{"id":71,"date":"2008-05-01T13:45:36","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T13:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/random-average.com\/?p=71"},"modified":"2008-05-01T13:45:36","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T13:45:36","slug":"a-couple-screenshots-from-world-of-warcraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2008\/05\/a-couple-screenshots-from-world-of-warcraft\/","title":{"rendered":"A couple screenshots from World of Warcraft"},"content":{"rendered":"

Really, what is an MMO but a mini-vacation? And what should you do on a vacation? You take pictures.<\/i>
\nI’ll have some screenies from LotRO soon as well, because they are much prettier. WoW is much more comic-book style, but pretty in it’s own way… or maybe I’m just a nerd.
\n\"WoW_Prince<\/a>
\nThis image is from a Karazhan run that, judging from the gear I’m wearing and who I’m grouped with, was probably about 2 or 3 months ago. First, I like this picture because it’s kind of a heroic action shot: Grezzk has just released an arrow at Prince Malcheezar, Octan’s water elemental is blasting an ice bolt over my head at the target… it’s cool.
\nSecond, it’s a pretty good shot of my customized user interface in action. I’ve tweaked the look of the game a lot from the default (thanks to Blizzard making the UI pretty much open-source for developers to mess with at will and release addons for). If you click on the picture above, it links to the Flickr page where I’ve made a bunch of notes on the elements in the picture, just because I’ve never done that before, and it was pretty fun to do.
\nNext…
\n\"WoW_I-killed-dr-boom\"<\/a>
\nWhoops. I killed Dr. Boom.
\nWho’s Dr. Boom? Officially,<\/b> he’s a guy you’re supposed to kill in this one quest in Netherstorm — a mad goblin who specializes in making exploding robots or something. The thing is, the guy has like like a million-zillion hit points, so in the quest you get some special bombs that you can chuck at him if you can get close enough — hit him with like four of them and he goes down. Unofficially<\/b>, his stupidly high health and the fact that he never aggros on you — just surrounds himself with bombs — means that ranged DPS like mages and hunters can use him to test out new shot rotations with a DPS-meter running to see what options do more damage, without worrying about (a) killing your target or (b) dying.
\nI had cause to use him for that purpose last weekend.
\nTurns out, you will eventually have to worry about (a).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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