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About me

I have been actively gaming, as well as a computer geek, since I was a kid - which may not sound much at first but trust me on this.

I played D&D in the early paper and pencil days, enjoyed some perhaps unusual aspects of Traveller, a glorious time in Runequest, and a few other games - and a fondness for friends who really can tell the difference between fact, fantasy, and the physics of the Real World we walk in versus the (sometimes consistent) curious physics of worlds of magical pasts, alternate worlds, or distant futures.

Um, and oddly enough I'm social too; MMO seems to work for me!

I joined Wikia so that I could comment on an active discussion regarding WoWWiki. The wiki moved. The old one remains. If you want to read my (also rather verbose) thoughts on that transition, go read them over there. I'm here to talk about WoW :)

About my toons within WoW

Spilledstars (Caelastrasz: Night Elf druid) is my main character, but not the only one I play actively. She's a maxed level Resto druid, with an alt spec and gear for feral tanking on behalf of my lower level guildies. Although, this may get less common as our other tanks are blossoming. She's our JC and one of our most active herbalist.

Ishnudaldien (Caelastrasz: Draenai shaman) is our guild's most active Inscriptionist. Not quite maxed level yet; working on that too.

Seneschal (Caelastrasz: Gnome mage) runs our "sister guild" and leads the auctioning team; it's also occasionally fun to go out a-blasting :)

DistantSuns (Terrokar: Human paladin) tromps around questing a lot, generally when my main realm is down, but sometimes just to enjoy not worrying about keeping up with anyone.

I also have a couple of worgen, a human shadowpriest, a warrior, and a rogue.

About my guild

Con Diablos (Caelastrasz, Oceanic)

Spilledstars is guildmistress of this family guild. We do some dungeoning. We actively quest or farm together. We enjoy using in-game voice; we had a vent server for a while, but were using it rarely. Not all of us are related, we're close family friends too, or a few people who have had really good runs with us. The heart of it all is, if you're a member of our guild, the player is a member; we help each other's alts too, and people who've matriculated up into raiding guilds still quest with us and help out.

Promise (Caelastrasz, Oceanic)

Seneschal is guildmistress of this banking-alt guild - and the coincident "sister guild" of Con Diablos. Although, some of us aren't mere level ones, as some of our players enjoy also running the toons or pushing the professions forward. Profits go toward gearing up Con Diablos and Promise members.

Guiding Knights (Terrokar, US)

The same family folk active on a US server, and perhaps a few locals to the realm. The hope and goals of this guild are to (when we're active) help anyone whom we find is new to the game; bags for young toons, etc.

Thoughts on playing WoW via the LFD tool

I recently read an pleasantly awesome thread over on the Blizzard forums: I met an Elitist Tank last night

Well worth reading. Actually he met a few elitist tanks, and one really good elite man up to the challenge of playing the dungeon he was actually given... who happened, in the queue for that particular run, to be a Tank.

It's awesome that his crew had the perseverance to even bother to keep queueing up, instead of just "going for an achieve" like running off and pasting Stratholme in case of getting a mount. The universe was kind enough to grant them something they really needed - a sensei. That man brought the ideals he lives with in the real world into our MMO's fake one, and made it more real thereby.

More players should consider being real people behind their toons. :)

It caused me to write these bits...

Risks aren't bad. They just require energy and maybe a bit of brainpower - and more time. If you're willing to put some time in - use it well. Help a few other souls spin up too.

More thoughts on attitude issues

PVP gear versus PVE

If you just plain delete the resilience stat entirely, and it's still good stats, shut up, ok?

Green versus Purple gear

Gear from the expansion lands includes greens of significantly higher itemlevel, but less sexy color on the tooltip. Again, if the stats are right for the class, shut up already.

Learn 2 Play
- Hardcore raiders versus Casual play, or elitists who want to be carried through speed runs?

Well this is a mighty fine pickle, I can see it both ways. If you had high hopes of playing with people who know what they're doing, then you quite reasonably look for traits that suggest that yeah, they probably know what they're doing.

But many of these traits are not properly represented on Gearscore, nor by itemlevel. Sorry lads and lasses, math is not enough to play this game. Go out and have some fun instead of nitpicking. If you like math that much, stay in the auction house.

A Letter To My Lower Level Self

Dear Spilled at level 1: Your hair is lovely, keep it silver always.

