It was briefly touched on, but I want to reiterate that you really need to be prepared to take an emotional beating. A fresh 80 in the Dungeon Finder isn't fun. At all. After eight 80s it made me question whether or not I wanted to keep playing. The first time I got verbally abused because of my gear, I figured it was a one off thing. Then it happened again. And again. And again. And... well you get the idea. The worst was getting booted from a CoS run becuase 2.3k dps wasn't good enough (btw, this was just a few hours after I hit 80, I think that's good enough, thank you very much). It wasn't until I got over about 3.5k gearscore (ilvl lookup should be restricted from addons in cross realm dungeons) that people stopped griefing me. Its been a completely miserable experience.

On the other hand, I level this same toon completely through the dungeon finder starting at 15, all the way to 80. Sure, I had some back groups, but it was still a lot of fun. Never once had someone say something negative about my gear.

I started with MMOs as a beta tester for Ultima Online, then again as a beta tester for EverQuest. I played EQ until the opportunity to beta WoW came along. I immediately dumped EQ in favor of WoW. I've taken several breaks from the game over the years, but at this point I'm up to 7 80s, with an 8th on shortly on the way.

This is going to sound odd, but back when UBRS was considered "end game", things were where I thought they should be. One tank simply couldn't handle all the mobs. Generally, gear wasn't going to be up for it that early in the game's life, nor was the ability for the healers to keep up with the damage. You had to have several tanks soaking up the damage, even on trash (and trash was HARD back then).

Just because your mouse CAN be used on any surface doesn't mean it SHOULD be used on any surface. Do yourself a favor and go buy yourself a gaming grade mouse pad. Even the super cheap ones (Fry's has an Allsop one for $8) are a huge step up from your desk or even a normal, old school mouse pad. They are specifically made for optical mice, and are much slicker, so you can turn faster in PvP (keyboard turners need not apply). Even outside of PvP, for questing, instance runs, and raiding, its a cheap investment (depending), that will make a drastic improvement in the quality of your playtime.

Nice indeed.

I've been healing BGs for a while, but just started healing as a Resto Druid. One thing that caught me off guard, was that as a giant tree, you stick out like soar thumb, and scream healer, making you an instant target. With other healing classes, it is somewhat easy to "hide" in a pack of ranged DPS, and just sit there, quietly doing your thing. Its definitely taking some getting used to, and drastically altering my healing style.

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He's definitely level 80 now, but I'd say they just changed the number on the portrait, and nothing else. Sacred Shield was more than enough to keep our Pally tank close to full health. I could have easily healed in my Ret gear/spec. Infact, one fight, I decided not to heal at all, just to see if we could, and no one in the party dropped below 75%.

Through all of our summons (each person can summon twice, if they do the quest and the daily), I think our tank saw maybe 8 or 9 Flash of Lights, and that's it. Even less for the rest of the party.

To make a long story short (too late) its a joke. Healers - If you are dual spec, heal in your DPS spec, and do some damage to speed things up.

I'll second Wound Poison. Its a noticeable jump in DPS switching from Instant Poison to Wound Poison, even without looking at Recount.

Wireless continuous glucometers aren't "concepts", and have been around in functional practice for a while. I encourage any diabetic with poor control to visit their endocrinologist. My wife used one for a while, and it was amazing. I can't tell you what a wonderful feeling it was for me to get up in the middle of the night, or early in the morning, pick the receiver up off her night stand, hit a button, and see what her blood sugar was. Unfortunately, at the time, the transmitters were about $70 a pop, and only lasted a week. I hear insurance companies are on board with them now, and many major carriers cover them now. I think I'll remind my wife to look into it again.

http://www.medtronic.com/your-health/diabetes/device/insulin-pumps/guardian-real-time-system/index.htm