Friday, July 23, 2010

Hacked...

So I was hacked a couple weeks ago. Thanks to the help of the GMs and corresponding departments, my account has been recovered.
They took everything from the guild bank on Dirty, then transfered him to an Oceanic server, Thaussarian. Sekuhara was stripped of her goods, but luckily not the guild bank for her guild. She was then transfered to a US server, Kil'Jaeden. I was scared for a while cause I thought they were deleted. I noticed them a couple days later when I was looking at the realm lists to check out some other servers to mess around on. K'J certainly wasn't a choice of mine... and never will be... but there was a (1) on the character list... I was so happy to see my little cutie! I looked on Latin and then Oceanic... and there was Dirty! :D
Needless to say, I now have an authenticator on my account. Its just really really annoying though... because we get disconnected a lot cause our internet sucks ass... So I have to get a code often... its annoying and takes longer to log-in. But I feel a tad bit more safe... especially with that cute ass corehound pup!

If you happened to ever get hacked, don't do anything to the account. Just simply contact a GM and report the problem. You can also email wowgm@blizzard.com to make sure all ends are covered immediately. Make a ticket for each toon that has a loss. Also, report any toons that you did not make, on your realm or any other realm for that matter. I was afraid of redflags, so I didn't delete the toon made on Eitrigg or something like that. There is no need to make a full list of everything that is missing, just get straight to the point:
"I've been hacked! I'm missing two characters, name and name. Several items were also taken from the guild bank that do not belong to me. I also had items in the auction house and I don't know if they have been sold or completely lost. Please help!"
GMs and the investigation teams will take care of everything in regards to items lost. If you are a hunter, check for your pets. If you don't have them, make a ticket for the GMs as well and they can assist you with the restoration of your pets.
Remember, GMs still have to follow rules of their own, so don't get pissy with them if they aren't giving you all the time in the world. Just be happy they are responding and taking action for your loss before they take care of other tickets ("He called me a bitch and ninja'd my heart!" or "These people wont stop spamming me! name name name! Make them stop!) They don't typically give you an estimated time frame for the characters restoration process to be complete, however, know that it can take as quick as a week up to three weeks.
Just so you know, your account may or may not be locked. Mine wasn't. The characters in my petition were locked and unaccessable, however, in the mean time, I was able to play on my druid and level her in the down time from the 80s.

You can visit blizzard.com's support articles for more information about account security, authenticator information, and ways to keep your account and computer safe. You can also find it all here: http://us.blizzard.com/support/index.xml?locale=en_US&gameId=11&rootCategoryId=4271

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Pvp and what what? In the bank?

You wanna put it in my bank? (In my bank.)
You wanna put it in my bank? (In my bank.)
Let's put it in my bank.

Need a new bank tab and have to do some serious farming... My server is retarded and everything is undercut for 1 measly copper just to make that sale. Then others that wanna beat out that 1 copper will down it a few silver... and the assholes that don't care will take it down a few gold or more depending on the item. I'm guilty of the few gold... but yeah... most the time I try to keep it even with someone else's stuff as well. I kinda like the new auction house set up... but at the same time its annoying. I'm too worried about per item or per stack that I forget to put the item up for 48 hours. Slips sometimes. Oh well...
Jojo and I made some DK's to run around for pvp in 50's bracket... so far... its hella fun. We haven't gotten to the no XP side yet... but the uncapped side is soooo much fun! Unfortunately, I am one of those ppl that fail at DK and make the class a joke. Fairly common thing though. However... I don't fail at tanking little tards that try to sap me as if its really gonna stop me... Jojo rolled a Troll DK so he can use the racial for more damage. Top that, since he made his Troll shaman, Blojojo, I think he is really comfortable with Trolls... His DK used to be undead, but yeah... he really wanted to PVP with it, so he remade it. :\ Mine is a Tauren named Stringcheese. (She's so cute!:3) While Jojo is running around and ganking everything that comes his way, I'm running in and getting the flag. With the pots we made, Tauren's 5% health bonus, enchants, and the stamina scrolls, I'm bumping 7619 health, a nice armor bonus from plate and frost, I'm ideal for the flag. It came to the point though, that they would try to gank me, and succesfully do it in great numbers... So Jojo uses the fact I'm being bombarded with rogue stuns, pally stuns, and all the healers focusing on what I do manage to beat down, and the occasional entangle from a druid, as if I'm distracting them, grabs the flag, and books it. By the time he is at the bottom of the tunnel, there are more hordies coming to escort him and I'm finally at my last 100 hp. Clean escape, works well though. And I love it when I have them on me, cause when I'm not stun locked, I enjoy a little laugh after I war stomp. :) Occasionally there is a lucky druid or rogue in stealth that manages to slow Jojo down when he gets close to the horde's tunnel... but I seem to die at the right time and get rezzed so I can pull the little fuck off him. Once in a while, we'll meet a tough group. Why is it tough? Because failliance tend to turtle... its what they are known for... In WG and in everything else they do when it comes to PVP... once in a while there will be the random stray... but yeah... not random enough...
Not going to lie though... I really suck at PVP as melee... used to healing flag carrier or huntard or mage. Speaking of huntard... :) Got some heroic bracers from ICC and less than 30 minutes later, got some nice legs from VoA10... saves on emblems. :)


