I just wanted to post to let everyone know that I haven’t dropped the Healbot vs Grid project – I just haven’t had time to do the final stage, which is running both Healbot and Grid simultaneously in an actual PvE raid setting, the purpose of which is basically to see if Healbot does all the things that I normally have Grid do for me (that I now consider “must-haves” in my raid UI).

Unfortunately for the past two weeks I have disconnected on almost every boss in Naxx, which is frustrating to say the least. Infuriating? Depressing? All of the above.

I always used to disconnect on 4H when the first meteor came down, but whatever they did to Naxx to “optimise” it has made it absolutely unplayable for me. Obviously as a dedicated raider, the prospect of not being able to do Naxx anymore is rather upsetting. I only have a couple of upgrades that I still need, but mostly it’s just the idea of having to sit out of raiding AGAIN. It’s so boring. I really hope this week is better.

It’s not my mods, I know this for certain, but running two raid UIs at once is probably pushing my luck a little.

Luckily most of the info has been pre-gathered, I’ve already taken a lot of comparison screenshots showing how both mods display things like debuffs etc. Once I have my bonafide raid test sorted it will just be a case of putting everything together in a meaningful way. So it won’t take long, it’s just Naxx’s weird prejudice against me that is holding things up.

Last week I was booted from every single boss, and several times in between, excluding the bosses that I logged off for entirely so I didn’t mess up Immortal for my team. I missed out on “Shocking!” – curses. The only boss I didn’t disconnect on was KT. We finally got Immortal, despite chronic disconnection problems plaguing me and another healer, random disconnects for other people over the course of the night, and another healer being severely ill – but still soldiering on. What a team!

Still, I think I would relinquish my title and rewards if someone could just give me a guarantee that I could stay online for Naxx. It’s like Felmyst all over again – but an entire instance. Makes me a very sad panda.





On a brighter note, shortly I’ll be jumping into work on strats for Ulduar (mostly for my guild, but I’m sure I’ll end up posting them here too). That is something I have been looking forward to ever since we stopped doing Sunwell. I’m itching to Photoshop me some diagrams…

I’ve also been super busy with a bunch of guild-related work, annnnnd I’m going back to my second RL job soon, so I have a bit to juggle. Lots of irons in the fire.

But I really love being this busy!





I’m really looking forward to finishing this part of the experiment though, so if Naxx goes well this week, I’ll be able to finish my comparison post. If not, I may be able to test it on Sartharion, but I’ll just have to wait and see how things go. If all else fails, I will go do a 10 man to test it out.

Stay tuned!



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I’ve been tagged by Bell and Phae to dig out the sixth screenshot in my WoW folders. They’re ganging up on me so I’d better do it :/

I laughed when I grabbed this, I’m glad it turned up as number 6. It’s a great picture of me being ultra-noob:

Level 23 on my first druid, standing in Westfall. I ask a friend, “Why are their names in yellow?” Heh, what a noob. Check out my awesome minor beastslaying enchant.

Baby Alliance Keeva, d’awwwwww

Raaff from Druid Heal!
Aertimus of HoTsTree
Averna from Nerf this druid
Keredria from Tree of Life
Raine from Orbital Bombardment

You’re up!

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In the wake of reports earlier in the week, a lot of people are under the impression that massively-multiplayer online games are now barred from sale in Australia. Off the shelves. Well, they are not.

Read more here.

TLDR version: business as usual. In true Aussie fashion, we’re far too lazy to care about something that’s been fine for so long:



But it’s important to remember, this is Australia we’re talking about. Any changes made to the way the OFLC rates games has to come on a national level, not from some state politician, and with the country on the precipice of recession I highly doubt politicians will want to devote time and resources to amending a loophole that’s stood for a decade and has already allowed millions of game sales.

Carry on!

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Australia, February 3, 2009 – In a shocking move this morning, the Sydney Morning Herald has reported that Australian retailers will no longer be allowed to sell any online game that has not been classified by the Australian Classification Board.

This move directly affects games such as World of Warcraft(…)

Australian police will be responsible for enforcing the penalties, which range from $1100 to $11,000 for individuals and/or 12 months’ imprisonment, and approximately double those figures for corporations. (my emphasis) (Source)


So basically, if you sell WoW or other unrated MMOs, you’ll be in big trouble.




Guess I won’t be selling those two spare CEs of mine..


And more:



The New South Wales Police are asking people to contact them if they see retailers selling World of Warcraft or other massively multiplayer online games.

To make things more interesting, a spokesman for the New South Wales police minister told The Sydney Morning Herald that if people see a store selling these games they should file a complaint with the police so they can take action.(Source)


Read the Sydney Morning Herald story here.

Apparently this was first picked up by Massively – here’s the original article.

I really have nothing to say but /BOGGLE. Rather than find a workaround for this problem, they want to make all of these popular games illegal – take the easy way out – and send people to jail for selling them?

They’d better fix this rubbish before the next expansion or they’re going to have a whole bunch of angry Aussie nerds beating down their doors.



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For those of you who use WMV and have been “making do” with a fan version for months, the program has finally been updated. You can get the new version here.

Hooray!

Maybe this version will have fingers on my character for all the poses.

(Keeva doesn’t look so great without fingers.)

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At last. I would have been 80 a couple of days ago had it not been for the constant disconnects and today’s lovely hail storm that took out my power for a couple of hours, grr.

NOW I CAN GO FISH! *bounces*

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Nethaera wrote:



Since the release of the latest patch, Echoes of Doom, we have gone through a series of optimizations in order to increase overall game performance. We’ve seen steady, stable populations and a flurry of activity and excitement during the Hallow’s End event and the latest rumblings of zombie attacks. It’s been an exciting time for us as we draw closer to the release of our second expansion, Wrath of the Lich King. We’ve reached a point where we feel we can now accurately evaluate the events since the patch release. Though overall downtime has been minimal, players have experienced latency, inaccessible instances, and general frustrations. We are therefore announcing that we will be issuing compensation to accounts in all realms in the US, Oceanic, and Latin American regions. Accounts that are currently active and in good standing will be credited with an additional three days of game time. We would like to thank you for your patience during this time and look forward to seeing you in game!


Actual downtime has been minimal, but it’s great that they are acknowledging that it was often impossible to get into (or out of) raids and instances during that time. Thumbs up!



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Lusyel of EU-Norgannon kindly pointed out that my 50 mount guide is the first thing that pops up in Google if you search for “how to get 50 mounts”. Thanks Lusyel – I have such a silly grin on my face now. I’m winning on Google meters whee!

This is no doubt thanks to Phae of Resto4Life mentioning me on her wonderful site, and as a result I’ve had a bunch of visitors in the last couple of days.

Thank you to everyone who has sent me compliments and encouragement – especially those of you who took the time chat to me in-game.

Impatiently waiting for WotLK so I can write more!

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