Back in the saddle
Urgh. Gotta find out what the hell is up with my computer, lately. Second Blue Screen of Death this evening. I may have to circle the wagons on my mp3s/pics, etc, and just reformat the bastage. Lord knows that it wouldn't hurt. The annoying thing is that I'd just begun to hammer out some of my very late commentary (my apologies to anyone who's checked with disappointment) when the BSD struck again. First column in a week and a half is gone like Alderaan. :(
As I speak, many of the Pods are gallavanting around on Undermine server, rather than Whisperwind, as our beloved home is getting moved to the new server hardware. I can only imagine what sort of mayhem they're unleashing on this poor, virgin soil. I need to check in with them tonight to find out the sordid details. As much as the hardware changeover sucks, this is an integral step in marching toward The Burning Crusade, and it's looking like those of us who were naysayers regarding a Thanksgiving-ish release may be eating crow rather than turkey. Blizzard is in the midst of what they are calling a "Friends and Family Alpha" of TBC. The thing is, you can go to their page and download the game client, right now. Yes, you read that correctly. Here, see? https://beta.worldofwarcraft.com/expansion/downloads/ The rub comes in that you can't actually activate the game without a special code given out by Blizz employees to their, (you guessed it) "friends and family). All in all, though, this is a terribly clever idea, and it is my personal, tin-foil hatted opinion that this is the beta and it's closed like a mofo. Here they make the client available for download, knowing full well that many of us are going to make sure we have it immediately, if not sooner. Then they announce a release date, let you crash their store server at 12:01 am, Day of Reckoning, get your activation key, and you're off and running through the Dark Portal like a TIE fighter with its ass on fire.
Don't kid yourself, btw. This is a massive file. It'll take a bit to download. That done, you can go get the character model viewer, http://www.curse-gaming.com/en/wow/download-19481.html, and I think I installed it in the Interface>Addons folder of either TBC install or WoW proper. Can't remember. At any rate, once it got up and running, you can play with the character modeler. I spent about four hours the other day monkeying around with various Blood Elf characters. It's very cool. Here's a shot of Eloy's up and coming BE paladin, Eloysia. Given their propensity toward magic, I've been tempted to shelf Amperage and hold off till I can do a BE magey-mage, but I'm torn, as Amp is recently a convert to the Church of the Frozen Wrath, and Frost spec is doing him quite nicely, at the moment. Nexu, my druid cub, is finally my highest level druid EVER. Level 11, baby.
MC this week was interesting. I wasn't there Thursday evening, as I was on assignment in Dire Maul for an upcoming TC segment, but the rest of the group managed to pwn Lucifron and Magmadar with 2 deaths, I believe. Better than that, they did it all with 31-35 people. Impressive. Most impressive. It was largely the same with Friday and Saturday, with us doing Gehennas and Garr Friday; Geddon fer shure Sat, and somebody tied our shoelaces together on Shazzrah. We got sloppy on the Lava Packs after skipping Shazz, but we just ran out of time, and it's been a bit frustrating not having a full raid last weekend. We've got some new 60s this week, so here's hoping that we can get the full crew in and get back to business. We've thinned out just a touch since school is back in for many of our players, and other RL obligations have gotten the best of them, as well. Lots of Pods moving from here to there, and that can put a bite into your ISP situation.
In the eternal quest to jack up the FR gear, I was fortunate enough to drop a 100 on Flamewalker Legplates, this week, and all I have to do now is head back into BRD and make a few coffer runs to get the Burning Essence I need for another +20 FR Resilience Libram. That will make the total 263 unbuffed at that point, with my belt, bracers, and gloves being the weak points. I'm to the point, though, that there's virtually nothing I can farm outside of waiting for Dark Iron drops from the guild to get my FR much higher, save that belt from DM Tribute, and that's a crap shoot on the flavor, even when it's there. We'll be closing in on 100 MC epics in the guild, as of this weekend, I'd say. The thing that amazes me is the unbelievable lack of Earthfury gear that we're seeing. No shammy love, whatsoever, and that flat-out sucks.
