May 05

Guild’s Gambling Problem

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Addon, Guild, Horde, Random Junk

by Veroicone

The guild I am (Infinity, guild is also now 4/8 heroic!) in on my druid has had some bad luck the last month or so when it comes to a hunter raiding with us. But a few weeks ago we found a hunter that seems to like us (why I have no clue why ;)) and he also introduced us to a new addiction.

He showed us the awesomeness that is Gentlemen’s Club Gambler, which is an amazing addon when you’re bored out of your mind during trash pulls. Basically the addon is a /roll “game” of sorts. The person with the addon  announces in chat how much the roll will be for (for instance, press 1 to  play for 1000 or any number)  and after everyone opts in it announces everyone should roll. You /roll based off the bet amount (we normally do 1000, so we roll as /roll 1000) and the person with the lowest roll pays the person with the highest roll. The payout amount is based off the difference. So if the lowest roll is 100 and the highest is 1000 they have to pay that person 900 gold.

It’s something we use A LOT during trash pulls and even used it the other night while doing Firelands. It keeps things entertaining. The other night I finally won (won 3 times in a row haha) followed by losing twice and winning again. It’s a great addon when you’re bored and I highly recommend it :) It’s something we enjoy a but too much as a guild.

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Apr 20

Why Everyone Should Level A Healer

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Healing, Leveling, Pve, Tips & Tricks

by Veroicone

Healing isn’t for everyone. From tanks in dps gear trying to tank heroics, to dps that refuse to move out of fire, to asking for a mana break and being ignored. So, what is one way to combat this?

Everyone should level a healer, at least once. I’m not saying go out and level up to 85 as a healer, I’m saying one day when you’re bored try something new. Never healed before? Level a new toon  up to around 20 or so and take a shot at healing, see how it feels. Never tanked before? Level a new toon as a tank and take a whack at it see what tanks deal with. I often browse the World of Warcraft forums (specifically the healing section) and constantly see people asking “does it get easier?” “why am I always getting blamed for wipes?” etc.

If more people in the game were aware of what other classes go through maybe their dungeon and raid awareness would be up. Maybe more tanks would ask the healer “you okay on mana or do you need a break?” maybe next time a dps died to fire they wouldn’t say “ffs healer heal!” instead they would say “sorry, didn’t realize I was standing in fire”. Before I even became a healer I like to think I had amazing dungeon awareness. Oh no healer is low on mana! I’d innervate them. Oh no lots of AOE damage let me pop transquility to help, but since my druid became resto and since I’ve leveled several other healers (85 disc/holy priest, 72 holy paladin, 50 resto druid, and a 23 resto shaman) I think I have become much more aware.

I leveled my Mage from 80-85 mainly doing dungeons. Some of things people were saying to the healers in the group were disgusting, being a healer myself I’d whisper them let them know they were doing find and to ignore them. And to the person being an asshat, I’d ask them to hush and don’t blame the healer when their death was their own fault.

So I ask you, to the people who have only played a dps try a healer for once. To those that only tank, try a healer for once. And to those healers, try tanking and dps if you haven’t already. See what others go through and maybe, just mayeb we’ll have more respect for one another.

And maybe in the end the lightwell will actually get clicked ;)

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Mar 11

Azeroth’s Next Top Model: Leather & Lace

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Blogging Community, Druid, Horde, Meme, Screencaps, Transmog

by Veroicone

I came across Matty’s post about the latest modeling competition, but this time it’s leather and lace! After seeing the awesome screenshots and posts from the plate contest I was very exited to partake in this, and of course so was my druid Veroicone.

We went for a green look, so all of the other trolls would be green with envy. Even the fox kit is dancing for joy at the sight of Veroicone’s new outfit!

She was so proud of her outfit she naturally had to show it off. Veroicone found some lovely trolls also sporting some nice leather attire. So she tried to join their meeting. Clearly the meeting had to be about the contest and their strategy for it right?

Apparently that’s not what they were discussing and they told Veroicone to leave. She found a nice little spot near the water for her and her new found green snake friend to have a nice little picnic.

Veroicone’s Troll friends from earlier were enticed by the lovely smell of her food and invited her to rejoin them again, apologizing for their rude behavior. Being the person that she is, she went right over and shared her food with them :) They talked for hours (mostly about food and clothing) and even asked Veroicone where she got her outfit from.

Front and Back view

Veroicone’s outfit consists of:

Chest: Archer’s Jerkin

Pants: Tracker’s Leggings

Gloves: Forest Leather Gloves

Shoulders: Archer’s Shoulerdpads

Head: Conqueror’s Nightsong Headguard

Cape: Dervish Cape

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Mar 09

New Layout & Did Some Editing

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Blogging Community, Leveling, Mage, Random Junk, Site Related

by Veroicone

New theme is up! I really disliked the old one and really needed a new header anyways since my druid is no longer a night elf :P This new theme is a template that I edited and changed the header. Header was made by myself in photoshop and contains images of some of my toons. I also updated the About page, which includes new images of my toons :) (also new smilies which are my own creation!).

