a few new addons

this week I am planning to test out a few new addons for Makarios. Here is the list and a brief description: 

ShadowTimers:

A simple dot timer for ShadowPriests that will keep track of SW: Pain, Devouring Plague,VT, Innerfire, Insight, SpiritTap. tested and its garbage...to me anyways.

MFClip:

MFClip warns about unintentional Mind Flay clips (clipping shortly before next Mind Flay tick). MFClip warns by playing a configurable Sound and/or displaying Mind Flay damage data via common combat text addons. tested more garbage...i have my own dot visual aid, etc. This looks really cool though so if its something you need and can work with then by all means ;)

HealAssign:

HealAssign is a mod for assigning healing during raids. All healers running the mod will automatically have a window showing unit bars for their assignments. Anyone in the raid who is running HealAssign is free to assign or unassign himself/herself. To assign or unassign others, Assistant or Leader is required. There is no graphical UI for assigning yet - it is command line only. Meh...you have to get others on board for this madness so I didnt test it or anything. 

gear updates, etc. 2

some new gear updates:

[Signet of Putrefaction]
[Sliver of Pure Ice] 
[Abracadaver] (for dps set)

also got a talent tree preview from WoW.com for the priest tree here:

New Cataclysm priest talent calculator

ps. looks like discipline priest's will be able to spec into Spirit of Redemption in Cataclysm.

my newest UI

my old UI: (as of 04/18/10)

my newest UI: (as of 05/11/10)

enjoy!

new toon

Well the inevitable has happend. I have less time to play with the birth of my daughter (13 weeks old at the time of this entry). With that I can't play as much or focus in game as much. So, the only logical thing to do is make a new alt LOL. To enjoy the game at a more laid back slower pace. I created Ragena a female dwarf warrior. I hope to level her under the protection tree and yes...she has heirloom gear on, I just couldn't resist...I almost went bare bones with her but decided I wouldn't just because I already had the gear laying around. Another experiment is on another server, but its just that, and experiment ;)

I do plan to still raid with Mak in limited format, maybe once a week, idk we will see where the Lord leads me and us.

this is BHS

This morning, pre-tuesday restart, I logged into the game briefly to 'check on some things'. I was on maybe 30 minutes before the SERVER timers began. I was doing the usual, checking the GB, moving items around, etc. I see Heydoc post in GC...and this is the conversation after he initially praised BHS for the warm reception his girlfriend received last night.

Heydoc: "I said thats how we roll" (referring to his speaking to his girlfriend after she was elated by the warm welcome to the guild)

Heydoc: "I was floored by the prayer in vent before the raid and how everyone took a knee. That was amazing."

Makarios: "and that is something we will always strive to have before (and I would often say we should have a closing prayer as well)

Heydoc: "and a buddy called who is lost and searching for his faith and the raid paused where any other raid would have replaced me and on top of that i get a tanking shield when i was healing i couldnt believe it."

Makarios: "Doc, the testimony you are giving right now is what our vision is about. making it fun and shocking people against the norm of wow playing. we are not of this world (so to speak) and you noticing that means we are on the right path."

Heydoc: "thats what i told my buddy last night...i feel uplifted when i am in vent a vent full of joy i feel i have become a better person in the last few days ive been in here."

Makarios: "awesome, God Bless all and hope to see you on the other side ;)"

simply, WOW! This was very uplifting for me personally as a member and officer of BHS. I feel we definitely needed this type of post in guild chat, especially in light of many of our member's accounts being compromised and flaming of our guild's vision.

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The guild website is down atm, but once it comes up i hope to post this very thread (or similar to this one) on the site.

new jinx! shirt

So I was browsing the jinx! clothing website this morning and came across a shirt design (Jesus Saves T-Shirt). I think I had seen it before. In the shirt link there was a quote by a poster that said:

"Jesus was a horrible healer, always gettin' teh aggro" followed by

"WTF PETER TANK THE PHARISEE ADDS FOR THE LOVE OF ME"

Wow, you gotta have a sense of humor that's for sure :)

I think this shirt is rather harmless. It was designed by the famous Erol Otus of the D&D art design fame.

So if for nothing else it's an original piece of art from a legend in the RP art community. Not sure if I will be getting this shirt or not but most likely will be looking into purchasing a different shirt. There is a Priest shirt that Jinx! offers. Actually there are two shirts I am considering, but I will only be choosing one. Here are the two shirts:

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There you have it...oh and I'll leave you with a shirt that made me laugh

warcraft census Thunderhorn

So I did some sleuth work of sorts today. I wanted to see how many lvl 80 priests (alliance side) there were on Thunderhorn-US. Here are my findings:

• There are 509 (reported) level 80 alli Priests
• Draenei: 122 ~ 24%
• Dwarf: 70 ~ 14%
• Human: 209 ~ 41%
• Night Elf: 108 ~ 21%

So, looking at the above numbers it is clear that Makarios is in the minority and I'm fine with that. As a side note, and I only post these numbers because I now have a level 80 horde Priest named Perdishun.

• There are 186 (reported) level 80 horde Priests
• Blood Elf: 93 ~ 50%
• Troll: 20 ~ 11%
• Undead: 73 ~ 39%

Now, currently Perdishun is undead. However, I strongly feel should he remain a horde toon permanently I will inevitably change his race to Troll. My first horde Priest ever was a Troll and I just enjoy playing them for some reason, plus Berserking  isn't too shabby a racial.