Weekly Digest: Kael Still a Douche and Sad Hunters

matticus — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 07:26:09 GMT

1 What's Happening in WoW
2 What's Happening with the Blog
3 Latest Blog Posts
4 Trends in the WoWosphere
5 Past Hits
6 Blog Spotlight

What's Happening in WoW

By the time this post goes out, I will have finished getting the necessary Sporregar rep to transmute Primal Earth to Water on my Paladin. No more spending gold to buy Primals to transmute Skyfire or Earthstorm diamonds!

Kael is still giving us a hard time. I've localized the problem down to the transition from Phase 3 to Phase 4 which has been the largest headache. All of us know our jobs and what to do. But there's a lot of stupid mistakes going around that by themselves are minor. When combined together though, the raid caves.

Thankfully, our GM has publicly called out some of these players to step up their game. Hopefully it will have a desired effect on Sunday.

What's Happening with the Blog

I'm still hard at work changing up my blogroll. I mentioned it before, but the blogroll will have it's own page. My intention is to set it in such a way where when it is loaded, there is a different blog spotlighted every time.

Technical problems, but nothing my gnomish engineers can't fix!

The hard part about blogging is finding interesting topics. It becomes much more difficult when the blogger intends to do a podcast. I am virtually committed to doing a podcast and I have some great ideas to explore. I might even go a step further and turn it into a video cast. We'll see. I've always had a passion for public speaking and giving presentations. I don't want to reveal too much for now. I don't like to make empty promises. It's a fairly monumental project in it's own right and I don't even have the technical knowhow on how to pull it off.

Haven't quite picked a name for it, so I'm going to tentatively refer to it as the Mattcast since saying World of Matticus Offical Podcast repeatedly would get old after a while.

Lots of learning and lots of reading to do in addition to my school work, that's for sure.

Latest Blog Posts

Here are 4 Reasons Why I Rushed to 70. No doubt I'm a minority in this area.
I wrote about Caster Weapon Swapper that helped Spellsurge users
I had the opportunity to participate in the Chamber of Guilds discussion on Cliques
After watching Guilds struggle through SSC and TK, I suggested an order for raid bosses to be tackled based on difficulty and convenience
My class main polls have finished and Priests lead the way! Druids, it was truly a good game
Then I ended the week with a look at 10 Personalities Every Guild Leader Need

Trends in the WoWosphere

There's been a large outcry over Blizzard's reversal in their stance of the ghost wolf pet (formerly a bug). Others don't see the big deal.

I don't have a hunter myself, so I cannot even begin to imagine what it must have been like to lose the ability to tame it. Blizzard's decision ultimately cost them the subscription of a player-blogger.

Personally, I think it was a combination of things that made him quit.

Past Hits

Past articles that I've written that still hold true to this day.

Blog Spotlight

Light's Grace - It's a brand spankin' new WoW Blog! He's a Blood Elf Paladin (oh great, not another one). Kulrayk, the blogger, followed me on Twitter for some time and we've chatted for a little bit. Now he's decided to create his own blog! Go show him some support! It's tough to get a blog going from the start because you often question yourself and wonder if you have the motivation and dedication. All it takes is some readers.

The Daily Quest : hunter