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Shirin: I'd like to move us towards the U.S. but before we get there, perhaps we could spend a little more time on Africa. With the rise of the G20, South Africa has taken on more regional significance—almost a regional superpower. Can you comment on what that means for the southern African region, and for Africa as a whole?
Brutus: I am delighted because it seems to me that this is a central question we are discussing in African civil society. I was part of serious discussion in Cape Town recently hosted by a trade union, which asked the question: "Is South Africa becoming a sub-imperial power?" In other words: Is South Africa acting mainly in the interest of the United States? You will remember that George W. Bush came to Pretoria and appointed Thabo Mbeki as his "point man." So we are very conscious and very troubled about that aspect. There's a second aspect as well. South Africa now is becoming a place where you can accumulate a great deal of capital, and it's also a place where foreign direct investment is pouring into the country in a significant way. This means that South Africa has the capacity to export this capital and to set up industries elsewhere. You have this corporate role of penetration, and I think it's actually twofold, though it's still being debated.
Others are saying that this is not a sub-imperialist role that we're describing, that instead this is an imperialist role. But, in my view, that's much too ambitious. It also extends the present resources of South Africa far more than what they really are. But I don't exclude the possibility that South Africa might play an imperialist role in the future, especially if South Africa finds it convenient to become very cozy with China. At the moment China is very busy penetrating Africa, whether in the Sudan, looking for oil, or whether it's Zimbabwe, looking for an alliance with Mugabe.
My current analysis is that presently South Africa is performing a sub-imperial role, which is related to its relationship with the United States. Especially since the United States is now budgeting for an enormous expansion of military expenditure in Africa, and an increase in the number of military bases in Africa. It may reflect some of the U.S.'s insecurity about what is happening in the Middle East. They find Saudi Arabia an unreliable ally. They've had a disastrous adventure in Iraq, where they've ended up in a quagmire. Even the Israelis have taken a beating when they tried to penetrate Lebanon a couple of years ago. So to sum up, I would say that South Africa is functioning both as a corporate extension and as a military extension of U.S. power and its imperialist agenda.
Shirin: I want to now take us across the Atlantic, but perhaps now would be a good time for you to share one your poems.
Brutus: All right, if I can find an appropriate one. There's one I wrote which has been used very widely, but it's rather odd because it's actually based on what I call a "found poem." I took some lines from Yasser Arafat's speech to the UN and turned them into a poem. So maybe I'll just read some lines from that one:
I am a rebel and freedom is my cause
many of you have fought similar struggles
therefore you must join my cause
my cause is a dream of freedom
and you must help me to make my dream reality
For why should I not dream and hope?
Is not revolution making reality of hopes?
Let us work together that my dream may be fulfilled
That I may return with my people out of exile to live in one democracy in peace
Is not my dream a noble one worthy to stand beside
freedom struggles everywhere?
Shirin: You've lived now for many years in the United States, and I wonder if you could share with us a little about your experiences in the U.S. and with the people in the United States in general.
Brutus: Well, I've clearly had negative experiences, but there are other encouraging ones. I was arrested in California protesting banks that had lent money to South Africa, and I was arrested on the steps of the Supreme Court in Washington protesting the death penalty on behalf of Mumia Abu Jamal. We can return to those if you wish, but in addition the U.S. government served me three times with a deportation order. One time I was to be deported to Zimbabwe; another time I was to be deported to South Africa; a third time to Britain. Each of the deportation efforts failed and eventually I was given political asylum.
So clearly I didn't always have it easy in the United States, but I should mention that there was also the positive side. I was called to appear before the U.S. Congress to testify about corporate support for apartheid, I also appeared before the UN describing conditions on Robben Island, (which I think led to some improvements in the conditions there), and I was able to form what has become probably the most important African literature association in the world when I was a visiting professor down at the University of Texas. I've lectured at many universities and was a tenured professor at Northwestern University in Chicago and chair of Black Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, and tenured there as well.
So when I look at the big picture I come up with a rather curious notion. It seems to me that in the United States you have a very peculiar mixture of repression and freedom, which leads to people thinking that they live in a democracy but in fact it's only a democracy for some people. And in fact Gramsci used to talk about the "soft power" of the United States, and how the U.S. could persuade the world that it was really a very free democracy—the land of the free, home of the brave, etc—when in fact not only is there great repression inside the United States, but the U.S. is guilty of enormous repression in other parts of the world. Yet people go about their lives complacently. Not only were they complacent, but they would be relieved that they lived in a democracy—some of them would describe it as the greatest democracy in the world. It seems to me that nobody has really examined the degree to which that deception—partly self-deception—has been effective in the United States.
Periodically they break out of that kind of coma. We've just seen it now in the rejection of John McCain in the recent elections, which were not only a rejection of George W. Bush, but also a rejection of the war in Iraq. These are very hopeful signs that the climate is changing politically in the United States, though perhaps we shouldn't be too optimistic because the Democrats are as compromised as the Republicans and many of them are invested in the enormous war machine which is running so much of U.S. politics today — the military-industrial-academic complex.
So these are some aspects of it. One reason that the U.S. government can maintain control the way it does is because of this illusion of democracy. It pretends to be a democracy, nearly all of its residents believe that it is, but it isn't a democracy, at least not for all. It certainly doesn't tend to support democratic regimes—consider Saudi Arabia or even Israel, which has carried out a 40-year occupation. I realize that this is a controversial point and I'm bound to get some criticism for it, but I think it's worth discussing at least.
Shirin: Some of us have the impression that organizing in the United States is at a very primitive stage when compared with organizing in parts of Africa or Latin America or Asia. Do you have any insights as to why that may be the case and suggestions as to how organizers here can improve?
Brutus: Well, you're right about that. In some cases, people think that the protest movement in the United States is nonexistent, which shows how uninformed they are. But you're quite right in the sense that the development of the movement in the United States has been backwards in relation to other parts of the world. In Latin America, I think—Ecuador, Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua, even Mexico—the degree of political sophistication is much higher there. By comparison the United States development is very primitive.
