Laptop Changes

Apparently Sony Vaios are overpriced. I've been looking at Dell Inspirons and have found the perfect laptop at a great price. Now all that remains is finding a place to buy it from. Apparently I can order online at kakaku.com, but I will have to check it out. ;)

Timotheos
Change of tack

Great Big Soup

Read this encouraging story about a big bowl of soup in Auckland.

Also: who is Nick Willis?

Timotheos
Too hot to hoot

Choosing a Laptop

Choosing the right anything takes research. Knowing your goals helps to make a decision.

When it came to the last monitor I bought, I read reviews, looked up stats and compared prices before deciding on the right one. Suffice to say, I was very happy with the Samsung 20.1" TFT that I chose at the time, and continued to appreciate it up until the day I left New Zealand.

Now, in deciding on a laptop, I looked up a laptop purchasing guide to re-familiarise myself with terminology. I read this alongside the ultimate cpu guide and resolution in relation to gpus and gaming. I also compared the two prominent cpus in my current laptop selection, namely the T8100 and the T9300. Upon reading a thread related to the cpus, I came across this thread, that compares the T8300 and the T9300. It appears that the difference between the 8100 and the 8300 is greater than the difference between the 8300 and the 9300, overall.

As the store that I will purchase my computer from provided me with a Sony Vaio catalogue, and the laptop that I want fits the description of the type A laptops, I decided on the VGN-AR65DB as compared to the VGN-AR75UDB. The 65 has a smaller hard-drive, but this is upgradeable. I will probably go with 4GB of RAM rather than 2GB, simply to save the bother of researching RAM prices and installing an extra 2GB myself.

The biggest differences between the two laptops are the processors and the screen resolutions. The 75 has a WUXGA (1920 x 1200) native resolution. However, WXGA+ (1440 x 900) is perfectly fine for gaming, and in fact may prove to be better, especially considering the GeForce 8600M GT GPU in these machinees -- as outlined in this thread. The 75 is running a Core 2 Duo T9300 (6MB L2 cache), as compared to the 65's T8100 (3MB L2). As the difference between these CPUs is minimal and will not noticeably affect my gaming or video editing performance, it would be wise -- even now -- to go with the cheaper option.

I intend to put what money I save in choosing the mid-range notebook towards a Bluetooth laser mouse (possibly the Logitech V470) or something more suited to gaming (like the VX Revolution) and a notebook carry bag. Eventually, I want to get one of those cool metal cases, but I may have to look around online for something suitable.

17" Sony Vaio, here I come!

Timotheos
Lappy powah

Updatezor!

Well, I said that I probably won't update this particular blog, as my Nippon no Tabi one is now my main blog and documents my life as it is -- after all, who updates two blogs? It makes sense to put everything into my current blog rather than keep it specific to my role in Japan and then post personal stuff to a different place.

That said, I have so much free time right now, waiting for the school year to start up again after Summer here in Japan, that I want to post to this blog. I haven't played World of Warcraft in about two months now -- not since my subscription ran out sometime in June. I am missing out on playing the WotLK beta, and on everything that I could be doing in-game.

I suppose that when I get a laptop (hopefully in less than two weeks), I will have Internet connected at my house and will be able to play the game again. What I would like is to join a raiding guild again -- especially for the expansion. I've missed out on so much progression and raiding experience since the release of the last expansion and our disbanding of Unknown.

Perhaps I could use this blog as a kind of World of Warcraft wishlist or gear and achievements site. It would be fun to just keep track of all my characters in one place. Renaming the blog could also work, as its original purpose no longer applies. Since letting this blog rest in peace, it no longer has a real purpose.

