Calling out to all my Portland, OR peeps. Looking to move out there sometime in October (hard date coming soon(tm)). If you know of anyone that is looking to hire a new employee please let me know. I have 4 years of basic computer repair, diagnostics and trouble shooting from my time working at USF and I have a college degree in US history. Please be on the look out if you can and let me know.

Note: No car or license yet. That is something I plan on working on not long after I am out there. I'll be using my bike, the max and public busing at least until I have a car and license.

Due to the massive size of text I will NOT be linking the full case brief as written out by the U.S. Court of Appeals in their decision. This will be updated throughout the day until I feel as if I am done. Some things of note before reading my arguments:

#1. I will for the most part try to leave my own personal position on this out of whatever I type.

#2. The ONLY sources I'll accept are those with a link to the actual pdf write up by the Case by the Court of Appeals in Comcast v FCC when dealing with facts of the case itself lest others need to come into play.

a. Comcast v FCC This is a link to the actual Courts opinion on the case however it is a 3rd party link as I cannot get one from the Actual U.S. Courts website yet. This link does provide full text of the brief however.

b. Communications Act of 1934

#3. Discussion is encouraged however flaming of others will result in possible deletions of comments

#4. Depending on how this goes I might look into doing similar things on other hot topic court cases at varying levels. 

I've been considering this off and on for weeks now, and I have been wondering how exactly I would write it when it came. So I guess the best thing to do is to "Tell ya what I'm gonna tell ya".

As I'm sure many people know or have been expecting, I am now officially retiring my paladin as a main. I realize this means that I sacrifice my raid spot on my paladin as well as a multitude of other things. I do plan on changing to my warrior as a main for those who see me on said warrior all the time this should not come as very much of a change.

Now I suppose some reasoning is in order for this, although it will occur in no particular order:

#1. It is no longer fun for me to play this toon. I logged in to help AFK with their raid tonight, and I just felt lathargic. There was nothing really I wanted to do persay, no drive or motivation. It felt like I was back in a grind, and not for the people, with whom I enjoy raiding greatly, but simply because of the toon.

#2. The nerf to damage. This is a class that I have played since December of '05 in some way or another, nearly all that time spent as ret. I remember the days of Vanilla when "dps" consisted of Seal of Command and white attacks to Current day with Exorcism, Consecrate, Crusader Strike, Divine Storm and Judgement. However in an effort to balance pvp, I have been watching our pve continuously take hits like an old boxer backed into a corner.

In this most recent patch, although we should have a minor dps increase on patchwerk like mobs of standing still, we are going to suffer a huge nerf when it comes to AoE fights (Freya, Razorscale, Kologarn, Auriaya, Thorim) and fights that require quick burndown or time off target (XT Heart, Hodir, Mimiron, Possible General).

I believe I have already reached a point where my warrior can keep pace dps wise as arms, and I am still learning new things (and getting new gear) every day in order to perfect arms. When I am high on rage, I have ways to burn it for more dps, paladins have no way to do this as ret.

#3. It is just no longer fun to play this toon. As I said, I feel lathargic when I play my paladin, wondering what I am going to do. It has reached the point where I dread logging into my paladin, and when I raid all I can think of is the time left until I can get back onto my warrior just because it is no longer fun.

There is plenty more that I can go into here if I wanted but I think I have gone on enough. So with that, I retire my class of 3.5 years to alt status, picking up holy as an offspec to replace my old pvp spec. We will see where this new road I am on takes me, but the road to warrior is a very interesting and interactive one.

With That,

Warrior LFG. Arms, Fury, Prot or PvP PST

P.S. I still will be available to help people with any ret or paladin questions they have.

I will try to keep a consistent log of my dps attempts on my warrior and how I perform when I dps in a given instance be it 25m or 10m from here on out. When necessary I will mark when given gear upgrades are recieved and when gems/enchants/specs/glyphs are changed.

Parses for the night: http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/Ym9JbHp0G4j5lp60/sum/damageDone/

The data done by me (rough):

Intercepter  Naxx25 Parse Evaluation mALT 26July2009

Anub’Rekan

17 Missing Mortal Strikes given the time frame

1 Unused Taste for Blood proc (overpower)

4 Unused Sudden Death procs (execute)

1 Unused Bladestorm Proc (given the amount of time)

53.2% Uptime on Rend. Should be a lot higher, this means a lot of other missing thirst of blood procs and dot damage.

Grand Widow

13 Missing Mortal Strikes given the time frame

3 missing taste for blood procs

4 missing sudden death procs

1 unused bladestorm

66.9% uptime on rend

Maexnna

14 MSes not used

5 wasted TtB procs

6 wasted SD procs

1 unused bladestorm

62% uptime on rend

Instructor

First: Bladestorm=bad. Aggroed and add and it killed me

5 MSes not used

Yay every overpower offered was used

5 wasted SD procs

21% uptime on Rend

Gothik

No way to reliably check due to adds =/

Four Horsemen

Death due to intervene taunt

11 Possible MSes

3 wasted TtB

0 wasted SD

1 unused bladestorm

23.7% on rend

Patch

14 Possible MSes

3 possible TtB

2 possible SD

0 unused bladestorm

76% uptime on rend

Grobbulus

17 unused MS

2 unused TtB

0 unused SD

2 unused Bladestorm

59.5% uptime on rend

Gluth

19 MS

4 TtB

3 SD

2 BS

58.6% uptime Rend

Thaddius

27 MS

6 TtB

0 SD

3 BS

59.6% Uptime on Rend

Noth

(this one looks to be a heavy time on target issue)

23 Missed MS

2 missed OP

1 missed SD

1 missed Bladestorm

38.6% uptime on Rend

Heigan

(numbers shown will be higher than actually possible due to dancing)

19 MS

5 OP

0 SD

1 BS

50% rend uptime

Loatheb

18 MS

6 OP

1 SD

1 BS

65.4% uptime on rend

Sapphiron

Died to early for any useful data. Must reember to Try shooting the boss behind iceblock

Kel'Thuzad

Play very conservative moving out anytime frostblast was off cooldown so I did not bother checking parses here.

