I see your point... normally these days I'm not the mage, I'm the holy pally... but when I play my mage I'm reduced to using quicker abilities than 4xAB AM/Abarr because I don't have time because of phase shifts. So your point does stand.

My point is that there's a LONG way until Cataclysm and the only thing that I do in wow these days that interests me *remotely* is raid two nights a week. It irks me to see content that is already too trivial trivialized even further. I'm bored brainless.

Most people who play sports aren't ever going to get a job in it, and really not that many go on to play at a college level... it doesn't mean it's okay to skip out on practices at the high school level either though.

I'm sure it's not a perfect comparison, but it did prove to be a way that I could talk about it with my parents in terms they already understood.

ROFL. I knew that was coming. It's why I was careful to say that there are some who are very clued in... just not MY parents. :P

Some members of my grandparents' generation pioneered rock and roll, but it's my father's generation who adopted it while my grandma still listens to Perry Como.

(That would be the same grandmother who was born the same day as Roger Daltrey).

Pioneers often find themselves on the wrong side of the generation gap. You must be a pioneer!

The minute I post this whiny rant, we have a beautiful smooth TOC clear tonight and everything is as good as it possibly could be. I swear, WoW was designed to mimic the experience of a bipolar individual.

These should be really helpful... especially the pulling macro. I'll be passing that along to my bf/tank/raid leader. :)

Oh, and you've got a typo in your polymorph macro... should be spelled with one "L". Otherwise, I think the macro won't work.

"Lowest common denominator seeks bottom for barrel for doomed relationship based on mutual desperation…"

Ah, the great mating call of teh internets goes out.

I worked in a similar sort of program for a few summers while I did my undergrad, and I was kind of struck by the same mixture of hopefulness and cynicism about the whole project too.

While there were many kids who were obviously fascinated and who (hopefully) managed to turn that into a lasting ambition, there were a few who obviously felt like aliens even just being there, and I wondered if it was really alright for us to be implying that there was something wrong with the way that they felt they wanted to live and the way their families lived.

My guild went and wiped on Toravon yesterday and we had fun.

I've actually *stopped* buying emblem upgrades for the time being, because it's more fun to loot them from the TOC bosses we kill. Got a belt last week, sweet!

And I'm totally with you on the heroic nerfs. I remember when I was a new baby 80 and the idea of heroics was kind of daunting. I found them engaging for a long time. Now I find them pathetic, but I feel like I have to run them anyway. And I'm offput by the way the whole game seems to be trying to shove you toward the current tier of raid content without asking you if that's really what you want to do. There's no such thing as a casual heroic anymore... you've got to go along with the emblem-mad "I-just-want-my-frosties" crowd, and heaven forbid you don't satisfy them. Hell, I'm one of them, and half the time I can't satisfy them either!

All-blogger guild... *weep with longing*

Although then you guys would all have to believe me when I say I'm not actually good at WoW. Also, I think Larisa's Adrenaline and Elleiras's Surreality are pretty much all-blogger guilds already. :P

Yes, sometimes I think how unfair it is that my brother gets to kill titans and such in EVE with an Italian fleet commander (he's picked up a few choice Italian obscenities from Liam), but here in wow we're all separated away from each other.