There are 3 main types of food buffs i use as a raiding warlock: +hit, +haste, and +spell power.

When and where i use them depends heavily on which boss i’m fighting and what gear i’m currently raiding in /available to me. For example i would normally use +haste with my current gear but on the  General Vezax fight i would choose to use +spell power over haste because the shadow crash pools already give %100 percent haste and that to me seems like plenty so now i want to make sure my spells are hitting as hard as possible to take full advantage of the mana i have to use. (plus flaps always brings fish feasts. FREE is always better imo *smile!*) In this case the fight determines the food chosen.

Let’s look at another situational use of buff food where raid composition determines what food i use. For the most part i have the privilege of raiding with a moonkin and a shadow priest which in both cases have talents that increase spell hit but there are those rare occasion where i end up in a raid without them. I run below the hit cap on purpose so i can stack other stats in light of the fact that i can make up for it in raid buffs provided by these guys but in an event such as this i tuck away a little hit food just in case.

You may be asking where can i get this magical food of awesome? Well there are lesser versions of the awesome food but i’m only going to go over the awesome food because it’s more better then the less awesome food. (that whole sentence was just for you Grimmlokk)

Awesome version of +Hit:

Worg Tartare      Snapper Extreme

Awesome version of +Haste:

Very Burnt Worg Imperial Manta Steak

Awesome version of + Spell Power:

Fish Feast     Firecracker Salmon     Tender Shoveltusk Steak

If you’ll notice there is a fish version and a meat version of each type of food and both are pretty easy to farm. I spend about and hour a week farming on top of doing my cooking daily and have more then enough but if your lazy then you’ll probably be able to find what you want on the AH.

happy raiding,

psy

*post edited for accuracy thanks xan =D

The internet stalking has reached a frenzied pitch this week folks after the author of Paladin Schmaladin was revealed as a fraud. People are knee deep in IP address tracking and photo-lurking via whatever means are available to them, squirreling out caches from old web sites and forum posts. I am not kidding these people are digging and i mean digging deep and they all want to know who the heck farraro really is….wha?  mmmhmm.

Anyway.

If you want you can read about it here via a post from jagoex over at Warlock Therapy. I actually love this blog (paladin schmaladin that is.) If all this is true i feel sad for farraro that he/she felt like they couldn’t be truthful about who they really were. The blog itself truly stands alone as an amazing paladin resource. You don’t have to be an uber cute chick to get readers. I could care less whether the author was cute or a haggle fish or if it had 1 author or 7 . I would still read it and enjoy it. I probably will still read it and enjoy it. The drama surrounding Paladin Schmaladin doesn’t take away from the quality of the content contained in it IMO although i can see how others might feel differently.

Good luck farraro!

your friendly neighborhood locktard,

psy

Pugchecker.com – want to find out if that pug is quality or a hack? to lazy to look at the armory yourself? not sure what pieces of gear come from heroics and which ones are from raids? this might just be the website for you…

Yet again, another web site that is full of fun when i run out of my normal ways to internet stalk people.

for dragane. they love you. you’ll see. :0)

Okay this is kinda old and outdated but i wanted to illustrate how i use recount and maxdps.com to sorta gauge my dps performance… granted maxdps.com is not the end all be all of dps output.

So how do i practice on the practice dummy?

1.) I set my stopwatch for 5min

2.) I pewpew until time is up switching my shadowbolt spam for drain soul for the last min to try and simulate a boss encounter.

3.) If i am trying to decide on which piece of gear gives me the most dps i do this 3X averaging the results in my spreadsheet for each piece of gear.

4.) Otherwise i do it and compare the differences between my best go and my worst go how ever times i feel is necessary

If you want to really get detailed you can use wow webstats and just load your combat log up but my method seems sufficient for me lol.

Here’s kinda what it looks like:

*A few notes on warlock dps and rotations.

As i mentioned earlier maxdps is just a starting point if you have no clue where your dps should be for your stats but obviously once that’s established i’m now playing against my best not what maxdps says.

My personal opinion is if you can do you rotation with your eyes shut then it’s gonna make it easier to do it when you can’t have your eyes glued to your dottimer like in almost every fight except patchwerk right?

3.1 is gonna change things so stop whining and start experimenting

If your instantly awesome then good for you but i need practice to be good and luck lol.

hope this helps somebody =D

yours,

psy

Apparently we’re playing tag? lol. I got tagged by Fulguralis from over at Killing ‘em Slowly so now it’s my turn to tag some peoples back! suckers… this is long over due.

My very first commenter back in April was from rabbit from The Rabbit and Wow who i think is awesome and i love her blog. Soooo cute!

Blogs that i haven’t been tagged yet…this is going to be hard…

Creeping written by creep the prophet

For the Horde written by fikkle and sylus

Married IRL written by stephie and jason

Deathcoil.org written by jaramon

Greedy Goblin written by gevlon

Alrights! I gots my 5. All of these are worth a read. Way to go blogging community!

Last Rites got hit with the psy stick for the first time through a series of incredibly unfortunate events on sunday. Ignorance mixed with stupid blizzard game mechanics and psy thrown in on the side created epic fail for 25 other innocent people expecting to kill us a malygos…./sigh.

Lets just say it had something to do with me, a 5 man heroic group for the oculus, and a used raid ID that i was unaware of. Basically i wondered into the wrong portal while looking for the entrance to the oculus. Wouldn’t have been that big of a deal except that apparently the group i was in had cleared heroic malygos earlier in the week and acquired a raid ID for that instance and even though i was NOT in a raid group i got saved to it the instant i zoned in /cry.

