Warrior Pvp Guide (5.3)

Welcome, this is a beginner's guide for people starting out in pvp or
recently came back from a hiatus and need a refresher on stat priority. Updated for 5.3.

Mindset and General Arena Tips

As a warrior, your job is to tunnel damage as much as possible while at the same time keeping track of cc and preventing it from lading on your healer. Use charge to prevent sheeps and fears form landing on your healer. Always eat hunter traps with intervene/safeguard and always spell reflect cc.

For the most part you want to fear on cooldown but watch out for fear ward, have your partner's dispel it if possible. And remember shockwave can be used to cc healers too!

Talents

Avendawn IV

Strike With A Vengeance!

Hunter Pvp Guide (5.3)

Welcome, this is a beginner's guide for people starting out in pvp or recently came back from a hiatus and need a refresher on stat priority.

Mindset and General Arena Tips

Hunters can dish out loads of damage, but that isn't what makes hunters deadly. Hunter's play an interesting role in arena, they are a hybrid between support and cc machine. Treasure scatter-trap, don't let your opponents dispel or eat traps. When facing shadow priests or retribution paladins make sure your teammates cross cc while you scatter-trap the healer. Also don't forget to use your pet's growl ability to eat shamans grounding totems at the right time.

To be the best hunter you can be, you need to get over yourself and stop going for top damage and spend your time trying to remove someone form the game every 30 seconds for as long as possible. Your goal is to have somebody as your focus at all times while at the same time using master's call and roar of sacrifice to your teammates.

Patch 4.3 came with hunter burst and pet cc nerfs while at the same time receiving increased sustained damage trough aspect of the hawk. Binding shot was also added to the marksmanship arsenal while beast mastery lost intimidation, making marksmanship the closest it has ever been to being viable since the launch of Mist of Pandaria.

Talents

HGST Travelstar 7K1000 Benchmarks

Are SATA III Mechanical Drives Better Then SATA II?


Solid State Drives
When it comes to normal hard drives, mechanical limitations prevent them from taking full advantage of SATA III speeds providing little to no benefits over SATA II. Only solid state drives can take full advantage from SATA III connections since they contain no moving parts and are not bound by the same mechanical limitations.




Mechanical Hard Drives
When it comes to laptops, you need to check with your manufacturer to see if they accommodate SATA III. As bad as that is there are almost no known 2.5" SATA III hard drives in the market. It's understandable since SATA III provides almost not benefits over SATA II in mechanical hard drives. However, as technology increases and solid state drive become more popular, more laptops are starting to accommodate SATA III connections.




So What Benefits do SATA III Hard Drives Provide Over SATA II?
It's good to note that SATA III mechanical hard drives are not a complete bust. Below I compare an HGST Travelstar 7K1000 2.5" 1TB 7200 RPM SATA III 32MB hard drive and an old Seagate Momentus 2.5" 750GB 7200 RPM SATA II 16MB hard drive. The HGST Travelstar 7K1000 is one of the few 2.5" Sata III hard drives in the market. The benchmarks reveal slightly higher speeds by the SATA III hard drive and a significant increase in burst rate.


HGST Travelstar 7K1000

HGST Travelstar 7K1000

HGST is the first company to make 2.5" SATA III hard drives for about the same price of a SATA II. For this reason I would highly recommend this hard drive to any laptop owner looking for a bigger hard drive.

Seagate 1TB 5400RPM Solid State Hybrid Drive Benchmarks

Are Solid State Hybrid Drive's Worth Their Price for Laptops?

Solid State Drives

Solid State Drives are extremely fast but are still quite expensive per GB of memory. A 120GB Solid State Drive is about $1.00 per 1 GB of memory while a 2.5 1TB Hard Drive is about $1.00 per 12 GB's of memory.

Solid State Hybrid Drives
Solid State Hybrid Drives are a compromise between price and speed. They are a cheap way to increase your computer's load times for a modest price. A 2.5 1TB Solid State Hybrid Drive goes for about $1.00 per 8 GB's of memory. The benchmarks are similar to that of normal hard drive, but the magic happens when you start using the device. Solid State Hybrid Drives remember your most accessed files and  programs, loading them faster and faster each time. 





I did some bench marking on my Seagate 1TB 5400 RPM Solid State Hybrid Drive with HD Tune and the first test reveals that the transfer rate is similar to that of a normal laptop hard drive. No surprise there since these kind of drives only speed up your your access times. 

First Test

Second Test

In the second test you can see that access times are drastically reduced to that of a SSD. You can expect access times to decrease each time you use your drive as it remember's your most used files.

Seagate 1TB 5400RPM Solid State Hybrid Drive SATA 6Gbps 64MB Cache 2.5" benchmarks

From these benchmarks you can see that benchmarking doesn't give you accurate results since they don't take into account the "solid state" part of hybrid drives. You can expect faster loading times and normal write speed but you wont be able to test them through benchmarking.

How to Increase the Amount of Storage Memory in a Laptop

How to use Your CD/DVD-ROM Optical Bay for Another Hard Drive

Most computer user's have moved away from cd's/dvd's and are instead embracing the digital age by downloading software directly form the internet. This includes anything from your standard anti-virus to movies and much more.


You can actually increase your storage memory by removing your dvd drive and replacing it with a second hard drive.  These specials caddy's can go for anywhere in between $5.00 to $40.00. You will also need an extra 2.5 sata hard drive of your liking.

What you need:

• SATA 2nd HDD Hard Drive Caddy
• A spare hard drive
• Laptop
• Screwdiver
• AOMEI Partition Assistant (optinal) 

For this example I will be using the ASUS g73sw BST-6 but most laptops follow the same procedure


Step 1: Unscrew the backside cover.

How to Speed up or Slow Down Clips in Sony Vegas

Sony Vegas Pro 12 Tips

Normal Speed

Slowed Down

To slow down videos in Sony Vegas hold the ctr key and extend the length of the clip. You can tell by the squiggly line in the center of the clip that the speed of the video has been modified.

Speed up

Alternatively, hold the ctr key and shorten the length of the movie in order to speed up the video.

How to Record Video Games for YouTube!

How to record video games, render, and upload to YouTube

Before we get into the meat of it you have to see if your computer can handle recording gaming footage.

What you need:

1. Middle to high-end computer
2. Hard drive with fast write speeds or multiple hard drives
3. Recording program like Fraps or Xfire
4. Editing software like Sony Vegas or Adobe Premiere

Step 1: In order to record gaming footage you need some form of video capture program like fraps or x-fire. Fraps is the most popular because it records in high quality but beware because it takes up a lot of hard drive space. Remember to record full screen for optimal frame rate.

Note, if you are having lag issues you can alleviate them by doing some of the following :

• Record footage to another drive. If your game is on C:\ then set your fraps folder to D:\
• If the drive you are recording to is too slow you might have to upgrade to one with faster write speeds
• Lower your settings from Full-size to Half-size, the quality will be the same but smaller
• Turn on Vertical Sync within your game which will help with lag, but can severely reduce frame rates

Avendawn of the Alliance

Be the Light in the Darkness

This is Justice! By the Light be purged.

Avendawn the Berzerker

Strike With a Vengeance

The drums of war ring loud throughout the kingdom, who will pick up arms? Who will bring justice to the land?

This is Justice! By the Light, all evil will be purged.