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It's a long story. There have been periods in the United States when radicalism was very strong particularly through labor, trade unions, and at times you've had a real respectable left in the United States. But you're right that at the moment: a) it's really rather backwards, and b) it's not well known outside the United States. Now that's a problem because it seems to me that the media is deliberately not covering activist events. I'll give you one example. I served in New York on the commission which found the Bush administration guilty of crimes against humanity. We not only announced the verdict, we announced it at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. We also delivered the verdict at the White House, where in fact it was received with tongs—but that's a separate story. What I'm saying is that when we are taking significant action against government, the media does not cover it or they will bury it somewhere. This to me says that the media itself—or the mainstream media—is so much in the pocket of the corporations that we cannot get the information out to the people of the United States. Even more seriously, we cannot get it out to the people of the world, all of whom should know that there is a very lively, active and caring center of people in the United States who are engaged in protest against the wars and in demanding social justice, both in the U.S. and internationally.
Shirin: You've lived through World War II, through the Cold War, you've been part of the struggle against apartheid, you've seen that regime come and go, you've seen many American presidents come and go, and yet throughout all these years—you're now in your 80s—you've managed to keep a sense of optimism. What gives you hope?
Brutus: Well, it certainly helps to be able to have a sense of humor, so you survive various catastrophes with a laugh or two. Secondly, I think we're always winning small victories. They're happening all the time. Here in Durban, we challenged the city council because they've cut off people's water because they can't pay. There are always grounds for at least a little cheerfulness and a little optimism. If you have a sense that there is this global struggle going on, where one is winning little victories in a number of places, then the real question in my mind should be how do we combine all these successes and develop them into a powerful force. But it certainly seems to me that the mere fact that one is occasionally winning a few victories, however small they might be, it is one way to keep going.
The other way is the World Social Forum itself, which for me is the basis for great optimism, even though I recognize it may take a wrong turn, it may betray us, it can always fall apart. But when I flew back from the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and arrived in Jo'berg in the darkness, with little lights burning where people were reading and so on, I felt in that enormous space, that there was so much hope, so much optimism, that people had a vision that an alternative world was possible. And I felt so good about it that I wrote a poem:
At Night, After Porto Alegre
In South African Airways 747
In this dim-winged cathedral
soaring above oceans of silvery cloud
far beyond Atlantic's tumultuous heave
we move, star-girt, distant
from greed's debris, genocides, calcined bones
curled in our own private shrines
or bent over light-pooled pages
we move to a new world, a new earth, where finally
our dreams can be fulfilled.
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When the 4.3 PTR comes around, we should mount a campaign to get revenge some love. It should not go under the title 'heroic strike too important'.
Some ideas:
- Glyph of Revenge works like the Wrath version (your next HS is free). This makes revenge really great as the 'low rage' tool, and makes it still useful in regular fights
- Glyph of Revenge works like the Wrath shield slam glyph (hit revenge increases your block for the next X seconds - though probably block value rather than block chance)
- Tengensteins imp revenge idea would be good, but maybe imba in pvp?
- What if Revenge had a higher chance to proc Sword and Board than Devastate did?
I can't see the sword and Board Thing working all that well, its not really much of a buff, what would be a nice buff would be if the 15% crit SnB gives to devastate also affected revenge as well, at that point once you get above 15k AP witha 391 weapon Rev is better than Dev, and keeps scalin better, for each tier (13ilvls) of weapon damage increase you need another 2k AP for Dev to catch up to Rev.
As to my suggestion being OP in PVP, PVP ain't balanced about 1v1. so nyah! :P
I've read the entire thread and I'm still not sure why I'm supposed to be upset that HS accounts for a significant portion of my damage. As long as I don't have to use it every swing, who cares? Doesn't make the class less fun to play.
Last edited by swelt; 09-09-2011 at 07:10 AM.
Oh no I get that, I just want to use Blizz's twisted logic for my own benefit. TBH how are we gonna buff Revenge's damage without buffing our PVP burst? you could make so the double strength only works in PVE, much like CS is only half strength against Player characters make Revenge Half strength too?
What if Revenge refreshed and spread rend?
The problem with that would be that it's not an AoE attack (although it could be.... so many options!)
Mists of Pandaria Protection Warrior SpreadsheetOriginally Posted by Ion
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Improved Revenge its two targets, which is why I use it when tanking mobs with cleave. But other than that it pretty much sucks for single target.
I wish HS wasn't so rage dependent.
The thing is Thunderstruck is better for single target, and pretty damn good for AoE too. WTB Prime GLyph of Rend, or Heroic Strike
Thunderstruck adds for me about 100 dps on rend/thunderclap and another ~ 90 dps for using shockwave on cooldown.
Just to make this clear, even those roughly 200 dps only equal to less then 12.000 damage dealt per minute. That's what one (connected, regular hit) heroic strike is capable of and it's worth 30 rage. Hitting revenge three times a minute instead of dev (and with all debuffs/talents dev is only 5% ahead with a 391 ilvl weapon) already grants you that amount of rage.
And from a more practical point of view, let's be honest: it's way easier to just smash rev/dev until SS lits up again and don't count until a third global without a S&B procc occurs, weaving in a shockwave/conc blow/etc before is a t/dps loss mathmatical.
I couldn't agree more that fish fish truck is our easiest and most rage efficient rotation. However my findings with simcraft don't concur with your calculations. The following where all done with a 378 weapon at particularily low rage income to ensure revenge's rage savings are at an advantage.
Rend denotes rend if its not present TC if its safeclippable, Fish denotes fishing for SnB procs with Revenge(if IR is talented taking priority) and devastate if SS has >1.5secs left on its CD, Truck denotes using what ever abilites are available to produce the highests DPS.
SS>rend>fish>truck with Thunderstruck - 15570.9dps
SS>rend>fish>truck with Imp.Rev - 15378.1 dps
SS>fish>truck with Thunderstruck - 15457.7dps
SS>fish>truck with imp.Rev - 15297.5dps
However, despite it being a DPS loss, I still take Imp.Rev
Hey Zellviren... I was just looking at your logs.
I went to compare one of your actual Staghelm 10 Normal kills with one of my own to compare ability usage, etc.