The Highlights:

The biggest things that I need to work on are as follows:

#1. I really need to increase my uptime on rend. I think it should almost always be in the 75%-90% range and it just was not there most of the night. That is costing me more Taste for Blood procs which allow for overpower.

#2. Wasted Taste for Blood, Overpower and Bladestorm chances. I need to play a lot more conservative with my heroic strikes so that I don't rage starve myself. I cannot leave these 3 hanging on the table as they are nice portions of dps.

#3. Works with #2, I need to minimize heroic strike usage as I often left myself too rage starved to use MS. Although getting a 100% rate on MS is impossible, most of the time I am missing too many of them for my liking.

#4. Need to call for more hands of salv that way when the tank goes kablooy I don't follow soon after. Fueling Horkina's corpse explosion does not increase my damage.

 

Where did Dragon go?

That might be the quesiton on a least a coupla peoples mind since Wednesday. And here I am finally with an answer although unfortunately not a timeframe for returning.

On Wednesday after arriving home from Campus I started to play some WAR (picked up the game last weekend) and then did my usual log off an hour before Salmon started so that I could get ready for raid.

Went ahead, logged in as usual PW and all and I get. That is not a valid PW for the account.

Scratching my head, I put it in again. In fact, I proceded to put in my Password for oh a good 5 minutes attempting to log in. Being very sure by the end of it to hit every character exactly. So I figure, oh well maybe something is just wrong with the log in currently I will try blizzard's website. Nope can't log in there either.

So I am like, ok, I'll just have them reset my PW, send me the e-mail and I'll be back up and running.

Then I get sent to the battle.net site. Finally, I get around to the PW reset e-mail screen and it says that it is sent and should be there shortly.

So I open up Outlook and wait patiently, looking at all my other lovely blizzard e-mails I have gotten in the past.

15 Mintues passes still without an e-mail. I do the e-mail reset thingy again thinking something got effed up. No dice. I keep waiting, letting people know in vent that I prolly wont be there for raid that night.

Finally after an hour waiting impatiently for the e-mail. I give up, deciding to call blizzard the following day.

I call blizzard as soon as I get home on Thursday and the rep says that he can't see Battle.net having sent me any PW reset e-mails. But he tells me he will send me one. give it 15 minutes and if it hasn't arrived in an hour to send him an e-mail so he can try looking at the issue before he leaves for the day.

STILL no dice, although I did get a response back from him. And he told me that another reset e-mail should be coming right after his reply. E-mail never arrives.

Friday - I get 2 customer service e-mails from blizzard but still no PW reset e-mail. Temper is beginning to rise at this point since my subscription had just renewed on the 11th. I send another e-mail to my support guy telling him I still haven't gotten the e-mail to fix my crap.

Saturday - I sent in an e-mail to their support people overall asking them if they have some other way I can change my PW or an ability where I can change my e-mail. No response back yet obviously as they work hard during the week and thus get weekends off. (Not berating them for that)

So long story short. I can't log in period. Not with the old PW and obviously not with a reset PW. WIth any luck this will be fixed tomorrow during the day , but I am growing cynical about it.

Anyway, if you would like to contact me in some way. You can find me on AIM: MCorpsParrothead or Yahoo: HurrikanEagle@yahoo.com

P.S. WAR isn't a bad game at all for the pvp minded, but it's pve content is lacking horribly compared to WoW. However one of the first mods I DLed for WAR once I got it installed. Grid for WAR! Known as Square.

Ok, its a well known fact that I have 2 paladins (3 if you count my level 40ish BE Pally waiting for exorcism to be usable on everything), however I can't deny my love of a good rage bar.

Thus I am creating myself a fun little challenge and I figured I'd post it here in case anyone else wanted to try it.

First of all, it requires a LOT of Emblems of Heroism to pull off. In fact it's going to require you in total 335 badges for the setup I am looking for.

(Badge Breakdown):
Polished Spaulders of Valor (40 badges) http://www.wowhead.com/?item=42949

Bloodied Arcanite Reaper x2 (65 badges each) http://www.wowhead.com/?item=42943

Swift Hand of Justice x2 (50 badges each) http://www.wowhead.com/?item=42991

Charmed Ancient Bone Bow (65 badges) http://www.wowhead.com/?item=42946

The 2h axe allows you to stay with a specific weapon type the entire way that you level up so that you do not have to worry about leveling said weapon skill.

The Shoulders are obvious for the 10% more xp

The trinkets give the warrior much needed self healing after kills

The bow is a way to easily get hit/crit/AP (and use an awesome bow graphic)

Now with those the plan is to then level a warrior (best pick is a draenei, I will probably pick gnome)

The professions to level with:
1. Herbalism - Warriors always need healing, this gives it to them once every 3 minutes

2. Skinning - Extra crit helps while leveling

The reasons for these professions is to make stupid amounts of money while leveling and picking up good bonuses for both.

So far the plan is to level Arms 1-60 and once you pick up Titan's Grip to level fury from 60-80.

I will try to post sample talent trees later for leveling

Anyway that is my grand plan after I finish my human warrior to 80. I only have 295 badges left to aquire >.>

Edit: You could also do this with a rogue where you substitute the 1h Sword and 1h dagger for leveling and level up a combat spec. (Or 2 daggers if you really wanted to level assassination)