As a kind of teaser, following is a wishlist of mage gear. Had I been able to be a part of a large raiding guild and continued with 25-man progression through Black Temple and the Sunwell, I may have seen some of this gear. As it is, it didn't happen; which is why I dream! This wishlist will no longer apply in a few months when the expansion goes live, but it is a time killer and gives me something to do for part of this afternoon. ^^

Gaiwyn -- Level 70 Human Mage (2/48/11)
Head: [Dark Conjuror's Collar]
Enchant: [Glyph of Power]
Gems: [Ember Skyfire Diamond] [Forceful Seaspray Emerald]

Neck: [Amulet of Unfettered Magics]

Shoulders: [Amice of the Convoker]
Enchant: [Greater Inscription of Discipline]
Gems: [Reckless Pyrestone] [Reckless Pyrestone]

Back: [Tattered Cape of Antonidas]
Enchant: [Enchant Cloak - Subtlety]
Gem: [Reckless Pyrestone]

Chest: [Sunfire Robe]
Enchant: [Enchant Chest - Exceptional Stats]
Gems: [Reckless Pyrestone] [Reckless Pyrestone] [Reckless Pyrestone]

Wrists: [Bracers of the Tempest]
Enchant: [Enchant Bracer - Spellpower]
Gem: [Reckless Pyrestone]

Hands: [Sunfire Handwraps]
Enchant: [Enchant Gloves - Major Spellpower]
Gems: [Reckless Pyrestone] [Reckless Pyrestone]

Waist: [Belt of the Tempest]
Gem: [Reckless Pyrestone]

Legs: [Leggings of Calamity]
Enchant: [Runic Spellthread]
Gems: [Reckless Pyrestone] [Reckless Pyrestone] [Reckless Pyrestone]

Feet: [Boots of the Tempest]
Enchant: [Enchant Boots - Boar's Speed]
Gem: [Reckless Pyrestone]

Finger: [Ring of Omnipotence]
Enchant: [Enchant Ring - Spellpower]

Finger: [Ring of Ancient Knowledge]
Enchant: [Enchant Ring - Spellpower]

Trinket: [Shifting Naaru Sliver]

Trinket: [The Skull of Gul'dan]

Weapon: [Sunflare]
Enchant: [Enchant Weapon - Sunfire]

Off-hand: [Heart of the Pit]

Wand: [Wand of the Demonsoul]
Gem: [Reckless Pyrestone]

Funfun!

Timotheos

It's been a while...

I don't post here anymore, but you can check out my latest plans and my new blog at The Japan Journey. It won't be updated as regularly as I used to post here, but I don't intend to revive this blog anytime in the near future.

After reading through some of my past posts, it's funny to think that a year ago I was levelling my rogue to 60. She actually hit level 60 after seven days of play time. I'd have reached it before the New Year if I hadn't gone away over that time. The funny thing is, I have five level 70s now (Mage, Hunter, Warrior, Rogue and Priest). However, over these last few weeks I've eased off playing. I no longer raid but my warrior and priest are pretty well geared and are able to run heroics and the easiest ten-man instance, Karazhan.

My mage is fully epicced and could safely do Tempest Keep and Magtheridon, if not Hyjal and the Black Temple. She's still my main toon. I got her to 70 in one week after the expansion came out and had an epic flying mount the following week (costing 5,200g), with a Netherdrake two weeks after Netherwing rep became available.

As I said, I don't raid anymore, and I also don't play nearly as much as I used to. I enjoy healing on my Draenei Priest and tanking on my Human Warrior, but just don't want to find the time to play these days. I'm levelling a shaman (level 31), simply because I enjoy levelling characters, but I've decided that when this current subscription runs out I won't be renewing it until at least the start of next year, if not leaving it in limbo until the next expansion, Wrath of the Lich King comes out in Nov 2008.

Then it will be a matter of deciding which toon(s) to level to 80. Imagine six level 80s, hahaha >.> Don't think even I'm quite that crazy :o

Anyway, shoot over to my Nippon Tabi blog, because that's where my updates are going to be. Hopefully by this time next year I will be in Japan!

Peace.

-Timotheos
Five 70s FTW

Final Freighting

Lots of FFX.

The usual World of Warcraft raiding, though recently we have been cutting back to four scheduled raids a week instead of five. I've been easing off on Mon and Tues nights, too.

Handed in my resignation at work on Saturday. I am going back to full-time tomorrow. My last day will be Saturday, 16 December. We should be heading up North not long after that to visit mum, dad and the family; to spend Christmas with them. I hope to get in some fishing with Matt while we are in Taupo.

