For a bit, I have been pretty active in Azeroth. The guild I was in imploded while I was away. But this isn’t a gossip rag and I’m not enough in the know to comment on it except that it was a real shame. It was the first guild I ever joined and was invited while I was still on a trial account. It was one of the things that influenced my decision to subscribe to WoW. Originally I had no intention at all in subscribing to WoW. But that’s another story for another evening. Chances are your reading this to hear about this RSS Feed thang I mentioned in the title.
Recently, well back in December, Blizzard added character and calendar RSS Feeds. I’ve always wanted something like this. A simple text feed of my activity. I couldn’t tell you how many times I have seen some sort of achievement flash by without catching what they were. Some nights I’ve done more than 5 so I can’t see it in recent achievement summary. And having a record of what BoP or epic drops I have won and when and where they came from. All this info is in the RSS Feed. You can see mine on the side of this blog if you scroll down a little. Their does seem to be a bug a bug and it’s a bad one. All the links are broken. At least they are on this blog and I assume it’s not the Word Press RSS feed gadget. You don’t need a website to view these. In case you are unfamiliar with RSS feeds, you can get an RSS reader or get a plugin for your browser. If you use Firefox, there is one built right into it, they are called Live Bookmarks. It would probably be a good idea to remember the WoW Armory is in Beta. So sometimes, like while I was writing this, it doesn’t work correctly. Anyway, head on over to www.wowarmory.com and log in. You will also want to check out The WoW Character Feed FAQ over at Spoon Craft. They did a real good job on the FAQ so I see no reason to write on also. Before you know it, you’ll be tracking your progress too.
Over the years I’ve been on many forums, crafted many a signature. Counting BBS’s, I’ve been posting messages, and signatures in discussion groups for 26 years. BBS’s, Bulletin Board Systems, are where forums originated. Back then we also had signatures, albeit just plain text or ansi. It’s safe to say I’ve made my share of signatures. I’m far from great at it, but now and then I surprise myself. And it’s time for me to make a new World of Warcraft signature for some forums I’m on. Read the rest of this entry »
It all started out innocent enough. It’s brewfest time in Azeroth (World of Warcraft) and I wanted to run the daily which involves the slaying of an elite boss. I ran it once earlier in the week so I knew it was going to take a party of level 80s. Maybe some other members of the guild I’m in would would like to do it too. Before I knew it I was asking in guild chat if anyone else wanted to do the brewfest daily. Instantly I got my first victim and he asked to be invited. Then it hit me, I’ve never been the leader of a party before, I’ve always accepted invites. I hadn’t intend on starting a party. Too late, I just invited him. But I’m not too sure about being the leader. No problem, I’ll just pass the party leader, and all responsibility, to the invitee. But he declines. So I just invited everyone who said ok. It didn’t take long to fill the party. Even our guild leader joined. For a short time I was proud of the party I had assembled. With all good players, this should be a piece of Dalarian cake.
Even though I’m a new Level 80, I’ve already run a lot of the heroic mode dungeons. Here’s some pics from them. And I’ve included a little remix to enhance your audio / visual experience
Here is the Music Player. You need to installl flash player to show this cool thing!
Looks like it’s time for another blog title change. And with that there is going to be another change. A change of topics is in order here. My computer help blog has really taken off. I’m getting a several thousand page views a month now over there these days. While here I haven’t even had 2 thousand ever. And that doesn’t surprise me. There are a lot more people interested in how to remove spyware and making the most of their internet experience than people who want to see videos I’ve made or listen to music I’ve made. And that’s ok. To be honest I never expected either of them to take off. The only reason PC Cybertek dot com took of like it did was because I figured out how to remove something called fast browser search. Apparently it has affected thousands of people and I’m one of the few people who has figured out how to get rid of it. That post started a huge influx of visits to PC Cybertek.
So this is my blog for the other things in my life, besides computers. And right now, most of my non work time has been taken playing World of Warcraft. And if it wasn’t bad enough before……
So I finally hit level 80 a bit over a week ago. It took almost a year to the day to reach level 80. And now that I’m level 80 I’ve been really putting in lots more World of Warcraft time. So I’m gonna be posting mainly about WoW for a while since it has consumed a lot of my time.
Last week I started running a lot of dungeons with pick up groups (PUGs). Until now. I have pretty well steered clear of PUGs. You hear a lot of horror stories about PUGs. The guild I joined, Burning of the Crusade, was mainly a social guild. Then one day I logged on and it had turned into a raiding guild.
It’s been a while since I’ve updated any of my blogs. I’ve got another job in the evening now, playing World of Warcraft. It’s a job that I’ve been devoted to for a while now. Unfortunatly, I’m not getting paid for it. In fact, I have to pay.
Looks like it’s going to be another week of not doing much more than going to work, and coming home and playing World of Warcraft. You see, Noblegarden started last Sunday and I am determined to complete all the achievements for this event. But I’ve only got untill Friday night.
At lunch time today, I finished one more of the Noblegarden achievements. It’s one where you have to go around and find your rabbit some good lovein’. I’ve completed 9 of the 11 achievements. Only 2 more to go and hopefully I’ll get thoes done tonight.
Why would spend his lunch hour and stay up untill an obscene hour in the morning, on work nights no less, playing a game online?!? So I can become The Noble Kardellron! You see, if I can get all these Noblegarden achievements done before 11:59 PM, Friday night, I get “The Noble” title added to my name. If I don’t get them all done, well I won’t hang myslef, but I won’t get “The Noble” title and I will have lost all this sleep for nothin…
No time for pictures right now, I gotta get back to the grind.
I’ve been a little slower with the posts around here. I’ve got several videos to post still but I’ve been kind of busy. You see, World of Warcraft has churned out to new updates in the last week or so. The big 3.1 patch came out on, I want to say the 15th. Which was followed by the usual downed servers and bugs. It also brought us Ulduar which is a real cool looking instance. There are also many changes, which I won’t get into here because there are plenty of places out there already talking about them. I will say that it looks like my Night Elf Hunter can go back to being a Beast Master again. This makes me happy too. I was playing a Survival Hunter as of the last patch because the Beast Master got nerfed so bad. I was pretty disgusted by that. The whole point of me choosing a Hunter when I started playing was so I could be a Beast Master. After re-specing as a Beast Master the other night, it seems to be effective again.
Two other changes I am happy to see are; dual spec and not needing to go to the stable to swap pets. I can now set up 2 different tallent tree specs, and swap them anytime I’m not in combat. So far I haven’t tried it because I wanted to play my newly re-spec’ed Beast Master, and at a cost of 1,000 gold, I’ll wait untill I really need it.
My guild, well the guild I joined, has become a raiding guild. So I’m trying to hit level 80 ASAP so I can join in on the raiding goodness. As of this writing I’m level 66, so I have a ways to go. With all this going on, I’ve been coming home from work and jumping right into World of Warcraft. So my blogs have slowed down as a result. Don’t worry, at least I got the yard cleaned so it doesn’t look like someone who plays WoW is living here, anymore…
