Bear with me, as I’m a little new to this dingus.

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I apologize if you can’t handle my awesome.

Next time I do this, maybe I’ll have a diagram, and little pointy arrows, and circles, and a goblin bouncing around laughing at you.  As it is, you’ll just have to follow along as best you’re able.

Here are my ADDAWNS.  Apparently Enchantrix is not loaded.  I don’t know, and I don’t care.  That should give you an idea of where this is going.

What you can’t see is my use of tinytip, which lets me know EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU just by glancing, or hovering the cursor over you.  Can you feel it?  Can you feel the arrow of doom, wafting through the air just above your face?  It lets me know EVERYTHING.  But in a cute, dainty little compact compartment for easy lifting and storage.

Bartender 4 allows for the most splendid placement of my bars.  They are well tended.  There are not nearly enough of them, but I was told to cut back.  As it is, I can scroll through them and have any one I choose be my main action bar at a moment’s notice.  This is fun for switching from healing to “Oh snap, I’m the only one left standing.  I had better dps.”  You’ll note, there in the center at the bottom, there are a few buttons for city life.  They include my delicious macros for waving, looking, pointing and laughing.  They are fun, and deliciously overused in Dalaran these days.  For such simple gestures of mockery, they are actually rather complicated code.  Maybe next time I will share with you the grandiose series of lines which make up my ‘point and laugh’ emote – it makes even jerks who are elitist become envious.  Envious jerks.  Yes, that was me.  I’m the one that made them change the website.

Top left, I am desperately trying to smile for the close-up camera.  Not working so well, as my hate and sarcasm make my smiles look less than sincere.  Promise to work on that.  No really.  Just for you.  X-Perl was the photographer, and it seems they almost missed.  At least they didn’t cut off my head like what usually happens with Thomas.  This addawn allows me to see mana, health, experience, and reputation.  You see how it says “None Watched”?  That’s because I DON’T CARE WHAT YOU THINK.  Stupid druids.  A little deer-blood on the hem of the skirt and everyone’s all “KILL DA ALF!!”  Then the running and the screaming and suddenly there’s MORE blood on my skirt.  This stuff will never come out, I just know it…

Bottom right is all the logistical buttons.   My bag is a cacophony of terror and lost dimensions.  I use Bagnon to consolodate my junk into a single pack so I can find my quest stuff, food, water, and that silly flute that makes everyone around me dance.  Bwahahaha.  Ahem.  Please ignore the icons for cooking and sewing…  /cower

Above that, there’s my handy-dandy quest tracker.  What?  I’m on my OWN out there, at least give me a tourguide.  And a Tomtom.  And map coordinates.  These are all addons too, if you were having trouble keeping up.  They give me a step-by-step process to follow when killing thousands of seals and rhinos and shoveltusks and eagles and deer and bears, oh my.  Whew.  

Speaking of maps, due note that if I’m to have my face burried in a map whilst I traverse such terrain, it had better be blasted pretty to look at.  Thus…sexymap.  Ohyes, it is my precious precious pretty map, yes you are.  Apparently it comes in Druid Mint flavor, and Mage Bloo, probably Death Knight Licorice.  But mine is a giant jaw breaker of hate and fire.  And I love it.  You can customize the joker a bit, but I chose a rather simple, direct, IN YOUR FACE AND TAKE NO PRISONERS SHOVE IT IN YOUR EAR UNTIL YOU THINK ONLY BURNING THOUGHTS OF RIGHTEOUS FIRE -

Yes, well.  It’s a map.  It’s pretty.  That’s really all there is to it, I’m sure.

And yes, still 68.  I’ve been lost in Dalaran for days.  Please send food.  Maybe it’s because Enchantrix isn’t loaded…

While we appreciate all the ’3 things you love about your class’, there were not nearly enough ninjas involved. In fact, ninjas were only mentioned three times. Maybe four.

Also, there was no gold.

We know we said you had a choice, but come on. It was really about the gold.

We are a forgiving village, though, with a long and illustrious history of no one ever hearing about us. Can’t last forever, so we’re going to try this thing where we talk about the priest class and you listen to us and do what we tell you.

Miss Space Goat does it all the time, so it can’t be too hard.

FIRST. A macro. Everyone loves macros, and it makes you look really smart when you tell other people how to do a macro. Macros are good for two things: accomplishing more than one thing at a time, and spamming battlegrounds chat. YES THAT IS US. WE DID THAT. And we put you on ignore when you complained. You should have taken RH first like we told you!!

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I’m unashamedly a Beastmastery hunter, and some of the concepts and macros here probably won’t apply to other types of hunters. Doesn’t mean you can’t read it, just means I will fling french-accented insults at any who feel the need to complain about how suchandso macro or theorycraft doesn’t apply to hunters without a kittybomb (Bestial Wrath) or Serpent’s Swiftness.

I already know. *winks*

Onward!

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Okay, okay. I promised an entry on Assisting, so here it is.

What is Assisting?
If you are assisting, then you are not choosing your own mob.

That…that’s pretty much the gist of it. At it’s heart, that is all assisting is. Not picking your own mob.

By now you know me well enough to know I’d never leave an entry that short, so of course I’m going to complicate things.

If you aren’t choosing your own mob, how are you getting the mob? The answer is the key to assisting – the Main Assist.

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Today, my gentle snowflakes*, we will discuss the priest ability Shackle Undead.

Shackle Undead (or just “shackle”, as most people call it) is a spell learned from the priest trainer at level 20.

The tooltip says :

Shackles the target undead enemy for up to 40 sec. The shackled unit is unable to move, attack or cast spells. Any damage caused will release the target. Only one target can be shackled at a time.

Let’s dissect the tooltip a bit.

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