Elder's EGI Survival Guide

Prereqs:
1. Use Windows XP as your OS, upgrade immediately if you have old Win 2000 (explanation will follow)

2. Have the best headphones you could afford, ("open air" are not the best).

3. Have unlim Internet access with high bandwidth.

4. Have TV in the room where you play WoW and set it up you could see it from your computer desk

5. Have all possible WoW mods installed.
Musts are: CT_Raid (not because our officers require that one, explanation will follow), SCT, Damagemeter, Mobinfo, Atlas, Titan, Whispercast etc)

Actions:
1. Turn on TV, find MTV or Movie channel or smth and make sound loud

2. Put on your headphone and start playing CD with your favorite band (hard rock is preferable)

3. Start WoW and fill up your screens with all mods in visible mode:
- let CT_Raid show all raiders as classes (not groups) - that is the best way to see who sucks most, and it will occupy at least 1/3 of your screen,
- setup damage meter to display all 40 raiders and put it in the center - now you could always see who sucks in dps'ing or healing,
- make SCT font large to see how fast you lose your hp without healing
- even if you cannot cast anything keep your Whispercast window maximized - maybe some n00bs will whisper you smth,
- keep decurse priority window open if you could decurse - that gives you a feeling you are the boss since you could change the priorities,
- make a few channels and split them over the screen, connect to your class channel if you have one or to any other, those are much more interesting than raid one.
All in all - your WoW screen is looking good now, you barely see any mob and players but who cares.

4. When raid starts use your ventrilo a few times and say smth nasty so ppl will be aware of you really participating in raid. A simple noise or even TV sound also works good for that purpose.

5. Put yourself "on follow" to someone - paladins are proved to be the best choice. Never put yourself on follow to Raid leader(s) - they die too often.

Now you can do whatever you want since you are in raid and your SRP it ticking up.
- "Alt-Esc" (XP does it much faster than 2000) and do whatever you want in Windows - browse some "hot" sites, watch another movie or start another game (that is the most exiting approach to play WoW).
I would recommend you though to start WoW in "windowed" mode and make it like 300x200 size - this way WoW window doesn't occupy much of your screen but (thanks Blizzard) font size of the message "<name> wants to resurrect you" is big enough so you will never miss it.
- From time to time (like every 10 mins or so) type "brb" or "hygienic break" in raid channel - that is a very good way to remind ppl you are still there.
- go lunch/dinner/breakfast, drink alot (beer is good) - sometimes you really need to go to the restroom (family needs to know you are "working")
- browse thottbot, that is the most essential part of playing WoW, especially checking the loot from the boss your raid is killing next,
- special paladin's abilities, like "right hand exercises" were described in details on official wow forum.

As you might see now, you could do almost everything while "playing" WoW and could easily survive long boring hours in your run for SRP.

Happy l00ting!