Archive for September, 2007

Building A Basic Work Bench

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

Building A Basic Work Bench
I wonder how hard it would be to adapt this for a computer desk? On a related note, IKEA: Real furniture kids can build is a good idea for projects for kids. Too bad we don’t have an Ikea nearby - I’d be tempted to get some furniture of the kids to build on dull days in winter.

Farming Scryer Rep

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

Farming Scryer Rep - TankSpot looks like a good possibility for when my warrior gets up to 70. I have been doing similar things with my protection-specced paladin at lower levels. My paladin is my main farming character for the simple reason that she’s the next best thing to a perpertual motion machine and I love watching the mobs kill themselves. I hate caster mobs though.

Some generic raid-heal strategies

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

Some generic raid-heal strategies « Priestly Endeavors - a WoW Blog would have been really useful when I was briefly stuck as defacto priest class lead for raiding.

Pre-epic plate healing gear, part 1 - WOW Insider

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

The Light and How to Swing It: Pre-epic plate healing gear, part 1 - WOW Insider

35+ Spectacular and Practical Time Saving Tips

Sunday, September 23rd, 2007

35+ Spectacular and Practical Time Saving Tips - Dumb Little Man

Six Great Long-Distance Bike Trails Without Cars

Friday, September 21st, 2007

Cool Tools: Six Great Long-Distance Bike Trails Without Cars looks like the kind of vacation I would like to take should I ever get a chance to take a vacation that isn’t pre-scheduled for me.

What to do? What to do? - WOW Insider

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

What to do? What to do? - WOW Insider gives good ideas for finding zones and quest givers to level with. I really like the Wowhead quest giver feature - Cartographer has some of the same functionality.

High DPS

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

Blessing of Kings: Theorycraft vs Trial-and-Error gives a quick and dirty way of figuring out how to do more DPS. The only thing I’d add is that you should also take into account resistances - there’s no point in throwing out a high power fire spell against a fire-immune mob.

Here’s a general algorithm for doing high DPS:

1. Rank your spells from highest DPS to lowest DPS.
2. Cast the highest DPS spell.
3. If you cannot cast the highest DPS spell again (because of a cooldown), cast the next highest.
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3, going down the list as necessary.

It seems very simple, but following this will provide you with a decent spell rotation for every class. It won’t be the optimum rotation, and you might have to drop a spell because it costs too much mana, or does too much threat, or has a really short range. The work comes in ranking your spells correctly. (The main trick here is that when calculating DPS for a non-burst fight, you only look at the cast-time of the spell, not the lifetime of the spell. For direct damage they’re the same thing, but not for DoTs.)

Kitty Burst DPS and you

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

Big Bear Butt Blogger: Kitty Burst DPS and you is a good article on DPS in cat druid form.

How to Play Your Class In a Group

Monday, September 10th, 2007

Part I :: Basics and DPS
Part II :: Tanks
Part III :: Healers

via Egotistical Priest

Nostromo

Monday, September 10th, 2007

Egotistical Priest talks about her Nostromo Speedpad n52. It looks like a great gadget. Maybe I’ll get two as Christmas presents for Jaimie and me.

Going inbox-zero on your paper mail

Saturday, September 1st, 2007

Going inbox-zero on your paper mail - (37signals) looks interesting. I’d love to be able to scan in more office documents easily. The price tag is a little steep though.