Light at the end of the tunnel

I can has internets?

I verbally berated iiNet and threatened with cancellation, so they begged me to give a tech one last chance. He arrived the next morning (I took the morning off work) and after about an hour of troubleshooting, he got it all fixed. It had something to do with an old back-to-base alarm (that wasn't functioning by the way) that was clouding the line. It worked like a charm after he removed it. The thing is, I TOLD iiNet about the alarm and they said as long as it wasn't functioning, it would be fine. WRONG. If they had of told me on day 1 that it needs to be disconnected, I could have gotten it fixed WEEKS ago.

Well, as long as it works, I'm happy. Now I just need to get iiNet to credit my account for the downtime...

The downside to this ray of light, is that now Blizz have Closed my account. Yep, CLOSED. Because I was unbalancing the enonomy or something. I wrote a pretty heated email back saying very clearly that I've been talking to Blizz for weeks about my account being hacked, so clearly it wasn't me doing the unbalacing. No response as yet. Well, on the plus-side, at least the hacker doesn't have access to my account anymore. I'm hoping Blizz will re-instate it and restore my characters, as I requested, but I'm not holding my breath for it. My Guild thinks I should buy a new account and pay-transfer one or all of my toons over to it, but I don't see the point: I'll be naked and have no gold (plus I'm not sure I can transfer my toons from a Closed account). So I am willing to give Blizz another week to fix this up, or I will have to start from scratch and level from level 1. Not looking forward to that, but thems the breaks.

Let me know your opinions, oh vast audience that reads my blog...








**Tumbleweed rolls by**

Guild Update

So I'm going to take a change of direction here and stop whining about my poor circumstances for a change (even though, as I thought, the internet STILL isn't fixed - I'll be calling them to cancel in a few hours). I'm going to take a opportunity to give a shout-out to my Guild: Nexus.

I've been with these guys since clearing Kara and just branching out into 25-mans. Seems like ages ago. Well, I suppose it was months ago now. But they have been friendly, supportive and just plain awesome the whole time.

My internet started playing up just before they started attempting 10-man Raids in WotLK. I've been gone for just over a month and they have already smashed all 10-man content, in 2 or 3 running 10-man groups. Now they've started on 25-man content and last night I was at a mate's place and watched them break a number of wings in Naxx-25. Oh! Grats to Ischemic on getting Webbed Death! BEST FAST OFF-HAND WEAPON IN THE GAME! Man I am SO jealous. On the plus side, Isch is the only Rogue raiding at the moment (that I know of) so that means all the Roguey-Loot (as Zoolu called it :P) will have no-one but me to go to :D Haha.

Nexus are a great bunch of guys and girls that I am glad to call my friends. I'm looking forward to getting back as soon as I can to hang with them all. Hopefully very soon.

Right, so I'll give a brief update on other things: I've asked Blizz to suspend my account, change my password and restore everything up to the 8th of December 2008 (when I lost my internet at home) to give me back everything I had. I've also asked them to send me an Account Authenticator, but I don't see that happening :)

Other than that, as I said, when I'm on my lunch break I'm going to call iiNet and cancel my account. Then I'm going to sign-up for BigPond Cable. Enough is enough. I want my Internets back!

That's it for today, I'd better get to work. Now, I've posted a link to this blog on Nexus' website, so maybe, MAYBE now I'll get some readers.... and maybe even a comment or two! :D

End of the Line

Ok. It's make-or-break time. Today iiNet apparently fixed my internet. AGAIN without telling me the tech would be showing up today. But still, if it's fixed, it's fixed. But seriously, I doubt it. I doubtt it because the tech I spoke to on the phone today couldn't see me connected, even though the modem is plugged in all ok. They said to call immediately when I get home if it isn't working to organise another tech. But there is NO CHANCE I am organising another tech. I've HAD IT with iiNet. I'm going to tell them to cancel the account, NOT charge me any fees and re-imberse me the 2 month's of fees that haven't worked, the account transfer fee, the relocation fee and the tech fees, if there have been any. I refuse to pay the early-cancellation fee, because they voided the contract when they failed to supply any sort of service. So I won't be paying that either. I'm then going to sign-up for BigPond Cable tomorrow at work. That should be up and running within a week, or so I've been quoted. All of this planning of course assumes iiNet really didn't fix the problem, which I'm sure they haven't.

Now onto my hacking issues. I think I'm up to the FIFTH hack in as many days. It's rediculous. Obviously something has happened, but none of my friends or my brother (whose computers/internet I have been using to deal with this) has been affected. So I figure they have gotten into my Hotmail account. So I've changed that and went to reset my WoW account 1 more time, only to find a message telling me I've requested it too many times and to contact them to get my password. I was FUMING at this point. I'm taking a few hours off then I'm going to email Blizz tonight to get my account fixed. I'm going to request they roll EVERYTHING back to the 8th of December 2008. That is before all these problems started happening. I'll beg if I have to, I really don't want to quit WoW (it's a good de-stress for me), but if they can't restore my toons I don't really see any other way. The Blizzard Authenticators are still Sold Out in Australia, but as SOON AS they become available, I'm getting one. Hopefully I won't need one, as IF my Hotmail was the issue, then they won't have access to that anymore, so won't have access to my WoW Account anymore (once I get Blizz to reset it again...). But better to be safe then sorry, right?

I think that covers the two big issues happening in my world right now. Two of my Guildies are in Melbourne at the moment, but they can only contact me on Facebook, which I don't have access to! I've left my mobile number with them, so hopefully they call (it's been 3 days now though, so I doubt it). On the off-chance you read this blog (unlikely :P) Dood and Makey, give me a call!!!

