{"id":1885,"date":"2011-06-01T05:15:41","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T09:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kurn.apotheosis-now.com\/?p=1885"},"modified":"2011-06-01T05:15:41","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T09:15:41","slug":"new-computer-baby-pally-update-and-such","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/new-computer-baby-pally-update-and-such\/","title":{"rendered":"New computer, baby pally update and such."},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, one thing Archaeology has going for it is that I get time to write stuff (blog posts, forum posts, responses to people’s PMs and emails) while flying back and forth across Kalimdor in search of Tol’Vir sites for the Ring of the Boy Emperor<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At any rate, I ordered a new computer in early April. It arrived on May 25th. It’s an Alienware from Dell and I will, at this time, ask you to refrain from criticizing my decision to get a pre-made (albeit custom-built) machine and for choosing to get it from Dell. (I know all of the above can be polarizing topics.)<\/p>\n

I adore it.<\/p>\n

I have two 23″ screens, 9 GB of RAM, dual 1GB GDDR5 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 (SLI enabled), a regular 1TB HD and a 300GB 10k RPM HD (Dayden – I was obviously wrong and was looking at one of the 17 different builds I’d assembled before placing the order.).<\/p>\n

It’s awesome.<\/p>\n

Let’s be clear, here. I have been playing WoW on a laptop with an integrated video card for pretty much the entirety of the last five and a half years. Exceptions have included stints of housesitting for my parents and two short periods of time where I raided from an internet cafe because my laptop(s) had to go to the shop for various reasons.<\/p>\n

Playing with spell details up is insane. Water is GORGEOUS in this game and I never knew! How smooth things are, when I can experience them at 60 FPS or higher as opposed to my traditional 7-12 FPS! And SHADOWS.<\/p>\n

So, as you can imagine, I am super excited about my purchase and even MORE excited to raid on this thing!<\/p>\n

So far, I’ve done Magmaw, ODS, Chim, Maloriak\u00a0 on official raid nights on the pally (all but ODS on heroic) and Halfus, V&T and Council (with many Cho’gall attempts) on Monday night on the hunter. (Hilarious! I am not completely huntarded!)<\/p>\n

The changes are amazing. Dark Sludge is really easily visible. Blaze and shadow crash are easy to avoid. I cannot WAIT to do Atramedes and Nefarian on my new computer. CANNOT WAIT.<\/p>\n

And in the meantime, I’ve hit 85 on my baby paladin. I basically did Uldum for the Ramkahen rep and have ignored any other quests (except the various quests to open the portal to Twilight Highlands, plus Crucible of Carnage) and have randomed my way to 85 by way of healing.<\/p>\n

A lot of groups are filled with fail. Fail failfailfailfailfafwftgtwfgishf.<\/p>\n

Ahem.<\/p>\n

People who can’t do Corla’s beams, people whose pets are on aggressive, people who don’t understand how the pyramid packs (damn you, Majik) work in Vortex Pinnacle…<\/p>\n

However, there are the occasional groups who are AWESOME. Tanks who ask about my mana and ask if I need CC, skilled DPS who can zerg the last guy in Blackrock Caverns while pulling the adds off JUST long enough for me to heal the tank…<\/p>\n

Some very pro groups and some very fail groups.<\/p>\n

The baby pally, who still needs a self-deprecating nickname, is gearing up nicely and has 7 346\/359 pieces already.<\/p>\n

Erudax, in Grim Batol, has already denied me his bracers (333 on normal) once. We’ll see if this gets to be a trend…<\/p>\n

So that’s going nicely. I’ve even livestreamed a few times: http:\/\/www.livestream.com\/kurnmogh<\/a><\/p>\n

In other news, Apotheosis had a rough week last week, failing to repeat on heroic Magmaw or heroic Atramedes. The former due to a lot of mistakes, the latter because we ran out of time.<\/p>\n

This week, we walked in and one-shot heroic Magmaw.<\/p>\n

I’ll take it. >.><\/p>\n

And speaking of Apotheosis, June 1st is a fourth anniversary! Granted, we weren’t really a guild, per se, during most of Wrath, but we’ve been a guild since October or November of 2010 and we were certainly kicking back in Burning Crusade. So it’s time to celebrate what we’ve accomplished together and remember the laughter we’ve had during the last several months. I’m planning a retrospective that includes videos (!) and the like. I just need to get videos to render properly and finish going through some screenshots. Should be fun and hopefully done this weekend at the latest.<\/p>\n

Having responded to most of my outstanding PMs and emails and having done about as much archaeology as I can stomach for now, I’m going to head to bed, but that’s what’s up with me, lately.<\/p>\n

Upcoming blog post topics include: keys\/attunement, ZA\/ZG gear and T12 gear. Probably not in that order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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