Here's yours: http://worldoflogs.com/reports/79z5c...?s=6032&e=6452
15.8k eDPS
Here's mine: http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/i...?s=7123&e=7564
17.3k eDPS
One thing I note is that you do not use Rend for this fight, or keep it up with Thunderstruck TClaps. Especially with Akos providing the Mangle for 33% Bleed increases, you should really try out a spec that will enable you to keep good uptime. You can see from my parse that over our 7:20 fight, it provided me with over half a million extra damage (530,000 dmg). That works out to just over 7% of my DPS with 90% uptime on the ticks. Sometimes on Kitty phases when I'm working on the Cat Spirit adds, it does fall off, but for most encounters you should aim for as high uptime as possible on Rend, it really is greatness! I have a Power Auras Classic string that puts up a nice Rend symbol if my target does not have Rend, and then another string that will pop up a bouncing Rend icon if Rend is within 7 seconds of falling off. This makes it a lot easier to keep great uptime. If you'd like I can include that string for you.
Also in your Staghelm parse, your Devastate is your #1 dmg ability, which disagrees a bit with your 30% dmg from Heroic Strike in your 10 Heroic Shannox parse... I'm not sure why you vary so wildly with your HS dmg contribution, but it may be that you're heavily distracted on Shannox with movements/cooldown awareness that you're not making good use of your GCD abilities.
That being said, I completely get what you're saying about HS being too large of our arsenal. A great example of where this is bad is on fights like Ragnaros where the tanks are switching. When we're not taking hits, our rage suffers greatly and we lose 20% of our damage right off the bat because we cannot maintain a HS-rich rotation. Other tanks seem to be able to mostly keep their tanking rotations going strong, even for the most part Druid bears.
However this might not be such a huge problem! One way that I believe Blizzard was trying to offset this with was Vigilance providing you with Vigilance from 20% of the other tank's damage. I'm not entirely sure about whether or not 20% of the other tank's damage providing you with Vengeance is equivalent directly to losing ~20% of our overall (fully-Vengeanced) damage from cutting out all the HS spam, but it IS something. My feeling is that it is does provide at least some help when not tanking and mostly removes the penalty from us relying on rage for the HS spam. (In other words, just like no other class has such a Rage requirement to maintain our "bonus" Heroic Strike spam to fulfill our class-designated DPS/threat expectation, it's also true that no other class has a mechanism to boost our non-tanking DPS like Vigilance. This is obviously a counterbalance to our HS spam tanking usage.)
I think it would be extremely interested if Vigilance worked instead of providing Vengeance, instead it reset the cooldown on Heroic Strike as well as Taunt (although being the tank with infinite Taunts sometimes feels gimmicky). So we'd lose the Vengeance bonus but be able to more or less maintain our normal tanking ability usage spread even when not tanking... and so it wouldn't feel so weirdly different, where on the one hand, when tanking we spam HS and on the other hand when we're not we never use HS because it runs us dry on the very first use.
Anyhow, looking at your full raid log (including trash packs, buffing, etc) I don't see you casting Vigilance on anyone... do you not have this talent point? I think it's great for a lot of content, including Beth'tilac, Rhyolith, Alysrazor, Baleroc (although not for me personally, since I'm usually the "main" tank for that encounter with the Druid soaking/dodging the Decimation Blades) and especially Ragnaros!
Last edited by Ghladum; 09-15-2011 at 03:01 PM.
Sentinel. Druids are in a similar boat with Maul making up for ~ 20% of their damage dealt, but they have the option to swap to kitty and either unleash some mediocre dots or increase their white hits (also about 20% of their total damage dealt) by 80% for over 40 seconds. Somebody might argue that tank-damage isn't that important but especially on 10 man it actually makes a big difference, easily adding another 0.5 dps to your roster.
Or more, I'm approching 16K on majordomo, most of my DPS are not quite that close to hitting 32k.
I wasn't going to get into this thread again, but Ghladum's excellent post has convinced me otherwise.
I'm invariably not packing Thunderstruck for the Staghelm encounter, instead concentrating on a more single-target orientated spec. So while I could refresh Rend manually, I don't like the idea of wasting a GCD on it when I don't have to and have no chance of lighting up Sword and Board.One thing I note is that you do not use Rend for this fight, or keep it up with Thunderstruck TClaps. Especially with Akos providing the Mangle for 33% Bleed increases, you should really try out a spec that will enable you to keep good uptime.
Of course, I wouldn't use a Staghelm parse in general because I never do so well on that encounter. Essentially, I spend half my time calling out jumps or coordinating Burning Orbs (which our "handlers" are uncommonly poor at) which takes away attention from my rotation. I should do better, though, and I appreciate the advice.
I'm not 100% sure, but if you add my cleaves you'll probably get to around 30% of my damage at a guess.Also in your Staghelm parse, your Devastate is your #1 dmg ability, which disagrees a bit with your 30% dmg from Heroic Strike in your 10 Heroic Shannox parse...
I'm SO glad people finally see what I'm getting at and why Heroic Strike being so strong is a problem. It's not a rotational ability and, in fact, warriors currently only have two of those due to Revenge being so weak on single targets. When you toss in tank swap encounters, or any fight where you're not being beaten on for very long, warrior DPS plummets because you can't keep up with your best attack.A great example of where this is bad is on fights like Ragnaros where the tanks are switching. When we're not taking hits, our rage suffers greatly and we lose 20% of our damage right off the bat because we cannot maintain a HS-rich rotation.
It would have to have some kind of ICD but, also, wouldn't solve the problem of minimal rage. If you're suggesting a free Heroic Strike well... A significant number of damage adjustments would have to be made to stop it from being overpowered, but it would ALSO throw us further back into the RSD-inducing spammage we were promised the end of (but got anyway, thanks to Inner Rage).I think it would be extremely interested if Vigilance worked instead of providing Vengeance, instead it reset the cooldown on Heroic Strike as well as Taunt (although being the tank with infinite Taunts sometimes feels gimmicky).
I don't usually take it. The AP contribution is horribly weak and the taunt-refresh is not something I find myself ever needing. I'll likely take it for heroic Beth'tilac, but it's not a strong talent otherwise.Anyhow, looking at your full raid log (including trash packs, buffing, etc) I don't see you casting Vigilance on anyone... do you not have this talent point?
