Darraxus the Warrior

Diablo 3 UNLEASHED!!!

2012-05-15T05:11:00.001-07:00

Well, Diablo 3 is finally upon us. I went to bed very early yesterday and set an alarm for just after midnight. I was of course greeted by an error trying to log on because too many people were trying to log on at the same time. After about 30 minutes (sporadically as I was reposting WoW auction in the meantime), I was able to get into the game. I rolled a Barbarian first and of course named him Darraxus. Then I rolled on into New Tristram.

Note: Any Magical Items you grab should be saved until you unlock crafting. You will need them.

Spoilers after the break......the first break in the history of this blog.

If you played the beta, you are familiar with the first story involving the Skeleton King. There are some differences in the release version however. Things that I noticed include:

A cutscene after each act withing the larger act.
There are more enemies, and they seem to hit harder.
You will probably die more than in the beta.

I died one time in several playthroughs in the beta.....I have died three times already in the release version.

For those of you who may not be playing, and would like to read some of the story, I will reveal what I have seen below.

You start out on the road to New Tristram. You kill several weak Zombies along the way. You finally come to the gate and speak with the Captain. At that point, the undead ambush in a large group. You demolish them and the Captain complements you on your badassness. He tells you to seek out Leah for more information on the Fallen Star (the one the hit the cathedral).

You go to the Inn where you find Leah. As you are talking to her, some of the injured being kept at the Inn rise as undead and you have to kill them. The Innkeeper quips "This is killing business".

You end up going back to the Captain at the gate who tells you to kill some bitches that spew out other Zombies. Once you kill said bitches, you return to town, and the Captain is trying to talk Leah out of looking for her uncle, Deckard Cain. You agree to help her find him. You first need to go get the key from Adia's Hutt (I believe she is the witch out in the woods in the first Diablo). Leah says that Adia was her mother, but she never really knew her.

When you get to the Hut, you find a hidden cellar and end up killing a former Captain of the Guard for the Key. Leah stay behind to do further research, and you go on looking for the Cathedral.

You go into the Cathedral and face many baddies. Eventually, you find Deckard Cain, who is being attacked by the Skeleton King's minions. You smash said minions into bone dust and Cain comes back to town with you.

Leah and Cain are very happy to see each other. Cain tells you that to defeat the Skeleton King, you need to get his Crown, place it on his head, and then kill him (again). The Blacksmith is the one who knows where to find it.

You talk to the Blacksmith, and before he tells you of the crown, you must help him with a personal matter. His wife is infected and in a cellar full of other infected. He is tasked with killing them, but cannot bring himself to kill his wife. You state that it must be done, and that you will help. You demolish the denizens of the cellar and the Blacksmith tells you that the crown is being held in the tomb of his grandfather, who was the former Chancellor of the King.

You fight your way to the Chancellor's Tomb, finding the Blacksmith's dead apprentice along the way.

Once in the tomb, you make your way down until you find the crown. As you take the crown, you are attacked by the Chancellor who does not want Leoric to return to power. You kill him of course. For his shinies.

You town portal back to he village (which is a spell now, and not a damn scroll).

The Blacksmith fixes the crown for you, and this is where you finally pick up the crafting skills.

Next, Cain send you to take on the Skeleton King Leoric.

After traveling through several levels of catacombs and picking up the Templar followe, you finally make it to the Skeleton King. He is a real bitch, and got dangerously close to killing me a few times, however, I triumphed over evil.

This would be the end of the Beta, but I noticed a passage way behind Leoric. This leads down to where the Falling Star landed. It turns out that the star was actually a man, who does not quite remember what he was doing there. You take him back to Cain.

The mysterious man recalls that his sword broke into three as he fell. You are then tasked with finding the three shard.

I found the first shard in a cave being guarded by the Cult of the Damned. My next step is to head to some Sunken Temple to find the next part.

So far, I have had a lot of fun with the game. As always, the game is incredibly polished and wonderfully fun. Crafting is easy and useful. I am looking forward to playing after I get off of work. I am also looking forward to playing with some friends.

