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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://my.curse.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/atom.xsl" media="screen"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xml:lang="en-US"><title type="html">Guillotine&amp;#39;s Rants</title><subtitle type="html" /><id>http://my.curse.com/blogs/guillotines-rants-en-users/atom.aspx</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://my.curse.com/blogs/guillotines-rants-en-users/default.aspx" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://my.curse.com/blogs/guillotines-rants-en-users/atom.aspx" /><generator uri="http://communityserver.org" version="4.0.30619.63">Community Server</generator><updated>2008-09-19T15:08:19Z</updated><entry><title>Starting the epidemic -- again</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="/blogs/guillotines-rants-en-users/archive/2008/09/19/N47Id.aspx" /><id>/blogs/guillotines-rants-en-users/archive/2008/09/19/N47Id.aspx</id><published>2007-07-10T12:12:00Z</published><updated>2007-07-10T12:12:00Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;On IRC today in the Addon Developer room, we began discussing the GM item &lt;a href="http://wow.cursebeta.com/database/items/details/192/" rel="tip_1:192"&gt;Martin Thunder&lt;/a&gt;. Someone had not seen it linked before and was wondering how it happened. I told them that recently GMs have been appearing with it and that, by Monday (right before server restart), it was linkable on most servers.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now, as a preface, I have an &amp;quot;Addon Development&amp;quot; character as I like to call it from which I do most of my development. This character is in an EXTREMELY large guild (maximum capacity reached on the guild panel) because I often need alot of people to test things.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now, back to the story.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Because I was already on my Addon Dev character, I decided to test what I had said by linking the &lt;a href="http://wow.cursebeta.com/database/items/details/192/" rel="tip_1:192"&gt;Martin Thunder&lt;/a&gt;. Sure enough, it worked. I decided to have some fun at the expense of the newer players in that character&amp;#39;s guild. I told them I had just found the item off of a rat in Stormwind.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I had no idea what I had done.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
First, one of the people I had decided to have fun with asked what it was in trade chat.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Then another.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Then someone from Trade began linking it in yells.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Within an hour, every other chat message posted in Trade contained the item link.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I had started the epidemic -- again
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://my.curse.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=258513" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>Guillotine</name><uri>http://my.curse.com/members/Guillotine.aspx</uri></author><category term="epidemic" scheme="http://my.curse.com/blogs/guillotines-rants-en-users/archive/tags/epidemic/default.aspx" /></entry><entry><title>Drop rates suck</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="/blogs/guillotines-rants-en-users/archive/2008/09/19/N5Id.aspx" /><id>/blogs/guillotines-rants-en-users/archive/2008/09/19/N5Id.aspx</id><published>2007-06-20T04:41:19Z</published><updated>2007-06-20T04:41:19Z</updated><content type="html">So I&amp;#39;ve been spending the past who knows how long trying to farm for my Badge of Tenacity. Damn its a pain. The drop rate is absolutely horrid. I&amp;#39;ve already gotten around 400 Apexis Shards and to honored with Ogri&amp;#39;la and the Skyguard. Luckly, I&amp;#39;ve been farming the guys that drop the Ethereum guys that drop the &lt;div class="tooltip"&gt;&lt;div class="quality2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://wow.cursebeta.com/database/items/details/29460/"&gt;Ethereum Prison Key&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="graytext socket"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="graytext socket"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="graytext socket"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="greentext"&gt;&lt;a href="http://wow.cursebeta.com/database/spells/details/35349/" rel="tip_2:35349"&gt;Use: Unlocks Ethereum prisons.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;, so I&amp;#39;ve been getting a bunch of greens along the way.
&lt;p&gt;Still no depleted items, still no epics, still not even any blues.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is going to take a while.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://my.curse.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=258515" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>Guillotine</name><uri>http://my.curse.com/members/Guillotine.aspx</uri></author><category term="farm" scheme="http://my.curse.com/blogs/guillotines-rants-en-users/archive/tags/farm/default.aspx" /><category term="druid" scheme="http://my.curse.com/blogs/guillotines-rants-en-users/archive/tags/druid/default.aspx" /></entry><entry><title>Drop rates suck</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="/blogs/guillotines-rants-en-users/archive/2008/09/19/N4Id.aspx" /><id>/blogs/guillotines-rants-en-users/archive/2008/09/19/N4Id.aspx</id><published>2007-06-20T04:40:45Z</published><updated>2007-06-20T04:40:45Z</updated><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;So I&amp;#39;ve been spending the past who knows how long trying to farm for my &lt;a href="http://wow.cursebeta.com/database/items/details/32658/" rel="tip_1:32658"&gt;Badge of Tenacity&lt;/a&gt;. Damn its a pain. The drop rate is absolutely horrid. I&amp;#39;ve already gotten around 400 &lt;a href="http://wow.cursebeta.com/database/items/details/32569/" rel="tip_1:32569"&gt;Apexis Shard&lt;/a&gt; and to honored with Ogri&amp;#39;la and the Skyguard. Luckly, I&amp;#39;ve been farming the guys that drop the Ethereum guys that drop the &lt;a href="http://wow.cursebeta.com/database/items/details/29460/" rel="tip_1:29460"&gt;Ethereum Prison Key&lt;/a&gt;, so I&amp;#39;ve been getting a bunch of greens along the way.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Still no depleted items, still no epics, still not even any blues.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is going to take a while.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Update: now revered and over 1.5k shards. I may end up getting a nether ray before I get my badge -_-
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