Chatterbox Archive

Thickheads!

Marveen — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:19:38 GMT

Our dps are the Coastrunners, and our healers are Oracles. But our tanks lack a name! If you think all the names above suck, come up with a suggestion..

Edit: The poll template fails at colouring.

The Legendary funny thread! Part 2!

Mnemo — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:09:39 GMT

WhereMurlocsDare.Com

Derky — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:57:43 GMT

WhereMurlocsDare.Com and .co.uk are both availible.

I am considering buying the .com one, would anyone (Mainly Card) have an issue with moving the current site over to a proper domain?

I have hosting capabilities, also means we could make the site a bit more flashy etc. I would even consider pushing it into SharePoint if I can make a VB forum look half decent (working on that as task for a client at the moment)

Just a thought.

D

Ummm?

Skathi — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:00:39 GMT

Is it just me, or have a load of posts suddenly disappeared?

Or even reappeared, have they rolled the forum back or something? How weird.

The Future of WMD (Episode II)

Cardinal — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:32:40 GMT

The new long-term goal of WMD is to get to a place where we can tackle hard modes every single raid. In my opinion, normal modes are just warm-ups for the real content. Hard modes are more fun and more rewarding. Over the coming months we must make changes to ensure all raids become hard mode raids. I don't want an A and B team forever. They're just temporary measures and I don't like them. I want one big team where everybody is able to do hard modes. This means creating more hard ...

Sorry! PC maintence needed :*(

Li — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:30:13 GMT

Sorry, i dropped out of the raid yesterday, my pc randomly shut down . Tried turning it back on to a nice load of bios bleeps. According to the internets my ram is faulty so i have to wait till they send off the new ones sometime next week. Hopefully with new ram all my current crashing will stop. Would have posted this yesterday, but i didn't know my sisters netbook password and had to wait until she came back today.

Extended Maintenance - 15 July

Prynkesse — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:01:11 GMT

http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=9986660357&sid=1

According to the above post several realms including our own ER will be under maintenance for a whopping 14hrs next week. Increased capacity for instance servers at last??

Proposal: A change to the rank structure in WMD

Cardinal — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 23:07:30 GMT

I am proposing a change to the ranks in WMD. I am proposing that we scrap the current 'full member' and 'reservist' ranks and replace them with 'Hard Mode Raider' and 'Raider' ranks. 'Hard Mode Raiders' will always get a raiding slot (if they sign-up). A “Hard Mode Raider” is defined as someone with the gear and experience to tackle hard mode kills. Raids with less than 9 'Hard Mode Raiders' signed up will not attempt to do hard modes, unless they're extremely easy ...

A Terrible Injustice 2.0

Akari — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:50:53 GMT

I'm posting here because I want to direct the attention to a small group within the ranks of Where Murlocs Dare who rarely get the appreciation they deserve. Usually after a difficult fight, you hear the comments: "Awesome DPS murlocs!" or "Great work Oracles!" But there's couple of murlocs who don't get the post-fight approval as often as I think they should. I am ofcourse refering to our shieldwearing, heavy armored, damage taking murloc tanks! It's hard to ...

Attention hunters!

Kayte — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 09:22:16 GMT

I did heroic Drak'tharon last night with a very nice hunter by the name of 'Tats' (yes, snigger, I know).

Anyway, he had a real-life worgen for a pet, and very smart it looked too. Here's how you do it if you're interested -

http://www.maniasarcania.com/2009/07/04/pet-worgen/#more-3016

(caveat emptor and all that)

Rawr sucks for healing! (SPLIT POST)

Marveen — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:42:22 GMT

I don't like the program Rawr, because it's been clueless about tree healing in the past (when I tried it) and has suggested entirely pointless crap to me. However, as I've been looking at potential moonkin upgrades, I fell into the temptation of running my healer kit through it. All I can say is... LOL! It consistently ranks mp5 as a higher stat for me than crit and haste (wtf?), even if I set it to full raidhealing and bursty, short fights. I mean, it insists I regem to Intellect! Mana is NOT ...

Epic gems (at last!)

Telluria — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:01:06 GMT

Do I remember right in hearing that someone had a whole load of titanium ore in the bank and nothing much to do with it? If so, you definitely want to hang onto it... [url=http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=17779501837&sid=1]Bornakk[/url] wrote:When the next major content patch launches we will be introducing epic quality gems and updating the perks for each profession. Please keep in mind that any of this information may see further changes before ...

It's The Happy Birthday Thread!

