Mobile WoW?

This seems to be big news on a number of sites that I read or podcasts to which I listen. The basic news is that Blizzard is evaluating and working on mobile solutions to allow interaction with WoW. Let's just state for the record, this will not be the full version of the game that's playable on a phone. I'm pretty sure the hardware doesn't exist for this. Instead it is more likely to be a thin client that allows only social interaction (chat) or (limited) auction house usage.

Everything I'm hearing and seeing indicates that people are pretty excited about this one. For me, not so much. I guess my objections really boil down to two major ones.

Objection the First (to rip a page out of Rat's book)

• I don't need to be that plugged in to WoW. Honestly, this game consumes enough of my life. The only place I'd even consider using such a feature of my phone is on the bus ride to work. And that's the time I use for listening to podcasts and catching up on sites that I've not been able to read earlier (on my Blackberry). So I don't have the time for such a thing, and with the sort of addictive drug that WoW is, I'm sure there are folks worse off than I am. It might not be such a great idea for Blizzard to capitalize on the remaining scraps of your life that are left.

Objection the Second

• The bigger issue I see is security. Within the last few months, the reports of hacked accounts have been everywhere. Keyloggers, trojans, and other methods abound for getting at your WoW login. And this still happens to folks that are (presumably) careful in their network security and virus protection. Perhaps I'm naive here, but not knowing enough about phone security works makes me think phones are less secure than my own PC. And there doesn't seem to be a whole lot I could do to improve that

So, for me, I'm not excited about Mobile WoW. I don't need to spend even more time on WoW than I already do and I'm unsure about the security of it all.

Cooldown

Last night was kind of busy and I wound up staying up WAY past bedtime. So, in light of the post from yesterday I'm sort of feeling like the blog is on cooldown.

A few highlights so this doesn't turn into a post just to keep this thing daily.

• Successfully ran an Arcatraz key-frag run for new 70 warrior (which we desperately need in our raid groups).
• Successfully ran a Black Morass for same warrior.
• Took same warrior into Karazhan for his first time ever (Moroes & Attumen)

Rants

• What's so freaking hard about giving a tank a few seconds to get some solid aggro?
• Why were our shackles breaking on the Moroes adds so often? Sometimes as little as 2 seconds. And no, there were no dispelling adds unshackled.
• Why won't the Mongoose enchant EVER drop for us for just one lousy guildie?
  

Defeated.

I've been trying for days to get a post going about how I was going to resocket three pieces my hunter has with new gems to put less emphasis on Attack Power and more on upping the hit rating and doing a little more to round myself out.

For days I've been thwarted at every turn by tables in Blogger, broken links, corrupted save files, inappropriate codes inserted by text editors, and typing the wrong number in Allakhazam links. That's it. I've wiped on this post enough. I'm going to hit accept and take the 25% durability hit to my blog.

In the end, I'm losing 50 Attack Power, gaining 4 mana/5sec, gaining 12 Agility, Gaining 8 hit rating and gaining 6 stamina.

At this point I don't even care if I actually resocket. I just don't want to think about it and the blog post anymore.

BLECH!

I CAN HAZ INTRFAYCE?

So, like patch 2.2 hits and my UI totally freaking breaks. I spent several hours last night doing three things in a iterative fashion. And by iterative I don't mean the orderly kind of iterative where you do step one, then step two, then step three, then back to step one.

Instead I did step three, then two, then three, then one, then one, then two, etc.

The three things I did are:

• Try to fix my old UI
• Try to download a new UI I liked
• Try to put together a brand new UI all my own from random bits.

So. The bottom line is I didn't get to play and I'm frustrated.

Hate you Blizzard. Hope you get thrown in a pool.

*Edit*

Hate you less Blizzard. Got the UI working - sorta. Just want to mention that getting thrown into a pool is still in play.

*Edit*

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

As a hunter who is lucky enough to have received an insanely lucky drop of [Legacy] (Sorry BRK!)I routinely look for other hunters in my travels around Azeroth that are carrying the same blade.

Imagine my surprise when last night while being a good guild mate and running a couple of sub-40s through all wings of Scarlet Monastery that I saw a level 69 hunter with a Legacy like axe on his back.

Fast-forward several minutes while I check my character sheet to ensure that Legacy does indeed require level 70 and how does this level 69 nobody have MY AXE?!?!?!?

Thank good for the armory because that allowed me to look him up real quick (He was horde, I am alliance -- inspect doesn't work) and notice that he's not carrying [Legacy] at all but instead is carrying [Glorious War-Axe]

Man. Couldn't Blizzard even change the freaking graphic on the War-Axe so the hunters who are drooling over Legacy can at least stand out a LITTLE?

A little ornery

So, lately as a responsible person in power in my guild, I've been trying to post things on our GroupCalender (get this or a similar in game scheduling tool if you don't already use one) and last night's run was Onyxia. I posted the run a week in advance giving everyone time to get themselves attuned to go down the black scaly lady.

How many of the legion of folks who were unattuned got attuned?

Anyone?

Anyone?

Buehler?

Right - ONE. One. 1.

So when I finally announced the Ony run wasn't going on, several of the folks who had signed up but failed to get keyed started clamoring for "SV, Slabs, Arc, Bot, BM, SV, SH, etc. etc."

What did I do? That's right. I took my 70 warlock to Ramparts (normal) to help the guy who did bother getting attuned to do a quest.

Karazhan is Friday. Tomorrow I intend to write about the differences between running Kara and a 5-man heroic.