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Twitter roundup: Bowlful Saturday Laff Riot
The story of one day in the college football postseason, as told through social media.
— The Solid Verbal (@SolidVerbal) December 29, 2012
It's the last Saturday of the season. Except for next week's Compass Bowl. So, last Saturday.
— Jason Kirk (@JasonKirkSBN) December 29, 2012
drunj RT @osmattmurschel: Wonder if the @russellathbowl has survived last nights hangover from the game?
— RussellAthleticBowl (@RussellAthBowl) December 29, 2012
Big flakes flying in Yankee Stadium for expected offensive show!! twitter.com/cbfowler/statu…
— Chris Fowler (@cbfowler) December 29, 2012
Kind of embarrassed Air Force, supported by my tax dollars, runs the wing t.
— Rick Muscles (@RickMuscles) December 29, 2012
SNOW GAME ALERT: It's snowing in NY and the Pinstripe Bowl kicks off in 3 hrs. We may have a snowy Holgo Skullet on our hands.
— The Solid Verbal (@SolidVerbal) December 29, 2012
Can Holgo Solo coach on Hoth? RT @movethesticks: I've never seen a Bowl Game setting quite like this… twitter.com/MoveTheSticks/…"
— Rick Muscles (@RickMuscles) December 29, 2012
Holgo cuts Mike Francesa open with light saber, stuffs a wounded Geno Smith inside. #hothstripebowl
— edsbs (@edsbs) December 29, 2012
@ralphdrussoap Doesn't Cuse play in a dome at home?
— Todd Cunningham (@tacunningham1) December 29, 2012
Abt the snowy conditions of the Pinstripe Bowl: probably not the best time to be relying on a back-up center as WVU is.
— Bruce Feldman (@BFeldmanCBS) December 29, 2012
Please refer to Dana Holgorsen's frozen mullet as an 'ice luge'
— Bunkie Perkins (@FOTProgram) December 29, 2012
Every kid from Miami dreams of growing up and playing in Yankee Stadium. In a football game. In a blizzard.
— @BarkingCarnival (@BarkingCarnival) December 29, 2012
"…and through the changes of life, a frozen miracle of condensation has befallen not just the field, but our hearts." -Rinaldi, momentarily
— The Solid Verbal (@SolidVerbal) December 29, 2012
The Pinstripe Bowl is when we all wish we knew how to make baseball puns.
— Jason Kirk (@JasonKirkSBN) December 29, 2012
Nope, readily identifiable. RT @paulmyerberg: Would you be surprised if I told you it's a Pac-12 officiating crew at the Pinstripe Bowl?
— Bryan Fischer (@BryanDFischer) December 29, 2012
Tavon Austin has five touches in the game's first 14 minutes. In this weather, that might already be about 30 too few.
— David Ubben (@davidubben) December 29, 2012
Doug Marrone IS Liam Neeson IN The Grey Part Two WHERE the wolves are WEST VIRGINIA and they are played by YORKSHIRE TERRIERS.
— edsbs (@edsbs) December 29, 2012
Is it an extra penalty in the Pinstripe Bowl to throw one's baseball cap?
— Holly Anderson (@SIHolly) December 29, 2012
No biggie for Holgorsen. He made $10k smuggling tax free cigarettes into the Bronx from an Indian Reservation.
— Rick Muscles (@RickMuscles) December 29, 2012
Everyone jumping up and down. At Pinstripe, that could be a TD or just to stay warm.
— Keri Potts (@MsPotts_ESPN) December 29, 2012
YES! Another edition of "Jesse Palmer's Ladytraps."
— edsbs (@edsbs) December 29, 2012
It's going to be the Kraft Fight Boredom Bowl soon if Navy doesn't figure out how to make a stop on defense.
— Tom Fornelli (@TomFornelli) December 29, 2012
Great to see Marion Grice, after what he and his family have been through, scoring a touchdown in the bowl game.
— Bryan Fischer (@BryanDFischer) December 29, 2012
Folks completely ignore the stats.They are completely wrong.Unfortunately the score is right, but nothing else is
— Navy Athletics (@NavyAthletics) December 29, 2012
He's so good at his job. Welcome back to an elite broadcaster. RT @globesullivan: Great to hear Sean McDonough calling a game
— Pete Thamel(@SIPeteThamel) December 30, 2012
You're telling me Texas doesn't have any defensive backs who can fill in at emergency quarterback?
— Jason Kirk (@JasonKirkSBN) December 29, 2012
Remember in the Battle of the Alamo when Davy Crockett accidentally threw his rifle over the side of the building
— Grimey (@loljocks_grimey) December 30, 2012
Sorry, I should have clarified. Jesse Palmer will need to apologize after the Oregon State player flashed the upside down 'Hook Em.'
— George Schroeder (@GeorgeSchroeder) December 30, 2012
"We have to protect the bowl experience for the players–especially the part where they interact with large sea mammals."
— edsbs (@edsbs) December 30, 2012
Are these the two most quarterback rotatey teams in the country? At least the two most quarterback rotatey orange teams.
— Jason Kirk (@JasonKirkSBN) December 30, 2012
Texas averaging less than five feet per play.
— TomahawkNation.com (@TomahawkNation) December 30, 2012
THE BEST IS OUR OFFENSIVE COACHES VISITED TEXAS' IN THE OFFSEASON. RT @tomahawknation: Texas' pace makes Virginia Tech look like Oregon.
— THE KEY PLAY (@thekeyplay) December 30, 2012
Don't critique the time management there. Mike Riley always saves one timeout in memory of ODB.
— edsbs (@edsbs) December 30, 2012
"Crap that punter can THROW. I better step it up." — David Ash's thought process, probably.
