Guildwatch the Sexist Edition

This week's Guildwatch is full of charity fundraisers and a guild member with a broken femur and hip in an accident in his basement calling for help via Vent since he couldn't make it to the telephone.  Very dull, though praiseworthy.

However, one guild applicant who did well in the audition raid and in his application to Pitch Black was turned down, then turned on the guild and called them names, including "little girls."  Sexist statement of the week.  I'll have to introduce him to the little girls I know so they can peck his eyes out.
http://www.wow.com/2009/12/02/guildwatch-you-guys-raid-like-little-girls/

As always there is plenty of recruiting and downing of instances but not on the Solo MMO Player's realm.

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Beginners' Video Tips on Increasing DPS

Kae at Dreambound has found an interesting video by Kripparrian about DPS with tips on cool downs, casting, latency, keybinding and more. Although Kripparrian is a hunter, these tips are good for any class. Many thanks to Kae for posting this link and summarizing what's in the video so well!
http://dreambound-druid.blogspot.com/2009/12/link-how-to-do-top-dps.html

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Save the Murlocs

The image is from the Hot Topic site.  Don't miss the video in the link below.
http://kotaku.com/5415896/dehta-urges-you-to-save-the-murlocs

While you are busy shopping WOW merchandise, don't miss the Pandaren statue at Blizzard's online store.  The tabs at the top of the page will take you to t-shirts and baseball hats, books, etc.
http://us.blizzard.com/store/details.xml?id=1100000802

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Leveling a Warlock

WOW Insider continues their lower level guides to various characters.
http://www.wow.com/2009/11/30/blood-pact-leveling-a-warlock-10-to-40/

More warlock leveling info
http://psynister.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/warlock-leveling-part-i-1-29/

http://psynister.wordpress.com/2010/03/10/warlock-leveling-30-49/

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The Unplanned Raid UPDATED

More proof that The Solo MMO Player is right that unplanned and unscripted raids can be a lot of fun.  Following the recipe exactly is important when you are making cookies; it's not the same when you are making a raid.
http://blessingofkings.blogspot.com/2009/11/going-in-blind.html

UPDATE:  WOW Insider posts about Blessings of King's unplanned raid and asks for Comments about the practice.
http://www.wow.com/2009/12/02/breakfast-topic-running-progression-raids-blind/

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Feral Druid (Bears) Armor List for Patch 3.2

Big Bear Butt has posted a list of what he calls Patch 3.2 Bear Gear Starter List (Armor) for New Level 80s on his blog.  The list doesn't contain gear from raids as BBB says he's not asked about that gear.
http://thebigbearbutt.com/2009/11/26/patch-3-2-bear-gear-starter-list-armor/

More from BBB
http://thebigbearbutt.com/2009/12/13/patch-3-3-starter-bear-gear-lists-armor/

More on bear strike and crit defense here.
http://thebigbearbutt.com/2009/09/23/questions-about-defense-and-survival-of-the-fittest/

Bear threat generation
http://thebigbearbutt.com/2009/09/23/questions-on-threat-generation/

Earlier bear threat generation
http://thebigbearbutt.com/2009/05/19/threat-generation-a-brief-discussion/

Tanking the lower levels as a bear (Part One:  Armor)
http://thebigbearbutt.com/2009/08/24/how-to-bear-tank-the-lower-levels-part-1-gear/

Tanking the lower levels as a bear (Part Two:  Miscellaneous Gear)
http://thebigbearbutt.com/2009/12/20/patch-3-3-starter-bear-gear-lists-miscellaneous/

More on bear gear
http://thebigbearbutt.com/2009/08/06/thoughts-while-studying-bear-gear/

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The Greedy Goblin Goes Solo

The Greedy Goblin, bored with his adventures in making gold, is turning to another interest of his--running low level instances with low level characters either solo or just with his girlfriend.  Gevlon was part of the team that ran Ulduar in blue gear recently.  Here's his first report on his solo and duo runs.
http://greedygoblin.blogspot.com/2009/11/arugal-must-die-before-20.html

Part two--why warlocks are more solo fun than priests.
http://greedygoblin.blogspot.com/2009/11/ability-to-act.html

http://greedygoblin.blogspot.com/2009/12/wailing-and-deadmines-on-19.html

Tobold just posted a long message on his blog about challenges in game and why MMORPGs frown on tackling instances without first researching what is likely to happen.
http://tobolds.blogspot.com/2009/11/destroying-challenge.html

I suspect long-time players will need to try playing the game differently to keep up their interest.  Why not try an instance without knowing what will happen? Why not try a solo run?  Why not try coming up with a different strategy than the usual recommended one for your next raid?  Just see what happens....

By the way, the Solo MMO Player would like to run an instance solo without any weapons.  Armor, yes; but not even a knife.

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Resto Druid Tips and Videos from The Blog-o-Sphere

This nice resto druid blog has plenty of videos on the right side of the page.
http://restodruiddell.blogspot.com/

This druid blog has both PvE and PvP tips for resto druids.  Check out the guides and basics in the right side column.
http://www.theoverpowereddruid.blogspot.com/

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A Raid without a Leader...

....is like sugarfree candy.  Pretty durn yucky, in other words.
http://www.worldofmatticus.com/2009/11/20/a-pugs-doom-knell-link-achiev-or-no-inv/

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Keybinding Across Alts

If you play several alts, you've run into the same problem Bear Flank has.  You'll find yourself trying to use the wrong spell or whatever because you temporarily forgot which character you are playing.  Here's how Sarah worked out a common action bar layout for all her characters.
http://thebearflank.blogspot.com/2009/11/action-bar-unification.htmlhttp://thebearflank.blogspot.com/2009/11/action-bar-unification.html

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