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I see your Schwartz is as big as mine.

I should never say stuff like this. 4" of blowing rain in 24 hours means water coming in around windows and trying to ruin our new floors and our 4-day-old leather couch. WTF is with Boston and water?

Sorry. Finishing up the reconstruction of the house wound up taking a lot longer than I (or anyone else) expected. We have our final inspection Tuesday of this week. I will definitely be back on Thursday and there is a possibility I can make Tuesday if everything goes well (I have declined for Tuesday night, but if I am available I'll log in in case you need an alternate). That's good to hear, so no more swimming pool in the living room, and jaccuzzi in the bedroom. We are dry. But if another contractor comes through and cuts a hole in a wall I've just painted I'll be facing murder charges.

Sorry. Finishing up the reconstruction of the house wound up taking a lot longer than I (or anyone else) expected. We have our final inspection Tuesday of this week. I will definitely be back on Thursday and there is a possibility I can make Tuesday if everything goes well (I have declined for Tuesday night, but if I am available I'll log in in case you need an alternate).

Spawn!

Xiris and I are interested.

Here is an illustration of my problem: ---------------- water level ------------------ ---------------- Video Card ----------------- ---------------- HDD 1 ----------------------- ---------------- HDD 0 ----------------------- So I am out for at least the next week and possibly two depending on how quickly insurance does its thing.

Awww. Thanks everyone. It was a great birthday (even including the crummy hour or so on Patch).

Agree with Waldy's summation above about trash mobs and dot clipping. Affliction locks just don't do well with trash mobs unless they are aoe-worthy. I use a 6 spell rotation for boss fights that I cribbed from somewhere, but I can't remember the source now. It's the best I've found. If I am in position before the start of the fight I lead off with Shadowbolt, Haunt, Unstable Affliction, CoA, Corruption, Siphon Life. If I lead off with SB and Haunt I have Shadow Embrace stacked twice which increases the output from the rest of my spells. With cast times and GCD I'm ready to cast my next SB right after Siphon Life, but I have to insert some pauses to avoid clipping dots after that. A good dot timer is useful. Since all these dots are on different timers I get some odds gaps where everything is up. I Spam SB in these gaps. If I'm having to run into position at the start of the fight I lead off with the instant cast part of the rotation: CoA, Corruption, Siphon Life, Shadowbolt, Haunt, Unstable Affliction. I lose the benefit of Shadow Embrace for the first half of the rotation, but it's usually better than waiting to start casting until I get into place. Also, this rotation doesn't wrap around as neatly as the other one, and it's a bit of a scramble to keep all the dots up early on. Usually something in the fight distracts me enough that I can't keep all the dots up (adds, bad ######, etc) and then I just have to reload them all, which lets me revert back to the first rotation. Aggro management is an odd thing to get used to as Affliction. Getting the 90% threat warning should be translated as "put your finger over your Soulshatter key and be prepared to press" because it's too late to stop the dots.

Woo hoo! Good work you two. Well actually the joint effort was the fun part. Now the work begins.

Heh Heh...pork butt.

Grandfather Winter gave me a beautiful Frozen Orb which will be so very handy once my sewing training begins again (after I finish all these chores I keep getting all over Northrend). Thank you so much Grandfather Winter!

I agree with all of the above. So congratulations (RAWR), make some tea, and get some sleep. Freak.

Great writeup and summary. Can't wait to get my expac today. It better be on my doorstep soon or I'm going to seriously shake my fist at Amazon. Quick question re: Deathknights: are they legitimate tanks or limited to certain situations or rolls?

I would be happy to help out on any run with that Xiris. She's hot. I don't need any loot, just the pleasure of everyone's company. /sidles up to xiris