— Brian Floyd (@BrianMFloyd) December 30, 2012
Alex Okafor will now return to his home planet, Sackulon-9.
— Matt Hinton (@MattRHinton) December 30, 2012
Watching the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl at Buffalo Wild Wings will remind me of watching the Bluebonnet Bowl while wearing a blue bonnet.
— MJD (@themightymjd) December 29, 2012
All the Wild Buffalo O'Restaurant .com commercials in the world can't produce 14 Michigan State points.
— Jason Kirk (@JasonKirkSBN) December 30, 2012
@thegurglingcod A horned frog once tried to give a winged buffalo a ride across a stream.It ended badly.He hasn't forgotten.
— Chris Marcil (@ChrisMarcil) December 30, 2012
"I call this guy Andrew Maxwell 'the Mario 2 whale spout,' 'cause he makes things just go straight up in the air at regular intervals"
— Jason Kirk (@JasonKirkSBN) December 30, 2012
Wow, that thing would have been good from like 65+. Oberkrom is Dutch for "Cash Money."
— David Ubben (@davidubben) December 30, 2012
Well I'll B-1-G damned.
— Luke Zimmermann (@lukezim) December 30, 2012
Back-to-back clutch field goals in a bowl game. Remember this day forever.
— Stewart Mandel (@slmandel) December 30, 2012
"We're gonna kick a field goal and win by one." – Mark Dantonio, living his favorite recurring dream.
— Matt Hinton (@MattRHinton) December 30, 2012
/reveals Michigan State's 2013 offense, which is this one minus Le'Veon Bell's 2,245,630 carries
— Jason Kirk (@JasonKirkSBN) December 30, 2012
The Big Ten is 2-0 against the spread. Everything's coming up Delany: twitter.com/Landgrant33/st…
— Land-Grant Holy Land (@Landgrant33) December 30, 2012
What a disaster of a loss for TCU. Gonna be a sad postgame bath in parmesan garlic for these Frogs. Never should have let it come to that.
— David Ubben (@davidubben) December 30, 2012
The Big Ten has now filled its Vegas quota of expected bowl wins, with 5 bowls to spare.
— Stewart Mandel (@slmandel) December 30, 2012


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In honor of the Fourth of July start to the 96th Tour de France, and Lance Armstrong's return after a four year retirement, I began the day Saturday with a bike ride to Wales on the Glacial Drumlin Trail. Though I was by no means the only one on the trail this gorgeous morning, there was no peloton and I wasn't racing.
Somewhere along the way I stopped to photograph a hawk on it's perch. A sparrow must have known the hawk was eyeing it's nest, because the sparrow attacked the hawk... and won. This is the first time I've seen the sparrow draw a hawk off it's perch and practically land on it's back as the prey chased the predator. The best part was something I always miss when witnessed from inside a car: the huge hawk's screech. It was a phenomenally loud sound I'd never heard in the wild. The hawk was being led away by a bird much smaller than herself and she let everyone know she didn't care for it. My imagination let me hear a bald eagle's screech as it echoed through the Badlands of South Dakota. Not a bad thing on Independence Day, and not what I expected out of my bike ride.
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I was ready to crew again. Made sure to mention I was off work a couple days in the event something came up. The opportunity arose bright and early this morning and eagerly did I work, without pay, on a rare day off. It was the best of vacation days.
The gentleman flying the United Van Lines balloon was in Illinois for an event and stopped here for a public relations flight or two. His full time job is as a hot air balloon pilot, and he occasionally inflates the huge van-shaped one I remember seeing about 9 years ago at the County Fair.
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the view north of Northview
The morning walk took us to the community gardens over by the County Huber facility on Northview Road. The plantings are coming along nicely in full exposure of the sun. There's quite a variety of flowers, herbs and vegetables. You can just as easily find plots planted by 4-H groups, families stretching their food budget, or even those who have set up little retreats with lawn chairs and ornaments, bird baths and houses.
From the gardens, there's a path that guides us north through mature oaks, long weeds and thick mosquitos. The wide, mowed path leads to a large, manicured opening with a memorial as it's focal point. It's the memorial for the old poor house cemetery which used to be located nearby a hundred years ago. It's a beautiful memorial in a secluded spot. The old cemetery probably never looked so good.
Fair's fare fair
Spent one dollar for a great time opening day Wednesday at the fair. Spent another five after parking on the street Sunday. The discount ticket got me in for the truck pulls and I came back later for REO Speedwagon.
By some stroke of luck my son Nick scored a job as a stagehand during the fair. He was operating one of the four large spotlights for the REO concert when I was there. By helping out he was able to meet famous people, get some free stuff, watch the bands up close, and get paid for it! He was also able to furnish me with a reserved seating wrist band.


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The editors failed to inform readers of three critical facts concerning this matter.
The first is that The Star's lawyer informed RMC that he was authorized to file a suit against RMC unless RMC complied with the request. Next, the editorial leaves out mention that the same Legislature that passed the Open Records Act also provided a path (declaratory-judgment actions) for judicial resolution of disputes about whether records are public and also whether they must be produced. Finally, the editorial does not mention that the Supreme Court held, in the case it cites as binding on RMC to produce records, that each case is to be adjudicated on the particular facts, circumstances and records involved for a determination as to whether the public records in question are due to be disclosed.
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RMC, while it is a "public hospital," is totally self-supporting. Its annual operating budget is approximately the same as the combined budgets of Calhoun County and the cities of Anniston, Jacksonville and Oxford. RMC receives no funding from the tax revenues of the mentioned governments. Moreover, in 2012 alone, RMC provided more than $53 million in medical services to local citizens who were unable to pay. It operates in a highly competitive environment and must have some latitude in keeping its proprietary transactions from disclosure to competitors who might gain advantages, thereby leaving RMC without the ability to fulfill its mission and provide charity care. This, too, is in the public interest, and our courts are established to decide such questions. Our citizens and local governments are fortunate that RMC has been able to provide a safety net to citizens without them being taxed. This is not the case in many communities.
