Slayer of Dragons

Nefarian is no more. Congratulations, Unknown, for completing Blackwing Lair. We are so awesome! That's my mage right there in the middle, wearing the pink dress. I got the [Head of Nefarian] and handed it in on Monday, to receive an uber off-hand: [Master Dragonslayer's Orb].

I missed the train today - it came early >.< So... I had to take the next one to get into town, to hand my assignment in. At least I got it in ok.

Still not sleeping well. I got up in the early hours of the morning when I couldn't sleep and logged my rogue for a while. No idea why, but I felt that playing was better than staring at my darkened curtains for an hour and a half.

Now it's getting late again and I have some Smallville and Stargate Atlantis to watch. Oooh, and I'd better try and download I Know What You Did Last Summer, so I can do a good job on my film research assignment ^^

-Timotheos
Master Dragonslayer

Stealth Fighter

It's been a bit of a strange week.

Firstly, I haven't been able to sleep. Since daylight savings ticked over and raids go later for me, I've been going to bed quite a bit later than usual. This has had an adverse effect on almost everything. Not only have I found it incredibly hard to even get to sleep but I'm sleeping very little each night. This has caused me to get up late - a choice, but still very hard. Perhaps I currently lack the determination to force myself to get up at a reasonable time.

I've missed all of my classes this week. Nothing was due in - except my weekly film thing, but I emailed that through. I've spent a good deal of time playing my rogue - it's slower to level when you aren't rested, but I'm making reasonable progress.

Today was no different than the rest of the week. Not only did I miss all of this week's classes, but I also missed work today. However, I really haven't been too well. It could be related to my odd waking hours coupled with psychological stress - or something. Nick suggested some medication he came across but I'll have to wait till Monday, when the Pharmacy is open.

Music practice on Thursday night was a little different. We have a guest worship leader for tomorrow's morning service, so his family is going to be playing and singing as well. But hey, I'm still playing the drums. Couple of songs I like too; one of which I actually heard for the first time. It's in 6/8, though, which means that I'll have to really think about what I'm doing :p

To top everything off, last night's Temple of Ahn'Qiraj (40-person) raid was called due to insufficient numbers - some of us did the Ruins (20-person) instead. Eh, more Cenarion Circle rep FTW ^.^ Then, we didn't get the numbers for BWL tonight, so yet another week where we didn't get Nefarian down. We couldn't even push him to phase 2 because of a lack of AoE (mages and locks). Oooh, but I did get my NR pieces made (crown, shoulders, tunic, and cape). So greeeeen :s

So here I am, ready to play my rogue again before I go to bed. I've levelled her to 20 already, and will no doubt play quite a bit after my exams - that is, if the expansion isn't released right then. Because the first thing I'm doing when I get my Collector's Edition of The Burning Crusade, is to run to the Outlands on my mage and go into the five-man dungeon in the first zone (after respeccing, of course) XD

Gogo stealth powaaaa!

-Timotheos
Generations

ps. I watched Smallville tonight. Still slowly chugging along there ^L^

Sword Complexion

The family went back up north this morning, taking Nick and Laurelle with them. I guess they're all staying in Hamilton overnight and travelling the rest of the way tomorrow. I gave Jonny his birthday present just as they were leaving - some Seinheiser earphones. His birthday isn't for another four weeks but I won't be seeing them till Christmas when I go up north with Matt and Lish - and get some trout fishing in while I'm at it ^^

I hit 60 with my warrior yesterday. Gametime: 9 1/2 days. That's my best yet; but really, I'm not surprised, considering I have levelled two Alliance characters to 60 prior to that. So yeah, three level 60 characters. I used to think that anyone with more than one end-game character played too much :/

I played my sexy human rogue today. She's level 10 now :p I originally intended the character as a bank toon but gave her a proper name anyway. Now that I have a dedicated gnome bank I can play my rogue as a regular character. I may never level her to 60 but I can at least try to get as high as I can before The Burning Crusade is released; because then I'll be trying to get my mage to 70 XD

We managed to get Nefarian to phase 2 on Sunday night, finally. It took us three weeks just to get this far, but at least we now know that our method works; apparently the next two phases are easy compared to controlling the first part. Phat lewts, here we come!

Saw an awesome mace-specced rogue video today. With mace spec, the rogue has a chance to stun their enemy, therefore giving them yet another advantage. This guy was pwning two Horde players at once, regardless of class - yes, even locks and shammies :s GG Alliance rogz ^.^ Too bad he was beaten by a friendly mage, hunter and paladin, each duelling separately. It just goes to show that even skilled players don't always win - and this guy was employing every trick available.

