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.

Kara Progress & A New Objective to The Quest

Ok, so last night I had some RL stuff to take care of before I could just on WoW. I got home at around 8:15, which didn't seem so bad as the night before we started Kara at 8:30. As soon as I jumped onto Vent, before I'd even logged it, Averie screamed "Raitin! Where have you been?!". Not such a great start. "Didn't Magikstix tell you I was going to be late tonight?". "He isn't on either!". Oh dear. For clarification, Averie is out Druid MT and Raid Leader. Magikstix is a RL friend of mine that shot me the invite to the guild.

So 30 seconds after logging in, I'm shot a Raid invite and I'm flying my way back to Kara. I'm there before they get a chance to summon me. We had a few bits of trash to clear, then we were going to attempt the Opera Event. Oh the drama!

We start-reset’d the event to see what we were going to get. Wizard of Oz was our draw for the night, no biggie. After a quick run-down of the strat for the 1st timers, we began. Dorethee goes down, Tito goes down, Strawman goes down, Roar goes down and finally Tinhead goes down. All no deaths and no issues. Crone spawns and Averie picks her up. There were a few shaky moments where chain lightning almost took out a few people (me included!) but we dropped her. A very successful 1st attempt at Opera for mostly Kara-nubs. No Rogue drops from this even, but I did get 2 badges.

Ok, now the really exciting stuff starts.

We took the back door and cleared the few trash to The Curator. We had decent heals and dps, so we were confident. 1st attempt starts and we were still getting used to the fight, so we wiped after the 1st evocation. Ok, so now everyone has the hang of it.

2nd attempt was the clincher. Everything was running like clockwork. Flares are dropping like flies, we are beating Curator's face in. Magikstix dies at around 6%. Averie tries to do a battle rez while Curator is Evocating, but things just didn't get timed quite right. Evocation stops and Averie is killed! DPS goes all out on Curator. 5%.......4%.......4%......2%...... People are dying left and right. 1%. I pop evasion, fearing the worst. Curator comes to me. Dodge, dodge, dodge. 0.0001% (I assume haha) and my evasion wears off. Wipe on 1%. "Nooooooooooooooooo!" goes the cry on vent. Oh well, we rez, repair, rebuff and have another go.

On the 3rd attempt, we were missing Magikstix's DPS and had trouble downing the Flares in time to pound on Curator. We wipe at around 19%. As soon as we dropped Curator below 20%, his 10-minute enrage timer ticked as well as his scripted enrage and we lasted all of 3 seconds. Ouch.

So now the 'what if' section. What if I had of popped my evasion 3 seconds later, before he started attacking me? What if Melee DPS had of ignored the last Flares during Evocate and pounded on Curator? These are things best left lying. Although I WILL be suggesting to the Guild that melee DPS ignore the final Flares before Evocation and hit on Curator. Even missing 1-2 melee DPS, 20 seconds should be plenty of time for 3-4 ranged dps to drop a Flare. It will help our overall dps and help us miss that nasty 10-minute timer!

Well, if anyone else has any suggestions, please let me know via a posted comment, or drop me a tell/mail in game. You should all know the name and server by now (if not, look slightly to the right of this page...). Take it easy everyone.

P.S. I TOTALLY forgot to tell you guys about the 'New Objective to The Quest' I was talking about. I plan on saving up my BoJ's and getting the new Fist Weapons from the vendor in IoQD. They are sexy! That is all.

Changing Guilds, starting Karazhan & 1/2 the quest completed!

Hello again and welcome to the next instalment in The Quest For Fist!

First and foremost, I'm not going to apologise for not posting as often as I should, or not updating the site as I said I would. It will happen, eventually, just got other things on my mind lately.

I have gotten over my 'meh' attitude with WoW, not sure what cured it, but one day I logged into my Rogue and did all the new daily quests we had unlocked on IoQD and it was fun. So I did it again. And again. I have not touched any of my alts, because although I thought they were helping, I have a feeling that they may have contributed to my downfall before.

So where to begin?

I left my guild the other day, it had all but disbanded anyway, so why wait? I /gquit without saying goodbye. There hadn't been anyone online in my guild for days anyway, so no one to say goodbye too.

Yesterday, a RL friend of mine told me he had just joined a brand new Guild, fresh from the oven so to speak. They started less than a week ago and it was for starting fresh in Karazhan. 'Excellent' I said and got the /ginvite.

Just before going to Kara, I decided I would spend some of my ~10K honour. I said to myself 'if the MH fist is 13K, I'll save it, but otherwise I'll get the OH fist'. Guess what, the MH was 18K. I got 1/2 of my quest completed! Gladiator's Left Ripper was mine! /cheer

Anyway, just over 1 hour later, we were in a brand new Kara run. Our DPS was amazing and heals were great. The Huntsman goes down, no wipes. Moroes goes down after 1 reset, no wipes. I'll pause here to say that Moroes was kind enough to drop the Edgewalker Longboots for me :) I was very happy.

We ran into a small amount of trouble on the way to Maiden. 1 wipe. No biggie. We jump into the Maiden fight. We wipe and she is still above 50%. Hmmmm. Not to worry, we will give it 1 more shot before calling the night (we do short raids). Last attempt and all runs like clockwork, no one dies and Maiden goes down.

So tonight we will continue on in Kara (assuming the reset bug doesn't happen...) and hopefully will see The Curator and Opera go down, at least. I will keep you guys posted, as now I have something new and exciting to update on :)

Peace.

Alts, ahoy!

Hey all, what's happening?

