Hey guys,

a lot of you probably dont know me, but my two job days are one for a while (probably a long while) so ive decided that ill be resubbing soon.  i probably wont be looking to join anything more than randoms, but ill be back in game soon on a semi regular basis.  miss you all, hope that raiding and cata are as cool as the screenshots ive been seeing.

epat

I never thought I would be making a post like this, but my time in the world of warcraft has come to an end. when i came home from work last night my parents were waiting to talk with me about my future, and i had nothing to tell them. for the last three years ive worked at a job i dislike with customers and bosses who continually treat me badly, and have barely been to any auditions. my life has been in a peter pan holding pattern of not growing up, and WoW has been a large factor in my being content with an unsatisfactory life.

Effective immediately my computer has been unplugged and my subscription cancelled. I wish all of you in kitten brigade, lava crab and downfall in general the very best. the gaming experience of WoW has not been what has kept me here so long, its been all of you.

In the future i hope to have good news for all of of you on my life, but for now Epat is saying goodbye.

the last two weeks have been really hard on me as far as work goes.  i've now slept a total of 4 times at my store, 4 times at my parents house in the last 14 days.  my parents asked me to come over for christmas eve when it poured snow into our area and my car has become an inert clump of metal the last four days as people randomly abandon stranded vehicles near our driveway and walk home.  I don't think I'd mind nearly as much if the computers in my family's house actually ran wow, but they're all archaic and don't accept any of the installs. so, here I am on the one working internet computer after working 50 hours this week telling you all how much I'd rather be at home and online.  QQ for epat, QQ.

So, after patiently biding my time for over a year and a half, I
finally replaced my last piece of kara gear with a badge piece.  I
now have four pieces of t6 (OMG shadowbolt bonus>all) Last week, for
the first time since we were learning bosses in the d1 bc instances, I
experienced a threat cap.  I actually pulled aggro off of our t6
threat machine and had to be bop'd...It was awesome.

The only
things that I see as gear upgrades easily within reach are the
instances we don't do, or if we do, raid on days I'm working.  WTB
exalted ring from Scale of the sands.  My ring on pudo procs all
the time and I would love to add that little extra kick to my
constantly casting ass.  Perhaps even upgrade my badge piece to
malefic gloves and be full 5/5 t6.  (the gloves are probably the
strongest piece of the malefic set)  I've been steadily collecting
blessing cards to turn in but I keep giving random ones to
guildies.  I hope we do Illidan to the point where most of our
casters have the skull of guldan, because really, the spike in dps I
see between enixa and myself of 2% is that trinket...and I'm hugely
competitive :)

 /dips into his well of warlockdom and spews forth a vomit of text regarding warlocks 

Honestly, Affliction when we were raiding gruul's and SSC was
awesome As haste gear and higher item levels started getting into the
mix, the sheer amount of shadowbolts an epat geared caster can toss out
that hit anywhere from 2.5k-8.7k is quite astonishing.  In long fights
where my only job is to blast the ever loving hell out of a boss
(illidan being the obvious example) myself and dikymo (both not
tanking, both sac/snf locks) have topped the dps meters.  The only
thing that stops us is the threat cap.  With a shadow priest and a
shaman, a caster group with mixed arcane mages/bolt locks are the
powerhouses of the dps.  Oh, and eff the freakin' 40% passive threat
redux on arcane mages, eff it. 

Side note: In Hamfist i'm seeing a cool trend of the purple squares
getting love in the shaman/shadow priest groups with the arcane mages
on nuke fights.  What I kind of giggle at is the thought of an arcane
mage trying to do anything like long term massive dps without a
shadowpriest at the very least.  If an arcane mage in the tanking group
could top an affliction locks dps, I'd be very very impressed, just
from the sheer amount of mana conservation/pot chugging/gem guzzling
they'd have to do.  Most mages respec to fire or frost (from my
experience with hamfist) if they know they are/are not going to be
getting a shadow priest.  The warlocks traditionally stay with one spec
(affliction or destro) and are put wherever there's room and inevitably
there's always, always, always the call from the raid leader for "do
you run with your imp out" and I have to bid goodbye to my affliction
lock brother jester who sticks his imp down like the totem it's always
been valued for. 

To answer Dufe's Question:

So last night in a fit of testosterone fueled competition, pyrael and I raced each other through our last level on our pallies to see who would hit 70 first.  The bastard shouted in guild for 20 mins looking for somebody to power level his ass through the last four bubbles while I diligently ripped through ghosts in Netherstorm.  I won.  /played time to 70 : 10 days 1 hour 32 mins.  Got Jasmynn online to help me easymode the Epic mount quest and now have a blood knight tabard that is oh so sexy....only question now is...WTF do I do with a 70 horde pally?