Acronos blog

When the sun's blazing and all that working out over the winter can finally pay off, it's hard to want to play WoW. I often just leave what Im doing, go out and go for a long drive and make that money spent on a performance car and an insurance premium that can bring a man to tears all worth it.

Then just take off the shirt, wack on those Oakley sunglasses that have been sitting unused for way too long, turn the dance music up, redline every gear, all windows down and if you can get a better feeling than this in WoW then I'll pull my pants down, smack my ass and call you charlie.

Summer Tip #1

Want a fresh cold sip but the heat in your house is just too much? If you dont have the pleasure of a portable freezer there is another way.

Coat your glass in water and chuck it in the freezer. Feel free to leave some water in the glass for a frozen bottom layer . Leave it 30mins and come back to what can best be described as what will look and feel as a glass made completely out of ice.

Pour your drink out and enjoy. Bring a kitchen towel or something similar as when the ice melts it can sometimes make the surface quite wet, though if its as hot as my room it will just evaporate. Best to drink it within 3 minutes as in this weather it will melt fast!

DOOM SQUAD vs ZOMBIES malarky

Many people don't know how DS really started as all the founding members have either quit or changed server.

DS was originally thought up and started by myself, Lizzey (it was a bloke, he took Lizzey from a band name), Agramon and the brothers Ithius and Helvetica. We did not have any intention to become big names or a famous guild at all. It was simply a group of us that spent a lot of time pvping pre-TBC, all disliked PVE, so made sense to make a guild without any pressure to raid.

Quickly popularity grew as other pure pvp players wished to join and I had a strict invitation rule that they must have a good outgoing pleasant personality and enjoy purely pvp. Whether they were good or not for me was never an issue, obviously some people raised concerns, but for me I wanted to create a community of people who got the same enjoyment out the game and that could all have a laugh and get on.

My personality first, ratings second ideal was changed when I quit the game for 4-5 months to live with a group of mates. Agramon took the forefront of leading the guild and he had slightly more ambitious plans. When I returned it was agreed he would remain guild leader, as even though a lot of people he invited were great and very pleasant players (Rycket <3 forteh etc etc) there was such a mass scale of invites I personally felt a lot of the core members were being pushed to the side by the high rated serious arena players and my intention for the guild somewhat diminished.

It was quite clear that our seperate opinions and the core members vs the new members different opinions of what the guild was about caused a lot of the transfers away from the server for a fresh start.

Regardless of this, the guild was still in good stand, assholes did get in the guild, sometimes stayed too long, but were removed eventually and a few of them landed right in ZOMBIES lap. This is a guild who are based on high ratings, personality would only become an issue if you brutally attacked a family member irl, though if you had REALLY good ratings they may let that one slide.

Despite ZOMBIES invitation method, they did still have a fair amount of mature, skilled arena players that should not be swept under the ZOMBIES tainted brush. Are these people still in the guild? the ones I knew have left though again, I have not seen or spoke with either the majority of DS or ZOMBIES so what it is like at current I have next to no idea, yet I find it hard to believe all of ZOMBIES are assholes, infact I am quite confident there are still a fair deal (half dozen?) of pleasant mature and skilled players under their name.

There has always been friction between the 2 guilds, when I was leader I would always try and keep bad people and guild names seperate as I am very against sweeping a group of people with one brush when there is only evidence a handful of them are actual assholes. ZOMBIES has, and always will be a guild with an overall group of people with high ratings only, purely as they only invite those high rated and DS I hope follows what I tried to rub on that personality is always the first thing to judge someone by, ratings less important.

The trash talking I have seen in Chrilles blog has been quite disappointing. Chrilles post was clearly out of frustration with what happened and with that into consideration he kept quite calm and constructive. I expect the trash talk from a lot of people, but hope DS members dont fall in the same boat. At the end of the day this event they pulled is expected from a few ZOMBIES members and perhaps it could have been avoided by a more discreet plan.

