May 19, 2010 at 5:45 pm by
Shell
It’s arena tournament time! Well technically it’s arena practise time but whatever, you can spend the time until things get official dressing your character in all the things you wish you really owned. Duel some persistent yet curiously cowardly mages outside Stormwind, try out other classes, run about spamming owl macros, whatever tickles your pickle. You could even do some arena, though I hear that’s a controversial approach.
Playing enough ranked games nets you a cool non-combat pet, but actually being good at it could get you a title. If there’s a reason for not taking part (*cough* apart from the £12 entry fee *cough*), I just can’t think of it. Look out for Shootygoose,Holygoose and Hittygoose!
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Oh yes, and if you’ve forgotten how to turn off the annoying newbie popups, it’s in your interface menu under “help”. Don’t spend 2 days looking for it like a certain priest did.
Well, it might be, but probably not if you get a whisper like this one:
[Pnhsnip] whispers: hello!
[Game Master]GM: Your world of warcraft account has been temporarily suspended. go to [keyloggingsitegoeshere]
I’m sure none of our readers would fall for such a thing, but you can’t say you weren’t warned. Remember, if it’s really a GM not only do they get a nice blue blizzard logo next to their name instead of just “GM”, their chat with you will automatically open in a seperate window. I believe you also get a popup notification that a GM wants to speak with you.
If all else fails, use common sense. If there was a problem with your account why would they log in and find you in-game to tell you?
This has been a public service announcement, helping you defend your stuff.
Cheers to all the people in trade today warning about this crap on alliance-side.
First off an apology to anyone who thought they’d finally deciphered our posting schedule, because this should have gone out on Monday. Totally not my fault! *cough* anyway…
Killing a lot of things very very quickly has always imbued us with a sense of power, and now we get achievement points for it too! What more could you possibly want from a Thursday evening? Apart from cake, but that goes without saying.
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Oh yes, I’ve done it again. Far from learning any lessons at all from the past few weeks, I instead continue to join whatever I’m asked to with boundless optimism. It usually doesn’t go well.
In reverse order then, the ugly, the bad and the good!
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March 9, 2010 at 2:28 pm by
Shell
An easy one for you this week! I remember when I first heard about WoW. I’d been living like a student for a couple of years despite working and hadn’t had internet, so I was completely out of the loop when a friend mentioned he was getting it. I yelled at him not to be silly, because at the time he was working 12 hour days and I worried he’d have a nervous breakdown.
Of course after the first night of sitting in his bedroom calling out instructions from the manual while he, like a typical bloke, dived straight in and then found he didn’t know how to make his character sit down, I was officially counting the days until I could get my hands on some internet and join him. A few months later, in Summer 2006, my first character was born (and then crashed in IF never to be seen again.
Anyway! The upshot of this rambling is that I want to know how did you get into this game? Do you have bragging rights because you knew about it since Beta, or did your husband hassle you to join to avoid wife aggro?
If your partner is to blame, feel free to leave a comment and let us know whether you’re male or female. I think it’ll be interesting to see just how many girls get their man into WoW rather than the usual.
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Ok so the title has nothing to do with what I’ll be ranting about today. However, it has been on my mind lately and is definitely true. My actual topic today is impatience, so it’s kind of appropriate for me to make you wait until the third sentence of the post to tell you that. Clever, I know.
There are some things that should test the patience of every one of us. Waiting for summons for a badly-organised pug, being told at level 7 that “the game starts at 80″, the pizza that you ordered 34 minutes ago that promised to be delivered in half an hour, the list goes on. Then we have the less worthy frustrations that we will all at some point have someone whinging about in our face.
Once again throwing myself with abandon into a total FAILPUG!, I bring you a tale of roguetards, strange Greeks and amazingly calm raid leading.
Picture the scene, you’ve logged in with the intention of catching up on some achievements, because you’re racing a mage to 7k points. You have a spreadsheet, and a detailed plan for the day, and then a guildie suggests you come to a pugged ToC25. “It’ll be fun”. Yeah, right.
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