I was excited to see that we're adding a noon Sunday ZG run, which is going to be the hawtness. Only once a month will it interfere with the Tuesday night jaunt into there. The march to Exalted with Zandalar continues. I'd be there right now if it weren't for the blasted server overhaul. Eventually that stupid chest piece is going to drop....
As I speak, many of the Pods are gallavanting around on Undermine server, rather than Whisperwind, as our beloved home is getting moved to the new server hardware. I can only imagine what sort of mayhem they're unleashing on this poor, virgin soil. I need to check in with them tonight to find out the sordid details. As much as the hardware changeover sucks, this is an integral step in marching toward The Burning Crusade, and it's looking like those of us who were naysayers regarding a Thanksgiving-ish release may be eating crow rather than turkey. Blizzard is in the midst of what they are calling a "Friends and Family Alpha" of TBC. The thing is, you can go to their page and download the game client, right now. Yes, you read that correctly. Here, see? https://beta.worldofwarcraft.com/expansion/downloads/ The rub comes in that you can't actually activate the game without a special code given out by Blizz employees to their, (you guessed it) "friends and family). All in all, though, this is a terribly clever idea, and it is my personal, tin-foil hatted opinion that this is the beta and it's closed like a mofo. Here they make the client available for download, knowing full well that many of us are going to make sure we have it immediately, if not sooner. Then they announce a release date, let you crash their store server at 12:01 am, Day of Reckoning, get your activation key, and you're off and running through the Dark Portal like a TIE fighter with its ass on fire.
Don't kid yourself, btw. This is a massive file. It'll take a bit to download. That done, you can go get the character model viewer, http://www.curse-gaming.com/en/wow/download-19481.html, and I think I installed it in the Interface>Addons folder of either TBC install or WoW proper. Can't remember. At any rate, once it got up and running, you can play with the character modeler. I spent about four hours the other day monkeying around with various Blood Elf characters. It's very cool. Here's a shot of Eloy's up and coming BE paladin, Eloysia. Given their propensity toward magic, I've been tempted to shelf Amperage and hold off till I can do a BE magey-mage, but I'm torn, as Amp is recently a convert to the Church of the Frozen Wrath, and Frost spec is doing him quite nicely, at the moment. Nexu, my druid cub, is finally my highest level druid EVER. Level 11, baby.
MC this week was interesting. I wasn't there Thursday evening, as I was on assignment in Dire Maul for an upcoming TC segment, but the rest of the group managed to pwn Lucifron and Magmadar with 2 deaths, I believe. Better than that, they did it all with 31-35 people. Impressive. Most impressive. It was largely the same with Friday and Saturday, with us doing Gehennas and Garr Friday; Geddon fer shure Sat, and somebody tied our shoelaces together on Shazzrah. We got sloppy on the Lava Packs after skipping Shazz, but we just ran out of time, and it's been a bit frustrating not having a full raid last weekend. We've got some new 60s this week, so here's hoping that we can get the full crew in and get back to business. We've thinned out just a touch since school is back in for many of our players, and other RL obligations have gotten the best of them, as well. Lots of Pods moving from here to there, and that can put a bite into your ISP situation.
In the eternal quest to jack up the FR gear, I was fortunate enough to drop a 100 on Flamewalker Legplates, this week, and all I have to do now is head back into BRD and make a few coffer runs to get the Burning Essence I need for another +20 FR Resilience Libram. That will make the total 263 unbuffed at that point, with my belt, bracers, and gloves being the weak points. I'm to the point, though, that there's virtually nothing I can farm outside of waiting for Dark Iron drops from the guild to get my FR much higher, save that belt from DM Tribute, and that's a crap shoot on the flavor, even when it's there. We'll be closing in on 100 MC epics in the guild, as of this weekend, I'd say. The thing that amazes me is the unbelievable lack of Earthfury gear that we're seeing. No shammy love, whatsoever, and that flat-out sucks.
I was excited to see that we're adding a noon Sunday ZG run, which is going to be the hawtness. Only once a month will it interfere with the Tuesday night jaunt into there. The march to Exalted with Zandalar continues. I'd be there right now if it weren't for the blasted server overhaul. Eventually that stupid chest piece is going to drop....
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