As a world pvp fan, I love the chance of some world pvp and if this was me I would personally have just made the best of it, think to myself their assholes, feel better getting them back and reschedule it at a time and place that the guild only knows. Obviously when you put effort and time into an event, seeing it destroyed like that is a shit thing to do, but you will get fuckers everywhere you go and you need the bad people to seperate the good people. For me the DS vs ZOMBIES thing was always a love to hate sort of thing, but has now just become rather childish and immature and quite boring.

Well that dragged on longer than I planned, if you managed to read through all that, then hats off to ya. When I have to proof read my crap I do one paragraph then get bored. If you can make 2 paragraphs then thats a thumbs up at least.

Yes yes, this is relatively old news and was a bit slow with posting an opinion on this. But then again this is a slow blog, so goes hand in hand quite nicely.

Rogue (3.1 Skills List / 3.1 Talent + Glyph Calc.)

• Overkill: Talent redesigned. Now increases energy regeneration by 30% while stealthed, and for 20 seconds after breaking stealth.

First off the big question is, does this change make sense?

It certainly does, it reduces our initial burst damage which was too good and without sacrificing our dps.

However, the fact remains, this is a nerf to a class not overly represented in arena (check SK100) and with this it will reduce further. Maybe it will be ok, but personally I think this would be an oppurtunity to slightly increase our survivability vs melee classes.

Lets face it, Warriors, Ret Palas, DKs and Rogues (yes we are our biggest anti) can faceroll us in a few globals and this is not new, this has been the way for a long time now.

The biggest problem I face is warriors and the little help evasion actually has these days. With 2 second overpower's and ret palas and dks provided a great deal of undodgeable damage, I think this cooldown needs a look at.

Its quite a simple change really, change it to reduce the damage taken by melee and ranged attacks by 50% for the duration. Evasion was either overpowered or useless depending on the situation and RNG. It has been a bad mechanic, always has been, but never looked at.

Another thing that Evasion should possible do, is reduce duration of stuns also. Stuns is ultimately a rogues death sentence, which is interesting as we are the class that revolves a lot around stuns. Perhaps make it a glyph if they are too sceptical to introduce it as part of the ability.

Well thats my 3 cents, be interesting to see other peoples ideas as I am sure I am not the only one hated the fact I counter and get countered by my own class and getting quite bored of 2 second overpower spam through evasion.

it was bad lol

<3

no but just watch it

Blizzard making what potentially keeps the human population alive something oh so so so annoying in WoW a little dangerous?

I'd like to think I'm a calm, sane person, however when I walk past trees now, I feel like getting my lighter out, set it a light and scream "TRY AND HOT NOW YOU SON OF A BITCH". Of course I don't, but I dream.

A healer class that can keep himself up against both a rogue and a mage without any other classes trying to prevent damage seems quite wrong. Even the "overpowered" priests cannot do this for long and its not just this that annoys me. The whole style of sitting in some stupid looking tree form walking around like a penquin spamming 1 maybe 2 buttons is something that should not be going on in wotlk.

Every class has so many abilties at their disposal, yet somehow, even though resto druids were more powerful still in TBC (its getting close mind..) they managed to dumb down the class even more, least there was some style in how they healed in TBC and it actually looked fun.

I propose they remove the additional armor and healing recieved as tree form, removing its pvp viability completely and buff them to enable them to play like they use to. With the damage increase compared to TBC, the old hots style with shifting in and out of travel form will not be quite so annoying as a timed nuke can actually kill one.

Krymu Movie

I know what your all thinking, "oh god not another krymu gay night elf movie" but hold on, its ok, I am in it. So undoubtedly it would be a worthy download as its easy enough to fast forward through the rest of the crap.

I will give a full review slating him to pieces once its released to the public.

I will warn you though, if you are agaisnt watching players from Kent pvp, then best keep away. I got used to it now and can deal with it, but watching a Kent boy for the first time can scar you forever...

Essex > Kent

Much Love

Firstly I would like to apologise for the lack of updates recently. Mainly this is due to my laziness but I would like to point out that this week was the final week for the Tournament Realm (which I am quite sure we did not make top 8, but think we were not far off) and the week before that was the race to Deadly Gladiator which again, we did not manage to obtain.