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+I played D&D in the early paper and pencil days, enjoyed some perhaps unusual aspects of Traveller, a glorious time in Runequest, and a few other games - and a fondness for friends who really '''can''' tell the difference between fact, fantasy, and the physics of the Real World we walk in versus the (sometimes consistent) curious physics of worlds of magical pasts, alternate worlds, or distant futures.
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+Um, and oddly enough I'm social too;  MMO seems to work for me!
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+I joined Wikia so that I could comment on an active discussion regarding WoWWiki.  The wiki moved.  The old one remains.  If you want to read my (also rather verbose) thoughts on that transition, go read them over there.  I'm here to talk about WoW :)
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+== About my toons within WoW ==
-[[Category:World of Warcraft socketed items]]
+Spilledstars (Caelastrasz: Night Elf druid) is my main character, but not the only one I play actively.   She's a maxed level Resto druid, with an alt spec and gear for feral tanking on behalf of my lower level guildies.  Although, this may get less common as our other tanks are blossoming.  She's our JC and one of our most active herbalist.
+Ishnudaldien (Caelastrasz: Draenai shaman) is our guild's most active Inscriptionist.  Not quite maxed level yet;  working on that too.
+Seneschal (Caelastrasz: Gnome mage) runs our "sister guild" and leads the auctioning team; it's also occasionally fun to go out a-blasting :)
+DistantSuns (Terrokar: Human paladin) tromps around questing a lot, generally when my main realm is down, but sometimes just to enjoy not worrying about keeping up with anyone.
+I also have a couple of worgen, a human shadowpriest, a warrior, and a rogue.
+== About my guild ==
+=== Con Diablos (Caelastrasz, Oceanic) ===
+Spilledstars is guildmistress of this family guild.  We do some dungeoning.  We actively quest or farm together.  We enjoy using in-game voice;  we had a vent server for a while, but were using it rarely.  Not all of us are related, we're close family friends too, or a few people who have had really good runs with us.  The heart of it all is, if you're a member of our guild, the ''player'' is a member;  we help each other's alts too, and people who've matriculated up into raiding guilds still quest with us and help out.
+=== Promise (Caelastrasz, Oceanic) ===
+Seneschal is guildmistress of this banking-alt guild - and the coincident "sister guild" of Con Diablos.  Although, some of us aren't mere level ones, as some of our players enjoy also running the toons or pushing the professions forward.  Profits go toward gearing up Con Diablos and Promise members.
+=== Guiding Knights (Terrokar, US) ===
+The same family folk active on a US server, and perhaps a few locals to the realm.   The hope and goals of this guild are to (when we're active) help anyone whom we find is new to the game;  bags for young toons, etc.
+== Thoughts on playing WoW via the LFD tool ==
+I recently read an pleasantly awesome thread over on the Blizzard forums:
+[http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2456911307 I met an Elitist Tank last night]
+Well worth reading.  Actually he met a few elitist tanks, and one really good elite man up to the challenge of playing the dungeon he was actually given... who happened, in the queue for that particular run, to be a Tank.
+It's awesome that his crew had the perseverance to even bother to keep queueing up, instead of just "[[Achievement|going for an achieve]]" like running off and pasting Stratholme in case of getting a [[Deathcharger's_Reins|mount]].  The universe was kind enough to grant them something they really needed - a sensei.  That man brought the ideals he lives with in the real world into our MMO's fake one, and made it more real thereby.
+More players should consider being real people behind their toons. :)
+=== It caused me to write these bits... ===
+* [[/ShouldHaveLearnedInTheNormals]]
+* [[/AboutGearingUp]]
+* [[/OnlyRunningWithGuildies]]
+Risks aren't bad. They just require energy and maybe a bit of brainpower - and more time. If you're willing to put some time in - use it well.  Help a few other souls spin up too.
+=== More thoughts on attitude issues ===
+* PVP gear versus PVE
+If you just plain delete the resilience stat entirely, and it's still good stats, shut up, ok?
+* Green versus Purple gear
+Gear from the expansion lands includes greens of significantly higher itemlevel, but less sexy color on the tooltip.  Again, if the stats are right for the class, shut up already.
+* Learn 2 Play
+** Hardcore raiders versus Casual play, or elitists who want to be carried through speed runs?
+Well this is a mighty fine pickle, I can see it both ways.  If you had high hopes of playing with people who know what they're doing, then you quite reasonably look for traits that suggest that yeah, they probably know what they're doing.
+But many of these traits are not properly represented on Gearscore, nor by itemlevel.  Sorry lads and lasses, math is not enough to play this game.   Go out and have some fun instead of nitpicking.   If you like math '''''that''''' much, stay in the auction house.
+== A Letter To My Lower Level Self ==
+Dear Spilled at level 1:
+Your hair is lovely, keep it silver always.
+* [[/DearSpilledLevelOne]]
+* [[/DearSpilledLevelTen]]
+* [[/DearSpilledLeveling]]