In other news my desktop broke. I am getting a weird “boot manager missing” error anytime I try to turn it on. Thankfully I still have my laptop which I can use for blogging and designing but I am unable to run WoW on it. It’s a great thing my boyfriend has a working computer so I can play WoW on his desktop, just has taken some getting used too (much larger screen!) but hoping to get mine fixed soon or get a new one.

There’s also a lot of talk about the Scroll of Resurrection. It is a great way to bring old players back but I wonder how many will actually stay. I used the scroll myself on one of my old accounts from last year that I had when I did RAF with my boyfriend, and because of it I have a nice shiny level 80 mage named Kilallah :) Don’t worry though, I am the type of Warcrafter that does tons of research on spec, rotation, stats, etc before ever jumping into a dungeon. In fact, I don’t plan on doing a dungeon until I am level 85 and can do the HoT dungeons. The old dungeons are just too painful and I imagine even more so since now people got free 80′s :P A lot of people are upset that they get nothing for being a long time subscriber, and I can’t blame them. Would be nice if Blizzard sent all current active accounts a little something extra (not a level 80 toon by any means, but something fun like a mount or a pet). What are your thoughts on the scroll?

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Mar 04

First Screenshot in WoW = Naked Dance Party

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Alliance, Class Specifics, Druid, Random Junk, Screencaps

by Veroicone

I started playing World of Warcraft in 2007 after a friend mentioned the game to me and the 10 day trial of it. Naturally I was hooked and loved the game, but only a few minutes into the game I was already have interesting experiences.

I created my level 1 Druid Night Elf named Veroicone which was originally on the Drenden US server. While questing and killing boars the friend that got me into WoW was explaining different things and was even leveling a toon with me. At one point he told me about emotes. That I can /cry, /dance, /cheer, etc. So naturally I had to /dance and he also told me for some reason you can put your toons in their underwear. So of course I did that too while /dancing. Next thing I know I am surrounded by low level night elves all naked and all dancing.

I thought it was the funniest thing ever. And as you can see, I learned how to take a screenshot that day too :D That happened the DAY I started playing WoW and from that point on WoW has been a game I have enjoyed greatly :) I will never forget that first day haha.

On an unrelated note my desktop is broken and keeps giving me a “boot manager is missing” error and I don’t know how to fix it (if you do let me know!) so until then the only time I can play WoW is when I have access to my boyfriend’s very shiny 27” iMac. Which is totally fine cos his computer can play WoW on ultra with 0 lag :P And once Mass Effect 3 comes out for the xbox in a few days, I’ll have plenty of access to the desktop haha.

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Feb 25

6x6x6: The Challenge of Sixes

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Blogging Community, Meme, Pictures

by Veroicone

While browsing my WoW bloggers reading list I noticed lots of people were taking part in this 6x6x6 meme. And I thought it sounded like tons of fun! Turns out I got tagged too, or rather, Keyel did. But since he’s doesn’t use this blog at all (which is fine, I am more of a blogger than he is! But you’ll start seeing his posts pop up soon :)) I stole the tag ;) Anyways …

I was tagged by Logtar, to take up this challenge, 6x6x6: The Challenge of Sixes, originally started by Gnomeageddon this time around.  This is the first time I’ve heard of this challenge, but hey, this sounds like a ton of fun!  It’s pretty easy- all you have to do is pick an image folder on your hard drive and go to the sixth image in the sixth sub-folder.   You publish the image and add a few words about it, if you want to.

That’s easy, but hold on your hats, folks.  Fannon has added a twist to this challenge, and renaming it the The Battle Medic Rule of Six by Six by Six.  Instead of doing just one folder, the Battle Medic tradition calls for a few!  So here it goes …

World of Warcraft Screenshots Folder(s)

Now I don’t really have subfolders here (except for ones that say “old screenshots 1″ etc so I just chose the main folder and 1 of the subfolders.

Aw, from when I was leveling a goblin! This is in one of my older screenshot folders.

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Feb 15

New Mount: Heart of the Aspects

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Mounts & Pets, Screencaps, Video

by Veroicone

I’m such a girl when it comes to collecting mounts and pets in game, my main (druid) is currently sitting at 96/100 mounts. In case you’ve been living under a rock a new mount was introduced into WoW yesterday.

After sitting in a queue for about 45 minutes (was number 39,000 when I first entered it!) I got my hands on the new mount in WoW, Heart of the Aspects. It’s a shiny gold dragon of pure awesomness and was well worth the $25 I paid for it. I love this mount! It’s by far my favorite mount that has been released in the shop so far. I posted a quick video on my YouTube channel about the mount and showing it’s awesomeness.

