Doing what they said couldn't be done :-)

Either my guildies suck or I rock. At this point, I'm leaning toward me rocking. :-)

My lock turned 64 a couple days ago and I've been on a non-stop XP grind to hit 65. As I looked to see what my guildies were up to tonight, I noticed a bunch of 62's in Hellfire. I asked if any of them still had to do "Colassal Menace" since it is listed as a 2-man quest and was still showing as yellow in my quest log. They responded that they had all done that quest and were busy with other stuff, so I told them I'd try to solo it. Their response was, "it took 5 of us, no way are you gonna be able to solo it."

The gauntlet had been thrown and I was up to the challenge. How tough could it be to kill five 63 elites at level 64? :-) I soulstoned, made sure my fel armor was up and my blueberry was at 100% before heading out for the quest. Since it was right next to the temple in Hellfire, I took the shortcut to the right just as you leave the temple and found my first colossus.

My plan of attack was simple: send in my blueberry, curse of weakness, corruption, immolate, siphone life, rinse, repeat. I noticed my blueberry was taking quite a beating, so I decided to fear. Good call. I had to apply my DoT's 3-4 times and chain-fear, but he dropped. Lifetap FTW. :-)

After the first colossus, the rest were pretty easy. The biggest problem I ran into was having the stupid giants evade after being feared too far from their point of origin. That really sucked because I had at least two of them down to 20% when they evaded and reset.

I died once in the 30 minutes it took me to complete the quest, and that was on my 4th attempt. I had a hell of a time getting a fear off because the stupid giant kept stunning me. Once I got the pattern down for DoT's and fears, my health only dropped because of life tap and my blueberry only lost a couple thousand health during my initial DoTs. I used one pot the whole time and that was between fights to regen my health faster than bandaging.

here's my armory. I'm spec'd affliction with a few points in demonology. Yea, some of my gear sucks, but I have yet to be in a BC-instance on this toon, so the gear is either quest rewards or AH.

New laptop == playing WoW

I've had my new laptop for a few weeks. It's a nice system (Sony Vaio FZ340E) that has allowed me to start playing WoW again. I get between 50-60 frames per second with all graphics settings within WoW maxed out. :-)

Right before I started playing again, I found out about some major guild drama. Ugh. I've mentioned many times how much I hate drama. Turns out it was the same old stuff...the hardcore players were telling the less-than-hardcore players that they needed to be more hardcore. :-\ Whatever.

Since I've been back, all I've really done is farm for gold for my flying epic. I managed to finish some quests in Shadowmoon Valley which have been hanging out in my quest log for a looooong time. I finally got rid of my last piece of green gear when I scored a new helm from one of those quests.

I started playing my horde on Dalaran. Playing a lowbie is fun, especially when all the quests are new. I could pretty much run all the human quests with my eyes closed, so playing a troll (and also an undead) has been fun. Since Dalaran is a PVE server, it's going to be interesting once I get out of the beginner areas. I might "flag" myself just for the hell of it. ;-)

No laptop == no WoW

A little over a month ago my laptop died. My laptop was my primary WoW machine and blew my desktop out of the water in terms of FPS and overall gameplay experience. The laptop is under warranty, but unfortunately they can't seem to find a freakin' replacement logic board.

I'm actually pretty pissed off about it because the laptop is only 18 months old.

At this point, the warranty company is offering a replacement, but so far, they haven't been able to offer anything I want. :-\ The first system they offered I would have gladly taken because it met all my requirements:

- dedicated video
- webcam (not really used all that much, but nice to have)
- capable of running Vista

The first system, as I was saying, would have been fine...it was a Sony Vaio. The day after I "accepted" the replacement they said they could no longer get the model they offered so they tried to replace the replacement with another Vaio, but this time it met NONE of my requirements. Idiots.

I'm hoping they just cut me a freakin' check so I can move on and get something that will fit my needs.

I *could* play WoW on my desktop...but ugh....20 FPS makes for a brutal experience. All i really need is a new video card in my desktop and I'd be fine. Unfortunately, I can't really justify the expense *just* to play WoW. :-\