Folding@Home

For many years I have put in computer time with SETI@Home and now Folding@Home. I have decided to create a Folding team of WoW players. I am hoping to help bring this great project to the forefront of the WoW community. It is a fact that if you are a WoW player then you have a computer. How about helping people out in your computers down time?

I have created a Folding@Home team for Warcraft players. It is called: /2 [Trade]Folding says: "WTBCure" If you already know how Folding@Home or other Seti@Home type programs all you need to do is get the program and enter the team number, 160138.

What is Folding?

In your body, proteins are like worker ants. When something needs done the proteins will group together or "fold." Sometimes the proteins do not fold correctly and can cause many types of diseases including Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes.

What is Folding@Home?

Some of you may know what SETI@Home is. Folding@Home is the same idea. When you download a program from their website it will analyze information sent to you in "packets." When your computer is finished with a packet it will send the information back to the website and automatically get another packet. When using the Folding@Home program, the students and scientists at Stanford University will go over the packets to learn more about the process of folding. Hopefully they will learn ways to prevent misfolds or have a better understanding of the diseases misfolding can cause.

How do I help?

Go to their download page and get the program. Once it is downloaded and running you can right click the red cog on your toolbar and go to Configure. Once there you can enter a screen name you want to use and a team number. This WoW team number is 160138. Also in the configure you can set it to use so much memory. If I am playing WoW or using other high RAM programs I set it to a lower level but if I know I wont really be on my computer for a while I will set it to max. Even running max you dont notice a difference when surfing the net or playing music/videos. So long as your computer is on and the program is running it will automatically process the data and send and recieve new packets.

Lunar Festival

The Lunar Festival is a holiday on World Of Warcraft during January. It is a celebration to honor the Night Elves, Tauren, Furblogs, and Earthen who defeated the Burning Legion many years ago. This holiday also goes hand in hand with the Chinese New Year, "Festival of Lanterns".

Moonglade becomes the party site, filled with lights, fireworks, dumplings, and a Core Hound named Omen. Omen is one of the Burning Legions minions who tried to crash the party.

Elders of Eastern Kingdoms - From the South to the North.

• Starglade Stranglethorn Vale [53, 18]
• Winterhoof Stranglethorn Vale [26, 76]
• Bellowrage Blasted Lands [57, 54]
• Skychaser Westfall [56, 47]
• Stormbrow Elwynn Forest [39, 63]
• Rumblerock Burning Steppes [81, 46]
• Dawnstrider Burning Steppes [64, 24]
• Ironband Searing Gorge [21, 78]
• Goldwell Dun Morogh [46, 51]
• Silvervein Loch Modan [33, 46]
• Highpeak The Hinterlands [49, 47]
• Obsidian Silverpine Forest [44, 41] - Outside the Sepulchre
  
• Graveborn Tirisfal Glades [61, 53] - Just South of Brill
  
• Meadowrun Western Plaguelands [65, 47]- Just North of road near EPL zoneline.
  
• Moonstrike Scholomance - On Top of Castle
  
• Windrun Eastern Plaguelands [35,68] - In South Tower
  
• Snowcrown Eastern Plaguelands [81, 60] - At Lights Hope
  

Elders of Kalimdor - From North to South

• Bladeleaf Teldrassil [57, 60]
• Starweave Darkshore [36, 46]
• Nightwind Felwood [37, 52]
• Brightspear Winterspring [55, 43]
  
• Stonespire Winterspring [61, 37]
• Riversong Ashenvale [35, 48]
  
• Skygleam Azshara [72, 85]
  
• High Mountain The Barrens [45, 58]
  
• Moonwarden The Barrens [51, 28]
  
• Windtotem The Barrens [62, 37]
  
• Runetotem Durotar [54, 44]
  
• Bloodhoof Mulgore [48, 53]
• Skyseer Thousand Needles [45, 50]
  
• Morningdew Thousand Needles [79, 77]
  
• Grimtotem Feralas [76, 37]
  
• Mistwalker Feralas [62, 31]
  
• Dreamseer Tanaris [50, 28]
  
• Ragetotem Tanaris [36, 80]
• Thunderhorn Un'Goro Crater [51, 75]
• Bladesing Silithus [50, 36]
  
• Primestone Silithus [23, 12]
  

Elders in Dungeons - by level

• Wildmane in Zul'Farrak - Instance Level 43-47 - Tanaris - Around the pool with the Gong.
  
• Splitrock in Maraudon - Instance Level 43-49 - Desolace - On the ramp up from Rotgrip.
  
• Starsong in the Sunken Temple - Instance Level 49-55 - Swamp of Sorrows - Upper Center area with Dragons.
  
• Morndeep in Blackrock Depths - Instance Level 55-60 - Blackrock Mountain - In the Arena.
  
• Stonefort in Blackrock Spire - Instance Level 58-60 - Blackrock Mountain - LBRS - Head to the Right across bridge once in Lower.
  
• Farwhisper in Stratholme - Instance Level 58-60 - Eastern Plaguelands
• Jarten in Utgarde Keep - Instance Level 70-72 - Howling Fjord
• Igasho in The Nexus - Instance Level 71-73 - Borean Tundra
• Nurgen in Azjol-Nerub - Instance Level 72-74 - Dragonblight
• Kilias in Drak'Theron Instance Level 74-76 - Grizzly Hills
• Ohanzee in Gundrak - Instance Level 76-78 - Zul'Drak
• Yurauk in the Halls of Stone - Instance Level 77-79 - The Storm Peaks
• Chogan'gada in Utgarde Pinnacle - Instance Level 80 - Howling Fjord

Elders of the Horde

• Elder Darkhorn in Orgrimmar - Outside of Thralls Room in Valley of Wisdom.
  