Also if you can’t tell, that is my druid and she’s no longer a Night Elf! She’s now back on Ysera as a Troll :)

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Jan 18

Warcrafts: My Horde Bag Creation

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Horde, Random Junk, Warcrafts

by Veroicone

One thing I have been on the hunt for as of late was a cute World of Warcraft themed bag. I didn’t want anything small or anything too big either, but it did have to be WoW related. I was surprised when I found pretty much nothing, or at least nothing I liked. So, I decided to make my own.

I originally got the idea after watching a great DIY video by Dodger, who posts awesome videos on youtube. So here are the pictures of the process and final result.

Felt, needle, thread, tote, pins, and a red shirt.

First after work yesterday (which btw, I had a great birthday!) I stopped by Michael’s arts & craft store to pick up some supplies. Rest of the process under the cut!

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Jan 09

What the Guild Finder Needs

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Random Junk

by Veroicone

The Guild Finder lacks a lot of tools, that I feel would help new members and veterans find guilds much more easily. And even help guilds find the right members for them! So here’s a  few ideas that I’ve discussed before with Brian on twitter (which was back in December, but better late than never :P). These images are very (horribly) photoshopped by yours truly.

Guild Searches

A simple search that allows you to do just that – search. Type in a particular guild name you are interested in finding more information about and it’s highlighted while other guild’s on the list are faded out. Epicurious is the guild I am in (and co-own) with IRL friends/co-workers :P

Guild Raid Searching

Allows you to list the days and times that you are available to raid as well as the spec(s) you can raid in. This search would output guilds that fit within those days, times, and what specs they are currently recruiting for. In the comment section you can list your experience, ilvl, etc. Not sure exactly how to display the times though. Maybe have a list of certain time frames you can choose from, or allow you to type in the times yourself (probably a checkbox would be easiest).

If you’re a Guild Leader or an officer in the guild (or even a regular member) you can search those looking for a guild to raid with. You can look at their available times, days, and what specs they are as well and send them a message with information about your guild.

Server Searching

The ability to click the “Server” tab (as shown above under “Guild Searches”) and search guild recruitments on other servers and even factions. Sometimes simply going to the forum to hunt for the right guild for you doesn’t always work. So why not allow users to refine the searches both on their server and on other servers.

Currently is seems like the Guild Finder just lists guilds at random and it’s really aggravating to search through everything. Adding a few different functions as well as a raid recruitment function could really make it easier to find people to join your guilds as well as find the right guild for you.

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Jan 01

How to Not Lose Your Guild

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4.3, Guide, Guild, Patch, Tips & Tricks

by Veroicone

Lately the World of Warcraft community has been in uproar over the fact that a guild leader can be “dethroned” if they are inactive for 30 days. What people fail to realize is that this has been in place for the lifetime of WoW, only before you had to contact a game master to get the ownership changed. There are countless threads over at the WoW forums under Guild & Guild Leadership of leaders being dethroned and complaining about the “new” policy. So here are some tips to secure your guild.

First off let me start of by saying this. A guild is not the sole ownership of the leader and it is fair that a member can obtain the guild if the leader is not logging on for a certain amount of time. It’s just not just the leader putting time, effort, gold, items, and even achievements into the guild – it’s also the members. Yes people have real lives outside of WoW yes the guild should not be on your mind 100% of the time but there are ways to ensure your guild is still your guild while keeping the members happy. I’ve been in guilds in the past where the leader was gone for well over a month and we had no way of inviting new members and tried to keep the guild alive but did not want to have to leave guild (which is the GM ticket came in handy).

Find People You Trust

Are you a guild leader and planning on taking a break from WoW? Or are you just worried an emergency may come up and you don’t want to lose your guild? If you currently have officers in your guild appoint someone as a Co-Guild Leader, or at least some sort of a second in command. That way if you have to leave for an extended period of time they can take on the guild until you return. I would probably also have at least 2 people at second in command followed by a few officers (the way the policy works if it goes to the next highest rank that has been active within a certain period of time). Now if you don’t trust anyone in your guild … well, that’s a whole different blog post in itself :P

Let People Know

If you’re just going to take a break let members know! Post on your guild forums, facebook, or in the guild message of the day that you will be gone for an extended amount of time and that if anyone needs any help in the guild they can contact those you appointed as second in command. Obviously if it’s an emergency you may not have someone’s cell number to text them at some point and let them know what happened, but if you can – I’d suggest doing it at some point. So at least the officers or other higher ranks know what is happening.

Your Thoughts/Precauctions

I’m also curious what is everyone else’s thoughts on this “new” policy and for those that are guild leaders or are in guilds what are some precautions people are taking? I am considered a Co-guild leader is Epicurious (on Undermine) but we also have officers too that frequently log on (although both myself and the guild leader and very active and all leaders + officers are real life friends which makes things a bit easier).

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