ISP crapped on my Gruul attempt

Last night was the guilds attempt at Gruul. It was new, it was exciting, it was challenging, it was our guild working together to learn a new fight, and…… it was all done without me. Yesterday on my way home from work it started to rain, which is bad news for me and raiding. I wish someone would invent an internet connection that was not affected by rain. Wait what’s that you say? Your internet doesn’t crash when it drizzles? You can normally play just fine no matter what the weather? Ohhhh that’s right, for some reason I have the worst connection on the planet and just about everything affects it. I fully believe my connection is going to degrade to the point where I’ll be posting on my guilds forums “Sorry guys I can’t make the raid today, the suns too bright so my internet will not work” or maybe “Hey guys good luck tonight, I won’t be on because school buses are yellow and you know how much that affects my internet”. On days that my internet is knocked out I can switch to a dial up connection at a screaming 26.4k connection. For those of you who don’t know what a dial up connection even is, I hate you. Mine will not even let me connect at 56k. Surprisingly I can play wow with a connection like this, my latency runs about 700 or 800 if I’m not in a town or in a raid. I did try to make the raid with this connection but there was no way, once I was around the raid members my latency shot up to about 7000 and to try to stay in the raid I would have just been a hindrance. The guild didnt down Gruul but i believe they got him down to 38% which is awesome for a first attempt. You should be able to read about it later on Honor's Blog or Raistilan's Blog While the guild was off attempting Gruul a few of my 3v3 team logged on and we attempted a few new strategies, which ended up getting us a 4-12 record for the night. The dial up connection can handle arena’s so that wasn’t a problem, we just weren’t meshing well. We were going to keep practicing but the wait timer jumped up to 5 minutes so we decided we have had enough abuse for the night. I believe that Gruul’s Layer is reset now so the guild is going back in there again tonight, I really hope that when I get home its clear skies.

Weekend = Ouch

Man I had a ruff WoW weekend. If any of the new people stopping by this blog happen to be a young 20’ish hot chick, preferably rich, please find it in your heart to get in contact with me, I need a shoulder to cry on.
Dim painfullweekend as integer Painfullweekend = 0 Friday night group 1 ran Kara, and I didn’t get any plate drops (painfullweekend = painfullweekend + 2). Exactly I thought wtf also. We cleared up through curator and not a single piece of plate. Now because of this I’m a sad loot whore, and who’s to blame? I’m leaning more to the side that this is blizzards fault and not Honorshammers, even though it’s a close race for who gets the blame for this travesty. Seriously honor’s has some of the worst luck when it comes to loot. I may have to start treating him like he has some disease so he doesn’t infect my loot mojo, but I don’t think that has happened yet so the fault falls squarely on blizzards shoulders. Since it’s still early this morning I haven’t called blizzards customer support yet but I’m going to call and file a complaint, I always have good luck in Kara what the hell did they do to change things! Well no actually never mind, as I’m typing this I did just realize I got the crossbow off the first boss (painfullweekend = painfullweekend - 1). I took it for the stats when I DPS(no one else wanted it so don’t freak out hunters My New Xbow ), so I guess I’ll try to recall that harsh email I sent to the better business Bureau about how stingy blizzard is.
Oh, this was ALMOST cool. I finally got to do the big bad wolf opera event. This was seriously my first time even though I have ran Kara so much that I have been exalted in that rep forever. Here’s how it played out. I’m standing there looking at the npc who starts the opera event thinking “Man were going really slow tonight, I wish someone would start it”. That’s when I start hearing people on vent saying it’s the BBW event and how easy it is. I was really curious how they knew what we were going to get before starting the event so I go to ask, turns out my wow had frozen and they had started the event not knowing I was locked up. I have enclosed a picture of my first exciting BBW fight and what it looks like……….from the other side of a locked door(painfullweekend = painfullweekend + 2).
While in Kara we attempted Nightbane, usually he goes down without a hitch but we wiped four or five times on him and decided to move onto Curator. I know one time for sure it was my fault we wiped, so to any guildies reading this who was in Kara I apologize for that. Nightbane goes through cycles where I tank him on the ground, then he flies up into the air and rains skeletons down onto the group. Between the phases I have to grab him when he lands and get him into proper position. Well for some reason I kept missing him and he would kill a raid member before I could get aggro back. When I say “miss” I mean “you swing at Nightbane and miss” not “you’re in the wrong spot jackass, Nightbane is killing the party”. Maybe I need to work on my hit rating, although it has never been a problem before, It could have just been a really unlucky set of events for me. Nightbane didn’t go down Friday night and we havn’t made it back in there so I’m hoping we can go kill him and clear the rest of Kara tonight. I also included this picture where it looks like he is snuffing me out like someone putting out there cigarette, which is how it felt (painfullweekend = painfullweekend + 2).
On the pvp front my arena team mates were never on at the same time so that was kind of a bummer. I formed up a 2v2 team with Tatersniffer (pve specced mage), who was then played by his wife. We were just in it to get some points, not expecting to do well since she has never pvp’d with his mage and the spec is all wrong for it. I’m glad we didn’t expect to win because it was a beat down, we went 1-9 for the night (painfullweekend = painfullweekend + 2). I did however pick up my arena shoulders this weekend which makes me feel a little bit better (painfullweekend = painfullweekend - 1).
That’s a painfull weekend rating of 6! Any lesser man would have killed himself, good thing im a trooper. Weekend repair bill: 18g