The Rich get Richer (most likely)

2012-05-14T10:17:00.000-07:00

This weekend, I did not spend a ton of time playing WoW, and most of the time was spent just doing auction house stuff.

I spent most of my weekend playing MW3 and had great fun doing it. I had many more good games than bad, and had a KD ration of about 1.25 for the weekend, which is pretty decent for me.

Anyways, back to WoW. I was doing my money making stuff on Saturday when I saw someone selling Queen's Garnets. Long store short, I bought 240 of them for around 230k. They are already paying odd very well as I have been selling them for 2.5-5k each. I am going to unload them as quick as possible, and the result should get me over 3 million for the first time.

Day 20 – If this was your last day playing WoW, what would you do?

2012-05-11T09:42:00.001-07:00

Well, my final 20 days of blogging post. It only took me two months to get through them! To be fair, I was actually posting about other things as well and not just stacking on my blogging.

It probably depends on how you define "last day of playing WoW". Is this my last day because I dont want to play any more? Or is this the last day because the game is being discontinued?

If it was the first one, I would probably give away my gold and shit to the people in game who I like and hold contests for some of them. Best transmog outfit etc.

If it was the second one, I would spend my time running the instances that I once loved or seeing content that I never got to see. I have never done AQ 40 for example. I have never completed Ulduar and ICC. These are things I would like to do, just to have the memory of it.

I would then take my character to a fitting place for the end of their lives. Maybe I would take my Paladin Zurlock to Uther's Tomb. I would take my Shaman to Aerie Peak (he is a Dwarf afterall). I would take my Warlock to the basement of the Slaughtered Lamb.

I would take my Gnome Rogue back to Gnomeregan and take it back before logging off as the new king of Gnomeregan.

I would take Darraxus to the floating island in Nagrand that has the corpse sitting against the tree. I would sit him down next to the skeleton and they could be company for eternity.

Either that, or I would have them go out in a blaze of glory, Trollslayer style. Go into and try to solo raid bosses, dying Heroically.

Ding 85!

2012-05-10T10:28:00.001-07:00

I hit level 85 on my Horde Warrior yesterday. That last level felt like it took forever. Seriously.

Once I hit level 85, I equipped all of the PvP gear I had earlier purchased and queued up for my first Heroics on that character.

Everything went pretty well besides me being a dumb ass and forgetting to pick up the quests at the start of Well of Eternity.

I was mostly last in DPS in the instances, but I aquitted myself well enough to not look like a total noob. I picked up several new pieces of gear including the Axe in End Time.

On most boss fights I did somewhere between 11-15k dps. I expect that to continue to go up as my gear gets better.

I am most looking forward to getting some tank gear so that I can start tanking again instead of DPSing.

Resetting Markets for Cheap

2012-05-09T09:17:00.000-07:00

This is a real quick gold post based on what I did this morning. I have not bought ore to prospect in a while. Therefore, I have not had nearly as big a stock of gems.

Gems have also been at an all time low. Orange and Purple gems are selling for 8-15 gold each. I made around 250 gold in gem sales the night before, which prompted me to action.

I bought out and reset both the ember topaz and demonseye markets. It cost me around 6k to do so, which is fairly cheap all things considered.

I bought them all in the price range listed above and reset the price to 220 gold each. I know that this price will drop quickly. Unfortunately we have a couple of major douchebags who will often undercut my half or more.

I should be able to make a nice profit on this venture. Another positive is that the gems are all cut. No prospecting. No cutting. Well worth it.

If you have a market that has bottomed out, dont be afraid to reset it and sell, sell, sell.

Day 19 – In your bags/bank

2012-05-08T09:12:00.001-07:00

Well, I do not have screen shots of this, but I can describe it.

On my main, Darraxus, I have a ton of random crap. Most of it is fluff stuff. The Piccolo, Iron Boot Flask, Mushroom chair, and many other fluff pieces. He also obviously has two sets of gear.

In most of my bags and gear, I have stuff to sell. Gems and enchanting materials for the most part.

I have two full guild banks of materials at the moment.

Not very exciting to be sure.

I guess the most exciting thing I have in my "bag" is my 2.8 million in gold.

Other than that.....meh. Not really anthing exciting.