RMC directors are appointed by the governmental entities in our community, and they serve diligently as public trustees without compensation. They are well aware of, and burdened by, this responsibility and have done a superb job in managing one of the most significant assets for our community in a highly competitive environment. Our dedicated doctors, nurses and staff serve our patients faithfully and with great skill and compassion. RMC's directors make tough and important decisions on a regular basis. That they do so without agreement with The Star should be a concern only if one of those groups feels that it is both right and exempt from judicial process, review and direction. Newspapers can be persuasive, beneficial and oppressive. They own the paper, the printing press and the editors. The public discourse serves us all, and it is even better when the issues are fairly and completely reported and editorialized.
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Blood DKs are an exceptionally strong DPS spec. Some people consider them to be universally inferior now to Unholy now, but we still bring good raid buffs and DRW is significantly cooler than Gargoyle. At high gear levels these specs are performing pretty closely on single target fights. You will see a lot more Unholy DKs on the charts, but it's only because they are the Flavor of the Month!
This thread is always a work in progress as it covers a large number of topics. I welcome feedback, and try to be good about responding to your PMs.
Read through the last few pages of this thread, and other resources on the net and you will see that without a doubt the hottest topic for Blood DKs in 3.3 is the ArP vs Strength debate, so I've added an exhaustively detailed section on how to make this determination for yourself. I put it down near the bottom as it is almost excessively long.
I've also updated the Stat weights with my personal stat weights, remembering that YOURS WILL BE DIFFERENT (unless you happen to have the exact same gear as me)
= Common Abbreviations=
AoE = Area of Effect
AMS = Anti-Magic Shell
APE = Attack Power Equivalence
BB = Blood Boil
BCB = Blood Caked Blade
BP = Blood Presence
IT = Icy Touch
DK = Death Knight
DC = Death Coil
DnD = Death and Decay
DPS = Damage per Second
DRW = Dancing Rune Weapon
FC = Rune of the Fallen Crusader
GCD = Global Cooldown
GoD = Glyph of Disease
GoDD = Glyph of Dark Death
HoW = Horn of Winter
PS = Plague Strike
RP = Runic Power
UP = Unholy Presence
= Specs=
In 3.3 there are two general valid build for the blood spec, and they differ simply by 1 talent point, and a glyph.
These are your two main builds, and we'll discuss later the differences between them, and how to decide what is right for you.
In the Blood tree you will have 4 points to play with. If you are looking for absolute max DPS you will want to go with 3/3 Bloodworms and 1 point in Imp Blood presence. Why? Bloodworms will add a little (reports say ~ 80) DPS, and your other options being Mark of Blood and Vampiric Blood, both of which require the use of a Blood Rune, and that's 1 less Heart Strike!
In the Unholy tree the most common line of thinking goes: Ravenous Dead > BCB > Necrosis. From my own experience, I've found BCB to be slightly higher than 1% DPS per talent point, whereas Necrosis was slightly < 1% DPS per talent point. Keep in mind though that Necrosis can effectively crit, whereas BCB cannot, so people with very high crit rates may see a swing in the relative value of these two talents. Typically you max all three, but if you want to play around, have at it.
Morbidity works itself out to be approximately .6% DPS per point, which is why we remove the point from there for our Glyph of Disease Build which requires 2/2 epidemic.
= Runeforges=
There is currently only one viable Runeforge for PvE DPS: Fallen Crusader.
= Glyphs=
*You will either use GoD or GoDD as your 3rd glyph, depending on which build you choose to go for.
The GoD and GoDD builds have differing rotations, and in order to make the most out of each build, it is important that you use the correct rotation
For both rotations, you will be able to dump 2 Death Coils at one break, and then one at the other. This depends on whether you start a fight with RP or not. It is not important where a particular phase falls, and so we'll just represent it with -Dump-.
IT-PS-HS-HS-DS -Dump- DS-HS-HS-HS-HS -Dump-
Beginning with Dark Death as it is the easier of the two. On a pull to minimize your wasted GCDs during your dump phase you can cast HoW, and raise your Ghoul.
The GoD rotation is made up of two distinct parts. There is your Open Phase (1), and then the repeated phase (2). You begin with the (1) rotation to set up your diseases, and then repeat two until your diseases fall of some how, or the enemy dies
(1) IT-PS-HS-HS-DS -Dump- DS-HS-HS-HS-Pest -Dump-
(2) HS-HS-HS-HS-DS -Dump- DS-HS-HS-HS-Pest
Blood's strength is it's ability to do exceptional single - or double - target damage, once you exceed 3 or 4 enemies, you would be much better suited using a UH off spec for AOE fights. Most of the AOE in ICC currently are trash fights, which isn't a main concern of this guide. In general for AOE you want to spead your diseases, and use Blood Boil. As Blood generates a large amount of death runes, especially the Glyph of Disease spec, you will be able to cast a tremendous amount of Blood Boils.
In general Blood Boil begins to outperform HS at around 5-6 targets, your mileage may vary, use a Scrolling Combat mod that shows the sum of your AoE attacks, or else it will be very hard to tell for yourself.
= Rolling Diseases=
Pre 3.2 you could load up your procs, cast diseases, and using GoD would maintain the higher power diseases throughout the fight. This is no longer the case, diseases do not roll anymore. It was fun while it lasted.
