So wow.com has recently posted info about the new LFG interface. I’m at once filled with deep apprehension and cautious optimism.
Before you continue on past the cut I must leave a disclaimer. Yes. I KNOW this is all still on the PTR and is subject to change. So don’t tell me that. I’m not an idiot. I’m still going to voice my opinions about it.
Alright, so I’m not a computer programmer so I don’t know all the ins and outs of servers and instances and such. What I do know is that when I log in on a Saturday night and can’t log in to any instance or raid I get rather upset. I try not to rail on Blizzard specifically too much for issues. Most of my daily gripes are player related. First it was “additional instances cannot be launched.” Now, it’s “transfer aborted: Instance not found.”
I don’t know what that means in computer speak. What I do know is it’s obnoxious. I’m not surprised that something like this happened. WoW is a computer program. Computer programs have bugs. What’s actually bothering me is that there is no information about the problem. Not even an acknowledgment. By the time most people read this post, it’s likely that Blizzard will have given some info and the problem might even be fixed. But for now, nothing. Not a single blue post on the forums.
All I wish for is an acknowledgment of an issue. A blue post that says, “hey here’s an issue. This is why it’s happening (we think). Here is what we are doing.” I don’t even need an estimation of how long they think it will take. I just want to know that Blizzard is doing SOMETHING.
Oh well. It’s not really that big of a deal and it will be fixed soon. It’s just annoying.
“[Insert clever sign off phrase here]“
~Fizz
So last night I was running Heroic Culling of Stratholme with my guild. As luck would have it CoS was both the regular and heroic daily. We had a solid group together, although one of the dps had never been in there before. I suggested that we try for the timed achievement as I still haven’t managed to get that darn drake on my main. Our healer was a little nervous about it, but she’s way to hard on herself. She’s actually a freaking fantastic healer. But, I didn’t want to add extra stress to her life, so I suggested that we just give it a shot, as a practice effort, but not as our primary goal.
For the benefit of the dps who hadn’t been in I made a very thorough run down of what would happen (maybe it was a little too thorough, I have a tendency to go into a little too much detail). Everyone knew what was going on, and I was fairly confident we could do it.
I started the first pull and everything was great! We flew through the instance. I don’t think I’ve ever gone through it that fast. We also got really lucky in that all the mobs spawned right there in that first area, so we just bounced back and forth between them. We got the 2nd boss down and still had 10 whole minutes to get to the boss. Well we headed for the inn and waited for Arthas to show up. And waited. And waited. After about 3 minutes I was about to go find him when I saw him running down the road. Well, 7 minutes..it’s gonna be tight, but we can still do it.
We get to the 3rd set of dragonkin when, Arthas decided he was going to tank theses mobs and I could go to hell. I don’t know if it was a bug, or if I was just getting really unlucky taunt resists, but I could not pull the mobs off him. So of course, he gets himself killed. And then he just refuses to respawn. By the time he does, the time is down to 4 minutes. And despite our best efforts, we just didn’t make it in time.
So in the end, what should have been a flawless and easily accomplished drake run ended up being a disaster because Arthas is a jackass.
Oh well. There’s always tomorrow.
But as a side note to my complaining about Arthas, I want to compliment my guild mates on doing a fantastic job. Especially our healer. She rocked the hell out of that instance.
“[Insert clever sign off phrase here]“
~Fizz
I ran out of time last night before I could finish this post due to my weekly raid schedule. I knew it was coming, but I got distracted by that ‘new blog smell’ and kept tweaking this theme or that format.
Anyway, to continue my story from yesterday…ah yes, fate having other plans and all that.
I had been so determined to become the most annoying Gnome in all of Azeroth. But I quickly discovered that I couldn’t even whisper people with a trial account. To be honest, I’m still not really sure what ultimately made me decide that it would be totally fine to buy a regular account just to annoy people. I’d like to think though that by that point the annoyance factor was really just more of a justification. In truth, I was already completely hooked.
