Yes, there we are... after years I now have a queue time to log in. Kinda hurts a little.
This week was rough. Tuesday I spent 2 and 1/2 hours pugging trying to work up a save close to Garrosh so we could try and get some folks another shot at a leveling boa for their alts etc... I managed to get to Nazgrim (Lame) Pug groups tend to stop for 10 minutes between bosses on average I'm learning and part of me died inside. However, we picked up another save from someone in our raid and started a bit further at Spoils. We had a rough night of it however, wiping on Thok a few times etc.. and just barely managed to get to Hellscream's door. We decided to hit him Wednesday but the raid leader (me) had a judgement in error.
I let the person who had the save swap toons after the first boss went down. This meant if We had used my save we would have started on Immersius, and would have to fight all the way through Malkorak to get a shot at Garrosh. On the other side the raider who swapped had swapped after spoils so we would have started on Thok, and had to fight through that again. We opted to do Heroic ToES instead. Sadly as we could only take ten at a time we decided to go in two groups. Second group didn't make it far in before we ran out of time, and I'm hoping in a week or two to give them a shot at their "The Fearless" title. Why? Because the guild is Fear Itself so it fits greatly.
Now I would love to tell you the expansion launched yesterday, life was beautiful and everyone was happy. I can't. The launch was horrible, filled with latency issues, inability to log in, and wait times. It made me want to punch something, to swear at Blizzard, to gnash my teeth in frustration, but really, Blizzard wasn't to blame.
They were attacked by DDoS attacks on a major scale. Everything we experienced was because a bunch of A-hole hackers decided to have some fun and ruin other peoples experience. You can argue that some of the blame lies at Blizzards door for not anticipating something like this happening with enough preparations, but at the end of the day, it's the fault of those who illegally decided to flood the servers with false attempts to log in and ruin your day.
If you want to real a little more (http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/11/14/warlords-of-draenors-launch-failure-and-where-responsibility-li/#continued) Adam Holisky at Wow Insider had this article on it. But in short, we were on the receiving end of a bunch of douches who wanted to have some fun at others expenses.
Now as I write this I'm hoping the servers come up soon enough for me to get a couple of quests in before work. Probably won't, but I can hope. If not I will have this evening to play. I am sincerely hoping this unscheduled maintenance this morning weeds out most of the issues we are having.
Then we can all have fun exploring a beautiful new Draenor.
Lag/Lazyeye
This week was rough. Tuesday I spent 2 and 1/2 hours pugging trying to work up a save close to Garrosh so we could try and get some folks another shot at a leveling boa for their alts etc... I managed to get to Nazgrim (Lame) Pug groups tend to stop for 10 minutes between bosses on average I'm learning and part of me died inside. However, we picked up another save from someone in our raid and started a bit further at Spoils. We had a rough night of it however, wiping on Thok a few times etc.. and just barely managed to get to Hellscream's door. We decided to hit him Wednesday but the raid leader (me) had a judgement in error.
I let the person who had the save swap toons after the first boss went down. This meant if We had used my save we would have started on Immersius, and would have to fight all the way through Malkorak to get a shot at Garrosh. On the other side the raider who swapped had swapped after spoils so we would have started on Thok, and had to fight through that again. We opted to do Heroic ToES instead. Sadly as we could only take ten at a time we decided to go in two groups. Second group didn't make it far in before we ran out of time, and I'm hoping in a week or two to give them a shot at their "The Fearless" title. Why? Because the guild is Fear Itself so it fits greatly.
Now I would love to tell you the expansion launched yesterday, life was beautiful and everyone was happy. I can't. The launch was horrible, filled with latency issues, inability to log in, and wait times. It made me want to punch something, to swear at Blizzard, to gnash my teeth in frustration, but really, Blizzard wasn't to blame.
They were attacked by DDoS attacks on a major scale. Everything we experienced was because a bunch of A-hole hackers decided to have some fun and ruin other peoples experience. You can argue that some of the blame lies at Blizzards door for not anticipating something like this happening with enough preparations, but at the end of the day, it's the fault of those who illegally decided to flood the servers with false attempts to log in and ruin your day.
If you want to real a little more (http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/11/14/warlords-of-draenors-launch-failure-and-where-responsibility-li/#continued) Adam Holisky at Wow Insider had this article on it. But in short, we were on the receiving end of a bunch of douches who wanted to have some fun at others expenses.
Now as I write this I'm hoping the servers come up soon enough for me to get a couple of quests in before work. Probably won't, but I can hope. If not I will have this evening to play. I am sincerely hoping this unscheduled maintenance this morning weeds out most of the issues we are having.
Then we can all have fun exploring a beautiful new Draenor.
Lag/Lazyeye
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