http://www.ofgnomesandrogues.com Being small and sneaky in the World of Warcraft. Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:52:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was going to do a couple of posts on Gnomish culture, but between real life rearing its ugly head and 3.2 dropping, I haven't had much of a chance to put that together. And while 3.2 still didn't bring me my attack bunnies to let loose upon my ... http://www.ofgnomesandrogues.com/2009/08/3-2-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/ Being one of the only active Gnome mains in my guild means that I have to put up with a certain amount of, well...cowplop from my guildies about being a Gnome. I know they do it out of love (I mean, how can you not love someone with Princess ... http://www.ofgnomesandrogues.com/2009/07/give-a-gnome-some-love/ Here is the last part of my take on the engineering changes for 3.2: Reduced the materials needed to create all engineering Dragonlings, and reduced their cooldowns, although they still cannot be used in Arenas. I haven't used dragnonlings in a long time. Not since I was soloing and I ... http://www.ofgnomesandrogues.com/2009/07/i-heart-engineering-changes-for-3-2-part-3/ Here is part 2 of all the engineering changes for 3.2: Increased benefits from Hyperspeed Accelerators, Hand-Mounted Pyro Rocket and Reticulated Armor Webbing glove modifications. This is good news for me! I currently have the Hyperspeed Accelerators on my raiding gloves and use them every chance I get. The ... http://www.ofgnomesandrogues.com/2009/07/i-heart-engineering-changes-for-3-2-%e2%80%93-part-2/ I've been so busy with work the last few days, I really haven't been keeping up with with all the new patch notes for patch 3.2. Some of them are definately cool and I'm looking forward to them, but it was with great interest I read a post on ... http://www.ofgnomesandrogues.com/2009/06/i-heart-engineering-changes-for-3-2-part-1/ On our guild message boards, we are currently having a discussion of how to be situationally aware while raiding.  Some of the tips were good, so I have compiled them in to a list for your reading enjoyment. Pyxia's tips for DPS in raids (new and improved...complete with rogue examples!) Please note you are not ... http://www.ofgnomesandrogues.com/2009/06/situational-awareness-for-melee-dps/ I as happily reading about all the patch changes on wow.com yesterday when I saw this: The newest season of Arena gear can only be purchased if you meet the requirements with your 3 or 5-player team rating. Rating requirements from 2-player teams can still be used to purchase the previous ... http://www.ofgnomesandrogues.com/2009/06/rip-the-death-of-2v2/ After such a great experience PuG'ing last week, I decided to try it again last night.  One of my guildies, Exelus, put out the call in guild chat for a Naxx-25 PuG group he was in.  It was a little before 10pm my time, but I figured it wouldn't take ... http://www.ofgnomesandrogues.com/2009/06/okay-so-maybe-all-pugs-do-end-in-tears/ I've come to the conclusion that I am really, really bad at 3v3. I'm not sure exactly why that is, but I am exactly the opposite of the description of super uber. In fact, I really think that if I put a monkey at the keyboard, he would perform better ... http://www.ofgnomesandrogues.com/2009/06/i-really-suck-at-3v3/ Those that know me will know that I almost never PuG. Even though I'm sure most go off without a hitch, I have great guildies who will run things with me most of the time, so why chance it?** But last night I headed into Wintergrasp and helped ... http://www.ofgnomesandrogues.com/2009/06/puging-voa-25/