Comments on: The Intertwinement of Real Life and WoW

By: Marisa Ong

Marisa Ong — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 22:01:33 +0000

Oddly enough, it isn’t raiding blind that’s holding us back — more lack of participation. We’ve lost a bunch of people to various things (babies, burnout, work) so our raiding roster is very thin right now.

I got very grumpy on our last raid night because we didn’t have quite enough to put together a 10-man; kept getting close but not quite enough. In the end, though, one of my guildmates suggested we at least practice the fight vs. Omnotron Defense System. Despite only nine of us in the raid, we still won! It took 11 minutes and I was screaming about lack of mana for the last 1.5 minutes, but we still beat the golems

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 18:18:03 +0000

I thought I had seen that thread, but it’s waaay more comprehensive than I remembered. I must have been remembering a different how-to-thread. Thanks for the link!

By: Aoyanagi

Aoyanagi — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 03:19:01 +0000

Hey, RE the WoL Expression Editor, Auracen is awesome and maintains this thread over on plusheal.com.

http://plusheal.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=6037

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 15:09:22 +0000

2/12 is pretty good if you’re raiding blind. But you’re laid back with signups/family aggro, I might struggle a bit. I’ve just always really wanted to raid blind, but it’s hard to find a blind guild outside of the world top guilds (and I REALLY don’t have that kind of time on my hands!)

The regular log parser can track interrupts and specific heals too, but from what I understand, the Expression Editor is more efficient with finding specific moments. I’ve yet to find a good syntax guide though. Even the WoL help section doesn’t give much information. I assume it uses an existing computer language since some people do know the syntax, but unfortunately, my knowledge of computer languages doesn’t extend much beyond html.

By: Marisa Ong

Marisa Ong — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 19:16:14 +0000

Thought a bit more about why I’m more about “wanting to master” than “wanting to learn.” There’s always something I could do better (judge more! pop Divine Favor! why did I forget to eat my Healthstone?) so I never feel like I’m out of things to learn and improve upon. It’s probably why I don’t have a lot of alts.

Our guild is probably too casual for you I’m hardcore in some areas (WOL parses), but laissez-faire in others (raid signups). Did you ever play “The Sims”? I was a micro-managing Nazi to my little Sims in that game. No free will for my Sims! But in real life (or at least with my guild), I’m a lot more lax.

Anyway, you can look us up on http://redshadows.guildportal.com. We’re a mostly West Coast-based guild on an East Coast-based server (no idea how that happened).

If you’re interested in raiding blind, you should definitely try it! People ask how I manage to avoid boss strategies, but it’s not that hard even with all the WOW reading I do. I mean, I might know some boss fight is a big dragon with drake adds — but that doesn’t mean I know the specifics of the fight.

Also WOL’s Expression Editor is really neat. You can do all sorts of cool stuff like parse for interrupts (to see who really interrupted Arcanotron’s Arcane Annihilator). In one log, I almost died to a double Arcane Annihilator so I used the Expression Editor to see who healed me back up enough from the first one so I could survive the second one.

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 15:28:40 +0000

We actually used to have the entire newsletter in French and English, but professional translators are so expensive and amateur translating is so much work that we just ended up trying to get articles in each language. The joys of being a bilingual country!

By: Brangwen

Brangwen — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 03:24:07 +0000

I might have become distracted by the french article.

Man my french is rusty!

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 23:33:26 +0000

I was a healer up until the near-end of BC. I was in a casual guild at the time and had gotten to the point where I wasn’t learning anything anymore about healing as a holy paladin. So I made the switch to tanking. It never felt natural the way healing did, so when I applied to Conquest, I went back to healing. I still tanked on occasion but I’m not a fan of being in the front of fights. I’d rather mop up other people’s mistakes than be the first one screwing up.

Thank you for your words on my article

I update the other blog from time to time, not often. Lately I’ve been posting pictures of food I made. That’s what I do when I’m not in front of the computer: make food.

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 23:23:58 +0000

You know it. Every night before I go to sleep, I say goodnight to the pictures of your character I have taped to the wall next to my bed.

By: SmashNHeal

SmashNHeal — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:05:05 +0000

Ah, yes, I recall your post about meeting Matt at Blizzcon. Now that he’s risen to WoW Insider columnist status, perhaps you will cherish that moment even more. Even with the schoolgirl giddyness.

If you were a tank through so much of WotLK, what made you change? Inquiring minds want to know. (Is that saying just an American thing, or did the commercials become popular in Canada?)

I am interested in your initial thoughts on tanking 5-man random heroics once you have tanked a few. I have my own opinion, and it is probably not the common opinion, but I’d rather not influence your thoughts with my ramblings at this point.

And I forgot to comment on your article. I thought it was well done. It reflects your writing style, which I feel is both educational and personable. Look forward to reading more. BTW, have you updated your other blog???