Back in business

A lot has happened in two months. One month, I was Afk.

Came back in July and
- bought GW2 and spent some time in the beta. Great game incoming !!
- went back to SWTOR for a comeback week and transferd server, my old was dead and guild was empty. Hopefully I'll find my old pals on the new server.
- went back to RIFT for the same reason and the same happened, transferred to a server as my server was empty and for trials only.
- went back to WoW, to try 12500 achiev points and did it. Guild is empty for the Summer.
- Finally decided to complete the Cataclysm Heroic achievements to get a volcanic drake and did it.
- Now I'll go afk again.

Meanwhile, I'll spend some time recreating the pictures for this damn blog. Hopefully a few can be recovered.

Today I went to the PTR to see what account achievements I will miss because I have 5 toons on each account for dualbox.

From what it looks like, profession achievement account wide requires only 5, not all 11, so it's ok. As to different classes, only two are needed. Factions A/H are covered. Races.. didn't see a specific achievement for that.

Anyway, I slowly started to lvl up my 5 lowbies on the main account, just in case. Lowest I had was lvl 20, so I went strait to LFD for all. It's so nice to level now, with heirlooms, guild perks, lots of XP buffs and dungeons where mobs can be nearly 1-shotted, most times healing is not even required. Ahhh the good old days' 3 hours in UBRS are over.

IRL

WoW addiction is terrible

All my 85 chars on main acc are DS-LFR finitto

I've been not so much time to take care of this damn blog problem and its photos.

But I've been playing a bit, so a bit of status update:

- Completed the Mastership of Isle of Conquest, and got the Tabard of Conquest for that ! Yay !
- Completed the 150-pet achievement, and got my celestial dragon ! A thanx to my guildie Flanx who bought me a present, a ToC horde pet, and allowed me to reach 150 before I started farming for Mr. Grubs in Eastern Plaguelands. Of course, the next day, it dropped after 3 bags, or 30 seconds. LOL. So now, I've got 152 pets, ready for Pandaria !
- Completed a "self" achievement, ie, bring all 5 chars of my main account to be DS-LFR ready and DS-LFR achievements done.

Concerning the last one, it was actually quite fun. After warlock and paladin were both ready and rocking, I turned my eyes to my poor hordies, resto-->elemental shaman, fire mage. Took a bit to decide that I wanted to dps and not heal or tank, as it would be faster, and faster it was.  So I turned my head to the other side, to my warrior, alone on Chromaggus. Decided against tanking, went for arms, and learned arms dps in 48 hours, so quickly brought him to LFR and completed the achievement a few mins. ago.

While gearing Morkin, the warrior, I found Strings, my old mate from SDD, which moved to Haunted Heavens, the "almost" only guild on Chromaggus. We had some good time chatting and he gave me a few tips to improve my dps to allow top10 with a miserable gear, ungemmed, unenchanted, half-unglhyphed. The most important tips were "overpower FTW to get rage back", "slam to drop rage", "heroic strike" only if you are at 100% and nothing else to do.

Btw, try to get gems, enchants or glyphs on a server which has 3-5 lvl 85 in Stormwind at 19:00 h !!!!!!!!

Ok, so I should be ready for Pandaria. Actually, I'd like to complete the Summer achievements, so this means I will have to pay for the account around July, 1st.

But it's good, I'll be AFK for a month, holidays in Barcelona and all that.

May be I get bored enough to get all my pictures back to this blog.

Oh My God Chandler Bing !

Test

All my old pictures have gone, quite possibly because of the redirect.

Have idiots taken Google by assault ? Blogger is being changed to use country specific URLs and my pictures have all gone. Orthogonal events ? Hmm...

OMG. All my Picasa pictures have gone. Vanished. That's the problem. I deleted them "supposedly locally" from my Samsung Galaxy S2 yesterday, before I sent it for repair. I revoked all passwords, and even changed my master Google password. Well, somehow, this fucking bitched Software managed to synchronize my local phone deletion and decided to delete all the picasa web albums, including of course all that supported blogger.

Dear Lord, why did Picasa and Blogger get bought by Google.

Why oh Why ?

#"$%&/!

UPDATE: OK, it's official, All my pics have gone, the absolute fuckers at Google somehow synchronized my phone picture deletion with Picasa and all photos have gone down the drain. My last resort was using "Internet Archive: Wayback Machine" to access a recent version of my blog, but I guess it's gone.

12K achievements on WoW

It's an achievement in itself, without a guild to or a bunch of rated pvpers to help me.

Yesterday I tried my first rated battleground with an experienced half-group. It's an amazing experience, but at the same time, horrific. I thougt I knew what to do, more or less. Wrong. Although I spammed fearing healers, CC'ing, interrupting, listening to orders, it was VERY hard. Ok, the team I joined had a rating of 1500, so the opponents were not exactly noob. But 10v10 against full 403/410 cataclysmic gladiators ? It's a nightmare. I only wish I had frapsed it, together with the offenses that the wanna-be-leaders voiced on vent, to the so-called-noobs like me. It ended with me yelling, something I never did in 7 years of WoW, and pressing Alt-F4, while venting rage. Luckily for him he wasn't around, otherwise that kid would have been shot for real.

Indeed I think it's time for a little MMO break. It stopped being a game, and it became War.

Easter bunnies are much more fun.

SWTora tora tora

On SWTOR, I did

level an imperial bounty hunter to 50 √
level a republic jedi knight to 10 √
level biochem and bioanalysis to 400 √
create my own matrix based relic √
find most datacrons √
do all missions at least once, except a few extended √
unlock all 50 dailies √
reach rank 30 in pvp √
become unbeatable in a bg √
participate in all space combats √?

But my main server is empty, there are not enough players to set the MMO feeling to the game, and farming gear does not appeal me as a way to spend my endgaming time.

Bioware does not want to allow server merge or transfer, for several reasons, one being trigging a "failure alarm" in the media.
Other reasons: it will cause the empty servers to become even emptier, full servers to be overflowing, anf ofc people won't spend time(=$$$) making alts on other servers.

Where does it all go wrong ?

First, With the legacy system. The legacy system is designed to be intra-planet, so that players create an entire family. But by the current state of affairs, players will be having multiple legacies, which makes no sense.

Second, it annoys me to be alone in a world, or be part of a community of the same 20 players over and over.

So.. I feel like waiting for server transfer activation to continue playing. Easter break is coming, so it seems like a good time for a break. After that I will think on wether to continue my republic leveling (leveling all over again, YUCK !) and what path to choose for my knight.

To the Great River we march.

SWTOR Lvl 50.. now what

In the last days, I've been mostly playing SWTOR, I've been leveling my Bounty Hunter, and I'm proud to say, I've reached the cap level.

WoWwise, I've restarted playing my old hunter, moving him to the Portuguese Aggra server. He's now Bimbo, a very nice dwarf captain. I'm gearing him up to try and go Dragon Soul. But it's been hard, gearing up from lvl 333 is very hard, 346 heroics take long because of noobs and until I get 353 to get to the 358 instances... justice+valor takes a loooong time to farm. Oh well.

LOTRO, Update 6 is here and... I haven't touched it yet.

AION, started playing a bit with a RL friend but going slow, 1-2 lvls per week.