For the Horde Weekend

2012-05-07T10:11:00.001-07:00

As most have already guessed based on previous posts, my main server is all Alliance. I do however have a high level warrior on Alexstraza- US. His name is Warrbringer, and I spent much of my WoW time this weekend finally leveling him from 80.

At the end of the weekend, I was sitting at 84 and about 1/3 of the way through that level. Sometime in the next couple of days, I should be able to hit 85. Once I do, I have a bunch of blue PvP gear waiting so that I can get into the new Heroics for faster gearing.

One big difference on this server is that I am not rich. I started at about 20k or so and am at about 16 now. I bought a full set of PvP gear for about 1700 gold and bought the first level of epic flying for 4500.

Most of the leveling experience was exactly the same....until I got to Twilight Highlands. I really liked the tone of the quests, from "THIS IS SPARTA" references to shooting down gryphons with a junk cannon.

This leveling flurry is brought to you by Diablo 3. Once it is released, I am not sure how much time I will be spending in WoW directly after release. These games can co-exist, but the shiny new toy gets the attention.

Happy Cinco De Mayo

2012-05-04T09:45:00.002-07:00

No, that does not mean to enjoy a sink of mayonaise. Nasty.

It does mean to have a few mexican beers and some tequila. Watch the Mayweather-Cotto fight. Have a great time.

I am thinking that Tecate will be the best choice for weekend beer.

That is all. Enjoy your weekend and as AC/DC once said "Have a drink on me".

Link to my buddy with the new Tenacious D video (it is epic). http://theindecisivegamer.blogspot.com/2012/05/may-15-is-going-to-be-best-day.html

You should also check out the Expendables 2 trailer if you havent. Arnold, Chuck Norris, and Van Damme are all in it.

Rogue'ery (In a Sean Connery voice)

2012-05-03T09:21:00.002-07:00

Recently, I have been helping my wife gear up her level 85 Rogue a bit. During that process, I decided something. I like Rogues more than I though!

I actually found playing the Rouge quite fun and decided I should just finish leveling mine.

The History of my Rogue is a long one.

He was the third character I ever created. He also mostly sat around in his teen levels. He must have been rebellious, and did not want to grow up.

He got a big boost from my first RAF as he got to level 48 with the free levels I granted.

During this time, he was my main bank toon (he still is to this day).

I ended up leveling a second rogue with my wife during RAF. He stagnated at level 63ish and I had a decision to make. I deleted the 63 Human rogue to stick with my faithful bank alt Woogle. I ended up leveling him into Outland contents and took a break on him.

Since then, he has been leveling very sporadically when I felt like it and was up to 77 as of yesterday morning. Last night, I got him to 80, and he is officially a big boy now (wipe away tears).

I plan on starting on Hyjal today. I dont know how long it will take to get to 85, but I absolutely despise the Cata zones as this point.

I now have no characters on my main server below level 80. My last two non level capped characters are my Rogue and my level 83 Mage.

To the future (and beyond)!

Day 17 – Your favourite spot (in game or outside it)

2012-05-02T09:26:00.000-07:00

Ha I apparently missed this one.

It really depends on what favorite spot means. Is it a place to just chill? Is it where you like to quest? I will go through some of my favorite places based on different categories.

Favorite Zones: Nagrand and Howling Fjorde. It is not that I love the quests in these zones. They are OK. It is that the zones are so nice looking. They just seem nice and peaceful....dont mind all of the hostile animals walking around. Nothing to see here. Move along.

Favorite Dungeons: I think that one of my favorite dungeons based on looks and feel is Deadmines. It just has that fun Goonies feel to it. You are fighting your way through a pirate lair and come to a cave with a huge ship in it. Always a cool instance.

Favorite Hanging Out spots: Well, although I dont really ever have a chance to hang out there, I really liked the floating islands in Nagrand. As far as places that I actually hang out now, it has to be the roof of the Stormwind trade district AH. We usually stand up there a have dance parties. Before Cataclysm, one of the zones I really enjoyed was Loch Modan. Something felt very peaceful and wildernessy about that zone.

Those are some of my favorite spots in game. Where are yours?