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Anyway... Roll high! Pvp hard! And take care!

Thursday, June 17, 2010

World of Warcraft: The Game of Epic Account Hacking

In my opinion, Blizzard screwed up in regards to safety of their loyal customer accounts. I haven't really looked into it, but it seems I'm hearing more and more about accounts being hacked now than I was when BC came out, pre-BC, etc. Ever since this merge with Battle.net, there are more and more phishing attempts, accounts lost, and securty problems. Why? For one thing, the requied emails to log-in.
As a personal safety precaution, I've made several emails to avoid exposing my account information, even if I don't visit many fansites, download potentially phising programs to change interface, let alone forum sites, or purchase gold or anything related to WoW that isn't officially from Blizzard. Not many people change out their emails and they just use one email that they use for just about everything. Its also a possibility that people make an email for multiple hosts, such as yahoo.com or gmail.com, and keep it the same. For example, emailbox@gmail.com and emailbox@yahoo.com or horde@inbox.com and horde@yahoo.com. Whatever.
There are arguements, though, that these phishing attempts are only by gold sellers and such. Other's say its not cause they wouldn't hack their customers. Its a possibilty though.... cause you purchase the gold, they hack you and take back the gold and just recycle it out. Whether they get traced back and banned, they still get to keep the money earned and have several other ways to resupply with gold to keep on going with their business. People don't want to believe its someone from their own guild when they sign up for guild forums that usually require you to provide an email so they can send a verification link. A download from an add-on or something may carry a keylogger program or anything harmful to monitor your system. A friend or ex might even go as far as to give out your information to people they think they can trust or if you get into a fight. But that is too common of a reason. Yadda yadda. So many different scenarios that people don't really think about and some that are far too common of thought.
Anyway... Blizzard really needs to get something taken care of in regards to all these security issues. They also need to step it up a notch with these damn GMs... I've had a ticket up for 6 days!!!
Stay safe with your accounts people! Get an authenticator if you have to. Get it from the blizzard store. And make sure you check all your redirect URLs when you click on links and such. Make sure they are sending you to the right place. In the URL bar you should see www.blizzard.com, not www.blizzardz.com or whatever. READ IT! Take caution. Don't give out any of your information. blah blah blah. Happy Gaming!

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Trial of the Crusader

This is a fairly easy raid to run if you are with others that know what they are doing... I only partially know what is going on...
Today, my new guild, Up the Ante, got an ICC 25 man together... mostly pug. Jojo and I weren't invited along with a few others so we had to do something else even though we were really looking forward to going to ICC... Especially me cause I went and learned the fights for it... It bugs me that they are trying to get more people... but how do they expect people to stay, let alone prove themselves, if you don't let them get involved with things... Anyway... I realized they are all teenagers still in high school and that is an entirely differeny kind of drama... Back on focus... Jojo and I join up in this TOC25... I know the fights up to PVP... however, I kinda understand the first part of twins and some of the king scarab thing from watching Jojo. After finally finding people in our fail ass server (Lothar), we set out and get inside. There is normally at least 1 person that tosses down a feast, but we didn't get that. I don't have any on my toons and Jojo only has some on Moo. Mage puts down a table just as we are about to start. Big whoop.
First fight.... Gormok is up and no one is taking down the snobolds. I'm used to being in great groups and never had problems with the snobolds... but in the end, we kill him. The second fight, Acidmaw and Dreadmaw... wiped. Second attempt... no one was killing snobolds yet again... I had my first snobold on my, but it instantly head cracked me just as I was trying to get out of fire... so I died within a few seconds. I barely saw any heals out or anything.
In conclusion to that bitchery... I'm made of fail. I asked the raid if there were any off tanks to take the snobolds off... needless to say I was laughed at. Jojo informed me AFTER the fight that I'm suppose to run to the front and basically let the AOE damage from tanks and such just spot them down. Like I said... I've never been in a fail ass group that wipes on the first few rounds of ToC10/25. Snobolds barely last long enough for me to even notice if it was on me or not. Not to mention, I've been healed through those things.
I guess I should read and watch some of the fights on You Tube before I actually go in and do these things... Regardless of the fact ICC fights seem to be easy to follow... and I winged it my first time. Really should watch Jojo do them more now.
Now its time to go figure out how to work with Wintergrasp and our disgustingly small numbers of horde on this server... (70% alli / 30% horde; and falling)

