Jason, check out the pure avoidance (dodge, parry, miss) and the one for Stoneskin Gargoyle at bottom.  All include correct diminishing returns for all, even miss (huge DR on miss) at:

http://www.tankspot.com/forums/f120/44685-block-cap-pure-avoidance-macros.html

John A.  Here’s the links to those two sites..

www.worldofmatticus.com/tag/talent/ talents to take and why, for disc and holy

www.plusheal.com is a great resource for all healers.  Good forum discussion.

I’ll apologize for denigrating your newborn son already.. I just couldn’t resist.

Well boys and girls…..the contractions are about 4 minutes apart so I think the baby is coming today. Wish us health and luck. I’ll probably be back on sometime this weekend, but I don’t think I’ll be doing anything longer than a quick heroic for the next week or so. I’m so excited….crap…wife aggro…..bye!

That would be me!  Every day before my vacation, I’d log into mountaindewgamefuel.com site and rack up as many points as I could.  I considered it my daily quests =) and it paid off.

Without any notification, email, whatever.. well my name was listed in the official list of winners for the mouse drawing I had entered for on 07/05/09 but I never checked there each day to see if I’d won.  I always figured they would just send me an email saying as much.. but no.  They just sent me my new Razer Deathadder gaming mouse in the mail!

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It’s not the fanciest-smanchsiest mouse out there.. but it’s a great shape and size for me and the texture of the top is.. well hard to describe.. like a really really fine suede type buffed feel to it even though it’s plastic.  For free it’s an awesome mouse =)

The amount of gold you can earn per day from click through stuff has steadily increased… right now it’s sitting at 800 gold (points) per day.  I found a nice set of links for all the click throughs so I don’t have to actually go to all the facebook/twitter/myspace/other partner websites/etc to get the click points.  There’s about 450 points of videos that take about a minute to click on all of too.

The chance of winning a Mountain Dew t-shirt or a messenger bag are pretty high.. but I spent most of my points on entries for the hardware stuff.. mouse, speakers, keyboards and a 100 or so for the Alienware laptop they give away one of each day too.  There’s usually 2 or 3 million points entered for the laptop though so I don’t expect my 100 to win that ever.

I had resisted merging my warcraft account with a battle.net account.. but I did for the promotions and the battlebot pet/fuel.  I figured that it wouldn’t be long before they required it anyway.  The login trouble that plagued so many the last few days was only striking those that had not merged their account with a b.net account yet.  A change from the early days of the merged accounts that had initially had login issues.

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

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. (more…)