it's a boy

there were some rough moments toward the end, but sherie and baby made it ok. it was born 7 lbs-11oz and 21 inches tall at 10:42pm 4/27. sherie got 2nd degree tearing and was feeling every stitch as her epidurl buff wore off. our baby is doing fine. i came home because i needed to play wowi wasn't allowed to stay. tomorrow, everyone is coming home.

Lan PARTY?

So Scott....like we talked last weekend.... should we have it this coming Sat?
Pizza or Chinese food?
ur house?
I'll bring my computer??

Can you tell me how to get...

So I'm at the level where I can enter Alterac Valley, and they have the best awards so I'm going to try to focus on that one, but I also remember it as being the most complicated one. If I remember right there are special little quests for the lower level people like me to do like go gold hunting and so forth, but I don't want to run in there compleatly clueless. Can any of you either point me to a website with a good guide or tell me the basics of this place, especially where I can find stuff? Thx.

Top of Quality

The Fabled acquired the preliminary quest item for this after downing Ragnaros last night. The materials required are not trivial, including 20 dark iron bars, 50 arcanite bars, and heaps of Molten Core drops. Thanks to the spontaneous generosity of many guild members (thanks Jekyll!) Direwolf was able to wield this weapon just a few hours later.

Arbitrage

I know there are some here that buy stuff from the Alliance side and then transfer it to the Horde side. I assume you do this, not because you saw that Purple BoE in Ironforge and thought that would be perfect on your Troll Hunter, but because of price differentials and a profit motive.

Gavin, has a post on exchange rates in Japan, I've spent the last hour talking to myself about purchase power parity. Go there to talk about Japanesy things.

My question to you all is, do you see big price differences between Horde and Alliance? How do you track prices? What price difference does there have to be for you to bother moving stuff between sides? Is there only transportation costs, as I suggest in my comments at Gavin's blog, or is there something else to consider before moving items between factions?

exodus

So.. our merry little server has come up on the realm transfer list. Character transfers will be opening up on the 10th for a new server called Black Dragonflight. The move is supposed to alleviate some of the pressure on our server, maybe whittle down the queues and the lag a bit.

Blizzard has thrown in a twist, though. Black Dragonflight is a PvP server. This means that you are automatically PvP flagged in contested zones (just about every zone over level 20). I hear that STV is pretty much an ongoing battle royale on those servers.

I'm split on the prospect of switching to a PvP server. It will certainly make the game a lot more interesting. The Fabled will probably be putting it to a vote really soon, and I'm inclined to stick with them. What do you folks think?

follow up

So.....since Alk and I forgot our run tonight, we're gonna try to see if we can do something Thurs night around 8ish. Anyone interested?

What I've been up to...

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On Tuesdays

Just so you guys know Dexterfoo and I always try to have a night we are both on for a good amount of time so we can do instances and stuff, We want to do them with Wendyfoo too, but, well, we allways just assume Todd will be on. Anyway it's been Wendsdays but I thought I'd just let you guys know we changed it to Tuesdays. So if you want to do high 40's or low 50's stuff we'll be on Tuesdays, and I hope to do ZF, Sunken Temple, and Maradon within a month or so if I can manage it, so hopefully we'll be able to do one each week. Anyway wheather you have other things or not, I'll be seeing ya Tuesdays.

Hah! episode 2

Patch 1.11 notes:

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Rogue


* Moving while stealthed has a very small chance to break stealth. This was to reduce the frequency at which players were being ambushed or backstabbed in player vs. player environments.
* Discovering a stealthed rogue will now produce a large alert symbol above the rogue’s head similar to the Hunter’s Mark. The alert can only be dispelled by using the Vanish ability.
* Vanish has been increased to a 30 minute cooldown.
* Fixed bug which allowed Rogues to wield two weapons at the same time.
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Warlocks


* Standard bags will no longer hold soul shards. This should make obtaining larger size soul shard bags feel more rewarding. To compensate for the change at lower levels, we've added new soul shard bags to various vendors throughout Azeroth. These bags are designed to hold between 4 and 12 soul shards, depending upon the size.
* Using friendly emotes will now significantly increase the Infernal and Doomguard's chance to remain loyal to the Warlock.
* Friendly emotes are no longer available to the Warlock.
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World Environment


* Due to the awkward look and feel of Taurens in the Undercity, guards will no longer permit their entry and have been flagged to kill on sight. Taurens, you've been warned.
* Entering the Barrens will now flag your character for PvP, regardless of your faction or realm type. This is being done to make the zone feel more alive.
* Above the corpse of Mankirk's wife, a large red arrow will now appear and be viewable for up to 500 yards. To ensure that the associated quest offers some challenge, typing the word 'Mankirk' 'wife' or 'anyone seen' in Barrens chat will now result in experience loss.
* In order to assist with various upkeep costs, at a designated time NPC vendors will now give players an amount of gold based upon their level. This is currently slated to occur every Tuesday from 6:00 AM to 11:00 AM PST.
* Many new Sons’ of Arugal have been added to Silverpine Forrest. Occasionally Arugal himself wanders the zone. During this time, players may not enter his keep.
* Due to the changes associated with the new flightpath scenery improvements, players will need to relearn all flightpaths.
* A total of 26 new flightpaths have been added to various points throughout the Barrens.
* Additional grass areas have been added to the enemy faction's zones. This grass is exceptionally green.