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		<title>By: Goose Igaly</title>
		<link>http://thebigbearbutt.com/2013/03/22/death-knight-redux/comment-page-1/#comment-92018</link>
		<dc:creator>Goose Igaly</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 23:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bear:

Appreciate the shout out, man.  Hate I ended up logging before you wanted to run again.  Maybe next time.  My heals/tank are always at your disposal.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bear:</p>
<p>Appreciate the shout out, man.  Hate I ended up logging before you wanted to run again.  Maybe next time.  My heals/tank are always at your disposal.</p>
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		<title>By: bigbearbutt</title>
		<link>http://thebigbearbutt.com/2013/03/22/death-knight-redux/comment-page-1/#comment-91996</link>
		<dc:creator>bigbearbutt</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 17:04:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That sounds like fun!

I have stopped playing my monk at level 20. I have no time for alts right now, and I still have it in mind to wait until I get can the fist weapon heirlooms from the Brawlers Guild before I pick him up again.

I might also need to figure out a good transmog to GO with those fist weapon heirlooms, too. :)]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That sounds like fun!</p>
<p>I have stopped playing my monk at level 20. I have no time for alts right now, and I still have it in mind to wait until I get can the fist weapon heirlooms from the Brawlers Guild before I pick him up again.</p>
<p>I might also need to figure out a good transmog to GO with those fist weapon heirlooms, too. :)</p>
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		<title>By: Iocane</title>
		<link>http://thebigbearbutt.com/2013/03/22/death-knight-redux/comment-page-1/#comment-91976</link>
		<dc:creator>Iocane</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#039;ve actually been levelling a monk with a guildy, letting him tank us through dungeons, and that&#039;s been a lot of fun. A monk in heirlooms does ridiculous damage, and I know him well enough that if I mess up and pull something extra because I&#039;m still struggling with Flying Serpent Kick, I&#039;m 99% certain there&#039;s ridiculous laughter on his end of the computer. That takes a lot of the pressure off.

I wouldn&#039;t mind being battletag friends, although I&#039;m reasonably sure that our schedules would rarely sync up. Just having that extra option would be quite nice. :)]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve actually been levelling a monk with a guildy, letting him tank us through dungeons, and that&#8217;s been a lot of fun. A monk in heirlooms does ridiculous damage, and I know him well enough that if I mess up and pull something extra because I&#8217;m still struggling with Flying Serpent Kick, I&#8217;m 99% certain there&#8217;s ridiculous laughter on his end of the computer. That takes a lot of the pressure off.</p>
<p>I wouldn&#8217;t mind being battletag friends, although I&#8217;m reasonably sure that our schedules would rarely sync up. Just having that extra option would be quite nice. :)</p>
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		<title>By: Rauxis</title>
		<link>http://thebigbearbutt.com/2013/03/22/death-knight-redux/comment-page-1/#comment-91852</link>
		<dc:creator>Rauxis</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 18:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[*chuckle* Bear, you are one of the people I&#039;d happily tank for. At the moment I stay away from WoW because the dailies broke me, except for running with/for people I know and like. If you know it ahead of time shoot me an e-mail. I never have a problem with people asking for help, as long as they understand that you are not always available. So just ask :)

Rauxis, chosen of CAT]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>*chuckle* Bear, you are one of the people I&#8217;d happily tank for. At the moment I stay away from WoW because the dailies broke me, except for running with/for people I know and like. If you know it ahead of time shoot me an e-mail. I never have a problem with people asking for help, as long as they understand that you are not always available. So just ask :)</p>
<p>Rauxis, chosen of CAT</p>
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		<title>By: Theodoxus</title>
		<link>http://thebigbearbutt.com/2013/03/22/death-knight-redux/comment-page-1/#comment-91836</link>
		<dc:creator>Theodoxus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not replying directly to you, BBB, since I&#039;m horde and we haven&#039;t run together (though i did talk to you once on my baby priest) - but this, in general, is what I run into as well - and I wanted to reiterate.

If I ask you (general you) if you&#039;d like to run heroics or a scenario or LFR, and you tell me know - and I go ahead and queue up for them, I&#039;m not disrespecting you, I&#039;m simply on a different schedule, and will be more than happy to group up once I&#039;m done if you&#039;re available.

Please don&#039;t hate me because I&#039;m not waiting around for 20 minutes twiddling my thumbs while you finish mining or pet battling or soloing something for transmog.  Likewise, I&#039;m not hating you for doing those things in the first place.

It still astonishes me how self-centered people can be when everything isn&#039;t dropped RIGHT NOW to go do something - if it isn&#039;t on the calendar, it isn&#039;t a priority.

