Is it already August?  Almost time for me to go home, then…

I’m looking forwards to getting out of Salem for a while.  Not that it isn’t a lovely town (actually, it isn’t), but sometimes it’s nice to go home… swim some, hang out with my friends, chill in general.

Build a new computer.

That’s the part I’m looking forwards to most.

Well, that and seeing the significant other. <3!

It’s currently almost 85 degrees out, at9:30 in the morning.  Today’s high is over 100 – i think it’s 103.  Tomorrow, Google says I can look forwards to 106 degree heat – but hey, after that i’m going to get some respite, at least.  The temp is going to take a nosedive, and be down to mid-eighties by Friday, and kind of sit there, sullenly, for a couple days.

This week can’t end quickly enough.

I expect some heat, but this is ridiculous for Oregon.  The humidity is absurd, as well – I feel like I can’t get dry after showers, and that’s gross.

I’m really hoping California doesn’t decide to greet me with more of the same, because more of the same sucks.  I would also appreciate it if the temperature would drop to around 70 next weekend, when I’m packing all my things up and moving out of my apartment.  Xthxbye.

EDIT: It is worth also noting that the Oregon state government has put out an “excessive heat warning.”  Man, those government types sure have a way with words.  I’ve never seen a warning so… apt.

Well, I may have found a spec that lets me still compete, sort of.  Maybe I won’t be shelving my magus after all!  The problem is that our damage has been so incredibly reduced that I am literally only good for support dps (and this is laughable, I’m not increasing the TTK in any way near significantly enough).  I think that some magi *cough norgoth cough* are overeacting – we’re down but by no means out, and I’m encouraged by the posts at least one of the oracles for our class have made regarding mythic’s changes to our class.  It sounds like good things are in the works, but the question is, will they get here soon enough?  “soon enough” being the three weeks I’m going to give my class before I shelve it and go do something more worthwile with my time, like levelling that sorc I have in T2.  At least he still has damage.

I finally know what “strain” of author I was meant to be.  You know, how some are existentialists, etc etc?

I will be an infernokrusher.

Brutal, I say!

Aaaaagh!  I forgot!  D:

Stupid, stupid, stupid…  that’s what I get for actually doing stuff on a weekend for once.

…That google has a feature that will tell you how much shorter the next day is, and how long the day is today.

As of writing, the day is 15 hours and 11 minutes long, and tomorrow it will be 1 minute and 48 seconds shorter.

This is fascinating and terrifying.

Add 3 abilities to this class.  You start with one, get the second at rank 4, and the third at rank 7.

The Blessing of Havoc
No cost
Instant cast
No cooldown
Concentrating mightily, you channel power into your disc, causing it to take a new form.  While the Blessing is active, your intelligence and initiative is increased by 80, and you gain 10% range to all abilities.  You also gain the ability to auto-attack from range while this blessing is active.

The Blessing of Change
No cost
Instant cast
No cooldown
Concentrating mightily, you channel power into your disc, inspiring it to change.  While the Blessing is active, your toughness is increased by 140 and your chance to crit and chance to disrupt are increased by 5%.

The Blessing of Daemonology
No cost
Instant cast
No cooldown.
Concentrating mightily, you channel power into your disc, forcing it to bend to your will.  While the Blessing is active, your armor is increased by 100%, and you deal 15% more damage when within 30 feet of your enemies, and 10% less when more than 65 feet away.  Does not effect armor buffs or potions.

Remove close quarters from the game.  Do what you want with our pets.  You may only have one Blessing active at a time.

Balance all other abilities as necessary.

Are you finally trying to communicate with your player base? Schweet!

It may not have a billion subscribers or whatever, like woW, but the PVP in Warhammer Online is absolutely a blast (even in T4, when things aren’t getting in the way of it), and there is at its core an amazingly fun, well-planned game that unfortunately is marred in its execution.  When I told him I was subscribing to WAR instead of WoW, my friend invited me to “enjoy the year-long paid beta.”  I knew he wasn’t really joking; and yes, Warhammer is buggy at times, can suffer from lag, and performs appallingly on my computer considering my decent-enough hardware.  But when you can get past that, this game is so fun – and the lore it’s building off is by turns brilliant and laughable.  WoW ruined its orcs; WAR made them what they should be.

It needs a little love.  But that’s okay; I’m willing to wait.  Despite increasingly dire noises made by a handful on the official forums, I think EA is happy with where this game is right now, and I know I am.  Honestly; any more people on Gorfang and I’d be down to single digit FPS all the time.  The game currently has about as many subscribers as (I believe) most other moderately sucessful MMOs, about 350 thousand.  That’s enough for me.

And once they get the balance and bugs tweaked, I bet it’ll start to grow.

It is not for you.

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The first step towards solving your problems is admitting you have a problem.