There's an early maintenance tonight. The servers shut down much earlier than usual. I didn't get a chance to pvp with Nick's rogue, Zanith, again. He wanted me to get some more honour to push him through to rank 8. As for my mage, since I haven't pvped in like a month, I should rank down to rank 6 this week. I'm not fussed. PvP is a thing of the past. I really need to grind out as much Cenarion Circle rep as I can to get my sword ^o^

Essay writing tomorrow. Yay. Actually, it's good to plan assignments like that. It's a goal to work towards and allows me to really focus on what I shoul be doing.

Stargate Atlantis is going well; I'm up to episode 9 of the first season. But right now, it must be time to go watch a movie. Or something :p

-Timotheos
[b]-Gaiwyn[/b]

Epic Green Battletank

After four or five attempts at The Prophet Skeram, we decided to call it. Well, at least a number of people in the raid are now able to summon elite bug mounts, as these are a common drop off the trash mobs leading up to AQ40's first boss. I so want a green one ^^

I have to work on my English essay next week and try to get that out of the way so I can do the research for my Film one in the following week. It was a pretty uneventful week this week. We wiped on Chromaggus a few times last night. I joined late because I had music practice and my computer was playing up.

The Blue Screen of Death kept hitting me. I think it was WoW patch related, actually, but was most probably related to a hardware / driver conflict of some sort. Having a different Windows account to log into seems to be a fix - at least, for now. I am still waiting for my new cpu to arrive, and until it does, my new graphics card will just sit there and I have to bear with my computer and its serious need of a format and Windows reinstallation.

Mum's birthday was on Wednesday. I gave her $50 of MTA vouchers. It'll help them with petrol costs for travelling to and from way up north. My brother has been staying here a bit but he stayed with mum and dad at our sister's house last night and is doing so again tonight.

Dad brought the kids around here and they watched The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. I just did my Temple of Ahn'Qiraj raid, as scheduled. Tomorrow is mum's 50th birthday party, and we expect there to be a fair amount of people.

I'l gonna be so tired by tomorrow night. Glad I'm not playing this Sunday. I still went to music practice last night, regardless.

-Timotheos
Chop

The Devil Wears Suede

My new screen has proved to be awesome. I've noticed a lot more detail ingame and everything is just so colourful and clear wherever.

We had a few attempts at the Nefarian fight on Sunday night. We didn't make it past phase 1 - the draconid spawns - but we did learn a little about what is effective and what isn't. Hopefully we can settle on a tactic and really get some practise in so we can push through to phase 2. Didn't realise how hard the fight was going to be until we actually had a few good attempts at it.

The family has come down for a week. They arrived today. My bro's girlfriend came down yesterday, too. Both she and our younger brother are staying with us this week. Mum looks way fitter than she has in years, which is good. Makes me feel that I need to exercise more and build my own strength up again.

We (my brother, his gf, our other brother and I) watched some crap movie tonight after spending the evening with family at our sister and brother-in-law's place. It's called "The Devil Wears Prada" - some fashion thing. I was able to recognise a few conventions and motifs of a classical narrative movie, at least :p

These entries seem to be getting farther and farther apart. I would like to make more of an effort to write - even something random that is space filler - but I've got a headache a lot of the time and find that between uni and playing WoW / posting to the forums, time just slips by more and more.

Speaking of university, I seem to be getting B+'s for most of my assignments. A little more dedication should see me push up to an A - but then, when you've got better things to do, like grind CC* rep, who can put that effort in to up their grades :p

*Cenarion Circle - currently revered and pushing for exalted, so I can get my [Blade of Vaulted Secrets]

And that's me. Server maintenance tonight sees the release of a small patch update that fixes a few things here and there; mostly with world PvP (Silithus and Eastern Plaguelands). I guess the mount changes aren't happening quite yet - which gives me a little more time to try and save up more gold for buying my mage's epic horse ^^

Dune dune dune dune :/

-Timotheos
Wheel of Tim

Visual Upgrade

I got my new monitor yesterday. Running my desktop at 1600 x 1200 is awesome! The 8-bit LCD block, which gives 16.7M colours, allows for really good colour composition. The 20.1" screen size is huge and everything is bright and clear running through DVI. All in all, it was $800 well spent ^^

My warrior is now level 58. I ran this quest yesterday called Jailbreak! which takes a couple of hours. It involved clearing two "rings" filled with groups of mobs and then escorting a prisoner and fighting spawns along the way. I've done it more than twice before but it's a real mission to have to do it again. At least that part is out of the way...