Me? I've been getting sick of playing WoW in general over the last week. Why? Not sure really, but I can't play a single toon for more than 10-20 minutes in a row now. It's sad.

So what do you do? You make alts! Woo hoo! Fun, fun alts. Ok, first of all, I transfered my 60 Druid from Aman'Thul to Dath'Remar. Check. I also made a human Paladin, who is now level 11.

I am still going to be leveling my Blood Elf Paladin on Barthilas, don't worry about that. But I'm also considering transfering my 35 Blood Elf Mage to Barthilas if possible so I'm not leveling 2 Prot Pallies at once. Talk about dull!

But I still am getting sick of playing the same thing over and over. I think it's not the game, it's the content. I haven't seen all of the Horde content, or the TBC content, it's the leveling content I am sick of.

So what am I to do? Nothing really. I will strive to level my alts quickly and PvP on my Rogue. I also am doing daily quests and some minor gold-farming on my Rogue, in very non-farmed locations I've found (no, I'm not telling you! *coughGrimBatolcough*).

Well, I'd better get to work! I promise Armoury links will be posted for all of my toons soon and I will post pics and other nice things as well.

It's not over yet!

Good morning one and all,

Please make your way to your allocated seating as the presentation will be commencing shortly. Please note the exit signs to your left and right at the rear of the room.

Ok enough of that. I haven't failed yet! Let me elaborate on this statement; I was passing through Stormwind on the weekend, throwing up some auctions and such (I was in the area, otherwise they would just be mailed to my auction-toon) when I thought I would go to the Champion's Hall (or whatever it's called) and see what new PvP weapons would be available to me now that the Season 1 gear was being phased out.

Lo and Behold, the Gladiator's Left/Right Rippers. Still sitting there, taunting me, saying "You shouldn't have stopped PvPing! You could own us by now!". 'Holy smokes, Batman!' I said to myself. What am I to do? Well, ultimately, I did nothing. I finished off my 10 daily quests (would be more if I could get a group to do the Ogri'la pre-daily quests!) and logged onto my Pally for some low-level Horde fun. Why you ask? Because I was bored after an hour of questing, couldn't find an Arcatraz group (for my final kara key frag) or get into a premade.

So after a few days of the same (daily questing, no groups, I'll play my Pally) I think 'what am I doing wrong?'. Is it because I am a Rogue? I don't know. But I will make an effort to do at least 1 AV/AB prior to logging off and playing the Tankadin from now on. I have 7908 honour and more than enough Marks of Honour for the weapons I want. I could save up another 1098 more and get the off-hand, or I could save up 5098 and get he main hand, or save up 13098 more and get both. Geez I hope my math is right haha.

I would prefer the main hand Ripper first. Just having a much higher DPS on my off-hand seems... odd for some reason. Yeah, I'll do that.

In other news, I got to Honoured with Sha'tar so my leatherworking is up to 370/375. Just need to do maybe 1 or 2 Durnholde/Black Morass runs to get the last 5 points. I'm sitting at about 3/4 of the way through Friendly with Shattered Sun Offensive, which is nice. I haven't worked on my Consortium rep for a while, but that should be up on my list, because I want those leggings, dangit!

Umm, not much else to share. I've saved up around 450g since 2.4 came out, and that is ONLY from doing daily quests. Not a bad effort I thought. I'll have to get a blacksmith to make me some of those uBer throwing weapon things.

Well, that's about all for my rambling on this morning. Looking forward to hearing from YOU!

Fury of the Sunwell

Patch 2.4 is finally out! You know what that means? I've failed my quest to get the S1 Fist Weapons! Nooooo! Why did my computer crash, why did it take so many days to get it up and running again? Why did I say I was 'bored with my Rogue' and rolled a BElf Paladin? /cry

Anyway, enough of that! There is nothing like a new patch/new content to make you get back into an existing toon. As soon as I was able, I leaped onto Raitin, picked up a few quests in Shatt, ported to Ironforge and flew off to my destiny.

When I arrived we were on 44% complete of Stage 1. Not to bad. I did all the daily quests in the area (only 4 for now, including the 2 at the Throne) and checked out the new area. Man was it crowded! I'm glad Dath'Remar is a PvE server, let me tell you! I was almost d/c'ing as it was!

After looking around for a bit, I logged. Last night I logged back in, did a new daily, one I had done yesterday involving getting Blood Elf Plans in Netherstorm. Someone told me it's 5 minutes of work and easy gold. It took me about 38 kills for the plans to drop. A friend of mine said it took him 3 kills. Where is the justice?! I'm not sure if I'll do that daily again, but I think I should.

Anyway, when I got back to the isle I did the 2 daily quests there again. When I picked them up I saw something good. We were at 99%. "Cool" I thought. Not so cool. I actually did disconnect last night. More than once. But that's fine. We dinged 100% of stage 1 shortly after and there was much rejoicing. A new area with 2 new daily quests to do. I managed to complete one of them (no, not the bombing run) before we had a rolling restart. I decided to call it a night after that.

So first impressions? I like the new area. A lot. I'm looking forward to the new content becoming a novelty for people so it won't be as crowded and I can do more quests there easily. I'm liking that they are making it easy to duel-rep-grind (by quest rewards giving you Aldor/Scryer tags). Hopefully this is the start of a beautiful friendship with the Shattered Sun Offensive.

Ok, I promise I won't be so lazy and wait another 10 days for an update. My many and devoted fans (at present count I have 1, thanks Crimson!) are demanding I post more often! And so I shall! Hopefully over the next week I'll actually put some effort in and spruce up the site a bit too, make it all shining and nice.

"Be excellent to each other"