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Subject:	Who met their partners on WoW?
Posted by:	lulubelle77.
Time:	9:16 am.

Hi WoW ladies (and lads)
About two years ago, whilst levelling my 39 lock in STV, i ran across some trouble in a cave. I put a shout out in general for 'err a little help in here pls?' and a friendly warrior came to my rescue. We chatted for a bit and i added him to friends becuase he seemed an affable sort. We ended up levelling together most way to 70 before our schedules fell out of sync and we stopped playing online together. I had by that stage established enough trust to give out my out-game contacts and we stayed in touch as mates over the next 18 months.

During this time it was discovered we had a lot in common, including the same birthday!!! Mid-year, after a horrific breakup with my partner of 5 years, he was the friend who gave me the most support (online at least).
But lately iv'e been thinking about him a lot more than i probably should be, and i even gathered up the courage to visit him (a 2hr flight). We got on well and to me it seemed that a relationship could be possible (with a little effort given the state in between us).
Also, we are both playing WoW again, although on different servers, and im wondering if i should transfer to be with him...

Id like to know of any successful WoW relationships from you ladies out there! Give me some hope! And does anyone think having the same birthday is a spooky fate thing???

(also a shout-out to any WoW ladies on Oceanic servers <3)

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Subject:	Outland LFG
Posted by:	epiphling.
Time:	6:16 pm.
Mood:	amused.

It's like I never do anything but use the LFG tool to do lowbie dungeons, even if the dungeons are not quite so lowbie anymore.

Tanks are improving as my baby mage grows up -- she's 63 now, and working her way through Hellfire Peninsula (with a brief stop back in Azeroth to powerlevel her Inscription, since I neglected it terribly) -- but their "dumbass" title seems to be claimed by various kinds of DPS and the occasional healer.

The Little Rogue Who Couldn't - isn't supposed to tank but insists on trying, can't stop linking his level 60 purples like they're worth a damn anymore, Shadowsteps behind and backstabs the boss while we're still clearing the last of the trash, whines for a heal when he's down 10% life and we're not in combat... I can't believe I got this one not once but twice today, same guy.

The Healer Who Wants A Lot of Drinks - I don't mind giving out water, but if we're two pulls from the last boss of the instance, and you ask me for more water, don't complain when I hand you the partial stack I have in my bags, especially while I'm drinking myself. How much water do you really need for three pulls anyway?

The Damage-Happy AOEr - No, wait, this one's me. Still, don't bitch me out if I'm pulling aggro with Frost Nova. I'm trying to lock them into place because they're going to otherwise beeline to the healer while you're "establishing" aggro. Oh, single target's more mana efficient, is it? You know what else is efficient? Shutting yer trap, but I don't see you doing that, do I?

Mr. Link the Meters! - Who gives a rats ass? It's Outland, and not even late-life Outland at that. Are you really gonna whine and gripe about not being top dog in Blood Furnace? No, I'm not saying that because my name's on top. Really, I'm not.

I Queued Heals Because I Someone Told Me To In A Whisper - Yes, I'm looking at you, Mr. Feral Druid who is apparently supposed to heal us in cat gear with 3k mana. I didn't realize Nurturing Instincts was such an OP talent for ferals. I feel so pitiful and pathetic for ever doubting your 1337 healing prowess. You, sir, rank with Alamo. Now GTFO my queue, because the Vote Kick is not letting us feed you to the smoke monster.

Ms. You're Fucking Me Over By Not Looting! - Yes, it's a conspiracy to keep you from maximizing your profits and leatherworking ability. None of us want you to have any gold, or be able to craft anything ever. That's why the tank's not looting the core hound ... er, fel hound... while you're standing there screaming at him to. No, he's halfway down the hall with the rest of us, continuing to clear trash. Yes, surely this one hound that you can't skin (and are getting increasingly and hostilely insistent on skinning) is going to break your bank and set you back years in your crafting skills. No, fuck you, snowflake. There's a million boars in Hellfire. Why don't you go skin those after we vote kick your ass out and get someone who isn't going to curse up a storm over one piece of leather?

And Now For Something Completely Different

Kudos to the awesome group I ran with late last night. I lost track of how many times we did Ramps before I finally couldn't take it anymore and requested Blood Furnace or Slave Pens, but I got a level and a half out of the deal, and y'all were really cool to hang with for those couple of hours. Merry Christmas to all of you, wherever you might be.

