What follows is partly for my own memory, but also for people who I will be doing heroic instances with.  These are the last few "upgrades" I can get outside of a raid instance:

TANKING SET:

1)  [item]Signet of the Accord[/item]- drops from Sartharion in Obsidian Sanctum (10-man)

DPS SET:

1)  [item]Gauntlets of Dragon Wrath[/item] - drops from Cache of Eregos in The Oculus (Heroic)
2)  [Staggering Legplates] - drops from Ingvar the Plunderer in Utgarde Keep (heroic)

I won't be rolling "need" on anything else, aside from what I have linked above.

With the tanking set upgrades, I will continue to be uncrittable.  With the dps set upgrades, I will be hit *AND* expertise capped.

Thanks for everyone's time so far, I have enjoyed every heroic!  Hope to see you guys in groups soon!

Well how do I sum it up other than the fact that I must be crazy. I have one level 80 already in my male paladin, however it struck me as I was running around at 80 that I have a problem in the fact that in order to play ret in both pve and pvp I will be going through nearly different glyphs every respec.

The Good news is, Well I have 2 pallies thus its easiest to just have 1 and 1.

The bad news, I think the wrong one is 80 at the moment. I am very peculiar on my toons, thus the toon that has Hand of A'dal will be the toon that I will raid on come January with R2, where as my male paladin is the toon that I will be primarly doing 10 mans on while pvping (sure I will do some pvp on my female paladin but not as much).

On top of this, to help out a good friend of mine in game, I am leveling up my DK for pvp as well. Long story short is that I have about a 2.5 weeks to have my DK close to 80 and another 2.5 weeks after that to have my female paladin ready to raid.

No one ever said I did things the easy way.

Anyway, all my toons are in guild obviously, and I can bring whichever to come help people run stuff, but ya, I decided to make life difficult :D

~Forking Nuts

Many of you may have noticed the fact that for the past 6 months I've been logging in to raid and not on much the rest of the time.  Even my Wrath levelling has been late at night and solo most of the time and I've been forced to be as efficient as possible which has squeeked out a level every 2 days.

The reason for all of this is because I'm working 2 jobs.  I've got my regular job at Apple and I picked up contract work for a game developer which means I've been working 50-60 hour weeks.  Fortunately, I pretty much make my own hours for both jobs which is the only reason it's been tolerable.  That and I actually enjoy writing games.

The fact that Wrath Raid 1 got moved up 2 weeks has therefore really screwed me.  I'm going to be on vacation this week and likely without internet access good enough to play (though I'm going to try).  If I can play, I might be 80 in time.  If I can't then I'm going to miss at least 1 week.

Anyway, I do expect to have more time in the future, so this is just to let you all know what's been going on and to expect me to be back in game more often once my contract work is done (a couple months).  In the meantime, I intend to do as much raiding as possible.

Hello Downfall,

First off How is Wrath! I keep looking over my roomates shoulder seeing the new content, looks insane!

So..I'm not sure if everyone has noticed yet, but I haven't been online lately, or as much as I used to be since Wrath came out.  To be honest I still haven't bought the game.  School on the other hand has started to really be a pain in the ass.  Its seems as soon as Halloween hits, teachers freak out because there is literally like 5 weeks left of the semester.  This in-turn affects the time I get to spend playing wow, and hanging with you guys.  As for my plans, not to sure yet, I can for say I won't be active in game until at least January; (between end of the semester work, exams, being in a few weddings, and a trip to New York City, I wouldn't be on much anyway) when January rolls around, I'm going to re-evaluate playing with regards to my current school plans and class load...( I'm graduating from college and thus the i've left all of those classes that are the hardest for last. lol) I do however hope to return soon and I want all of you to know that I already miss you guys.  I do wish you all the best, and ill be here on the site often I'm sure, keeping an eye to whats happening.  And I also wanted to Wish you guys luck with progression!! Kick some ass!

Best of Luck Guys!!

-Chris

--Nikkyta

Anyone that wants to keep in touch while I'm away

Email: ctw05@fsu.edu

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Stunning Break with Last Eight Years

In the first two weeks since the election, President-elect Barack Obama has broken with a tradition established over the past eight years through his controversial use of complete sentences, political observers say.

Millions of Americans who watched Mr. Obama's appearance on CBS' "Sixty Minutes" on Sunday witnessed the president-elect's unorthodox verbal tick, which had Mr. Obama employing grammatically correct sentences virtually every time he opened his mouth.

But Mr. Obama's decision to use complete sentences in his public pronouncements carries with it certain risks, since after the last eight years many Americans may find his odd speaking style jarring.

According to presidential historian Davis Logsdon of the University of Minnesota, some Americans might find it "alienating" to have a President who speaks English as if it were his first language.

The guy that is part of the FCC transition team is a WoW player.  My god, we might finally have someone who is not a completely clueless asshat heading our digital rights. -->Garreth

Obama's FCC transition co-chair is a WoW player -