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You should try and use Thunder Clap to keep up Rend (through BnT), which actually comes before SnB fishing abilities.
Especially with a Bleed debuff, you should see way more DPS out of it.
Mists of Pandaria Protection Warrior SpreadsheetOriginally Posted by Ion
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I absolutley don´t get why there are so many voices here talking about Rev could/should replacing HS.
Since HS is not GCD based it does not compete with any other ability, so rage given, you can use it simultaneosly to every second (or during IR to every) GCD ability. That its damage contribution is very high under these circumstances is not a mystery.
Secondly HS is a rage burner. Low damage for high rage. Revenge is a rage saver with good damage for the low amount of rage it costs. So...how could Revenge *ever* be a replacement for HS?


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Theater Review | 'South Pacific'
Optimist Awash in the Tropics
Love blossoms fast and early in Bartlett Sher's rapturous revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "South Pacific."April 4, 2008 theaterReview
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February 21, 2014, Friday
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February 16, 2014, Sunday
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January 7, 2014, Tuesday
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October 17, 2013, Thursday
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June 26, 2013, Wednesday
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Just bad timing. It is possible for him to turn to inject someone someone, and spray as he turns.
We seem to be having a problem with grob turning and spraying multiple ppl and we dont know why hes turning no one is pulling agro cany help is appreciated
Just bad timing. It is possible for him to turn to inject someone someone, and spray as he turns.
In the strats I read, the boss does the Slime Spray in a 180 degree. In the video, I saw your ranged and some healers in the front and on the sides of the boss in that 180 degree zone. However, they did not get a fall out slime. Is there a range to the slime spray?... like 180 degrees in front IF you are within melee range?... 10 yards or something?
Thanks for the great video. We spent about an hour on him on Saturday (Roughly 5 or 6 tries) before we logged for the night. I watched this video, implemented it into out stratagy on Sunday and we dropped him on the 2nd try. Cider, thanks for the video. These are a great help.
Excellent video and strategy so far, makes Naxx a joke in a lot of respects, cept for this guy..
my raid group has been working hard on this guy, and well we just arent getting him.
I am an Enhance Shaman, and the rest of the raid consists of 2 Ret Paladins, Warrior MT, DK OT, Holy Priest, Holy Paladin, Resto Shaman, Mage and Rogue.
I think we are just too melee heavy for that final 20%, I am considering just ignoring the slimes at 20% and burning the boss as is suggested in a previous post, but any further suggestions would be really helpful.
lore we are the same as you we get him to 15% 3 times now and he speeds up his injects and in doing this when he turns around he sprays and there are too many adds up...we have wiped 15 times on him,
we have cleared all other bosses up until this guy in the suggested raid progression its really frustrating us...any tips..
Last night our group was myself MT warrior tank, OT was pally..
melee dps warrior and rougue
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now when the adds come up should all dps kill them and then go back to boss or should it just be ranged ?
Also should ranged just stay in the middle unless they are infected...?
Any help is great
My guild is stuck on this particular boss. When he gets to 20% and starts injecting three people at a time even with four healers, we cant seem to keep up. I know our healrs are geared enough. We just run out of room to lay the clouds down. Any suggestions on how to do this.
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Great videos Cinder - Thank you very much for these.
I do have a question regarding this fight. I note that you are moving quite far back after every cloud drop. Just to confirm, are your raid members who get injected, running into the space between this newly dropped cloud, and the previously dropped expanding cloud?
When my guild tried this a couple days back, I (as a melee) found that it was very hard to find an empty spot near the wall that I could quickly get to. I'd often end up running back beyond 3-4 cloud spawns in order to find a safe zone.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
My group was having trouble with getting him down before the soft enrage wiped us.
Our solution was to have a holy preist pwshield the deseased raid member and dispell the desease when the person was in a safe spot behind the boss. This gave 4 or 5 extra seconds of dps time for each person that gets the desease. The person doing the dispelling will obviously have to heal their dispell target as well.
This fight is not heal intensive at all as long as you dont hit the soft enrage, dispelling the desease will make up for the lack of dps time, if you have a group with 3 heals.
how this isnt the last boss ill never know, we had issues with the slimes when he randomly turns and sprays the melle, but being a dedicated guild we wiped 25 times and got him on the 26th attempt, now bare in mind we dont suck, were now 15/15 in naxx, got kel down in 2 attempts and 1 shotted other bosses ( im speaking about 10 man. )
i think he will get nerfed imo he needs it.
Fat bastard ate our lunch tonight. I rewatched the video and got a better handle on what I need to be doing. I was only moving him far enough to give the melee room to operate but it didn't leave near enough room to allow people to move in and drop thier mutating poison.
In the end, we got him to 25% then went and kicked the crap out of Sartharion for free loot and badges. We still have DPS issues and they may come into play but I didn't get a DBM warning of any kind on the 25% pull.
So...I think we have this, again, with the help of the project Marmot videos and discussion. We'll see next Sunday.
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Have your healer that is assigned to injected people call out as each person is injected, keep the gaps for safe explosion spots, and all DPS kill the Slimes as soon as they spawn.
The only time I've ever seen multiple spawn is when people get in the way, I don't believe the attack is implemented so poorly that he will use it when he is injecting people, its more likely that your melee is getting to close in/not adjusting when the boss takes a few steps back.
After the first week in 10 man wiping, waiting for it to click for people that standing in the AoE after they explode is bad you should have him down to a tee.
I don't believe we've ever had a wipe to him in 25s following the simple steps laid out above.
When kiting him, I am very careful to move a set distance and stop, even stuttering back when he goes goofy but somewhere in there, he seems to over run me and adjust. While he repositions, he may hose the raid and slimes are everywhere. I think its just something I have to be a little creative with and the raid will have to deal with.
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We tried this on a PUG while following the advice and were amazed to find that nobody could follow directions. A major problem happened to be that people were staying in the clouds that we all knew were the major killer. I happened to find out the reason for the confusion we suffered on a fluke while adjusting my video settings.
