Bringer of Light

Bad times. Getting hacked ftl.

HolyLiaison — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 17:16:02 GMT

Figured I'd share this here too. The other day one of my friends had his account hacked. Here was my encounter:

So, I watched in horror the other day as one of my friends characters got stripped/sold and everything mailed off. Then me and and a friend tailed his alt Warlock character for about an hour, but he wouldn't sell anything in front of us and ran around forever... first Shatt, then Silvermoon, then to Ghost Lands when he finally life tapped enough to jump off a cliff and kill himself and res at the graveyard to escape us. Ended up in EPL somewhere but we gave up.

While that was happening I had a heated conversation with a GM that resulted in nothing (go figure!).

Anyway, here's all the screenshots:

GM conversation:

http://www.fsguild.org/images/gmtwo_start.jpg...

http://www.fsguild.org/images/gmtwo01.jpg...

http://www.fsguild.org/images/gmtwo02.jpg...

http://www.fsguild.org/images/gmtwo03.jpg...

His main character getting vendored:

http://www.fsguild.org/images/saij_main.jpg...

http://www.fsguild.org/images/saij_main1.jpg...

http://www.fsguild.org/images/saij_main2.jpg...

http://www.fsguild.org/images/saij_main3.jpg...

His alt being chased:

http://www.fsguild.org/images/saij.jpg

http://www.fsguild.org/images/saij1.jpg

http://www.fsguild.org/images/saij2.jpg

http://www.fsguild.org/images/saij3.jpg

http://www.fsguild.org/images/saij4.jpg

I can't believe how little GM's can do. They're seriously worthless.

That being said, this is the second account in my guild that has been hacked this week. Keep your eyes open people!

Death Knights & other expansion jibberish.

HolyLiaison — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 15:21:58 GMT

So I've seen a lot of posts around the internet (and on this site) concerning the addition of Death Knights in the upcoming expansion and a lot of the posts seem worried about Death Knights taking away work from current tanks.

I don't know what it's like on other servers, but on Dragonmaw we have a huge shortage of people willing to tank. The way I see this is it's a way to help correct that problem. They said it's going to be a tank/DPS hybrid, not all of them will be tanking. Think of it like Druid's and Paladins. They're very effective tanks, but not all of them *do* tank. They're just trying to find the right balance.

I also see people saying "oh man, everyone's going to roll a Death Knight and the game will be ruined!" or something along that line.

Fact is people said the same thing when Paladins were going to be introduced to Horde for the Burning Crusade expansion. Was the game ruined? No.

It was another way for Blizzard to balance the game between Horde and Alliance. And it did just that. The only thing they really have left is Fear Ward, and that's going to be spread around soon also.

Overall just about everything they do is about balancing the game. And compared to other MMO's they do a pretty damn good job if I must say so my self! I just hope they don't hurry this expansion out too fast. I've yet to experience everything BC has to offer up. ;P

I'm very excited about this expansion though. I can't wait to see what else they have in store for it. They obviously haven't released all the information/tweaks they'll be doing and I can't wait to see that stuff when they announce it.

I'm particularly excited about the new profession. It's a pretty awesome idea. The thought of adding a stun proc, or anything like it to one of my spells/attacks is pretty cool. I can't wait to see what else will be available to that profession.

What do you guys look forward to? If anything.

And what would you like see added that hasn't been mentioned yet?

I personally think they need to add a way for people to change factions. Like a super long/challenging, and costly chain that you can only do once a year. Not that I'd switch factions or anything. I just think it's an option people need instead of having to delete their characters or buy a whole new account.

Success!

HolyLiaison — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 16:55:06 GMT

I got my epic flying mount 2 days ago! I don't see how I lived with out it before.

I think I've farmed up the same amount of gold I did for my epic in the spam of 2 days since I've gotten my mount. I have tons of Adamantite/Fel Iron and I don't know what to do with it. xD

More farming, more crafting!

