Life Outside PLT1

Things that Suck

Yeah I know QQ more. But hey we all have to now and again don’t we?

• Walking around in the rain at Uni. It’s poring down outside and i’m trying not to get wet, but it doesn’t work
• Having to take the Tamaki bus is always a near death experience.
• Not being able to go to Kebab Friday becasue you have to take the Tamaki bus back to Tamaki for a class.
• Getting wet walking back to the Tamaki bus.
• Wearing Jandels when it is poring down with rain, and having to run from the Tamaki bus, so one does not get completly socked.
• Getting to Kel’Thuzad in Nax with QB for the first time. But then on Tuesday night when trying to finish him off having the server go down for 1 1/2 hours and putting everyone is such a crappy mood that we cant down him. This was after killing Sapphiron on the 3rd attempt the night before.
• The uni internet crashing and losing half my post!
• Getting wet walking to my car at Tamaki from class, having almost died on the Tamaki bus
• Taking a wrong turn in the COS timed event and you end up dead at the feet of the last boss, while the rest of the party goes the right way and finishes it. (The rest of the story below)
• Did I mention missing out on Kabeb Friday?

I’m sure there is more I could add to the list but I just cant think of anything else right now. But things are not all bad.

Last night we only had 7 turn up for the fist night of raiding this week so instead we went and did the COS timed run. Apart from when I took a wrong turn at the end (I went to the last boss instead of running straight ahead), it was a pretty fun run. Everyone else managed to go the right way and killed Infinite Corruptor to finish. No matter though we finshed with 4 minutes to spare. Yes I was to far away so I didnt get to roll on the drake but hey, it will be there again tomorrow and the run was pretty easy. Grats to new recruit Var who has been with the Guild for a week. Now you are going to have to buy epic flying.

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Karazhan, NightBane

So we only had nine for the upper part of Kara. What ever would we do? Well, take a lvl 68 holy pally of course! Wouldn’t you? But that’s not the good part, oh no.

What made it even more fun, was when on the guilds first shot at NightBane, our two main dps go down at 50% (stupid Mages - some people say its lucky to have Mages die, so they gave us double the amount). What do you do at this point… well, as a hunter, I was running for the door about to FD… but why not stay and give it a go any way. That’s just what we did, with only 4 dps, 1 tank, 2 heals, plus our 68 holy pally - who was on heals.

A few minutes later we were still up - then over Vent; “We could actually do this if we have enough mana and there is no enrage timer.” Who would have thought we would need to know that? One of our lucky Mages piped up (after alt-tabing to find out); “umm I don’t think so”, so on we pressed.

Guess what? 13 minutes after the fight began, it was over. That’s right, we downed NightBane. No one knows how our mana lasted that long, but it did. Might I say that our healers are awesome - our 3 healers that is - well done guys, that was a big effort on your part (even Rusty was still alive).

So the Quantum Butterflies are now 11/12 in Karazhan in just 2 weeks. ZA next week anyone?

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First Time in Karazhan

Thats right - a few nights ago, I walk into Kara for the first time. This was not only my first time, but also the first time we - the Quantum Butterflies - had put together a full Kara team. Only half of us were first times, the rest had been rolling with another guild every week and were mostly T4 with some T5 gear.

I could hardly contain myself. I had been working towards this for way too long. I had spent the last few days farming mats for food and buying elixirs. I had done everything I could to prepare myself… but even so, on the first pull I had no idea what was going on. There were so many people. Now don’t think that I hadn’t run any 5-mans before because I had. I had been running at least 1-2 a day for the past 4 weeks, trying to gear myself.

I don’t think any amount of time or effort put into reading about the boss fights, or running 5-mans, could fully prepare you for the coordinated chaos that is a Raid.

We were moving though the pulls like mad men, with the command from the main tank to “hurry up and only drink when I drink.” I was still trying to work out what was going on when I was ask to trap! The marks went up and I was trying to get over the fact that they wanted me to trap, when the MT pulled. I fumbled my way though it and managed somehow to pull off a chain trap, and maintain some sort of dps on the kill order.

It took a long time for things to settle down and for me to get my head back in the game. We one shotted everything, with only one wipe on trash before Curator. We then all laughed it off and just went right ahead and put down Curator. Which we decided was enough for one night on our first guild run of Kara. What can ya say really, other than what a run it was.

We were not expecting much going in, as a lot of us were first timers. I have to give a big thanks to the more experienced guys who made the run go as smoothly as it did.

I will make sure to let you all know on how the second half of Kara goes, just as soon as we decide on a date.

To make it even better, Legacy dropped. Can you say OMG. Also gratz to those who got their first T4 pieces.

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Warning: contains WoW stuff

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Zorab does play WoW

Sorry, but it’s now offical.. The pic says it all

And not only does he play WoW, he’s a lvl 70 TAUREN HUNTER.. he’s been playing just as long as the rest of us, but in denial!

Breaking bots for fun and profit.

Actually, there’s no real profit involved, but boy is it fun.

Recently our beloved World of Warcraft has been seeing a horrible number of bots plaguing the landscape, killing indiscriminately to farm experience, leather, and curved raptor talons. Much to the dismay of the more cognitive patrons of the realms, many of the creatures being endlessly slaughtered are also required as kills or for drops to finish quests. In an attempt to help lessen their numbers, I tried reporting several of the bots to the Game Masters (as botting is grounds for banning an account), but alas the official channels and processes are slow, and I am impatient.

So, I started harassing the occasional bot I passed simply out of spite, and in doing so discovered an amusing quirk in their programming. It appears that by interfering with their combat in a particular way, it’s possible to confuse the bot and cause it to target you once it finishes its current fight. Once it’s got you targetted it will follow you around for a while, and you can lead it into a large pack of mobs, or off a cliff…

Unfortunately I don’t have a parachute cloak, and couldn’t find a high enough cliff to kill him. He hearthed after a few minutes when he couldn’t get out, and eventually wound up back on his set path. Ok, so, leading a bot off a cliff and getting it stuck is pretty cool, but I think we could use a little more cowbell…

So I had another think and speculated on the possible programmatic causes of their erroneous behavior. After testing a few theories, I discovered something even more fun. If you flag yourself at the right time during your bot-baiting, you can actually get them to attack you and flag themselves (assuming they’re of the opposing faction, of course). Result: Dead Bot.

A lot faster results, and a lot more personally satisfying, than reporting them to a GM.

BOOYAH.