Nick is moving to Hamilton this coming Friday. We are trying to sell our furniture but so far it's not going so well. May have to shift it all to Lish's and sort it out from there. Oh yeah, and I'm moving back to Lish and Matt's next Monday. My tenancy will expire the following Mon, as I had to give 21 days notice, so that gives me a week after my move to finalise shifting stuff and get the whole place spic 'n span.

I played drums at church three Sun mornings in a row. It'll be good to take a break this coming Sun. We had our last service at Wai-iti Cres yesterday. Hutt CCC no longer exists. Bring on Hope Centre! It's gonna be great moving to a new spot for church. A little harder for me to attend music practice but I'm sure I can sort something out for that.

-Timotheos
Boxes

Renzokuken

It has been a while since I last updated this. There are two reasons: I've spent too much time playing and doing other things to put aside 15 mins to Blog; last time I went to write an entry, the site was down.

A couple of weeks ago, a Korean lady from next door came over to ask for help with English. We are making it a weekly thing. She came over last night with a few pieces of chocolate cake, and spent two hours here, instead of the usual one. It was her birthday, which explains the cake. She also brought over a little so-ju (alcoholic rice beverage), which I hadn't had since I was in Korea - and then, only once that I recall.

WoW is just humming along. The expansion has been pushed back to at least January 2007, which means a few more months to level my rogue - who is now 30 - and to get more epics on my mage, to help with levelling her to 70 when the time comes.

Recently (from Sunday, actually), I have been playing Final Fantasy X again. My most recent game wasn't too far in, but since then I have made a fair amount of progress. Not too long until I have the airship and pretty much free reign, meaning I can really uber out my characters, play Blitzball and fight captured fiends ^^

I had an exam last Thursday. I think it went ok. I have my last one this Thursday, and then I have a week off before starting back at work full-time for the Summer. That will mean less WoW, but the ability to actually survive due to getting money. My student allowance gets cut off soon, so hopefully I can get enough hours at work from the 12th of Nov until my course starts up again next year. Speaking of which, I really must sort out exactly what I'm going to be doing next year...

I'm borrowing Lish's car this week. They went over to Fiji on Friday, with Reuben. The price I have to pay is dropping Nick at work, but hopefully I can put it to some good use by buying myself a tv whilst I have the transport - or something. Because we seriously need a new tv. Not that I use it all that much, but I do watch Stargate regularly, and will hopefully be getting into some more anime - plus, of course, there is FFX; and FFXII, when it eventually gets released.

Well, back to FFX.

-Timotheos

Overhaul

It's been a while - yet again. So here's an update:

On Sunday night I was promoted to Mage Officer for my World of Warcraft guild, Unknown. It's a big responsibility, but one that I am willing to, and able to, undertake . It doesn't mean I automatically get better geared up, but it does mean that I am in a position of respect and am expected to assist and attend ^.^

I wrote a 2,000 word essay on the merits of a formulaic approach to genre, taking the slasher genre as the main focus and using an example of the film Scream. IMO, it turned out pretty well. Not the most solid essay, but then: it can be hard to write 2k words on such a topic and keep it interesting. It's due in tomorrow - I wrote it on Wednesday.

I picked up my Athlon X2 Dual Core 4200+ CPU on Tuesday and spent the next two days backing everything up. I installed my 7600 GT graphics card and the CPU today and formatted my SATA's. Spent a lot of time trying to get the nVidia RAID controller to work, but to no avail; so I ended up using the Silicon Image one instead, which is what I had before. As I reinstalled Windows - my legit copy of Professional - it meant getting all the up-to-date drivers for everything - and setting my preferences again, too.

So yeah, my whole evening has been spent setting my computer up. The sad thing is, a lot of the data and media that I backed up has been lost due to poor quality DVD's. I'm going to have to work my way from the ground up with a lot of things. Meh, it's only stuff. So long as I can get WoW working flawlessly, I'll be happy ^^

-Timotheos
Do over

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'