We had a poor run through Blackwing Lair last night. Razorgore didn't pose much of a problem - we dispatched him on our first attempt, in about ten minutes. But Vael sure gave us a run for our money. He wiped us time after time. We finally got him down but time had really moved on. After wiping due to a stupid pull in the suppression rooms and the server announcing its imminent half-hour shutdown, we decided to call it.

Since we are starting on AQ40 this weekend, that leaves me with very little time to farm for the rest of the Living Essence that I need to get my mage's three craftable Nature Resist armour pieces made. Might as well farm with my warrior and get what little experience I will get while I'm at it.

Two more essays to do and then it will be very close to final exams. Nothing to worry about. I'll either do very well or ok, and it's ok with me if I just get B's in all my papers. I look forward to finishing. It means I'll have a lot more time to spend playing the expansion, which should come out around the time that my exams wrap up, hahaha XD

As for employment over the Summer, responsibility tells me I should work more hours at DSE. I guess I'll wait and see what sort of student supplement the government is willing to give me over Christmas :p

-Timotheos
Za-ap

Back to Scripting

After thinking about it, the most probable reason that I don't write here every day is that I just don't feel like writing every day. Aside from the fact that almost every evening is spent in much the same way, my life is just so uneventful that I would have to come up with something out of the ordinary just to have content.

I started watching Stargate Atlantis. It's a little different. They play with Ancient technology a lot more, which is cool. BTW, this pic must be from season two, as I have no idea who the guy with dredds or the bald officer are, not to mention that Sheppard looks like a different actor. Then again, it could just be a bad hair day for him :p

Thinking about sci-fi has reminded me of that snippet I wrote a while back about those invisible entities that controlled humanity and were bent on basically destroying the souls of humankind. I'd like to go back to something like that, but I just need the motivation to plan something out and actually write it.

I read an article recently that encouraged writing just a few hundred words a week in order to put something together in about a year or so. 500 words a week for 52 weeks works out to 26,000 words. If each page is 300 words, that's more than 85 pages. Increasing what you write per week would see a book in no time ^^

Promise Keepers on the weekend was good, as usual. I didn't get anything really memorable out of it. I do, however, need to prioritise things again. It seems that WoW came and took the first place again, despite the fact that I do read the Word, etc. I spend too much time playing. Tomorrow, I'm going to write two essays for two different papers. That'll be a bit of a change. It's a good thing when the server goes down for a 36-hour maintenance period - encourages taking a break and doing RL stuff.

Yesterday, my monitor decided to play up, so I took it down to Dick Smith and did a service repair on it. Suffice to say, once I do get it back I'm going to pass it on to mum and dad because they could do with a 19" TFT. I spent a couple of hours researching monitors and reading up about them and decided on some optimal specs for my next monitor. I found the Samsung 204B to be the most fitting for what I want and so placed an order. Hopefully it will arrive before the end of the week. Awesome!


Went to bed at 2.30am last night. Some of my fellow guildies and I were talking on Teamspeak for ages. I was just farming in Silithus with a hunter and some of the other guys (and gals) were elsewhere in the world (on both counts), but we were just talking about random stuff. Good times :p

-Timotheos
Focussed

Roundhouse To The Phace

I'd better post something. Yup. Had a headache on Thursday night and went to bed early. That was last night, actually. I still watched some Stargate and Naruto, though. No WoW for me but sleep is always better than playing, anyway (don't tell my guild I said this ^^).

Couple of assignments coming up. I'll get those done just before they are due in. Just whatever, hmmm. Playing the drums this coming Sunday but because of yesterday's throbbing head I didn't attend music practice last night.

Promise Keepers this weekend. Tonight was interesting. This ex-kung fu master, Tony Anthony, took one session. He used to kill people and stuff. Really violent character but a world champion in kung fu for three years at the end of the 80's. Awesome testimony. God uses him powerfully just as he used to use his fists powerfully. Hwaaaa!

So I missed BWL tonight - am missing BWL, as they are probably finishing off Flamegor about now, if not getting onto Chromaggus already. And tomorrow night, because PK will still be going, I will miss MC. I'm probably going to take my hunter in a couple of weeks. It's mum's birthday next week. I'd better get her something :/

Time to sleep. I have to get up early for tomorrow's full-on sessions. I'd better scrape together some cash for lunch, just in case there is no way of acquiring money through plastic means. I doubt the food outlets onsite will have EFTPOS capabilities. Best to be prepared for whatever.