• Elder Darkcore in Undercity - In Castle Ruins before you get to the lifts.
  
• Elder Wheathoof in Thunder Bluff - On Elder Rise

Elders of the Alliance

• Elder Bladeswift in Darnassus
• Elder Hammershout in Stormwind - In the Park Area.
  
• Elder Bronzebeard in Ironforge - By the Fountian in the NW
  

Elders of Northrend

• Borean Tundra

1. Elder Northal in Transitus Shield
2. Elder Pamuya in Warsong Hold - On North Edge
3. Elder Sardis in Valiance Keep - On North Shoreline
   
4. Elder Arp in D.E.H.T.A

• Shalozar Basin

1. Elder Wanikaya in Rainspeaker Rapids - 63,50 by Freya
   
2. Elder Sandrene in Lakeside Landing

• Dragonblight

1. Elder Morthie in Star's Rest
2. Elder Thoim in Moa'ki Harbor
3. Elder Skywarden in Agmar's Hammer

• Stormpeaks

1. Elder Graymane in K3
2. Elder Fargal in Frosthold
3. Elder Stonebeard in Bouldercrag's Refuge
4. Elder Muraco in Camp Tunka'lo

• Zul'Drak

1. Elder Tauros in Zim'Torga

• Grizzly Hills

1. Elder Whurain in Camp Oneqwah
2. Elder Lunaro in Ruins of Tethys
3. Elder Beldak in Westfall Brigade

• Wintergrasp

1. Elder Bluewolf in Wintergrasp

50 Coins of Ancestry - Loot 50 Coins of Ancestry from the Elders.

Lunar Festival Finery - Purchase any dress or suit from from Valadar Starsong in Moonglade for 5 coins of Ancestry.

The Rocket's Red Glare - Shoot off 10 Red Rocket Clusters in 35 seconds or less. These can be bought from any Lunar Festival Vendor or Engineers can make them.

Frenzied Firecracker - Shoot off 10 Festival Firecrackers in 30 seconds or less. These can be bought from any Lunar Festival Vendor.

Elune's Blessing - Defeat Omen in Moonglade.

Goodbye Keys

With 3.0.8 there has been some changes in item keys. Scepter of Celebras and Mallet of Zul'Farrak are now stat weps and no longer keys. This means so more portals into Maradon. /sad panda Then a guildie linked the Urn. I just finished that stupid quest a few weeks ago! Now instead of summoning a dragon it is vendor fodder. Seal of Ascension is no longer needed to enter UBRS either.

I wouldn't mind if they changed it so you only needed to have completed the quests and don't need the items on you but to completely oust them is kinda shafty. This and the faction changes have frazzled me. I am 30% through Revered with Zandalar Tribe from blood, sweat, and begging people to go in there pre WOTLK. Now ZG is soloable and any Joe can go in and get uber faction in a couple of runs. Timbermaw faction was a royal PITA! At least I can drink with the Thorium Brotherhood and know our friendship wont be lost to fairweather friends.

/end QQ

Steady Shot Pre 3.0.8 and Post 3.0.8

I have been playing around on the PTR this morning. I took combat logs against the Heroic target dummy in IF. I am a BM/MM Hunter.

Control

• I was using Frostbite Bullets.
  
• I took off my Mirror of Truth because of the proc.
  
• I didn't use my pet.
  
• I didn't buff up any.
• I used 200 bullets.
• I had on Aspect of the DragonHawk and Viper as needed.
• Did not apply Hunters Mark to target.
  

I used 2 macros both on live and test.

The first macro I used was

#showtooltip Steady Shot
/script UIErrorsFrame:UnregisterEvent("UI_ERROR_MESSAGE");
/cast Kill Shot
/script UIErrorsFrame:RegisterEvent("UI_ERROR_MESSAGE");
/cast !Auto Shot
/cast Steady Shot

This caused an auto to go off before the casting of Steady and Kill Shot when able.

The second macro I used was from Kodo_Rida. They noticed the Steady/Serpent macro we had posted no longer refreshes Serpent Sting after it is used once. TY Kodo.

/castsequence reset=3/combat Serpent Sting, Arcane Shot, Steady Shot, Steady Shot, Steady Shot, Arcane Shot, Steady Shot, Steady Shot
/script UIErrorsFrame:UnregisterEvent("UI_ERROR_MESSAGE");

/cast Kill Shot

This puts a Serpent Sting on the target first. Then it uses Steady Shot, Arcane Shot then Steady Shot in rotation. It will use Kill Shot when able.

So how bad is the Steady Shot nerf? Click on the DPS for each to see the WWS image of those sets.

Live

• Steady/Auto 844 DPS
  
• Steady/Serpent Sting 877 DPS
  

PTR

• Steady/Auto 752 DPS
  
• Steady/Serpent Sting 866 DPS

Basically we have lost 10 DPS between live and the PTR. Note that this is a 3 minute test with 200 ammo and long boss fights will vary. With the lower 15 second cooldown on Kill Shot that will add a chunk of DPS to boss fights. Also note this test was done without buffs or a pet.

ADDON: Viper Watch

Addon Name: ViperWatch
Download: Curse
Memory Useage: >10kb

This is a great little addon for those of us who forget to switch from Viper once we are full mana. ViperWatch will make an egg timer type ding and flash text across the screen to tell you you are full mana and still have Viper up. It will continue to do this about every 10 seconds until you switch out of Viper. Grumble and I have seen our DPS jump up because we can still pay attention to Viper when we have 5 other things going on at the same time.

Autumnn has a Spirit Beast!

After spending days in the Basin I finally found him!

Warbears, We Haz Dem

We were finally able to take down Thrall tonight. We thank the Dwarf Pally who got the raid together and let us and 4 other members of our guild join. /squee!