HolyLiaison — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 13:38:19 GMT

So, after some more farming today I crafted Steelgrip Guantlets and Black Felsteel Bracers. I enchanted/socketted both before I put them on the AH, to try and eek out a little more gold. lol

These should push me up to my epic mount. I can't wait!

If you have your epic flying mount I'd be interested in hearing how you attained it exactly. Cause it was mighty painful for me before I picked up Herbalism and Mining.

Farming, and how I do it.

HolyLiaison — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:18:28 GMT

So I recently switched my professions to Mining/Herbalism from Mining/Alchemy. Boy was I surprised at the difference it made.

I used to hate farming. Being a former hardcore raiding Prot Warrior before BC it always seemed like the end of the world when I had to farm for raid mats, or repair costs. It would take me hours to get anything done!

After rerolling for BC, I decided I wouldn't be as hardcore as I was before. I felt like I needed a break and didn't want to farm up all that crap all the time.

So after reaching 70 on my Paladin I was more casual when it came to raiding. No mat farming, nothing. But something happened... I saw people zooming around on these epic flying mounts. I HAD to have one.

I decided to drop Alchemy for Herbalism and go with straight gathering professions. I headed out and started skilling up my herbalism right away. After about 4 hours work over two days I got Herbalism up to 375.

I was ready. My epic flying mount was calling.

First thing I did was download Cartographer with the Herbalism and Mining addons. I also noticed these database packs for herbing/mining on the same page. So I got those too thinking "hey what's it going to hurt?"

So I get it all installed, load up the game and ..... wow.

I had no idea what those databases were at the time. Now I can't live with out it!

Anyway, the only thing I farm are herbs and ore. And the only place I farm those is in Terokkar Forrest. I know what you're thinking.. "Why Terokkar? Why not Netherstorm/Shadowmoon?"

Well, Shadowmoon and Netherstorm are always full of people farming herbs and ore. It can get fairly frustrating in those two zones, especially with out an epic flying mount! So I stay away, for now...

Anyway, I started doing laps around Terokkar (following the border around the entire place) using only my Find Herbs ability, and visually checking the ore nodes that I saw on my minimap (thanks to Cartographer and the database) by flying by them.

I'll just say this, I've made almost 5k gold in 5 days.

Terocone on my server goes for just under 20g a stack. You get about 2 stacks after doing two laps around Terokkar. And that usually takes an hour and a half (on a non-epic).

So that's 40g in my pocket right there. But that's hardly it.....

You also get around 30-40 Adamantite Ore, 30-40 Fel Iron Ore, 8'ish Eternium Ore, 3-8 Khorium Ore (depending on luck), 30-40 Dreaming Glory, 20'ish Felweed, 2-4 Primal Earth, 1-2 Primal Fire, 2-4 Primal Life, and random blues from mining if you're lucky.

In a hour and a half, that's 200-400g depending on your luck. At least on my server.

In the past 2 days I've farmed up enough mats to make TWO Gyro-Balanced Khorium Destroyer (http://www.wowhead.com/?item=32756) and a Bracers of the Green Fortress (http://www.wowhead.com/?item=23538).

I gave one gun to the MT of our guild, which he really got a kick out of. Especially after seeing it shoot green! lol

The other one sold for 1500g, and the Bracers sold for 700g. I usually turn all of my Adamantite Bars in to Hardened Adamantite cause it sells for more. I also make all the Felsteel Bars I can. They all sell for huge profit.

Now keep in mind, if you have a lot of competition for this stuff you're likely not to do as well as me. I usually play at odd hours due to work, so it's pretty much empty when I'm out there.

But I'm just in amazement at how much money I can make doing that and thought I'd share it with all of you.

Hope at least someone gets something out of this post. :P

First post!

HolyLiaison — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:51:07 GMT

Well, this is my first post. I don't have too much time right now but I plan on updating often. So keep checking back. :)