Random Coherency

One Last Thing

2008-07-29T11:10:00.001-06:00

I'm biting the bullet and making the move to wordpress.

http://randomcoherency.wordpress.com/
pardon the mess, I'll straighten up more when I get home from holidays.

I had to immortalize this somewhere.

2008-07-29T09:43:00.002-06:00

Stayin alive

2008-07-29T09:10:00.002-06:00

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? :P)
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.

Oh boy do I have stories to tell you guys

2008-06-30T08:13:00.002-06:00

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

Anetheron DEAD!

2008-06-23T20:54:00.002-06:00

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!

Answer: I DID!!

2008-06-23T10:23:00.002-06:00

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

Woop Woop!

Whee updates

2008-06-17T09:51:00.002-06:00

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?

New WotLK Druid ability(s)!!!

2008-06-10T11:35:00.006-06:00

Tame Beast!

Portal: Shattrath!

more to come!

A Few Things

2008-06-10T05:21:00.003-06:00

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.

Beat the Game

2008-06-02T22:01:00.004-06:00

Got Kel to Exalted with Timbermaw Hold this evening:

Immediately followed by a multitude of whispers, ranging from "wtf was that" to "omg did you beat the game".

Bit of a different response from a guildie, tho.

Maybe I didn't make myself clear?

Hmm...

Defender of the Timbermaw is pretty darn awesome tho

Gonna havta choke a B!tch

2008-05-20T07:12:00.002-06:00

So, I know she's Ratshag's girlfriend and all, but last night I wanted to KILLMAIMMURDALIZE Lady Jaina FOOKING Proudmoore. And here's the story of why *deeeeeep breaths*

AC has, for the last 4-5 months or so been going into Tempest Keep and beating up on the loot piñata(s) that are Void Reaver and High Astromancer Solarian, We've recently in the past 6 weeks or so also started taking down Alar, but we're just not all the way there yet to even go look at Kael'thas, SOOOO, whaddaya do?

We go take a look a few weeks ago at Mount Hyjal, they've taken the attunement out, you see. We got Rage Winterchill on our very first try of our very first night in MH, and we called it a night. We went in again, took out Mr. Rage, and called it a night. Last night was different. Last night we went in, took out Mr. Rage on the first try, then decided we were going to attempt Anetheron. So, we get through all 8 of his waves without a single death, start the encounter, and (now here's where I raise my ... typing ... cover your eyes!) GET HIM TO ONE FRIGGEN PERCENT WHEN ALL OF THE SUDDEN HE'S JUST F*ING GONE! POOF! NADA! No more! What happened!!!?!??!? everyone yells. Then someone pipes up with ... uh, Jaina died. Yes, she died at ONE FRIGGEN PERCENT!

So, we set up, we start the event again, and there are deaths, many many deaths. We just couldn't hold it together. 3 attempts later we're too heartbroken and we call it a night.

We could have had Anetheron on our FIRST ATTEMPT at trying him, could have been 2/5 in MH, but NOOO! Jaina and Anetheron decided to sneak off and have a quickie and leave us all standing there with our hearts in our hands.

Sorry Ratshag, I didn't wanna have to tell you this way, but it looks like Jaina's found someone else....

to borrow a phrase

2008-05-18T20:49:00.002-06:00

*SQUEE!*

So while I was off enjoying a nice Anniversary dinner with my wonderful Hubby (BEST SALMON EVER, BTW!), AC was busy in SSC git'n 'er dun.

Yep, AC went in to SSC with only one goal in mind. Killing Vashj. We'd done a 5 clear of all the lesser bosses on Wednesday, with yours truly tanking one of FLK's adds and then tanking Tidewalker. So AC was on a mission tonight.

We've been bashing our heads against Vashj (or Vag, as she's known) for approximately 2 months, she's been pretty bishy, but we've gotten better and better at getting her shield down, and we got her to a heartbreaking 5% last Sunday.

Tonight, 6 tries later, the sea-witch finally ate floor.

Congratulations to AC, and to the winners of phat lewts, I promise I'll be there next time.

In Error

2008-05-06T09:10:00.004-06:00

We here at YouHeardItHereFirst News would like to extend our most sincere apology to the wonderful people at Egocorp. A few days ago we reported that Egocorp was involved in a high profile bearnapping, only to find out last night that this is not, in fact, the case. The bear in question - Kelektra, has been recovered; shaken and smelling strongly of fish, from the cave in which she has been hibernating for the last few days.

