Managed to find my Nintendo DS while packing stuff, and it still works – however I found I’m kind of terrible at it. I was kind of surprised it still works really well.

I remember buying it to play with between called while I was at Stream. When I moved on to GTS Services I really didn’t have time sadly. When I started working on the Adobe contract at Stream there was a huge emphasis on first call resolution – which meant (paraphrasing our trainer Mr. Perkins) you stay on the call until the issue was solved within reason. Interestingly enough doing this only got most of us an average average handle time of around 22 minutes (which was only a bit higher than the mandatory one they use now). So while customers rebooted or did tasks I either was looking up info (to help them), or playing on my Nintendo. Not that this was allowed, and it was probably poor judgment on my part, but finding it in a forgotten box brought back the memory. I also read a lot of comic books – Ah My Goddess being my favorite at the time (I still have all of them!).

An indignant guild member in Dragonfire was upset that all Deathknights (the new class introduced with the most recent expansion) were being portrayed as “easy mode”. Fueling the fire as I like to do sometimes I linked this video:

So this guy bound every single one of his characters abilities to a single button macro (so he runs around swinging his sword repeatedly hitting this one button) using a feature in the client called /castrandom – think of it like a scripting interface for the game. It has a lot of limitations to prevent cheating, but what /castrandom does is it selects from an array of ready spells (in other words – not ones that have been used an are on cooldown) and uses them on the target.

Are they easy mode? Yes – sadly. They have been toned down and nerfed in recent patches, but its the only class in the game I can think of that can silence a player using any one of 4 abilities. Or stun players using blackout with their pet (I think that is what it was called). I actually hexed a deathknight (turned him into a frog) to run away – and his pet came and stunned me – after that wore off he came over and killed me. I do honestly think they were one of the poorer design decisions Blizzard has made for the game sadly.