Day 18 – Your favourite outfit

2012-05-01T09:18:00.000-07:00

The Dreadnaught set is my all time favorite. This is the version that is no longer in the game. This is the best version. It makes me a sad panda. I have both versions of the shoulders from the newer Naxx, but I am disappointed that I was never able to atain this version. If they would let us recolor our gear, this would not be and issue. I much prefer the blue accents to the yellow ones on the new gear.

I have several other favorites that I will post below based on my characters.

Warlock tier 5 is certainly my favorite Warlock set...by a long shot.

For my Paladin, I prefer their tier 2 set.

For my Druid, I really like the tier 7.5 set the best. I like the tier two helmet (which is what I am wearing), but I prefer the 7.5 set for Druidy goodness.

And for the pries, I think my favorite set is tier 5. It just looks AWESOME.

So, those are some of my favorite outfits. What are yours?

The Weekend That Was

2012-04-30T07:03:00.000-07:00

This weekend saw a decent amount of playtime, but in a different capacity than normal.

Obviously we did the Childrens week quests on Sunday. I am now done getting all of the pets. I can do the Northrend one to get the biscuits should I feel like it.

Starting out the weekend in instances did not go incredibly well.

First, three of us headed to a few different pugs that kept falling apart. Horrible, horrible tanks.

Then we decided to do some regular heroics on our former lowbies.....this was as bad an idea as the pugs.

We were really off out game. We wiped three or four times on the first trash pull in Heroic Stoncore.

We ended up going to the floating instance in Uldum to try something different, but by that time, I was not in an instance mood and we left the instance.

We did however do something incredibly fun for the rest of the evening. We played paid hide and seek.

Someone hid. Then everyone else tries to find them. One of the rules is no /targeting for the person.

There were some funny moments where I would see people looking for me several times before they would actually find me. We laughed and had fun. We also got to see Stormwind in a whole different way. I think next time we should try Darnassus.

I also did a lot of random instances with one of my friends for valor and justice points. Most of these were done on my Shaman, Paladin, and Warlock. I still hate Warlock DPS.

The funny part about these randoms is that he ended up taking his Warrior, Hunter, and Shaman. All of them could use some drops. These drops all dropped.....only on the wrong characters lol. Hunter saw tank gear, Warrior and Shaman saw Hunter gear.

That was my weekend.

Day 16 – Things you miss (post Cataclysm)

2012-04-27T11:27:00.001-07:00

There are several thing I miss from before Cataclysm.

Number one is the number of online friends that I have lost touch with over the years. They moved on to something different in their lives and sometimes I wonder how they are doing.

There are several players that I would like to hear from again. Lon was a player who really got me into running dungeons. He was the ultimate alt guy when leveling alts to max level was really time consuming. At level 60, he had a max level Druid, Mage, Warlock, Hunter, and Priest. I did not get a second max level character until BC.

I miss the late night runs with Melnoch, Sohlam, Shielofyre, Cicela etc. I still keep in touch of all of those players, but they are mostly playing other games at this point.

I miss the way Dungeons felt in Wrath. I found the chain pull aoe fests to be fun. It was not serious business. It was something to do because you enjoyed it and could do a run in 30 minutes.

There are things that you will always "miss" a little bit about games. The one thing you will miss most of all is the people that disappear forever (often without warning).

Thankfully, I have a great group of friends to run stuff with and hang out on vent with, otherwise, WoW could be a desolate place.

Fits Like a Glove and Thinking of Trying Holy (Priest)

2012-04-26T09:44:00.001-07:00

Last night I decided that I was going to go heal some of the newer Heroics on my Druid as I had not done so in a while. I was also only 150 VP from getting a shiny new helmet. Well, I ended up getting a nice belt upgrade as well. Woohoo. I transmogged the helmet to the T2 Bullwinkle Helm.

One thing I noticed was just how easy healing as my Druid is. It has long been my favorite healing class, but last night just confirmed it. I love putting HoTs on people rather than spamming big direct heals.

It was a friends first time through the first two new instances (still has not yet done the third one). He had basically not really played much for the better part of a year (if not longer), so he was rocking mostly 333 blue gear.