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Subject:	Possible Drama Queen?
Posted by:	aphrodite33.
Time:	10:50 am.
Mood:	bitchy.

I am an officer of a very tiny small guild... It's made up of just GL, Myself, and five other people, the rest are alts.

So on one of my off nights from the game, a new female member was invited to the guild. I thought awesome another female to talk with.... I log in one night and she started talking to the boys.. (I ask one of my officers, who was that, cause I didn't see her before. He was like oh some new chick K invited) So I say hey to her, no response... In fact the entire conversation dropped.. So the rest of the guild started talking to me, asking how things were and stuff.

( Rest of story here )

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Subject:	Achievement Management.... and trying to stay on target.
Posted by:	belle_dragon.
Time:	1:32 pm.

I've found a bit of a snag while trying to keep a scrapbook of my achievements in game. Lately, I've been getting 3, 4, and 5 achievements at the same time, except that the screen doesn't show it, or it'll show one or two and skip the rest. And the last time (HoS, HHoS, NR Dun Hero, NR Dun Master) my awesome completely crashed the game and I didn't get screenshots at all. Does anyone know of a way to get more than one or two achievements to show at a time?

Also, is there an addon that locks on to whatever the tank is focused on? The new floating nameplates suck, the old ones are bad too, and I'm finding tanks are becoming more and more absent minded when it comes to marking their targets. I try not to be that huntard, but more and more with these pugs, people just have their targets going all over the place.

Also, I am posting this from a Sonic Drive thru. Beat that, Panera iMac Man.

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Subject:	Bear-tanking it on H-FoS halp pretty please!
Posted by:	soliloquy042.
Time:	10:57 am.

Hai all.

Little background... For most of my four or five years I've been playing Wow, I have played healers. I <3 healing. Then I rolled a elemental shaman and discovered the pure pwning awesomeness of eleshammy facemelting. So then I thought, well... I can heal... I can dps... I wanna try tanking. So I rolled a bear tank. I've only been tanking for a few months, so I basically know just enough to get myself in trouble. :P I can tank heroics pretty well, sure, a mob or two will occasionally get away from me, but one Growl from me and it comes running back. So, I really didn't think I was that terrible of a tank... but then Heroic Forge of Souls happened.

-.-

Ladies, please help me. I have no idea how to tank this stupid instance. Four and five casters who refuse to budge from just out of my range, I'm running around like a drunken furball, the dps are valiantly trying to stay on one of the targets I'm frantically tab-targetting through trying to keep threat on all of them (ok, actually, they are usually doing what dps do, going ballistic on whatever target I haven't targetted yet >.>), the healer is sobbing and heart-attacking as s/he tries to keep everyone up and Barnum and Bailey just announced that the monkeys are performing in Ring 3.

-headdesk-

So... halp? >.<

Here is my Armory. Any additional suggestions as to gear or spec would be *greatly* appreciated!

Thank you so much, Ladies!

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Subject:	A bitter sweet symphony, or One guild drama leads to another's ding!
Posted by:	moonlightopal.
Time:	7:48 am.
Mood:	blank.

I've recently posted and joined in on discussions about DKS and tanking and all that fun, but as I've stated a few times, my 'main' has always been my Disc priest Lilliah. Because of the holidays and of work (yay for working in retail!) I have not been on my main very much, especially since since my guild was having an IRL meet and greet over the week before Christmas. I signed on today to wish my guild mates merry Christmas and by chance happened to notice a guildie on my friends list was not in my guild when I tabbed open O to see who was on..

( Ensuing Drama Ensues )

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Subject:	And now... the rest of the story.
Posted by:	troll_huntress.
Time:	4:29 am.
Mood:	sick.

Due to a new job, I recently had to step down from raiding with my hunter. The only upgrades left for her, really, are in ICC, so there's not a whole lot of point in playing her. The new LFG tool has been a godsend for my disc priest, though. He was wearing a patchwork of Naxx stuff, BoEs, and blues from heroics, so suddenly having access to t9 is fantastic, not to mention the actual items that drop in the new instances.

Anyway, I know there's been a lot of grr over the whole gearscore thing, so I thought I'd mention the only time I've actually run into it in-game. This was a couple days ago, and the random tossed us into H-HoR. This is really the only heroic that makes me half-cringe, as the Marwyn trash waves can get pretty awful if the tank doesn't pick up everything instantly and securely. Even if they do, it can be pretty rough. But I'm willing to try any instance with any group, and H-HoR usually doesn't get instaquits, since everyone wants the gear (including me!).