So basically I sacrificed time for next to no gain, but I would expect nothing less from WoW and I believe the thought of the possibility of achieving something is greater than if you actually achieve it. Though the potential prize money up for grabs would shake that motto off pretty quickly.

You all may have gathered that I am the type of guy that is generally up for trying anything once or have been described by people that know me better as a happy go-lucky crazy son of a bitch. Despite what I would like to consider as perfectly written masterpieces that could have only been done by the son of god himself, when it comes to the real world I am not so calm and collective and it only takes a couple of drinks to get me going into a spiral of some crazy fucked up night typically influenced by yours truly.

Anyway, the reason I am telling you this, that despite having the personality of someone who is up for doing anything, these 2 drugs I would never do no matter how much alcohol, pills, coke that were down me.

In a world with only 1 life everything deserves a chance, however there are exclusions, such as taking your clothes off, paint your dick red and run into the biggest Bull farm in the world. Consider these drugs as similar exclusions..

Crystal Meth

The effects from this drug is a rush of what you can expect if you took a pill then snorted a line of coke and then double it. For the duration, it is probably an amazing experience, however it has serious consequences.

There are very few drugs that can actually kill you when you overdose on a single drug alone. This is one of them and the experience is not pleasant. If you manage to escape death or a coma you can expect permanent damage to lungs, kidney and even the heart.

Even when taken correctly, the long term damage this can cause mentally and physically are repulsive. The pictures many of you I am sure have seen of what happens to meth users are not fakes or exagerrated, its real. It can also seperate your brain from reality, ultimately turning you insane and alter your personality altogether.

Heroin

The biggest problem with heroin is the addiction. It takes one go and thats it. There is no trying with this drug, your either hooked or not doing it. Similar to Meth, death can occur from overdoses of this drug alone.

The effect is similar to meth, tho more toned down into more calm state of good wellbeing, however you will still get the buzz feeling at the same time.

Not only will trying this drug cause you to become addicted, but you are almost guaranteed to suffer from vomiting and it is said some have died when inhaling the vomit due to the cough reflex in your body not operating as it should.

If you ever hear the term "speedballing" keep well clear. Its a common mixture of heroin and crack cocaine with ultimately high risks.

My Opinion

I have not wasted time on these drugs to explore them completely, the message is the keep clear as these do not deserve your time of day.

Want to rebel? fine, but drugs like these take away your independance and control and you are sacrificing yourself to a substance that will take hold of your life. Following the law and being smart sounds a lot better on this occasion.

Summary

There are many drugs out there that are outruled due to behavior changes it would cause and ultimately cost governments a lot of money. However if you are aware of the dangers, keep it safe and know your own limits, there is no real harm in trying many drugs that can be found.

Though remember, there is no drug that is safe to use. On a long enough timescale every drug can cause severe damage to your bodily functions- hence why addiction can become dangerous (and expensive). Trying on the other hand as stated before, in my eyes is acceptable as long as you are confident in yourself that you can remain it that way.

It is common people blame drugs on people giving into them and partially they are correct, but on the other hand by the age you should even think of trying such substances, you should know yourself well enough to figure out your intent when trying.

Going to take a look into 3 drugs that can be very dangerous and sometimes fatal if the user isnt aware of the risks involved.

Ecstasy

Pill

The effect will take about 30 minutes to properley kick in. When it does you will feel it instantly. Your heart will start racing and you will feel great love for everything around you. Colours will appear vibrant and you will feel yourself often curling up to yourself with laying on a couch and stroke yourself all over because it feels damn good. It would be a good idea to have a bird with you as you will start feeling horny and can be frustrating if your just with your mates.

The problem with pills is that they are often cut using drugs such as amphetamines and caffeine and you never really know of all the contents the pill contains. Only about 20% of the pill will contain ecstasy.

The pills can cost between £2 - £8- though price does not determine quality, so do not be fooled when someone charges more due to their claim of a better pill.

