http://antisilence.org/misadventures Yet another World of Warcraft blog Tue, 06 Jul 2010 12:53:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Every so often you get these bad PUGs. You bitch about them to your friends, and if they're too horrendous, you drop group. Hell, every so often, you might even get terrible PUGs. And then you get ones like this. Setting: Nexus. Actors: A poor random DK, an elemental shaman. Then this ... http://antisilence.org/misadventures/?p=113 For everyone. The vote kick system, in theory, is an excellent idea. Someone's messing up your heroic run, so you can cast a vote to remove them. It takes three people out of the remaining four to agree to remove the person in question, and since  you cannot whisper people cross-realm, ... http://antisilence.org/misadventures/?p=115 There has been a massive ongoing discussion on LJ's wow_ladies, which can basically summed up as follows: Let's say you're randoming a heroic as a tank or healer, and you ended up in a group with a couple of DPSers who are not pulling their weight, but the instance is going ... http://antisilence.org/misadventures/?p=208 Dear 70-79 AV players of Rampage, If your healer is repeatedly faceplanting while trying to heal Balinda... I somehow don't reckon the problem is the healing, you know? I'm sure you guys feel totally awesome because you're top of damage done, but yeah, Balinda still isn't dead, and she won't be dead ... http://antisilence.org/misadventures/?p=216 I've been getting back into lowbie battlegrounds. I've made the decision to level Lainie, my 19 twink rogue, a while back. However, this doesn't keep me from lingering in every bracket and battleground I can. Outfitted with the heirloom shoulders, chest, weapons, plus her leftover twink gear in the rest of ... http://antisilence.org/misadventures/?p=213 Miss Medicina has come up with a healing questionnaire on her blog to get some cross-promotion going among smaller healing bloggers. She also has an extremely pretty blog design, but that's another thing entirely. Anyway, here are my answers. What is the name, class, and spec of your primary healer? Elisse, ... http://antisilence.org/misadventures/?p=211 Well, I thought I'd contribute my bad PUG story of the week, and the raiding week has just started. It all started when I saw an ad in trade advertising a TotC10 PUG. The guy doing the advertising was from one of the top guilds on the server, and supposedly, the ... http://antisilence.org/misadventures/?p=205 IRL, and actually playing the game, getting in the way of blogging these days. I do update my Twitter from time to time over here, though. Thanks for your patience! http://antisilence.org/misadventures/?p=203 Today, I had a discussion with a friend who is in a raiding guild, about a guild policy that they had. Their policy, as I gathered from my friend's words and my own observation, is as follows: On any and all raids, progression and farm alike, you may be pulled out ... http://antisilence.org/misadventures/?p=191 So we're rocking it again as rogue priest... ...and it's so much more fun than I thought it would be. I just didn't realise how much potential Wrath arenas have. My issue used to be that I wanted to be able to stay alive. I didn't want games where "zerg the priest" ... http://antisilence.org/misadventures/?p=186