If effects are not turned up it makes the poison clouds extremely hard to see (also I was astonished to see the pancakes that DKs dropped in DD and other spells I was missing). This may be one of the few battles that really requires HIGH effects as the clouds become BRIGHT green without any room to question where their limits are. I'm sure this has caused some trouble with PUGs elsewhere and I hope this information helps you.
We are having trouble on this boss in the 10 man mode after he hits 30% and starts to inject 4 players, maybe it is something we are doing or not doing is there anything you can suggest to help us out. or setup is generally
warrior mt, warrior ot, mage(myself) shammy heals, drood heals, random healer (any class), hunter, hance shammy, lock, boomkin druid
Alright hi i noticed that your raid members when they get the disease and run to the spot where they need to go there always toped off which is needed but when the disease goes off your raid members arent getting hurt but when my raid members to it they get hurt alot or is it just the druid healer because my raid doesnt have a druid healer...
well its just a quick ? but if a hunters pet gets hit could it be the reason more adds spawn in?
8th attempt with pug.
we run flawlessly till 19%, both ranged dps (yes we only had 2) die. it's okay guys, keep going.
Shaman healer d/c's and dies, healers slowly die, BURN BURN BURN.
0%... ZOMG ZOMG ZOMG... prot pally last one up... dies... 1210/2928450......... grobbulus survived with friggen 1210 hp...
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First things first--I must apologize for the copious typographical errors in the OKC report--I had to type that thing so frickin' fast because of the line of peeved tourists, complaining about the "biker midget" hogging the computer. I mean, really! First of all, the correct term is "little person." And second of all, I'm not a little person--I'm just remarkably short. Boy, the nerve of some people. Had to get that off my chest.
Chris and I hit the road bright and early to head out from Oklahoma City--I was tempted to stop at the National Cowboy Museum, bested only by the National Banjo Museum... but given the tight time frame, I'll have to save those for another day. We were still high on endorphins from the show the night before--well, at our age, it was really more like a heavy metal hangover, but we were really anxious to hear a full setlist on Saturday, given that to the best of our knowledge, Kansas didn't have a cowboy curfew.
We were very disappointed that "The Rowdy Beaver", a local eatery, was out of business. We settled for some outstanding BBQ at the Hog Wild Pit BBQ. [I even thought fondly of one recent cranky poster on the slamboard lately, as we passed by the "Bite Me BBQ" stand.] Wichita ain't exactly metropolis--it does have Sonic drive-ins every twenty-feet, which goes a long way in my book--but we were stunned how hard it was to find Lake Afton, which literally, was NOT on the map. G-d bless google and GPS, we made our way to Lake Afton (blink and you would have missed it) and I have to tell ya, it was one of those moments where I really thought it was going to get ugly fast.
Now some of you know, I work in health emergency management, and I'm also a trained National Weather Service-certified Storm Spotter. Going to Kansas...I felt like I had "graduated." But nothing can truly prepare you for that moment where you see the sky...and the color of those dark clouds...and see lightning that makes you want to convert and go to church. The festival allowed concert goers to leave the site to take cover in their vehicles, which we opted to do for several hours to get out of the rain and wind. The good news--at least the temperature dropped about 20 degrees from blistering 100+ to suddenly the 80's.
Now Lake Afton itself: we didn't see a lake. We saw a big field. A big, big.....field. With a fence and two sound stages....and small handful of local food vendors. Again...the fried pickle and ice cream from the same cart, go figure. But the vendors were all quite friendly and happy to have some business--the rain had obviously deterred the crowd. At 7:00pm, more than 6 hours after gates opened, there were just small handfuls of people. We calculated that there almost as many portapotties as people--personally, that's a ratio that I can appreciate, given how much water I consume, but we were disappointed at the turnout.
Chris aka Captain Howdy, visited the box office, which was, in truth: A box. It was one of those small 15' cargo containers on the back of a truck, with a hole cut out in the side for the walk-up window. But I give those Kansas gals credit, they had a live doppler feed and were watching the weather very carefully. And then we have the main stage. This one deserves a little attention.
There were two very peculiar things about this stage.
1. It was completely open and exposed. No rain cover, nothing. I've never seen that before--even at the most low budget street festivals. This turned out to be the festival's real demise, but more on that later.
2. When you reached the front row barricade, it was obvious that there was something seriously wrong here. I usually alternate my position between M.A.M's mic and Jay Jay's mic. I walked up to the front, and there was this chain-link fenced in area, sort of a cross between a goat pen and a detention holding area, and it spanned ALL the way from the edge of stage right (Eddie's side) to halfway between Dee's mic and M.A.M's mic, and then ran back about 40 feet. And in this pen there were some chairs....E I E I O.... and a Fuck! Fuck! here and a WHATTHEFUCK there.... it was the V.I.P. area! There was one person sitting there--one very mellow fellow, wearing a hat that read "FUCK YOU". So all the rest of us crammed into this tiny area by M.A.M.s mic....and one lone bastard sat in the V.I.P. pen. I asked the box office what it would cost for me to upgrade, for this last night of the show, to access the "pen", and was told $125, in addition to the $50 I had already shelled out. AH! Now I understand the "FUCK YOU" hat. My sentiments exactly.
They wanted me to pay $175 to bake in the sun, in the mud, for that??!?!. I mean, at least Oklahoma had misting showers, A/C tents...lots of other VIP perks. Their VIP section was the first 15 feet of stage, and we had a perfectly good view behind them. It didn't make sense to any of us--why not fence off the first fifteen feet across the stage--but to essentially stuff the entire crowd stage left was just plain STOOPID.
Oh, and speaking of STOOPID....let's talk a little more about the concert promoters and that lovely exposed stage. I've seen shows in the rain--we all have--I've never seen anything like this. They put the tarps on, almost as an afterthought, after the rains began, and it was truly the beginning of the end. There were so many technical glitches, I don't know where to begin, but I'll start with this: TWISTED SISTER WAS NOT TO BLAME. Yesterday, blame it on the heat? well, last night, blame it on the rain. and the morons at the Midwest Rock Festival. We ALL knew it was going to rain...my own MOTHER called me to tell me to pack some raingear!