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Darnassian

Here are a few common Darnassian phrases and words, for which the translations have been officially confirmed by Blizzard:

"An'da!" = "Papa!" (A nick name for a father)
"Ande'thoras-ethil." = "May your troubles be diminished."(A farewell.)
"Andu-falah-dor!" = "Let balance be restored!" (A war cry.)
"Ash Karath!" = "Do it!"
"Bandu Thoribas! = "Prepare to fight!" (A challenge to an enemy.)
"Ellemayne" = "Reaver"
"Elune-Adore." = "Elune be with you." (A greeting.)
"Fandu-dath-belore?" = "Who goes there?"
"Ishnu-alah." = "Good fortune to you" (A greeting.)
"Ishnu-dal-dieb." = "Good fortune to your family."(A greeting.)
"Shalla'tor" = "Shadow Render"
"Shan'do" = "Honored Teacher" (A title and term of respect.)
"Thero'shan" = "Honored student" (A title and term of respect.)
"Tor ilisar'thera'nal!" = "Let our enemies beware!" (A war cry.)
"Kaldorei" = "children of the stars", "people of the stars". (Starborne, night elves).
"Nordrassil" = "crown of the heavens"
"Quel'dorei" = "children of noble birth" ("Highborne", "High-borne", "high elves").
"Sunstrider" = "he who walks the day"
"Teldrassil" = "crown of the earth"
"Xaxas" = A short title with many meanings, all dire. "Chaos, "fury", "The embodiment of elemental rage, such as found in erupting volcanos or shattering earthquakes", "elemental fury", "catastrophe". Often used to refer to the black dragon Aspect Deathwing.
"Zin-Azshari" = "The glory of Azshara"

This was taken from WoWWiki. For more Darnassian translations, please visit http://www.wowwiki.com/Darnassian.

Orcish

Here are a few common orcish phrases and words, for which the translations have been officially confirmed by Blizzard:

"Aka'Magosh" = "A blessing on you and yours"
"Bin mog g'thazag cha" = "I will protect you"
"Dabu" = "I obey"
"Dae'mon" = "Twisted soul"; appears to be used in the same way as Man'ari in Draenei.
"Dranosh" = "Heart of Draenor"
"Gar'mak" = "Anguish"
"Gol'Kosh" = "By my axe"
"Grombolar" = "Bowels of the giant" W2Man
"Grommash" = "Giant's Heart"
"Kagh!" = "Run!"
"Lak'tuk" = "Suffering"
"Lo'Gosh" = "Ghost Wolf"
"Lohn'goron" = "Hero's Sojourn"
"Lok-Narash" = "Arm yourselves"
"Lok-Regar" = "Ready for orders"
"Lok'tar!" = "Victory!" (A war cry. Also a greeting while in combat.) HPG
"Lok'tar ogar" = "Victory or death" (A war cry) HPG
"Lok'amon" = Traditional orcish song sung about starting a family. CoH
"Lok'tra" = Traditional orcish song sung about a battle. CoH
"Lok'vadnod" = Traditional orcish song sung about the life of a hero. CoH
"Mag'har" = "Uncorrupted" BtDP, brown-skinned orcs based in Garadar in Nagrand.
"Mok'nathal" = "The Sons of Nath" (honorable title) HPG
"Nagrand" = "Land of Winds"RotH
"Oshu'Gun" = "Mountain of Spirits"RotH
"Swobu" = "As you command" HPG
"Throm-Ka" = "Well met" (A greeting.) HPG
"Trk'hsk" = "Bloodshed in battle" (some orcs in the Durnholde area use the word with a different meaning, namely "that sacrificed to the earth" in order to make crops grow.)LoC
"Zug-zug" or "Zug zug" = Acknowledgment and agreement; roughly the equivalent of "okay".