Powder (MDMA)

The effects you will get from this will be pretty much identical to that above. However when snorted it will be quicker to actually kick in. Though unlike cocaine, MDMA is not a fine powder, but more like tiny stones. It will be slightly painful when snorting and painful after for about 10 seconds at the back of your head. You can just place it on your tongue and swallow, which is recommended for first timers maybe only wanting a small dab. Its worth noting that MDMA is a much purer form of ecstasy and should be safer to take, however it does get bashed similar to coke, but what they bash it with is safer than what they would with a pill.

MDMA costs vary, can sometimes cost close to the gram as you would expect from cocaine, however in reality it should be about half the price, though prices for this drug are decreasing rapidly as its popularity is increasing.

The Risks

The most common reason for death due to this drug is dehydration or drowning from drinking too much. When you take ecstasy a hormone is released that can make peeing really difficult, so being unable to release liquid from your system leaves you vulnerable to drinking too much and then being rushed to hospital. The other is taking it on the dance floor and partying hard for 6 hours straight without a break, this will overheat you and the lack of liquids in your body again could lead you off to a trip to A&E.

There is no addiction as such to this drug, however you can build a strong desire for it due to the buzz you get, however you will never suffer any kind of withdrawal symptons by not continuing.

There is also no proof of long term damage that can be caused from this drug, however some evidence suggests otherwise, so its wise to assume there probably is, but nothing to get scared over as if it was serious it would have backing evidence to support this.

My Opinion

The effects this drug gives are amazing and something I believe everyone should experience at some point in their life time. However you need to assess the following:

- Due to the drowing/dehydration possibilty, try and avoid taking this too early, and get a good few drinks down you and a few toilet visits in first. Then once the drug is taken, set yourself out drinks to take and limit yourself to this only.

- Your decision making can be unpredictable and quite bad, its a good idea to have some mates with you not on the drug to help keep you out of serious trouble, though E generally does not create life threatening choices, however may cause you to tip a taxi man a bit too much.

Do not be fooled by the Class A tag, this should be a Class B drug. Putting this alongside Heroin and Meth is a mockery of the system. Cocaine also could arguably be Class B, though due to the amount of people in rehab due to this I doubt that would happen.

LSD

LSD is often found as small pellets or tabs. The effect can take as long as 2 hours to kick in and when it does you will lose control. The user will trip out and feel almost as though they are in a dream and time will slow down and speed up depending on your mind state. Your vision will be heavily distorted and expect all kinds of crazy possibilities, heard someone has had triple vision before.

The trips from LSD can be very good, but also very bad. Like dreams when you sleep, the dream can sometimes get the better of you and turn into a nightmare and people have done terrible things when enduring this nightmare. Though people have also done terrible things when having good trips, sure you have heard the stories of people thinking they can fly? Or in less extreme cases can often seem a good idea to hide your wallet and try and find it in the morning hehe!

The Risks

There is no addiction to LSD, extremely rare to come across any impurities and no evidence of long term damage.

So why is this a class A drug?

There are some severe short term affects if used a lot. People have been known to randomly trip out weeks after use and behave strangely. Most importantly though its the behaviour change it inflicts on the user that causes their decision making to become non-existant and could do some serious damage to yourself or others.

My Opinion

Its very important when taking this that you are in a good frame of mind and in a happy state. Do NOT do this if you are taking drugs to relieve depression or sadness as this will eat on that and make it 100x worse. Its worth having a few drinks to raise confidence slightly and make you more comfortable with taking it. Any fears you have can go against you.

Either keep your group in a room and trip out together locked away safely, or if out and about make sure you have at least 1 person not on it to keep you from doing something extremely dangerous. Make sure this guy is willing to knock you out if he strongly suspects you are going to put yourself or others at risk, a punch in the head is nothing compared to what this drug could make you go and do.

In 99.9% of cases, the trips you take will be fun and harmless provided you are in a happy state. Make sure you have yourself covered for that 0.1% where the drug trips you to the point of serious harm or death.

