Moramor’s World of Warcraft

While clearing out the mail boxes on my bank alts, I was thinking to my self - Wow! What a mess. It seems that it never goes away. The more I try to organize it the more it seems to become more disorganized. Then I through back to my room, my office space, my clothes in the closet. Here is the thing, they are all in the same “state”.
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My paladin, which is right now my favorite alt, recently hit 30. Besides getting my cool free mount, I’ve also decided to give AOE grinding a try. Up to level 30 I was leveling as Retribution. Having some nice gear from Shadowfang keep, which I ran with my level 70 friend, was decently fun. But, I was really curious about AOE after I hit level 30.
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I’ve been leveling my Paladin a bit, and I’m quite enjoying him. He’s already at level 28, and I can’t wait to get my mount at 30. However, in this post I’d like to mention why I love pallys when I group with them.

Salvation - Can you say shoot without worrying about threat? As a decently T4 geared warlock I get spoiled with this pally buff. If I’m in a 5 man, or god forbid Kara without a pally, not having this buff really rally gimps my DPS because just by casting all my DoTs my threat jumps a lot. You should see me begging for this buff all the time.
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Well, I don’t have much to post on that comes to mind and does not involve too much time :). Presently I’ve got into a nice guild that raids a lot (by my standards). I’ve been doing Mag and Grull, and we even did some trash and got to first boss on Mt. Hijal. So it was fun and I got a nice clock from trash mob drop.

I’ve been also leveling my druid, who is my bank/enchanter. I want to get him to level 35 because i want to disenchant all those greens over 64 that i accumulated. They are becoming annoying in my mailbox “bank”. I’m too lazy to find anouther Dissenchanter to DE them. Too many at this point.

I toyed with the idea of leveling my druid to 70. I respecked feral and was breezing through the mobs. My goal is that I want a end game healer. However, I don’t know if I want to play my priest to 70 (currently in his high 30’s). I find Druid Tree healing is really cool, but I don’t find leveling druid pleasurable.

I’ve created a Pally and I think I will play with that character and level to 70. I find Pallys to be very self sufficient, and at the end of the game they can Heal or Tank. I think they will also benefit a lot from all the additional Plate gear with caster attributes that they will share with Death Knights. I find leveling them interesting - a new challenge.

My Mage who I finally learned how to play is gathering dust at level 41. I think I got to a point where it was too easy to play him now that he’s a fire specked. I guess I want something different Endgame, and Mage is too similar to a warlock as far as gear/damage etc. Paladin offers different dynamics to learn. Plus I can Heal (I guess I’m a closeted healer).

So here is anouther one. I work for JetBlue Airways in NY. JetBlue is soon opening up a new terminal at JFK airport - terminal 5 aka T5. So the other day when my coworker started to talk about the T5 what do you think I started to think about. If you don’t know, then yo don’t play enough! ;).

Here another video from Madcow Studios. I like this one even more :D:

Well a few days into WoW on linux (Ubuntu-8 ) only, and I broke down and installed Windows XP on my machine. Here are two biggest reasons:

1. In linux, my mouse pointer is software rendered, since we are emulating a windows program in linux. This is fine and dandy when I was playing by my self, but when I grouped up with 25 other people to do Mag and Grul, I saw the challenge with the software rendering of my mouse. When we hit a lot of visual lag due to everyone casting spells, the mouse pointer would move in slow motion or I would sometimes completely lose it on the screen. I had to quickly relearn how to use hot keys. This I think was a decisive point to play WoW under windows, where even though frame rate might be low, mouse pointer would move smoothly anyways since it is hardware controlled.

2. The second piece in linux that did not work was Vent. When i was in WoW i could hear vent, but could not hit a key to speak. This i suspect could have been fixed if I did some more research.

To sum up my experience with WoW in linux, is that it has been very impressive. Besides the raid experience, soloing or grouping with a small group worked very well under linux. This may be due to the recent release of the Wine 1.0 version. About 6 months ago, wow was almost unplayable in Linux with decent graphical settings and resolution set to my native 20 inch flat panel. It is very good now, where when I solo I get almost the same performance I would get in Windows XP.

I think it is important to note that it would be great if Blizzard can release a native linux WoW client. Until then, WindowsXP for me as far as WoW. Although I will continue to mess around with Ubuntu linux and maybe find more tweaks for WoW in linux.

Well, my windows died on me, again!  I think it has something to do with the NFTS system.  When i try to access the windows partition under Linux the C: drive can’t be read, and Linux says it is still “in use”.

So since I don’t really feel like reinstalling Windows XP, or buying the new Vista, I decided to go with Ubuntu 8 linux that I had installed on my machine earlier. My computer use is not that demanding as far as variety of things.  I play WoW and browse the Internet.  The net is easy on Linux.  How about WoW?

Well I’m happy to report that with the latest ubunty release (8) and the newest Wine emulator software WoW runs as well as it does under Windows.  So thus begins my biggest experiment of all - life without Windows!

If you are interested in running your WoW under Linux here is a great post on how to do it in Ubuntu (which is very easy to use once you learn where to pull a document or two from the net):

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WorldofWarcraft

By the way, I did not install WoW under linux.  I simply copied the whole WoW folder from windows into linux, that’s the easier way.  Just edit your config file in WTF folder to openGL and you’re good to go!

My life as a lock is full of ups and downs.  I though that  I finally found a cool guild I can raid with, only for the guild mates to be nonexistent online as soon as summer began. 

Out of boredom and desperation and also because I’ve been enjoying my fire specked mage I resepecked my warlock destro (20/0/41).  I have to say that the play style becomes very similar to a mage.  But it did not feel like a lock anymore.

From my personal opinion Warlocks have their biggest and unique strengths in the demonology and affliction trees.  Destruction is fun, but it’s very short lived.  You cannot do tings with destro you can do with demonology or affliction, such as non stop grinding or taking down an elite mob by your self.  Plus if you want to blast things, you can always go mage, but only lock can have a unique DoTs and or pet/blast.  I’m back to affliction and I love it!