Ok, so yeah, I’m alive and all, but…

I’m playing the game! Currently unemployed, I have lots of time to WoW, and not so much desire to blog. Zerei is 80 and holy, my DK is 72 and plodding along, my other alts are stagnant. Once I get a job again we might see more activity out of me, but for now, have fun!

So the dust has settled a bit

This doesn’t mean I’m done talking about 3.0.2 yet, but man, what a week it’s been for this little vertex of the internet.

10 minutes of fame

http://botd.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/top-blogs-903/

#73!

Nonsense.

Patch Day!

Holeh crap.

I knew I got most of my site views on Tuesdays, but…

That’s just crazy! I wonder how other WoW bloggers are doing today?

/EDIT: Here’s the pages getting all the traffic:

Also, as a note, wordpress.com seems a little buggy, so far as the page hits thing goes. One minute I’ll look at the graph above on my dashboard, and it’s about like that (though as of this edit at 5:12 EST, it’s almost up to 3k hits), and then the next minute it’s down to 300. I’m not sure which is correct, but it looks like I’m not the only one having this problem.

And like the Dragoons…

I have returned.

I’ve been back since Tuesday actually, but I’ve been trying to catch up and haven’t had time to write. And I had a great time.

Anyway, have a couple hundred blog posts to read, so that’s what I’m up to atm.

A Question – Is This Normal?

Not that it poses a problem, but I’m wondering if this is normal across the board for my fellow bloggers. I’ve noticed that in this blog’s stats, the number of visits per day will usually peak on Tuesdays and falter heavily on weekends.

This is potentially a parallel to my posting habits of course – I think I probably post the most on Tuesdays and almost never on the weekends. Blogging for me, after all, is a chance to have an outlet for my musings during work hours, and I don’t work weekends. I couldn’t help but note however that Tuesday, being maintenance day, is also a day I normally see these peaks.

So, anyone else? Are people searching for Warcraft-related things more on Tuesdays and less on weekends, or do I just post more often on that day?

/shifty eyes

Hello! Hope everyone’s doing well.

It has been a couple weeks since I’ve posted anything, and mostly I’d like to apologize for that. I mean, it’s my blog, my time, and I’m not getting paid for this or anything, but I do feel guilty whenever I don’t post anything for a while. I’m still playing WoW for the most part, though I have been spending a bit more time out of game than I have in the past couple months.

Also, however, I’d noted that, as of last month this blog has been around for a year. Or maybe it was the month before. As Ratshag would say, I can’t be bothered with the details. Or keeping track of them. Whatever it is he isn’t doing with them, that’s the same thing that I’m not doing with them. Or something. (He’s better at it.)

Anyway…here’s what I’ve been up to. And I wish I could access my screenshots folder from work so that I could put together some sort of montage thinger. But you’ll have to live with my writing for now!

Firstly, my brother and I are still working at 2v2. We managed to power our warrior/shaman pair up to 1625 two weeks ago, only to get stomped back to 1539 earlier this week. Played a couple more games to get back up to 1594 or so. We were 4-9 before, got back up to 8-10 later.

One note on that: zoning into the arena should automatically equip your pvp trinket. No specific reason I would think this whatsoever, just seems like a good idea. Yep. It most certainly didn’t happen to me. Please quit glaring at me. Ok fine, I had to eat a Blind against a rogue/priest team and Ferrus (the shaman) effectively bit it during that time. I felt pretty noobish. Was the one game we lost.

We did, however, beat a warlock/paladin, separate rogue/priest, hunter/paladin (this one took forever…), and hunter/priest. And I mean, the week before we were beating down mage/rogue and druid/warrior teams pretty easily…and then this last week…I’m not sure if we lost focus or what but we just had the hardest time pulling out wins. Currently we’re trying to push for 1650 rating to pick up some rings. (My current rings are the Vindicator’s ring and the revered-level Violet Signet.) After that and S4 pants I’ll have much less deviation in gear levels and I can just pick whatever upgrades I want as they’ll all be about the same…though I think the best next choice would be going from Merciless legs up to Brutal, since 1550 is not going to be an issue to maintain and is a sizeable upgrade.

Secondly, I’ve been saving up for my second epic flyer finally. This one is for Niemandra, and is so she has a fast mount ready for when she hits 77…or whatever level it is you get to use your flyer again in Northrend. Also going to be leveling in tandem with a warlock who has one, and it just wouldn’t do to be putting along really far behind.

Third, I’ve also being playing some Alliance alts on different servers…have started up another warrior that has been being leveled alongside a paladin on Windrunner. The player of said paladin is the same as the warlock mentioned above. Is just something to kill time…better than doing laps around Shat on Skywall anyway.

So that’s that…nothing exciting, but that’s just the way it’s been going lately.

Hi BRK!

Linked!

Whoops! -.-

Editted the trinket post I wrote recently. I was a noob and Was dividing the 44 +healing on the Eye of Gruul by 8 instead of 18. It’s fixed now, and the Seaspray looks like the better choice.

Image courtesy of edinburghsucks.com.

Master Blogging?

Ha, me? Master? Not likely. There are far better bloggers out there doing this way better than I ever could. For serious, yo. (No offense at all to anyone unmentioned, I can only do so many words, and inserting a bunch of links like that isn’t exactly fun!)

This will be my 301st post. This last bout of posts most prominently featured the switch from Blogger to WordPress, a decision I remain happy with. The switch has allowed me to organize the site much more in the way I like. I still have to get around to adding pictures, but I have a surprise of sorts that should amend that situation before too long.

Um, lesee…I’ve definitely slowed down in posting I think over the months. I haven’t commented very much altogether, especially of late, something I apologize to my fellow bloggers for.

Mostly, I’ve just been playing! For news on that, check out the recent posts!

Otherwise, look forward to more gear analysis! I have plans to write up something to the effect of “Gearing your new level 70 paladin” in the works, potentially one for each spec! The SSO rep grind, new gear from that instance, as well as the blue battlegear items, will be examined and lined up and posted here…when I get time!

All in all, still writing, still playing, still having a fun time. Take care!