03.24.08
No, really, we moved!
If you’re seeing this then you’re watching the wrong RSS feed. Really, honestly I moved. Goto http://chicanery.fibergeek.com/
Nibs.
01.28.08
MOVED!!
Hi all,
I’m moving from here to there.
Why: This removes “warcraft” from the blog URL and hopefully makes it easier for *ahem* some people to click through to the articles.
I’ve updated my RSS feed link through Feedburner so if you’re subscribed to the feedburner RSS feed you won’t have to update anything.
These pages will continue to exist but all new content will be added over there.
Speccing by Shotgun
So I play a lot of toons. I’m getting a feel for them as I play them.
I’ve dug deeply into the Paladin and Warlock spec trees. I completely -get- the Holy and Protection Paladin trees. I’ve compared the different talents and come up with my favorite Holy and Protection specs. I’ve read all the talents and understand their tradeoffs. I leveled my Paladin before the buff to the Retribution tree and I’ve never gotten a chance to play her as full Retribution so I’ve never dug very deeply into that branch to figure out a good full Retribution Spec. I’m ok with that. (Fiancee is currently leveling as Retribution and I feel bad that I can’t offer him better advice.)
I’m fairly knowledgeable about the Warlock trees. I -get- Affliction and have a vague understanding of Destruction and Demonology.. but not enough to talk knowledgeably about which are the best talents for a good Destruction or Demonology spec. Still.. I kinda get it.
I realized this weekend I totally don’t get the Hunter trees (or the Druid trees for that matter).
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01.25.08
*Giggle* *snort*
I’m not sure how it’s possible.. but I’m pretty sure West Kingdom has got all of these people in one 10-man group.
Doofy the Paladin detailed The Essential Parts of Any Raid.
DotDotDotFear
I’ve finally hit my groove with Lilac. It’s not total.. and I haven’t moved up to taking on multiple mobs.. but I was able to fully dot up a mob to the point where it ran at me.. and then use a combination of kiting/fearing to get the last little bit of health out of the mob without actually being hit by the mob. Additionally I was able to do this and end the fight at nearly full health/mana. Feeling kind of uber.
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01.24.08
Auctioneer: askprice
Ok.. things you learn by reading the documentation 
Auctioneer has a feature called “askprice” That is, you can set it up so that someone can whisper you asking for your scanprice for an item. Like so:
Can also be configured to take info from guildchat. Pretty damned cool!
01.21.08
Warrior: Spell Reflect is broken
Per Gongniu (Protection Warrior),
Spell reflect is broken. He puts it up, blows 25 rage and nothing. Sucks to be the tank. Sucks to be the raid.
Correction: Gongniu’s spell reflect was broken in Kara. It worked when he challenged a caster to a duel and with mobs outside of Kara.
Note: Gongniu filed a GM ticket early in the night about his spell reflect not working. When Prince was at 95% the GM responded. Gongniu said “hold On”. We won that fight. It was the 4th or 5th attempt. Almost immediately upon downing Prince the GM congratulated Gongniu on the kill. Kinda freaky weird 
guess it’s a good thing we don’t know any “cheats”. =)
01.20.08
Dragons Gone Wild
West Kingdom did a slam-dunk of UBRS and decided to go test our mettle against Onyxia. On the first try we lost quite a bit of the raid at the first Breath in phase two. Unfortunately she bugged out on our second attempt. Fortunately we got it on tape. At the request of WK, “Dragons Gone Wild”.
The sad part is that the only four people left in the instance were all off-mike (one way or another). Fraps won’t record me on my mike.. and because he sits behind me, it won’t record Fiancee(I have him muted in Ventrilo). Ireena has no mike.. and Daegothh was curiously quiet. So it does lead so some disjointed discussions in the video. We -were- talking on Ventrilo.. but because it didn’t record me or Fiancee you missed a lot of the conversation.
I will note though.. Tatia was the last toon standing. Pally power FTW!
Hunters are so lucky!
So I’ve been noodling it a couple of days.. and after watching BigRedKitty’s Lowbie-Hunter guide about playing a lowbie hunter (and not sucking meleeing) I was wondering if you could extend this same method (strafe kiting etc) to a clothie class. So I created a little lowbie warlock, Døt.
Level 1: Shadow Bolt (1.7 sec cast)
Level 2: Shadow Bolt (1.7 sec cast) + Immolate (2 sec cast) + Imp pet (Firebolt 2 sec cast)
Level 4: Shadow Bolt (1.7 sec cast) + Immolate (2 sec cast) + Imp pet (Firebolt 2 sec cast) + Corruption (2 sec cast) + Curse of Weakness (Instant)
Level 6: Life Tap + Shadow Bolt Rank 2 (2.2 sec cast) + Immolate (2 sec cast) + Imp pet (Firebolt 2 sec cast) + Corruption (2 sec cast) + Curse of Weakness (Instant)
Methods to avoid melee:
1. Strafe kiting. Requires instant cast spells. Works best if toon can slow down the mob (Concussive Shot, for example)
2. Freeze the mob in place then kill the mob before it can get to you. Requires a “freeze spell” (Roots, Frost Nova).
3. Zerg the mob from range. Kill it before it gets to you.
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