= Dancing Rune Weapon=
DRW will gain buffs you have before casting it, but will not get things used after, i.e. Hysteria, potions, etc. Heart Strikes from DRW also are affected by its diseases, and the diseases will stay even after DRW has expired. For this reason it is proper to cast DRW before refreshing your diseases. Note: your heart strikes do not benefit from your DRW's diseases, and vise-versa.
In 3.3 DRW now currently acts as a debuff on your target. This puts us a little bit more at the mercy of Blizzard's pet AI, unfortunately. In its current form the DRW is making its way behind your target, so parry's should still be minimized.
Your DRW checklist looks something like this, in order of importance (and yes, I finally added "Heroism" for all the Alliance out there, ugh).
- Bloodlust/Heroism
- Hysteria
- On use trinkets / Trinket Procs
- Empowered Rune Weapon
- Potion of Speed
Hitting all of those criteria will maximize your DRWs DPS, very important to maximizing your own DPS.
Obviously you can't always meet every criteria, as some are out of your control. You always want to wait for Hysteria if you think the fight will last long enough to do so, and you especially have to make sure your diseases are up and death runes are ready. If you have on use trinkets, you want to be sure to use them before popping DRW as well. Rarely will you be able to use Empowered Rune Weapon twice in one fight.
I'm not a huge fan of waiting on trinket procs, like Greatness or Grim Toll/Mjolnir. I tend to take the approach that if they are up, awesome but if they are not I don't wait for them. If you "feel" like you are due for a proc, it might be worth waiting 1 or 2 CGDs, but I don't know that I would go much beyond that. This is especially true due to the fact that often times your DRW is part of a coordinated burst, like XT heart phase, and you dont want to be lagging behind waiting for a proc.
That being said, if it is a long fairly straighforward fight like Ignis with no real burst phase requirement, I would probably wait to try to maximize my DPS.
It should also be noted that we most often have a lot of procs lining up at the beginning of a fight. If you want to use DRW at the start of a fight, it should always be used after your first full rotation, otherwise you will clip your original diseases losing out on DPS.
The priority structure to Frost DPS is significantly more complicated than Blood. Apart from adjusting your rotation for missed strikes things flow quite smoothly. The biggest thing you will be watching for will be not Heart Striking right after your diseases have fallen off.
= Unholy Presence v Blood Presence=
Fortunately for Blood DKs this is an easy question. We hit hard, we use Blood Presence. Blood has a nice tight rotation, and if you are in UH Presence you will spend a considerable amount of time waiting for something to do.
As with so many things, there are occasions when you may find running in UH presence to be useful, but overall our best DPS presence is blood.
= Taking Advantage of AMS=
The best use of AMS is to either generate a lot of RP in order to DRW, or to allow for a 2nd Death Coil in the middle of your rotation. HS will always hit harder than death coil, so do not stand around casting DC because you feel bad about wasting RP.
This section is incomplete, I'll be working on adding these parts in.
= Rune Striking?=
I wasn't really a convert to Rune Striking until after a little spell of tanking with my DK, and begin using the Rune Strike macros with my Death Strikes and Heart Strikes. The majority of fights the issue will never come up, as you dont find yourself dodging or parrying very often, but on the occasions where you can, Rune Strike is a DPS increase. Once you have your first big Rune Strike crit for 20k+ at the cost of 20 RP, you'll be glad you did.
Following is a log from Marrogar, showing just how good Rune Strike can be in situations where you can use it.
World of Logs - Real Time Raid Analysis
The following are the macros used for Death Strike and Heart Strike. If Rune Strike becomes available it will cast that, otherwise it will be business as usual:
#showtooltip Death Strike
/script UIErrorsFrame:UnregisterEvent("UI_ERROR_MESSAGE");
/cast Death Strike;
/cast !Rune Strike;
/script UIErrorsFrame:RegisterEvent("UI_ERROR_MESSAGE");
#showtooltip Heart Strike
/script UIErrorsFrame:UnregisterEvent("UI_ERROR_MESSAGE");
/cast Heart Strike;
/cast !Rune Strike;
/script UIErrorsFrame:RegisterEvent("UI_ERROR_MESSAGE");
= Gearing and Stat Weights=
One thing I've found while keeping this thread is posting Stat Weights really isn't a good idea. Before reading on know this, the stat weights listed below are not perfect stat weights for your character. To really get a good idea of what stat weights are for you, you need to run your own sims and do your own research based on your particular gearset. With that disclaimer, we'll move on.
The two most important stats for Blood DKs are Strength and Armor Penetration. The general rule of thumb while gearing up is ALWAYS gem for STR, except to meet Meta gem requirements.
The following are stat weights as of 3.3 which I currently use, based upon my current gear set.
Pawn Tags:
Non hit caped ( Pawn: v1: "DK Sim": ArmorPenetration=3.1, HitRating=6.4, CritRating=1.78, Dps=8.28, Strength=2.67, Armor=0.028, Agility=1.31, HasteRating=1.25, Speed=419.35, ExpertiseRating=5.27, Ap=1, GemQualityLevel=82 )
hit caped ( Pawn: v1: "DK Sim": ArmorPenetration=3.1, HitRating=0.35, CritRating=1.78, Dps=8.28, Strength=2.67, Armor=0.028, Agility=1.31, HasteRating=1.25, Speed=419.35, ExpertiseRating=5.27, Ap=1, GemQualityLevel=82 )
Why are Hit and Expertise simming so high? The blood rotation has no free GCDs, so every miss sets you back and hurts your DPS. You really want these stats to be capped.
The melee hit cap is 8% or ~262 Hit rating, a figure that seems easy to hit as you're gearing up, in fact you will typically be well over it. Once you get deep into ICC gear you w ill find a lack of hit gear, especially as you make your move towards ArP stacking. This will require things like gemming for hit, as well as using the hit enchant on your gloves.
