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Thanks for the kind thoughts guys, I will try to be around every now and then.

Hi Guys, as some of you may know my wife has been going through chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer, well we have moved past that and are now she is into the radiotherapy section,
The latest tests she has had have now shown some for want of a better word concerns involving her kidneys and liver.

So I feel it is the right thing to do to take some time off from the game and be more attentive to the love of my life, I have every confidence that we will get through this and I hope to return sometime in the not too distant future.
but until further notice I will not be ingame.

I wish you all the best and hope that maybe by the time the sunshine has returned to this green and pleasant land I shall be back in Azeroth among my new friends.

Starion Deltaar salutes you.

Great work guys

Patch comments .

Not a great one for the numbers, my old head seems to get it right by a system of trial and error and spending vast ammounts of gold on the wrong things a few times first.

But after 5 years of mana management, this just feels wrong at the moment, first impression was good but a shot rotation seems to be hiding itself in a bush somewhere.

Global CD vs Focus management is proving tough, I'm sure there's an answer but cant be sure if we need a tweak from Blizz or I'm just on the wrong track for now.

Will keep posting and hope for some input from fellow Huntards.

Finally finished dowload at around 3.30am, got up aound 7 and got installed, up and running around 9am,
then entered addon hell as useual (to be fair my own fault for needing my UI to look pretty).

Sold my 24k of arrows for 30s a stack to vendor, Happy days.

Bought some glyphs and spent 4hrs fiddling with shiney new UI and coming up with a shot rotation (maybe it works maybe it dont) time and a Boss or 2 will show up any cracks,

So, "Bring it on Cata", "Badges ? we dont need no stinkin badges"

Well 5 and a half hours of downloading from Mirror site and a grand total of 43%, I really need a /Hug now

My speed up was only temporary, slowed to a crawl after 20 mins, just seems to pulse from 0kbs to about 12kbs and never any higher.
Looks like I may have to risk the Mirrors, not holding out much hope, needed a full reinstall last time I tried them, wish me luck.

Never been very successful with mirror sites but thnx for the suggestion,
Had more luck with the Blizz FAQ and opening more ports has sped things to a sensible level.

thnx guys

Hows the patch been for everybody ?
Mines a nightmare in slow motion, had it downloading in background for weeks and now I'm still only at 61%, only managed to get 14% overnight.
I'll be lucky to be playing by Xmas.

Any others struggling or got an answer to speed it up.

Looking forward to pet changes, some of that stuff is going to make Pvp very interesting for a while too

Will do ,  just need to let GM know why I'm moving on. :sad:

Been trolling the site for a couple of days now .... amazing community,
I'm going to be sick if I dont make the grade, you guys really do have your stuff sorted.

If you need anymore info please chat to me in game I'll be happy to expand on anything.

Np I am the patient type.

Starion

My name is Stacy, I am originaly from SE London but have been living in the Medway area of Kent for the last 25yrs, I'm the manger of a Digital print department of a fairly large print company.
I've been very happily married to the beautiful Chrissie for close to 30yrs and have a 24yr old son called Sam, << Hates WoW loves CoD (Not sure he's mine tbh :blink:).

I have a stable Sky connection which rarely lets me down, pushes 6-7mb most times of the day.

My Rig.
Core i7 950
Asus p6t se x58 DDR3, 6gig DDR3 pc10666
BFG gtx285 oc 1gb

Been a player of Games in general what seems like forever, my main interest has always been fantasy based rpg, starting at tabletop DnD, and progressing on to Pc based stuff starting with txt adventures (The Hobbit) on through Dungeon Master (I still think I remember the mazes), went through the Ultima series and onto MMO's as time went by, joined WoW 3 weeks after start and have quit 3 times in 5 years to play (the next big thing) always returning with my hopes dashed and looking for a new home.

I was a slow starter in the raiding game, never really having the confidence to apply to a full on raid guild, my biggest experience has come since TBC both with Lemmings of the light and Elite Soldiers, (Both Wilgje and Floggy would be happy to give me a good reference I'm sure), I cleared Karazan with Lemmings as both Healer and Hunter           I recently (6 months) joined Lightning troopers and hoped to progress through ICC and this seemed to be thier plan to, but they appear to have had some Drama just before I joined, hence the very open and easy recriutment, we quickly lost both main Helers and the guild has now become stagnant with 285 members but rarely more than 3-4 online.
I hope I've answered 2 questions at once there ?

I have a few alts but rarely play them, I have learned that If I'm not on Starion I'm not happy playing.

Aszune born and bred.

My plans are exacly why I'm applying to DMR, I need to be in a stable fun environment to enjoy my gametime, I like to chat I like to share my feelings and now I have the confidence I like to Raid, I have a fair and edgy sense of humour and am happy to take criticism if it will improve my ability as a player.

I hate Self Healing in bg's. eg. one Holy Pally guarding the flag and 6 players unable to kill him before help arrives .... Its just WRONG (Rant over)


Starion
http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Aszune&cn=Starion

Have always been drawn to the Ranger classes and this was a very easy choice to make on day one, and has since been proven to be the one Toon I always return to.

I was sure over the years that my job was pretty much Max dps and the odd Kiting job, and I dont see that has changed too much aggro management is a must of course but our CC abilitys rarely come into use except to stop the odd add blitzing a Healer at a bad moment.

I played MM specc for the first few years of my WoW life come rain or shine, range is what I'm good at and I feel I'm in control of my damage and my Pet is secondary to me, then came the big Nerf (I think patch 2.2) and I was forced to switch to SV this was around the time I began raiding with more regularity, I love it, also everyone like to have Hunting party as an nice little bonus (dont they ?), I could see myself going back to MM at some point (not keen on the shot rotation takes more concentration than SV)
But BM is not suited to my gameplay style at all.


This guild

I'm looking for a friendly place to call home, I need a good social gaming experience and the ability to Raid and feel like I'm making a contribution.
DMR certainly makes me think you guys have a sense of humour, but from what I've picked up on the grapevine is you know how to achieve end game results without being a bunch of elitist number crunchers.
I chose you because you seem to have a stable mature non elitist feel to your forums and I hope this is reflected in the general day to day running of the guild.

I've read the philosophy and that is pretty much summing up what I need and tbh admire in a guild.


Annoying questions

Tricky question, I am very difficult to offrnd as I've seen and heard most things in my long and varied life, i tend to let most things go after a little chat to decide how offensive the dickhead really meant to be.
Easy question, My wife amazing Apple pie.

Thanks for your time, hope my wall of txt did not crit you for too much.

I am atm still in Lightning troopers and if I do hopefully get accepted I would like time to explain to my GM why I am moving on.

Starion Deltaar salutes you.