Lava Lash, Pew Pew!

I always forget about mods.

And, really, patch day is always about 89% less fun when I spend most of it standing around trying to sort out what’s working and what isn’t. Three of my favourite-mods-of-all-time-forever-OMG still haven’t been updated; Advanced Bags Plus, Confab and UberQuest Reborn Again. I’ve replaced the first with Baggins and the last with QuestGuru, and I’m still debating whether to keep them or not. Because, like, on the one hand I like Baggins’ sorting and Bank integration, while on the other I prefer the way ABP allows you to have icons representing each of your faux bags. I like my new quest mod’s history function, but prefer UberQuest’s tracker. Bartender looks prettier than Trinity (thanks to ButtonFacade), but I like how Trinity allowed you to have button rows longer than 12.

Change is always stressful.

Anyway, 3.0.2 so far has been pretty fun. My “resting” AP went up by about two- or three-hundred, which was nice, and adding Lava Lash into my usual rotation has made for some super-happy fun times in PvE. Malestrom Weapon is great and, okay, I still can’t solo Zuluhead (first thing I tried), but the ability to self-cast Healing Wave instantaneously in battle has shot my survivability through the roof. Now I just have to get used to pressing 1-2-2-1 in combat instead of 1-2-1-2. Tough stuff.

The one thing I am significantly pissed off about is the fact that the new pet/mount system (while cool) broke my awesome macro. See, I used to have this macro that would cast my Hippogryph, Warstrider or Ghost Wolf depending on the circumstance. Three-mounts-one-button and all that. Alas, it is no more; even replacing /use with the appropriate /run CallCompanion() doesn’t seem to replicate the behaviour (maybe because you can’t use modifiers on /run, I dunno). So I’m looking for either a new macro or a mod that replicates the functionality. No luck so far. And this whole two extra buttons being used thing is getting real old, real fast.

Only four more Hallow’s End Achievements to get. Alas, they’re all the random drop ones. Fail.