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From the WoW forums comes a list of raiding personalities:

Having been a part of several different raid groups, I’ve begun to notice patterns regarding the type of people that make up a raid. It seems to me that a lot of the same types of people inhabit 40-man raids. Here’s my list of the general charactes I’ve observed and some basic info about them:

NOTE: Most of these are NOT mine, although I have at one point or another seen all of them.

The Average Raider
Chances are you fit into this category. He talks on Vent when needed, is fairly adaptive to the instance, pays decent attention, fufills his class role adequately, and doesn’t cause too many problems.

I fall into the He of 1000 Alts and The Answer Guy categories…

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From the cache of Google:

It’s time to drop out of school, quit your job, divorce your spouse, disown your children, cancel your gym membership, upgrade your PC, and clear out your schedule for World of Starcraft. Hot on the heels of the unprecedented success of its first massively multiplayer online role-playing game, Blizzard Entertainment is taking its other best-known real-time strategy brand and doing it up proper. We’ve only caught a glimpse of a work-in-progress version of World of Starcraft so details are scarce at this time, but we’re already prepared to lay all our credibility and all your trust in us on the line by predicting that this will surely end up being GameSpot’s 2007 Game of the Year when it finally comes out, assuming it doesn’t get delayed. After all, when you take World of Warcraft; replace the “Warcraft” with “Starcraft;” fix a whole bunch of World of Warcraft’s problems; introduce a whole new set of mechanics and gameplay features; and throw in stim packs, psionic storms, and devourers, you obviously have a completely different and even better game.

I am sooo in love…
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You know something is wrong when the SO calls up from Undisclosed_Location_534 and you manage to convey the boredom of your life in two sentences. Such was last night.

I’d have taken screenshots of the people coming and leaving in 5 minutes all night as Kalimdor bounced up and down like $2 whore, but we were too busy in Vent making fun of the guys that were too stupid find the nearest Mage for a UC Teleport. Oh yeah, we ran the Baron in 43 minutes. I actually think that Blizz didn’t screw that up at all, although for some reason the “casuals” are going to be about 4 months behind us like normal.

In other news, go read Something*Positive, Zap, and StripTease. I’ve read them all. The first and the third only emphasize to me that if you want make sex public, know how to draw and slap a punchline on the end. I’d say that the main characters are roughly equivalent to me in terms of nooky-needing, but I’d be lying. They’re pikers.

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I had a nice long post about how I chose to what class to play. Then I read it.

What it all comes down to is I want (need?) to feel needed in a game like WoW. Oh, I don’t need to be #1 on the DPS/Healing/Epeen meter, but I want to be a significant factor in the success of whatever we are doing. This usually details having/playing a class that other people don’t want to. At some point though, other people figure out the same thing and roll their own copies…

So, sucks to be a Mage now since everyone on the server has a 60 Alt and think they can do a better job than me. I have a Warrior, and I know I’m good at the tanking game, but people don’t think they need tanks when they pick up Random_Warrior_567 who insists on tanking with 2H and Berserker. Whatever class I level to fill in spots in the raid will be competing with the alts of people who had the exact same idea.

What’s all that come down to? Fork if I know. I’ll be at the Ruins trying for my

for hour 15+.

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Finally, one of the things that players will really appreciate is going to be implemented in the game:

We’re pleased to announce that the keyring functionality has been completed and will be in place for patch 1.11. When a player first acquires a key, they will automatically acquire a keyring that will hold permanent dungeon keys. The size of this keyring will increase as the player goes up in level—as seen below.

Level 1-40 = 4 slots
Level 41-50 = 8 slots
Level 51-60 = 12 slots

Finally, I don’t have to remember to bring the damn

into a Live Strat run and then have to switch it out for my . Key rings >>> sliced bread, IMO.

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Just as a question to the Dalai Lama’s comment that killing Bin Laden will make 10 more: does this apply for every one? I mean, theoretically, if I kill the Dalai Lama, then 10 more Dalai Lama’s pop up, right? I do believe that that is a proof of the idea that killing people does bring peace!

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I hate puzzles. Not because I don’t like them, but because I’ll have to sepdn hours trying to figure them out. So a big non-thanks (< -- made up word of the day) to Foton for pointing out a puzzle I really have no chance at. I guess the Gnome was tired of living in the shoebox…

His clues:

* “Grouchy Gnome� has the same number of letters as my real name, first and last combined. * Emos dluow refer ot em sa suolupurcsnu. Srehto llits dluow refer ot em sa na live dneif. * My ronlam rekinom si utiqe rentfedif morf Emong Yhcuorg–it si lony eon drow dan sode ton ratts thiw a G, ghouth mose thimg garue hatt hist eon drow taniscon two.

My inprogress work:

Emos dluow refer ot em sa suolupurcsnu. Srehto llits dluow refer ot em sa na live dneif.
Some would refer to me as unscrupulous. Others still would refer to me as an evil fiend.

My ronlam rekinom si utiqe rentfedif morf Emong Yhcuorg–it si lony eon drow dan sode ton ratts thiw a G, ghouth mose thimg garue hatt hist eon drow taniscon two.
My normal moniker is quite different from Gnome Grouchy-it is only one word and does not start with a G, though some might argue that this one word contains two.

Honestly, I don’t have enough knowledge of developers for the first clue to be of any use. The others are simple ciphers which I am ashamed to say that I could read almost the whole thing right off the bat.

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So, not a whole lot to report on any front. Otter is off to play in the sandbox for the next month without me, and then I get to head over. In the meantime, I get to pack up the house and play WoW until very disgusting things happen.

Case in point: yesterday. Just logged on after 3 hours of sleep (ZG raids tend to keep you up for a long time when you are on opposite coast servers) to do some auction checking and set up for later. End up yanking the latest alt through RFC twice, WC once, and a live Strat run. Took a shower and then went to bed. The good thing was that I got to play with Jayd for a bit, it’ll be a couple of days but then the alt will catch up to and pass her probably.

So, life continues/goes on/keeps rolling/whatever.

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