I know I promised to update after I got home from holidays, but in all honesty people, I have just not had the time.   As I mentioned before we lost some people at work, so between training the new people and working 40+ hours myself, then coming home and keeping up with yardwork/housework, I’m almost dead by 7pm every day.  I’m 26 for pete’s sake, we don’t tire out by 7 PM!!!

Before I left for holidays I started a Blood Elf Priest, she’s over there —> under the name Kaelyb. She was level 15 when I left for holidays. I got back on the 10th of August, and she’s now level 42. The interesting things about her? 1) she’s the highest Horde Character (in terms of level) I’ve ever had, and B) she’s also the highest levelled Priest I’ve ever had.  I had originally started her because a friend and I were going to level up toons together (which we still are, we’ve just decided to go Alliance, instead of Horde, since we know Alliance questlines better), but she’s been pretty much running solo since level 17 or so.  I play her a lot now because, as I’m sure you’ve read on other AC blogs, we’ve taken an indefinite break from raiding. There are actually quite a few AC’ers that have Horde characters on our server, we even have a horde version of the AC guild. 

So, in mentioning the whole thing about Kaelyb, one of my secret weapons for the short time I get to play every day is this nifty little addon called Tourguide; you can find it at http://www.tekkub.net/addons/TourGuide.  Basically, it lets you upload a guide that is specific to your level, it will tell you which quests to get at what time, when to get flight paths, when to change hearths, when do do quests, when to turn them in, and more. It also helps if you use an additional addon (either tomtom or cartographer with waypoints will work) because then you get an arrow on your screen which points you in the right direction to go.  This addon has helped me immensely, as I mentioned earlier that I’ve never really played a Horde Character, so I don’t really know the quests or the lay of the land.

More WoW goodness!  One of the newest things being offered by Blizzard right now is an exclusive Zhevra mount for recruiting a friend to play WoW and then having them sign up for 2 months of subscribed service.   Other bonuses of the recruit a friend program are: You and your friend (your friend will be linked to you as you were the one to recruit them) will earn triple the experience when grouped together and questing, you and your friend will be able to summon each other from anywhere in Azeroth or Beyond, and for any two levels of experience that your friend earns they can grant any one of your characters 1 level of experience.   Now, there are restrictions to all of these, of course, but for the most part, it’s a really cool experience. 

I’ve recruited three people…..

And lastly, I just have to say – I got an iPhone before I went on holidays, and it’s as awesome as everyone’s been saying.  Just one problem though… It’s hard not to put millions of little 0.99$ + charges on the mastercard… it really is.  Someone save me and send me an iTunes card, okay?

So, I’m still here, I promise.

It’s been a fairly crazy month or so, and as such, apologies for my extended absense.

Remember almost a month ago when I said I had some crazy stuff to tell you guys? Well, I can’t remember what it was, because I became consumed with getting my account back to normal after I got hacked.

My account was hacked on 30 June, probably at approximately 0400-0430 hrs.
Kelektra was stripped of everything that was sellable (including a full 28slot enchanting bag full of materials), all her gold, gear, badges, even her hearthstone and mounts were destroyed.
Hyria and Kaeras were stripped of any pve gear, all their gold, and badges, and anything sellable (for Kaeras this was 2 Herb bags worth of herbs and a LW bag full of skinning supplies, for Hyria it was an entire engineering bag full of goods and a mining bag full of goods). Then Hyria and Kaeras were transferred off server, to two different servers. Kaeras was also unlucky enough to have her skinning unlearned, poor girl.
My bankers, oh my poor bankers… The only thing that got left on them were items like snowballs and small eggs (yes, I was saving for Christmas, okay? )
My paladin Kaeci and my Twink Tschida were both also stripped of everything sellable and all their gold.

A big thank you goes out to Alpacaa (yes, that Alpacaa) for noticing odd happenings with my toons and getting in contact with a GM right away. I can’t imagine how much worse it could have been if it had continued to go on.

They were able to start preliminary restorations next day, Kelektra got her PVP gear back, and some random items from her bank, The bankers got a lot of the items they were holding back, and Kaeci and Tschida were pretty much fully restored. My case was forwarded to a specialist, and I heard nothing for close to a week, when all of a sudden on that Saturday the rest of Kelektra’s gear and items returned (except her badges and mounts, boo!), and the bankers/my lowbies were fully restored. I was told they were still working on restoring Hyria and Kaeras to this server, and as such I continued to wait (not so) patiently. The Saturday following, Kaeras and Hyria were restored to Drenden with all of their gear/items/badges/gold intact/professions.

Everything is back to normal-ish now, I had a friend send me and Hubby authenticators (since we cannot buy them in Canada) and I attached mine to my account immediately. (Even tho, as has been reported/incident happened in my own guild, you can apparently still be hacked with an authenticator, I still feel a lot safer).

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What else has been keeping me crazy busy? Well, the staff at my store usually numbers anywhere from 10-12 people. In the last two weeks, we’ve had 4 people quit/resign off of our 10 man staff, which means, of course, there are 6 of us left. Six people to run a store that’s open from 1000-2300 weekdays and 1000-2400 weekends. Last week alone I worked 42.5 hrs, and I’m an hourly employee. This is a huuuge jump from my normal work schedule of about 29 hrs per week. So I’ve been getting home, exhausted, logging in to WOW to check my mail, and falling into bed.

