New uncle

So I am a new uncle. Yes I was an uncle before, but this time its my own sister. Its a little different.

Haven't posted in a bit... Thought you'd like to hear *something*.

Raiding the easy way...

So a thought occurred to me. There is no reason what-so-ever that you could not run a 25-man or even a 10-man with more than the "recommended" number of people.

So why not bring more to the raid?

Here is how I see the answer: "Well if I bring in 40 people to a 10 man raid, then I have to compete with 30 more people than I did before to get loot!" While the competition may be real, you are still subject to either the random number generator or the dkp numbers... Also, the number of badges doesn't change. Everyone still gets badges...

So my thought is that you can take 40 people and down 10 man naxx in an hour... so people get the badges and some gear, and then move on to the next raid. Heck, you can run naxx 25 with the same 40 people and get another set of gear.

The money you can make from this is nice too. One hour runs of naxx, and all the sharding that can take place... lots of good gold running in.

I think this applies to Ulduar as well. There are plenty of spots you can go - even in the vehicles. So what if your guild took 40 people into 25 man ulduar, you still cleared it right? Plus you can get the gear needed to handle hard modes.

Any thoughts?

Stayin with GoA

So I have had a bit of a dilemma. My alt warlock has been running with a raiding guild - and they were recruiting me a lot.

I decided not to join for the good of GoA.

waited too long

OK - so according to wifey - I waited too long to start raiding... and subsequently i am behind the 8 ball. OK. I can deal with that thought. But... I can also say that I popped my warlock from 10-man naxx worthiness to 25 man EoE worthiness in a night. Now, that isnt Ulduar or anything... but hey, if you have some gear - and more importantly some ability to listen and learn; you will go far.

So now the warlock is better than the Pally. Now I always thought of the pally as my main. Ive almost always been protection, even while leveling. I popped holy for a while at 70 cause thats all people wanted - Heals...

I think I am a force to be reckoned with - especially now that I have soaked all I can from maintankadin, and come with some additional variations of rotation and threat production. My job? make the mobs madder than hell at me, without being one or 2-shot. I have decent mitigation and health. I also can keep the threat now from my T75+ geared wifey lock... :-)

Monthly subscription: $14.95
Time spent playing: Free minus opportunity costs
Being able to out-do Epic Wife-Aggro: Priceless

That was too funny in my own head to not share with everyone. For all who didnt find that funny - you need to understand Wife-Aggro... The traditional use of the term is to define what it is when the wife is pissed that you are playing and not doing something she wants you to be doing. Usually includes nagging and always includes an annoyed wife :-) IN this case, we are talking about her ability to hold aggro on a boss, and so its a perversion of the normal usage.

Yeah... explaining jokes always kill them. oh well.


so my plan is to start getting more runs in with her and my brother in law on some 5 mans. Perhaps I can get my dad and sis in there too. Nitar isnt on enough to count on for weekday stuff... so Alcoa would fill in. Either that or I would need to pug someone. whatever. I just want to move forward to get this behind me.

I also want to get Valnyr for Handar. He needs that.

As an update, wifeys guid is still dying, and she is being HEAVILY recruited by guilds with 3/4 of 25 man ulduar down.

The Economy of Baked Goods

So my wife made a butterfly shaped cake today with M&M decorations on it for me to bring into work. The more she bakes, the more I want to sell it - it is so good.

I have been brainstorming about this - and part of it is because I am so obsessed with the economy of WoW. That has caused a hightened awareness and understanding about real life economy.

If you look at the markets, the real winners are in the food industry - especially the comfort food industry. I still see people paying upwards of a dollar for a silly cookie from Mrs. Fields at the train station... And my wife makes better cookies.

So... Since the market is favorable for it, why not look into it?

One thing I need to consider is how to approach it. What will be our outlet? I don't think CraigsList will suffice.

Could my kids sell them as part of a "Lemonade stand" or something? perhaps. I have a feeling that they would eat more than they would sell... and there is a part of me that would feel bad about making them work for my benefit.

So I am thinking about a couple of options - restaurant sales and online outlets like Amazon.

Introduction and Earth Day

So I think this will be the thing... doing it by email.

I went and visited and I noticed that the last one was in 2007. Thats a long time ago.

I suppose now I should better introduce myself. First and foremost, I am Roy - husband to Christie and father to 3 (almost 4) children. I may or may not discuss them in detail. Second, I am pretty good at my job... I am Software Configuration Management and I work with tools like Clearcase, Clearquest, Maven, and Hudson. (Eyes glazed over from that?)

Something I plan to discuss on here is my involvement in Guardians of Azeroth. I am currently the guildmaster of this guild on Runetotem (World of Warcraft). The true owner is really Forob, my brother in law (who was first a good friend before he even dated my sister). He handed it over to me when he got married, I think because he didnt think he would have enough time to do anything with it anymore... Well I keep him on as co-guildmaster anyhow. I still consider it mostly his guild.

Anyhow. Others in the guild include my father and sister. Christie used to be in it, but now she is off in a raiding guild. We will see how that goes, but supposedly she is there for learning fights and how to run raiding in a guild, and bring that info back to us.

OH... Almost forgot it is Earth day. I must write about that.

The Earth's climate is changing - but not from Man. The data points I am seeing lead me to believe that we are beginning to experience a long over-due magnetic pole shift. In a set interval of time, the Earth has shifted north and south poles. The most alarming evidence of this to me is the fact that ice is being added to the eastern coast of Antarctica faster than it is melting on the western coast of Antarctica. The Pole Is Moving!

Noone knows how long it takes to do a polar shift. We may have some catastrophic events take place as a result during the movement. There is NOTHING we can do other than adapt to the changes the Earth is bringing our way. The earth could really care less about the carbon dioxide given out by cows and fat people (I am fat by the way). Anyone who tells you that you can spend money in any way to avert disaster is a liar or very misguided. If it was really that important, people would labor for free to fix it.

But anyhow, you should look it up - look up the regular magnetic polar shifts. the magnetics are caused by the spinning of the earth... and something is shifting (not atmospheric but internal to the mantle and core).

OK, that ends my environmental rant. I should get going so I can make the train and head home.

Email enabled.

Ok - so I don't post much... Been a busy guy :-). 3 kids under 5, another on the way... And World of Warcraft consuming my time.

So I like to follow justmytwocopper. Its a good blog with a lot of followers and its all about warcraft economics. You should check it out if you found my blog with those keywords...

I am guilty of being a lurker, but decided to let people know I am here and alive (tumbleweed rolls by).

I think I might start posting about being guildmaster of Guardians of Azeroth, and think out loud about direction.