We contacted a representative of Kelektra early this morning to attempt to get an interview only to be told that she is still slightly addled and may be out of it for a few more days. Her representative did say that Kelektra had been very hard at work attempting to make things perfect for a commemorative event for a dear friend, a fellow druid; though one not of the bear persuasion. [For more information regarding this event, please turn to pages A4 and B11]. It was also inferred that Kelektra has; to put it simply, just not been feeling well, and felt she needed to take some time and get well.

Rest assured that we will have a more full interview with Kelektra as the story is uncovered.

We thank you for your continued patience, and again apologize to Egocorp for our egregious error.

For related stories, see: Shumei, Mage, Teleport, Egocorp, Bigredkitty, Ratshag

This just in

2008-05-04T17:23:00.002-06:00

The following report has been forwarded by an anonymous source:

"Late Friday night the mage known as Shumei was spotted outside the Darnassus bank, muttering to himself excitedly. Among the overheard phrases were 'Jaina,' 'new portal spell,' and 'Where did I put that box of chocolates?'. He was then seen making strange gestures, after which he vanished in a flash of violet light. Our tipster speculates that he was attempting the as-yet-unproven 'Teleport: Theramore' spell, apparently to attempt some sort of romantic liason with Lady Proudmore herself."

Due to the untried nature of the spell that he is presumed to have used, it likely that he sent himself to some unknown location. When several members of EgoCorp were contacted, as they were among the last known associates of the missing mage, they denied mentioning any new spells to Shumei, saying that "Anything he gets up to is his own lookout," and "We only asked him to come to the Botanica with us for his polymorph spell and his biscuits, but he barely used those all night. We haven't seen him since he made the portal after we killed Warp Splinter."

Any information leading to his whereabouts would be greatly appreciated! Those of you with tracking and tracing abilities, please be on the lookout for the misplaced mage-- unproven portal spells are particularly dangerous, and could send their users virtually anywhere.

At this time we are unaware of any correlation between the bearnapping of Kelektra and the unforseen disappearance of the mage Shumei. We shall continue to receive communications regarding possible sightings, but would urge you to please contain the information in your tips to what is needed to solve these two mysteries.

{Bear}nap in progress.

2008-05-03T00:21:00.003-06:00

Breaking news! First it was BRKWWA overtaking Egocorp, then we see Egocorp denying such allegations, but what no one deems necessary to mention is that there was a bearnap, an atrocious, underhanded, quaintly planned and quietly brought together bearnap.
That's right folks, you heard it here first. Bearnap in progress. Your friendly neighbourhood Kelektra has been stolen by the group of hooligans calling themselves Egocorp. If you should have any information regarding the whereabouts of Kelektra, please inform the proper authorities, which may or may not include Smokey the Bear, Ranger Joe, Tarzan, or KimPossible.
It has been brought to our attention that the mastermind behind Egocorp is unwilling to let Kelektra go without a fight, though we have no idea what Egocorp plans for our cuddly ursine companion. We urge you, please, if you know anything, anything at all that may help, our tip lines are open 24/7.

Sadness

2008-04-24T08:15:00.002-06:00

I am sad to say that Aetherial Circle lost a great friend today. One of its founding members, Sharvan, passed away some time between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.
Sharvan was a wonderful, happy, bubbly person; each and every time she logged in to the game she'd greet the whole guild with her standard "Moooo!" She was an awesome friend, and she will be missed.
Goodbye, Sharvan, AC's BOOMkin crusade will not be the same without you :(

/Moooooooooo!

I'm Chilled!

2008-04-21T20:51:00.003-06:00

But that's okay! Aetherial Circle is now officially an Hyjal Summit raiding guild!

That's right, we went into Mount Hyjal for the very first time tonight and downed Rage Winterchill on our very first try. Congrats to all the loot winners.

AC, you RAWK!

Moo Tipping!

2008-04-12T18:35:00.003-06:00

So by now, I'm sure, most of you have heard of the RoDB!!!. The RoDB!!! you say? What's that?? Well, if you'd follow the links, you'll find out. Go on, I'll wait....

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*taps foot*

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Are ya back? Ok, good

Well anyways, BRK relied on my help so much last time that I decided to just save him the trouble of asking and I've created a character over on Cenarian Circle, a Tauren Druid called Kelektabull. She will HOPEFULLY be big enough by the race to be of some support for wherever Ratshag decides to send all of the victi... I mean... the roadki.... I mean Taurens...

Yeah. Check back for future updates :P

edit: I said She.. but... Kelektabull's a he...

ZOMGZORZ

2008-03-31T19:53:00.001-06:00

Tidewalker dead in 1 shot. That is all.

Mr. T (and his night elf mohawk?)

2008-03-25T23:16:00.002-06:00

Well, I didn't get my baby crocolisk pet today. Guess that's not to be expected on the first day of a new patch, anyways.