-Timotheos
Glory

Chromaggus Breathes His Last

Last week, on our first BWL night, we took down the first four bosses. Four bosses in one night was a guild first and showed that we are making great progress. The next night, we decided to up the ante. The following is a true story and in no way exaggerates how l33t Unknown is becoming ^^

Ebony - or ivory - Unknown's piano was in tune Friday night as they tinkled out a drakely dirge. Ebonroc, another colossal captive of Blackwing Lair tasted stately stone within just a few minutes of first encounter. Unprepared, but raring to press on, this heroic team of dervish dragon-slayers were soon caught, spell to snout with the alchemy lab's third occupant and final opponent: Flamegor. Lil' Flamey put up a fearsome battle but after only two attempts he joined his brother in the seven-day slumber that Unknown is fast becoming renowned for.

With time to spare and all in good spirits, the sizeable switch was thrown and the great two-headed hound, Chromaggus, pet of Lord Nefarion himself, rumbled out and steamrolled the suicidal, scantily-clad trespassers. With his dual-breath tactic so deviously discovered, everyone geared up for the first - and only - attempt to bring this doggy to heel. With bated breath we gave it our all but just couldn't bring him to his knees. Chromaggus: silver; Unknown: bronze. The games have only just begun.

A migraine last night forced me to miss yet another magnificent milestone: Chromaggus bit the dust before the evening was out. What a fight to miss! Next week will see us plow through the eyrie of the wicked Lord Nefarius once more. We will face his two-headed pup by the second night and work on improving both time and effectiveness for the first seven boss battles. A whole night working on getting Nefarion down will see us defeat Blackwing Lair in just a few short weeks. Bring on the lootz :p

-Timotheos
Great

Progress

I know I've posted this image before, but my hunter finally got his [Rhok'Delar, Longbow of the Ancient Keepers]. I took down Solenor, the fourth and last demon in my quest to get this uber hunter bow (and its counterpart staff). This will make farming with my hunter a bit easier. Now all I need are six more epics from Molten Core, haha.

We took down the first four bosses in BWL tonight. That's our first time to make so much progress in one night. Razorgore took two attempts (lost all our warriors the first time, for some reason); Vaelastrasz took three or four (things just wouldn't go our way); Broodlord we took down on our first try, as usual; and Firemaw only took us two attempts! We really are getting better at this. This means that we will be starting on AQ40 in two weeks' time!

I've officially quit PvPing with my mage. Knight-Captain, Rank 8, isn't such a bad achievement. I only progressed 15% this last week and so realised that the grind to the next rank is just too much for me to handle. Better that I take my warrior to 60 and get more reputation and the rewards that different factions offer, to better function in our guild raids. PvP will still be fun from time to time, but it is no longer going to consume me during my gametime. Instances and unfinished quests, here we come ^^

-Timotheos
Satisfactory

Bite Me

Why are sharks so damn ugly?

Tired. Depressed. Bored. Not enough PvP this week. Back to study. Assignment due on Friday. I'll probably throw some crap together tomorrow night and find references online. So long as I pass it's ok. I want to finish the year and see how much more study I have to do before getting my degree. I'll cut corners everywhere I can just to get it over with.

As for my writing career, that's not looking too promising. I just don't take the time out to write anything extra. All my time is spent playing one of my three WoW characters. It's not like there's anything else - well, except MacGyver. I've just about finished season one. I'll probably go back to Stargate soon and finish all the episodes of that that I have. More anime would be good, too ^^

Well, back to playing my warrior. Level 55 tonight, as soon as I hand these quests in.

-Timotheos
Srsly

Digging For Truth

I just thought this looked cool ^^

Technic FTW!

What to write about today... Hmmm...

Well, it's been a couple of days since my last entry and I really don't have much to say. It's my second week off, which means I'm back at uni next week. I've tried to PvP but haven't done as much as I'd like - I won't be able to much once I'm studying again, unfortunately. Commander is so far off...

We didn't beat Vael last night. That means we get to kill multiple dragons tonight, hehe. Well, so long as Firemaw is willing to die for us :/

Playing drums again this coming Sunday, so I went to music practice last night. Still playing my game of Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 2. I probably won't play it once I clock it. I'd like to get FFX back, actually.

And finally, Winter is over. Today is technically the first day of Spring. I look forward to Summer. I hope to go fishing a bit more than I did last year. Guess it depends on how much I actually work and how much I'll be levelling my characters to 70, what with the release of the expansion before the end of the year.