The soft expertise cap is a little more tricky as there are so many variable that go into it. It is a little more straightforward now that the 5 expertise on Blood Gorged was converted to 10% ArP. You want to be aiming for 26 Expertise (note "26 Expertise" not "26 Expertise Rating"). Orcs rejoice for our Racial, reminding us once again why Orcs are the best race for DKs!
Gear Lists will also be uploaded once the approximate weightings have been sorted out. For now, it is probably best to refer to the http://elitistjerks....ing_bis_thread/.
These are the relative weights of the set bonuses for Blood DKs
Blood set bonus weights:
= Sigils=
Now that Death Strike has been added to it becomes the best sigil for Blood DKs, and fortunately it is also incredibly easy to get.
is another alternative that depending on the fight can be slightly better, but due to it's ramp time and dependence on a single target encounter is generally though to be not worth making the upgrade.
= Consumables & Cooldowns=
Primary Potion:
Secondary Potion: (The gain from Bladed Armor is ~97 AP).
All cooldowns should be timed with Bloodlust (which your raidleader should be calling at the start of every fight). If for some reason you are saving Lust (Mimiron P2, for example), use cooldowns (sans potion) immedietly at the beginning of the fight and then again during Bloodlust.
Notes on : This should be used about 5s before you enter into combat on any given fight. This will result in you not being potion locked for that particular encounter and enable you to use another potion as soon as the cooldown expires. It should also be noted that the AP gains from the armor will not be calculated till your strength changes in value. This can be done via a simple weaponswap macro, cancelling and reapplying HoW or simply waiting for a FC proc.
= Macros=
Dancing Rune Weapon:
#showtooltip Dancing Rune Weapon /cast Dancing Rune WeaponNote this macro has changed due to the new functionality of DRW
Huge Burst Macro
#show Blood Fury /use 10 /use Potion of Speed /cast [target=player] Hysteria /cast Blood Fury /cast Dancing Rune WeaponChug a haste pot, use any trinkets (The 10 above is the glove slot for engineers), cast Hysteria on yourself, Blood Fury for us Orcs (for the Horde!), and finally summon your DRW
Mind Freeze Focus
#showtooltip Mind Freeze /cast [target=focus,exists] Mind Freeze;Mind FreezeFor pesky interrupt fights
= How come I'm not doing XXX DPS?=
There are a great many sites out there now where you can see logs from thousands of different players. This is good, and in a way also bad. Going out to WorldOfLogs, and looking up the top Blood DK for a fight, is probably not a good way to yardstick your DPS. The reason being, it is really easy to artificially inflate your DPS outside what is reasonable to be expected from a Blood DK for the sole reason of "Seeing your name in lights". If you wonder why someone did 6k more DPS then you did on a fight, be sure to read the logs carefully, and check out their gear. If someone is significantly better geared than you, and has 3 or 4 nice rogues willing to chain Tricks for them, it will lead to a large disparity.
= Useful Addons=
There are a lot of great addons for DKs. Here of some of those I have found to be most useful:
PowerAuras Classic / TellMeWhen: Knowing when your trinkets are procced is extremely useful for maximizing your DPS, both these Addons provide a way to alert yourself to import skill/item procs
Bartender: You will have lots of hotkeys, Bartender is a great bar addon with really easy keybinding functions
Magic Runes: There are a number of addons that provide much better rune management and display options then the default rune system Blizzard provides.
NeedToKnow: You should have a convenient way to track your diseases, and this is a great, and very customizable addon for doing so.
Pawn: This addon allows you to compare gear and enter your own ratings, such as the Stat Weights provided above, and gives you a total value for each item. Very useful is determining which items are upgrades for you very quickly.
= Professions=
If you are looking to make gold, I don't care, this isn't the section for you. If you have lots of gold to spend, and want to maximize the effectiveness of your DK, it's going to be expensive.
Jewelcrafting went through a fairly significant change in 3.2. The goal was to bring it back in line with the other professions. The most significant change was to the s. Our best gems are now and depending on your current gearing. These are no longer prismatic, so we lose the ability to easily cover our Meta Gem requirements.
Compared to the non-JC versions of and , you will be gaining a total of 42 strength through JC.
Blacksmithing is expensive to level, but the benefits are worth it in the end. The two free sockets you get, gloves and bracers, allow the use of two more +20 STR/ArP gems, for a total benefit of 40 Strength/ArP. This is close to the benefit you see from J/C'ing and while expensive, the Combo of Blacksmithing and Jewelcrafting is the best 2 professions you can select.
I'll set aside engineering b/c some people just like it, and I can't hold that against them. The only real advantage engineers get are the Hand Mounted Pyro Rockets and Hyperspeed Accellerators. Both of these are solid glove bonuses, and if engineering got anything else, could make it a competitive choice, popping speed pots, bloodlust, and the Hyperspeed Accellerators is a blast.
I've recently heard rumblings of more changes to come for engineers to make the profession more competitive for a PvE selection, but nothing finalized yet to my knowledge.
Everything else is just a huge drop from those already mentioned:
Enchanting: 2 ring enchants at 40 AP a pop, a total of 80 AP
Leatherworking: 130 AP to bracers, note that you CANNOT stack this with the 50 AP bracer enchant, so the net gain here is 80 AP.
Inscription: 120 AP 15 crit shoulder enchant, a gain of 80 AP.
Tailoring: Cloak enchant, Swordguard Embroidery, grants 400 AP for 15 seconds. The difference here is ~100 AP vs 23 Haste which comes out to an APE gain of roughly 65 based on a 3.1 Haste value of 1.5. In order for this to surpass other professions, the APE of Haste would have to dip to ~.87. I am unaware of any intensive testing that has been done with this, but if you really love timing procs you would have great results laying this on top of greatness, fallen crusader, and your favorite ArP trinket procs.
