Starting tomorrow I'm packing up the family truckster and heading to Green Bay, WI. I know Green Bay doesn't sound all that exciting, but after dropping a couple of thousand clams on the kid's chompers, me and the missus had to scale back our trip to someplace a little more affordable.
This trip will offer us the chance to unwind and relax. We'll get to do some fun things with the kiddo in the city on Saturday and then enjoy a good part of the Autumn scenery of Wisconsin as we head out to my cousin's cabin near the Nicolet National Forest. Chances of us catching the Packers/Lions game on Oct 3rd are slim to none, but that's ok. I'm confident the Packers will do just fine whether I'm in the stadium or not.
I don't have much to report on the game and the new server as I have been busier than a one legged man in a bear butt kicking contest with this trip. But don't you worry, this little rest will give me the reset I need to clean off my WOW plate and prepare for the expansion.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
About Bacon in regard to WOW
Some of you may have read my past blog accounts under Bacondrippings, but I thought it was only fair to let all new comers know who I am and what I am about.
I started playing the game World of Warcraft back in the summer of 2005 or was it fall of 2005? It doesn't matter, the thing is I didn't jump on the bandwagon immediately as I have played another MMO in the past (Everquest) and I wasn't sure how much fun this new one was going to be. Was I wrong. It turned out to be pretty fun Of course, I don't have the addictions to it like some people, but it has become a hobby more so than a game.
Anyway, I currently play a Night Elf druid on the server Kel'Thuzad by the name of Baconette. Baconette used to be a male druid under the name of Baconstrip, but after I grew tired of the male version of Bacon and switched him over to being a female night elf (hence the name Baconette). Baconette used to be on the server Altar of Storms where there exists a huge horde/alliance imbalance and it wasn't being very conduscive to enjoying the game. Seriously the horde outnumber the Alliance to such an extent that it's better to just transfer servers where you have a fighting chance.
Being a druid since classic WOW (I refuse to call it Vanilla because vanilla implies that the original game was plain and boring), I started out feral leveling up to 60. It was at that point I was asked if I wanted to try out a healing spec. Why not? Since then my druid has primarily been a resto druid. I don't mind it too much, but I've been healing through Classic WoW, The Burning Crusade (2nd Expansion pack), and now The Wrath of the Lich King (3rd expansion pack). To break up the cycle, I've being gearing Baconette to tank. That's what I love about the druid and it's versatility. Plus I find being a healer first has made me a better tank.
So during the life of this blog, I may break off into a tank subject or two, only to switch gears and talk about healing and resto.
Just as a warning, I'm not going to blog exclusively about the game of World of Warcraft and I'll probably express some of my personal prerogatives on other subject. So if you stumble across a post of mine that ventures off into something you don't agree with, then I suggest you move on and come back tomorrow.
I started playing the game World of Warcraft back in the summer of 2005 or was it fall of 2005? It doesn't matter, the thing is I didn't jump on the bandwagon immediately as I have played another MMO in the past (Everquest) and I wasn't sure how much fun this new one was going to be. Was I wrong. It turned out to be pretty fun Of course, I don't have the addictions to it like some people, but it has become a hobby more so than a game.
Anyway, I currently play a Night Elf druid on the server Kel'Thuzad by the name of Baconette. Baconette used to be a male druid under the name of Baconstrip, but after I grew tired of the male version of Bacon and switched him over to being a female night elf (hence the name Baconette). Baconette used to be on the server Altar of Storms where there exists a huge horde/alliance imbalance and it wasn't being very conduscive to enjoying the game. Seriously the horde outnumber the Alliance to such an extent that it's better to just transfer servers where you have a fighting chance.
Being a druid since classic WOW (I refuse to call it Vanilla because vanilla implies that the original game was plain and boring), I started out feral leveling up to 60. It was at that point I was asked if I wanted to try out a healing spec. Why not? Since then my druid has primarily been a resto druid. I don't mind it too much, but I've been healing through Classic WoW, The Burning Crusade (2nd Expansion pack), and now The Wrath of the Lich King (3rd expansion pack). To break up the cycle, I've being gearing Baconette to tank. That's what I love about the druid and it's versatility. Plus I find being a healer first has made me a better tank.
So during the life of this blog, I may break off into a tank subject or two, only to switch gears and talk about healing and resto.