It wasn't the easiest clear of that instance I've ever done, but we did clear it. After all the crystals/loot had been distributed from the last chest (I think that was when I got the belt I'm wearing), the tank who had previously been entirely silent says: "OK GUYS WHAT'S EVERYONE'S GS!????" then drops group.

I thought that was pretty awesome.

I will have to admit I did ditch a group earlier, though. The tank was doing something wrong - I have no idea what - but he was taking unhealable levels of damage from old kingdom trash. I remarked on the insane damage he was taking one or two trash pulls in, and when we wiped after another couple pulls because I simply couldn't heal through the damage, I was like "well, good luck with that" and ditched. He accused me of being a "gear elitist" because I said he wasn't ready to tank the instance, but like, I hadn't even inspected him and honestly wouldn't know what to look for if I had. All I know is that if you've got weakened soul on you, renew ticking, penance and PoM on CD, and you die while flash heal is casting on old kingdom trash, you're not ready to tank it. You're just not.

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Subject:	The nerdrage quota for my server has apparantly not been reached >.>
Posted by:	cookies_n_salt.
Time:	6:55 am.
Mood:	amused.

First of all...HAPPY WINTER VEIL EVERYONE!!!! ^ ^

Secondly....

So I did WG at 5 in the morning on my mage this morning.
We win (with 5 people in group) and people form a VOA10 group somehow. I ask for invite since they need a dps and I figured I'd do it for stoneshards for my hunter alt.

Me: *port*

Me: *greet my guild mate i see*

Party Leader: "noone should do under 3k dps"

Me: *go over the last 6 times ive done this on 10 man and smile cause I do good dps*.

Noob priest (now on /ignore): "look noob mage, no enchants and crap gear".

Party leader: *does not check my stats obviously* "Oh" */kick*

Me: *gets kicked*.

Now 1) this is 5 in the morning so gl and have fun finding people for your group.
2) My mage does 3k dps in average selfbuffed, has mostly t8 and t9 gear, gearscore of 2350 (good enough for Ulduar 10 man, mostly enchanted (except the new t9 gloves) and around 4.5k on bosses.
3) My guildie doesn't take kindly to this and leaves group (and he's mt, which is hard to find during prime time on my server).

I know we've been angry at people that ask for gearscores and so on, but this was about as disturbing... level 80's that can't use the inspect function? O.o

I'm so scared right now....

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Subject:	The order of gear.
Posted by:	xladymissiex.
Time:	9:16 pm.

So now I'm level 75 and I think it's about time I learn how this whole gear set = certain dungeons works. So far I've run Nexus, the buggy place, troll dungeon, and UK. I've gotten a few upgrades for my Resto spec but I want to learn how I get gear at the top of the charts. Not saying i ever will but I think it's still a good thing to learn.

So what gear should I get before I attempt Heroics? Do those only start at level 80? What's the first set of dungeon on heroic do I do in blues from normal past dungeons?

I'm sure I'm mixing up all my words here as I'm completely confused. Basically what is the chart of gear I need to match the chart of dungeons/heroics/raids?

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Subject:	Wyrmrest Accord [HA] Druid/Shaman gatherings need YOU!
Posted by:	ruthhall.
Time:	5:28 pm.

Wyrmrest Accord (US) RP Realm
The Gathering of Druids (cross-faction Druid Gathering)
Call of the Spirits (cross-faction Shaman Gathering)

The Gathering of Druids event started out about two months after the server opened, the Call of the Spirits event started several months later. For a time there was a break in the events as I took a "vacation" from RP. Another person has stepped up to help run them and they are starting to build slow momentum.

More information about the events can be found at: http://www.brightmoonfaire.com/naturalists

To find out what we're in need of (I mean other than participants) please check behind the cut!

( The Gatherings )

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Subject:	Proud Murlock Parent
Posted by:	pretty_vacant_1.
Time:	4:19 pm.
Mood:	ecstatic.

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you were all good this year and Santa got you lovely gifts!

A few days ago, someone posted about their hubby buying them the vanity pets from Blizz store for xmas. As part of that thread, and unknown to my hubby, I posted that I hoped my man would buy me a murlock doll. Well...he did. It's one of those talking ones and I'm just in love with him (the murlock that is. Obviously, I totally love my hubby anyway!).

