Miyavi

Posted October 28th, 2008. Filed under Music Videos

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I just got the new album today, and can’t stop listening to it. Though a bit of a wierd looking guy he is an amazing guitarist and artist. I would recommend anyone including those who don’t speak japanese to check out some of his work.

Beast Master

Posted October 26th, 2008. Filed under World of Warcraft

I noticed a whole bunch of Hunters not being able to produce as much damage as they should be doing while in raids or instances. Though it really is not as much needed right now as it may be during the Wrath release, I feel like they should be practicing for the next-gen raid content. So far I’ve been able to out DPS everyone in my group (including those with the 51 point BM specs), and it’s not really due to the fact that I have a better weapon or what not, because some are better geared than me. It’s just the use of their spec and skills. I also noticed a whole bunch of hunters running out of mana midway through raid boss fights like with Nightbane in Karazhan or any of the ZA bosses. My quick fix to this has been using my haste drums or using rapid fire in combination with Aspect of the Viper. Of course you can always tweak your spec a little to also gain mana by using the Invigoration, Cobra Strikes combination.

In any case here are two different specs that I’ve been experimenting with for current pre-wrath raiding. I’m sure you’ll want to respec when Wrath is out to a more leveling spec.

Current Spec , Raiding Spec (needs more testing)

Remember to check out other hunter sources as well:

http://www.qqpewpew.com/
http://www.bigredkitty.net/
http://elitistjerks.com/f31/

Dir En Grey in Los Angeles!!

Posted October 26th, 2008. Filed under Music

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Dir En Grey is coming to LA in November for the release of their new album Uroburos. I’m really looking forward to seeing them live except that they are selling their tickets via ticketmaster. I’m not a fan of ticketmaster because they have that huge convenience fee compared with buying direct from the venue.

Interest in WoW falling

Posted October 22nd, 2008. Filed under World of Warcraft

Though the new patch is out and looking amazing, I must say that I am slowly losing interest in the game more and more. Last night we had a fairly nice Karazhan run, one shot everything in the instance. Though it was fun and simple, I just miss the challenge behind the game. Being able to run Heroic MgT in under 30 mins, and watching people in all green gear clear through heroics and raids just doesn’t work well for me. I spent so much time gearing up and now that I’m at a point where I can run some T6 content with ease I don’t really find it as big of a deal. It may just be because most gear will be nerfed once you reach Northrend, so it is in a sense a wasted effort.

In any case I found a neat web app for those who are hardcore into raid stats. It’s WoW Web Stats, a web app that uploads your battle log and parses it into some nice stats. It has been recently updated to support 3.0+ and fairly neat for those numbers guys like myself.

Legend of the Seeker

Posted October 21st, 2008. Filed under Other

Just today early morning on the radio I heard a very interesting commercial. One that mentioned a few characters that caught my attention. Based on the show trailer I saw its based on Terry Goodkind’s novel Wizard’s First Rule. My favorite book, and first book fantasy book that I read as just for fun. My only hopes is that they don’t screw the story as bad as Hollywood has done in the past. One thing that caught my attention and I must say spoiler alert, is the fact that they mention Richard (main character) seeking the “Book of Counted Shadows,” and according to the book he is a walking talking Book of Counted Shadows. In any case I’m looking forward towards seeing the first episode and be a judge from there.

Legend of the Seeker (official site)

Terry Goodkinds website (author of original title)