Well that’s not really all…

That happened a couple days before our scheduled raid to kill malygos and since i hadn’t been in any 25 mans for the week i was unaware of my saved status concerning the eye of eternity. So when we got to the eye and i zoned in and there was no dragon we just thought it was one of those buggy blizzard things right? Wrong…

The solution we came up with of course was to make me leader and have me zone in first…

As that was happening Kwalan started asking my some questions concerning my raid ID such as…”Psy, have you been in here this week?”

“No.”

“Do you see the dragon?”

“No.”

“In your raid log do you have a raid ID for heroic eye of eterenity?”

“Yes.”

And before anyone could say DON”T GO IN!!!! 4 others had already done been zoned in and saved to my ninja raid ID acquired through my failzorgs 5man heroic oculus group…

You done been punk’d fool!?!! o.O Nopes, no Ashton Kutcher for us just little ol me and my saved self.

I haven’t even been 80 for a week and it’s already started MUWAHAHAHA!

I’s sowry everyone:(

<3

psy

P.S. Just for the record everyone involved handled the whole fiasco with kindness even though it was incredibly dissapointing and set our guild progression back an entire week. I didn’t even get one angry tell although i did get spammed with /hug from several of my guildies.  Special thanks to our raid leaders who took the time to explain the fight and organize us into 10 mans after our debacle and i’m still waiting for my hug from oxxy…./hug?

Last night was my first 25 man with LR and i have to tell you i feel a little out of my league. Organized? Prepared? No loot drama? I must be on a different planet. I was woefully under geared having just hit 80 mere hours earlier but for some reason i didn’t really feel that out of place….blizzard bug FTW?

Looking forward to going again but i hope i can hit up heroics some and get some better gear. I hate not really being able to contribute more.

<3 y’all

psy

My mother was the type of person who made anything and everything the most exciting thing ever.  Most people hate the dentist but for years the dentist was on par to disneyland for me because my first time ever going was with my mother. 

I remember how warm the car was on our way there and the frenzied chitter chatter from my mom all about how awesome the dentist was going to  be.

“Aren’t you excited Teener? The dentist is going to  be soooo cool!” (my full name is Kristina. Teener was my mothers pet name for me often followed by weiner…./sigh <3 my life)

The more she talked about it the more i wanted to go and apparently i am a very lucky child because i had zero cavities and i think i ended up leaving the dentist office with a sucker?… and a big kiss on my head for being such a perfect kid.

To this day i still love the dentist. My mother apparently has scarred me for life..rofl :P

She passed away sunday Nov. 30th 2008. Today i burried her in a small plot somewhere in Ohio in a cemetary so small it doesn’t even have an address. Tommorrow i drive and someday soon i’ll make my way home.

I miss you mom and your amazing ability to make life fun even in the most unlikely of places. I know you would have loved warcraft. you were always an adventurer where the best and most enjoyable parts of the adventure were the parts that had people in them.

your loving daughter and friend,

teener weiner

aka psy

Situation awareness, or SA, is the perception of environmental elements within a volume of time and space, the comprehension of their meaning, and the projection of their status in the near future.

Situational awareness comes naturally to some more then others IMO. My friend Crankbait is an amazing raider and it really has to do with his overall awareness of what’s going on around him and his ability to react to that information.

Of course there are the obvious examples like moving out of the fire and dodging the orbs in raid situations but some of the not so obvious examples may be things such as recognizing which quest lines and rewards to choose and how an upcoming patch might effect you.

Since i play this game for fun i’m okay slacking a little on the SA when it comes to choosing the right quest reward or being totally up-to-date on game changes up and coming although i recognize and appreciate it when i see it in others. Where i think we should all toe the line is where other players are going to be effected by our actions and that of course is going to be the raiding scene.

*WARNING RANT INCOMING*

Lacking SA or having inadequate SA has been identified as one of the primary factors in accidents attributed to human error.

It really kills me when people don’t even care they just wiped a whole raid because they didn’t move out of the fire saying something like “oh, i was in the fire? Gosh i didn’t see that.”

It’s a sad truth that most people who are SA impaired don’t realize it. (If you are SA impaired the first steps to finding help is admitting you have a problem: your first act of situational awareness. Woo! your on the right road!)

Not only that you can’t even teach someone to be more aware of their surroundings. You can yell. You can call them a noob. You can even try to explain to them why standing in the fire is bad but in the end they are the ones who have to see the need for it and respond accordingly…./sigh.

Anyway the whole reason i wrote this post wasn’t because i’m the queen of SA. No, it’s because i noticed how, when playing my healer, i would get a seriously bad case of tunnel vision and it got me to thinking about this topic so i thought it might be a good time to take a look at it. Problem is there’s not much to say other then ranting and praising hmm….

Things off the top of my head that may help?

• key binding spells?
• finding some sort of UI configuration that helps you keep an eye on your CD’s and doesn’t pull your eye away from the action?
• pulling your viewpoint as far back as possible so you can see more?
• a lot of times if i’m casting a longer spell i’ll use that time to move my camera angle around some to try an get an idea of what’s happening around me

Other then that all you can do is try to be more aware rofl.  Oh! and another helpful tip i read somewhere was to PvP although i know of at least one person who PvP’s constantly and it still doesn’t seem to help them

Anyone else with any helpful input please comments. Except for the blessed few or maybe the wretched few all of us could benefit from good advice =D

<3 you guys,

psy