Personally I found it to be quite an interesting experience, though quite thankful I did not take it when I was clubbing or walking around the streets. For a first time I highly recommend you stay within someones household. All the goings on outside can also get your mind slightly more daring.

Magic Mushrooms

These will give you a similar effect to LSD, however toned down a few notches unless you go ahead and take way too many. These are best eaten on an empty stomach and I have found that eating at any point stops the trips, though it could just be coincidence.

I found to get some random side effects during it such as socks feeling extremely uncomfortable to wear so all of us that were trying it strangely all felt a need to take off our socks. Objects can become distorted and you will find yourself quite chatty about random/stupid things. Paranoia can become quite strong also whilst under the effects.

The Risks

When I tried these I bought them from a shop in Amsterdam, so they are only sold if they are the correct type and are kept cool and fresh. If you go picking yourself, you open yourselves up to all risks, or even buying them from someone who has literally gone and picked any old mushrooms. Pick the wrong mushroom and it could cost you your life.

I found myself quite ill and had trouble eating properley for a few days after use.

My Opinion

Done it once, have no intention of doing again. Wasn't a particularly bad trip, but not too great either. Was a laugh with my mates I was with, but after a couple of hours found myself getting quite bored as you find yourself still in control a lot of the times as unlike LSD, you will leave and re-enter trips every couple of minutes.

I highly advise agaisnt doing these in the UK unless its from a very trusted source that knows what they have picked, even then to me this seems to be a rather pointless drug. If you want this kind of effect, go try LSD but make sure you remain safe.

I will look into two of the potentially most dangerous drugs next. (Heroin and Crystal Meth)

A Question of Age

Someone mentioned about the age and how 0-17 should be excluded from it (something along those lines).

I do apologise for this as an oversight on my part to cover the age area, however, drugs is not like alcohol, there is no 18+ law. People saying as soon as you hit 18 its ok to start the drugs thing is also very wrong.

There is no age where it is ok to do drugs, but when you wish to start experimenting is going to be a decision you decide. More often than not its peer pressure that gets us started and after a few drinks people will always give in. Though if you are of a strong mind frame to decide yourself this is what you need to consider.

Forget age, use it as a guideline at most but never say "ooo hit my 18th birthday can start snorting coke hehe". Strong stimulants can seriously stunt growth and cause dangerous effects on those who are not fully developed. Many men continue to grow well into 19 and taking drugs before this puts you at greater risk to there side effects.

Cannabis is arguably an exception to this, however as soon as you start taking drugs its a slippery slope into trying more. You want to delay this as long as possible, as the later you start, the more in control you will find yourself as you will mature. While this does vary for everyone, always remember if in doubt get it out. Don't try something unless you are genuinely interested in just trying and are comfortable while doing it.

Dealing with the dealer

You should always only get drugs off people you know and trust and would be confident to do them off their source also.

However, sometimes this may not be an option for some, so if you go through a dealer you dont know or trust its important to know the following:

- Make sure you know the drug well and how much you should expect to be paying, as they will often try and charge more if they suspect you haven't been around much.

- Always offer the dealer one/a pinch of the drugs your buying off him. If he refuses to also take it, it means he doesn't trust his source which means you should not trust it either. Some drug dealers are crazy but they would not take a pinch of coke and sniff it if they suspected it was no good. Its worth sacrificing a few pound to get piece of mind in what you are buying. (Make sure this is agreed at the very start/prior to the deal so you are not left on the spot with drugs you don't want. Refusing drugs from a deal after he has got them for you is more dangerous than doing potentially dodgy drugs)

I will try and get a post in tommorow where I will look at Ecstasy, LSD and Mushrooms. I think information about these drugs is all over the place and not enough people know the real risks involved and how you should go about if you wish to try these.

In attempt to throw away this broken record that has been playing over last few days I am going to talk about something I am sure most people would have involved themselves in at some point.

We are told from an early age to not do drugs- the reasons seem to basically entail that if you take them you will probably die. Which I am sure will put off a lot of people, but regardless, whenever you get told to not do something, lets face it, you can't help but be tempted.