I bought him a bunch of PvP pieces to help get him into the instances. He got a decent number of other upgrades in those two instances as well.

The ease in which I was able to heal with my Druid made me wonder....why does healing as a Disc Priest seem to take up so much more mana? My sister suggested that is may be because Disc priests are more single target healers and having to spam heals on multiple targets with no real good AOE heals on a short cooldown uses a bunch of mana.

This got me thinking of trying Holy. I have never played Holy before. I dont think it would be terribly hard to learn. Just need to go online and look up healing rotations etc. Holy will replace the Shadow Spec that I have not used since around level 40ish.

Do you have a favorite Priest healing spec? What is it and why?

Day 15 – Your desktop background (on your computer) and why you chose it

2012-04-26T08:00:00.000-07:00

My computer background is a picture of my wife from our wedding day.

I chose it because I love my wife and she is the most people person in the world to me.

Sometimes my wife thinks it is funny to put up a ridiculous desktop when I am not paying attention, but it always ends up going back to a picture of my lovely wife.

That is all.

Day 14 – This upsets you

2012-04-25T08:00:00.000-07:00

Well, there are a number of things that upset me in WoW.

People at max level who have done zero research on their characters (this include things such as just reading the talents and tooltips on your characters). Most people in game know someone that can help them out. Just ask them. Please. For your own good and the good of everyone you run with.

Another thing that annoys me is random AFKs in pugs without saying something.

I had both of these things come into play with a couple of pugs recently.

First, there was a Hunter who was apparently AFK after the first trashpack. Never said anything. We killed the first boss while the Hunter was not even there. I think he ended up leaving after the first boss (or maybe was kicked, I am not sure).

In another instance, there were too instances of goobertastic awesomeness. And they were both DPS warriors.

The first warrior was not great. Did like 6-8k DPS, which while somewhat low, was fine because the other DPS was well above that. Well, he died on a trash pack. I rez. I rez again. The dude went AFK. VOTE KICK!

So, we get a second DPS warrior as his replacement. He comes in and we start the second boss (we are in the third Twilight Instance). He then proceeds to do 3500 dps. Really. He was also wearing a leather helmet.....VOTE KICK.

Now that I think of it, there are loads of things that annoy me. I wont bother going into all of them, but they also include.

- GOGOGOGOGO DPS
- Tanks who dont let healers get mana
- Tanks who chain pull when it is above the capability of the healer
- Tanks and Healers who have a sense of entitlement

So. Those are some of the things that "upset" me.

You can add to that:

- Spam in trade chat (includes ANAL, Chuck Norris, Murlocks, etc.)
- Racism
- Dead Baby Jokes in my pug (yes, this happened the other day)

Also, people who seam to be standing in the same spot all the time for no particular reason....or people sitting afk showing off their mount or whatever shit they got recently.

There is one guy named Dinec on my server. He sits in front of the AH for hours at a time AFK. Just sitting there on his white plainstrider......AFK. Is he just grinding /played or what?

Well....you may as well just mark me down for hating everything. There. Now fuck off :p

Day 13 – People (players/bloggers) that you admire

2012-04-24T11:05:00.003-07:00

Ok, so back to the 20 days of blogging bit.

As far as bloggers I admire, you should just got take a look at my blogroll.

As far as players go, it definately has to go to my close group of friends (and especially my wife).

My wife once upon a time hated WoW. It was one of out biggest fighting points. Now it is something that we can do together.

She used to be afraid to run things on her own. Now she is not. She has gone from complete noob to having three level 85 characters. I admire that she stuck it out and kept on plugging along.

She has become much more comfortable in game with rotations and gearing etc. She does ask me if things are upgrades still, but I think it is just because I am the safety net and can validate what she already knows.

Some day, I will hopefully get her to write a blog post!

Adversity Breeds Unity (Thanks Rohan!)

2012-04-24T09:26:00.000-07:00

Last night, we ran a couple of Heroics as a group. The first group was three of out Formerly known as Lowbies group (Thrasos the Warrior, Beathe the Hunter, my Wife on her Rogue Mowglie). There was also me tanking on Darraxus and my sister healing on her Paladin Vordan.