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Lastly, I’ve finally updated my AC’s Progression list, a HUGE congratulations to AC for downing Azgalor in MH and Na’Jentus in Black Temple, ON TO SUPREMUS AND ARCHIMONDE!!!

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I’ll be leaving on holidays for 10 days starting Aug 2, so I’ll be back with another update after that, I’ve got too much to do between now and then to even think about spending more time than necessary on this silly computer.

But they’ll have to wait till later, I’m currently trying to rebuild kel/hyria/kaeras after a hacking incident.

And I tanked him from 7% to death!!!! (sorry you died, Laguna!)

We’ve been beating our heads against this guy for WEEKS, and we finally defeated him tonight.

We tried a bit of a different strat tonight, we had Anetheron pulled back to beside the Ballista near the back of the camp, melee and the tank were there, then we had the ranged in two lines along the sides of the road, and the infernal tank stood in the middle of the two lines, it worked really well till our MT’s healer bit the dust. (sorry Shmily!)

But we GOT THE SUCKER!

and then we ran blindly and started the trash for Kaz’Rogal. We lasted till wave 7. Gratz us!

Question: WHO GOT 8 TICKETS TO ELTON JOHN, BABY!


Woop Woop!

I’m busy playing my paladin right now (need a break, hoooboy, so much rep farming)

But! Exalted with Exodar and Cenarion Circle, so, that cuts one option out of the poll over there. You ppl think Zandalar next, huh?

Tame Beast!

Portal: Shattrath!

Firstly, I’m sorry if this seems jumbled, I’m on my 5th day this week of waking up before 5:00 am with no reason or rhyme as to why. Just – dead asleep to wide awake, no going back. It’s starting to get really annoying and, I think affect how I am reacting to everyday things. I’ve probably drank my weight in energy drinks the last few days, and yes, I know they’re not really all that helpful, but my mind is clouded right now. Sigh. Help?

Secondly, AC went into Black Temple for the first time on Sunday night. I thought the trash before Naj’entus was laughable. Really I did. People say that the first few bosses are easier than Vashj and Kael; and while we only saw the first boss (repeatedly, a lot of the time from the floor) I’d say they’re probably right.
Some things I noticed:
Tank druids, you’re pefectly suited to trash tanking, and even, though some might disagree, to tanking Naj’entus himself. He doesn’t do a lot of damage, it’s the stupid spiky frost damage we’ve got to worry about. Given the chance, I think I’d like to try tanking him, just to see, but that’d mean I’d have to fight off the warriors, and… hmmm.
We learned that shaman chain heals are awesome in here. Amirite?
Kitty druids, yeah, that frost damage hurts, doesn’t it. Unfortunately for kitties we’re stuck right up in fish-tail and really can’t see a lot of what’s going on. Really watch for those around you that are getting spined, the spines are huge. Grab it and get back to dpsing.
Something I found useful. Right before the person with the spine goes to break the shield I would hit regrowth (you’ve got healing spells out on your bar even in cat form, right? right?) and it would insta-shift me out of cat and cast insta-regrowth thanks to my 2pc T5 bonus. This fight and Zul’jin are the only two fights I’ve found this to be REALLY useful for. Anyways, if timed correctly, you really don’t see a drastic drop in your health after the shield breaks and you can drop right back into cat and keep dpsing.
We also tried putting the five druids in the raid all in different groups for the spread out Tranquility spell. Can’t say it was TOO successful, but it didn’t hurt, either.
We figured after 8 tries and a complete trash respawn we’d just come back another day. 14% tho on one of the attempts, I’m pretty impressed.

Oh, and Anetheron kicked our butts in MH again last night, but we’re not gonna go there.

Thirdly, if ever you’ve played WoW with me you’ll have seen that sometimes, I go a bit crazy about certain things, like, oh, farming. I love farming. Don’t get me wrong, it’s tedious as all get out, but I love it, I’m weird. My latest farming kick – rep. I’m currently working on Kelektra’s 2oth Exalted faction.
Currently, I’m Exalted with the following: Darnassus, Ironforge, Stormwind, Cenarion Expedition, Honor Hold, Kurenai, Netherwing, Ogri’la, Sporeggar, The Consortium, Lower City, Sha’tari Skyguard, Shattered Sun Offensive, The Scryers, The Sha’tar, Argent Dawn, Keepers of Time, The Violet Eye, and Timbermaw Hold.
I’m working on Exodar now (3.5k to go!) and then, then I don’t know. SO! Here’s where I put it to the internets for questioning. Everybody loves a good poll, right? Check it out over there —>>

I have training tonight from 6pm till 10pm, am I gonna make it, or will I need to down approximately 4-5 more energy drinks today. We shall see…

Edits: The poll is really hard to see, but I don’t want to change the text colour of the whole blog, so, your choices: Zandalar Tribe, Thorium Brotherhod, Cenarian Circle, Gnomeregan Exiles.

Got Kel to Exalted with Timbermaw Hold this evening: