{"id":2682,"date":"2014-01-27T07:30:52","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T12:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kurn.apotheosis-now.com\/?p=2682"},"modified":"2014-01-27T07:30:52","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T12:30:52","slug":"save-the-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/save-the-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Save the Date!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ladies and gentlemen, I’m pleased to announce that the next guide in my Kick-Ass<\/em> series of guides,\u00a0Kurn’s Guide to Being a Kick-Ass Raider<\/em>, is scheduled to come out on Tuesday, February 18<\/strong>! Hooray!<\/p>\n

I spent a ridiculous amount of time writing up a truly (IMHO) comprehensive Kick-Ass Guild Master guide<\/a> last summer and launched that in August.\u00a0 (Seriously, that sucker comes in at 358 pages.) It was a pretty successful project for me, so I elected to follow it up with a whole series of kick-ass<\/em> guides. Since November, I’ve been pecking away at a (much shorter!) Kick-Ass Raider guide<\/a>. I’m actually not quite<\/em> finished yet, but I’ve always worked better with a deadline. ;)<\/p>\n

The Raider guide covers a lot of things that are common across all<\/em> raiders. I don’t focus on a particular class or spec rotation or abilities — the game is way too dynamic and constantly changing for that to be remotely useful for longer than a single patch cycle. Instead, I focus on the fundamentals<\/em> that go towards distinguishing a truly kick-ass<\/em> raider from an okay<\/em> raider. We’re talking about specific sections about class knowledge (and how to improve it!), avoiding mistakes (and what you can do to get better at avoiding mistakes!) and even a section about how to be a better team player. There’s more, too, obviously, so do check out my sneak peeks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’m also planning on a Raid Leader guide (which will be next up) and probably a role officer guide, too (you know, people in charge of melee or ranged DPS, the healing lead, etc), all of which should be coming out this year. It’s a lot of writing, but honestly, what else<\/em> is a retired GM\/RL\/healing lead supposed to do? ;) No, seriously, I’m looking forward to it.<\/p>\n

So what should you do while waiting with baited breath for the Kick-Ass Raider guide to come out? Glad you asked!<\/p>\n

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  1. Follow me on Twitter (@kurnmogh<\/a>) and keep an eye out for a daily tip (#KickAssRaider). Every day from now until launch, I’ll be tweeting a single, helpful tip in 140 characters or less, to help you become a better raider!<\/li>\n
  2. On Sunday, February 16th<\/strong> at 3pm Eastern (noon Pacific), I’ll be hosting another #AskKurn<\/strong> session on Twitter for an hour! Hop on and ask me your questions about how to be a better raider, a better teammate or anything to do with raiding. (Note that I have very little experience on specific MoP fights, so I can’t really help you out there, but just about anything that isn’t fight-specific goes!)<\/li>\n
  3. Keep up to date with my sneak peeks<\/a>! I aim to release one every Tuesday, so we’ve got a couple of weeks’ worth of sneak peeks left before the launch.<\/li>\n
  4. Sign up for my announcement newsletter, either over at Kurn’s Guides<\/a> or over here on the blog (there should be a box that shows up on the right-hand side). Subscribers get advanced notice on a variety of things, plus special subscriber-only discounts! It’s a very low-traffic list and you can obviously unsubscribe at any time.<\/li>\n
  5. If you want to help support my efforts, check out the affiliate program<\/a> I’ve got going on. If you’re responsible for sending someone to my site and they purchase something, you get 50%<\/strong> of that purchase!<\/li>\n
  6. Finally, guild masters<\/strong> and guild officers<\/strong> out there, be aware that we’re entering the period of time in which you should seriously start looking at stuff for Warlords of Draenor<\/em> according to my Expansion Planning module<\/a> from my GM guide! Start planning now<\/strong>!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So there you go, lots of stuff to do while you wait for February 18th<\/strong>! Guys, I’m super-excited. :D<\/p>\n

    In other news, I know I have a lot of blogging to get down to. I’ve been (happily) swamped with freelance work and I’m obviously working on finishing up my Raider guide, but I do hope to get a decent blog post out there soon, talking more about the LFRs that I experienced while I had my free week of WoW<\/em> back over the holidays.<\/p>\n

    I’ll leave you with this amazing tweet from the one and only @AngryOrc1<\/a>, which seems rather appropriate:<\/p>\n

    WHEN YOU THINK YOU ARE HAVING A CRAPPY MONDAY REMEMBER, SOMEWHERE, RIGHT NOW, SOMEONE IS A LVL 17 GNOME HOPELESSLY LOST IN WAILING CAVERNS.<\/p>\n

    \u2014 ANGRYORC (@AngryOrc1) January 27, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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