Glitch King

Well - Limited Success with my plans for last night.

The patching went allright, but Darkspear was one of the later servers to go up - and when it did, it was hardly functioning. I sat on the loading screen for ten min, but it did load!

Spec'ing went fine. I then learned all my non-combat pets, and was one of the hojillion people getting the "Can I keep it?" Achievement. I went off in search of a combat dummy to try my new attacks on, but couldn't get through any of the Shat Portals, and was hit with a server crash. Sigh.

20 Min getting back in, but we're here. Talents are unspent. Go to check pets - GASP - only 5 of the 15 some I learned are in my pet tab, but the item is still missing from my bank/inventory. This will not be an OK thing. Not even the stable master could return them to me. Grr.

EDIT: This is being addressed.

A portal finally kicked in, 5 min after I had clicked it, and rocketed me to Stormwind. The barbershop was AWESOME looking, and the interface was alot of fun. I tried twice to get my haircut, gave up, and left. In the spirit of patch day, I was teleported BACK to the barbershop after I had made it to old town, and was trying new attacks, and the haircut went through.

Oh - Achievements! Those were working, even when none of the NPCs would spawn. I'm at 1200 atm, counting the haircut I got. I'm going to get really into them - I can tell already. There just look like there are so many fun ones - and it helps that I have one main, have never switched mains, and can't imagine myself doing so in the future.

And of course, due to this magnificent chaos, raiding was a complete impossibility, so I called it off. Hopefully - tonight things will be on the mend, and I'll have some meaty reporting to do. Until then!

Wrath Release Plans

By now, you all know Wrath is comming out on Thu, Nov. 13th.

I'm anticipating that the servers, ect. will be FUBAR all Thursday, or at least the chance is so high, that its not worth taking that day off. So - I'll be picking up my (and Aertimus's) pre-ordered copy after work on Thursday, and get them installed before she gets home. 

Depending on the congestion of Darkspear, we'll either dig in that afternoon, or that night after a nap. We're both taking off Friday (woo!), so the whole weekend is cleared for a non-stop wrath experience.  We don't plan on rushing through particularly fast - Aertimus is sure to keep me from that, but I don't plan on being a slouch either.

The only thing I'm still trying to figure out, is what I'll be sugesting our guild do as we level. My current idea, is to encourage all guild five man runs at our normal raid time, to keep people in the habit. We (officers) would help assemble groups, and use the Gbank to fund respec's. I wasn't with a steady guild over the Vanilla Wow -> TBC transition, so I'm not sure what will work the best. Idea's are apprecciated.