Just putting all 3 in one spot.

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So I'm starting a list of current fails in the video game industry. This is a growing list and if you wish to contribute please comment below and I will update the post. Fails are in no particular order, these are just a few to start it off.

Diablo 2 patch 1.13 and ladder reset. Stated to be out in 2 weeks (April) it has still yet to come.

http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=16474108702&sid=3000

http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=16474108701&sid=3000

MechWarrior 4 free release in honor of 25th anniversary. Announced in July, all it said was "soon".

http://battletech.catalystgamelabs.com/2009/07/09/mechwarrior-to-be-dist...

Duke Nukem Forever, I think we all know the gist of the story. Scrapped, scrapped, and scrapped again.

http://duke.a-13.net/

Daikatana, with a character named superfly johnson, how could this be a failure? Another case of bad planning, too much spending, internal politics, and switching engines.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daikatana

This is not a BIS discussion (far from it), but I did some excel number crunching to see just how high a crit chance a mage can reach in currently available gear. My results were rather amusing (if I did the math correctly):

In currently available gear, mages can reach over 100% critical strike chance on the fireball spell. I calculated the crit ceiling (give our take 1% margin of error) to be 101.44%. The gear set required to reach this rate, however, would be well under hit cap and at a pretty low haste rating (<200).

The gear set I compiled to reach the highest base crit rate before talents and buffs is linked here: http://www.wowhead.com/?compare=47524;47758;47762;47759;47760;47694;45493;47587;45236;47977;49234;47237;49486;45518;47946;45170

The methodology with this gear set is to load up only on items that have both Crit rating as well as Spirit (boosts crit rating with Molten Armor). There are a couple of pieces in here that do not fit this methodology, but must be put in to fit an essential set bonus.

That said I'm going to make a hybrid build model off of this template and attempt to reach as close to 100% crit as I can while being hit capped in 25m raids + at a respectable haste rating (~450), and might start using some NRP towards this set. I wouldn't be going for this necessarily as a "main" raiding spec.

The base crit rate offered by the 100% gear set is 65.44% (on Fireball). This 65.44% includes:

• 2PC T9 Bonus - which, when used with Molten Armor, provides 70% of your spirit as critical strike rating


• Human Racial - +3% spirit


• Student of the Mind 3/3 - +7% Spirit


• Typical 25M Static and % Stat Buffs including Arcane Intellect, Imp MotW, Divine Spirit, BoKings, Earth and Moon / Elemental Oath


• Every Single one of the 13 gem slots being filled with +20 crit or +34 crit dragon's eyes for JC's

Additional Buffs/Debuffs/Talents that boost Fireball Crit Chance from 65.44% to 101.44% include:

• Glyph of Fireball (5%): http://www.wowhead.com/?item=42739


• 4PC T9 Bonus (5%)


• Improved Scorch Talent (3%): http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=12873


• Critical Mass (6%): http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=11368


• Pyromanic (3%): http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=34296


• Focus Magic Trade with Mage (5-6%): http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=54646


• Improved Scorch Debuff (5%): http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=12873


• Heart of the Crusader (3%): http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=20337

I wonder what kind of rotation this would entail...I guess it would be Scorch, Fireball, Hot Streak, Hot Streak, Hot Streak, Hot Streak, etc, etc, etc....

BIG @SS EDIT: In the gear set above, I forgot a very important component - enchants.

These are the ideal enchants to boost crit rate:

• Arcanum of Burning Mysteries (20 rating): http://www.wowhead.com/?item=44159


• Greater Inscription of the Storm (15 rating): http://www.wowhead.com/?item=44135


• Brilliant Spellthread (20 spirit = 24 spirit after % stat boosters = 18 rating) http://www.wowhead.com/?item=41602


• Icewalker (12 rating): http://www.wowhead.com/?item=38986


• Enchant Chest - Major Spirit (15 spirit = 18 spirit = 13 rating): http://www.wowhead.com/?item=38928

These enchants yield 1.83% critical strike chance, pushing the total to 101.44% + 1.83% = 103.27% - barring any boss level spell crit chance reductions (which I have found to be inconclusive)

So in my senior seminar class, we are making web pages which will basically function as an online portfolio. Including, resume, bio, photos etc. Our lab computers have dreamweaver 8 (or whatever it was when macromedia still owned it) I have the CS 4 version. 

I was wondering if perhaps Garreth or someone else with knowledge of such things to point me in a direction of some tutorials or tips they could offer on getting started and making a well developed page with such resources.

(I have access to the whole Adobe suite) our lab computers also have a few other programs, fireworks or some shit idk i'll look when the professor isnt in here. 

anyway any tips or good places you know for tutorials would be greatly appreciated!

I got an email from Blizzard this morning requesting a password reset and then another saying my account was banned for 24 hours.  Since all I have done in the last few days was do a Headless Horseman run on Karli, I'm concerned that my account has been hacked in to in some way.  The email read: 

"An investigation of the World of Warcraft account *** has produced evidence that the account has been accessed by someone who is not allowed to use it."

I can take care of the annoying details, but since I have no idea what kind of activity occurred after I last logged in I was hoping someone else might. 

<3 Karli

I have a question for all you gearheads in guild.

Earlier this evening I hopped in my car to head out and watch a movie.  When I started my car, I noticed a high-pitched "whirring" sort of sound as well as a low, dull wobbling/throbbing sort of sound behind it.  When I'd accelerate the whirring would get noticeably louder, and the pitch of the whirr would change when I changed gears.

As the engine warmed up the whirring sound would get quieter and lower, but it never went away.  Not until I stopped the car and removed the key.

I went to a gas station later, popped the hood.  Oil, power steering, brake fluids, everything checks out.  The only thing is that the whirring sounds like it's either coming from the belts or possibly down in the axles of the front wheels - sort of hard to tell as it gets louder when I step on the gas (and I can't step on the gas when I'm outside trying to listen for the sound's location).

Make and model of this car is a 1997 Toyota Corolla, if that matters.

Any thoughts?