Someone is reading this?...Seriously?

I just wanted to say welcome to all the new people who have been directed to my site from Big Red Kitty’s blog. It actually made me quite a bit nervous to think anyone would actually read this besides a few RL friends. We had all started blogging just so we could keep in touch and easily share our wow adventures/thoughts. Since I had been linked on BRK’s site I went ahead and set up some hit tracking on my blog. I just wanted to get an idea if anyone is actually reading this crap that I spew out onto the web. I was pleasantly surprised that over the weekend I had about 300 unique hits from BRK, some from Honor’s blog, and 3 hits from people who google searched “moobs”. Yes, I’m not lying there was people searching for moobs and somehow got to my blog. So to all the new readers I’d like to say welcome and thank you for stopping by. To those of you who accidently got here looking for moobs im sorry to disappoint and you should try here . Moob Helper

HKM has moobs (man boobs)

Real quick I wanted to add this about High King Mulgar. I have seen him a few times but as I was looking at the graphic of him I posted on this blog (http://repairbill.blogspot.com/2007/10/i-want-his-loin-cloth-to-wear-in-rl.html), I realized that I’m kind of disappointed in the appearance for this boss. He is pretty out of shape to be the “biggest and most fierce of all ogres” and could use a little bit more armor in my opinion....or a bra.

Having said that I’m no genius with 3’d modeling and realize how much work it takes to make a model of this detail, so I’m not knocking the actual work they did on it, just the art they decided to go with. It’s kind of like how I feel about the “Maiden” in Kara, her graphic is very plain and boring. Why toss a 25 foot tall woman into the mix anyways? Maybe I have missed the lore about her somewhere but she just seems out of place and odd.

If I was the person in charge for creating the HKM model what would I have based it off of? Why Ogre from the “Nerds” movies of course. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088000/

I want his loin cloth to wear in RL

Last night was a nice bump in the right direction for Mal Katai. We were able to get back into Gruul’s Layer and kill High King Mulgar. I think we had at least 10 people in the raid which had never been before so we did wipe twice, but managed to down him the 3’d time with only one death. I took the heat for the first wipe because I didn’t get my taunt off on Olm quick enough and he ended up fearing the MT. I should have brought up the fact that someone else had pulled agro on Olm and moved his ass to the opposite side of the cavern from where he should have been but our GM seemed like she was in kind of a foul mood so I chose not to argue. Getting called out on vent for something that’s not your fault does suck balls though.