Alchemy: Increased potion effectiveness and duration, havent crunched the numbers to see how much this adds, but I've never heard it come up as a serious contender. Haven't personally been able to verify yet, but I assume in 3.2 this will give you an extra 80 AP.
Skinning: 40 crit rating, ugh
Mining: 60 stamina, bleh
Herbalism: Self heal, whee
= THE Hot Topic: Strength vs. Armor Penetration =
Should I be gemming for Str or ArP? This is the most asked question in our world today, and the answer is unique for everyone, and will take a little work on your part! I'm going to walk through how I answered this question for myself, and also for a fellow DK. This was essentially the character I was presented with: character planner . arptest - chardev.org - This gear set is fairly typical of people wanting to switch to ArP, 2 plus pieces of T10, Shadow's Edge, a few upgrades but still with a few holes in the gear set.
The first step is to download Kahorie's Sim. If you aren't going to put enough time in to do your own sims, its basically a guessing game, you can look at these two scenarios and gauge which char you are closer to.
I ran the current gear through the sim to calculate current EP with the following results:
EP Strength | 2.87 EP ArmorPenetrationRating | 2.94Seems like we are good to go right? Mmm not quite. Now you have to also consider the fact that regemming from Str to Arp will cost you a lot of Str. Essentially how I look at this situation is that you wont notice any large increase in dps from making this switch, and do you want to move forward regemming gear that you should be replacing soon? My advice was to wait until he could fill his serious holes and try to pick up his and maybe the crated legs. Resimming with these upgrades gave results closer to this:
EP Strength | 2.89 EP ArmorPenetrationRating | 3.16I'd consider this character to be pretty close to the break even point, he could probably switch and not really notice a significant DPS loss or gain. If you're gear is better you're getting close to an optimal point to make the switch, if your gear is worse, you definitely aren't ready to switch.
To give you an idea, when I performed the sim for myself after getting my my results looked something like this
EP Strength | 2.84 EP ArmorPenetrationRating | 3.57So I made the switch over to gemming as much ArP as possible while maintaining the Hit and Expertise caps, and needless to say, I was pleased with the results: (taken from 10m Festergut)
= Edits=
[1]: 05.29.09 Thread Launched
[2]: 05.30.09 Clarified DS first rotation usage, added some stat weight info, added DRW Section
[3]: 06.01.09 Minor edits, added Proffesions section
[4]: 06.01.09 Added set bonuses
[5]: 08.06.09 Began 3.2 Updates - profession bonuses
[6]: 01.10.10 3.2 Update
[7]: 02.23.10 ArP and Stat Weight updates


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I'm Kenya from Greensboro, NC, and while I've already figured out the costumes I want to enter into the 501st, I'm still sorting out just what costumes I'd like to join the Rebel Legion with. (I just know I don't want to make a Jedi costume, and some of the outfits I'm considering are like Queen Amidala's Traveling outfit from Ep. 1 and maybe a Rebel Pilot...? I dunno...)
Either way, I still wanted to say 'hi' and hopefully start meeting you all and heading to events (even if it means I have to do grunt work and fetch water).
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Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2012 10:58 pm
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Hi Kenya! Welcome to Blue Ridge Base. Once you decide on a costume, ask away and we'll try to steer you in the right direction...it's an exciting thing to decide on a costume!! Good luck and I hope to see you out at a troop soon...
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Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 1:46 pm
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Hi Kenya!
Glad you stopped by and introduced yourself. We look forward to watching your progress as you make your costume. As Al said, ask away!
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Thank you both so much! I really appreciate the warm welcome (and apologies for not posting sooner; I have been busy as of late)
So I got the chance to re-watch the prequel trilogy over the weekend, and I've found several outfits I really like.
My favorite outfits, by far, are some of what Padmé Amidala wears. After I get my Imperial Staff Officer done, I think I might try to tackle the Battle Dress worn by the handmaidens in Episode I. I always really loved the hair for that costume, too.
I'd also forgotten about a Naboo Fighter Pilot helmet that I bought for my brother years ago. He never really wanted, so that's something to consider also. I'm not 100% sure what I'd need to do in order to get that helmet up to spec, if I that's even doable. If I can, I know the Fighter Pilot disguise Padmé wears during the intro of Episode II is something I did really like as well.
Down the road, I'm also considering the Pastel Lake dress from Episode II, but I'd prefer to get the hang of working with hand dying fabrics before I try and touch that one. The Travel gown/Return to Naboo gown I'd still like to make also, but I think the Battle Dress and the Fighter Pilot disguise would be more doable in the near future.
I simply wanted to update this since having come to a decision of sorts. Though, I'll be helping a friend with her ANH Princess Leia costume before I get to tackle any of this.
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From the moment I saw its title, a new book, Drive, had me buckled into the front seat ready to hit the freeway. It's written by Iain Borden, professor of architecture and urban culture at the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London, and its subtitle is Journeys through Film, Cities and Landscapes. Borden clearly adores cars, though as a serious architectural thinker he can hardly make light of the manifold objections, and he mounts an only slightly sheepish defense of the value of the driver's experience. For me, that's by the by. What I like about the book is the way that Borden, who must spend as much time Gorilla-glued to the screen as he does on the road, grounds his investigation in scenes of driving in films because, as he says, "cinema, more than any other representational form, provides the most direct sense of what it actually feels like to drive."
