There are usually five or six emails in my inbox at work that I am actively ignoring at any one time. The worst of the present bunch dates back to April. It isn't even a particularly horrible email. It's from an old colleague who'd like
Finally something worth blogging about. A new beta build is out and it includes some very interesting new talents in early discipline to get our shadowy juices flowing. (Don't linger on that metaphor too long.) Evangelism revamped — you have
988 days ago I had a genius idea to start a blog. I had just finished levelling a shadow priest through Outland and had no idea what to do next; it seemed like a good idea at the time. I called the blog Misery after a key talent in the shadow tree, but
MMO Champion is reporting that new talent tree system has been released on the Cataclysm beta realm. This is the one where you lock yourself into a single talent tree at level 10 and work your way up to the 31-point talent before unlocking supporting
Nethaera has posted to say that the forum developments planned by Blizzard will no longer include the use of real names. Second good job by Blizz in two days, I'm impressed. I'm really pleased to see that they are willing to respond so quickly
Yesterday, Blizzard was left bloody and mauled over its plans for using real names on the forums and the disaster was about to go nuclear. But today… who cares? We have a COMPLETE TALANT OVERHAUL to coo over. Coincidental timing? Unlikely. This
Sorry for the test post, just trying this out.
Nethaera has just unveiled an upcoming change to the forums, and it's a belter. In the not-too-distant future, you will be forced to post under your real, full name. This change, along with some other stuff I don't really care about (read the
Our raid leader described the new Wyrmrest Temple raid, Ruby Sanctum, as “Naxxramas difficulty with Icecrown heroic loot”. We all cheered and ran in. Then we spent the next two hours wiping. The problems started in phase two. We’d consistently
Path of the Titans has gone the way of the... er... Titans. Instead, we'll be getting another layer of glyphs. Warning: old-style Misery rant ahead. TLDR: if you’re going to add more glyphs to the game, you’d better make sure you know
I'm sure you've seen these already; I'm a little late to the party. I'm moving jobs this weekend, from one department to another, which may give me some more time to blog again. It's been hell, so I can pray for a breather:)
Did I dream that shadow priests are getting a haste aura? Work is rather stressful at the moment; much of life passes like a halucination, so I won't be surprised if I made it up. But a haste aura... sounds neat. I wonder which class we're screwing
The debate around random groups seems to hinge on the quality of the players you get: either they are rubbish, or they are not rubbish. Observers can be found at both ends of the spectrum, strenuously arguing their corner. Honestly, I don't care
A post that somehow manages to induce coffee-spluttering guffaws while revealing absolutely nothing about its subject? It can only mean BRK is back! Why are you still reading? You were supposed to follow the link. BRK haz new content. CLICK ON THE
Edit: Bugger. A blue post completely invalidated the point of my post. I'm still going to make you read it. Flick through to the bottom for the answer. Has anyone figured out how Blizzard is going to implement haste scaling for hots and dots in
Why bring a shadow priest? I play in mid-range casual guilds and have never had to justify my spot beyond personal, competent performance (or lack of). But if you're a top-end raider, this question matters. that's why the recent Cataclysm news
I normally read the Greedy Goblin in the way that lawyers and doctors watch Gerry Springer on their days off — largely for the shock value and the schadenfreude, but with a smug belief that none of it really applies to me. And then I read this
Chastity: I know you can be overwhelmed, and you can be underwhelmed, but can you ever just be whelmed? Bianca: I think you can in Europe. — 10 Things I Hate About You Good job I went to bed instead of waiting up for the priest preview: it turns
Damn those tricksy US developers, it's my bed time already and no sign of the priest preview. But on the bright side, tomorrow I shall have something to do at work that is fun. And this little gem from the warlock preview will send me to sleep feeling
Just wanted to give the six of you that actually visit my blog warning that the design may go a bit awol for a few days weeks. Blogger in draft has recently introduced some sparkly new features that I'm itching to play with. If I break the blog,
Our first fleshy taste of what Cataclysm will mean for priests is due tomorrow (Wednesday, 7 April), as Blizzard prepare to release a full range of class previews. In the words of Bashiok: "The type of information you can expect from these posts
Fuck you Rotface.
Apparently I missed official blog rant day, but I've never let lack of official endorsement stop me before. Cataclysm spoilers ahead. Reader beware... We learned today that the Darkspear Trolls chief Vol'jin is about to launch a final offensive
We've been given the first concrete information about how the new gear stats will work in the expansion, Cataclysm. As you'd expect from something with such a name, it's going to be a bit of a shakeup. The plan is for these changes to
I have a new weapon in the battle with my company to me skive productively while at work: Google Buzz. Most forms of social networking are now blocked at work, including my own blog. Google Reader and Google Mail have, up till now, been my last links
I said I was going to look into the mind blast question but thankfully A Darkened Soul has already done it.
This is the question of whether you should drop mind blast from your rotation with the 4-piece tier 10 bonus (that reduces the channel
I used to think the loot council method of awarding raid drops was super. That was when I was an officer and was more concerned about the success of my guild than reward and recognition for individuals. Now I am a probationary raider in another loot council
Even as my personal progress through Icecrown moves slowly, I sense a general winding down of the expansion already. We know there will be probably only one more content patch before the real work on Cataclysm begins, and the shadow of the summer exodus
It's a cake, right?
These people who say it's a pastry are clearly crazy people.
Bread supporters? Two slices short of a picnic.
Here at Misery blog, we call em like we see em.
Doughnuts are cakes,
Who was it said there are no original thoughts left? Whoever it was, he probably wasn't the first.
Apparently my last post, which I've been chewing over for weeks, skirts rather close to a post on World of Warcraft Philosophized from last