This was taken from WoWWiki. To see other Orcish translations, please visit http://www.wowwiki.com/Orcish_(language).

Thalassian

Was doing random searches after my last blog post because I wasn't sure I spelled out the correct greeting... Found an official translation guide on WoWWiki. This is a list of officially confirmed, by Blizz, common Thalassian phrases and words.

Al diel shala = Safe travels.
Anar'alah = "By the light"
Anar'alah belore = By the light of the sun.
Anaria shola = Speak your business.
Anar'endal dracon = By the breath of the dragon.
Ann'da = Papa
Minn'da = Mama
Anu belore dela'na = The sun guides us.
Bal'a dash, malanore = Greetings, traveler.
Ban'dinoriel = "Gatekeeper"
Band'or shorel'aran — (Roughly) "Prepare to say farewell", spoken by Commander Sarannis, officially translated in the Chinese version of WoW.
Bash'a no falor talah! = Taste the chill of true death!, Sylvanas Windrunner (WC3)
Belore = "The sun"
Doral ana'diel? = How fare you?
Felo'melorn = "Flamestrike"
Kim'jael = "Little Rat" Kim'jael Indeed!
Medivh = "Keeper of Secrets" W2Man
Quel'dorei = "high elves", or "the high elves".M&M
Quel'Thalas = "High Kingdom" or "High Home"
Quel'Zaram = High Blade.
Quel'Danil = High Peak.
Ronae = "Peaceful" used in Lordaeron.
Selama ashal'anore = Justice for our people.
Shindu fallah na! = They're breaking through!.
Shorel'aran = Farewell.
Sin'dorei = Children of the blood. This could also be interpreted as "people of the bloodline", referring to the continuation of the line of the Highborne.
Sinu a'manore = Well met.
Sunstrider = "he who walks the day"
Vendel'o eranu = "Help me forget".

All translation was pulled from WoWWiki. For other Thalassian translations and breakdowns, please visit http://www.wowwiki.com/Thalassian. Thanks!

World of Warcraft: The Movie

I'm beyond interested to see what they do for the movie... there are just one too many rumors that go about it. One says they are doing it based on lore... interviews say they are going to base it on gameplay (from an adventurers perspective)... heard it wont follow much lore... heard it will be a series/chronicle... WHO KNOWS. Date is set for 2011 or 2012... Way too long for me. I can prolly write 15 different stories based on my "adventuring" within a year. (I want a cookie!)
After browsing around for a little more info, I came across http://warcraft.moviechronicles.com/2007-08/high-resolution-concept-art/. Clicked around and such and found a very interesting list someone posted of actors s/he thought would be fitting for each race for lead roles.
This was posted on January 23, 2010 by Edd.

The representatives for each race (as I see it) are these:

Male ~
Human: Viggo Mortensen or Eric Bana
Night Elf: Orlando Bloom or Craig Parker
Gnome: Mini Me or Sean Astin
Dwarf: John Rhys-Davies or a very serious Jack Black
Draenei: Jean Reno or Marcel Iures
Orc: Gerard Butler or Mikey Rourke
Troll: Peter Mensah or Antonio Te Maioho
Undead: David Bradley or Hugh Laurie
Tauren: Michael Clarke Duncan or Nick Nolte
Blood Elf: Keanu Reeves or Johnny Depp

Female ~
Human: Natalie Portman or Keira Knightley
Night Elf: Uma Thurman or Angelina Jolie
Gnome: Mika Winkler or Reese Witherspoon
Dwarf: Janeane Garofalo or Nicki Clyne
Draenei: Monica Bellucci or Catherine Zeta-Jones
Orc: Selma Hayek or Vivica A. Fox
Troll: Eva Longoria or Penelope Cruz
Undead: Jessica Alba or Kate Beckinsale
Tauren: Camryn Manheim or Kathleen Turner
Blood Elf: Tara Reid or Tricia Helfer

I did this list without too much consideration, so don’t take me too seriously.