As he continues: "movies help us understand the experiential thrill of modernity not only through aesthetic experiences of space — through effects of framing, signs, mobility and so forth — but in transcending the rational and disciplined qualities of driving and moving into a realm of the comparatively irrational, into matters of non-codified thought, instinct and everyday behaviours." What we see on the screen is experienced again in memory and imagination at the wheel. The windscreen's resemblance as a framing device to the widescreen film image, turning the road ahead and the surrounding scene into a kind of cinema, is often noted.
Borden says he watched over 450 films in the course of his research, and he mentions a bibliographic database of more than 100,000 references. The engagingly catholic selection sifted for automotive epiphanies runs from Claude Friese-Greene's The Open Road (1925) to Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up (1966), from Jacques Tati's Trafic (1971) to Michael Mann's Collateral (2004), from Chris Petit's Radio On (1979) to Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive (2011). The book's first image, from Dominic Sena's Kalifornia (1993), prompted me to revisit that macabre American road trip undertaken in an old 1963 Lincoln Continental in search of notorious serial killer locations. David Duchovny's character is writing a book about the subject and, as it turns out, receives some unwanted help from one of his passengers played by Brad Pitt. "Driving here is both the site of an unfolding personal event and a witness to a wider social malaise," notes Borden wryly. It sure is.
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Illinois coach Dan Hartleb announced the signing of eight student-athletes to national letters of intent Wednesday. At this point, the 2012 signing class is composed of RHP Nick Blackburn, of Naperville, Ill., RHP Ryan Castellanos, of Davie, Fla., LHP Kevin Duchene, of Joliet, Ill., C Jason Goldstein, of Highland Park, Ill., LHP Tyler Jay, of Lemont, Ill., OF/IF Ryan Nagle, of Streator, Ill., LHP J.D. Nielsen of Winterset, Iowa, and SS Adam Walton of Buffalo Grove, Ill.
"We are extremely excited about our 2012 signing class," Hartleb said. "We have a group of gifted athletes who will be very instrumental in our future success. We were able to fill needs at a number of positions while also bringing in a number of very talented pitchers. The entire class has the ability to have an impact on our team very early in their careers. We were able to find a group of well-rounded student-athletes who also have proven to be good people away from the field, which is important to us.
"The identification and recruitment of these athletes is a long process. (Associate head) coach (Eric) Snider was very instrumental in gaining key commitments from several of these student-athletes over the past 24 months. (Assistant coach) Drew Dickinson has been a key part of the recruitment of one of our strongest pitching classes that we have had during my time at Illinois."
Biographical sketches of the 2011-12 Illinois baseball signees:
Nick Blackburn, RHP
6-2 // 185 // R/R // Fr. // Naperville, Ill. // Neuqua Valley HS
Notes: Listed as the No. 28 prospect in the class of 2012 in Illinois by Prep Baseball Report...Led Neuqua Valley to an IHSA Class 4A regional title in 2011, earning the victory in the regional championship game...Went 4-3 with a 4.70 ERA and 64 strikeouts in 53 2/3 innings in 2011...Went 2-0 with a 0.93 ERA and 23 strikeouts in 15 innings during the 2011 summer state tournament...Named to the 2011 Phil Lawler Summer Classic All-Tournament team...Named Academic All-Upstate Eight Conference in 2011.
Assistant coach Drew Dickinson on Blackburn: "Nick has a strong arm and solid four-pitch mix. To go along with his good fastball, he has two plus breaking balls that he can use at any time. With his size and athletic ability, Nick will only get better once he arrives on campus. I believe Nick will be an instant contributor at Illinois and I look forward to helping him flourish."
Ryan Castellanos, RHP
6-3 // 185 // R/R // Fr. // Davie, Fla. // Archbishop McCarthy HS
Notes: Helped Archbishop McCarthy to a 29-3 finish in 2011 and a Florida Class 4A state championship, their second-straight title...Archbishop McCarthy was recognized as the 2011 high school national champions by Baseball America, Perfect Game, USA Today and the National High School Coaches Association...Named honorable mention All-Broward County by the South Florida Sun Sentinel in 2011...Won the CY pitching award...Brother, Nick, was selected by the Detroit Tigers in the supplemental first round of the 2010 MLB First-Year Player Draft.
Associate head coach Eric Snider on Castellanos: "Ryan is a projectable right-handed pitcher with excellent make-up and maturity. He has a solid fastball that sits at 86-87 mph with good spin and he has a feel for a changeup. And he knows how to pitch."
Kevin Duchene, LHP
6-1 // 200 // L/L // Fr. // Joliet, Ill. // Joliet Catholic Academy
Notes: Listed as the No. 18 overall prospect in the class of 2012 in Illinois by Prep Baseball Report... Named a Perfect Game All-American honorable mention selection...Went 8-1 with a 2.56 ERA in 2011 with 71 strikeouts and 14 walks in 52 innings pitched... Named an All-East Suburban Catholic Conference selection in 2011...Has a 15-4 career record... Named to the World Wood Bat Association World Championship All-Tournament team after leading Cangelosi Baseball to the round of 16 at the tournament in October 2011...Didn't allow an earned run and struck out 12 with one walk in seven innings at the WWBA World Championship...Threw a no-hitter in a 2011 IHSA Class 4A regional game.
Coach Dickinson on Duchene: "Kevin is a good athlete who understands the game of baseball and even more so understands how to pitch at a high level. He is a winner who will work hard and do whatever is necessary. Kevin has a solid fastball and curveball, and a plus changeup that he can throw in any count. He has a lot of upside for continued development and will make an immediate impact on our team. I look forward to working with him and helping him realize his tremendous potential."
