Achievement Unlocked: PC Building

The past few weeks I've been planning a computer build, my laptop is dying and now tech wise very old.It wasn't top spec when I bought it so you can imagine it struggles with newer games like Space Marine.

So here is the specs I'm looking at:

• Intel i5 2500K 3.3Ghz (looking at all the current Sandybridge chips this seems to get the best reviews for value)
• Intel Z68, GA-Z68A-D3-B3 Gigabyte motherboard (I've lookedat a few and I'm still undecided but this is the region I want to be)
• Coolmaster Hyper 212 aftermarket heatsink
• 1Gb MSI GTX 560Ti Twin FrozrII (omnomnom 560Ti Nvidia card mmmmmmm)
• 4Gb Corsair DDR3 ram
• 650W Corsair PSU

I've already bought a 120Gb SSD to house Windows and WoW and maybe LoL because fast loads times = win. and I'm looking at 1 or 2 1Tb hard drives for all other things and storage. This seems to be the region I want to be in just need to get the money together and the time and I'll be good to go. I'm excited to build the thing and of course I'll take pictures, maybe not video you don't want to hear me swearing :P

Patch 4.0.1

According to MMOchamp the patch is due to drop this week, honestly it's taken long enough! I've been in the beta for over a month and I've pretty much stopped playing both live and beta due to burn out, instead concentrating on other games like ZvP, Minecraft and Starcraft2 amongst others.
The changes will be enough to get me back online though. Having fun playing with the new talent trees. Getting used to my Mage and pally again in wintergrasp. I really want to go fire again, so hopefully I'll be able to reforge enough hit to make it happen.
Word from the PTR is that paladin healing has been hit hard which is a shame but I'm hoping that I should still be able to do battlegrounds ok as I hadn't aimed on healing properly with Tam until cataclysm.

Here's hoping that the patch bring the spark back for many people. Bring on Deathwing!

Ding! 80, finally.

The one good thing about your second 80 is that you can plan out exactly which quest chains you want to do, for Tam I picked the Sons of Hodir chain, Argent Vanguard, Fallen Soldier before starting the Arthas' heart chain I love so much. It made me happy I got my ding after just completing the quest where you become Arthas and killing his troops in order to turn them to scourge minions. So yeah screenshot or it didn't happen I know.

Now begins the gear grind, I've already sorted out her final ret spec and I'm researching her OS holy. On the dummies I managed 1.7k dps on the normal dummy with questing gear so hopefully I'll be an awful lot better when I get some epics on my side. Just nice to finally be here.

Bringing the War to Warcraft.

After my complaining about slow levelling I powered my way through the Wrathgate chain and helped me ding level 73 in the buggy as hell Battle for Undercity. Headed to Grizzly Hills for some colour after the bland Dragonblight and then I discovered the wonder of Alterac Valley call to arms. I already have fond memories from this battleground when levelling my Mage around level 55 but this was just amazing. So now I'm level 75 (!) and wondering how I'm going to do this final push to 80.
It's always nice to take a change whilst levelling prevents a character getting boring.
But alas I think my time may be taken up a little more by Starcraft 2. Fun times!

Oh Outland I miss you.

I started to type this a couple of days ago but then my phone got a call and I lost it. My paladin is now level 72 using a mixture of questing, battleground and random dungeon finder because honestly Northrend at least Howling Fjord and Dragonblight have been kinda boring with heirlooms and cold weather flying from 68.
Outland I knew where to go for good questing hubs and although these were again improved in Wrath, I just don't seem to be managing to level quite so quickly and I'm guessing that's due to the fact that the experience required for each level has gone up massively. I shall however continue on, starting to worry how I'll ever get two sets of gear together (ret and holy) I had enough problems just managing one for Red.
Speaking of Red she's only 35 frost emblems short of her four piece t10 bonus. I should really fix that this week.

Not much to say tonight.

I did want to say that I'd been working on my paladin and she'd gone up x amount but I haven't. Instead my boy got me into an ICC 25 pug and it didn't wipe after Saurfang! Yay! In fact we managed Rotface, Festergut, Blood Princes and we even saved an internet dragon! yeah, she started off as :

But in the end became:

This makes me happy :D I'm now 40 frosties away from my full four piece t10 and then I have no gear aims before cataclysm, I know I'm not going to win marks to upgrade them and I'll not beat any of the higher bosses to get better loot for other things. But hey, it's nice to know I can do most of it.

Just a shame we couldn't get our guild Ony/Uld raid done tonight due to lack of people.

A blog before bed.

So as I type this my boyfriend is in ICC10 attacking the Blood Princes for the first time. My main has been well and truly shelved for anything none guild raid wise an my paladin is now level 71 and just started questing in Dragonblight. I was having fun running Eye of the Storm until it got to the time of school finishing, unfortunately for all of summer now, and magically we couldn't use tactics anymore. I seem to be doing between 800-1500 dps is northrend normals which I'm finding alright as I'm in greens throughout and I was still wearing my Argent Dawn stone collection trinket until tonight!
All in all it's seems to be going well. I power levelled her cooking and I'm working on fishing and her blacksmithing but I need another profession, potentially alchemy if I can get the money together to fund it.
I'm finding ret fun an excited at the prospect of getting holy for guild raids. I want to be more useful and I know boosting the dps numbers massively is good but I think this could be better. Let's just hope it doesn't take me too long to get from 71 to 80 and then to get two semi decent sets of gear!