I did, however, run Magisters Terrace (the new 5 man instance) not once, but twice today. The first time as kitty dps, the second as bear tankage. Coming in the next few days will be my thoughts on the two different roles inside the instance.

Quests leading into MrT (as it's called on my server, at least) award an epic gem, and grant access to the ability to run MrT on heroic. I picked up a Bright Crimson Spinel as my quest reward. The last boss, Kael'Thas Sunstrider, also drops epic quality items, even on normal mode. My first run through, he dropped Cloak of Blade Turning which my party graciously let me have. I'll use it for tanking, along with my Gilded Thorium Cloak as well as PVP when I do arenas/battlegrounds.

I also did the fishing quest today where you have to go catch a baby crocolisk, I cought him on my second cast, which I've heard is pretty good. A fellow guildie cast over 50 times unsuccessfully. Didn't get my baby crocolisk pet, did however pick up a Weather-Beaten Fishing Hat which is quite lovely. Will be nice to not have to pack lures with me when I go fishing.

All in all, a good day.

Also...

2008-03-25T12:27:00.001-06:00

The baby crocolisk pet will be mine. or else.

The Intarwebs will never believe this!

2008-03-25T12:18:00.002-06:00

Heeeere we go!

Ratsy, plz talk to BRK to collect your cool points :)

The change was, in fact, an updated kill list for AC, and a BIG CONGRATS on downing Doom Lord Kazzak it is! AC's movin up the progression ladder again!

I know I promised you all some more top 10's lists, but, I've been feeling kind of blog-listless lately (haha pun, did you see that? FIO BEWARE! LOL, list-less) {also, apparently I need sleep, because *groan* I'm starting to LOL in my blog, sigh.} So, anyways, here's your chance (Yes, again, Ratsy, this means you, since I think you're the only one that reads my drivvel). It's readers choice week, you email me and tell me what you want me to write about. WoW related, RL related, whatever the case might be, and I'll do it.

That's turkeyfroggy AT gmail DOT com. Alternatively, drop by the Drenden server and send in game mails to Kelektra. That way I can post screenshots of your questions, HAHAHAHA...

Plz forgive me while I go gorge myself on 2.4 info/quests/yada.

giggle

2008-03-19T18:34:00.001-06:00

10 BRK cool points (yeah, i'm giving out brk's points now, so what? :P) to the first person who can tell me what's new over there >>>>>

Turn off that racket you damn kids!

2008-03-18T08:06:00.004-06:00

Firstly, Happy Belated St. Patricks day :)

Secondly, it's Tuesday, I'm off, and WoW is in maintenance. sigh.

Started my new position at work yesterday. Think I had four customers over the course of my 5 hour shift. Oh well, business should pick up shortly once it becomes common knowledge that there is a wireless specific sales agent in the store. Oh, and once I get my business cards, too, I suppose. At least my manager is letting me juggle the systems and paperwork into a system that will work better for my OCD filled brain, hehe.

Hubby's happy to be back at work, still really sore and swollen now that the cast is off, but at least he's not stuck in the house anymore. And there was supper ready for me when I got home from work last night. Oh happy day.

In other bits of cool news, finally FINALLY sold the Camaro, so, now we don't have any vehicles at all, but we're also freed up of a lot of debt to go ahead and get something new. We'd been looking at a 2008 Toyota Tundra, but I think we're going to have to re-budget a little and maybe find something a little less expensive.

Make sure you all stop by BRK's blog and wish him a Hippo Birdy. He's old, you know, so make sure you yell.

And now, oooh, pretty pretty WoW bits! lol

10 WoW Items I love to bits

Dimensional Ripper - Area 52
Badge of Tenacity
Orb of Deception
Festive Purple Dress
Sheen of Zanza
Mojo
Terestian's Stranglestaff
Tome of Arcane Domination
Enigma Robes
Dartol's Rod of Transformation

The above are in no means in any order of preference, I love them all, and I love them all equally, whether it be for looks, for purpose, for fun or for otherwise.

Edit: to avoid confusion, yes, I have had (or still have) all of the above items :)

Many Apologies

2008-03-11T19:00:00.002-06:00

I know my posts have been short and to the point in the last few days, I've been working a lot, as per usual.

Lonn got his cast off today, 80 days after the accident, he's happy, he gets to go back to work tomorrow! I'm happy! I don't have to cook supper anymore!

Monday Mar 17 I'm starting a new position at work, so I'll be doing some homework in the next few days to prepare for that. Huzzah for promotions :)

Coming soon to a blog near you: More 10's posts.

G'night folks.