USB 2.0, 3-Way SLI PCI-E MB 3-Way SLI
Memory: 6 GB [2 GB X3] DDR3-1600 Triple Memory Module Corsair or Major Brand
Video Card: ATI Radeon HD 4770 512MB PCI-Express x16
Hard Drive: 500 GB HARD DRIVE [Serial-ATA-II, 3Gb, 7200 RPM, 16M Cache]
CD-RW/DVD-RW Drive: LG 22X Dual Format/Double Layer DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW Drive Black
Sound Card: 3D Premium Surround Sound Onboard
Speaker System: iBUYPOWER 2.1 Channel Stereo Super Bass Subwoofer Speaker System
Network Card: Onboard LAN Network (Gb or 10/100)
Flash Media Reader/Writer: 12-In-1 Internal Flash Media Card Reader/Writer Black
Warranty: Warranty Service Standard 3-Year Limited Warranty + Lifetime Technical Support

7 years

Eu Te amo voce muito!

First VoA 10 Run

Ran VoA for the first time. Healed.
Very smooth except a wipe when the druid decided to DPS the adds on the first boss.
Second attempt, the OT died, but we were able to heal the MT thru the fight while he tanked everything.
Didn’t get any loot (2 rogue drops, pally and lock).

Phather’s Epic Flying

So, I have a carpet, but not the gold to train the skill necessary to ride it. 3.2 there will be a discount, but i need rep.

Ice crown, howling fnord quests…

Phather’s First Naxx Run

So I was trying to run another heroic, but damned if I could find a group for anything. Decided to look for Naxx stuff, but figured it was too late. Found a group, lost the tank and DPS, but finally got the 10 people required and killed some bosses in the spider wing and 1 in the construction wing.

I was a healer so it was pretty easy.

Learned that levitate is very useful for walking over the slime that hits you for 12000 (?) HP if you try to walk through it.

I didn’t get any loot (couple things dropped I could have used), but I had some fun, and learned some of the fights.

Stayed up WAY too late though.