Netcownt versus Xaire

For the record, here is the fight between Netcownt and Xaire on EU-Chromaggus (2007).
One of the best 70 PVP players versus a humble 70 lock with 60 gear !
Ugly Robes of the Battleguard FTW !
Btw, I've confirmed that Xaire is actually Drakonus, the magnificent 60 Horde Shadow Priest that battled against the alliance when CrossRealm battlegrounds were a dream.. and when Shadow Priests were a rarity.
Nice to see engineering shadow reflect trinkets in action (possibly also the fire one)

Utterly bored

And again, only a couple weeks later, I become again absolutely bored with WoW.
Several reasons:

PVP-wise, I find it too stressing to get involved in arenas the hard way. The easier way (dualboxing) is a simple point grinding, with little purpose. And I've proven my point, 60 games played, 30 solo wins. As to battlegrounds, although playing with new toons like Druid or Rogue I'm seeing the same damn things since 2005, everything is just too old.

PVE-wise, high level 25-raids aren't giving me the fun they used to do. One must be having fun with it, otherwise, it's pointless to be wasting 3-4 hours a night... and that's the point, I'm realizing I'll be "wasting" 3 hours a night to get a miserable chance of a loot that will be obsolete in a few months, and not exactly having fun doing it. Part if it derives from the fact that I've been actually coding Boss behaviour for the C++ based DLL's people are using on private servers, therefore knowing perharps too much about how boss mechanics work, yawning at the boss abilities, and sighing at wiping people.

I've also seen most of 2.4 patch content, ie, Sun Offensive dailies, Magister Terrace... ok missing Sunwell Plateau in live servers and with my gear I'll probably never will (remember Naxxramas?) but I'm coding it on the private server side, so... /bah. Tarithel is revered now with Sun Offensive...and yawning of boredom.

Overall, World of Warcraft, besides the roleplaying which is not existing, due to the average age of players and nation diversities (half of the people can't even speak proper english), is getting utterly boring.

So...what to do:
a) Continue running dungeons in heroic mode to collect badges for epic items to go to 25-raids to collect more epics to ... waste more time ? No.
b) Alting to a new toon ?.... but WHAT toon ? I've played them all, have most toons at 70 or around 60, played ally and horde, on PVE and PVP servers, ...
c) Stop playing WoW live until WOTLK comes out, and see what happens.

And I'm back !
Main#2 account reactivated, Tarithel, Matadora and Cornelius arrive in Azeroth.

Started with my shadow resistance gear for Cornelius, currently ~+200 res, meaning it's going to be fun with locks and SP's.
As to Matadora, LOM are stalled with Firak and Corleth AFK for some time, and I found out that the down of SSC Lurker was in fact Anonnymous. So much for 25-rais on Chromaggus. Which actually is good, because...

Tarithel went to Black Temple ! Yahoo! Me and Portucale.
Well, my gear is not so good (first boss Naj'entus requires well above +8.6K HP and I get +9.2K HP with BOK and MOTW and +20sta food). Guess I'll need the +15 from the elixir of mastery and something else to get around +9.5K. +10K would be best to play safe, though. Ah, and +30sta food. But for that I need Netcownt :(
I managed the mana ok. Boss went to +46% on the best try and I still had my pet available. The trick for the fight is really to manage the spike sending correctly (not too late, not too fast) and in my case to spam CoH at the right moment. I did some, but I must do more. A problem for me is to balance the CoH spamming after the +8.5K damage to my party with the necessary urgency moves to keep the tank alive. Also, must healers move to loot the spikes or is it left to dps ? A lost second can be a fatal second.

Got to farm some gear (badges, karazhan, za, heroics, whatever):
Priority is:
1)Gloves (attumen or curator(s4) or 60xbadge one)
2)Rings (with +sta, +int/+spi, +mp5 would be best)
3)Trinket (got to check if any engineering shit helps, probably not)
4)PVP gear replacements(though it helps a lot for +sta needed fights: belt,boots,neck). But I got the Boots of the Long Road available from guild vault, and the boots are absolutely great. 2xPrimal Nether + mooncloth, etc, farm farm farm. I'm farming Sun Offensive dailies, around +100g/day. In a week I'll have enough gold for it, hopefully.

