I love playing WOW with all you guys.  I love doing 5 mans, Kara, mALT, and since Atar has been letting me go to BT I have fallen in love with end game content.  BUT, I now have a problem.

Our family has 2 houses, a lake house and a country house.  We have been living in the Lake house and I have DSL here; however, Mom and Dad want to move back into the country house.  I can only get Dial-up at the country house.  I'm still going to try and play some so I don't fall too far behind.  We'll only be there for 2 to 3 months.

Basically, how much I play in the coming months depends on how bad I lag on Dial-up.  I'm hoping I'll still be able to quest to get to 80 in WOTLK because I really want to raid in the expansion.

As far as raid Fail Still goes, I know I'm not going to be able to make it on Mondays because I'm on the East Coast and I won't be able to be at Atar's house that night becuase I have school in the morning and I can't be driving everywhere at midnight.  Saturdays I'm going to try my best to be there.

BTW, if anyone has ever played WOW on dial-up and knows a way to reduce lag, please tell me.

And just for the record, these are some things I have and want to complete before WOTLK comes out.

COMPLETED

Replace my s2 staff and still be hit capped.

Mage Tank

See (and now downed) Illidan and every boss in BT.

See Archimonde.

Get atleast 1 piece of t6 (I currently have 2 pieces).

Lvl both professions to 375 (tailoring and enchanting)

NOT COMPLETED

Replace my Spellfire Set

Get an epic flying mount

Lvl one alt to 70 

Kill Vashj and Kael'thas (I've never been inside SSC or TK)

Get exalted with Cenarion Expedition to get Ayshen's Gift.

Obtain either Wub's Cursed Hexblade or Scryer's Blade of Focus.

You all probably remember my hysterical, rant-filled, rage-fueled freak-outs over the Illumination nerf right after BC. You all told me "it will be alright" and then it went live and it wasn't alright. Paladins to this day are considered some of the weakest healers in the game and it's something I struggle with in raids nightly.

Then the first beta talents came out and I was... overjoyed. The talents were amazing, the abilities exactly what we'd begged for for years.

Then we got it all taken away.

This post pretty much sums it all up: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=10532600037&sid=20...

Read it and understand why being a Holy Paladin is about the shittiest role to play in WoW. At this point, playing Holy is nothing but a labor of love for me. It's fun in a "hit yourself with a hammer" sort of way, but I know that if I don't heal, we will lose one of the few remaining healers left in this fucking game.

A fundamental flaw of WoW is that it bases the entire success of a group of people on a set number of those people "taking one for the team" and rolling a tank or a healer. You've all heard this rant before, yes, I know. But at one point I was EXCITED for the paladin Holy changes in Wrath. And now they've all been pounded into the ground and we've been reverted right back to where we were.

In before the inevitable Shihli post stating "It's beta, nothing is set in stone".
In before the auto-shotting Hunter tells me to suck it up because "dps r hard 2".
In before the resto shammies emo out again.
In before the tanks tell me "you think YOU got it bad".
In before the resto druids realize they actually get an AoE HoT in Wrath. (Yarly: http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?spell=53251)

3.0 is soon approaching and the changes may happen but for now my 3.0 resto raid spec is looking like such (mind you this is w/o playing beta and purely from reading/wanting to try out cool new shit). There are a couple of points I may toss around...and refreshing water shield every 10 sec may drive me fucking batty but with the lack of crit I have who knows...

http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?shaman=000000000000000000000000500053310550105011123312510050003000000000000000000000

I am also planning on leveling enhance so I can zoom through it. I went 1-70 as hance and really like the playstyle not to mention the amount of burst as well as lack of mana issues. I am definitely looking for feedback on this one but again I am doing this to try out new ablities as well. This is a leveling spec, not a raid spec.

http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?shaman=050030000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000050520310500135331131131051

But as far as enhance raid specs go if I get the chance come 3.0. This is looking good to me.. Feel free to critique here. I have done less research on hance but it seems like with Maelstrom weapon, shocks and lava lash the rotation could get really bunched up if you take imp stormstrike...

http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?shaman=050030000000000000000000000000000000000000000000003030500310502135331131031051

Someone I know who lives in California is selling 2 blizzcon tickets for $150 each.  You can contact him at Dontgetstabbed73 on AIM.  I'm not sure if that is a good price or not but I know several of you were looking for tickets and thought I'd let you know.