Its time people stop treating people like mugs and just give the real facts and let each person make their own decision. One of the biggest problems of the general attitude law takes on to put people off drugs is very focal on telling you to just not take them and tends to avoid giving advice if you do find yourself under the influence.

I have got about a bit, still do, so I am not going to go and tell you to not do them. Though at the same time I am not here to recommend drugs nor give over the top side effects to scare you, I am purely going to give you the facts and then my own personal opinion.

Lets start with the most common drug and the place it all starts.

Cannabis

Also commonly known as marijuana, weed, bud, skunk and many other various slang.

Cannabis will give you a feeling of relaxation, sometimes chatty though I always find the opposite and just "mong out" quietly slumped in a chair.

The Risks

This is considerably a low risk drug, death rate from taking cannabis is virtually zero and would not be surprised if there are no recorded deaths purely for taking cannabis.

The real risk is becoming dependant on it, however this will take a LOT of use, so do not worry about trying it and becoming hooked. Heavy use of cannabis over a long period of time does have many side effects, albeit very minor ones that most have no evidence to prove cannabis is the cause of.

My opinion

Personally, I am not a fan. May be because whenever I smoke it, I just feel hungry, dreamy and not very talkative. Its not a bad experience, but wouldn't say I look forward to feeling like that. But as its such a low risk drug you cannot really expect too much.

Cocaine

Other names are coke, crack, charlie, gear and others.

Cocaine is a fast acting drug that you will feel almost instantly. It will boost your self confidence, make you chat random shit and give you a personal high but very much keeps you in control of goings on. Cocaine will keep you awake and alert and you will find trouble sleeping and eating is difficult aswell, as this gives the opposite affect to cannabis and actually removes all hunger.

The effect will only last about half an hour when snorted, when smoked even shorter. Most coke found in the UK has been bashed to the point you can only realisticly expect around 20% of it to be real cocaine.

Costing around £50 a gram, its one of the most exspensive drug habits to keep up.

The Risks

Cocaine will increase your heart rate and temperature which can be fatal for elderly or people with existing heart related problems. The purity is too low in the UK to really cause any damage, however if its close to pure cocaine then the risks increase dramatically.

Addiction can settle in fairly quickly, tho will take a few heavy nights to really start feeling it. Cocaine can be smoked and injected also but this has become very rare mainly due to risks and general inconvenience.

The worst aspect I have found with this drug is the comedown the morning after. Once I actually thought I had the flu and took time off work it was that bad.

There are other side effects such as paranoia and anxiety which are common conditions that relate to most drugs that you take.

Ultimately there is no real life danger taking this drug, you will most likely pass out before you can overdose on this alone, the real danger is when you take too much of a high in purity form of cocaine, however even then, risks are relatively low unless you have pre existing heart conditions or aged over 50.

My opinion

Well I'll just come out with it, I like it. However its important to give yourself long breaks in between use and never over do it. Your best bet is to get a gram between 3 of you, which will cost around £15 each which is not too extortionate and you will no way get close to overdosing. However the next morning you will feel dreadful everytime and many believe its not worth it which I can understand. Ultimately your probably better off saving your cash and waking up with just the normal headache.

I will continue with more in later posts. Ecstasy, LSD, Mushrooms, Crystal Meth and Heroine still to come.

I had a dream,

A dream that one day,

I would be able to open mmo champion,

See a new PTR build added,

And on this build would be a change,

A change of the likes we have not seen,

A change to the world of warcraft class known as "Rogue"

Fellow men,

I am pleased to announce,

The day has come..

Rogue (3.1 Skills List / 3.1 Talent + Glyph Calc.)
Assassination

• Lethality now affects all combo point-generating abilities. (Old - all combo moves)

Now the wording of lethality has been made clearer, we will now fully understand what this does, I feel the class can push forward to really feel those lethality added crit strikes.

Lets all hold hands and bask in this victory and not forget to thank the Blizzard gods for clearing this up for us.