We basically fudged the ilvl requirement by picking up some PvP gear. We figured we would give the first instance (End Time) a shot. It was certainly a team building exercise.

The first boss we got was Jaina. Most of the problems we had on this boss was that the trash is a real bitch. Our DPS was low (to be expected), but people did not stand in stuff and we took her down in one shot.

The second boss we got was Tyrande. We ended up wiping twice on this boss and taking her down on the third try. The third boss was especially frustrating, but an epic end made up for it. We ended up wiping around 5 times, with a couple of wipes having him at around 200k health. On the final attempt on that boss, we were doing pretty well....except poor Beathe who died before every single hourglass. It had become a bit of a running joke in the group.

Well, we pop the last hour glass and are on the home stretch. In the 500k range, I go down. NOOOOO. GO GO GO DPS!!!!! My wife gets killed on her Rogue. Thrasos (who is now on his Hunter main Grimir for the DPS boost goes down). That leaves Beathe and my sister healing. Beathe who spent much of the fight admiring the ground. Well, she managed to kite around a bit and took down the boss! Good god that was close. My wife got a shiny new dagger. Sadly for Thrasos, the tank chest dropped while he was in there on his Hunter.

After this, we got the entire Lowbie group back together for a regular Heroic and got Throne of Winds or whatever the fuck it is called. These fights once again took the trial and error for us to take them down. On the first boss, we wiped once before taking him down. When he went down, our tank had just died. Whew. Another close one. The AOE damage on that guy is a bitch.

We moved on, and despite some teeth clenching moments with the trash that drops hurricanes everywhere, we made it to the second boss. We ended up wiping once before taking him down. Poor wife died both times as I was in triage mode trying to conserve a bit of mana and was in the damn debuff zone both times.

Lastly, we got to our old nemesis. The static cling boss. He was a real son of a bitch for us back in the day. We ended up wiping once before taking him down. The second time felt fairly easy with nobody dying. At out current overall gear levels, the old Heroics actually feel somewhat challenging....which I dont really mind. I had more fun doing those intstances last night than I do just face rolling through them. We worked on good CC and playing out classes properly. Adversity breeds unity.

On a side note....what the fuck is wrong with blogger. All of my posts show up in giant blobs now instead on split up like I type it (THANKS TO ROHAN, THIS HAS BEEN FIXED!)

Weekend Update

2012-04-23T10:13:00.000-07:00

Well, there was quite a lot of stuff going on this weekend. First, there was the Diablo 3 open Beta, which meant that my wife and another friend got the chance to try out the game. So far so good. Smashing and looting is a game that almost anyone can enjoy. I am super pumped for the release of D3. Second, we got our Toons Formerly Know as Lowbies up to level 85. While most everyone was busy, I purchased some PvP gear and a few epics to get into the new Heroics. A few hours later, I was nearly decked out in Epics. So easy. Then, the cherry on top for the group was that we got to run our first Heroic together....and man am I glad I got that gear. We got Heroic Throne of Tides, which went very well. We only had two wipes (one on the explody purple guys, which out mage discovered he could spell steal), and one on the last boss. T The last boss of that instance is still a bitch. No me gusta. I had so many bad memories of that fight from the beginning of Cataclysm. On another note, I got new graphic cards for mine and my wife's computer this weekend. My wife is amazed at all of the fancy graphics in WoW that she never got a chance to see. She was particularly impressed at the rain falling on a body of water in Stranglethorn. I noticed a huge difference in D3 on my computer. Everything looks so much more Crisp. I actually noticed that blood splatters across your body as you hack shit up/ Overall, it was a pretty good weekend.

Diablo 3 OPEN DEMO...errrr....BETA this weeked

2012-04-20T11:36:00.000-07:00

You can play the demo this weekend. I mean the Beta. Damn it. You can try out all of the classes, but can only play part of the first act and up to level 13. YIPEE! Give it a shot. It is loads of fun.

The Adventures of the Toons Formerly Known as Lowbies

2012-04-19T09:06:00.000-07:00

Well, we are almost there.

Out group of formerly lowbies is in the home stretch to 85.

