Catching up on WoW and good work news
May. 17th, 2011 06:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thistlechaserFirst off, I reinstalled Fraps and it started working, so...
500K gold, woot. I have almost 10K more on Alliance side. I'm not not not making gold there on purpose, it's just coming in through questing and selling what I gather.
In fact, so certain am I that I'm not going back to making more gold, I've done the unimaginable: I've given away all of my secrets! Okay, it's just to one person and it is on Alliance side, but still! I held nothing back, I told her everything I know! ...I sort of feel like I should be cringing, waiting for a lightning bolt strike. If I get unlazy enough, I might post them all here too, but that'd take a lot of unlaziness.
In other news, Dandelion hit 75, woot! I was pushing hard for this level because grrr his archaeology, mining, and herbing were all capped before he hit 69. Mumble. Anyway, now he can go back to skilling! (Edit: Oh wait, not his mining! That lagged behind. But the others, yes!)
I would have happily leveled him through just those three professions, but that would leave me dry on guild rep. And as our lovely guild is a lovely high level and thus has access to lovely rewards, I'd like to be high enough to buy them. So I've been questing a lot. So very unlike me! But it's Northrend, so that makes everything better. Sad, but better. Poor NPCs, still talking about how the Lich King is taking over. If only!
It's funny how my fear of instances has returned. I remember I actually did a few on Thack the druid with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
itsbacon and company, but the thought of doing them on Dandelion? Fills me with terror, the very same terror I had with Thack. "But I'll suck!" "But my DPS will be horribleterribleawful!" "But I'll get everyone KILLED!" "But I'll stand in bad stuff and not realize it because I'm looking at my position|my buttons|where everyone's going wait don't leave me behind I get lost endlessly!" I would so very very very be the person everyone wrote about on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
dear_gnome. D: Questing is peaceful compared to that!
And I'm going to cut the work stuff, just in case I look at my main LJ page while at work.
I've been miserable at work for many months now, and this was caused by one thing: The location of my cubical. My boss's boss desk faces straight into my cube, so she's basically looking at me all day long. I feel horrible all the time. I don't like extended direct attention from anyone, let alone the boss's boss. She sees what I'm doing all day. She sees exactly when I come and go. No one else in the whole building has that sort of attention -- I have literally the worst cubical in the entire building.
A really nice cube opened up (it had a window! to the outside! sunlight!), so I decided the cost of asking would be worth the chance that I might get a yes. I couldn't very well say I didn't like sitting there because I was being watched, but I could say the rest of the truth: It's also the loudest cube in the place. Boss's boss took her endless conference calls with her door opened. LOUD calls. People were always walking to her office and standing in the doorway, talking and laughing. I couldn't concentrate. So I listed all those reasons (in a carefully worded way).
Alas the good cube was already spoken for, but she did say I could switch with one of our "visitor cubicles" (a dozen or so that stand empty most of the time). So YAY I'm going to get a very nice new one sooner or later!
I wish I could move NOW NOW NOW, but surprisingly it costs about $2,000 for them to move people from one cube to another, so I have to wait for the movers to come to move someone else and they'll do me at the same time. I hope it's not too long of a wait, but knowing that eventually I will get to move makes all the difference.
As a side story: My co-worker (who has never willingly said one word to me business or otherwise in the last ten years, sometimes he'll reply to a direct question but often not, and usually he ignores my emails) got the very best cubical in the building. Boy did that have me fuming! He goes out to lunch with my direct boss a lot, and my direct boss made the seating arrangements, so... HMMMM HOW DID ALL THIS HAPPEN.
Eee, Glee tonight! Eee!
500K gold, woot. I have almost 10K more on Alliance side. I'm not not not making gold there on purpose, it's just coming in through questing and selling what I gather.
In fact, so certain am I that I'm not going back to making more gold, I've done the unimaginable: I've given away all of my secrets! Okay, it's just to one person and it is on Alliance side, but still! I held nothing back, I told her everything I know! ...I sort of feel like I should be cringing, waiting for a lightning bolt strike. If I get unlazy enough, I might post them all here too, but that'd take a lot of unlaziness.
In other news, Dandelion hit 75, woot! I was pushing hard for this level because grrr his archaeology, mining, and herbing were all capped before he hit 69. Mumble. Anyway, now he can go back to skilling! (Edit: Oh wait, not his mining! That lagged behind. But the others, yes!)
