Lost a helm for Lesucre today. I was running a heroic with Ina, rolling as a tank on Lesucre (Warrior) doing the Well of Eternity. Everything was okay, the dps wasn't great but do-able. On the last boss, my helm dropped. i still have a 353 item that I got from running the Zul's but this was 378, much better. 

it was Annihilan helm which was a very nice 378 item. However, a dps pally decides to 'need' on the item with a other warrior dps. man, they come in as dps and take the item i need? He is noticed as "DIPNSPIT FROM NATHREZIM SERVER" sweet eh?

[00:40:09] Need Roll - 35 for [Annihilan Helm] by Lesucre [00:40:09] Need Roll - 4 for [Annihilan Helm] by Hazakura [00:40:09] Need Roll - 76 for [Annihilan Helm] by Coughsyrup [00:40:09] Need Roll - 87 for [Annihilan Helm] by Dipnspit [00:40:09] Dipnspit won: [Annihilan Helm] [00:40:09] Dipnspit receives loot: [Annihilan Helm].

If you look at the conversation table, Me Lesucre and In Hazakura needs on the tanking helm so I get a better chance to get it. but you see the other two take the need roll too. 

 

I think it's not right for people to do that and feel 'okay' about it. Cheating your way through game is no different from cheating your life. I believe when you are left alone, in a 'raw' type of identity, it's more or so to show the actions that you think it's 'right' to do. This behavior shouldn't be encouraged or looked at lightly in any sense. Anyone can say, "it's not a big deal, just a item." yes it is, but it's what the item represents. Whatever it is, how small it is, this is where the cheating starts. I hope i'll get to play a more "safer" WoW someday...well really someday. 

 

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I'm off to NCTE this year again! The Annual convention is at Chicago!! Excited!
I'll presenting on "understanding digital cross-cultural differences and possibilities in culture education. My point in this paper will be about understanding the student's cultural back ground in language teaching. 

According to some scholars, Asians/Koreans seem to be passive in classrooms. I say F that! by observing in WoW (World of Warcraft) there has been too many patterns showing Koreans NOT being passive at all.
I'll be talking about this on Friday at Chicago!

hope some ppl will actually like it XD

 
I'm ready!! see? Jason Lee!! 

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Just a thought,

What makes who we are?


I'll be going to Korea to get a chemo done, and maybe i'll be in a hospital for quite a while.
I don't know how long i'll be in the hospital but guessing around 10 days. I'll be arriving at Korea on the 30th of December, and getting the chemo done on the 11th of Jan.

Well this gave me a thought, no World of Warcraft? what will i do? READ???
Anyway i could hit one of those "game bangs (피시방)" and install my game there.

Well it's different. Very different. I don't have my addons, my customizations will be different, my macros will be different; will it be the same World of Warcraft? I say NO.

The virtual game isn't just about me slaying mobs, it's about HOW I WANT TO PLAY THE GAME.
it's more about my virtual image sort of projected on the screen. I want my game to look in THIS way.

Some could argue: "What's the bid deal? It's just a game!"
Yes, and No. It's not only a game, it's my ideal environment of playing. It's more about what makes me play WoW, and what keeps me to look at the screen. however, of course i could play, i could still enjoy the new content of Cataclysm. However it's not the same.

Now this gave me a thought.
We, as humans, like to make ourselves special, make us different from others. Try to be bettter, maybe more successful than others.

For example, let's take graduate students writing. How do you write?
do you just WRITE? Anywhere? Any time? with anything?

If i throw you a pen, a notebook and desk maybe, will you be able to write?
I'm thinking maybe but pretty much NO.

When we write, some people like to go to the coffee shop, some people listen to different music, do some cleaning first before writing, or a corner in the house that motivates them to write.

People seem to customize their writing place.

Think about highschool, how you liked to organize stuff.
Maybe the organization could start from getting ideas from someone else, but in the long run, everyone has their own way to organize stuff.

Why then?
I think it's because people want to be different, people want to be distingquished from one anther.

We could say, some speices of dogs do this, and some cats do that.
But when we say Koreans do this, Americans do that, oh you did this so you must be Italian.
pfffft. yea, that could lead to so many arguements.

It's okay to catagorize animals but very delicate to do it with humans.
To think of it, it makes us different, in other words, we like to be different.

We are humans what's so different about humans? We customize, we act differently. we separate ourselves from others.

if you think about it, we try so hard everyday to be different from others.

So, I say, playing WoW on a different computer is not actually playing wow. lol

hmm maybe there could be more to talk about this, but I'm gonna stop here.
I wanted to document this thoght before it goes away from my head.

feel free to add or retract from what I said.

hey it's blog... right? I don't need reference!

