This message is also benefitial to hunters who feel they are getting close to chasing armor penetration gems.

I ran your gear through some number crunching, and you might find it worth your while to gem full Armor Penetration and go Marksmanship.  While you currently get more benefit from agility than from ArP, you have the gem space to successfullly make the cross over into armor penetration superiority.

With gems, you can hit 914 Armor Penetration.  Get yourself a nice ArP stat stick(s).

I recommend http://www.wowhead.com/?item=51022 Off of Blood Prince 10 man.

If you can't get that, gun for dual wielding (26 agility on each):
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=50411 (Gunship 25)
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=50183 (Dreamwalker 25)

Picking up either of those puts you over 1000 ArP and in shape to do some really nice Marksmanship damage.  If you have any questions, feel free to ask.  Or go pester Lumi, I hear he's already doing it.  :P

Edit:  Changed the title, the caps looked menacing.  :(

Hey looks like Rayne is Texas bound. I know a couple of DF folks are in the area. I had a proposal for those of you that do. Would anyone will willing to house the S.O. with funding from myself? Maybe we can work out something. My employment will start may 10th and run through august 21st. Then I will be off to Florida for a more permanent job as costume intern. Any help with this texas bit would be greatly appreciated, i can also offer free tickets to Texas Musical Drama if you'd be interested.

-Raynegrey & Ryu

Hi yall.    It;s a sad day for me as I make decisions reguarding my life.  Many of you know that my life has been in shambles these past couple mo....many of you don't.  I'v made a couple big changes in the past few mo.   And as sad as it makes me I must make another to move forward.   I;ve had a great ride on this drug called raiding.   That ride can't last forever though and will now come to an end.   Thank you to all who have made raiding great.   I will miss raiding with yall.  I'll still be on alot and will still see you all in game.   And many of you will soon be looking down the sights of my bow from an enemy standpoint as my horde hunter nears on 80. (i'm lvl 66)   There's been great times and I look forward to haveing more from a casual standpoint.    Good luck to you KB.  You will be missed.

So I found this website on digg a few weeks ago.  It's called Listia.  It's essentially an online swap meet/free ebay.  You get points for selling your stuff which you use to buy more stuff.  For signing up you get 50 points, and can earn up to 150 additional free points for linking your account with a facebook, twitter, and listing an auction.  Now that might not seem like a lot of points, but I was able to get myself a copy of Advance Wars 2 for the GBA (great strategy game from a few years back) for less then that.  If you have random crap to get rid of (or just want to see what random stuff you can get for the free points they give you) use this link: http://www.listia.com/signup/49269 .  It will help me get some referals in, and it should grant you an additional 50 points.  Thanks in advance.

Well as a handful of you know, my raiding time is coming to an end on May 9th aka (May 10th 11:44 AM).

I will start off by saying that none of this has to do with family or job related issues what so ever.  Over the last few months I have been putting a lot of thought into my life and how I need to organize it.  At the moment I own my own successful business and I get the luxury of working from home and hardly leave the house.  I also raid 5 nights a week, meaning I almost never leave the house at all.  I am constantly making excuses to family that I have stuff I need to do tonight, sorry I can't stay for dinner.  My wife and I have not gone to the movies or out to a nice restaurant in quite a while and I really miss that.  Like I said earlier none of this has made my family or my wife mad, they know what I am doing and they know I won't do it forever.

Personally I need to retire from WoW.  I have stopped enjoying raiding and feel as if the game is more of a job than a game to play and relax.  I do like playing with you all though, that is still fun and I am really going to miss the humorous conversations in Ventrilo.  These feelings I have do not have anything to do with anyone in the guild.  To be completely honest, this has been the best, most friendly and helpful guild I have ever been in with one of the greatest and cohesive online communities I have ever seen.  I truly do not hate anyone in guild which is actually a rare thing in most guilds these days; there is always some sort of ridiculous drama.  In Downfall though, I have not really witnesses much or any at all, which makes the guild life in Downfall the way it is.

Basically what I feel I need in life again is more flexibility and freedom to be able to do what I need to and what I want to do at any random time during the day, a lot of that falls on raid times for me.  I want to accept my parent’s invitation to dinner; I want to take my wife to a movie or to dinner at the spur of the moment just to get out of the house.  I need to focus more on spending some quality time with my son, most of the times I have him to myself is during raid and I feel bad for letting him sit and play behind me alone instead of me playing with him.

I am also 5.5 months away from completing a piece of software that will compete with Microsoft Team Suite, which in simple terms in a time tracking, bug tracking, feature tracking, customer portal, etc. piece of software that is directed at developers to help the "team" know who is doing what and what needs to be done or fixed and track their time against it.  It will also give their client a portal to look at their project, what is going on, what phase it is on and how many hours have been spent on it etc.

At the least, I am spending 20 hours a week playing WoW and as you can see I have a lot of priorities that I have that I really want to complete and maintain.  20 hours a week is a part time job alone, not saying I did not have fun, but I am taking a different look at life and grasping what I think is more important.  With these 20 extra hours a week I feel that I can spend my time better accomplishing real life endeavors and be able to get out more.

All and all I will miss every one of you.  I will come to the forums as much as possible and keep in touch and give updates as to how I am doing or just shoot the shit.  I truly apologize for putting you in a situation to have to replace me, I know it is hard to find ranged DPS, but as I said to some of the officers I will be here until you replace me up till May 9th.  If you don't invite me to raid it is ok, give the gear to the guy that is going to keep playing that is the fair and right thing to do.  If I do go to raid I will not be taking anymore gear either, as I would not feel it is right for me to take gear from those who will keep using it.

Well I have most likely rambled some and sorry for the long post.  If you want to keep in touch in more ways than just the site send me a PM on the site and we can exchange information.  I posted this on my birthday and it makes me sad :(.

Sincerely,

Knoppix

P.S This is not a break from WoW, I will not be returning anytime soon if at all, most likely the later.

Well i must say..this is the first time ive written something like this for ANYTHING!..But i am sad to say that come March 25 when my time expires i wont be getting anymore time to activeate it further..im gonna be taking a break from WoW for awhile because of some serious real life shit going on with me..i have to take time for myself to get my head right and back into the game and what i want in my career in the military or something civi-side..since i dunno if im going to be medicaly released or not..so i need the time to figure stuff out get my mind right and the proper surgery i need..but i must say for the 3+ years ive been playing WoW..ive never been more happy then to call Downfall Home for my toons and thats what it is..one big ass family..and i know im not a serious hard-kore raider but i have filled in a few times for some of the raids and i had a blast..and im tankful for the oppertunity :) . considering i didnt get invited to the guild cause of my raiding i got invited cause i was curious what the IRC chat thingy was lol..and cause i was in there Garreth liked that i was talkitive and stuff i guess :P..But it doesnt mean ill be gone forever ill be on vent to talk with ya peoples and what not and if not feel free to add me on facecrack i mean facebook..Rich Blackstock...lol :P...and for those who play xbox live..Fearfulrich..dont worry im easy to find im the one swearing at COD when i get my ass blown up :D..so ya..i will miss everyone..but..I'LL BE BACK!

thanks,

Rich