Segment 22: RaidBuffStatus

Are you a raider? Are you a raid leader? Either way, you need to know the status of buffs on yourself and, if you are the leader, of the entire raid. Proper buffs can make a marginal raid successful, while missing buffs can make your raid fail.

RaidBuffStatus is an add-on to check, show and report on the complete buff status (including flasks etc) of a party or raid. It shows the information on a dashboard much like XRS. It can report via whispers and to raid …

Omen3 is the first add-on for the Emporium’s “official” kick-off.

We had the ‘good’ problem of more raiders than spots last night. I say it’s a good problem because it’s certainly better than not having enough raiders for your team.Boston asked for volunteers to sit, and I thought about it, but I knew we were…

I’ve found myself in quite the catch-22 as of late.  No raiding guild wants a new 80, for obvious reasons.  I’ve been trying to find one who will let me sit the bench for a week or two, until I can gear myself up.  Nothing has happened as of yet.
Being that I don’t have a [...]

There are simply some people in the world you listen to on certain matters. When it comes to deep Tankadin theorycraft, the person I listen to the most is Theck of Blackrock.The guy is a math genius, but he also knows how to unpack his findings and mak…

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, today we bring you a blast from the past. Put your hands together and give a big Honors Code welcome for the return of Sunwell Radiance!Yes, after talking about how much the Developers hated having to use it and ho…

“Twilight is upon me, and soon, night must fall. That is the way of the things, the way of the Force.” – Yoda, Episode VWe didn’t have the group composition we needed last night to continue working on Firefighter. One of our top healers was MIA.So we…

“You can’t win, Arthas… the Light… will… defeat you.” Arthas laughed, a deep chilling laugh. “The Light?!? You forget, Paladin, I was once a follower of the Light, naive and blind like you. But now I know. I know its power and I know its weak…

So here’s how it goes…

3.2.2 just dropped and you’re looking for a group to go try out the new Onyxia fight.  Problem is your still in item level 150 blues and greens.

If you’re asking for my advice here it is… DO NOT MAKE A GROUP PUT UP WITH YOUR LACK OF GEAR!

I mean even Samurai Mike thinks that’s wack…

In my opinion it’s considered pretty selfish to think you can join a group and have them drag you through an endgame raid (unless they know they’re doing it), just so you …

I logged in Tuesday night and found a pleasant surprise; I had been awarded the Challenger title. While we were getting ready to raid Trial of the Crusader, I flew up to the Tournament and did a couple of Daily Quests. With the Champion Seals from thos…

Tuesday night the team was really excited because a new Boss was opening up in the Coliseum.But first we had to take care of the previous two Bosses. We felt like we had Northrend Beasts ‘on farm’ as the saying goes. So we decided to try for the ac…

With the recent mention of 31 bosses on the World of Warcraft forums by Ghostcrawler, it seems that this may truly be an epic battle.

I have been very pleased with the way Blizzard has been handling raiding in recent expansions and patches. I absolutely love how they have made raiding more accessible to all players and I also love the new changes to heroics so that they drop Emblems of Conquest to help everyone gear up. It’s no surprise they are doing this so that a larger percentage of …

Everyone was excited as we put the raid together to go check out Trial of the Crusader. We had the normal ‘new instance’ logistics to figure out, like where the portals were, and which of the three portals was the right one for us to take.That sorted o…

There’s a change on the PTR that I haven’t mentioned yet. I wasn’t sure I understood it, and I certainly didn’t understand what it would mean.Let’s get to the change:(image from http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/)Dodge Rating: The amo…

I have been playing on the Public Test Realms today and all the buzz in every chat channel is about the new raids opening. That’s right folks, get your copied characters and premade toons on the PTR to experience those new raids tonight at 7:00pm EST. I am definitely looking forward to the new content. I’ll be sure to keep everyone updated on the new raids as I get in there and experience them.

I have my Resto Shaman in there to get some practice for my raid group …

I finally got to the point where I needed to step away from my current guild. I won’t go into the details here as it’s probably nothing more than a way to cause drama, and I have no interest in doing that. There wasn’t really a single thing that drove me away from [...]

My raid group has been doing Ulduar for a few weeks now and we are starting to progress into bosses we haven’t done before. We are review strategies from WoWWiki and Strat Fu, as well as watching the TankSpot videos. But even after all this preparation it seems like there are facets of the encounters that these guides are missing.