So, I have a windows 7 beta copy. When is it required to swap to the normal version, how much will it cost, and how do I go about backing up all my shit? Holla here

So I wanted to make a post to gauge interest in starting our sat am raid back up.  I am going to take Torvo's place and lead the raid.  I hope to get a few other regulars that can keep it going on the one saturday a month I head down to Portland. 

With that said I plan on starting at 11am and running VOA if we have it and then either going straight to Ulduar or hitting up Ony first.  If you are interested send me a tell or leave a msg on here.  Let me know what toon's you have available and specs.   We are also going to shorten the time to about 4 hours and then extend it a week if we dont make the progress we are hoping for. 

Rather than write some big gushing "good bye" post, I'm just going to cut to the chase. It's the standard "my real life isn't leaving me enough time for WOW" business... I like boobs, girls have them, I meet more of them getting out of the house than I do hanging around in my PJs at the computer all day.

That said, I've finally hit the point where - as much as I love each and every one of you, including Epat and Pyrael for sucking me into this seedy world 18 months ago (despite what I may say if you ask me in a less emotionally vulnerable moment) - it's time to close the book on WOW. Not on my friendships here - and I fully expect to continue dropping by the site, chatting with you on Facebook, and attending any NW guild events (provided you'll have a crusty old alumni), maybe even popping into vent! It's not goodbye... Just, hell, when was the last time I logged into the game, anyway?

I cancelled my subscription and it's over on the 17th, but if anyone is interested in having another account with a level 30-something Pally and a pretty cool L80 Shaman, I'd rather you have them than they fade off into obscurity and oblivion. Torvo's max JC and Enchanting with a ton of recipes, so he makes a great gold pinata if nothing else.

No. Seriously. If you want the account, just let me know. All I want is for it to go to a good home.

Most of the reason I'm trying to keep this so businesslike is I refuse to think of my relationship with all of you as being over. I don't believe in saying goodbye - because as far as I'm concerned, it's just "until next time".

So hit me up if you're in Seattle and want to grab food/drinks. Or you need a place to crash. Or you want a guided tour of the Starbucks HQ. Hit me up when Starcraft 2 comes out if you want to mess around on Battle.net (yes, I'm much more excited for SC2 than WOW). Throw me an invite on XBOX Live, even though I usually just watch movies on NetFlix and play old sports games... We can Netflix Party Watch "Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter" or some other equally terrible movie (Heeb McMazeltov).

Most importantly, keep being your beautiful selves. I'll miss you, and I'll be around.

--Brendan

I'm looking to buy some arctic furs, or if theres anything anyone would be willing to trade, i am a JC/alchemist/LW/inscriptionist. 

I'm looking for 6 arctic furs in the immediate/near future for black chitin bracers and several more in the later future for some ulduar LW crafted gear. 

if you have any, C.O.D them my way or pst in game.

thanks!

http://th07.deviantart.net/fs14/300W/i/2007/080/f/0/Mermaid_Musings___Co...

credit to the guy listed in above link

There are two ways to deal with the adds in the heroic Anub'arak 25 man encounter: Have 2 tanks take 2 adds each while each is 12 yards apart, or have 1 tank tank all 4 adds in full unhittable gear.

At the time of this posting, and the help of Rawr to find out the proper avoidance values, I can achieve 97.2038% avoidance. (Updated: current unhittable is now 99.6928) This has been achieved with the standard raid buffs (imp mark, kings, sanc, horn of winter), [39666], [44328], [42999]. This also includes mixology for [39666] for an extra 16 agility, but not [44328] (extra 16 defense rating) as the mixology effects for this elixir requires the ability to actually craft it. I only leveled alchemy over the weekend and the two times I have used Northrend Alchemy Research, I did not learn [44328]. In addition, there has been discussion of possibly using scorpid sting and/or insect swarm on the adds to gain another 3% of being unhittable. While it looks on paper a great way to stay unhittable, and we have 3 hunters and a boomkin keep every add debuffed every 20 seconds, is this worth the lost of 4 people dpsing and switching to debuff the 4 adds enough to outweigh the gain of a tank who has switched to dps? It's hard to say, but I don't want to take that much of a chance if we're going to miss enrage timers.