So here we go: delay after delay after delay. And we hear......nothing. No announcements, no communication, nothing. The fans who were "camped" out by the stage were pleading with the road crew--tell us SOMETHING! ANYTHING! They could have at least told us they were sorry about the delays. nothing.
Finally, we start to see the tarps come off, and Y & T takes the small stage. They sounded absolutely fantastic--I held our spot at the front while Chris went to get a closer look. Y & T is often underrated, and undeservedly so--they did a great set.
We got bad news....and more bad news. Bad news: KIX was unable to make it and had to cancel.
More bad news: Winger showed up.
Okay, okay, that's not very fair--the crowd just loved Winger. And I was very impressed with some of the individual talent in Winger--the guitarist in particular. But a band is more than an army of one, and what I really dislike about Winger: I hate their stage presence, band "personality" and their songs. They sounded a lot heavier live than I had anticipated, which was a good thing, but they are just a victim of bad song-writing. "she's only 17" is absolutely my LEAST favorite song in the entire heavy metal world.
Winger's idea of showing the crowd appreciation? The guitarist came out onstage after the band went off...not for a musical encore or to throw some picks.... he chugs a beer and tosses the can out in the audience. Nice. Class act. The only thing more disgusting was the fan who caught it...and began licking the rim like it was some elixir from the fountain of youth. Ewww.
The concert promoters were selling "Poser Passes"...which meant for $20 more dollars, you could watch the show from an elevated platform on the stage.
Kinda cool...but when I asked if it would get me access to the Twisted view, they said "No Twisted Sister didn't go for it." I offered, "perhaps if you didn't call it a POSER pass???!!"
Oh, and I must say a few words here about the people of Kansas. Here I thought that the folks of the midwest were these wholesome, milk-n-cookies crowd--like....oh....flowing wheat fields....America's hardworking farms...Dorothy and Toto! I was informed, by the local Kansas residents, and I quote: "Dorothy was a whore. And she was doing her dog, too."
This festival was three days long and incorporated camping as well as "afterparties" in the big field. I heard stories....I saw some photos...and I pray that what happened in Kansas stays in Kansas. Now I'm not a prude, folks--in my younger days, I actually worked in a sex club in San Francisco (oh please, I was a bar back and worked the door. I know what you're thinking!) so it takes a lot to shock me. But what I witnessed in Kansas--a lot of drug use...excessive boozing...and public sex...saddened me. it wasn't rock n' roll.. it was just plain GROSS. I wanted to wear a shirt that read: DON'T show me your titties! On my way to the port-a-johns, I was offered everything from meth to some services that I won't go into detail here. I asked the very nice folks around me, and they explained that "there just ain't much to do here!" Holy shit. How about get a hobby or something? Everyone I talked to told me how much they hated living in Kansas...but it was their home, so they didn't want to live anywhere else. I get that.
Okay, okay. more show. Fuel took the small stage--honestly, I barely listened to them because it was quite dark outside and getting late--we were now past 11:00 pm and the rain started to fall. Then the mischief really began. We could hear the feedback before the band ever took the stage. The monitors were shorting out...the lights were shorting out..... it was a bad scene, folks. It was just plain tragic that we had great sound through Winger (just bad music) and now, with the boys ready to knock it out of the park, the sound system was taking a proverbial crap. Our own Mr. Stanton, the true class act that he is, came onstage and explained to the crowd what was happening, and that as soon as they could get it fixed, they would take the stage. (the concert producers should take a page from his playbook!)
They raffled off some guitars onstage--including a special edition Jay Jay French pinkburst--the proceeds went to building a park. Well, that's nice, actually. Let's hope the kids play ball in the park because I don't want to think about what else might be going on there given some of those afterparty stories.
Finally, at long last, the lights went down--with what seemed like fifteen techs still working onstage--and Long Way To The Top came on. And no one started cheering--I realized that most had never seen Twisted before, so they didn't know that Long Way was the clue to start going crazy! When the "radio" changed to "Man On the Silver Mountain", they still didn't get it....the guy next to me says, "why are we listening to the radio? this sucks!" I said "Relax dude, this is how the show starts..." good grief. It really loses something when you have to explain it.
So let's get the formality out of the way: here's, as Dee put it, "the soggy setlist"
1. Come Out and Play
2. The Kids Are Back
3. Stay Hungry
4. Captain Howdy
5. Shoot 'Em Down
6. You Can't Stop Rock N' Roll
7. We're Not Gonna Take It
8. The Price
9. Burn in Hell
Encore 1: I Wanna Rock
Encore 2: S.M.F.
Yes, I know it's short. I'll explain...
First of all--here I was, right in the front, and I couldn't see a damn thing. This enormous security guy posts himself right in front of us, and we literally saw almost NOTHING all night but his chest. lovely. Then they brought the V.I.P.s into the security pit to watch the show for three songs before they returned to their goat corral, so again, my view obscured. There were some serious sound issues due to the wet weather...and lights were messed up too. Compared to the flawless lighting job in Oklahoma (forgot to mention it, but the lighting was really excellent in Oklahoma), there was a spotlight on the stage right in Dee's face. He asked nicely to kill the light. He did. Nicely. Dee doesn't ask nicely twice....halfway into 'The Kids Are Back", Dee kicks that sucker through the goalposts. Or more accurately, into the front row pit of the V.I.P. section. See that folks? Got more than ya bargained for, didn't ya? Maybe that will get your asses up and off those V.I.P. folding chairs!
At least there were no curfews or profanity ordinances--Dee made up for it last night, and he was plenty pissed about the circumstances. His first words to us: "Well, this is fucked!" The stage was wet, the equipment was wet....but in Dee's words: "If you sick mutha fuckas can stand in the rain, we can stand in the rain..." Off course, this led to a string of great Dee-isms: "I"ve got to do the Tim Conway shuffle....it's so slippery up here....if I fall and break my neck you mutha fuckas will have it posted on youtube within minutes..." [Note to Dee: most of that crowd was too young to know Tim Conway, but Chris and I appreciated the reference...]
