Interwebs Woes Return!

As I was checking my Facebook last night, just before logging into WoW, my internet connection drops. "How odd" I thought. I went and did a power cycle, no go. Isolation test, still no love. Tried using my phone (isolated) - HEAPS of data noise on the line, not even a dial tone. My connection can't sync. "Bother" I say, "Just after I got this fixed, too". I remember something about iiNet doing some upgrade and think to myself that I'll just try the whole process again later. I did and it still wouldn't sync and the phone was drowned out in data noise.

So my wife has the next 4 days off, so I'm going to ask her to call iiNet and try to organise a tech to attend before the end of the week. Hopefully this gets fixed soon, as I can't even tell my Guild that my internet is borked!

More Naxx news and Gear Updates

G'day all.
Last night was going to be another 10-man night, but we managed to scrap together enough healers to get a 25-Naxx run going. I got invited, yay!
We started a bit late, so finished a bit late (hooray for cans of V!) and it was awesome. We cleared all 4 wings, but are leaving Saph and KT for tonight. I think it's not very far off until we clear 25-Naxx in a single night, which is awesome.
My 'average DPS' according to recount is now just over 3k, which is around a 1000 dps increase over my 10-man Naxx the other day! I'm almost certain this is due to the extra buffs available in 25-man content, but I'll compare it to when I next do a 10-man something.
So I got some more loot as well, here is a list:
Helm from Live/Dead boss in Military Wing (Harvester? Something like that). Non-Tiered, but I will be wearing it once I get another 4th peice for T7/T7.5 (read below).
T7.5 Leggings - Yay, my first T7.5 peice!
T7.5 Shoulders - 2nd bit, but now it gives me my 4-peice set bonus! This is why I will continue to wear my T7 helm and not the Helm that dropped until I replace the 4th set peice.
2nd Best-In-Slot Ring dropped and I won as well! So I WAS going to make a Titanium Impact Band tonight, but now I no longer need it. I think I'll still make it and sell it. Should be around a 1000g profit, because I earned the mats, I didn't buy them (The Dragon's Eyes anyway).
That's about it from me. I'll keep you informed as to how things continue. I REALLY want some new weapons, but Webbed Death didn't drop and I won't know if Calamity's Grasp drops until tonight and I doubt I'll win it if it does :P
Peace.

Raiding and Nub-Knights

So it eventually had to happen. I got invited to a 10-man Naxx last night, after completing about 4 Heroics with some Guildies. I loved the experience, it seemed a lot easier than I thought, but that might just have been because I was going with all experienced Guildies. It was great.
Not that this matters totally, but I got several peices of gear last night. Let's begin:

Heroic 1: HoL - Chest upgrade from Quest with SoH.
Heroic 2: VH - Get enough rep with KotEB to upgrade MH Sword.
Heroic 3: UP - I think I got my new necklace from here.
Heroic 4: Nexus - 2nd Chest upgrade from final boss.
Naxx 10 - Where to begin?! New Boots, new Ring, new Trinket, 3RD new Chest(!!! 1st bit of T7!) and new Helm(2nd bit of T7). I now also have enough Heroism Emblems to get Mirror of Truth, an awesome trink for me.

So after today, I'll be Honoured with SoH and get my Shoulder Enchant, then maybe I'll go buy my Head Enchant from KotEB, like I forgot to do last night :P

I have also purchased most of the mats for my Titanium Band (JC Ring), but not the Dragon's Eyes. I already have one, but I think I'll use it to fill one of my MANY Blue Gem Slots, as I only need 1 for my Meta Gem.

Sigh. I'm going to be spending a lot of gold tonight on gems and enchants, but it'll be worth it! :)
We were going to do 10-man Malygos last night, but we didn't finish Naxx until just before 12, so we'll do it tonight.

P.S. Oops, I forgot all about the "Nub-Knights" thing. Well, basically the Death Knight I rolled in an earlier post (scroll down) was done on the WRONG SERVER. My friends all switched servers ages ago without telling me, so now I'll just have to do it again :) Oh well!

Updates and Death Knights

Another brief update as to things happening with me and my Guild:

1) I should be hitting up Raids with one of the Guild's 10-man teams soon, which is awesome news. I've mentioned to Jack, the GM, that I'm really keen to get back into raiding, but I know I'm not geared enough for the 25-mans. I'll be happy starting off with the 10-mans and working my way up from there.

2) I'm almost to Honoured (maybe 3 more days?) with the Sons of Hodir, which means Shoulder Enchants for me! I'll keep on doing the dailies as it's very quick and easy gold, but at Exalted the Shoulder Enchants become Epic!

3) Just over halfway through Honoured with Knights of the Ebon Blade to get my new Main Hand sword, Reaper of Dark Souls. Also doing the dailies with these guys and the gold is nice. Once I'm running Heroics/10-mans it'll come faster, as I can Champion myself to them.

4) Doing my daily Cooking and Jewelcrafting quests as well. Keeping the JC tokens to buy a ring recipe and a necklace recipe. Takes 12 tokens and several Dragon's Eyes, so it'll take a few weeks to save up. Why can't I can TWO a day? Grrr.

5) Got around 3.5k gold or so, give or take. Doing all these dailies is really nice, so I should have my Epic Flying Training in no time. I can't wait!