My wife and I spent a bit of time yesterday getting out toons to 84 so that we could do the upper level Cata regular dungeons. We are sick of running Throne of Tides etc.

Next up on our agenda is the unfortunately named CoC. Or Crucible of Carnage if you will.

It is one of those dirty inside jokes for out little group.

"Pretty soon we will be doing thr CoC"
"I cant wait for the CoC"

You get the picture.

The other inside joke is about our mage's mana strudles. It has to do with the fact that he appears to summon them from his crotch. DICK CHEESE MANA STRUDLES ANYONE?

Yeah, I never said we were classy.

Soon we will be 85 and probably doing a few heroics. The only problem is that I dont have any more slots for low level characters.

I have 7 85s, an 84, an 82, and a 77. WAHHHHHHH. WTB MORE CHARACTER SLOTS!!!!

Diablo Beta (Now with Starter Addition)

2012-04-18T09:17:00.000-07:00

Apparently, even if you were not able to get into the Beta, you can still play a starter addition of the beta....whatever that means.

All characters were deleted in the most recent patch.

I have one huge issues with the Beta at this point. The fact that it is more like the D3 demo. Sure you can try out all of the classes, but you can only get to level 13 and you can only play the first part of the first act.

Being that the beta is going to be ending soon, shouldnt you be able to test more? Does Blizzard get what they need in this small sample size? Is this just a generic beta to appease the masses while other are getting to play the real beta?

I am excited for the game to come out, and the beta has given me a very good idea of what to expect, but why are they calling it a beta when it plays like a damn demo?

Wifey Makes Me Proud. Sticking Up for Yourself.

2012-04-17T11:21:00.001-07:00

As I have let it be known before, my wife was always very nervous to play with other people in WoW. Especially in an instance setting.

She was scared that she would not be good enough and that people would be mean to her. The second part was definately a valid point.

So, I was proud to see her doing instances all by herself on her new low level character (another Druid).

I was even more proud that she stuck it out in a shitty group and stood up for herself when dipshits lashed out.

First of all, it was a Wailing Caverns run.....that took over an hour. This is not the Vanilla version of WC. It should not be taking more than 30 or so minutes to clear on average.

The tank got lost a bunch of times (which can happen). The Healer fell off of a ledge and got lost. No complaints from my wife.

As they ran thru the dungeon, my wife actually ended up passing on several upgrades so that the healer could have it.

When they got to one of the bosses, she rolled need on a huge upgrade that happened to have some spirit on it. The tank and healer threw a fit over it, calling her "Dumb Druid".

Instead of quitting in tears (which may well have happened a year or two ago), she just brought up the fact that it was a big upgrade and that the Healer had already received 4 upgrades in the instance. When they persisted, she LOLed at them for complaining over low level loot and left the dungeon.

She passed her first test of rude pugs with flying colors. It makes me quite proud.

Day 12 – A usual day in your life/online time

2012-04-17T09:20:00.000-07:00

Well, this varies from day to day, but is mostly the same.

After work, I get home and usually log onto WoW.

I repost any expired auctions as well as cancelling and reposting my gems.

Then I decided what I want to do from there. If all of my friends are online, we will run something together. Often times it is an instance, but last night we went into Uldum.

Lately, I have also been playing a decent amount of Diablo 3. While I am doing that, my wife will usually be playing on one of her varios WoW characters.

Sometimes I get the first shooter bug and play some MW3.

It really depends on my mood, but I think around 80 percent of my gaming time is spent in WoW.

Diablo 3 Auction House: First Impressions

2012-04-17T09:17:00.000-07:00

Well, so far I have only used the Auctionhouse one time.

So far, not great.

It is actually quite clunky at this point, and unless they change some things before release, the lack of addons is going to make things extra rough.

You can search by specific item type and by strength level (rare etc.), but the sorting is not great. I had a hard time doing an individual search for items.

I was also annoyed that you could not sort the auctions you were searching by bid price or time left on the auction. Only by DPS (on weapons) and buyout amount.

Another odd thing is that it shows a bunch of expired auctions. I am not sure what the purpose of this is.

Anyways, the AH seems clunky.....it will not stop me from using it, but there it is.