I've just finished my 60 rogue, with enough money for my epic horsey. Sliding rocks.

Well, for a totally different (?) matter, I've found out during a nice chat that the concept of multiboxing does exist, and that several crazy ppl do play with multiple toons (some with 5-6) on multiple accounts simultaneously, some even on the same machine. They use a tool called keyclone that does a similar thingie to what my self-made tool does, ie, it sends the keys of one keyboard to several WoW windows.

Most of them use only one type of character, like 5 locks, 5 mages, 5 shammies.

They also like to go arena with that. And get reported dozens of times by single-players considering it unfair. Is it ? May be.

But the nicest thing is that it IS LEGAL from Blizzard point of view.

Blizzard statement, as seen from the GM's multiboxers talk to is that "as long as you stay in front of the keyboard at all times, it is ok".

So I'm technically fine. I never used bots with my two accounts, I used a self-made kind of multiboxing and always did my questing, walking, fighting, by myself, never relying on any automated tool to do it for me.

It will be fun when WOTLK comes out: Teams are assembled.
- Warlock(tank)+Priest(healer)
- Druid(tank)+Shammy(healer) ... (will Clarabela ever reach 70 ?)
- Matadora(tank)+Moonprince(healer)
- Patalogica(?)+...
- my-soon-to-be-hunter-as-my-friend-stopped-playing+...

Since a few days I've been thinking that I never shadowpriested. Think I might try that. Also, I must choose, if I can, which toon/account will turn into a deathknight. One thing is sure: every clown and his mother will own one.

maxfps and LOTRO and the finger

Started a fresh account on WoW for testing my speed creating a 1-60 toon, automagically (sliding for the win LOL). Well, still got a few days left and he's 51 atm.

Why, you ask ? Simple anzwer: my finger is not allowing me typing for a long period ! I'm in phisioterapy so... not much keyboarding for the moment.

Still, got enough time to find out that setting /console maxfps allows my portable to display WoW with no fan usage, something that was irrititating me for a long time. After all, who needs over 25 fps on a 15.4 lcd ?

And last but not least, I'm seriously considering LOTRO for a change. I've trial-tested in long ago, but the movement sucked. Well, it still sucks, but a few things attract me:
1) The JRRT atmosphere
2) Absence of cretins

Loosing premades

10,000 USD later won on Oil (QMK8) , here I am again, a tad richer, and an improving finger :)

As a droid would say (Blade Runner dixit), I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Actually, I've read and heard from trustful sources.

- Arenas at 4 AM here a single person plays on several accounts in order to win S3 Pvp gear for all his (and his friends and his guildies) toons, taking times to win and loose.
- Loosing premades where ppl dance naked at WSG entrance with the single purpose of fast badge farming.
- People selling their gold to chinese farmers for hundreds of €.
- Primal nethers being bought; Blizzard releasing badging items that make Karazhan and instance items obsolete.
- People creating rogues for detecting and reporting botters.
- In general, ppl lurking all over the place doing nothing simply because there is nothing left to do besides waiting for the expansion.

What is WoW coming to LOL. And this is Blizzard's fault, for not investing the billions of dollars we've been giving them in new scenarios, new challenges. They've got 10 million subscribers at 10 EUR per month. That's a HUNDRED MILLION EUR per month FFS

Chronicles of Spellborn FTW, Within Temptation. Obviously.

I'll give you the f1nger

My Portucale guild is progressing in SSC. About time :)
And guess what, The Lords of Midnight downed Lurker ! Eh he no more an amateur guild in deed. Sad I wasn't there to see it. GZ Firak,Corleth&Co.
Fylgies are still stalled.

I'm gonna be back soon, my finger is improving, but so is Spring time,birds and bees..

First job will be to enhance Cornelius and Matadora's shadow resistance to around 300.
I fell like ganking warlocks :PPP

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