Wow, that ended up more ranty than I expected...  hrmm..  well, thanks for letting me get that off my chest :)]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not replying directly to you, BBB, since I&#8217;m horde and we haven&#8217;t run together (though i did talk to you once on my baby priest) &#8211; but this, in general, is what I run into as well &#8211; and I wanted to reiterate.</p>
<p>If I ask you (general you) if you&#8217;d like to run heroics or a scenario or LFR, and you tell me know &#8211; and I go ahead and queue up for them, I&#8217;m not disrespecting you, I&#8217;m simply on a different schedule, and will be more than happy to group up once I&#8217;m done if you&#8217;re available.</p>
<p>Please don&#8217;t hate me because I&#8217;m not waiting around for 20 minutes twiddling my thumbs while you finish mining or pet battling or soloing something for transmog.  Likewise, I&#8217;m not hating you for doing those things in the first place.</p>
<p>It still astonishes me how self-centered people can be when everything isn&#8217;t dropped RIGHT NOW to go do something &#8211; if it isn&#8217;t on the calendar, it isn&#8217;t a priority.</p>
<p>Wow, that ended up more ranty than I expected&#8230;  hrmm..  well, thanks for letting me get that off my chest :)</p>
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		<title>By: bigbearbutt</title>
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		<dc:creator>bigbearbutt</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have actually picked up my druid a few more times, and I still don&#039;t enjoy it. I don&#039;t know if I&#039;m simply stuck in the past and can&#039;t adapt, but I don&#039;t like the feel, it&#039;s not fun. It&#039;s miserable, and the contrast between how it feels now compared the the unmitigated (snicker) joy I had before on my Druid makes it worse. 

Believe me when I say I don&#039;t like not playing my &#039;real&#039; main.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have actually picked up my druid a few more times, and I still don&#8217;t enjoy it. I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;m simply stuck in the past and can&#8217;t adapt, but I don&#8217;t like the feel, it&#8217;s not fun. It&#8217;s miserable, and the contrast between how it feels now compared the the unmitigated (snicker) joy I had before on my Druid makes it worse. </p>
<p>Believe me when I say I don&#8217;t like not playing my &#8216;real&#8217; main.</p>
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		<title>By: bigbearbutt</title>
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		<dc:creator>bigbearbutt</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow, that touches a chord, you are so right. I too do not LIKE running with strangers... and I rarely if ever ask if guildies want to do things, because everyone always seems very active and engaged with their own things. 

I have several people on my battletag friends list, but I almost never have people ask if I want to do something with them, and that&#039;s a catch-22 as well, because I am super busy on multiple characters too, so on those rare occasions when someone DOES ask me if I have some time free, often I don&#039;t right then. 

Ask Ursi how that goes. Ask someone if they want to do something and if you&#039;re told no often enough, well, you stop asking because wtf, right?

I can offer that you friend me with your battletag, but I&#039;ll have to look up what mine is first lol. Just remember, if you whisper me saying you would like a few more to do a run, you have to promise not to think you&#039;re bothering me if I say I can&#039;t right then.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow, that touches a chord, you are so right. I too do not LIKE running with strangers&#8230; and I rarely if ever ask if guildies want to do things, because everyone always seems very active and engaged with their own things. </p>
<p>I have several people on my battletag friends list, but I almost never have people ask if I want to do something with them, and that&#8217;s a catch-22 as well, because I am super busy on multiple characters too, so on those rare occasions when someone DOES ask me if I have some time free, often I don&#8217;t right then. </p>
<p>Ask Ursi how that goes. Ask someone if they want to do something and if you&#8217;re told no often enough, well, you stop asking because wtf, right?</p>
<p>I can offer that you friend me with your battletag, but I&#8217;ll have to look up what mine is first lol. Just remember, if you whisper me saying you would like a few more to do a run, you have to promise not to think you&#8217;re bothering me if I say I can&#8217;t right then.</p>
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		<title>By: Kemonojin</title>
		<link>http://thebigbearbutt.com/2013/03/22/death-knight-redux/comment-page-1/#comment-91794</link>
		<dc:creator>Kemonojin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 04:57:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[About the same here. I&#039;ve quit doing random stuff entirely, just because every single time I do I get one or another sort of prick that just makes it miserable. I get paid to deal with that kind of bozo at work, why would I want to do it when I&#039;m supposed to be doing something entertaining? 

On the occasions I&#039;ve gotten into a group with people new in their role, as long as they&#039;re trying I have no problem with it. I&#039;ve given up things I could use just because they needed them more, and were polite about it. Once spent an entire night on my healer running normal dungeons with a tank with lower gear (Not bad for the normals, but not sufficient for heroics) just to help him get geared up, because he was polite, didn&#039;t fill every message with textgibberish and while he needed practice, he was doing pretty well.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>About the same here. I&#8217;ve quit doing random stuff entirely, just because every single time I do I get one or another sort of prick that just makes it miserable. I get paid to deal with that kind of bozo at work, why would I want to do it when I&#8217;m supposed to be doing something entertaining? </p>
<p>On the occasions I&#8217;ve gotten into a group with people new in their role, as long as they&#8217;re trying I have no problem with it. I&#8217;ve given up things I could use just because they needed them more, and were polite about it. Once spent an entire night on my healer running normal dungeons with a tank with lower gear (Not bad for the normals, but not sufficient for heroics) just to help him get geared up, because he was polite, didn&#8217;t fill every message with textgibberish and while he needed practice, he was doing pretty well.</p>
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		<title>By: Iocane</title>
		<link>http://thebigbearbutt.com/2013/03/22/death-knight-redux/comment-page-1/#comment-91774</link>
		<dc:creator>Iocane</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 12:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just got the Looking for Many! achieve last night on my main...a level 90 character that raided in DS and was created about 2 years ago. I have horrible anxiety about dealing with strangers and doing dungeons because I really do not want to get yelled at, and then I worry about doing them with guild members because I&#039;m rusty and I don&#039;t want to let them down. It&#039;s a catch-22, so I usually just go off and do stuff on my own or run scenarios with a few people I know don&#039;t mind my lack of skills.

