The PTR

Well now that I have the space on my hard drive I’ve decided to download the PTR.  I’ve been super bored in game lately.  Also, I don’t know if you’ve heard, it’s been kinda on the down-low, I’ve also been pretty lonely and aimless.  So I thought the PTR might be a nice way to add a little spice to my life.  I’m going to take advantage of the feature that lets you create a pre-made level 80 and try out the two classes I’ve never played before (hunter and priest).  Also, I’ve always wanted to try having a horde warrior and an alliance shaman.  So this is a nice way to do that without having to commit to a paid faction change.

And don’t worry, as I try things out and see what’s new, I’ll let you fine folks know what I’ve discovered.

My first impressions? It takes a long time to download.  It’s been 4 hours so far, and I’m still patching.  Granted, I’m also playing WoW in the background so my bandwidth isn’t exactly unrestricted.

“[Insert clever sign off phrase here]“

~Fizz

Because it probably isn't just me (aka WoW file size)

I noticed my computer has been running  a little sluggish lately, so I’ve been running a couple clean up programs to fix it up a bit.  During my adventures I noticed that I was running low on hard disk space so I made a query to find out what program/file was usurping my data.  Well most of my stuff was tied up in multimedia (music/pictures/movies/etc), or documents and misc. stuff to keep my computer actually running.  But the single most prominent thief of space was our old friend World of Warcraft.  20 gigs.  20 freaking gigs. Ho-lee-crap.

Well, that seemed excessive, so I decided to investigate.  I discovered that there are a couple of files that can be safely deleted.  And since I imagine I’m not the only one who didn’t know you could get rid of this stuff I thought I’d share what I learned.