Hello all.

I just thought I would let you guys know that I'm still here but just really busy lately.  I'm in my last year of finishing my Masters degree in CS and the work is just being piled on me from all sides.  

I am also helping to get my old guild up and running on Warhammer which has taken alot more time then I thought it would but at the same time its been great getting back in touch with alot of old friends from my 5 years of playing daoc.  If anyone is looking into trying out WAR send me and PM and I'll direct you to where we are set up and hopefully be able to answer any questions you might have about the game and the guild over there.

I should be logging back in next weekend 27th or so to do some mALT stuff or PvP or something.  I hope all is well and I'll talk to you all later.

Jay 

Since I was a little kid I can always remember my mom being into some kind of craft or another. When I was really little until about my early teens it was woodworking & painting. She made some pretty good money at it, but gave it up when she had to buy yet again another new wood saw (can't remember what they were called but they werent cheap) and everything was getting so expensive. Next was airbrushing. She really got into that and i think she had a hella knack for it I was about 16 or so then. She did some awesome stuff, but when her parents (my grandparents) got sick she moved back to Pennsylvania to take care of them & sold almost everything she had to get there. I at the time was out of the house so was no huge deal it was what she wanted. At some point in time between there she picked up web page design & it blows me away the shit she knows. I always call her Mom help me fix this mess. (meanwhile i've been fuckin with the code for my myspace or whatever for hours trying to tweak it just right & she zooms in in like 4 mins & fixes it perfect GRRR) LOL.

Anyhow up to current times a friend of hers talked her into making jewelry etc. At first she was having fun, but buying beads etc could get costly. So she started playing around with making her own beads out of polymer clay and from there she has expanded to not just beads, but other things such as sculptures, ornaments etc.

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/09/world-of-warcra.html

Well according to that article, the Pentagon made a presentation with a scenario of terrorists communicating a plot in WoW. So if we ever see people talking in trade chat or something about raiding unknown places in lowbie zones using Everquest items and getting weird monetary values for rewards.... THEY ARE TERRORISTS!

Shihli made a good point in his request for 16 slot bags.   I have a few piles of Netherweave bolts (like ten) and a few piles of Arcane Dust just lying around inside my bank.

The mats ask for two [Netherweb Spider Silk] which can be picked up anytime your in Black Morass, or from the AH.  Send me three of them and a [Greater Planar Essence], and I'll send you back a [Imbued Netherweave Bag] which is 18-slot.   And yes, I won't lie, I'm asking for the third to make my own bags w/out having to find the Netherweb Spider's Silk.  I'm Lazy.  Sue me.

When you count Bank Slot's, I'm planning on making 4 bags for Pedran, and 6 bags for his Bank. This equated to roughly 720 Netherweave Cloth, 20 Arcane Dust, 10 Greater Planar Essence, and 20 Netherweb Spider Silk.

Total Mats are as Follows(in case you care):

• [Bolt of Imbued Netherweave] x4 (Total Netherweave Cloth = 72)
  • [Arcane Dust] x2
  • [Bolt of Netherweave] x3
    • [Netherweave Cloth] x6
• [Greater Planar Essence] x1
• [Netherweb Spider Silk] x2

On the flip-side, if you don't have the [Greater Planar Essence], I can just make you a 16-slot [Netherweave Bag] instead.  I have all the bolts I need (I think, depends on what orders I get), but I would still ask for one Netherweb Spider's Silk.  :D

Total Mats are as Follows(in case you care):

• [Bolt of Netherweave] x4 (Total Netherweave Cloth = 24)
• [Rune Thread] x1 (50silver from vendor)

I've been playing a bit on the beta, and my gf's been playing a lot and I figured I'd share some of our findings with all of you.

Death Knights are cool and they've done something really fantastic with the death knight starting area.  They've taken the game mechanism of "being in a different phase" (like the collecting the mana cells daily) and made it triggered on quest completion.  What this means is that the death knight starting area is seemlessly dynamic as you complete various quests.  This also means that we can't go on a death knight purging event in EPL since all the noob knights will be phased from us.  The death knight quests will take you to level 58 before you are done with them.  You will need to do them all since you start with zero talent points and completing the starting area quests give you additional talent points.  Death knights start with green gear and get each and every piece replaced with blue gear as they go through the starting quests.  I recommend speccing to get the ghoul pet, it makes levelling easier.   The place to purge death knights is going to be Hellfire Peninsula :-)

Inscription is undergoing a lot of changes and right now levelling it is completely unbalanced regarding the herbs you need.  Mageroyal will get you all the way to 400 skill for instance.  It's selling for 30-50G apiece (not a stack) in the beta AH.  So far there are only major inscriptions available (no minor ones), and I'm not even sure they are all working even though you can apply them to your spell book.  You'll need about 15-20 stacks of low (0-30), mid (30-60), high (60-70) and wotlk (70-80) zone herbs to completely level it.

This is a conversation I had with a friend that was on the PTR. 

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If the pic is too small I'll copy and paste our conversation.