The water really started becoming an issue--A.J....the sound of thunder, who I've seen spin the sticks more times than I can count....slipped and fumbled the stick, sending it unpoetically stageward. He really made a valiant attempt to recover it, but there was just too much rain. Every time Mark pounded his bass, you could see a spray of water from it, and even he looked as if he was having some challenges hitting those wet strings. Speaking of challenges, I was getting annoyed as well with the rain. It was so dark and wet....{go ahead: "HOW DARK AND WET WAS IT?} I had to scribble my notes under a ziplock baggy and I had a headlamp around my neck so I could see what I was writing! oh the sacrifices.....
Even so, the band played on...
Dee sounded fantastic, Eddie, in spite of a sputtering amp and a dead monitor, continued to nail down the solos, and his and Jay Jay's work on "You Can't Stop Rock and Roll" was blistering. "Burn In Hell" was one of the best renditions they've done since Plymouth, MA--honestly, rain, bad sound, bizarre half-crowd--they still kicked some serious ass.
"We're Not Gonna Take It" is always a crowd favorite, and the crowd just screamed those lyrics out. Then I saw something that just left a pit in my stomach. It was Danny--giving them the "cut it short" signal. Jay Jay said some quick thanks to the audience--very heartfelt. Those were some good fans to stick it out through that whole mess--and I noticed again, when Jay Jay handed a pick to the security guard, and pointed out who in the audience he wanted to give it to. That just moves me, every time.
Dee then noticed the "goat pen"--and he asked us in the front what it was all about--and we said "V.I.P." Says the Snide One, "Oh. V.I.P. okay then.." and walks over them and says, "VIP? you're dead! this guy's got his finger in his nose...this one's wanking off.. That was 'We're Not Gonna Take It" ! Get off your asses!"
And then....Eddie's whole system went dead. All hail the road crew--they rushed in like a racing pit and started working as best as they could... so Dee did an impromptu "Question and Answer Period with Twisted Sister". So for the last time folks: Yes, it's his real hair! With the guitar back "on', Dee jinxed it by saying "Eddie's now going to dazzle you with his solo..." And dazzle he did. Get this, folks. It was the moment that made the ENTIRE trip worthwhile...the heat, the rain, the sound problems, the delays, the shortlist.....the stories of people screwing barnyard animals--all that we suffered through--all made okay by this:
During "The Price," right before Eddie's big solo, his guitar just goes dead. I mean, nothing....not a hum. Some bands would have just said "Screw it, let's go raid the mini-bar and finish off the Snickers". Some bands would have just glossed over the solo and moved on. Other guitarists would have stepped in, and stolen the solo to keep the song going. But not Twisted.
In a rare and special moment, Jay Jay saw what happened...he dashed over...and lightning quick, he stripped off his Les Paul Pinkburst and swapped guitars with Eddie. Christ, I swear to you, I'm tearing up typing this.... Eddie played his solo on Jay Jay's guitar and it has never sounded better to me. To see Eddie with Jay's guitar, and that bullseye Fender around Jay Jay as he stood by the stack, frantically trouble shooting it: it was unbelievable. They didn't miss a single note. It was one of those exquisite moments onstage that for those of us who witnessed it, we will remember it always. It's been a long time, SMFs, but last night--the band had a cohesive bond of brotherhood that looked like it was, well, the way it should be. Ohferchrissake, I'm making myself cry. This is pathetic.
I clutched that moment, etched it into my memory--while I would rather like to forget Wichita, I will never forget the magic I saw onstage last night. I really hope SOMEONE has got a photo or video of that.
And then....the plug got pulled. Another severe storm was due to come our way any minute. Or as Dee put it, "Mother Nature is a bitch" and asked aloud, "why she always seem to take a shit on Twisted Sister at all these outdoor shows?" And so, Dee lead the crowd in giving Mother Nature the flying finger salute, as we chanted "Fuck You" skyward. Dee pointed upwards, and parted with "I'll shit on your party one day, too!" He closed with S.M.F. as an anxious Danny Stanton motioned them to hurry off. Dee was so rushed, he admittedly forgot the words to the first verse....Mark expressed himself by making a microphone pretzel out of his stand, and we left with about an hour of music but a far cry from the night before, and sadly, no time for the Dio tribute. (Probably the shortest band intro I've ever heard...."
Well...at least no one was arrested for profanity. there's always that.
Tip of the hat to Cory in the front row--very nice gentlemen--and the interesting folks who surrounded us. Donna from CT was there as well--I'm looking forward to hearing her take on things.
Well, that's it for the only two domestic U.S. shows this year, until hopefully Christmas time when we'll have some yuletide festivities. As my plane left Kansas, the sirius satellite radio station Hair Nation played "Be Crool to Your School" and I kid you not, as my plane touched down at Baltimore-Washington International, the last note of "We're Not Gonna Take It" was playing.
Dorothy may have been a whore, but she was right.
There's no place like home.
I clicked my boots together three times, took a two hour nap, and left a sleeping Captain Howdy as I made way to the airport for my morning flight.
This is the Armadillo...your faithful Official UNOfficial Twisted Sister road reporter... trotting off....to go back to the airport for my next flight out on business.
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Friday, August 21, 2009
Friday Discussion: Gaming Company Support
Post-Gen Con hangover or no, we still have some Friday Discussion lined up here at RPG Blog 2. Nothing serious, nothing earth-shattering, just some gamers talking about gaming, killing time until the weekend.
Today's topic is thus: What sort of support do you expect out of a gaming company? Free support downloads? Cheap/free pdfs for buying a print copy? A well-run message board for fans? That personal touch? A respectful attitude towards your input? In a time where there are so many companies vying for your gaming dollar, what do you consider as adequate company support of a product you've purchased?
Let that sense of entitlement flow below, and have a great weekend!
12 comments:
- Schuyler said...
Honestly, if I pour $40, $50, even $60 per book into a game I expect some sort of customer service. If I have an issue with a part of the system that seems to be a widespread issue I want the company to take heed and do something to change things. Or make my $35 book all I need. I didn't mind the $50 tag on Pathfinder especially since it included all the player and GM information. And Paizo seems to actually like its customers. And oh yeah it has a $10 pdf.
I know that was rambling and seamless but I tried.