Cardinal — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:17:44 GMT

Happy Birthday Kayte from me and Topanca

I hope you have a great day

D

New Patch notes released

Derky — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:15:11 GMT

Rejoice, or cry.

http://www.wowhead.com/?patchnotes=3.0.8-ptr

Some interesting changes and some very bad ones for some class's...

D

Runed Orbs

Marveen — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:05:48 GMT

At present, they are used by Blacksmiths/Leatherworkers/Tailors to craft epic boots and belts - each item requires 6 orbs to craft:

http://www.wowhead.com/?item=45087#reagent-for:0+7+1+2

There is one orb in the bank, plus the one Zuzu looted last night.

Favour....

Derky — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:48:04 GMT

Can someone who is not busy do me a favour https://teams.edexcel.com/sites/AppSupport/default.aspx Can you hit that page, and tell me what you see. Can you also advise if the "Sign in" button appears. A screenshot would be awesome. Reason being our external ADSL is down adn I need to confirm its working off our network by 3pm and I so can't be arsed to drive home.... Thanks! D

An Impossible Circumstance.

Taminak — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:09:46 GMT

Hello to all who haven't yet managed to greet me.

I am informing you that this reset I wont be able to raid with WMD as im still in the process of moving house and computer access with be removed from me.

I raided Ulduar 10man on the Wednesday (todays date) due to that reason.

Sorry for a lousy start, but I shall be in full swing come reset.

To all the Daddys!

Prynkesse — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:06:49 GMT

I don't know if any Murlocs other than Squeek fall into the Daddy category - so just in case you do

Happy Fathers Day!

And in case there's none... I'll make this relevant by including Daddy Bears (even if Advent is in retirement!) and wish Cardinal a Happy Murlocs Daddy Day instead

Pryn

WMD hits the papers!

Gimilkhâd — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:47:59 GMT

http://www.theallianceherald.co.uk

Page 2.

Call of the Crusade

Dahlaine — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:28:50 GMT

In the next major content patch, the construction of the Crusaders’ Coliseum on the Argent Tournament grounds will be complete, and it will hold new challenges for players. We’d like to share some details on the new dungeon, which represents the next tier of content for the game, but keep in mind that this is still in development and subject to change. The Crusaders’ Coliseum will include: * New epic 10- and 25-player raid dungeon with five encounters, with each encounter being ...

The raid bank & free enchanting

Cardinal — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:39:47 GMT

The raid bank once again has some disposable money to burn and I think it'd be a good idea to spend some money putting a few popular enchants in it, on whatever that paper is that enchanters can sell their wares with. I'm happy to spend up to 1500g on enchanting mats + free abyss crystals. What I need to know first is what enchants you'd most like to have in the raid bank--your top 3. They can be expensive ones such as accuracy or berserking, that's not a problem, (as long as we have ...

The random RL stuff thread

Marveen — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:45:24 GMT

This article and video on the Durban sardine run made me think of the vagaries of RNGs and how they're not so bad in WoW after all (even the candy Love is in the Air one):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7921949.stm

A big thank you

Aldan — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:26:07 GMT

Hello everyone!

Not going to write a novel here, but I just wanted to thank you all for letting me take my first baby steps into Ulduar yesterday and for the warm welcome in general!
I promise you that I will do my very best to be an asset and to not let you down.

Once again, thank you!

Aldan

The new night-elf kitty forms...

Telluria — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:39:37 GMT

Apparently this is the look! (with all due apologies for H-scroll as it's kinda big)

A quick note

Rynar — Sat, 30 May 2009 14:57:49 GMT

Already mentioned this to Cardinal, but I wanted to take a moment of everyone else's time to say that WMD is truly the best raid group I've ever been a part of. I know that my part is a small one being reserve, but you've all made me feel very welcome, so thank you for that. The organisation of this group is by far and away the best I've seen. You're so efficient, so easy going. It's an absolute pleasure to raid with you all, however often I get to go. Much <3. Ry.

Warlock talents

Marveen — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:11:50 GMT

Been getting the urge to level an alt again and decided to take my engineering gnome warlock out of her box. But I can see they've made massive changes to the warlock trees since I last played WoW in 2007 or so, so I could use some help! I don't like Affliction (Zzzzz.. -.-) and I've played deep demonology/destro before. Demonology is fun, but I've found it low on dps before (3 years ago), while Fire lock used to be my favourite build (AoE farming). I want to try to catch up with Cardinal's warrior ...

Raid Leading and some questions

Marveen — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:15:10 GMT

WoW.com linked to this nice blog article on Guild Leadership and it inspired me to start a discussion on how WMD is working. I'd say our biggest problem at the moment is attendance. We have no real way of tracking attendance, as signup threads get removed after a raid (not necessarily a bad thing!). We have the combatlogs, but they don't list reservists who did sign up but couldn't come to a full raid. I do know that Cardinal has been watching attendance closely of late. So my question is, ...

