YEAH BLIZZCON!

After a frantic 10 minutes where Blizzard refused to accept my credit card and I transfered money elsewhere so we could use a different card.. I finally got tickets for Blizzcon. So yeah! I know where I’ll be at the end of October.

Sorry for the radio silence.. lots of non-WoW things [...]

AVR

I just had a really chilling thought.. what if Blizz, while “breaking” AVR’s functionality also breaks Power Auras?

That will be a sad sad day. There will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth.

BETABETABETA

Are you beta testing or playing a game you can’t wait to play? Me? I’m doing neither. But if you were in the beta… would you actually beta it?

I work in software engineering. My QA person sets up QA tests. It is 42 different versions of poking at the software from every angle. He [...]

Cataclysm Beta Opt-in

Cataclysm Beta Opt-in (the real one, not the one that just phishes your account info from you) is now available.

https://www.battle.net/account/management/beta-profile.xml

If your account has an authenticator you will need to have that when you attempt to opt-in.

Really I expected the Alpha to last longer.

Currently prognosticating October for release. I’ll be (happily) surprised if it comes [...]

Battle.net Noodling

Things the bug me about RealID.

What if I don’t what to associate my “real” name with my online handle? What if it’s socially unacceptable for me in my RL to be a “gamer” and being “found out” would be bad?

I don’t know my “friends” by their “real” name.. I know them by a handle. [...]

Spring Cleaning

Last night we had a great night raiding. It was 10-man ICC. We downed the lower spire and festergut/rotface in the first 90 minutes of the raid. Then we went on to down Putricide (oneshot) and Blood Princes (4-shot). Finally we downed Valithria (two shot). It was the first time [...]

TNB Episode 86 – Constructively Rant-Table

On Friday we had an Emergency Round Table on TNB. Our guests we had arranged for tonight weren’t able to make it (they had a baby last week). So we’re arranged an “emergency round table”.

Since the blogosphere just blew up about the 10- vs 25- man changes Blizzard announced I thought that might [...]

Post 1000

This is post 1000. That’s a lot to say on one topic(that one topic being WoW). Unfortunately I have nothing today worthy of being the thousandth idea.

Caffeine has suddenly doubled in size.
On Saturday we did our first 25-man raid. We fielded 20 of those and pugged in 5. We had at [...]

Alot of Random

Blizz Store continues to hate me. My order for Star Pony -still- won’t go through. This makes me sad. I may actually have to call and talk to a human being to complete my order. Yeah.. because sitting on hold to get them to take my money was on the [...]

And a pony too?

Well I’ll be damned.

This morning I sat down to write a post.. and I started writing about how annoyed I was to spend all week every week in ICC.. either ICC-10 or ICC-25.. regardless I am always in ICC.. I’m utterly bored with ICC. SO after writing ~3 paragraphs about this I decided the [...]