Back Whence He Came
iTZKooPA on Monday, January 5, 2009 - 9 Comments Tags: Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Ulduar, fcc Commissioner, holiday, solo, st. croix, tate, v3.0.8, vacation 
Wow, is my Google Reader ever full after my little excursion to the east and west coast of St. Croix. Good thing I took that little ski trip a few weeks ago as a warm up to the withdrawal. Otherwise, I do not know if I could have made nine days without a PC to entertain me and record my thoughts. Like a good little rogue (Irish to boot), I did my best to stay in the shadows at all times.
Boy, oh boy, do I have a lot of catching up to do. It will likely take a whole week to be up to snuff on everything that has happened. The prolific writers over at WoWInsider have over 200 articles for me alone – not that I will read it all – then there are all the blues to filter through and likely a good amount of in-game mail to round out the schedule.
I am sure I am not the only person who managed to sneak away for the holiday season, so just in case you missed them, here are some of the stories that perked my interest.
Donations to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society = WoW Subscriptions – A Blizzard Employee will be offering those who donate a chance at one of three one-year subscriptions to WoW. One lucky winner will score themselves a LIFETIME SUBSCRIPTION ($_$). This is still running, so be sure to donate.
2008 MMO Trends Analyzed – Get this, GamerDNA and Massively find out that WoW is the most popular MMO! They also believe that the title's reign is coming closer to its end, due to additional subscribers plateauing in recent months. Me likey graffs!
FCC Commissioner Resigns – Deborah Tate, the commissioner that WoW players love to hate (...) decided to step down after getting made fun of on the Internet. Okay, that wasn't the real reason, her previous actions – like taking corporation opinions into consideration – probably had more to do with it.
Ulduar Won't Be “Hard” In The Normal Sense – PvEers have proclaimed Wrath to be entirely too easy, but Blizzard demands that available raids are just the beginning. Vaneras promised that Ulduar will be more difficult, but only if your guild is brave enough to try a more challenging encounter than the norm.
Mage Solos Naxxaramas Military Quarter – Just watch the video, Ms. Mage did some creative stuff to pull this off.
These are the items that jumped off the page for me, but I am sure there is additional interesting stuff that has happened in the last week and a half. For instance, the nerf to required enchanting materials is one. Anything big that I should make sure I speed read?
Reader Comments (9)
I also found the article on WoWinsider about the person who got arrested when they told a GM that they were going to kill themselves quite amusing.
You seem to be quite the busy person.
The mage solo was interesting. Not sure, but it doesn't seem entirely legit. In the sense of ability, but impressive none the less. Thanks for the post and something to read on my lunch.
i think tht the mage solo was a private server of some type
because a pyro crit for 414k??? -.-
also having so much resist and armor on a mage is pretty tough to get near impossible.
so this film is not legit
its cool =) but not real
I personally think the mage solo was real.
This talent http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=44396 plus spell stealing http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=55336 makes it seem entirely plausible to me
wow that mage is goood
mage was awesome
If you had all read how it was done instead of just watching it, seeing something you didn't understand and instantly calling out private server (anyone else see how the same thing happens with "acts of god"), then you wouldn't be making an ass of yourself right now would you? If it wasn't real why would Blizzard need to hot fix servers then?
that video was defintly a private server, fake!
Mage video was real. Its been hotfixed now but it was real. I cant remeber exactly but she used spell steal on the mobs to take there bone armour, whic gave something like 12000000 armour, mages spell power scales with the armour (cant rember if this was a talent or something) so the 414k crit was possible for it 2 happen. The reason she couldnt solo the other quarters was that the mobs that she took the armour from left when she exited millitary. Some of this info is wrong, i havent done military in naxx in ages (been busy due 2 xmas and other things) but thts the general jist, it is real and was done on a proper server. (a mage in my guild tried it be4 it got hotfixed but it didnt work)