Just as a warning, I'm not going to blog exclusively about the game of World of Warcraft and I'll probably express some of my personal prerogatives on other subject. So if you stumble across a post of mine that ventures off into something you don't agree with, then I suggest you move on and come back tomorrow.
ZAP! KA-POW! BANG!
Well, ok the transfer wasn't that noisy or rough, but I did run into a few hiccups.
First I found out that there is a gold limit on the character your transferring. Level 80 characters and only be transferred with 20K gold, level 70-79 can only take 10K, and the amounts drop after that. I guess the old saying is right, "You can't take it with you." Fortunately, this miserly and crafty old gamer had a trick up his sleeve. I decided that I would send the difference of my purse to the 2 other alts that I transferred with me. Problem solved, right? Wrong because I still had too much. What to do, what to do?
Then it struck me. Silly druid, buy things off the Auction House that you'll definitely need. So i took the remaining surplus and feeling like the federal government, I spent it on items I knew I would need to continue my marketing ways on my new server. So I loaded up on Arctic Fur and Frost Lotus and logged off. I was ready to begin the transfer... or so I thought.
After logging into the Account Maintenance section of WOW, I found out that there are some stipulations that have to be cleared up (in addition to the character level/gold cap) before you can transfer servers.
I knew that having mail remain in your mailbox will automatically prevent you from transferring a character, but I completely forgot all about arena teams. So here I go and log back into the game to see what arena teams I was still on. I know what you're thinking, "Bacon, you don't know what arena teams your on?" And answer to that is a big, fat NO. I haven't done arenas in close to a year so I don't remember what teams I am or who even is on those teams with me.
So my druid finally loads and sure enuff, right dar I am the owner of a 2v2 and 3v3 teams. There's no one else in the list but me and according to the WOW site, I have to disband these. But the so not user friendly site that WOW is doesn't provide the command for how to disband said teams. UGH! But I am not to be deterred and using my other online friend, Google. From a quick search, I find out that a simple /disband 2v2 will disband said arena team. Hooray!!!
So having severed all ties from Altar of Storms, I am no free to move onto my new home.
First I found out that there is a gold limit on the character your transferring. Level 80 characters and only be transferred with 20K gold, level 70-79 can only take 10K, and the amounts drop after that. I guess the old saying is right, "You can't take it with you." Fortunately, this miserly and crafty old gamer had a trick up his sleeve. I decided that I would send the difference of my purse to the 2 other alts that I transferred with me. Problem solved, right? Wrong because I still had too much. What to do, what to do?
Then it struck me. Silly druid, buy things off the Auction House that you'll definitely need. So i took the remaining surplus and feeling like the federal government, I spent it on items I knew I would need to continue my marketing ways on my new server. So I loaded up on Arctic Fur and Frost Lotus and logged off. I was ready to begin the transfer... or so I thought.
After logging into the Account Maintenance section of WOW, I found out that there are some stipulations that have to be cleared up (in addition to the character level/gold cap) before you can transfer servers.
I knew that having mail remain in your mailbox will automatically prevent you from transferring a character, but I completely forgot all about arena teams. So here I go and log back into the game to see what arena teams I was still on. I know what you're thinking, "Bacon, you don't know what arena teams your on?" And answer to that is a big, fat NO. I haven't done arenas in close to a year so I don't remember what teams I am or who even is on those teams with me.
So my druid finally loads and sure enuff, right dar I am the owner of a 2v2 and 3v3 teams. There's no one else in the list but me and according to the WOW site, I have to disband these. But the so not user friendly site that WOW is doesn't provide the command for how to disband said teams. UGH! But I am not to be deterred and using my other online friend, Google. From a quick search, I find out that a simple /disband 2v2 will disband said arena team. Hooray!!!
So having severed all ties from Altar of Storms, I am no free to move onto my new home.
Friday, September 24, 2010
New beginnings
I've left out blogging for some time now and it appears that it's time I come back. Alot of things have happened that led to my discouragement with the game and taking a break from blogging. Fortunately, things are taking a turn for the better. The game is starting to get interesting again even though Cataclysm isn't given a release date. And my interest in blogging has been resurrected by reading The Big Bear Butt blog. Upon reading TBBB, I realize that writing a personal blog has more to do with just having fun telling stories about myself and other adventures than progression in a game. While I'll still talk about some progression (because in the end it's hard not to, especially after achieving some feat requiring a team effort), I will leave the progression talk to the event and not so much about who sucked and who rose to the occassion.