- August 21, 2009 at 7:39 AM
- Dyson Logos said...
Considering how little we pay for these gaming books, I don't expect anything from the companies that sell them to us.
But I think this is a side-effect of my love for out-of-date games. I prefer games that are not actively supported (so there won't be any new books showing up for the game I'm running or playing while I play it), so I don't expect active support.
Accounting for inflation, we were spending $45 back in '81 for a 64 page rule book and short module. I didn't expect customer service back then, I can't really expect much difference now. And I don't.
It's a nice bonus when the publisher has free downloads on their site. But what I'm NOT looking for is publisher forums (let the fan forums handle that).
With the changing technology, I would always appreciate a (searchable) PDF version of the rules included with every purchase.
But as I said, to be honest I don't expect much. RPGs are cheaper now than they were when I started gaming. I don't expect to keep getting more for less.
- August 21, 2009 at 8:26 AM
- NeoWolf said...
Really all that I EXPECT is errata. I tend to also at least wanna see character sheet pdfs to download.
Now anything beyond that, while not expected, is of course nice. Stellar customer support and outreach is going to make me appreciate a company all the more.
- August 21, 2009 at 9:17 AM
- WalkerP said...
Really, I don't expect that much myself, in terms of customer service. I think some of the smaller companies fall down on communication in the early stages of a game's development, but with the internet today, you can usually pick up the pieces of rumours and figure out what's going on. Most small companies are all gamers themselves and totally into their product, so they love to talk about it and often come back with excellent responses to any customer questions. We're lucky that way.
- August 21, 2009 at 9:24 AM
- NeoWolf said...
In retrospect, perhaps it's sad that the first and foremost thing I expect is eratta. Human error is hard to rule out, but to always expect it.. yeesh!
- August 21, 2009 at 10:55 AM
- Helmsman said...
I think honestly the only thing I truly expect from a game company is a medium for the company to interact with it's fans. A forum, a commentable blog, some of the developers on twitter... whatever. Grass roots marketing is the foundation of the RPG advertising, and any company that can't or won't do that is doomed to obscurity.
- August 21, 2009 at 12:22 PM
- James V said...
I don't think I that demanding as a consumer. I want a company to give me:
Products I want to buy.
Good customer service when things go wrong.
The rest doesn't matter to me as much.
- August 21, 2009 at 1:59 PM
- Joseph said...
Message boards, pdfs, free downloads... I don't care about any of that stuff.
The absolute, most important thing for me is keeping to a release schedule. You say something is coming out on a given date? Get it out. No excuses.
- August 21, 2009 at 2:00 PM
- James V said...
The absolute, most important thing for me is keeping to a release schedule. You say something is coming out on a given date? Get it out. No excuses.
I'm sure Mechanoid Space will come out some day. 15-plus years is not too long to wait for a Palladium Books masterpiece!
*tongue lodged firmly in cheek*
Even late products don't bother me so much, as long as I like it.
- August 21, 2009 at 2:12 PM
- E.G.Palmer said...
I guess product support isn't something I've ever thought about. At least as far as it concerns gaming materials. I mean, other than maybe missing pages, what can go wrong with a module? I won't buy anything without reading it, so, if it sucks, it's not a problem. If I do buy something and it has writing problems, I'll just fix it myself. I'm going to change things anyway.
I suppose I would like a message board that I could talk to the writers on. Just so I'd know if they were dicks. I'd rather not give my money to guys who are dicks.
- August 21, 2009 at 8:39 PM
- Dane of War said...
Decent company support to me is a couple of things, Zach.
If I buy a print copy, I'd like to get not only a printer-friendly PDF - but a regular bells n' whistles version as well.
I'd like to have access to free, up-to-date support and errata, too.
And if I drop any amount of money on a print copy, I expect that I'm getting the finished product. I don't want to read glaring typos, find that there are missing rules, or find out that in the mere space of a year I have to get a whole new edition.
Forums, though... those don't interest me. If the creators have a blog where I can interact with them, cool.
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In our stunning Barca Bar, let our experienced Cocktails Masters dazzle you with their mixing skills, whilst you learn about the history of cocktails with your friends. Discover the secrets behind the alchemy of cocktail making, which ingredients mix together to create a tantalising liquid and sample some of our premium spirits.
Continue your bartender experience by mixing your own Mojito behind the bar, before selecting ingredients to build your own concoction to be crowned Cocktail Champion. The winner's cocktail will appear on the menu and sold in Barca for the rest of the week, so the stakes are high!
£20 per person, for groups of up to ten people. For larger parties please contact us and we can tailor make a private cocktail masterclass. Cocktail Evenings take place on Friday night, places must be booked and paid in advance.


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This year we shall once more be holding the event in the beautiful environs of the University of Central Lancashires Westleigh Conference Centre, located in a fully modernised 19th century manor house on the outskirts of Preston. The venue is just a 5 minute drive from the Ibis hotel it means attendees who choose to overnight get to spend less time traveling and more time socialising. As always, the conference is free as we shall keep you up to date on speakers as and when we can confirm them.
Tickets will be available from next week - Remember it's free to attend
Confirmed speakers are:
- Microsoft - Windows and Server 8
- Frambozenbier - An introduction to the Raspberry Pi
- Rick Byers - The EU Cookie Law
- Adobe - Adobe CS6
- Impero - BYOD
- SmoothWall - Current internet security issues
- Epson - Subject TBC
We shall also have tables exhibiting products and services from our speakers and other companies. These include:
Schools Broadband
Travel and hotels
As usual we recommend that you stay at the Ibis Preston North which is comfortable, cheap and a mere 5 minute drive from the venue: http://www.ibishotel.com/gb/hotel-31...rth/index.shtm
The venue is easy to get to and you can get the location and directions from this site here:
And for those of you using sat-nav you can use this address to find your way:
Westleigh Conference Centre
Lea Road
For those that cannot attend
We will be streaming the conference online courtesy of Adobe and Adobe Connect. More details are to follow about the streaming service.
If you have a ticket but cannot attend after all
Please please contact us ASAP as we can usually allocate your space to another member, the sooner you let us know the faster we can fill the vacant slot.