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I was Internet-less for the whole weekend. It broke down just as I had discovered Amsterdam University College had opened applications and registered on their website.

Fast forward to today, I go and start that application in college, and discover that I need to do a few write ups.

1) A personal statement. Okay, you need that for most universities, but this one has to be twice as long as the UCAS one.
2) An "application essay". Basically three very heavy questions, pick one, write 750ish words on that. I picked one (has got to do with environmental science) and immediately went to the college's environment office. Turns out the guy working there likes Japan. I was talking to him when he told someone (the local sensei) on the door "ちょっと まってください" which was especially bad because I actually understood it.
3) If I choose to apply for a scholarship, which is the only way I can afford this path, I have to write some sort of letter, as well, and I have no clue how to go about that. Plus that scholarship is on the condition of maintaining a GPA of 3.0 at the very least over every year.

Well it does look a little more like a tree...

I was hoping for tusks though.

Of course there's always this:



Edited, Oct 13th 2010 9:38am by someproteinguy

"Goliath online."

So far I'm actually preferring healing over anything else with my Druid.

Tanking was, to be frank, a bit of a blow to the gonads. Without Swipe spam, heroics and raids are pretty much impossible. I know we're supposed to do CC and all that jazz, but how the hell do you CC 5+ mobs? The WotLK dungeons were designed around mass pulls and AOE.

The changes to the tanking rotation didn't seem to do what I had hoped. Ignoring Pulverize and the flustercuck it can do to your TPS if you don't get it right, it's basically just Mangle and Maul spam again, except now we have to click Maul instead of putting it in a macro. No rage issues in the 5-man heroic I ran, so it's not like I have to pick and choose. I spammed Lacerate, Swipe, Mangle and Maul for 20 minutes and won the game.

Haven't tested Kitty yet, but I went with the Lolferal build, so I'll give it a go. Word on the street says Kitty DPS is below intended levels and is getting fixed. I still don't get what they want us to do with Ravage. I think I'll call it a PvP thing and just ignore it from now on.

I'm sort of loving healing, though. Despite not really knowing what the hell they want us to do with Nourish, Healing Touch and Regrowth, since the spike damage in WotLK heroics is still too frequent and violent to just sit there and cancelcast for hours. I get that Nourish is the slow and puny heal, with Regrowth being the fast and puny heal, and Healing Touch being the slow and massive heal. I did manage to get some Nourish crits of up to 10k, so it's not as useless as I first thought (and it definitely has a niche in tank healing). I guess I just can't see a reason for all those direct heals when our focus is on healing over time. Lifebloom and Rejuvenation on the tank, with a Wild Growth and Swiftmend (for Efflorescence) tossed in there whenever you feel bored, and I haven't had to use direct heals much.

My Shaman was utilizing all three heals (apparently all healing classes now have three direct heals to choose from, like the above), but the Shaman class is also more of a direct healing class.

Tranquility is just beast, though. It healed me for 40k without buffs and anything. And it heals up to five people now (in the entire raid), so that's 200k healing in 8 seconds (before haste). That's a HPS of 25,000.

She says I'm okay; I'm alright,
Though you have gone from my life
You said that it would,
Now everything should be all right

Liar.

I wasn't expecting him to go all EJ, but they've been getting a lot crap lately. It's enough to make the o-boards popcorn worthy for a while me-thinks. Seriously the guy deserved the ban though...

Me too, but I'm hungry as well, so that's taking up all my attention at the moment.

Leftover kalua pork and cabbage is good stuff.

Oh yeah, tanking is pretty much the same, except you can't deal with any AOE situations, which is like every dungeon from level 10 and up. Body-pulling and being grouped with DPS and healers who hadn't read all of the patch notes allowed me to vent a bit, though. Good stuff, saves me money that would've gone to a therapist anyway.

AoE tanking is fairly miserable for me right now. The main reason being that nameplates aren't working properly which combined with tab targeting targeting mobs that are yellow or 30 feet away makes the whole thing rather cumbersome.

Oops, my bad. Should have said I was DPSing in resto spec.

It happens on AoE trash. I more or less go RJ -> LB -> Hurricane -> repeat and let the other healer heal for a bit...

Still that doesn't sound like fun. I've yet to try my feral out.

But... but...

There are more buttons to press!

Haven't been playing too much the last few days as have a friend visiting from Korea. But one of the main problems was the nameplate issue. Some one on wow general posted the fix, I am excited to try again as that was one of the main problems I was having.

/console bloattest 1

Should bring back the action bars.

Going to try and test that out but still may try out Tidy Plates as they look sexy.

@ work, drinking coffee, trying to wake up. It's hard.