Gitr

I’ve never been as in-game mad as I was Sunday morning. I logged in to Hunter with my long-leveled best-friend cat by my side in Stonard. I ran to Blasted Lands to do some quests that I started when I ran across Grunter at 4:00am, server time.

Choice:

• ditch pet
• stable pet

I opted to stable Tiggr and run back. As I got back, I saw a level 49 NE Druid standing off to the side, so I quickly dropped my trap and backed up to start taming. Grunter would not go down, because the trap broke and started goring me. I had to Feign Death to regroup myself.

Just at that moment, I saw a big column of light as the stupid druid initiated combat on Grunter and proceeded to kill him. There was nothing I could do. I couldn’t tame, I couldn’t rip aggo without killing him faster, and I couldn’t kill the jerk. If this was on Burning Legion, I would have grieved this guy for an hour. I was sooooo mad it wasn’t even healthy.

I’d been looking for Grunter for at least a month. He was never around, and still isn’t. My only chance would be when the servers come back online after maintenance, but geee, I have a job!

Jerk!

When was the last time you wanted to rip the digital pixel head off someone in-game?

I downloaded the PTR client last night to check out the new sun effects and create an epic-geared level 70 so I know what I’m gunning for. Sounded like a fun night, at least until I got frustrated. I got Deadr transferred, but no premades are working. There isn’t any official news from the blues posted on the thread yet, although I’ve tried several toons over 20 times from 9pm last night until 6am this morning.

I’ve been too busy to play lately, anything more than making 20 bags and checking my mail. I completed The Shadow Tombs last night, but that’s all. We had plumbing issues over the weekend and had major cleanup yesterday after I worked 10 hours at the office.

Check out the whole story at my personal blog: Back to the Basics #2: Be Grateful for What You Have.

Did you get to play much over the weekend?

Sorry for the lack of posts, folks. I hope you aren’t too terribly put off by my recent absence. My life has gotten incredibly full lately. Here are just a few things going on:

• Summer session for college at USF takes up 8 class hours per week.
• Work has become ever-so much more demanding.
• Work has banned me from blogging when I’m waiting for things to do. Other people wandered… I blogged. I see no difference.
• I am editing a book for a friend.
• My wife is now working full-time at her top 5 bank and I am picking up some of the chores at home.
• My parents moved last weekend.
• I am building a blog for my parents.

That should be enough to keep 3 people busy, so it’s no surprise to me that my posting frequency is suffering. Despite all of this, I am still finding time here and there to play. I’m working on a secret project of mine for the blog(s), which I will reveal when it is closer to being done. With my schedule the way it is, if I divulge too much too soon, someone could start and finish before me and I would lose my marketing edge.

What I can say, is how cool playing in Exodar has been. On Velen, I started a hunter (of course) and a priest (also of course) this week. [Read more…] about Working on a Secret Project

I found that I had a backlink to my blog from a ton of sites today, so I checked them out. This one didn’t have anything to do with me, except a stolen image.

What is a publisher to do? *ding!* Replace the file with another and edit my original post to point to the original image with a new name. 😉

Click the image to see what he sees now. ROFL! In an effort to tone this down a bit, just in case one can get in trouble for obscene images getting back at someone being a jerk, I added the censored dot to this kid’s obvious contemptuous display.

What do you do when this happens?

UPDATE: I checked his blog last night and he had replaced the image with another one (undoubtedly stolen somehow), but my image was up for a full 8-10 hours first.