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 :)

So, it's been a while since I documented my (mis)adventures as a paladin. Level 62 now! Grinded up my engineering all the way to 350 (well 355 now) and sporting a nifty pair of [Justicebringer 2000 Specs].   Though I do must wear cloth now cause it's the only stuff I have that have sockets in em, and they're better healing gear anyways, all for the sake of getting the [Insightful Earthstorm Diamond] to activate.   Anyone know the proc rate and how much mana it gives?   I only had a bit of recount and it only gave back like 900 mana in an entire Blood Furnace run.  

So, for a level 62 these are my current stats:

• 614 Healing
• 22.61% Holy Crit
• 27 MP5 while casting
• 6950 Mana

Heh for 5 mans, as long as only 1 guy is taking damage, still seems like my heals are too much for their health pools.  lol   Think highest so far is like a 6.7K hp druid and I can lay 3-4K heals on em.   Hardly ever go oom too.

Solo'ing elites is kinda cool too.    On my rogue I'd have to pop CDs and use tricks enough in a race to kill it before it kills me.  lol   On the pally it is basically auto attack, and heal.   Sure it may take 5-10 mins to kill but they'll die.  lol   Dunno why but I find some sort of perverse pleasure out of this. 

Also, with level 62, I found Crusader Aura!   Yes it's fun!  I understand why it should always be on now!  lol  There's gotta be a mod out there that auto turns it on when you mount, and turn it off otherwise!   I should look.

Anyways as a final note, I'll post my "healing" UI.  Heh it's very crappy.  One day I'll fix it.  Maybe. 

Tuque's Crappy UI

I Wrote This a few weeks ago in English class for some extra credit. It was done in about 30 min lolz

Coming Soon From Author Garreth Shilih. Downfall.

 An excerpt from the books is below.

  In a time when the world was young, there were many races that lived throughout the world. There were the Elves, a mystic and very ancient race. They lived secluded in their land known as Sheeyn on the western continent of the world. They stayed secluded from the wars and politics of the other major races, such as the young and noble humans. The humans were the youngest of the races of the world. They had come about only about in the last 500 years. The elves and humans however both feared the great evil that the strongest of their magi foretold. The Eradar.

Reading this story on WoWInsider made me laugh: http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/05/14/the-gquit-macro/

Didn't we have someone who did this?  They had the foresight to build a massively long goodbye, then gquit, then logoff.  All in a macro.  Wow.

Well, I finally moved over to a completely Linux laptop.  So far, it's pretty freaking sweet.  Once you get used to the "linux" way and get a little comfy with the command line, there's some incredible free and quality software out there. Here are some screenshots of WoW running in windowed mode:

Ubuntu WoW 1

The laptop has a pretty crappy video card, so I hope that I see larger performance on my desktop when I convert it over soon.  I also found WoW UI Updater (http://wuu.vagabonds.info/menu.php) which I'm running using a Python interpreter natively in Linux.  So far, so good :)

Here's so more screenies: 

Ubuntu WoW 2

Ubuntu WoW 3

Plato - regarded as the faster of Philisophy by many - suggested we don't see reality, but rather what is considered shadows of true reality, and we only see the true world, a place of perfection and majesty, through death. He suggests that the world we see is filled with shadows and imperfections, and we search for perfection til death.

 World of Warcraft, which for many, can become a reality, is large part of many peoples lives, especially those who raid. I hate those who label people who raid having an addiction, however, I don't eliminate the fact that people do have an addiction to the game, but why?

In the game, their is limits, there is a level where you cannot go beyond. Once achieving complete perfection of your character through your chosen path, you can do no more. Do people have an addiction of the game itself, or the offer of perfection that it others? Plato suggests in his theorems that once you've found perfection, you must be dead, completed. For example, once you obtain all the gear you can, max everything you can, you too are completed - the game offers closure of perfection.

Obviously, one may say this all on a materialistic level. But we all live in a capitalistic world, so materialism is a core factor of reality. Self-fulfillment is also a factor, but when those have an addiction to the game, their self-fulfillment is achieved through World of Warcraft, thus negating outside influence. Although this all on a theoretical basis, when applied logically to the behaviours exercised by people, it isn't as irrational as it may seem.