I don't often use the Trade Channel (it's like another General Channel, but people actually use it), but since I was only one enchant from being able to train some more, I went on and posted a quick "[Enchanting] LFW My mats while they last." The profession didn't link, and while I was scratching my head over it, someone sent a tell asking me to link it. I tried again, and it still wouldn't link. I was in the process of asking the other user if they might know why that was happening, when they sent back that I didn't have Enchanting. At the same time I hit enter with "Yes, I do. I don't know why it won't link," the other user blocked me.

Not a huge deal, but annoying as hell. Instead of giving the benefit if the doubt and spending maybe two minutes at attempting to be helpful, they just rush to the conclusion that I don't have the profession I claimed to and blocked me. And I STILL don't know why it wouldn't link.


Edit: Oh for fuck's sake. I type an entry, then when posting, LJ eats everything but the first line. *retype* *grumble*

Warcraft and Mountain Dew have teamed up to offer a massive give away - from razer Keyboards, to Alien notebooks, and even tshirts/hoodies! There is no cost involved, and is totally free to players to join and enter into drawings, which are hosted every 15 mins! You can side with the Horde, or the Alliance during this contest.

Bored during the server downtime?

I just posted my Feathermoon tour at http://wowgossip.livejournal.com/8933.html .

If you want to know more about these rp server tours, and what this project is please refer to my profile :)

Allow me to preface this by saying two things. Firstly, I have absolutely nothing against paladins or tanking paladins. Secondly, I'm a woman gamer. This second point is so folks don't think I'm being sexist...

We have just finished dealing with the most godawful paladin tank I have ever had to deal with. She started out as a mage, and decided when the xpac came out to try playing a pally tank. We had a policy that you announce ahead of time that you're going to switch mains and she did not, but made cootchy-coo noises at the guild leader and didn't get into trouble for it. She then started powerleveling and getting into every 5-man that she could get into.

I'm a warrior tank, and the official offtank for the guild (our MT is another warrior and excellent at his job, I adore the guy). And at first I thought it was great that we were getting another woman tank. But then she started acting a little weird. I noticed it when I came in on a halls of stone run that she and her regular group couldn't get past and managed to survive that annoying wave after wave bit with Brahn and the iron dwarves, and I managed to survive when I brought them. She started saying these curt apologetic things in guild chat and obviously fishing for pity.

Whenever we tried to group and get gear, she'd try her hardest to get in and tank instead of me, even when she had nothing to gain from the instance. I ended up pugging half my gear. Meanwhile she was sitting on 400+ badges and never bought any of her T7 gear or the librams or trinkets you can buy with badges. She just sat on them, and when asked why she wasn't spending them, stated that there was nothing worth buying (as she continued using level 70 trinkets and blue armor).

Then we started raiding Naxx, and it hit the fan. It was obvious she had never been a raid tank before in her life. She didn't know how to strafe. She didn't know how to switch targets. And she obsessed with taking whatever I was tanking from me, even if another mob gingerly stepped over her and crushed a healer's face. And whenever something went wrong, she quickly tried to find some means of blaming it on me. And finally, whenever she didn't get to tank a boss, she would WHINE. She would SIGH and GRUMBLE and MOAN. Eventually even the clueless players started noticing it and were getting sick of her.

When enough people got angry, she had this bawling crying breakdown over vent and got everyone to feel guilty about it. (I should note that she's also forty years old) Everyone went out of their way to pet her and make her feel better, meanwhile tanking was becoming an incredibly stressy job for me because not only was I having to deal with her trying to make me look bad at every opportunity, but I was also having to cover for her. She refused to tank adds (yes, the pally refused to tank adds), and so I always had to grab any loose mobs, on top of her utterly obsessing over whatever I was tanking and trying to take it from me.

Thankfully cooler heads prevailed. Our guild is run by multiple people, one of whom is a woman. That guild elder came with us on a Naxx run and watched as she ignored me multiple times when I asked her to please wait until I caught up to her before she pulled, to not run with her back to a mob, and how she tried to make up for people getting angry at her by making lewd flirty comments at them.