But back to the main point of beginning anew.
First, let's start with a brief background on what's been going on. First, we had some core raiders drop to an inactive status and at this point we're not sure if or when they're coming back. Our guild is pretty casual in that we have alot more invested in our personal lives than making it on the game every night. For me personally, I have a child with special needs and somedays he tends to be "more special" in his needs than other days. So we had some people go inactive because of kids, vacations, job changes, school changes, and other changes that I don't have room to list here.
Second, the departure of one particular player pushed me into the role of a tank aside from my prime healing duties. So in filling out my tanking gear, I found that I can be a viable third/backup tank. Of course this caused a problem in that I wasn't expecting to enjoy tanking as much as I did. Matter of fact, I liked it so much that I was looking forward to tanking more than healing. I know that's a good thing, but I'm a much better geared and skilled healer than tank. So while I may not get many chances to tank in a raid of the final days of Wrath, I'm going to carry the enthusiasm over to Cataclysm.
Thirdly our server, Altar of Storms (AOS), has been the worst place to fill out a 10 man raid. Once Blizzard implemented faction transfers, the Alliance on AOS was doomed. The current ratio is 1 Alliance to 3 Horde. I know it's probably worse on other servers, but then again AOS has a registered player base of less than 7k people. So your chances of running into a horde on AOS is VERY likely.
As for raiding and PVP on the server, there's only one consistent 25 man Alliance raiding guild left and about 4 - 10 man guilds. And only 2 of which have gotten Kingslayer. So pugging a 10 man raid is just a nightmare and takes up to 30-40 minutes to find someone without a raid ID. As for PVP, it's not uncommon to zone into Wintergrasp and see a tenacity greater than 8. NUFF SAID.
Therefore, the remaining active players in our guild had a vent meeting last Sunday to finalize plans for us to transfer servers. We decided a server with a higher population and better Alliance ratio was needed. I for one am pretty happy. We can finish out the Lich King and after Cataclysm is released, we can level in peace without getting ganked every 5 minutes.
But back to the main point of beginning anew.
First, let's start with a brief background on what's been going on. First, we had some core raiders drop to an inactive status and at this point we're not sure if or when they're coming back. Our guild is pretty casual in that we have alot more invested in our personal lives than making it on the game every night. For me personally, I have a child with special needs and somedays he tends to be "more special" in his needs than other days. So we had some people go inactive because of kids, vacations, job changes, school changes, and other changes that I don't have room to list here.
Second, the departure of one particular player pushed me into the role of a tank aside from my prime healing duties. So in filling out my tanking gear, I found that I can be a viable third/backup tank. Of course this caused a problem in that I wasn't expecting to enjoy tanking as much as I did. Matter of fact, I liked it so much that I was looking forward to tanking more than healing. I know that's a good thing, but I'm a much better geared and skilled healer than tank. So while I may not get many chances to tank in a raid of the final days of Wrath, I'm going to carry the enthusiasm over to Cataclysm.
Thirdly our server, Altar of Storms (AOS), has been the worst place to fill out a 10 man raid. Once Blizzard implemented faction transfers, the Alliance on AOS was doomed. The current ratio is 1 Alliance to 3 Horde. I know it's probably worse on other servers, but then again AOS has a registered player base of less than 7k people. So your chances of running into a horde on AOS is VERY likely.
As for raiding and PVP on the server, there's only one consistent 25 man Alliance raiding guild left and about 4 - 10 man guilds. And only 2 of which have gotten Kingslayer. So pugging a 10 man raid is just a nightmare and takes up to 30-40 minutes to find someone without a raid ID. As for PVP, it's not uncommon to zone into Wintergrasp and see a tenacity greater than 8. NUFF SAID.
Therefore, the remaining active players in our guild had a vent meeting last Sunday to finalize plans for us to transfer servers. We decided a server with a higher population and better Alliance ratio was needed. I for one am pretty happy. We can finish out the Lich King and after Cataclysm is released, we can level in peace without getting ganked every 5 minutes.
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