Not being one of those collector types, I just took the murlock out of the box and, to my absolute surprise, there was an official adoption certificate in there...Cabbage Patch Kid style. That's gone into my currently empty for a year photo frame and I have a new "baby", Kampi.

Arch Druid Lathorius himself signed the cert from D.E.H.T.A!

Pics to follow.

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Subject:	Druid mount "etiquette" ?
Posted by:	celticmyst08.
Time:	1:59 pm.
Mood:	aggravated.

This issue has come up a lot for me and I'm curious as to what your opinions are.

The other day in H UP (a cross-realm random) the blue proto-drake dropped from Skadi. I was stoked since I collect mounts on my druid. We all rolled Need on it and lo and behold, I won it! I squealed a little bit in chat saying that I only needed a few more mounts to get my 100 achievement. One guy congratulated me, but the other 3 people were like "wow way to ninja the mount u noob" and dropped group. I was speechless...the only thing I can think of is they were mad because I rolled on a flying mount as a druid.

Honestly, this annoys me to no end. Just because I have flight form doesn't mean I *like* using it. Why shouldn't I be able to have pretty mounts just like everyone else? It's not like anyone else truly *needed* the mount, either, so what makes it different for me as a druid? I've gotten yelled at for rolling on the bronze drake in CoS too, and a former guildie was -- get this -- REPORTED for "ninja'ing" the Sarth+3 mount in a pug, when all he did was roll need on it like everyone else. They were mad because he was a druid.

What do you ladies think about this issue? I truly wasn't trying to make anyone angry, but I don't understand this anger against druids rolling on mounts. It really frustrates me.

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Posted by:	chibicidangel.
Time:	10:40 am.
Mood:	chipper.

So, I finally got dragged into Halls of Stone on lfg. And mildly had a heart attack. I've never healed that, and the fact I was finally in Ulduar...I was mildly having a squee moment. Since I had never healed (or seen, for that matter) for this place, I politely let everyone know.

Amazingly, everyone was fine. The only question was from the tank. 'How well do you feel about your healing abilities?' Which my answer went 'Confidant'

....the tank then went and chainpulled about three groups of mobs. We got to the Maiden of Grief like that, me running behind because the tank was chainpulling through the ENTIRE instance with a new healer. When we finally killed her, I kindly asked if he could slow down just a touch cause it was giving me a heart attack. The response that came was 'well, I've done this about 4 times now, just trying to make it a bit more fun.' that got a quick response of 'then make it more fun without a new healer trying to heal your candy ass :P '

Everyone laughed, even the pally.

So, thank you Mrs. Pally. I love you. Since I got used to Northrend instances, I've been looking for a challenge to test my healing. And other than the warlock dying twice within 2 minutes and the enhance shammy dying on the Maiden....we had no wipes and you did not die, my candied ass tank. Thank you for a beautiful and informative run on perhaps the most awe inspiring instance I've ever run. :)

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Subject:	Diminishing returns on dodge? Help us!
Posted by:	nessephanie.
Time:	5:05 am.
Mood:	merry.

My husband plays a Prot Warrior (his Armory) and he's a bit confused when it comes to dodge. He's heard about dimishing returns on dodge, but after looking, he's having trouble finding at what amount dodge really starts to feel it. Basically, is there a soft cap on dodge? Or is it just, the more dodge the better? He's really just looking for some kind of number to aim for here. (does block follow the same guidelines?)

Also, he's currently wearing the Bubbling Brightbrew Charm for the Stamina, would it be a good idea to give the stamina up for the Glyph of Indomitability?

Any help you could shed would be greatly appreciated! <3 Thanks ladies and Merry Christmas!!

(also, any other advice on his spec or gearing wouldn't go unnoticed <3)

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Subject:	Alchemy specialization
Posted by:	aereci.
Time:	3:16 am.

A few days ago I read a post here about which specialization to choose. Elixer sounds nice- more flasks? Yes, please! The only problem.... I went to pick up the quest to specialize in elixers. As you non-alchemists probably don't know this quest requires you to visit black morass (spelling?) and gather items off rift lords.

Problem one: There is an attunement quest for BM, which I have finally completed.

Problem two: There is -nobody- lfg for BM and I can't get a run for love or for money.

Problem three: The droprate on the quest item is godawful low. I convinced a CoT group today to run black morass with me after durnholde and only got 5 of the 10 items I need.