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Okay, so my hunter has a beast master spec and as patch 4.01, pets get special abilities.
I wanted my hunter to have some of that edge too.

So the Corehound, gives you Ancient Hysteria which is the same effect as Bloodlust.

However I wanted my core hound to be something NOT green. The one you can get in Outlands is green, and the red one from Molten core is too crazy and too annoying to get it actually.

So I thought, then remembered there's a core hound neer Exodar, alliance territory.

So I took the boat from Darkshore, and was ready to fight against the Alliance boat keepers.... but... hmm there was a sweet spot...

 
INTERESTING!

So, I went on and got off at the Alliance side...lol



 

And then I walked through Azuremyst Isle, found nothing... no other 80s or guards...:)



 

Carefully entered stillpine hold, looking for Kurken the core hound :)
and found him and started to tame him. Also was very careful not to "kill" him. After all one shot from my arrow and that doggy is ready to be skinned lol


 





He's 77 lvl i guess I"ll have to lvl the rest, and will stay as one of my favorite pets unless there's shammy in our group.

The difficulut part was actually getting the name for the dog, hmmm what'll it be...?

i just went with "Twofaced" lol

So this is how i got a pet with  Ancient Hysteria and pretty happy about it yaay?!!

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So another day with one of my many alts, I’ve been playing with my priest lately. Trying to see if I could heal and dps with it too. Having 6 80’s Priest and Rogue are not one of them. Interesting?

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Okay so today I was playing my mage. wanted to try out my luck on pugs again.
so far my luck has been really bad, where i've been meeting all these bad pugs.
I understand if you dont' know the fight, or you could produce low dps if you don't know what you are doing.
it's a noob stage that you go through anyways.

however usually when i say BAD pugs, i mean;

people who will pull aggro and can't handle it.
people who think 2 tanks is way better than 1 in heorics....
people who says "we need more dps!!" and he's producing like 800 in hoerics!!
people who sware all the time, have the f word typing all the time.
people who say they heal and dpsing.....(everyone starts to die...)
people who don't have half of their gear on...
people who rather chit chat then kill the boss...i mean during the fight...
people who will leave after one wipe.
tanks or heals who leaves during the fight.

But yes i'm dps so I have to endure stuff. I say to myself, I'll handle this some way some how...
So, i tried to play my mage again, got bored of other toons. I feel like pew pewing tonight!

I logged and pressed random dungeons. ah...UtK... very easy simple and quick and smooth.
and i got 3 pallys from the same guild and same server. KORIALSTRASZ!!

so we start killing some mobs, killing some more then green drops.
I just pressed to DE as usual... and all three pallies starts to need on everything. I've got pugged into 3 ninjas...
their explaination is "I'm a enchanter and I need the mats..."

That's such not a good explaination to need.
well so i can go by without needing any mats, i don't really mind. I have enough mats anyways...

then the tank starts to pull all the mobs in the hall where you have drakes and other mobs.... and wipes us all up.
it's not like he has 50K to keep up with it, he has like 30k. But yes, they started to blame it on me, the pew pew guy...

"you are not making enough dps, thats why we died"
"you did AOE so he couldn't keep aggro that's why we died"

the warlock who was with me left teh group whispering you should do the same.
but again i'm dps so i'll try to endure stuff...

and again, green drops and they are needing everything.
then says..

"if you don't like it leave, we don't need dps, there's plenty out there anyways."

I mean do i really need to hold it in after hearing that?
does this mean if you are tank/heals you can bully around everyone else?

I couldn't stand it anymore and wanted to leave... really pissed me off.
can't stand it anymore.
I have my own tank, my own healer and still would run with respectful attitude toward other players.
I guess i'm really sick and tired of these mindless stupid players.
the more bad pugs i meet, the more I start to hate those people.

so what do you think? 

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I was reading over some friendly blogs when I found a story about how blood DK's have been saying "oh i can tank" and turn out to be a dps spec.
Now, WoLTK we do know Blood DK's has been pretty viable for tanking. Also they are great with raid boss tanking with self healing specs. However, important part is Blood dps and tank spec is DIFFERENT. people who play WoW you got to know this?

So borrowing some talent trees from Deathknight builds, let's see what Blood tank spec looks like.

DPS Builds

Ah... so this is how it looks like. except for the self healing spec of DK, most tank specs have two relative points in the build.

1. Anticipation

and

2. Toughness

and so, when do check your tanking build? please make sure you take some of those talents? unless you are overly confident that you can do well. When the healer spams you too much heals it's not because you are a good tank but you are squashy and getting hit all time. Espcially DK's don't have shields, there are no blocking, only dodge and parry. So why don't you have specs like that above. And don't say you can tank with dps builds, it's the healer who gets a hard time not you.

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