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Abscence

March 22nd 2009 17:21
Sorry about the lack of posts...RL happened and caused me to be absent from the computer for a while. However I'm back and ready.

Patch 3.1 is on the horizon. I can't wait for the dual specs for my druid. I plan on moonkin/feral. My mage will be frost/fire (depending on the changes to mages anyway).

I will post more later this was just a catch up post.



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Level 80

January 4th 2009 14:21
Finally! I have reached level 80 on my main. I have no real reason to have to quest anymore short of money and levelin' alts.

Don't think I'll do that for a while, meaning the levelin' alts thing. I want to focus on making some gold back (never got all my gold back from being hacked) and on raiding.

Speaking of raiding. I got to see Naxx not 24 hours after I hit 80. Man that instance is fun. It's been a while since I've enjoyed any instance. I have to give my props to Blizzard. They did well this time making questing and instances interesting for a change. Add in the achievement system and it's a whole new game really. Now i found myself in groups that are trying to do the special things to get the achievement that goes with the dungeon.


I've been really focusing on heroics and raiding and for that my tradeskill (leatherworking) has suffered. I'm at 427. My cooking is at um (god i hate stating this one) 59 and my fishing (man i hate fishing) is at 147. I'm gonna get my cooking up to northrend hopefully here in the next week or so. Fishing, well that one may take a little longer just because it is so boring.

I'll give more insight on the level 80 heroics and raids another time.
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Holidays

December 29th 2008 17:57
Sorry about the abscence from the blog. The holidays kind of took over my ability and time to do anything.

But on the positive side, the account that the hacker got banned I was able to get back. Blizzard investigated it and decided that it had been compromised and lifted the ban. Whoot!

I have been logging in now with the authenticators. It's a pain in the butt sometimes but at least now I know the account is secure. Now I just have to wait for them to restore my stuff. The hacker managed to sell off all my gear on my 72 pally and everything not soulbound and took all the money. Per Blizzard they were unable to do a preliminary restore so I'm waiting for the full investigation to see if I can get my stuff back.
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Christmas

December 25th 2008 13:08
Merry Christmas from me and my family and Blizzard and WoW of course to everyone else out there.
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Achievements

December 23rd 2008 19:42
Well I've talked all about the leveling and the security of WoW. So now I should move on to another topic. Let's talk about the achievements in the game.

All these achievements are new with the patch right before expansion. You get achievement points for instances, exploration, quests, tradeskills, and even looting gold. What's with this


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Security

December 21st 2008 15:13
Man all these security issues with accounts for WoW. They now have a posting on their website saying to be careful and giving security tips. The problem is if the account is hacked and used to break the terms and conditions, it can be banned and they (blizzard) doesn't care at that point if it was hacked or not, it still violated the terms and conditions and is the fault of the account owner.

It's a rough break, but I understand why they have to do that. If not, then anyone banned would be emailing saying "hey i was hacked" when in reality they may not have been. But I also know Blizz has to have a way of tracing that stuff for the most part ot figure out for sure if the account owner was truly the one on the account at the time the supposed offense happens. It's a catch-22 for Blizz in a way. On one hand you want the infraction stopped, on the other you want to keep the subscriber but the amount of time and resources spent can sometimes if not all the time cost more to the company than keeping that subscriber


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Refer a friend in WoW

December 18th 2008 21:22
Let me start by saying no one likes leveling anymore. But if you have the refer a friend bonus omg it's fast. You get a friend to do the refer a friend link to you (NOTE: this requires a new account on your part). You set up your account and create a new toon. Then your buddy on his account and you on yours level together. As long as you are grouped and within 4 levels of each other you get triple experience per kill and per quest turn in up until you are lvl 60.

Just to give you an example of how nice this is. At lvl 35 when you do the triage quest for first aid, you get 16k experience for completing it. If you are grouped with refer a friend bonus you get 48k. It's nice to level fast when you've done it before slowly


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Again I try with WoW

December 17th 2008 16:20
Well here we go again. I went out yesterday and purchased new cd keys for WoW. I'm going to level yet again on a new account. This time I am not installing any addons at all. I have new antivirus and spyware and keylogger protection on my computer. I should be secure.

I have to admit though, I'm kind of dreading this. I haven't enjoyed leveling the last 5 times I've leveled to 70. I never made it to 80 (thanks hacker). So now I start over at level 1 and work my way to 80. I have the advantage this time of at least knowing the quests but that doesn't necessarily make it any easier to swallow


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Banned account

December 16th 2008 15:57
Yet again I was hacked. This time it resulted in 3 accounts account and 1 of them being banned permanently. I do believe this is the end of my time in World of Warcraft. I don't like the fact that a hacker can break into my account and then I get banned for anything he/she may do on that account. Especially after paying for wow and expansions and character xfers every month for the last 4 years. It's heartbreaking and wallet breaking.

I've done everything I can to protect my accounts. I even ordered the little Blizzard Authenticators. What good do they do? How about none


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WoW account security

December 15th 2008 17:22
How many players of WoW do you know that have had issues with the seccurity of their account? I know and talk to enough that have been hacked recently that I can longer count them on my fingers AND toes. I bring this up now because my password was recently changed without my knowledge or authorization. Now I know all about keyloggers and the like; however, in this instance it's different.

See years ago I was stupid and tried a powerleveling service. I was caught and my account was banned permanently. But just last week I received an email stating that my password had been changed on that banned account. Now the problem with this is I haven't tried to log into that account in over a year. I can't log into the account management site because it tells me the account is banned. So this begs the question of how someone else was able to even know the account name much less change the password


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