How did you elixer specialist ladies get past this? I have an idea, but I don't know if it will work.

My idea: make a group on my boyfriends account, invite my 80 druid, log off druid (she will stay in the party, even logged out), log on priest, and invite priest to the party. I would then have a my boyfriend's toon, and both my priest and druid in the same party. Let's say I were to run my priest into BM and change to my druid and haul her over there. I would kill some rift lords on my druid, then switch to my priest. Would my priest be able to loot the bodies, being DC'd at the time they were killed?

Edit: Looks like I am going to have to bribe my guildies harder. In the mean time, let's talk about all the stupid outdated quests that you haaave to do but can't get groups for. Thanks for telling me if my idea would work. You saved me a lot of time.

Double edit: Being nice pays off. A shaman I helped with his spec/rotation a few months ago came to my aid. Thanks a lot for the recommendations, if I level any more alchemists I will specialize in transmute and change to elixir.

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Subject:	Calling seasoned RPers!
Posted by:	sacae.
Time:	9:43 pm.
Mood:	Nervous.
Music:	Silence.

All right, ladies (and lurking gents!).

I caved. I created a few characters on an RP realm (Wyrmrest Accord, Alliance). I will try this. I will try not to suck at it.

But first, I have some questions for all you seasoned RPers out there!

1.) Alliance or Horde. Why did you pick what you picked? Or do you RP on both sides? (And why?) ((If you want to get more detailed, why did you pick the RACE you picked?))

2.) Any tips for first-time/n00b RPers?

3.) How versed in lore should I be? How detailed should I make my character's backstory?

I feel so silly, but I really do want to try this.

If you want to talk to me in-game with tips, you can whisper up one of the following names. I should be online: Essie (Night Elf), Sacae (Draenei), or Caelin (Human). ♥ Thank you for all your help! And if you want, share some fun stories about RP experiences. :D

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Subject:	BRD
Posted by:	epiphling.
Time:	10:37 pm.

Facepalmed myself so hard I gave myself a headache. Just WHACK in the forehead. >.< Literally.

Picture it. 50s group. Blackrock Depths. The dreaded Lyceum. I'm the only person who's been in the "keyed" areas before. And since I have the key, profit!

No. Not even close.

Me: Okay, this is how this area works. There's a lot of mobs that respawn really, really quickly, but they die really really fast. We have to stick together, find the Flame Keeper mobs, kill them and take their items. Then, we have to move to these braziers here (minimap ping) and here (minimap ping). We have to move fast, since the items have timers.

Group: Okay. Sure. No problem.

HALF AN HOUR LATER

Tank: What are we looking for?

Rogue: I dunno... How much longer is this instance?

Me: *dead and angrily pounding instructions for the TENTH time into my keyboard*

Healer: .... Rezzing the mage AGAIN (me).

Warlock: Would you listen to the mage already? She's trying to tell us what we need to do here.

It's been five years since I first set foot in the depths of Blackrock, all the way back when it was 10-man. It's both comforting and pathetic to know that the Lyceum can still turn people into complete goddamn retards, and me into a tower of frothing, forehead-slapping rage.

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Subject:	RAF WTF
Posted by:	melime.
Time:	9:02 pm.
Mood:	frustrated.

Good evening WOW Ladies,

I'm hoping someone not so noobish as I can perhaps help me understand the situation I'm in with RAF. A friend and I have somehow completely managed to bungle it, and although Blizzard support is very nice, they're not being as helpful as I had hoped. I've read the official FAQ, searched the forums, and I went through the community tags without hearing of anything like this happening to anyone else. Here's what happened:

1. My friend bought and installed vanilla WOW when it was $5, but did NOT create an account.

2. She waited till my semester was over (= free time), and then I sent her the RAF code. She created a trial account using that code, and then immediately upgraded the account using the code that came with her copy of the game (perhaps this is where we went wrong). Unfortunately, when we logged in, we could not do any RAF stuff (no summon, no triple XP). My account showed my RAF referral as being sent but not being acted upon.

3. I sent in a ticket to Blizzard support, and got a quick reply back that seemed like it would have solved our problem. The support person said that she had "retro linked" our two accounts, and that "MYACCOUTNAME has now recruited WOW1 on FRIEND'SACCOUNTNAME." Okay. We log in, still no link. My account information now shows TWO linked accounts, a trial and a full version.

