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New Cataclysm Achievment Made Me Giggle

Double Rainbow – Perform a /gasp emote under the double rainbow in the Battle For Gilneas. Who doesn’t like double rainbow across the sky? Here is a list of all the achievements at MMO – Champion

My Raiding Season is Over.

A few days ago I announce to my guild that I am ending my raiding season in the Wrath of the Lich King. It is not due to issues with guild but issues with me. I am just burnt out. Raiding a few months after Wrath was released can mentally wear you out.

Lich King Down

Last week I finally took down the Lich King. Unfortunately we had a 30% buff but I guess a kill is a kill

I’m back!

I took a long hiatus from blogging due to RL. Now that everything is back to normal, I can start up again. -Rudy

Blizzard Developer Chat on Twitter 4/16

Blizzard is chatty again
Q: Will healing hands be a paladin-centered tranquility, or something we have to run around to keep people in range of?
A: The idea is that it matters where the paladin is, so it won’t be raid-wide like Tranquility

Interweb of the Day

While reading about the new mount over at WoW.com, I saw a response that made laugh.
Look at your toon, now look at me. Look at your toon again, now look back at me. Sadly, your toon isn’t me, but it can ride like me! Look down. Look up!

Paladin Preview for Cataclysm

Blinding Shield (level 81): Causes damage and blinds all nearby targets. This effect might end up only damaging those facing the paladin’s shield, in a manner similar to Eadric the Pure’s ability Radiance in Trial of the Champion. The Holy tree

Sacred Duty Nerf

Blizzard nerfed paladin’s health by lowering Sacred Duty stamina buff % from 2 / 4% Stamina, down from 4 / 8% Stamina.
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=22749574063&sid=1
The change is not as bad as it seems, but

Lipstick on a Pig….err I mean Dragon

To encourage players not to shy away from the many invigorating adventures to be had in The Oculus, we have applied a change to enhance the rewards players are provided when selected for this dungeon via the Random Heroic option in the Dungeon Finder.

Dungeon Finder: The Perfect Storm

The other day, I was part of a group that completed 3 dungeon in about 32 minutes.
We defeated all the bosses
Azjol-Nerub – 6 minutes
Nexus – 12 minutes
Gundrak – 14 minutes
I wish there were more groups

Teleport Out of the Dungeon

I heard horror stories from players engaging mobs/boss then teleporting out of the dungeon. I always thought that was an urban myth until I experienced it the other day.
I was on my warlock running Heroic Halls of Reflection, the tank engaged the

ICC Trash

That is how trash should be in a raid (ie using CC) not a run in AoE fest and brute force.
So far I am liking the ICC. /applause
Also Marrowgar is Down! Congratulations to Initech
Here is our kill video.

3.3 is live!

Here are paladin patch notes but you can see the rest here
Paladins
Divine Intervention: This ability now also removes Exhaustion or Sated from a target if the recipient is out of combat when the effect ends. In addition, the cooldown on this

State of the Blog

As you are aware I have not been blogging much. Just a few blurbs of information here and there but nothing big. I do apologize.
I have been consumed with projects at work, working late and then coming home to a family that wants my undivided

Interesting Changes in the New PTR Build 10747

Holy
Flash of Light no longer heals for an additional 100% over 12 sec if the target has the Sacred Shield effect.
Lay on Hands is now affected by Forbearance and can now be cast on self again – Heals a friendly target for an amount

Icecrown Radiance

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=20677352542&sid=1
For Icecrown Citadel, we are implementing a spell that will affect every enemy creature in the raid. The spell, called Chill of the Throne, will allow creatures to ignore

Server Rank 1 (10-man Progress)

I am not a person that dwells on guild ranking systems/websites but Guild Ox has my guild Initech tied to be the top rated 10-man guild on Cairne (in progress and achievements). Not bad for a casual guild that raid a few nights a week. Congratulations

Paladin Tier 10 Armor

MMO- Champion just posted pics of Paladin’s Tier 10 armor.
http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2009/october/paladintier10.jpg
I’m not impressed. Sorry, compare to the other armor sets this is the worse. I would

Ret just got easier

I came across a nice little addon called CLCRet (Retribution FCFS helper). This addon will show you the next spell/attack you should use within your FCFS rotation.
Not only will this addon help newcomers learn the FCFS rotation but will help

Please Poof PoF

I’ve been leveling up my warlock (64 currently) through questing and the battlegrounds, mostly through Alterac Valley. One thing is annoying me while waiting for AV to start, not the immature chat but the consist spamming of Path of Frost. When you

I found one use for Glyph of Divine Storm

I thought Glyph of Divine Storm was a pointless glyph until now.
If you are part of Yogg’s portal group (10), you can heal the group with glyph of Divine Storm and judge light. The damage from the adds are not that high so your heals can

Upcoming Tier 10 Set Bonuses

Holy
2P Bonus – The cooldown on your Divine Favor talent is reduced by 60 sec.
4P Bonus – Your Holy Shock spell causes the next Holy Light you cast within 10 sec to have 0.3 sec reduced cast time.
Protection
2P Bonus

Yogg Down!

Finally after multiple days of numerous attempts/deaths (20+) Initech finally took out Yogg (10-man).
This fight was by far the best boss encounter I’ve experience in Wrath.
Video of our victory. Part 1:
Part 2:

Too Many AFKavers

The past two weeks I have been experiencing the AV leveling grind with my level 70 Warrior (now level 71). It is a nice change of pace in leveling, plus in AV 71-80 bracket the XP is insane.
Unfortunately there are individuals ruining the experience

Exalted Hodir

Finally completed my Hodir rep. I would have been done sooner but doing the daily quest became tedious. I wish Blizzard would make some of the daily quest weekly quest.

Shout out to Inside Azeroth Podcast

I want to thank David and Steve from Inside Azeroth in mentioning me and my guild Initech in the shout out segment of Episode 15. The endorsement was not necessary but thank you.
So if you are listening to WoW podcasts and not listening to Inside

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