We came back tonight to finish the Military Quarter and give Sapphiron a try. We ended up steam-rolling the military quarter (except for that one triple-pat-pull with the added shade, my bad) and then stomping Sapphiron pretty easily. We two shot the icey-dragon, but it only took two tries because he ice-blocked two people that were ridiculously far away from half the raid because we weren’t moving in tandem. Anyway, the second time we killed him with ease (really, it was easy).
Then Kel’Thuzad. This guy is a pain. We had to swap our awesome DK, Ashaba with his druid, Feldegast, in order to clear up the melee area and get some backup heals for ice-blocks. Melee frost blasts were chaining four or so people into ice blocks and there’s just no way our healers could have covered it. We wiped a few times and put in two *really* solid hours. 19 minutes before we were scheduled to call it, we gave it one last try and ended up pulling off a win. Clicky for bigger screen cap.
Yesterday after Obsidy and Archavon we went into Naxx. When we got inside, WoW started going very slow and being laggy. My computer ended up crashing hard, during which something called WMI corrupted which made my wireless stuff stop working. I ended up running a cable across the house to finish the raid, but it was irritating none-the-less. Today after trying to repair the issue, Windows complained and I resolved to just format and reinstall.
I hate Windows, but I love TinyXP. These are some screens of a fresh install, taken right after booting up the first time. Formatting my OS drive took 18 minutes (none of that quick format business for me, thank you) and the actual OS install took less than 6 (yes, six). This is with TinyXP Rev09 (Option 8):
Note, 15 processes. 50mb of ram being used.
Screw you OEM crap! Screw you internationalization junk! IE, Windows Media Player - you’re outta there! I’ve been using TinyXP for a while and re-installing Windows has become a cinch. I get the base functionality and can put all my own things over the shell. It’s lovely. Also, thank you Blizzard for making WoW so portable - since all my crap is installed and residing on another drive, reinstalling the OS doesn’t mean reinstalling WoW. Yippee! Once my audio driver is installed, I’ll be back in the game.
Though not quite finished, I want to go ahead and release the forum to you all. Go sign up (use your main toon’s name so that I can moderate properly), click around, make posts, and do other forum-like things. If you have any problems or suggestions: let me know in game, by email (mizzle@truthinessguild.net), or post in the “Halp!” section of the forum!
Well, it looks like we may not be getting together for this after all :/ My mom has been moving over the last few days and we took a load with the truck tonight and I completely forgot about the calender event that I created; I hope none of you waited for me
On another note, I think we should get some kind of forum for random posts like this. All in favor say “Aye”.
So, I’ve been going through my bank and my bags lately, and getting rid of some of my BC raid gear that I’ve replaced, and it got me thinking about PVP gear. I only have 1 piece - the Merciless shoulders - for the only slot that I couldn’t fill with PVE gear before Kara.
Why hasn’t Blizzard implemented a trade-up system for PVP gear? It seems kind of stupid that someone should have to go grind honor for a piece and then grind even more for the next tier in the same slot. Why can’t I turn in the piece I already have for a reduced honor/token cost?
Just thought that I would share a few pics that I managed to take during Winter’s Veil. Everyone say hello to Santa Feld and his undead helper Ashaba. Who wouldn’t want some presents when those creepy demon eyes stare down at you?
And how about some Gnomified Christmas cheer. Here is Solace, Feld and Ash (with those creepy eyes again).
At the grocery store today, saw this AWESOME holiday product and grabbed a few:
Since I’m always trying to make my real life more like WoW, I instantly saw health pots! Not about to let the delusion end there, I brought some home with the intent on making a more…. potent elixir:
Now bear in mind that the cup is only for overflow. I had to pour out some to make room in the… vial/bottle shaped container (leaded vial? imbued vial? they both seem wrong). Here’s my feeble attempt to… mix the elixir with one hand looking through a camera phone screen:
Needless to say I feel much more revitalized! The cooldown isn’t that long either (I think the internal cooldown is 45 seconds, but it’s never up for long ).
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