4. We realize that on my friend's log-in screen, she has the option of two accounts(?), "WOW1" and "WOW2" (she only has one Battle.net account, but both of these are somehow part of it -- this is really confusing me). Turns out WOW1 is her upgraded game, WOW2 is a trial version, and WOW2 is the one with the RAF link (we tested this by rolling a toon on it). So I replied to the support email with this information. Got a reply back today saying merely "A paid character transfer can be done to move the character. WOW1 is the recruited account and the account to play on."

... buh?

It's so very confusing (and frustrating!). I am seeing on my end that WOW2 (a trial) is the linked account, but support is telling me otherwise. My friend and I have no problem rerolling our toons to start over together, but it kind of sucks that my friend may have to buy the game again to get a new code to upgrade. I'm also really peeved that we've wasted all this playing time on nothing.

Has anything similar happened to anyone else, or can anyone shed some light on what actually happened? Thanks for your time in advance. :)

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Posted by:	heartsick.
Time:	6:49 pm.

Wow.

So. My dads girlfriend brought my presents over today, and I totally thought I got a dvd player, so I didn't bother opening the box, until my dad asked me if the game was what I wanted..

and so I opened the box.. and it's totally the World of Warcraft battle chest.. which includes vanilla, BC, and a strategy guide.. and I'm literally bawling my eyes out right now because I love him so much, and I already have the games installed. I don't know what to do, but I love him so much for this gift.

Merry Christmas.

OH edit.
I made it sound like I just installed the games.. I meant to say I already HAD them installed.. including WOTLK.

And he bought me this, and I feel bad cause I already have em.

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Subject:	Help: What would you do in this situation?
Posted by:	sull89.
Time:	2:29 pm.
Music:	"Sunday Afternoon," by Jon Lajoie.

Merry Christmas Eve Day, ladies! Okay, so. Yesterday I was running a pug H PoS with my fiancee on her healer druid and me tanking with my pally. We almost always run together, so we just have to pick up three DPS and then we can rock it. Kefi (my fiancee's healer) and I have run H PoS many times, and pretty rarely do we wipe. We work well together, having leveled our characters and played together for at least a year now.

We get into the dungeon and first thing out of the group leader's metaphorical mouth (someone from a different server) "Oh, heals look like they're going to be weak." Um... I hadn't even pulled a single thing, what the heck? Kefi has healed there perfectly well in the past. I told him (not to gender type, but it was a male character so I'm going to go with that) such. He then yelled at me for wasting time, that I need to "gogogo." Honestly, I want to run the instance fast too, but you can't come in and immediately attack the healer before she's had a chance to do anything.

( And... the saga continues. )

The freaking /retadin/ is TAUNTING him OFF ME!

( Read more... )

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Subject:	Credit me, bro!
Posted by:	riven.
Time:	3:44 am.
Mood:	blah.

Hey gals,

A bit of a bittersweet story for you today. Awhile back I posted an entry with my entry for Blizzard's holiday card contest.

Apparently my picture was well received enough that I scored an honorable mention on the contest results page.

Naturally, I'm thrilled that Blizzard displayed my work. I've tried in the past to submit to the Fan Art section and failed. Unfortunately, my joy flew out the window when I realized that myself and all of the honorable mentions did not receive any credit for our work. Why?

I guess an anonymous acknowledgment is better than none at all, but the fact that Blizzard displays full names AND screen names for the artist of every piece of work in their NORMAL fan art section, but not for this contest, leaves me baffled. Had I merely chosen to submit my work to the normal fan art section instead of the card contest, chances are it'd be up right now, with my full name and my screen name.

I know that by submitting my work I yield my art and my soul and blah blah everything to Blizzard to use however they choose, but how could I know they wouldn't display my name with my work when they do so in EVERY other circumstance regarding their displaying of fanart? Am I a fool for wishing they'd just slap my name above the image like they do with all of the others? Really, I am honestly grateful that it got an honorable mention. It's just such a bittersweet victory. I just wish I'd submitted it to the regular fan art section instead now.

If anyone actually cares about this matter (I think that artists will, at least, as lack of credit seems to be a common frustration in the artist world), please leave a comment about it on this forum topic that I created. I could not for the life of me find any other way to contact Blizzard properly regarding the matter, so the least I can do is hope someone of any relevance might stumble across my humble request on the forum.

Thanks for reading, and also, thanks to those who left all of the sweet comments on my artwork when I posted it a few weeks back. You rock. :)

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