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 sometimes use macros that change based on whether a target is friend or foe while using the same keybinding. Typically I use healing spells that are spammable that alternate with damage or CC spells that are also spammable.

For example, a shaman who wanted to cast Healing Wave on a target that is friendly or Lightning Bolt on a hostile target.

#showtooltip [help] Healing Wave; [harm] Lightning Bolt; Healing Wave

/cast Lifeblood

/cast [help] Healing Wave; [harm] Lightning Bolt

Notice the tooltip updates depending on your target hostility with the healing spell shown when the target is neither friendly or hostile or when you have no target. My shaman also happens to be a herbalist so I have lifeblood in there too. You can add trinkets to auto pop if you want.

Other examples of this macro type are as follows:

Purge a harmfull target of buffs or clense a friendly

#showtooltip [help]  Cleanse Spirit; Purge

/cast [harm] Purge; [help] Cleanse Spirit

I have a warrior and I use one button to charge a hostile target, intervene a friendly, or heroic leap with no target.

#showtooltip [help] Intervene; [harm] Charge; [@none] Heroic Leap

/cast [harm,exists,nomod] Charge; [help,exists] Intervene; [@none] Heroic Leap

Another macro I use to save some a button space is a interrupt macro. It skull bashes in cat or bear depending on what form I am in.

#showtooltip [stance:1] Skull Bash(Bear Form); [stance:3] Skull Bash(Cat Form)

/cast [stance:1] Skull Bash(Bear Form); [stance:3] Skull Bash(Cat Form)

I know there are mods for mounting but I have a macro that makes me fly if I can, ground mount if I can, cheetah if in combat, seal if I'm swimming with one button.

/cast [swimming] Aquatic Form(Shapeshift);  [flyable,nocombat] Swift Flight Form(Shapeshift);[nocombat] Golden King; Travel Form(Shapeshift)

If not a druid can change the macro to at least choose between a ground mount or flying mount like this.

#showtooltip [flyable] Violet Proto-Drake; Armored Razzashi Raptor

/cast [flyable] Violet Proto-Drake; Armored Razzashi Raptor

Then there are some abilitys that are off the global cooldown, my warrior uses a macro like this to maximize shield block uptime while in combat.

#showtooltip Devastate

/startattack

/cast Devastate

/cast [combat] Shield Block(Defensive Stance)

Aside from going MIA I've launched a mobile app, been busy trying to push our company forward, and dressed up like a chipmunk, and partied.

This is what happens after playing too much wow:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexleverington/sets/72157626131468023/ (not every pic is me of course)

It seems avoiding LARP is impossible.

Anyways, I'll probably start raiding again after we finish w7/droid/bb apps.

Hope to see everyone at guild meetup.

Still alive...Still kicking... :)

Boss lady sent me down on an all expense paid trip to San Fran at the beginning of April for a week long extension of my baking education. OMG so much fun :)

Hope you enjoy 

https://picasaweb.google.com/PuReRaiN1416/SanFran?authkey=Gv1sRgCNOR7c653rX5Dw#

So I was thinking today about something I was told during my employee review earlier this year.  I was told that I was good at communicating my thoughts clearly, and that I was good at talking to people of varying skill levels about technical details and such.  I was also told that I had a "calming" voice and was easy to approach, and that I had a tone that made me sound "more experienced than I may be" - which come to think of it, may not always be a positive.

The whole reason I bring that all up is because I learned it from interacting with members of <Downfall> and from my experience as a raid leader, raid member, recruiter, and pseudo-sit-in-guild-leader-for-a-time.

I know I'm not the most beloved of <Downfall> members.  Loads of you have an opinion of me as being an asshole, an uncaring unwavering jerk that took the game too seriously, and in some cases an intolerable person to be around.  Others formed a different opinion.  To each their own, and I can't really go out of my way to prove myself one way or another.  But I can say that communicating with people whose opinions of me ran the gamut of possibilities really expanded on my ability to actually communicate effectively.

Although my experience in WoW didn't end on a good note - and my last couple of years may have actually helped lead to me losing my previous job - the whole of the experience was positive.  My lead raidership actually helped land me a job out of college (in an indirect manner), and the communication skills I picked up from trying to organize so many people helped me to gain recognition in my current job.  In 6 months I've moved from an entry-level-ish intern position, to a full-benefits employee in a little bit of a supervisory position.  I've helped more than a handful of new engineers get on their feet.

So long story short, whether you remember me fondly or remember me as an overbearing asshole, I wanted to say thank you for helping me to learn how to talk to people in a professional setting.