6) A RL mate of mine and I decided we were bored last night and rolled Death Knights on another RL mate of mine's server (Barthilas[sp]-Oceanic, look for Daarkon!). And it's reminded me why I HATED rolling on a PvP Server! I had just gotten out of the starting zone when a 80 Human Death Knight decided to corpse camp us. Why? It's no honour, so why bother?! Oh well. I'm going for a Frost/Unholy Dual Wield DPS Build, my mate is doing for a Blood Tanking build.

That's about it. I'm heading out with some mates tonight to go LAN, which is always fun! Take it easy.

"Nexus beats Wotlk"

Well, almost. Last night my Guild, Nexus, downed the last content they haven't done: Heroic Malygos. It was a massive effort that just clicked in the end. Well done team!

Ok, so technically we haven't even attempted 2-Drake or 3-Drake OS, but that will come, oh, that WILL come! Hopefully before 3.1, but we'll see.

Speaking of OS, I was about to jump offline last night after doing ALL the quest chains for Sons of Hodir and doing all the available dailies there, when I got a random invite by Jack, my GM. Turns out they needed a few more people to do OS, so I got to tag along.

We were going to do attempts at 2-Drake OS, but then thought "nah, let's just do the content and call it a night" so we did 0-Drake OS and just destroyed it. No loot for me (not that I can, it was just good to raid again!), but I did get my first (4) Emblems of Valor. Yay me!

There were two other Rogues in the raid last night, Isc and a new Dwarf Rogue (am I being replaced? :P). Both were spec'd Mut, so hopefully that leaves a spot open for me as Combat as they will mean I bring a different utility to the Raid (Savage Combat), especially after 3.1!

Both Rogues were doing 3k+ DPS, I was hovering around 1.9k-2.3k. Pretty pathetic compared to them, but hey, I have ONE Epic and it's a ranged weapon (ok, I've still got Dragonspine Trophy, but that will get upgraded to Mirror of Truth once I have 40 Emblems of Heroism).

I'm still feeling sick as a dog, but can't take time off work, as someone else is on annual leave for another TWO WEEKS. Grunt.

And there was much rejoicing

Hooray!

Last night, I finished getting WoW patched and running. I downloaded Vent and jumped on with my Guildies. All VERY happy to see me. I'd had quite a few in-game mails from the GM and other Guildies, LOADED with free gear (A'vool's Sword, anyone?) which I thanked them for, but returned. It wouldn't feel right now that I have ALL of my gear back!

So I've lost all my gems and enchants, but I really don't care. Now I can do quests and make some gold to get them back (those hackers organised ALL my lewtz as well, so now I think I have MADE gold, and have lots of stuff to throw on the AH, go figure). Got around 3.5k gold, which is plenty go get my gems and stuff going again. After all my auctions though, I imagine it will shoot up to around 8k. Yes, 4.5k of auctions about to throw my enonomy out of balance :) Epic Flying Training for me!

I'm just totally pumped right now. I also need to download all my mods (or just transfer them from my old HDD) and get going! Also, word on the horizon is that Rogues are getting a (very much deserved) huge buff! Read my mate Hatch's post here: http://esc-hatch.blogspot.com/2009/02/31-class-change-preview-explodes-my.html. Do it now! GET TO THE CHOPPAH!

Ok, I'd better do some work now. I'm just so excited! :D Talk soon, fresh again with exploits in Azeroth!

Recall: Success!

Ok, so the title is a bit melodramatic, but I'm still missing my speakers and subwoofer for my new computer. I haven't checked inside the box, but I'm confident all the bits are in there. I'll double-check tonight. Time for more annoyed calls/emails!

P.S. Vista is very hard to get used to in the first 5 minutes! :)

P.P.S. I installed WoW, TBC and WotLK last night, tonight I will patch it (was getting a bit late last night)

Success!

Ok, so I think everything is sorted now.

Yesterday, the computer didn't arrive AGAIN. So after a few calls to the delivery company, it looked like the computer had vanished into thin air. The only option left was a re-order that would mean it would take at least another week to get my computer. I was NOT happy to say the least.

I said "Let's give it one more day, try find out as much as you can because I'll kick myself if it shows up the next day after a re-order". And this morning, I got a delivery from Dell. I haven't checked the contents of the box just yet (I'll do that in about 1 hour) but assuming it's all there, I'll be up and ready to go in a few days (it's takes AGES to install and patch WoW...).

So good news!

"But I didn't even know there was a 5am!"

Ok. I'm back at work after going to the airport. Stupid having to get up at 5am! Well in short, my computer still hasn't arrived. Dell sent me an email saying the case is now closed. I called my loading dock, nope, no computer. I emailed them back basically saying "it's not here, reopen the case immediately and get me my computer. and try confirming next time you want to close the case!". Not in those words, but yeah, close enough.

Great news though! I got a few emails from Blizzard last night that seems to imply that ALL my gear/characters/gold have all been restored! WOO HOO! The system (slowly!) works! Now I just need my computer to arrive, a quick re-install and patch of WoW and away I go! :D

Today?

Ok, so after many frustrating delays, my new computer is arriving today (apparently...). I also have to give blood today, then pick up my Mum from the airport tomorrow morning @ 7:15am (Yuck!) and then my mate from the airport @ 9:15pm. Going to be a long few days, so bare with me!