What Happened to Ardea:

Funny thing... I hit the 50 character cap so I was going through my character lists and deleting a few of my spare Ardeas... I deleted the wrong one... It took a few weeks to get him because of my history of restorations. After getting him back I moved him over to a different server to finish Wrath (Downfall raids were done until Cata)

Hours changed at work so that I would not be able to do much during DF times so i kept Ardea on the other server and leveled Klean and Lepp.

What changed?

I have missed Downfall so when my Job and hours changed (again) so no i can attend a later raid time... which fits into perfectly into Downfall's raid times.

Raidable toons?

Klean (Holy/ ret) - heroic blues
Ordea is close to the DF 25m progression.
Ardea has been doing H. 25m - although his gear has suffered for being on the wrong side of a

I perfer raiding as a resto druid - I think that is what I am best at... but I also enjoy holy paly goodness.

When?

Lastest - next Monday.

Garreth is a meanie..........

Hey Guys,

I want you all to know that I love raiding and goofing off with you all... even when I am grumpy and muting people. You guys are awesome!

Things have been building up the last few weeks that is getting hard to balance so I will need to take a break. The last two years have been great and I can't imagine that I will be gone for long (a few months or next expansion the noob tree should be back).

My account expires March 21 (in about 6 weeks) and I would love to continue raiding as much as possible but I understand I'll need to make room for someone who will be more stable and help with future progression.

You guys are awesome, it has been a pleasure being a part of Downfall.

Cheers,
Ardea / Lepp

It has been awhile since my other account got hacked so I thought it would be fun to post and track the site that Aidin screen printed... 

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After the initial login they ask for your account details. I only give them the email address and password everything else is fake.

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If you are on Vent...  You should do this!

Vent Normalization makes every bodies voice the exact same volume. In essence, you won't blow your ear's out or have difficulty hearing people.

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Here's how:

- Go to Setup

- Enable Direct Sound

- Select the SFX Button

- Select Compressor and click Add.

- Under Compressor Properties use the following settings

- Gain = Adjust for how loud you want people to be. (I use 15)

- Attack = 0.01

- Release = Around 500

- Threshold = Around -30

- Ratio = 100

- Pre delay = 4.0

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What the settings do - Copied and pasted from page 8

Gain
How much volume you feed into the compressor. Not really relevant unless everyone is too quiet, then you can turn this up a little; turning it up too much will sound EXTREMELY *%*%ty.

Attack
How fast volume change will happen. example: setting this to 500 means that any-
thing coming in will only be dropped in volume after a half a second. for vent this should
be set as low as possible.

Release
how fast the compressor stops changing things. not really that relevant with vent, setting it around 500 is good for voice material.

Threshold
This sets the point where we actually start changing what?s coming in. Whereas 0 is the absolute loudest you can have for an input, -60 is super quiet. Average users will probably come in somewhere around -25 to -15, with the occaisional few being really quiet, which is why I have this set so low.

Ratio
How much any sound below the set threshold gets compressed and/or modified in the volume department.
If you still want to hear SOME volume variation then set this lower (2-4)... the higher you set it the closer in volume everyone will be.

Pre delay
Mostly just deals with processing; with computer and digital processors they can look ahead a few milliseconds to see what needs to be dropped in volume or changed before it actually comes through the speakers. Highest is ideal.
 

This started as just a thought and then later tested by Spekk.

Night Elf: Pot + Shadowmeld = 3min pot again.

Spekk was able to do this on the last boss in AN.

I tried this in Naxx but failed probably because I didn't hide in a corner and we all took aoe damage as soon as I hit shadowmeld which didn't give me enough time to register as out of combat.

I also found that death works too.

This is a small list of Macros I use in conjunction with Grid. I am not even close to a macro expert so if you know any other useful macros or better ways than I have listed feel free to post them... you will notice that the macros are almost identical.

I love mouse over casting with Grid because that way I do not have to stop and select a target to cast. I can continually cast. Normally I keep the boss targetted so I can watch who he is targeting... and throw up a random insect swam.

Note: There are two ways to use an item's special ability in a macro.
1. To type out the inventory slot ID. ex: /use 13 (this will "use" or activate the ability of your first trinket. See below for a list of Slot IDs).
2. To type out the name of the item. /use  Ribbon of Sacrifice (I perfer this method because then it will not matter what slot the item is in... handy if you swap your gear around... The downside is if you replace the item you then need to change your macro).

0 = ammo
1 = head
2 = neck
3 = shoulder
4 = shirt
5 = chest
6 = belt
7 = legs
8 = feet
9 = wrist
10 = gloves
11 = finger 1
12 = finger 2
13 = trinket 1
14 = trinket 2
15 = back
16 = main hand
17 = off hand
18 = ranged
19 = tabard

Lifbloom: My most used spell... I am spamming this on any square that gets a red dot in the top lefthand corner as well as keeping full stacks (LBx3) on the tanks.

/use Lower City Prayerbook
/cast [target=mouseover] lifebloom

Regrowth: My second favorite spell... I think I use this too much but there is something satisfying about seeing a big (3-4k) heal then smaller ticks.

/use Ribbon of Sacrifice
/cast [target=mouseover] regrowth