Sadly my Lush Dream Cream expires tomorrow. I was wondering, when it expires would it be bad to still continue to use it? I have a bit of it left and I cant exactly get to my nearest Lush at the moment. So, I was just curious. Thanks!

I'm levelling my fourth alt through Wrath content at the moment, and today completed the Wrathgate and the Battle for the Undercity lines. While I can take or leave the Battle for the Undercity, I love the Wrathgate line. Even after so many iterations, when Alexstrasza's drakes glide in to cleanse the detritus of battle with purifying flame, I have to admit to choking up a little.



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Just an interesting note. I faction changed my hunter a few days ago, from a dwarf to a space goat (I love that shotgun auto shoot!). However, when I faction changed, I was given the hunter newbie quests again. I was a lvl 40, and I'm talking about those lvl 10 "how to tame a beast" quests.

I got 6,544 xp for each lvl of the Tame a Beast quest, roughly 30% of a ding off of those quests. Tame a crab, tame a bird, tame a cat... yer done! oO; I cheated! It was awesome.

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I can't even tell you how this seemed to take forever. It's like life was doing everything possible to keep me from working on this thing!! Anyway, finally, I'm finished with part deuce of what I've come to call the NElf Anniversary Project. I'm still not impressed that it's the best thing ever. But that's probably because I've been obsessively drawing chain link for the past week, haha. And I thought that armour was cool when I first saw it. Never again! Also, I kind of wish I'd messed up again and accidentally made the girl's skin blue like in the other pic, so the colours would mesh better, but alas. I guess I wasted that card on accidentally colouring the bike green, which worked out for tying the druid armour and hair to the rest. Not that I'm obsessive and picky.

Anyway, hope you like it. And nerd points for movie reference in title?



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For the record, yes, I'm still taking commissions, though there is a small line at the moment. Sketches and inks have quick turn around, but a full colour piece like this gets done whenever I can squeeze it in, which is why there is a bit of a price jump from just plain inks. Anyway, feel free to email me at link@zephyr121.com if you'd like to seriously discuss getting a pic of your toon.

*This is mainly for those who are suffering disconnects since 3.2.X*

(Summarizing this post in the WoW Forums who's source was this ElitistJerks post.)

1) Remove Recount-
Disable Recount Syncing (/recount synch) or disable Recount

(Ami: This was my issue, I switched to Skada and practically all my 25-man lag disappeared.)

2) Disable Blizzard Combat Log-
Right-click your combat log tab > "Self" > "What happened to me" > "Everything" > Click on each of those, and then click through each of the sub-tabs and disable EVERYTHING. Make it so that NOTHING appears on your combat log.

(Ami: If you run a combat log record for uploading to World of Logs, this will make it not work, so either have someone else do it or don't do this step, however, this is reported to be one of the biggest fixes, so up to you.)

3) Find out what addons from others are spamming you-
http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/fu-bar_addon-spam-fu.aspx

This amazing addon allows you to monitor addon message traffic from your raid members. What you want to do is to MINIMIZE this traffic. Many addons have secret "whisper" programs that we cannot see. They whisper other players in the raid/party for all sorts of information. The problem is, many of these mods do the whispering extremely inefficiently, thus leading to massive, MASSIVE spamming of your client with data.

Main one to look for is Gearscore. However, the author says he's improved the way it shares info and to make sure everyone updates to fix it. Several people mention banning Gearscore from being on during guild raids.

(Be careful: some addons like LibHealComm(X) have to do it, other addons like X-Perl and Carbonite and GearScore don't.)

4) Latency Improvment-
http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info13581-LeatrixLatencyFix.html

Lowers your latency by changing how your computer handles information acknowledgments. It's amazing. This is NOT an addon, it is a modification to your computer itself.

Install it, try it for yourself over a period of a few days. If you aren't happy, remove it. Make up your own mind. It won't break anything. Most people report a noticeable improvement in button response times, as well as smoother mob movement patterns.

(Ami: I went from ~150ms to ~30ms. Oceanic or overseas players see more significant improvements as shown in the comments section.)

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I know some of you already know all of this, but I hope this helps anyone else who might be having issues. I myself blamed it completely on Recount until I stumbled across this earlier. Now I know that it was a combination of Recount, recording the combat log, and the raid leader and others having an old-spammy Gearscore.

Has anyone used Snow Fairy shower gel as shampoo? I LOVE the scent and wish it lasted longer on my skin, so I'm hoping to get better milage out of the smell on my hair. So, if you've used it as a shampoo, how did you like it, and what type of hair do you have? My hair is pretty long and on the drier side because it's color treated... will it strip my color?

Thanks!

mods: I don't see a Snow Fairy tag, just a seasonal items tag... but I think Snow Fairy deserves one on it's own! :)

Hello there lovelies!

I've never been one for atmospheric sprays...I just apparently judged too quickly before really testing them out because I just went ahead and bought a decant of Knock-a-Dolly from a circle and I'm addicted to it. I spray it quite a bit and often run through it so I can catch whiffs of it in my hair. I don't suppose anyone has some Knock-a-Dolly that isn't getting any love, that perhaps wouldn't actually mind swapping for it?
(also looking to test out Cathouse and Down the Rabbit Hole)

Beyond that I'm also bumping my sales (in case I can't find someone and need to buy some before it goes down ^_^) so please see if anything catches your fancy here at my sales/swap page.

Happy birthday to onetruebelmont :)

I ended up leaving my last guild since they weren't letting me raid. Found a new one (with a fellow wowlady, in fact). They are quite good.

And silly. And they let me raid.

