Sideshow & Syrana

me⋅nag⋅er⋅ie [muh-naj-uh-ree]
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I have added to definitions 1 and 3 today.  And my new alt allowed me to pay a bit more attention to some of the changes with patch 3.3. (continue reading…)

This week’s The Link Connection will be dedicated to warlocks everywhere.  As things have started to calm down after Patch 3.1, there’s some great information to be shared and pondered.  (And I know, I’ve slacked on giving my own patchy goodness observations.  They are still to come, oh yes, yes they are.)

Warlockery Jazz Hands

• Get your deep Affliction build low down at Killing ‘em Slowly.

• Saresa discusses her deep Destruction build at Destructive Reach.

• Take a look at Demonology, Destruction and various combination builds within at Fear.DoT.Win

• Looking for a nice, clean, and sleek new UI? Check out Nibuca’s and the info on the addon’s she uses on Mystic Chicanery.

• You’ve heard warlocks are evil.  We get that, but just how evil? Well, time to add up the points from the evil scale presented by Yet Another Warlock Nerf and take a look!

• Elleiras of Fel Fire found a new place to farm souls.

With all the Patch 3.1 news, sometimes, you need a break and read something else.  Here are some great posts to check out that you may have missed recently.  (I’m not posting actual Patch info since many others have already done so.  But, if you want to reference the Affliction Warlock notes, Fulguralis has ‘em!)

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• Klin’s School of Gank
  

• Pike’s Blogging 101 tips

• Fel Fire explains the fun of Affliction sans macros.

• Want your GM and/or officers to love you? Follow these steps!

• Kimberly takes a look at 5 quests that rawked.

• Speaking of quests, never wonder where you should be questing again! Check out Zaralin’s guide of answering the age old leveling question of “Where to now?”

• Darraxus talks about player motivation.

• Ever witness a Paladin trying to get a Warlock to attend Cathedral?  Ever witness it Out of Mana style?

Extra Special TLC:

Children’s Week is fast approaching.  Check out The Hunting Lodge’s great plans to help Child’s Play, a wonderful charity and see how you can help!  We here at S&S are donating a signed (omg!) loot card.  So, see what you can do to help or stay tuned to check out all the awesome loot that will be on the charity AH!

Everlasting Affliction

Abigore of Fear.Win has some questions burning in his shadowy soul.  Syrana promised to answer those questions, even if she is one of the last to answer them!

1.  What spec are you currently? (continue reading…)

Just wanted to drop a short note before the fourth installment of my story hits the presses.

Boo at us Warlocks only seeing a nerf to Curse of Tongues with patch 3.0.9.

Yay for Sideshow and Syrana dinging 79 tonight! (More to come on that after Tuesday’s storytime)

What a day, huh? Two patches today!  That’s right, I said two: WoW and the U.S. Government had some updates for us today.  With both patches come changes:  some we’ll like and some we won’t.  Overall, we can just hope for the best that things will get balanced out.

The Good, The Bad, and The Mustard

I’m not going to go into a real deep discussion about Patch 3.0.8.  Plenty of others have covered this indepth and I don’t want to rehash too much.  I just wanted to comment on a few things.

• Tapping: As an Affliction Warlock, all I can really say is “YAY!”  That’s right, no more stealing my mobs after I DoT them up! (This had occurred again last night.  So glad to be rid of this!)
• Ritual of Summoning: I’m glad I won’t have to use a shard per summon, but really a “meh” change in my opinion.
• Bug fix of a wild mustard plant in Dalaran: I am SOOO glad this has been fixed.  You don’t know how much that mustard in the ground by that rock was driving me insane when doing that cooking daily.
• Alchemy Northrend Discovery cooldown reduced: Good I think, if I can ever get my herbalist alt to catch up.  It sucks no longer having my old herb dealer.
• Fewer bolts of frostweave cloth required per bolt of imbued frostweave: Yay.  Now let’s get that cost per stack to drop a bit, shall we?
• Some neglected creatures in Icecrown have found the contents of their pockets: This one just made me giggle.
• 1 Click Mining: My priest will be thankful.  Her arms are weak.

So that’s really all I have to say about Patch 3.0.8.

But for you RockBand lovers out there – did you enjoy today’s download content (DLC)?  I was quite thrilled to finally see some Godsmack, and can only hope it means more to come!