Nice choice coming looks like. Should be able to extend the life of a raid instance for an extra week. I hope they allow you to change your mind during that 2nd week and start over fresh for that current week if you choose.

Lots and lots of changes coming in 3.2 as seen in the patch notes for the public test realm.

Tons of class abilities and talents are being redesigned.  Gameplay changes and one big change that will affect all our gear gathering ability (and sourse.. *cough* grind for gear) are the changes coming to the emblem system.

• Both the 10 and 25 player instances of the Crusaders’ Coliseum drop a new Emblem of Triumph.
• Any dungeons that previously dropped Emblems of Heroism or Valor, such as Naxxramas or Heroic Halls of Stone, will now drop Emblems of Conquest instead. Emblems of Conquest can still be converted to Valor or Heroism.
• The heroic dungeon daily quest will now reward 2 Emblems of Triumph and the normal daily dungeon quest will reward 1 Emblem of Triumph.
• The existing achievements to collect 1, 25, 50, etc. Emblems of Heroism, Valor, and Conquest have been converted to Feats of Strength since Heroism and Valor Emblems are no longer attainable.

New achievements have been added to collect various amounts of any combination of emblems.

What I’m curious about is what will happen to the emblems of Heroism and Valor that we already have.  Will they be transformed into Conquests?  Doubtful since the Conquests can be converted into Heroism or Valor.. so the items that are purchased with them currently will still require official Hero or Valor emblems and you’ll have to convert your new Conquest if you want to buy those items.  Make sense?  I did to me in my brain.. not sure if it came out that way on “paper” though.

Not all classes have as huge of changes coming as paladins do.. (just wow).. like rogues only have 2 changes, so far.  Can use axes (and sword specialization talent changed to include those axes) and a change to Shadow Dance in subtlety.  Paladins have .. well I can’t even begin.  Check out your class.

Just in time for it not to matter to Mike.. poor Mike.  They are lowering most of the level requirements for mounts, flying and ground and making them cheaper.  Except for epic flying

Weese has sub contracted his WIT picture selection out to his wife.. or he said something about that.  I think she’s probably got a great one picked out.. Tim just won’t send it to me as punishment for me keeping his Pink Panther movie collection for as long as I did.

So in the mean time.. here’s something from me cuz I got tired of looking at the shroud of Turin.

Ok.. I really like my larger monitor.. but now that I have Old Guy Eyes it’s tougher to comfortably read everything on this screen now that the stuff is so small at this higher resolution.

I switched back to Firefox browser recently and use the noscript addon.. now I’ve found my 2nd favorite one.. nosquint!  Let’s me set the text and image zoom level for each site and remembers those settings.  You can make a zoom level the default for all pages if you like.. something you can’t do in Firefox by itself.  I usually keep the images set to normal 100% and bump up just the text to 120%.  Keeps things from looking stretched, fuzzy etc but makes the text readable on this 22″ monitor for my aging vision.

3rd favorite addon? Xmarks.. hands down.  The ease that we can all synchronize all our bookmarks (remember.. four kids and four computers) across all the rigs and all the browsers is so nice.  Have access to your bookmarks from anywhere online too at the xmarks.com website too.

Others I like are Personal Menu to get rid of the menu bar.. Mouse Gestures even though I only use like 2% of it.. and Read It Later.

Death Knight FAQ (updated) at elitistjerks, see the part titled “Avoidance” and “Dimishing Returns”.. and the underlined part of the dimishing returns =)

Dodge > Parry.

Hey all…I hate to be the bearer of bad news, and I know some of you have probably talked to Lisa.  One of Ameristar’s former dealers, some of you probably knew him, Matt Rog, suffered a massive stroke yesterday.  He is not expected to survive.  Those of us who knew him always relished his sense of humor and his “war” stories about being a cop.  This is especially sad news for me, as I have known Matt for a long time, and he was my Dad’s supervisor on the KCPD. 

Please take a moment to say a prayer for his family.

 

Thanks,

Jay

What Would Weese Do?

There’s no new WIT because Weese hasn’t sent me one.. and he won’t send me one until he gets back his Pink Panther movie collection on DVD that I borrowed from him two.. hmm maybe three.. months ago.  Well that’s the excuse he’s using now anyway.  Up until a couple days ago he was just not sending me one because he forgets/procrastinates as much as I do.. yeah.. that’s all I’ve been doing.. procrastinating.  That’s it, that’s the ticket.

Why haven’t I just given him back his DVD’s?  What’s my excuse? ummmmm…

I’m lookin for input here or on the AC forums (freshly cleaned of all the spam that accumulated over the two months I haven’t looked at it LOL).. what are your thoughts?   Try the new world order partnership with <HHG> for awhile?  Go back to <AC> and raid 10 mans?  There would be enough from <Scarra’s Guild> (this is a good name?) to field a 10 man with us?  Twizz and Jonash are there..  Talk to me.. speak.. what am you gonna do?  So I can figure out what I’m gonna do!

What do you guys wanna do?  Don’t hold back, be honest.  <Faith of the Fallen> is entering into a split raid plan with <Horde Honor Guard> doing Ulduar 25 3 to 4 nights a week.  Tu/We/Thu with Friday and Monday being optional.  Basically we are adopting their loot policy for our combined raids.. there have been a very few changes to it that aren’t yet displayed yet at www.hordhonorguard.com under the “policies” link near the top. Read the rest of this entry »

This gave me a flash back. Just wish it hadn’t. You might have to replace spring break with Axis & Allies and Tax breaks with frozen margaritas, but you get the idea.

-Kevin