I think I had the most fun of the night though on our second wipe. We were at one point where our MT died so I picked up the high king, and tanked him for a long ass time. We just didn’t have the dps left alive to kill him. If it ever came down to it I think I have acceptable gear to tank the high king and feel comfortable with it. Granted I had some leet healers left alive to keep me up, but the damage he was hitting me with wasn’t anything crazy or unmanageable. He drops two shoulder tokens and one random item. Which you can look at here http://thottbot.com/c18831 . We ended up having Pauldrons of the Fallen Defender, Pauldrons of the Fallen Hero, and Hammer of the Naaru drop. I didn’t win the roll for my shoulders, instead those went to Snowson a druid. I just now realized he’s also the guy who beat me on my Tier 4 gloves! The list of people I have to kill soon is getting longer and longer. *EDIT 10/08/07 - It was pointed out to me that i had previously added snowson to my list of people to kill, so my list is still the same size*

Were planning on going in for a Gruul attempt tonight which I really hope it happens, I’v never done this boss fight and I love to experience new content.

Repair Bill: 6g

Iv got Crabs o_O

Well I logged on to late last night to get into a Kara group so I went with Raydz and did a few quests to help cover next week’s respec costs. After that I crawled into bed and made a horrible discovery. I have crabs, huge inflamed crabs, and I bet I caught them from Krawl. Which now means Bacon and Oaken you guys need to probably call your doctors for some type of cream or gel.

In all seriousness this post is just to congratulate myself/hunter on reaching level 60! =). My hunter ‘s (Bouncie with her loyal pet Melons) main role will be to funnel cash to fund Raydz for respec bills and eventually an epic mount. I have a level 70 horde hunter and he is a money making machine, so I’m looking forward to the rain of gold once Bouncie is 70. That’s about it for this post since I don’t have much else to say other than I did do a few more battle grounds before I put Raydz back to prot (we are supposed to do Gruul’s tonight). I got a nice execute off a 1 handed weapon which I’m pretty happy with. If anything exciting happens in Gruul’s ill write about that tomorrow.

Raydz Questing Repair bill: 4g

Oh Noeesss!

Wow I just realized that unless I run Kara tonight and get a lucky drop, this will be the first week in a long while in which I’ve gotten no purples! This makes me very sad in my pants and we most certainly cannot have that, so I may have to jump out and spend my arena points on a piece of Merciless Gladiator's Battlegear. Speaking of arena’s, the Jackson 5 got SPANKED. Out of 10 games we only won 1. I’m hoping in a few weeks we can start meshing better and pull ourselves up to winning half of our 10 games. On my 2v2 and 3v3 teams we have started getting better, this week my 2v2 went 7-0, and my 3v3 team went 6-4(3v3 previous week was 9-2). During the weekends I have been going with an Arms spec so while I’m in an arena battle my biggest asset to the team is Mortal strike and execute which I have been trying to apply to the opposing team’s healer. Which the issue we have been struggling with in arena’s is that we have not been able to mow down their healer as fast as they kill off ours. I spend a lot of my 5v5 battles chasing the healer. It’s really irritating when I’m chasing a druid who keeps shape shifting out of any slowing effects (If you’re that druid that kept doing that to me this weekend, you better tell your family and friends goodbye cause I’m going find you in RL and your eyeball is going to grow a knife). Everyone on my team keeps saying it’s a gear issue but I know enough graphics to recognize that many teams we play are close to equally equipped, so I’m thinking our biggest problem is a “Mesh” issue. What also doesn’t help is that all 5 of the team members know each other in real life, so where some people might hold their tongue and not yell at a fellow gamer that rule doesn’t apply here. There was so much yelling and insults that I almost made my own duel flag out of cardboard, a broom, and went to a buddie’s house and threw it down in his front yard. My plans for tonight are a little bit of pve, unless I am assassinated tonight by one of my team members I’m going to respect back to prot and either hit up Kara or maybe do a heroic run.

Repair bill: Since its been almost a week since my last post i forgot to keep track of repair costs, but since i havnt run anything really this week it should have been pocket change.