Now, I can see the Vigo and the human male thing... Keira or Natalie might be too generic... but it might fit. Night elf male... Orlando Bloom? He's too pretty. NE males are not pretty. Even Craig might be too "pretty" for a NE... Craig and Orlando would make better blood elf in my opinion. The blonde elf hair from LoTR is already befitting for a BE... The NE are taller and dark compared to its light skinned, magic addicts, the BE. Also, the facial features are more complex and vastly different. NE look more worn out... older and mature. BE look young a little younger and smoother facial features. Tara Reid... I can dig it. She'd look hot on top a hawkstrider. Maybe as a spunky little hunter or pally (not quite, but kinda there). Tricia... eh... I see it... but as a healing role... nothing crazy. Her appearance looks kind. From what I saw on a quick Google image glimpse. Uma may make a decent NE... Angie... hmmm............. troll? Trolls would be more fitting, but I suppose a NE druid role would work nicely. *thinking..............* Ok, I'm bought. Angelina Jolie would make a GREAT NE druid for sure.
Mika Winkler may be too tall for the part, but her spunk would fit the gnomish personality very well. Reese could possibly be the most perfect of voices and really hold that role well... tough call for that. Gnome male is just a no brainer. Sorry John, you are forever stuck with the dwarf role. Jack Black? Mmm... maybe. I agree, he'd have to really get serious for this role unless he is running around in the background just being drunk and merry. Jeneane... yes. Nicki... hm... I can't see it as well as Jeneane, but she could do.
I love Jean. He works when with any role. I'm biast. Love him! Marcel... perhaps. These are some well aged men. Paint them blue and slap on a couple horns, and we could go places. I love Monica as a mental draenei. I definately see it. Catherine, possibly. They hold a lot of beauty... and draenei are kinda pretty as well... both wouldn't be too bad for consideration. Mickey and Gerald! We have our Orgrim and Durotan! Gerald would make a great warrior type while Mickey would have more shamanic qualities. Good selection there Edd. I agree with you on that. And I agree with either woman for an orc role. Vivica over Selma though, but both would be great.
Peter Mensah? Oh yeah, I can see him blue, with medium tusks. Antonio... eh. Yes and no. Its really hard to say. Troll females have their own sexy deminor, so either Eva or Penelope could work well.
David Bradley. Perrrrfect. Hugh Laurie. Seeeeexxxxxxyyyyyyy. David looks and fits the part. Hugh (sexy) looks and fits the part. The personality of G. House would work well with the undead's crudeness. God... both guys would just do too well for the part. Maybe a scene in an apothecarium in UC or something. Yes yes yes! (Imagines Hugh bitch slapping an abomination with a stick) Kate and Jessica may be too sexy for an undead female... Kate may work better than Jessica. Mooooooove on out th'way for Camryn! Kathleen may be a great choice as well. Both share the quality of the peaceful tauren, but mostly just in size, but personality. Nick, no way. Michael doing the peanut butter jelly banana dance... Awesome.

These were not bad choices at all. Some perfectly fitting, some not so much, and the rest would work with a little tweaking. All in all Edd, not a bad job. We shall see though! I hope they select great faces and personalities for each race and roles. I'm looking forward to what the writers will come up with and how Sam will direct. I would really love it even more if I could get a job on that project in general. I wouldn't care if I was a simple production assistant again... *sigh*

Anu belore dela'na!

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Ding! Rican is 70~

Just got back from my trip home to Florida and have been dying to play WoW cause I haven't really played it much at all this year so far. So far, possibly 2 hours of actual play time before and during my leave. Last night I jumped on and it felt pretty damn great to be playing. I actually wanted to play. So thinking now, if I limit myself here and there, I will come back and be ready to blast a few hours at it.
Top that... my newb ass just realized that "Minor Inscription Research" or whatever the fuck, is my ticket to getting minor spells... And I can do it pretty much every damn day after I get home from work. Now I have my major research! Got myself 405 last night. Was simple. And worth it. Spent only 100 gold on getting mats, not including what I farmed. Which turns out with frozen herbs, they thaw as you mess with them... it was mostly goldcloves, but I DON'T CARE!
Got DirtyRican up to 70.5 level wise, so gonna really grind out the rest when I get home. Not going to make dinner, not going to do housework... NOTHING! Think I'll grab some Chipotle for Joe-joe and me and play the rest of the night away. Really looking forward to it.