Evening Reading

I feel bad for the GDC folks who wanted the show to be about developers meeting each other. That is surely becoming less and less the case with the loss of E3. Amazing how much stuff is being unveiled and footage and screenshots are hitting.

- RFID passports are great
- TechFest
- Rosie still stupid, eats babies
- Dont spam this dude
- Latest concept cars
- Robots will kill you

Lastly, please do be polite to our new guy Mr. Faylor. He's sensitive.

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    March 7, 2007 6:00 PM

    so... level 61 rogue, mostly equip from maraudon... buy shit from the AH to get started or cry, weep and die my way to the quest rewards?

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      March 7, 2007 6:04 PM

      Get out to the expansion area (outlands), you will upgrade very quickly.

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        March 7, 2007 6:10 PM

        that's what I thought, but the upgrades are few and far between, at least compared to my warlock, and don't seem to help much at all. you know that quest right next to falcon watch, where you have to kill all those fel boars for their blood? I died six times there already and have only gathered 4 samples so far...

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          March 7, 2007 6:25 PM

          dude they are so many good greens of every type for 61-70 its just silly stupid. And I'm sure there's rogue gear specifically because otherwise my big bullbearcatpigdog would have nothing to wear.

          So like, how are you playing your rogue? Because really those are just lowbie mobs and you should be pwning them.

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            March 7, 2007 6:28 PM

            well, mostly I stealth, cheap shot them, build up combos with SS and then eviscerate. depending on the situation I might throw in evasion, my +dodge trinket, blade flurry, adrenaline rush or kidney shot. and somewhere in between those things I get anally raped while the mobs would later describe me as "mostly harmless".

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              March 7, 2007 6:30 PM

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              March 7, 2007 6:30 PM

              multiple mobs or does the one dude just chew you down?

              Wait, you said mara gear? So like what level is that?

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                March 7, 2007 6:30 PM

                45-50, IIRC.

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                March 7, 2007 6:32 PM

                one will hurt me real good. two is a reason to hit vanish unless I have all my cooldowns up.

                in my post below you can check out my gear, it's been updated like ten minutes ago.

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              March 7, 2007 6:43 PM

              You could always pvp for gear. Honestly your gear isn't that bad, no T1 or higher but it could be worse.

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                March 7, 2007 6:45 PM

                no pvp for me. but yeah, I just noticed, upon closer inspection, that I've already switched more of my gear than I had thought... damnit, I guess I just plain suck..

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                  March 7, 2007 6:52 PM

                  Don't like the pvp?

                  Also, what do you think of this spec: http://www.wow-europe.com/en/info/basics/talents/rogue/talents.html?3050200000000000000000000000000000000000000005502031302301203501051

                  With the caveat that I've only played my rogue to 30 but feral druid to 70, I think your current spec is very pvp-oriented and this gives you alot better utilities to mess w/ mobs. Plus Imp. Sap will give you much instancing love.

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                    March 7, 2007 6:59 PM

                    Î was under the impression that subtlety specs were very pvp oriented. are they not? and I'd definitely need daggers for that one to work... so much backstabbing and ambushing... which would be okay if, you know, I had any :-\

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                      March 7, 2007 7:02 PM

                      Like I said, I could be totally off due to not having done an endgame rogue.

                      otoh, your AH should be chock full of decent greens. I stopped even trying to auction mine as they'd take so long to sell that their value would be consumed in the AH fees.

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                        March 7, 2007 7:05 PM

                        I was looking at the AH just prior to posting, mainly because I really wanted a fast offhand dagger, but there were only about a dozen for casters, not a single one for melees :(
                        madmortem is a smallish server, with a 3:1 dominance of the alliance... our AH isn't exactly well stocked.

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      March 7, 2007 6:05 PM

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      March 7, 2007 6:05 PM

      uninstall

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      March 7, 2007 6:17 PM

      while we're at it, I could really use a good levelling spec for a 100% PvE rogue.

      this is me now http://armory.wow-europe.com/#character-sheet.xml?r=Madmortem&n=Milde

      with these talents http://www.wow-europe.com/en/info/basics/talents/rogue/talents.html?3050201000000000000003252550100050100003210510000000000000000000000

      I like that I am not bound to a single kind of weapon, but other than that I just don't know how good a spec this is... I've played my rogue to 61 and I am still very fucking clueless about the class.

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        March 7, 2007 6:55 PM

        Do you play on malganis?

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        March 7, 2007 7:09 PM

        upgrade your ranged, if you can find an "of the bandit" it'd be a pretty massive upgrade.

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