In tonight's raid, this song popped up, and I figured I'd share. Dunno if it's popped up here before, but it's funny as all hell. Onyxia wipe guy never gets old.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtWfhkC4A_A

I thought of a really cute way to ask my bridesmaid and matron of honour to be in my wedding party...

Our wedding will take place at a winery, which is vintage and rustic and beautiful. I have decided that i'm going to take them up there to have lunch with me and ask them with these:

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This is my beloved mate's main. As you can see, he is nearing Level 80 -- the first 80 out of any of our characters, as a matter of fact. When he dings, I'd like it to be a special occasion.

He has also recently expressed to me a desire for one of these. The problems I have answering this desire of his are actually twofold. Firstly, not only are fully constructed 'hogs prohibitively expensive on the AH, so are all the mats. Secondly, my own alt on this server, Meleiriel, is a lowbie too low to effectively farm enough gold or mats to manage the purchase price of this extremely expensive object in the time it will take for my mate to grind those last two levels.

What I'm wondering is this: are there any Ladies who call Cenarion Circle their home who might be willing to work out long-term payment arrangement for the crafting of this beast? Meleiriel is a tailor/enchanter in the beginning levels but I'm perfectly willing to work out something in terms of private crafting trade/gold exchange/personal slave for Horde-side alts and mains. I'd say 'help me, WoW Ladies, you're my only hope!' but that'd be cheesy. I will say, if there's anyone who wouldn't mind working with me on this, do let me know! Thanks in advance.

Hi ladies!

Well, as many of us know, WoW was a little weird last night with the patch download and the initial "WTF?! A patch on a Monday?!" reaction. So I, like a devoted WoW player, downloaded the patch that was required.. But when I logged in and got to the "Character Selection" screen.. My Add-Ons tab was gone! I don't know if the patch did something to it, but my boyfriend said that he managed to download the patch last night and his mods were unaffected. Am I just going crazy?
Thinking that maybe my mods had been deleted by accident, I re-downloaded one from Curse.com, but I still cannot access the tab,, Um.. Help?

Any help would be appreciated.

(And yes, I have found romance again! After much thought and discussion, my boyfriend and I have decided to pursue a relationship again! Once my mods issue has been resolved, I'll be looking to you gals to help me out with a guild charter just for my boyfriend and I! He was such a good guy.. We ended it on good terms for silly reasons that he realised were just that-silly, so we decided to give it another shot.)

The holidays are almost here and I'd like to open my commission lines up soon. :3 But I have some ideas I'd like to run by you girls (and guys) first because the vast majority of my commissioner base is female.

I usually do icon and chibi commissions but I've been trying to shake things up. All icons all the time makes me go a little crazy lol. One idea I have is to offer mounted chibi commissions:

Mounts are a big part of a character's identity in WoW and they're quite fun to draw. :D Normal chibi commissions go for $5, but the mount has (so far) proven to be a lot more work than the actual character lol. Do you think $10-$12 is a reasonable price for one of these?


( Another idea: )


Anyway I am currently NOT open for these commissions -- I'm just gathering some opinions about possible new options for now. When I'm open, I will let you guys know. :3

Thanks!

Guys, be smart. Don't fall for this one.

The other day, I was at Walgreens. At their front end, they have displays of items like candy, soda, and prophylactics. One of the items was generic skin softener- "made with real olive oil!" the label announced. It was $5 for a 6oz bottle. Curious, I looked at the ingredients:

100% pure olive oil.

Yeah. Or you could just buy some olive oil in those big jugs for about $8 and use some on your skin- provided you don't start with mildly dry, normally oily skin. A better idea is a wash with rice bran and oatmeal in that case. But if you usually have very dry skin, olive oil has been used in the Middle East for that purpose for centuries. If you're looking for something lighter, go with jojoba or almond oil. Grapeseed oil works as well, and if you put about 1 drop essential oils to 10 drops base oil, it can smell really good too! Just make sure the essential oil is safe to use on the skin. Not all of them are!

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A World of Warcraft Story by Gre7g Luterman

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*How long have you been playing World of Warcraft?: Around 18 months. I originally started playing because my brother played and I could talk to him, then he stopped playing and I changed servers because sayyida_jaida told me to. I'm a sheep.
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A few hrs. are left on my ebay auction for BPTP Pumpkin Pie Bath Oil !

So my car has been having weird problems stalling and not wanting to start for a few months, and I took it to a new mechanic today who knew exactly what to do to fix it and did so for $100. Then, despite not getting home from work until 6:30 PM because I was borrowing my boyfriend's car while mine was in the shop and I needed to pick him up, UPS delivered my package from NewEgg 5 minutes after I got home, sparing me a drawn-out trip to the UPS office that would have made me miss my raid tonight.

( And then I logged onto WoW... )

Hihi! I was wondering if I could beg assistance from a few persons. First, I've got a bunch of lvl 70+ greens on an unguilded alt I've been accumulating while levelling Sas, and was wondering if I could mail it to some enchanter for DE? It's about 30 things though. ^^; I'm willing to pay/tip for the help! I'd do them on my bank toon who's an enchanter, but they've gone beyond her DE ability.

Also, is there an alchemist I could trouble for 3 arcanite crystal to arcanite bar transmutes? I can mail the mats to whomever, including whatever cost/tip you'd require. Then I would need to find a willing blacksmith to make an arcanite rod, and also a fel iron rod, so I could get my alt's enchanting worked on and maybe be able to do my own DEing again in the future. XD;;; Am willing to also mail those mats/fee/tips/random passing gnomes to whomever.

Thanks very much in advance! ♥