Oh yeah, my brother-in-law finally saw the light. I pray that God will continue to open up his heart and reveal more and more of his glory! WTG Jesus ^^

Summon Water Elemental FTW!

-Timotheos
Hummin'

Maximum Damage

There really is no reason that I haven't been posting a blog entry every day. I just seem to run out of time and go to bed really late. All this free time and I got 170K PvP honour, played my warrior and hunter, and played on the PS2 quite a bit: Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 2. Yet, I just don't get other stuff done. Sleeping in late doesn't really make it easy to fit everything into the day, either :/

I hope that I rank up to my old rank tonight. I won't know until I log in tomorrow. With so many people PvPing like crazy, I wouldn't be surprised if I barely made it up to rank 8 again. Once I'm back at uni I won't get anywhere near what I did this last week, honour-wise. As part of a raiding guild, raids do take priority over everything. Since most of the time I'm logged in is during the times that we raid, suffice to say I just won't get a whole lot of PvP done - and what I do get to do won't be as effective, as we tend to lose a lot. I need an organised group to play with or I will never make Commander :(

Dual wielding two-handed weapons is awesome. I need to empower a couple of awesome two-handers so my barbarian is insanely powerful. So far I'm doing pretty well. I'm recalling each level in BG:DA2 as I do them. I remember when Jonny and I played together for a while. That was back when I was living with mum and dad in Taita. The days of my crazy FFX playing. I got Tidus's Celestial Weapon and could hit for ~65K, lol.

My warrior is now level 54. Not too far to go, really, but it will still take me a while. There are a lot of necessary quests / items to get by level 60 for endgame content. It really depends on how much I'll actually play my warrior at level 60. Can't dedicate yourself to more than one character, really. Most guilds won't allow for that. Still, I'm allowed to bring alts to MC, which is cool. I'll see, once Gaiwyn has all the stuff I want from there, if I can complete Elvanus's T1 armour set. Will probably just run ZG / AQ20 with Gidaeon and do a bit of PvP - once my mage has reached Commander.

The new talents look awesome - for the expansion release and levelling to 70. This is my intended mage talent build. Summon water elemental FTW ^^ The expansion is going to rock - but it's also going to mean playing a lot to level your character/s to the new cap. At least you can alternate characters to optimise rested xp, heh.

-Timotheos
learn2post

The Apocowlypse

Since blogging on a regular occasion, I wanted to keep it consistent and not miss a day. However, things don't always work out like that. It's not really such a big deal if I do miss one entry near the end of the week - not like there's much to say anyway.

We wiped three times in MC. Why?! I can't believe we wiped on Ragnaros, too. People should just not die. It's annoying when people don't play as they should. Udderly disappointing.

With work I have no time to pvp. I hope that tomorrow it will all be fixed and I can play a few games of AV, at least. Sunday afternoons are for PvP. Great.

I need sleep. We shouldn't have spent so long in MC. It's actually almost 1am. I cheated on the time again, muahaha!

-Timotheos
Again

If I Could Turn Back Time

It always gets late. However, I only just recently discovered that I can adjust the time of my Blog posts to whatever I like. So, even though the 25th has just ticked over (zomg, 4 months till Xmas!), I can make it so this is postdated the 24th ^^

Seems like a pretty good idea for all those late nights where I don't post anything until after a raid and just before I go to bed :/

PvPed a lot today. I got about 45k honour, not including bonus honour, so close to 70k honour (wow!) and almost 1k kills, although some of that was carried over from the previous day, so I need to subtract something like 277. Still, almost 600 kills in one day isn't too bad an effort. It's all about the honour, baby!

I should make my old rank again next week. Who knows, I could even reach Knight-Champion the following week, if not the week after. Commander by Christmas - haha. The expansion will come out before then and then the whole honour system will have changed completely. The world as we know it will no longer be the same.

[Talon of Furious Concentration] dropped tonight in the Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj. Very nice off-hand. Another mage got it. Could be a while before I get anything decent from there. My robes set me back quite a bit.

