so it’s my last friday at my current job. busy handing over stuff and explaining things to the new guy here.
felling quite sad when i am removing my usernames from the servers and disabling access to stuff been here almost 4 years and you get so used to doing stuff and logging onto certain servers to check things but now you don’t have access to anymore and it feels strange. but hey, need to move on and i am looking forward to starting new job next week and get back into things i enjoy! the last 2 weeks has been laid back and not doing any new things due to me having to do documentation and knowledge transfer.
this afternoon is my farewell lunch and who else know what else is in store….

nagrand

Do not stand at my grave and weep,
I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am in a thousand winds that blow,
across Northrend’s bright and shining snow.
I am the gentle showers of rain,
on Westfall’s fields of golden grain.
I am in the morning hush,
of Stranglethorn’s jungle, green and lush.
I am in the drums loud and grand,
the thunderous hooves across Nagrand.
I am the stars warmly gleaming,
over Darnassus softly dreaming.
I am in the birds that sing,
I am in each lovely thing.
Do not stand at my grave and cry,
I am not there. I do not die.

This poem is based on Do not stand at my grave and weep, thought to be written by Mary Elizabeth Frye.

It was written in honor of Dak Krause.

are you a winner?

so last night i was in my first general vezax kill! daaaaaaamn what a fight! our guild 2 shotted him last week but this week it took us a few attempts to down him.

one thing that makes this fight crazy is the fact there is NO mp5 (mana regeneration) so for healers this fight totally sucks ass! the only way to get mana back is from a green go that drops to the ground from the dps killing things called “saronite crystals”. but that not where it ends, when you stand on it, it not only restores a bit on mana, it damages you too! so you need to get a few ticks on you and not too many otherwise the next tick might just kill you.
e.g
1 stack – 100 mana 200 damage
2 stacks – 200 mana 400 damage
3 stacks – 400 mana 800 damage
4 stacks – 800 mana 1,600 damage
5 stacks – 1,600 mana 3,200 damage
6 stacks – 3,200 mana 6,400 damage
7 stacks – 6,400 mana 12,800 damage
8 stacks – 12,800 mana 25,600 damage
9 stacks – 25,600 mana 51,200 damag

other than that there are a few abilities he does such as “mark of the faceless” ( need to get away from people within 10 yards otherwise each tick deals 5k per second to them and also heals vezax for 100k hp each tick), “searing flames” which does damage to everyone in the raid for a crap load which needs to be interrupted!, “shadow crash” which you need to avoid and it leaves a black goo on the ground which ranged dps needs to stand in to be able to get some faster attack speed and reduced ability costs, and it’s bad for heals and last but not least “surge of darkness” which gives vezax a 100% damage increase which the tank needs to use a cooldown or kite him or have healers heal him alot (but remember the mp5 issue? bad idea)
other than that, it is actually an easy fight if you can watch out for shadow crush and mark of the faceless and control your mana and make sure the tanks don’t die.
last night’s kill the tank died with about 2mil of his hp left and the rogues did some wicked evasion tanking.
halfway during the looting our tanked decided to ninja engage yogg, lmao that was funny!

next week: yogg-saron

prior to ulduar i was a tank and had never been resto spec ever. since ulduar came out with duel spec i decided to have my off-sepc resto. but seeing as our guild has plenty of tanks i was asked to heal eventhough i had major crappy gear (pre wrath of the lich king gear). so over the past month i have been healing and getting upgrades slowly and learning how to heal as resto.
i have not been low on the healing charts at all compared to the other geared healers…skill? i do get to tank heroics but it’s just not the same as tanking XT or the adds on Ignis.
in the beginning i found healing to be extremely difficult as i was not used to it but over the past few week i have learned how to heal and use the different abilities. i’ve really enjoyed healing up until now and i do miss tanking, but getting to see new bosses and that is way more fun and entertaining than bitching and moaning cause you can’t get to play your preferred spec. i still get to upgrade my tanking gear of course, so i am definitely not complaining!
with this new skin change to the feral bear and cat forms, i just wish blizzard would have also had a look at the tree and moonkin forms too! seeing as in our raid group sometimes you have 1 bear and about 6 trees.
so for now, resto is my thing until we lose a tank or i get the chance again to be tank.

Monday, 01 Jun 2009 17:09

The Secret of Monkey Island
LucasArts today announced two Monkey Island projects in the works for the Xbox 360, Wii and PC.

New Monkey Island game

after 4 years at my current employer, i decided that it’s time to move to a greener patch. it came as a very big surprise to them and everyone, but it is something i needed to do and i know i will enjoy the new opportunity!
i’ll be commuting to the CBD now which is not that of a big deal as everyone is making it out to be. where i currently am i start at 6am every 2nd week anyways so i’m used to the early morning.
so far all i know is i’m going to be working at a software development company that’s got much less people ( YAY! ) and the people are awesome! gonna be doing the same things that i am currently doing, just on a much smaller scale.
oh yes, it’s my last month here at compuscan. got alot of documentation and knowledge transfer to do. i’ll be starting at the new place 1 july. didn’t want to take a few days off before i start new job. i just wanted to jump in immediately cause i’m so excited!