If only there was a way to be queued for patient/understanding groups. That would be awesome. :)]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just got the Looking for Many! achieve last night on my main&#8230;a level 90 character that raided in DS and was created about 2 years ago. I have horrible anxiety about dealing with strangers and doing dungeons because I really do not want to get yelled at, and then I worry about doing them with guild members because I&#8217;m rusty and I don&#8217;t want to let them down. It&#8217;s a catch-22, so I usually just go off and do stuff on my own or run scenarios with a few people I know don&#8217;t mind my lack of skills.</p>
<p>If only there was a way to be queued for patient/understanding groups. That would be awesome. :)</p>
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		<title>By: LotsToLearn</title>
		<link>http://thebigbearbutt.com/2013/03/22/death-knight-redux/comment-page-1/#comment-91765</link>
		<dc:creator>LotsToLearn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 05:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi Bear.  

This will probably be an unusual question.  I&#039;m a long time reader / lurker -- I&#039;m pretty sure that I first discovered your blog while you were extolling the virtues of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://thebigbearbutt.com/2007/09/13/druid-tank-starter-gear-at-70/&quot; title=&quot;Manimal’s Cinch&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;.  In the years since, I&#039;ve had some delightful years in Outland and Northrend but was ultimately chased away to other games during the Cataclysm expansion.  I remained a reader here though and your writings about exploits in MoP drew me back to Azeroth.  

Currently I&#039;m finishing up the Wrath content on my Mist-walking Monk, and regrettably I still have the misery of the Cataclysm ahead.  If there is a hurdle to making a full return levels 80-85 will be it.  A LOT has changed since I was last at the level cap, which incidentally was circa the death of Arthas, and it has been great reading some thoughts about gearing at 90 -- especially hitting the breakpoints for the various LFR content.  The last two posts about Alex have been particularly enlightening... which makes me wonder what else I need to know.  

You mention &quot;a Key to run the Trove for Elder Charms&quot;so I looked that up.. but what else should a relative &quot;newbie&quot; should be thinking about doing at end game to get the most out of LFR? .  This might be a lot to ask, so I will not be offended in any way if you think I&#039;m being presumptuous, but if you find you have the time and inclination, would you have any interest doing the throwback advice post about all the things going on at 90 that someone relatively detached from the WoW community might want to look into?  (And perhaps there isn&#039;t enough content there for a whole post, which is fine too...)

Thanks for continuing to publish.

LotsToLearn]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Bear.  </p>
<p>This will probably be an unusual question.  I&#8217;m a long time reader / lurker &#8212; I&#8217;m pretty sure that I first discovered your blog while you were extolling the virtues of the <a href="http://thebigbearbutt.com/2007/09/13/druid-tank-starter-gear-at-70/" title="Manimal’s Cinch" rel="nofollow">.  In the years since, I&#8217;ve had some delightful years in Outland and Northrend but was ultimately chased away to other games during the Cataclysm expansion.  I remained a reader here though and your writings about exploits in MoP drew me back to Azeroth.  </p>
<p>Currently I&#8217;m finishing up the Wrath content on my Mist-walking Monk, and regrettably I still have the misery of the Cataclysm ahead.  If there is a hurdle to making a full return levels 80-85 will be it.  A LOT has changed since I was last at the level cap, which incidentally was circa the death of Arthas, and it has been great reading some thoughts about gearing at 90 &#8212; especially hitting the breakpoints for the various LFR content.  The last two posts about Alex have been particularly enlightening&#8230; which makes me wonder what else I need to know.  </p>
<p>You mention &#8220;a Key to run the Trove for Elder Charms&#8221;so I looked that up.. but what else should a relative &#8220;newbie&#8221; should be thinking about doing at end game to get the most out of LFR? .  This might be a lot to ask, so I will not be offended in any way if you think I&#8217;m being presumptuous, but if you find you have the time and inclination, would you have any interest doing the throwback advice post about all the things going on at 90 that someone relatively detached from the WoW community might want to look into?  (And perhaps there isn&#8217;t enough content there for a whole post, which is fine too&#8230;)</p>
<p>Thanks for continuing to publish.</p>
<p>LotsToLearn</a></p>
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