WCS European Final Match

DreamHack.tv really has done great with the event. On the last break they played Gangnam Style which started the N3rd party...

Glad they saved Tastosis for the final commentary. Neither of them get too crazy when shit starts hitting the various combat/build fans.  At the start they do the filler chatter but once in play they are interesting and/or precise. Kaelaris and Apollo are doing the after-game which is fine. Keep them on the couch. *snicker*


 

Almost eight-five thousand viewers. Incredible! The stream has never lagged for me both days. Of course I've been happy at 480p. Noticed that most people in the chat say 720 is doing well too.

The first game was all tense at fiften minutes in. Not even at twenty minutes when Stephano did a massive roach push in a three-pronged attack which completely knocked out Vortix's economy. That could have been Cloud Kingdom though. Daybreak is a bit bigger so it will likely go longer. Whatever. Pretty sure the second game belongs to the Frenchman. Or the main USA player as the trolls in chat would claim...

Really wish Lucifron would have taken his little brother out. Terran vs. Zerg is a lot more interesting imo.

Nothing to LFG in Four Days

I haven't had all five WoW accounts going in years. It was fun to do the bot swarm in pvp. Also enjoyed the challenge of macros and coordination to solo content. Thought about trying that again a few months ago when the end-of-xpac lull set in. Yet I've had other things to keep my spare time occupied so never got around to it.

On Thursday I decided activate one to do the Scroll of Resurrection thing. Figured I'd get an 85 going on the Horde server my friends from Dark Whispers are on. It got me a free Cata upgrade for the second account along with a mount for the primary account. Could also spend time in-game without being bothered by Battle.net friends. *snicker*

I'd heard the XP requirements for 80-85 had dropped and wow have they ever! Created a Goblin Shaman then used the SoR to pop him up to 80 with resto gear. The queue times were a little slow during the day but not bad overall. Thursday got to 83. Didn't have as much on Friday but still got half-way through 84. Saturday I hit 85 in short order then started the JP farm. Very little questing which surprised me. Queue times started balancing out at 85 so I switched over to DPS.

The AH had a few bargains so I got into the End Time series pretty quick. I wasn't able to gem and enchant everything correctly since the prices on certain things were insane. Even if I had the money I wouldn't spend 500g on the +15 Chest Enchant. Thankfully glyphs were mostly reasonable.

Today I hit the 372 gear score for LFR after five instances. Still had five 333s on: head, shoulders, waist, legs, and trinket. Took almost forty minutes to get into Siege of Wyrmrest Temple. I never broke 10th place but the group moved through it all fast. Since I was DPSing the only bit of loot I got was a healing trinket. *rolls eyes* Only took about fifteen minutes to get into Fall of Deathwing and Spine, as always, was dicey but the group pushed all the way through. So with 1 day, 10 hours played my Goblin experiment completed.

Starcraft WCS European Finals

Really enjoyed watching the World Championship Series the last few months--mostly because I won't pay to watch games on MLG. *snicker* I still don't play SC2 but it's been fun to watch. Currently watching Lucifron vs. Lowely. Hope Tasteless and Artosis are back for whomever Stephano faces from the lower bracket...

The chat is as trolly as ever... calling Lucifron "Harry Potter" because of his voice and glasses. Looking like he will move on to face his brother Vortix. And I'm betting he'll win only to get thrashed by Stephano again.

Stephano is just ridiculous. He always seems so calm during interviews or on cam. Crazy on the field.

Advanced Hacking or No Sleep

Been up a lot lately and admittedly need some sleep. But I got a legit looking eMail from Arena.Net saying my account eMail address had been changed yesterday. Tried logging in at their main site and sure enough got a name/password error.

Now strangely enough I was able to log in over at the GuildWars 2 site. Changed my password there without any errors coming up. But then tried to log into the forums and got this....

So yeah. There's some hacking or anger going on somewhere between NCSoft and GuildWars. Glad I'm not playing at the moment, heh! Would still like to know my account is safe...

Patch 5.0.4 Delay #1

Wasn't around when the server's were supposed to be back up. Now an hour-and-a-half later they're still down. Heh. Not surprised but I'm sure things are a-buzz at Blizzard HQ. With today being the official launch day of Guild Wars 2 Blizzard needs to have new and exciting things in the sub-based world available.

Decided it's time to do the annual clean sweep so I've cleared out the AddOns and WTF folders. It can be pretty painful to lose settings and preferences but I'm bad about not keeping all the detritus cleaned up. So far the only AddOns I've re-added are IceHUD and TidyPlates. Would like to get DBM going and a few others, but there's going to be a lot of fixes over the next few days. Will survive until things settle down.

It's going to take a long time to go through all the toons. I've been meaning to copy things over to beta forever but yeah. Pretty happy with the DK and Shaman but the rest should be interesting.

Speaking of interesting... wonder what's going on in Theramore now. Damn servers.

Need More Errors Since We're Close to Pandas

Just in time for a new expansion.... random errors!

 After last week's hacking I'm sure this kind of stuff is going to keep the Blizzard Marketing Team busy.

In the long run it probably won't matter too much. I'm sure there will be plenty of people that come back for a month or two regardless of glitches or bad press.

Blizzard Said Happy Birthday

For whatever reason when Tolos rolled a 97 on the Blazing Drake I smiled. Somehow I knew random destiny was going to step in...

Sure enough! Can't believe I finally got one. And when MoP hits all the characters on my main account will have it! *cheer*