Archive for November, 2006

Blizzard Downloader

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

After something interesting a fellow guildie from Deorum Animae said in guild chat one day and something he posted on the guild forums, found out a whole new way to get the blizzard patches for world of warcraft.

Basically it involves downloading and installing a bittorrent client, I personally recommend bitcomet utorrent, but there are a fair few clients to choose from each with there own advantages and disadvantages, once you have done this go to where you have installed world of warcraft too i.e. “C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\” inside of that folder there is a cache folder inside of here you will find a .torrent file open this in your torrent program and you begin to download the patch in a much faster way as the Blizzard Downloader isn’t that great a bittorrent client in that it doesn’t support a lot of things, for example upnp and dht to name just a few, there maybe other things it doesn’t support however and things that it does, but overall a proper bittorrent client seems to be a much better choice to get the patches as for me personally I have experienced a much faster download rate from using utorrent over the Blizzard Downloader.

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Burning Crusade

Thursday, November 9th, 2006

In anticipation of the burning crusade coming out and the release date being confirmed had a little look on the recent developments in it especially the new spells and talents the mages will be getting, as currently my most played character is a mage.

I must admit some of the spells do sound questionable as regards to just how useful there going to be, but cant really comment as of yes, they might be suprisingly good and useful but they might not aswell, but with this in mind I had a bit of a play with the new talent calculator and decided on this build, its very similar to what I already have with a few bits added that I would of liked now but unable to have due to not enough talent points and a few new things mixed in aswell.

Talent calculator builds

Please note these builds/links are subject to break if things get changed on the calculator itself, I will try keep them working though as they change things.

Mage build

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Selecting a TFT LCD monitor for gaming

Saturday, November 4th, 2006

Over the last 2/3 days my current desk hog of a 17″ crt monitor has started making the occasion popping sounds when turning it on, thought nothing of it at first but its never done it before and I have a hunch its going to die on me, of course not wanting that to happen I had a brief search of the web on buying a tft monitor for gaming purposes, found a website on the pitfalls of buying one and what to look out for and I also ask a friend about it also, told them my reasons and they said that the tube on my monitor could be about to go.

I did a bit of searching at the ebuyer website and I have picked the following monitor, it seems to fit just everything I read about and it was an ok price I thought. Mind you if I am honest the fact that it said “Gamers TFT” in the title of it probably swayed me more than a little bit, anyway this is the monitor I haven’t ordered it yet though Acer AL1751BS 17″ Monitor.

I had a bit of a chat to a few friends about what to look for and that kinda thing and one of them mentioned that they had a Samsung Syncmaster 913N so I had a bit of a look at that and thought it was alright, I didn’t immediately notice that it was a 19″ monitor at first, so I asked them if there’s was a 19″ as I had originally only been looking at 17″ ones as thats what my current crt monitor is, and they mentioned that it would be good the 19″ as less eye strain and that, so well I was convinced by what they said and have ordered a Samsung Syncmaster 920N, I asked the same friend about the monitor as I was a little unsure whether to get that one or not purely cause it was a little cheaper apparently its an updated 913N same features just cheaper for some reason. Its being delivered to me on 07/11/2006 i’m off work for 3 days after its arrived so I will be able to give it a good test run of how it performs. I think it’ll be a fine monitor tho.

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New guild, new beginning

Saturday, November 4th, 2006

After my recent departure from the Silvermoon guild, Strength and Honor for the most silliest of reasons, which I challenged I might add it became apparent that no matter what I did they wouldn’t invite me back into the guild, even when I protested that I did nothing wrong and had 2 people back me up on that.

Anyways I have a new guild now have joined Deorum Animae, haven’t really got to know them yet but they seem like an friendly bunch went to scholomance tonight with 4 of them, we did ok, I think we wiped once or twice maybe, but no big deal the rest of the time we was fast and safe too. I never got my recipe again tho, not so lucky with that drop it seems.

I’m on a 2 week trial wont get any loot during the trial but I will obtain some dkp which I can use after the trial is over, I think they just want to see my dps, play my class to a reasonable standard and if I know how to raid MC/BWL at all, check my experience is what I said it was. I’m sure it’ll be fine my work shifts are most likely the only problem that they could have with I think, i.e. not being available a lot of the time for raids but well we will see if I fail the trial i’ll probably just go and level my alts and get them equipt with there tier 0 or better blue stuff, and go from there I really want to level a warrior in the new alliance race a paladin also really, and naturally got to have a shaman put a tick in all the boxes one day will have a char in them all, and well another day they’ll be all level 60, thats a whole load of game time though.

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