Jason Goldstein, C
6-0 // 190 // R/R // Fr. // Highland Park, Ill. // Highland Park HS
Notes: Ranked the No. 4 catcher in the country and the No. 71 prospect nationally in the class of 2012 by Perfect Game...Participated in the 2011 Area Code Games and the 2011 Perfect Game All-American Classic...Named to the 2011 Perfect Game All-American Classic team...Named to the Area Code Games second-team all-tournament after hitting .363 at the event...Ranked the No. 2 overall player, the best catcher and a top-five hitter in the class of 2012 in Illinois by Prep Baseball Report...2011 Perfect Game preseason All-American...Named a 2011 top prospect at the Super 60 Showcase...Named an Under Armour preseason All-American in 2010 and 2011...Member of the 2010 Cincinnati Reds scout team...Three-year varsity starter at Highland Park, where he has hit .394 with 37 doubles, 11 home runs, 77 RBIs, a .650 slugging percentage and a .470 on-base percentage...He holds the HPHS career doubles record, ranks third in career home runs and fourth in career hits (108)...Two-time All-Area and All-Central Suburban League selection...Captain of both the baseball and football teams at Highland Park...Led Highland Park to two Central Suburban League championships.
Coach Snider on Goldstein: "Jason is an athletic, competitive catcher with outstanding make-up and maturity who will be an impact player as a freshman. He's a natural leader who will be another coach on the field for us and he is very good at handling a pitching staff. He has above-average blocking, receiving and throwing skills, and has a solid middle-of-the-field hitting approach with gap power."
Tyler Jay, LHP
6-1 // 170 // L/L // Fr. // Lemont, Ill. // Lemont HS
Notes: Ranked a top-100 player in the class of 2012 in Illinois by Prep Baseball Report...Went 4-3 with two saves in 2011, with both losses coming to eventual IHSA Class 4A runner-up Providence Catholic...Struck out 70 in 40 innings while posting a 2.80 ERA in 2011...Earned the win in Lemont's 2011 IHSA Class 3A regional title victory, striking out 11 against Yorkville...Named to the 2011 Lisle Reporter honorable mention Spring South DuPage All-Area Boys Team...Went 5-0 with a 3.03 ERA and 32 strikeouts in 34 2/3 innings as a sophomore in 2010...Holds a career record of 9-3 with a 2.91 ERA, 102 strikeouts and 28 walks in 74 2/3 innings...Member of Team Illinois...Has helped Lemont into the quarterfinals of the 2011 IHSA Class 6A state football playoffs with an 11-0 record...Has 22 receptions for 500 yards and 10 touchdowns on the season while serving as Lemont's punter and primary return man.
Coach Dickinson on Jay: "Tyler is an athletic pitcher with a very quick arm and an outstanding breaking ball. With his athletic ability, I believe Tyler has a high ceiling for his continued development. He is a hard worker and a winner, which can be seen both on the baseball field and on the football field. I look forward to having Tyler as a part of the pitching staff and I think he will contribute immediately."
Ryan Nagle, OF/IF
6-1 // 190 // L/R // Fr. // Streator, Ill. // Streator HS
Notes: Ranked the No. 22 overall prospect in the class of 2012 in Illinois by Prep Baseball Report ...PBR lists him as one of the top two left-handed hitters and a top-5 overall hitter in the class of 2012 in Illinois...Hit .459 with 20 doubles, eight home runs and 41 RBIs in 2011... Named the 2011 Co-MVP of the Northern Illinois Big 12 Conference and first-team All-Conference.
Coach Snider on Nagle: "Ryan is a competitive, athletic, hard-nosed player and he has a high baseball IQ. He has a sweet left-handed swing with power and I expect him to be an impact player as a freshman. He's a hard worker who projects as a middle-of-the-order type of hitter, and he can play multiple positions."
J.D. Nielsen, LHP
6-6 // 205 // L/L // Fr. // Winterset, Iowa // Martensdale St. Mary's HS
Notes: Went 9-0 with a 1.43 ERA while striking out 72 and walking 19 in 53 2/3 innings in 2011...Led Martensdale St. Mary's to its second-straight Iowa Class 1A championship in 2011, extending its winning streak to a national-record 87 games...Held opponents to a .146 batting average in 2011...Also hit .425, third-best on the team, with 10 home runs, eight doubles, and a team-best 62 RBIs...Named to the Iowa High School Baseball Coaches Association All-State second team in 2011...Named to the IHSBCA All-Southwest District first team...Named first-team All-Pride of Iowa Conference in 2011...Father, Dan, played football at Waldorf College and Drake University, and mother, Lonna, played basketball at Waldorf.
Coach Dickinson on Nielsen: "J.D. is a very tall, athletic lefty with a lot of upside. He has solid, repeatable mechanics and the ball jumps out of his hand. J.D. also has a very good breaking ball with late bite. Plus, he is a hard worker and winner. I believe J.D. is going to blossom into an outstanding pitcher and I am excited for him to become an Illini."
Adam Walton, IF
6-1 // 185 // R/R // Fr. // Buffalo Grove, Ill. // Stevenson HS
Notes: Ranked the No. 20 overall prospect in the class of 2012 in Illinois by Prep Baseball Report ...PBR lists him as one of the top two athletes in the class of 2012 in Illinois...Hit .370 with three home runs, seven doubles, two triples and 43 RBIs in 2011...Named a 2011 Under Armour Preseason All-American top 25 prospect...Named a 2011 Perfect Game Preseason High Honorable Mention All-American and 2010 Perfect Game Preseason Honorable Mention All-American...Named a 2011 All-North Suburban Conference first-team selection.
Coach Snider on Walton: "Adam is very athletic with excellent speed and base-running instincts. He has soft hands with good range and quickness in the field. His arm strength will allow him to play shortstop, third base or second base at Illinois. He has a solid approach at the plate and a tremendous upside."
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