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Good News Everyone!

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According to a recent email I received, I can get in on the ground floor of an exciting investment opportunity in oil and gas futures! YAY! I don’t even know the guy that sent the email, that’s what’s so baffling about this unbelievable, once-in-a-lifetime decision! Obviously, my incredible business acumen will serve me well in this endeavor.

Anyways.

After that bit of a good news, I was able to log into World of Warcraft WITHOUT A HITCH. That’s right: no queue, no login problems, no Authenticating … Authenticating … Authenticating … First try, without a bobble, straight into Warcraft. I AM NOT MAKING THAT UP.

Then, while I was waiting for the guildmates to finish up reviewing every single auction at the Crack House, I checked the Warcraft front page and saw that they have invited everyone to copy a character onto the test server. You can do it too.

The copy service seems overloaded at the moment, but assuming it clears up and they throw open the doors on the test server … I’m saddling up.

Life just doesn’t get much better than this.

UPDATE: Character copy worked first time at 11 pm PDT. Anyone else looking to saddle up, test server character copy was still working late night Friday.

Only Noobs Use the Crack House

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Maybe you’ve read about the two Warcraft capitalists on the Elune server that bought up all the trade components and uncommon loot items (read: not the really good lewtz0r like purples and blues) and jacked the prices for resale. If you haven’t read all about it, here’s some extracurricular reading for you: Here (good detail), here and here. The original forum thread here. Plus, it’s linked on every page on the net right now.

I have no doubts that my server’s Auction House is like every other Auction House in the Warcraft world: Fucked beyond belief. I suspect, based on pricing and lack of buyouts on level 20 shit items, that the only players using the AH anymore are the crack smokers and the professional farmers, who may or may not be Chinese.

But, what’s the deal with Elune? Don’t any of the players over there go hunting and loot fresh green loot every day? Why are they paying insane prices for crap-fting components or, FAR MORE STUPID, giving a stranger storage items to hold for them AND paying for that privilege? (Hi, that’s what alts are best at — free storage.)

This isn’t Star Wars: Galaxies for crissakes, where people have to level a new crafting skill every day in a vain attempt to unlock Jedi. Pretty much everyone picks a crafting profession and selects a gather skill to go along with it. If someone doesn’t select a gather skill, no big deal; they pay more for shit from the Crack House or direct from another player. (derrr)

It’s like we have to have warnings on absolutely everything now. “Hail Warcraft adventurers, don’t pay too much for game items and you might not want to hand over your stuff to a stranger!”

Gee, ya think?

Ask, But Don’t Tell

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Reading through Blizzard’s recent Lord Kazzak Crimes and Punishments post reminded me of a recent dragon raid on my server and my guild’s near participation in same.

This was almost a month ago and involved Azurgeos, the Azshara dragon. This other guild that we’ve been kinda sorta hanging with, co-oping on a few instances, sharing crafting skills, bla bla, asked if we wanted to do a joint raid on Azurgeos about an hour later when they expected to have the force, combined with ours, to take him down.

After confirming that they had covered the basics … dragon was up, there was adequate DPS, tanking and healing power available … we agreed. What the hell, should be interesting if nothing else. This allied guild has some good people — no obvious loot whores, no bitching when things go south, they keep their drama queens in check, and most importantly, they’re not drooling morons like 90 percent of the level 60s around these parts. However! They are still a little naive, as you shall see in a moment.

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