Tuesday Morning Comics

The Circles of Hell for an MMO player, courtesy of Ctrl+Alt+Del.  Here's the link to Tim Buckley's drawing if you can't enlarge the above enough to see and laugh.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_f5d_BcsegDQ/SsCwx70AcNI/AAAAAAAABh8/3FNHruCXkyQ/s1600-h/20090928.jpg

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BBB Talks Standard Roles and Breaking Expectations in Raiding

The Big Bear Butt Blogger talks about standard roles in raiding and how not to let expectations stop you thinking about raid strategies.
http://thebigbearbutt.com/2009/09/28/theres-no-get-out-of-the-fire-in-team/


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World Of Logs (Combat Analysis Addon)

World of Logs is a combat log analysis system, similar to Recount, but more elaborate.  Thanks to WOW Insider mentioning a discussion of this addon, I've found postings that talk about World of Logs in depth for those who might want to try it.  Here is the World of Logs (WOL) website.
http://www.worldoflogs.com/

WOW Kindness (a European guild) posts screenshots of WOL and explains how it works below.  This is dated Sept. 2009 so it's recent information.
http://www.wowkindness.com/confluence/display/BLOG/2009/09/08/World+of+Logs+Beta+Test

Lowered Expectations explains how to interpret the material that WOL generates.
http://bloodelfpriestess.wordpress.com/2009/08/20/how-to-interpret-world-of-logs/

Runeforge Gossip takes this all a step further and explains how to use the WOL data to your advantage.
http://runeforgegossip.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/world-of-logs-your-new-best-friend-even-if-the-old-one-was-cool/

If WOL doesn't seem exactly what you are looking for, this WOWWiki article talks about the various systems that do combat analysis.  You can follow the links to explore other addons for combat raiding stats.
http://www.wowwiki.com/Combat_Log

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Hunter Pet Control Guide

Phyllixia at Hunters Rhok has posted a five part series about hunter pet control.

Part one talks about controlling your pet's attacks.
http://huntersrhok.blogspot.com/2009/07/pet-control-part-one-attack-follow-and.html

Part two talks about the pet "stances" of aggressive, defensive or passive spells.

http://huntersrhok.blogspot.com/2009/08/pet-control-part-two-aggressive.html

Part three covers the general abilities of pets (ferocity, cunning and tenacity, etc.).

http://huntersrhok.blogspot.com/2009/08/pet-control-part-three-general-pet.html

Part four covers species-specific abilities.

http://huntersrhok.blogspot.com/2009/08/pet-control-part-four-species-specific.html

Part five talks about organizing your pet bar.

http://huntersrhok.blogspot.com/2009/09/pet-control-part-five-organizing-your.html

Many thanks to WOW Insider for pointing me toward this series.

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