Well, sorry for the rant, but I just needed to vent BIG-TIME. It's good to get it all off my chest. I'll let you know more as it happens, every few days/1 week.

If my Guild reads this: I miss you guys like crazy. Wish me all the best to get this fixed so I can come back and hang out with you. I'll be posting a link to my blog on the Guild website later on this evening.

Peace.

Another Update 8th Jan

One more quick one. My internet still isn't working at home. I'm getting SO sick of this nonsense. If they don't have it working in the next week, I'm cancelling it, kicking up a fuss so I won't pay any fees, then going to get cable internet or something. This is getting beyond a joke.

Also, I haven't had a chance to check my email since my last post, so I will update on that as I can.

Also, today marks my 1 month anniversary for buying my house! My first mortgage repayment, yay!

Account Update

Just another brief update. My account got hacked.... AGAIN. The fools also pay-transfered my 68 Druid to another server with all my gold. ARG! I've lodged a 'wrongful transfer' thing with Blizz to get him bought back.

Apart from that, my other toons are still naked. Hoping Blizz will fix that soon. My account seems 'stable' now, which is good, I guess.

My Guild attempted 25-man Naxx the other day and they ROCKED it. Well done guys!

I've got a technician coming around to my place tonight to get my Sync, which will hopfully fix my internet! The system (slowly) works!!

That's it guys. More news as it comes.

Internet Woes

Hi again,

Just a very brief update to say that my internet has been connected, but is STILL not working. It seems they have given me the wrong username/password to connect to it. GAH!

As an aside, I had a GREAT Christmas and am looking forward to New Year! Although yesterday I had one of my wisdom teeth removed, I feel great :)

Also, can't remember if I mentioned this or not, but my Guild has dropped all available 10-man content and is building up toward the 20-man content.

ARG! How could I forget?! My account got HACKED! I suspect it was when I checked my auctions at a mate's place; I think one of his mods has a keylogger on it. As I was away and had no internet, I couldn't report it. Luckily, Blizz stepped in and suspected my account was compromised and reset my password for me and restored my toons. YAY! I will have to wait until my 'net is working to double-check (NOT using my friend's computer again!) and my Guild is already aware that is WASN'T ME that raided the Guild Bank :S I'm hopful that Blizz will be able to retore the stolen items as well.

That's it for now.

Reincarnate

Good morning all.

It has been a long time since I've posted here on the blog. There are a many number of good and valid reasons for this, but I will not prattle on. Instead, I will move straight to the juice, so to speak, and give an overview of what has been happening in the life of Raitin between April and now.

First of all, I have not stopped playing WoW. Not once. Since my last fateful post of attempts on The Curator (oh how that seemed so long ago) many things have happened for my little in-game friend:

My Guild broke up. Won't go into details, but basically people stopped showing up and/or caring. So I followed another (ex)guildie to another Guild that happened to need a Rogue and was running Kara. The Guild is Nexus. After about two weeks, we were clearing Kara without a problem. We got a second team running. We had 25 people willing to take it up a notch, so we started on TK.

As you may be aware, TK (imho) has a higher learning curve than SSC, but we were committed. After a few weeks of wiping on Al'ar, we decided to take the fight to Void Reaver and Solarian. Both went down in the first week without a hitch. We had those two on farm and continued attempts on Al'ar while we decided to branch out into SSC.

After around four weeks, we had everything except Vashj on farm. Things were looking sweet, people were getting geared, we had a dedicated team, life was good. We started working on MH. We downed Winterchill and had attempts on Anetheron(sp). At this point we were very close to our 'sister-Guild', Tempest, and many of our member were getting taken on their BT farm-nights. Myself included.

Then something happened. "The Nerf" happened. As you are no doubt aware, just before WotLK, Bliz decided to drop the HP on all Raid Bosses by around 30%. Needless to say, this made things much easier for everyone. Now we had everything up until Azgalor in MH on farm, excluding Kael'Thas in TK and Vashj in SSC, but Tempest was happy to take our guys on their farm-nights. I was a 'regular' in both Guilds, learning the content, getting geared and most importantly, having fun. I can now say I have cleared all pre-WotLK content except Sunwell. We did attempts on the 1st boss, but no such luck.

Now Wrath of the Lich King has arrived. In the month that it has been out, I've reach level 80, replaced a few of my 70-Epics and am running Heroics almost non-stop. Nexus has started raiding Naxx10 with two groups, but I am not a part of either group YET. My wife and I have just purchased our first home and my internet STILL hasn't been reconnected. I'm typing out this blog at work, by the way.

I'm also going away for Christmas with my wife to sunny Queensland, but I'm hoping that by the time I get back, my internet will be connected and I'll be back full-swing into WoW-mode. Just a few more minor-upgrades from Heroics and Rep and I'll be fit to jump straight into Raiding. I can't wait!

Well, that's the story so far. I actually will try update this blog as exciting stuff happens. Speaking of which, I'm no longer Fist spec. After BT I was Mace spec for a while, but since I hit 80 I am currently Sword spec, as they are easier to come by. Assassination doesn't thrill me that much; I'm a Combat Rogue all the way! After we start running Naxx25, I'm hoping Kel'T drops a little present for me...... Look it up on WoWHead: Calamity's Grasp. Then I'll be all over Fist/Dagger like a fat kid on a cupcake!

Peace.