Written by Anna | Posted January 30, 2012 – 7:28 am Heads I Win…

On Wednesday, Annata prepared.

Clothing was casually purchased in Goldshire, a few herbs in Westfall. She used the extra time to make sure various poisons were ready as well, not that she thought she’d need them, but you could never…

Why I don’t have a post today (More Fic!)
comment 1 Written by Anna on December 9, 2009 – 5:35 pm

I was too busy writing this.

(With Arrens and Linedan obviously)

It’s long, and rather epic, and I’m quite proud of it.  It’s also 12 kinds of too long for a blog post, so I hope you don’t mind me sending you over there to read it. Have fun, and back to normal posting tomorrow!

Tuesdays are for RP
comment 1 Written by Anna on December 8, 2009 – 10:15 am

Best thing to do on patch day, hands down?

RP

  • You don’t need a UI or addons that work – just have to be able to see your chat window.
  • You don’t need the server to be stable.
  • Lag is mildly annoying but not gamebreaking.
  • You don’t need to be in a major city, on a certain continent, or anywhere near all the OMG NEW STUFF mob.
  • You don’t even need your home server – coordinate on your guild forum, roll up some alts on a server that’s live, and head into town. Level 1’s can get most anywhere these days without too much fuss.

Which isn’t to say that running a new dungeon isn’t awesome, and that I won’t try to sneak a spot into the new 5-man (possibly OOC, possibly IC, we’ll see) – but sometimes (ok… anytime) when there’s a major patch, the servers aren’t stable, and oh GODS my UI looks like crap, and EVERYONE wants to be where the action is so there’s Ahn-Qiraj levels of lag, and hey look Northrend is offline, and server reset in 15 minutes, and World Server is Down, and… well, you know how it goes.

So if you find yourself frustrated tonight, think about popping down to pub, the park, Bruuk’s tavern, Silvermoon City, Thunder Bluff, Stormwind, wherever the RP happens. You might be pleasantly surprised!

Windows 7 and WoWScribe
comment 1 Written by Anna on December 7, 2009 – 12:13 pm

Due to some impending doom on the part of my geriatric hard-drive, I’ve upgraded! My computer has a new brain and a whole new outlook on life, and I’m no longer randomly getting blue screens of death because my hard-drive’s memory is slowly going bad.

That said, if you are running Windows7, there’s an important tidbit you should know if you want to be using a chat log program like WoWScribe.

You /must/ be running World of Warcraft in administrator mode in order for it to be allowed to copy your chat text into a separate file. (From normal “user” mode, WoW isn’t allowed to access any other files, and as such, won’t save your chats even if WoWScribe says it’s running.)

This is relatively easy to fix – you can either right-click and “Run as Administrator” every time you run WoW, or you can change the permissions associated with World of Warcraft so that it /always/ loads as administrator.  To do this, follow the steps below:

  • Right click on your WoW Icon
  • Select “Troubleshoot Compatibility”
  • Select “Troubleshoot Program”
  • Check the box labeled “This Program Requires Additional Permissions”, click Next
  • Click the button labeled “Start this program” – it will open a dialogue box that wants to make sure you are OK with running it as Administrator. Click yes, and it will open the Blizzard launcher. Close the Blizzard launcher and click “Next” on the permissions dialogue box.
  • Click “Yes, save these settings for this program”

And Poof!  You’ll no longer have to worry about remembering.

As an aside, I had to do the same with Ventrilo, otherwise my Ventrilo hotkeys would not work while I was tabbed into WoW.

How To Ensure Aely Yells At You
comment 1 Written by Anna on December 5, 2009 – 10:53 am

Pull a stunt like this.

<evil grin> Today is gonna be /fun/.

The Second Time Around

January 31, 2012 – 7:37 am

I am, officially, strange. Not that this is news to any of you, but I was reminded of it again this week while playing Ana’leth and Annata.

I like content better the second time I complete it. When I’m new…

Heads I Win…

January 30, 2012 – 7:28 am

On Wednesday, Annata prepared.

Clothing was casually purchased in Goldshire, a few herbs in Westfall. She used the extra time to make sure various poisons were ready as well, not that she thought she’d need them, but you could never…

The People of RaidFinder

January 27, 2012 – 9:09 am

Having done a few RaidFinder groups, I’m starting to notice patterns. Sadly, they’re not really GOOD patterns. For whatever reason, the players who show up, do their jobs, get loot and go on their merry way don’t seem to stick…

There’s No Place Like Home

January 27, 2012 – 7:25 am

I was reading a post the other day from Ask a Jedi, about how his characters in other games had places that felt like “home”, where in Star Wars they kind of didn’t.

It’s a good post, and an…

Brain Heals

January 24, 2012 – 8:11 am

I redid my gems. I re-reforged. I redid my keybinds. I set up clique and totem timers.

And then we went to Firelands.

My first foray as a healer wasn’t horrible though, once I remembered I had Healing Rain (which…

When the writing gets tough…

January 23, 2012 – 7:59 am

I don’t have a witty ending to that statement. But it would probably be something like “… the writer gets a beer.”

Anyway, what happens when you want to be writing, but the ideas won’t come? When you have a…

Form of Healer – ACTIVATE!

January 20, 2012 – 11:04 am

So my as yet nameless raid* is going through another reset cycle. We’ve lost a few people, are raiding on a new night, etc.

One of the people we lost was our paladin healer.

As such, since I like my…

SWTOR Resources (General and RP)

January 20, 2012 – 7:26 am

For my own use as much as anyone else’s:

Wookieepedia – Star Wars Lore Database. Enormous, but good for getting answers to lore questions. Also good for sucking up your afternoon without you noticing.

SWTOR Wikia - Star Wars: The…

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