Apologies

Prynkesse — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:09:25 GMT

Just wanted to say sorry about needing to drop out of the raid on Monday night. First and LAST time I ever buy a quiche premade. I'm still utterly peeved that my first raid with the Murlocs in AGES ended so abruptly ( not to mention unpleasantly for me). Squeek said a replacement was arranged, so my thanks to whomever it was.

Pryn

Macro help

Akari — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:30:50 GMT

I could really, really, really use some help creating a macro that would make my life a lot easier, because I suck at making macros. So if anyone knows how to do that and could tell me how to make one that does the following, it would be much appreciated! I need a macro that will cast Sinister Strike, unless Tricks of the Trade is not on cooldown. If it is ready, it needs to target Cardinal and cast it on him and afterwards return my target to the last hostile target. I hope it's possible ...

soooooorry

Yazminea — Sun, 17 May 2009 18:57:38 GMT

I am actually quite embarrassed I got back from my easter holiday with every intention of playing more and having really missed wow and most of all WMD and just never got around to it, even though times were promised to be changing with my husbands working hours they are still off, so most days and evenings I'm alone with Annamai and that hasn't really left any time for wow... I am not sure I'll get back to raiding any time soon, as I'm soon gonna have Annamai home every day for little over ...

A terrible injustice

Rynar — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 12:45:54 GMT

While updating my profile on this website, I encountered what can only be described as a grave discrimination against a certain section of the populace. I feel it is my duty to raise this issue to the moderators. While entering my birthday, I forgot to put a year. As a result, when I clicked Save, I received the following error meassage: "This forum does not allow profiles over 99 years in age" This is nothing short of ageist, and I firmly believe that it discriminates ...

Northrend Daily Quests

Marveen — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:12:49 GMT

Daily quests and what to do about them! Here's a list of all new daily quests in Northrend. Don't look too closely at the gold rewards as they are sometimes misreported in WoWhead (where I got my info from). Hopefully this helps you decide which other dailies to do after you've done the instances for badges but don't want to grind materials or go on an alt. I recommend starting with the Sons of Hodir in Storm Peaks, as they sell shoulder enchants at Honored reputation. A second fave would ...

Seasonal Meta-Achievements (was: Winter's Veil and "The Merrymaker")

Marveen — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:35:14 GMT

Here's the metaachievement "The Merrymaker" (= complete 12 Winter's Veil quests), which is a requisite for the meta-metaachievement "What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been" (= complete each seasonal metaachievement).

The murlocs, a history

Marveen — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:41:47 GMT

About two years ago, Cardinal and I were questing on our lowbie prot warrior/feral druid combo in Hillsbrad. We were collecting murloc heads along the shore north of Southshore when we accidentally aggroed a pack of murlocs. Bear in mind this was during vanilla WoW, with two untwinked alts (it's one of our alting rules - only gear upgrades from drops, quest rewards and to some extent professions) - a pack of anything larger than 3 mobs was near certain death. We had nearly finished fighting the ...

Missing.....

Yazminea — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 06:48:18 GMT

Hey All,

I know I'm coming home tomorrow, but god I miss 3 things - 1. WMD, 2. WOW, 3. Raiding - so I'm hoping that I next week have time to get back to raiding with you guys (it seems I'm off the babysitting team for a while - crossing fingers)...

I hope you guys miss me too...

Hugz

Yaz

Best. Day. In. Work. Ever.

Squeek — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:57:49 GMT

Seriously. Everyone else should take every other day off too. I'm getting a decent amount of quality work done today without the constant email and phone interruptions.

Character Tuning

Squeek — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:40:47 GMT

Site: http://be.imha.hu Grabs your armory details and then give you a break down on your gear, spec, gemming & enchants. Tells you where you are lacking, and gives suggestions (click the ... to expand stuff). Along with a running overall score. I'm currently just below 400 which is a big jump after finally replacing both trinkets and buying a new belt, at least I know my gear is improving. It seems to use item level to gauge how well prepared you are for stuff so iLvl 200 blues can ...

The Book Thread

Li — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:56:33 GMT

After reading through the recruitment threads i saw that many people have an interest in reading and that some of us have similar tastes. i thought we could make this thread to talk about the books we're reading and recommend books that you find interesting. I am currently reading The Highlord book three of The Black Magician trilogy by Trudi Canavan, i bought the first book, The Magicians Guild on monday, i'd finished it by tuesday and bought the other two straight away. The story is ...