She was asked to go back to playing her mage, and she chose to quit the guild and take her friends with her, whom she later abandoned for another guild.

It's people like that that make other women gamers look bad. Ugh,

Ok Folks,

     We have all seen them.  Adds for a book or file that gives your toons the Midas touch and turns the gold cap into a suddenly attainable thing.  Every long timer on the net seems to have their book or file and they will gladly share their hard earned secrets with you for $X.OO.  But wait... there's more because if you order now... you also get this incredible veggie peeler absolutely free   

     And to make matter worse... You can only get this worth it's weight in gold techinique for a limited time before the price shoots up like a Lunarfest rocket.

     So my question is to you all, have any of you ever tried any of these and were they worth it.  Are the secrets they give THAT profound the rest of us simple cannot grasp them without these guide-writer's knowledge?  I am considering getting one but I wonder if anyone has recommendations for a speciffic supplement or guide?  I understand Paladins are supposed to be poor, but to broke to repair my armor, post gank,  or buy some cheese and spring water is just too broke.  Help me my friends!

I have decided to start a project. I am going to being touring the major rp servers, and taking screenshot diaries of what I encounter in locations that are famous for being bad. There is good rp out there, please do not let this taint your perspective on rp. This tour, is simply a review of some of the worst out there.

Rules are simple:
1) I do not provoke actual reactions. No trolling, baiting, griefing, etc.
2) I react, and do not create the rp sitautions. I can walk about, however I do not rp as a character deserving of any special reactions (like a whore).
3) Screenshot, screenshot, screenshot.
4) I visit at least 2 location per faction to get a slightly more rounded view (Goldshire/Stormwind, Brill/Silvermoon)
5)With the bad, I will mention something good.
6)Nothing will be faked, I will not pose in the images, create rp profiles, or create falsehood for better or worse.

First on this list: Moongaurd - US
http://wowgossip.livejournal.com/1295.html - diary is here, warning some of the content is "adult" (nothing overly vulgar). I welcome suggestions on what server I should tour next.

When I'm already mining a node, it's considered in poor taste for you to run up to it and repeatedly try to hit it and ninja it out from under my perfect little Belfy nose.

I do, however, enjoy tossing you into fits of frustration by flagging AFK in looting position so you have no chance.

It makes me laugh to watch you froth and spam /spit and /rude at me.

It's the 4th Anniversary of WOW. Make sure you log in today for a free pet and achievement. =)

I must have been in some sort of zone last night because once I got a port to Dalaran, I spent about four hours fishing in the fountain for coins. The good news is that I ended up completing 2/3 of the coin achievements; the bad news is that it has inspired this rant.

For those of you who have not yet been to Dalaran: the fountain is very small and in a corner. This probably won't be a problem once the newness of the expansion wears off, but right now, I feel like there's some basic courtesy that some people need to follow.

1. If you have a huge pet like an Un'Goro Devilsaur or a Core Hound, DISMISS THE GORRAM PET WHEN YOU'RE FISHING. We can't see around your Voidwalker's big blue butt.

2. It's not funny to go running around in the fountain on your mount. It's not a big fountain. You're obnoxious and getting in the way of our bobbers.

3. It's also not funny to use some sort of growth thing on your mount while standing on the edge of the fountain so you cover up everyone's bobbers. Really, really not funny.

On a more specific note...I fished for four hours. For three of those hours, some Huntard* sat just inside the fountain on the edge with his wolf pet taking up fishing room. Only 1/10 of my casts landed in a place that was hidden by him, but that's a lot of casts in three hours. And...seriously...I realize I have no life if I fished for four hours, but what kind of NO LIFE did this idiot have to sit there for THREE HOURS? ...especially since at the very least he'd have to keep tabbing back in to make sure he didn't idle off.


*I hate that word, but in this instance, it applies.