Author Archives: Donny Rokk
Titles Are Punny
If I hadn’t been so lazy this week (the heat, I blame the heat) my recent achievements would have seemed a little more impressive since I did all of this in a single week. But folks, these are the cards I’ve been dealt and will therefore shuffle them in my hand and try to slap on my poker face.
The week was all about titles. Titles are always a fun little way to change things on your character. I managed to pick up three of them in a little over a week.
The first title <Name> “the Patient” was one I wasn’t even consciously trying to get. I was running an endless stream of Hour of Twilight PUGs, and just got the title. It was a side-effect of running too many PUGs, but unlike lowered self-esteem and hemorrhoids this was actually a side-effect worth getting.
The “Flame Warden” title wasn’t hard to get. If you can put in the time, you can get this title. I mean, completing the Midsummer Fire Festival isn’t all that tough to do. As long as you can find enough fires to Honor or Desecrate, Flame Warden is one of the easier titles to grab. I still say the title should be <Name> “Pees on Fires”, but that’s why I’m not working for Blizzard. Well, that and the restraining order, but I’m legally prohibited from discussing the issue.
Getting the title <Name> “of the Shattered Sun” was a multi-stage process. First, you need to have Exalted status with the Shattered Sun Offensive. There’s two ways to get there – either run dailies on the Isle of Quel’Danas, or run Magisters’ Terrace, like, a whole lot. I went with Plan B for a few reasons:
- There was no limit on how often I could run it every day. I would still get decent rep by running Regular versions of the instance, so I’d start with a Heroic and then switch to Regular until I was bored.
- I was getting Faction rep through tabards. In fact, Boss kills were giving me more rep (while wearing the appropriate tabard) than I was getting with the Shattered Sun Offensive. I managed to get Exalted with Gilneas, Ironforge, and Gnomeregan while grinding SSO rep. It’s always nice when you can get two things done at the same time.
- Transmog Gear was plentiful. I picked up the Sun-Forged Cleaver for myself, and farmed a great deal of greens that sold quite nicely on the Auction House. If you have to grind rep, you might as well make some gold at the same time.
- Sweet Chicken Mount. There’s a 4% drop rate on the Swift White Hawkstrider, obtainable only in Heroic mode. I managed to pick up this bird on my last Heroic run.
Congrats on Exalted with SSO. Now you just have to get a single quest where the dude rubs his hand across his palm and says “Can u spare gold plz? For the cause, dude.”
One. Thousand. Gold.
Are you shitting me? I’ve paid less for epic fucking mounts! When Quel’Danas was considered “end game” back in the Burning Crusade days, beggers would spout mighty dirty erections whenever they saw someone with the “of the Shattered Sun” title. It meant that person had waaaay too much gold, and had no problem throwing it away.
Which reminds me – I am now broke. Maybe I’ll run MT one more time for some sweet Transmog gear.
Awesome Addon Spotlight – GTFO
Okay, stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
You’re running a Heroic dungeon. You play DPS, cause you’re down with the sickness. It’s been a decent PuG so far and you’re burning through packs of mobs like a wildfire through Colorado. But somewhere in the fifth pack of beasts you suddenly get the LOW HEALTH warning and, while you’re looking around to see what the Hell is attacking you, you drop dead.
“L2Play noob,” is the last thing your corpse sees before you’re kicked from the group. Kicked before the body is even cold.
What the Hell just happened? And what the HELL happened just before that?
Now there’s one of two reasons you didn’t stop me. Reason the First is that this has, in fact, happened to you and it scarred you deeply. You try to suppress the memory, maybe with liquor, maybe with porn, maybe with Goldshire RP (which tends to be a combination of both liquor and porn.)
Reason the Second is that it has never happened to you, which is a damn dirty lie and you are a damn dirty liar. Congratulations, you have successfully suppressed the memory. Put the bottle down, be it Jack Daniels or Vaseline. There there, everything’s going to be okay.
Reality Check: Everybody gets caught standing in something they shouldn’t, aka “The Stupid.” Some people play World of Warcraft with the spell effects set low (or off), or they get tunnel vision in the heat of combat. In either case, by the time the poor soul notices they have lost a fatal amount of health, they’re staring at a Spirit Healer.
That is why I was so stoked to find the addon that all the cool kids are using (to not die in The Stupid.) It is the aptly named addon GTFO:
GTFO provides an audible alert when you’re standing in something you’re not supposed to be standing in. In some cases, you’ll be warned before you start taking damage. This mod improves your situational awareness and is recommended for dungeon divers and raiders of all skill levels as even the most seasoned veteran sometimes needs a reminder to GTFO.
It’s particularly useful for individuals that play with their spell graphics turned down as well as assisting with PvP when you can’t tell who’s casting the AOE.
I love this addon. There’s no configuration required, so just drop it in the folder and it’s ready to go straight out of the box. However, if you want to pimp your settings, it can be configured to provide visual cues when used alongside Power Auras Classic. It’s alarm is annoying enough for you not to be able to ignore it. It’s the best thing next to having someone stand over your shoulder and tell you to move your ass, without the harsh judgement.
GTFO. Get on it.
