I'm tired. PvPing really drains you. Need to sleep /yawn

-Timotheos
pvpvp

Edge of Madness

Just a small picture tonight ^^

Wow, patch 1.12 has made for an awesome change - but with great change comes great server issues. There may have been 74 Warsong Gulch games running at once but it's no good if everyone is teleporting all over the place and can't leave afterwards. Cross-realm PvP opens one up to all new experiences (playing with people you've never met) - and to the same old frustrations (organised Horde groups FTL). But I'm happy with where this has gone - and is going. I look forward to actually having a chance to rank up - maybe even to my desired rank of Commander (Rank 11). We shall see ^o^

No success so far on the Private Server, either. I spent a lot of time today trying to get two different emulators to run my second copy of WoW (patched with oldschool 1.8) so I could experience the l33tness of being a level 255 GM. But no, it just refused to behave. Might try some other time but now that the new patch has gone live I have to play the real thing: attend guild raids, hang out with guildies, enjoy this all new PvP experience.

Looks like my warrior will be level 53 for quite some time yet. Ah well. Better to spend this time getting as much honour as possible and seeing if I can't make some decent progress towards getting my old rank back. Yup, I ranked down to Knight-Lieutenant (Rank 7). Pretty disappointing but not really any surprise.

Did I mention PvP? Yup, thought so. This is the extreme edge of some sort of midnight madness pitiously playing tiresome tricks and sending swirling serenades cascading calmly into the necrotic nether. Tabards of victorious proclamation and an honourable call to arms ensures victory.

-Timotheos
haX

Be Your Own GM

Blogger was playing up last night :/

Spent a couple of hours finding out about setting up a private World of Warcraft server. It was a real mission tracking down an emulator and reading up on it. I thought I had it all sorted but then I just couldn't connect - so I figure that you need to install WoW somewhere else and have an earlier patch - plus, I found what looks to be a better emulator anyway, so I'll suss that all out this morning, hopefully before I sort the real game out - since patch 1.12 was finally released during mainenance last night! Servers are still down, though, which is why I'm installing WoW again and will give this emulator another shot.

So what if I go down a rank - I will make up for it by cross-realm PvPing like a crazy-man. As for my private server, I've always wanted to just do what I like. It would be cool for so many reasons - one-manning Ragnaros; getting to secret locations; giving yourself uber items to play with... and so on.

Well, enough about that. It may just turn out to be a great waste of time - imagine trying to get my addons to work :/

My warrior is level 53 now. Yay ^^

-Timotheos
Rawl

Do Something

Whenever I play too much, my brain shuts down to the point that I think and think - and just can't think of anything to put here. I sat on my chair, heater pulled close and just thought for a few minutes about what I could possibly write about. Nothing came to mind. What does one normally put in a blog, anyway?

How about my day:
Got up later than usual and had a headache from the previous day - Sundays have always given me headaches; I don't know why, but I have headaches 85% of the time on Sundays :/
Played my hunter for a bit - mostly trying to farm stuff.
Watched Die Hard 3: With A Vengeance.
Played my warrior.
Played my mage. Did Maraudon with Nick and his druid and then Zul'Gurub with my guild. It's our night off but we still did something - go figure.

So it got late and I had to write a blog entry. Here it is. Hope it was insightful and... something. Must get 16 Living Essences...

-Timotheos
Line-out

Picture This

An image much like this is easy to conjure up in a fantasy setting. A castle with high walls, surrounded on one side by a tall cliff. Travellers, making their way towards that castle. A description of these travellers and their purpose for such a journey. The residents of the castle, the type of world that it's in - it's much easier to build a world with words and then paint it visually than to show a static image and try to describe a scene - at least, that's my opinion. Artists may think differently ^^

Of course, the best descriptive setting is in a 3D game or a movie - moreso a game, where you can explore and experience everything; whereas with a movie, you are restricted to what the director allows you to see and hear.

Got some good NR* gear for my mage this afternoon. No PvP, though. It just won't pop. This new patch is so going to change that. I raid more now, though. Only really started PvPing because I wanted something else to do in the game when I was unguilded ^^

*Nature Resist

-Timotheos
/cheer

Starfire, Light From Without

Gems seem to glow from within. Perhaps they could be said to contain some form of life. Of course, life comes to some people's eyes when they rest on the glitter of a beautiful stone ^^

My video card arrived today. It's not going in until Tuesday - and I'm not formatting my system until I have my new cpu, which could still be a few weeks away. I bought a new keyboard today - it's a black Microsoft one. Very comfortable. My sales today were the highest ever, too: $7,600 O.O

Nick transferred his druid. I was unable to do mc with my guild due to connection problems when running instances. Instead, after watching MacGyver, Nick and I ran Maraudon twice - he with his druid and me with my level 51 warrior, which I am so going to try and level this coming week.

Lots of grinding ahead :/

-Timotheos
Glimmer