World of Warcraft at Atlassian

A student up at the Queensland University of Technology is doing a thesis on "A qualitative study of Massively-Multiplayer Online Game based social relationships".

I know a lecturer up there, so I'll be participating and they are also looking for others.

More details: "The purpose of this project is to examine the social relationships that players of Massively-Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) have with each other. The research team requests your assistance because as a player of the successful MMOG “World of Warcraft” you can provide us with your experiences of these relationships."

There's a questionnaire and a 45-60 minute interview (can be done via phone – hey, should really be via vent, eh?!) and I believe there's a token of appreciate in return (something about a Frost Emblem or Gift Card, can't remember which).

If you're interested, see the details in the attachment and contact the guy (or ping me).

Just a quick post. There's been a fair bit of confusion over loot and roles for lolz, so I thought I'd help make things simpler.

I'm making lolz's main spec heals again. Since we no longer have a progression group, there's no real need for me to tank in our raids. I enjoy both healing and tanking, so I don't mind which one I do. However, having a foot in both camps is confusing for me and for the rest of the raid group.

I haven't decided whether to drop my tanking spec yet. I may keep it for fun (e.g. running lowbie dungeons) and for ease of pugging heroics, but I'm also thinking of using my offspec to try a boomkin build. But for simplicity, please sign me up for future raids as a healer.

Your friendly neighbourhood tree,
lolz

After two close fights, we downed Hodir on the third attempt with everyone in the raid earning the I have the Coolest Friends (10 player) achievement.

Freya proved to be one scary large woman; giving Jaina a run for her money.

This week's raid quest is [Noth the Plaguebringer Must Die!].

Sign up for the run! Scheduled Run (Monday) 20100315 - Naxxramas & Ulduar

Moonburn (Pete de Zwart) will be away in Japan from 29/03/2010 - 05/04/2010 and will not be able to organise the casual runs during that time.

If you would like to take on the exciting role of organiser for that period, add a comment to this blog post.

Ladies & Gentlemen,

I've opened up for voting the night on which the casual raids are organised.

Where to vote: Casual Raid Nights - 2010 - What night is suitable for you?

I'll be closing of voting after a week, so the 15/03/2010.

For the interim, the casual nights will remain on Monday.

The announcement that in the next patch you will be able to trade Frozen Orbs for useful things like Frost Lotus and higher-level orbs has increased the number of orb ninjas by an order of magnitude.

I've started hitting this macro just before the last boss in heroic pugs.

It was a smooth run, where we steamrolled our way through Ignis the Furnace Master, XT-002 Deconstructor, Kologarn & Auriaya to face Hodir; who was a bad toy.

This week's raid quest is [Anub'Rekhan Must Die!], which we should be able to faceroll; even with our alts.

A vote has been added to the proposed run page for 20100308, please add your vote and comments.

Sign up for the run! Scheduled Run (Monday) 20100308 - Naxxramas & Ulduar