I would have happily leveled him through just those three professions, but that would leave me dry on guild rep. And as our lovely guild is a lovely high level and thus has access to lovely rewards, I'd like to be high enough to buy them. So I've been questing a lot. So very unlike me! But it's Northrend, so that makes everything better. Sad, but better. Poor NPCs, still talking about how the Lich King is taking over. If only!
It's funny how my fear of instances has returned. I remember I actually did a few on Thack the druid with
itsbacon and company, but the thought of doing them on Dandelion? Fills me with terror, the very same terror I had with Thack. "But I'll suck!" "But my DPS will be horribleterribleawful!" "But I'll get everyone KILLED!" "But I'll stand in bad stuff and not realize it because I'm looking at my position|my buttons|where everyone's going wait don't leave me behind I get lost endlessly!" I would so very very very be the person everyone wrote about on dear_gnome. D: Questing is peaceful compared to that! And I'm going to cut the work stuff, just in case I look at my main LJ page while at work.
I've been miserable at work for many months now, and this was caused by one thing: The location of my cubical. My boss's boss desk faces straight into my cube, so she's basically looking at me all day long. I feel horrible all the time. I don't like extended direct attention from anyone, let alone the boss's boss. She sees what I'm doing all day. She sees exactly when I come and go. No one else in the whole building has that sort of attention -- I have literally the worst cubical in the entire building.
A really nice cube opened up (it had a window! to the outside! sunlight!), so I decided the cost of asking would be worth the chance that I might get a yes. I couldn't very well say I didn't like sitting there because I was being watched, but I could say the rest of the truth: It's also the loudest cube in the place. Boss's boss took her endless conference calls with her door opened. LOUD calls. People were always walking to her office and standing in the doorway, talking and laughing. I couldn't concentrate. So I listed all those reasons (in a carefully worded way).
Alas the good cube was already spoken for, but she did say I could switch with one of our "visitor cubicles" (a dozen or so that stand empty most of the time). So YAY I'm going to get a very nice new one sooner or later!
I wish I could move NOW NOW NOW, but surprisingly it costs about $2,000 for them to move people from one cube to another, so I have to wait for the movers to come to move someone else and they'll do me at the same time. I hope it's not too long of a wait, but knowing that eventually I will get to move makes all the difference.
As a side story: My co-worker (who has never willingly said one word to me business or otherwise in the last ten years, sometimes he'll reply to a direct question but often not, and usually he ignores my emails) got the very best cubical in the building. Boy did that have me fuming! He goes out to lunch with my direct boss a lot, and my direct boss made the seating arrangements, so... HMMMM HOW DID ALL THIS HAPPEN.
Eee, Glee tonight! Eee!
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Date: 2011-05-18 04:17 am (UTC)My monies on complete coincidence, yep, totally coincidence >.>
"But I'll get everyone KILLED!"
That's when I'm happiest during runs. Things are BORING when they go according to plan and work out perfectly (unless it's like some crazy plan that somehow goes off flawlessly when physics says it shouldn't work)! Death is the spice of life... well, at least virtual death anyways. A random "How the hell did you manage this?!" wipe is just the thing the WoW people need to spice up their random boring instance grinding!
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Date: 2011-05-18 04:31 am (UTC)Of course! c.c
Death is the spice of life... well, at least virtual death anyways.
Would you believe I still feel the same about death as I did in FFXI? I've not played XI in YEARS! I wish I could get over that feeling! Arg!
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Date: 2011-05-18 04:35 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-05-18 04:56 am (UTC)Most of the time when people die now adays it's in Abyssea. Most people have the atma which gives them perma RR3 or Twilight Gear (which asides from sparkling gives them perma RR3 when they have both pieces equiped). That's like, 150exp loss or something on a death. Even if you HP and lost the full like 2.5k NMs in abyssea give like 500-5k exp. Plus abyssea EXP parties are completely hacks (hello 200k/hr+) and exp has basically become meaningless unless you are like level 50. Also, no exp loss from 1-30 now.
If anything WoW death might now be MORE meaningful. Since unless you're a shaman or are important enough to blow a battle rez on then when you die you tend to remain dead until either a wipe occurs or the battle ends and they can rez you. So in WoW if someone dies right off the bat then you lose all their effectiveness right off the bat for the rest of the fight. In XI you lose them for like MAYBE 1 minute (if they needed a raise) and then they can still do stuff and help when weakened.
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Date: 2011-05-18 05:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-18 02:58 pm (UTC)/whine
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Date: 2011-05-18 03:50 pm (UTC)