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!

So pop quiz for all you computer nerds.   Here's the scenario:

Computer just shuts down.  Like crashes hard, sudden black screen and all.   Power light starts flashing.   Can't even turn the damn thing off.     And the high temperatures that occured probably didn't help at all.

Anyways, upon pulling the plug to get it off.  Opening the case, spray some dust away.    Turning it back on, it would do the standard bootup til it loads Windows.  Thats when everything remains black and only hard drive activity happens.

So I leave it off a while, put a fan to it, and finally after a while, turning it back on and everything seems normal.

Would I be correct to assume I kinda overheated the hard drive?    Would it be a one time stressed thing or a path of a dying drive?

I've had hard drive problems before where it'd just stall and do nothing and that forced a replacement.   Not gonna look foward to needing a whole new one and reinstalling everything.   Though I do still have it under a warrenty, if only I can copy stuff over to a new drive before they jack it.  Though, might need it to permanently die before they'd allow an exchange.  lol

But at least now I run WoW off an older, smaller, seemingly more reliable hard drive.  lol    Guess I should copy some more of the important things over.

Since my Pally reached 70, the nerd in me started to look at possible gear upgrades. And guess what happened, I of course planned out my whole upgrade path. I'd probably never even see half this stuff, but whatever, call me a dreamer. lol

So I needed some system to rank the gear. I did find some stat weights to use on EJ so I went with that.

Healing: 1 (Base Value)
Intellect: 2.25
Spell Crit: 2.25
MP5: 4.5
Spell Haste: 2.0

Anyways, tell me of the ranks look approximately correct if you can, or if you see anything vastly wrong with the list or something I'm missing, tell me please!

Last Updated: 9/15/2008

So here are the leaked talents;

• http://b.imagehost.org/0128/Assasination.png

• http://b.imagehost.org/0825/cOMBAT.png

• http://b.imagehost.org/0984/Subt.png

A bit of commenting on em:

Assassination:

So out of curiosity I looked through the WWS Scoreboard for our stuff.

Some of our fights got ranked!!!! They only keep the top 200 out of the thousands of parses available.

BT:

#167 High Warlord Naj'entus

#184 Teron Gorefiend

#40 Gurtogg Bloodboil

#165 Illidan Stormrage

Hyjal:

#147 Rage Winterchill

SSC:

#196 on Morogrim Tidewalker

Just thought I'd report it.

So, it's been a while since I documented my (mis)adventures as a paladin. Level 62 now! Grinded up my engineering all the way to 350 (well 355 now) and sporting a nifty pair of [Justicebringer 2000 Specs].   Though I do must wear cloth now cause it's the only stuff I have that have sockets in em, and they're better healing gear anyways, all for the sake of getting the [Insightful Earthstorm Diamond] to activate.   Anyone know the proc rate and how much mana it gives?   I only had a bit of recount and it only gave back like 900 mana in an entire Blood Furnace run.  

So, for a level 62 these are my current stats:

• 614 Healing
• 22.61% Holy Crit
• 27 MP5 while casting
• 6950 Mana

Heh for 5 mans, as long as only 1 guy is taking damage, still seems like my heals are too much for their health pools.  lol   Think highest so far is like a 6.7K hp druid and I can lay 3-4K heals on em.   Hardly ever go oom too.

Solo'ing elites is kinda cool too.    On my rogue I'd have to pop CDs and use tricks enough in a race to kill it before it kills me.  lol   On the pally it is basically auto attack, and heal.   Sure it may take 5-10 mins to kill but they'll die.  lol   Dunno why but I find some sort of perverse pleasure out of this. 

Also, with level 62, I found Crusader Aura!   Yes it's fun!  I understand why it should always be on now!  lol  There's gotta be a mod out there that auto turns it on when you mount, and turn it off otherwise!   I should look.

Anyways as a final note, I'll post my "healing" UI.  Heh it's very crappy.  One day I'll fix it.  Maybe. 

Tuque's Crappy UI