LolonHands

Derky — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:00:14 GMT

Lay on Hands: 20 min cooldown
4-piece T3 bonus: 12 min LoH CD reduction
Talents: 4 min LoH CDreduction
New Glyph of LoH: 5 min CD reduction

Nuff said

D

Pro Gaming - For Cardinal

Derky — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:09:03 GMT

As discussed the other night. Here are some reference's to what we were discussing and the prize money. These are 3-4 times what I used to compete for http://www.esl-world.net/masters/events_and_media/ The wow ones are a little excessive but Nhilium are in the tournaments so the money goes up. Though they very nearly got knocked out of the current Arena games. D

Eternal damnation on your halleberries!

Gimilkhâd — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:13:21 GMT

Anyhoo... It seems my account was hacked last night, awoke to find a mail from blizz saying my account have gotten a 24 hour suspension after an attempted login from someone unauthorized. After checking my profile on the armory it seems they did however manage to sell my gear, and so it could take some time before i have it back. This prob meens i wont be able to come along for any raids for at least this coming week, so mostly a heads up about that. I'll prob be in game again ...

raid sign-ups being removed

Yazminea — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:20:41 GMT

As it happens I today have forgotten whether or not I've signed up for a raid tonight, and of course goes to the forum to check and what do I behold - only 2 raid-signup threads (1 for next monday and 1 for this thursday) - so to my terror I have no way of checking if I have signed up for anything... I little suggestion - don't remove the raid-signups until AFTER the raid is over, and if it's cancelled let the cancellation stand until the raid should've begun... I say this not only ...

I fail at Google

Derky — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:20:40 GMT

I really do suck at using Google when it comes to WoW stuff. I tend to always find the stuff thats either complete old, fake, or stumble accross yet another gnome porn vid.... So, I send out a plea to the Murlocs to post any information they have found which looks factual regarding the new patch? Please! If I watch one more gnome being hogtied and fucked by a undead warlock ill cry D

Glory of the Hero runs

Marveen — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:38:29 GMT

I still have 8 of the heroic dungeon achievements left to do: - Azjol Nerub (1st and 2nd boss) - Old Kingdom (insanity boss) - Violet Hold (grr! @ 2 random bosses that never show) - Gundrak (interrupting the mammoth) - Oculus (20-minute speed run and Ruby Void) Azjol-Nerub: We need two tanks for the first boss, or insanewtfdps that can oneshot the adds - we're close but the group composition could use tweaking. Haven't had more than one try at the 2nd boss' achievement, and ...

Salutations!

Aelric — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:04:37 GMT

Salutations everyone! Your retridin has arrived

Server-wide achievement tracker

Marveen — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 10:58:11 GMT

After yesterday's discussion on who's got most points on ER, here's the listing:
http://www.wow-achievements.com/Realm.aspx?region=EU&realm=Earthen%20Ring

Sorry I missed 2 raids last week and didn't sign up for any this week...

Yazminea — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 10:00:28 GMT

I am very sorry that I missed the 2 raids for which I had signed up last week and that I haven't signed up for anything this week... The problem is that in our town they are digging down fiber cables and last monday they accidentally cut our internet connection while digging... Now that shouldn't be much of a problem, but my internet company took a full week to repair it, so now I'm back and online and hope it wasn't too much trouble to get someone for the dps spot I left open... Hugs Yaz

The "how did the raid go" thread

Enthesilea — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 06:47:22 GMT

I find myself wondering this fairly often after I have to miss a raid night and leave you guys rampaging with the bosses. How did saturday go? I see there was no second tank signed up, did you manage to fill and how did malygos go?

Sehnaia-tree

Faehla — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 04:55:01 GMT

My healer is now officially geared! Status: Self-buffed (just MotW) and in tree form - 1510 healing, 789/298 regen. (just passed minimums for naxx) Three greens still (boooo), 9 blues (mostly item lvl 200) and 5 purples. Ran (as far as I remember) 5 heroics in a row with mostly the same group, among them HoS and AN (annoying to heal). So consider me on-call for healing. ^_^ (Sorry, just felt like bragging a bit since no one was on to wave the victory flag at, hehe.) Of ...

The possibility of 25-man raiding

Cardinal — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:15:42 GMT

Don't panic - this is not a decision to do it, it's just a chance to discuss the issue as I need to see how people think... When I made WMD I was adamant that it would never be a 25-man raid group. The main reason for this was because I felt it would be too much administration work and I was a little jaded from big raids in the past. But the idea of moving up to 25-man raiding doesn't go away. Now I'm getting curious to see if we could take our successful and friendly WMD formula ...