What does my unhittable gear consist of? http://www.wowhead.com/?profile=15642501 . Yes it is loaded with enchants from BC, but all valid ones. The vaule of wowhead showing what my dodge and parry can have is not correct that it doesn't show the high uptime of [47664] and the high chance that blade ward can proc and stack.
Helm:
16defense/17 dodge is better than 30stam/20 defense

Cloak:
16 defense is better than 22 agi (will be switching this soon)

Chest:
22 defense is better than 10 stats

Bracer:
12 defense is better than 40 stam

glove
20 agility is better than 8 defense or 2%threat/10 parry rating

boot:
16 agility sometimes is better than 8 defense, 22stam, or Tuskarr's Vitality (15 stam +8% run speed) (switching as soon as I can)

Shield:
15 block rating is better than 20 defense or 18 stam

Rings: (enchanters only)
4 stats is better than 30 stam

Gems:
meta:[41396] has more avoidance than [41380] then find 2 sockets to gem with orange or purple gems.
other sockets: Fill other sockets with 20 defense generally unless the socket bonus helps with avoidance like how [39638] has a socket bonus of 6 block rating. Why is Rawr ignoring the other socket bonuses in my shoulders? Probably because dodge will go on DR as my dodge rating is around the point where it can DR, but blocking has no DR.

Upgrades:

To obtain full unhittable for me still requires 4.3962%. (updated:1.9072%) Where are these upgrades. Well oddly enough, there aren't many as I have most of the unhittable items already equipped. There are 2 ways to get the last 4.4% (updated: 1.9%) or so unhittable: grab the top 4 items unhittable items, or grab as many of the "lower" valued unhittable items as i can.
Helm:
.09% [40366] Sapph25

Neck
.67% [44665] Maly25 neck reward
.26% [44660] Maly10 neck reward(has been ticked for a swap, currently equipped)

Shoulder
1.48% [40334] naxx25 gothik or gluth
1.13% [45697] kolo 10 man
.98% [46177] kill yogg25 and get the armor token
.80% [45385] kill torium10 and get the armor token
.6% [48647] heroic armor vendor
.6% [48646] heroic armor vendor
.41% [47698] 45 triumph tokens
.29% [37635](a blue BoP?) 2nd boss in gun'drek
.25% [48637] (trophy)

Cloak
.56% [45322] Coak of the IC 10 BoE (one was found in someone's bank)
.31% Magni's Resolution (not found on wowhead at all yet) heroic 25 man tribue chest
.03% [48675] heroic 10 tribute chest

Chest:
.57% [40279] 25grobbulus or gluth
.52% [40579] naxx25 chest token
.37% [45334] 25auriaya

Bracer:
.12% [47111] heroic 25man twins

Glove: No upgrades

Belt:
.50% [40263] 25patchwerk or gluth
.04% [47076] heroic 25 faction champ

Pants: No upgrades

Boot:
1.76% [47003] heroic 25Lord Jaraxxus
1.37% [37712] h DTK first boss
1.01% [46997] normal 25Lord Jaraxxus
.98% [39717] BoE boots from naxx25 (has been ticketed, now equipped)
.87% [45560] crafted (10 titansteel bars, 12 fire, 6 orbs)
.85% [45988] mirimon10
.84% [47952] heroic 25twins
.43% [47738] 10twins
.07% [40743] 40 valor tokens (may not be worth it as it's so low of an upgrade
.01% [item][/item] ToC5 normal eadric's (may not be worth it)

Ring:
1.31% Signet of the traitor king(not in wowhead) heroic 25 anub'arak
1.25% [45247] BOE XT-25
.68% [47149] BoE 25 anub'arak
.64% [45471] 25 Thorim hardmode
.37% [47955] 10 heroic 10twins
.15% [45326] 25 Auriaya
.10% [40107] naxx25 shared drop
.08% [42643] crafted (maybe not worth the small upgrade)

Trinket:
1.22 [49487] onyxia trinket(currently equipped)

Weapon:
.77% [47506] heroic 25 Tribue chest
.67% [48714] heroic 10 tribue chest
.38% [45442] 25 man xt hard mode
.26% [45876] hodir 10 hard mode
.15% [49495] onyxia 25
.04% [47967] heroic 10 anub'arak

Shield:
2.10% [45877] hard mode hodir10 (JAYEL I NEED MY SHIELD BACK =( )
1.85% [45587] 25 man algalon
1.04% [40400] 25 man kel'thuzad
.11% [37162] neroic nexus

Libram: No upgrades