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Last week

[item]Halo of Transcendence[/item] — Onyxia
[item]Judgement Crown[/item] — Onyxia
[item]Ring of Binding[/item] — Onyxia

[item]Pauldrons of the Unrelenting[/item] — Fankriss
[item]Scaled Sand Reaver Leggings[/item] — Fankriss
[item]Qiraji Bindings of Command[/item] — Huhuran
[item]Qiraji Bindings of Dominance[/item] — Huhuran

This week (so far)

[item]Halo of Transcendence[/item] — Onyxia
[item]Stormrage Cover[/item] — Onyxia
[item]Sapphiron Drape[/item] — Onyxia

[item]Cloak of Concentrated Hatred[/item] — Skeram
[item]Boots of the Redeemed Prophecy[/item] — Skeram
[item]Robes of the Battleguard[/item] — Sartura
[item]Thick Qirajihide Belt[/item] — Sartura
[item]Fetish of the Sand Reaver[/item] — Fankriss
[item]Mantle of Wicked Revenge[/item] — Fankriss
[item]Hive Defiler Wristguards[/item] — Huhuran
[item]Qiraji Bindings of Command[/item] — Huhuran
[item]Qiraji Bindings of Dominance[/item] — Huhuran
[item]Imperial Qiraji Armaments[/item] — Huhuran

Last night the AQ40 run went really nice and smooth, lag spikes were there too, as usual. The [item]Fetish of the Sand Reaver[/item] is in the setup I’m working on, but for now it’s not a priority (I would rather get something else). I wanted to get the [item]Genesis Boots[/item] (from the [item]Qiraji Bindings of Dominance[/item]), but maybe next time Hopefully Twin Emperors are going down this week.

After I opened a ticket about the lag spikes (and also about the kick that we all got from the server) that we encountered during the run (which basically wiped us because it happened when we were doing Sartura, it was something like a lag spike, when it passed 20 or so members were dead, then another lag spike… and then whoever was alive died as well), I couldn’t believe I got this answer…

Somehow I liked the part that said “This is an automated response, and you will be unable to reply”. I love teh game, but the lag spikes are getting more and more common, and it makes you think if they are being worked out or what. Then we have The Burning Crusade comming up in a couple of months…

On the main topic, I really like Cross Realm Battlegrounds. For a couple of days I’ve been working in getting Exalted with Alterac Valley, and let me tell you, in a couple of days I should have access to the [item]Lei of the Lifegiver[/item], which is similar to [item]Sartura’s Might[/item], but doesn’t involve DKP, hehe. Right now I use a Two-Handed weapon, but I want to have an off-hand just in case I can get a good One-Handed.

Anyway, this has been my time-record so far (18 minutes Alterac Valley)

Most of the times there are games that last aroundd 20 minutes to 30 minutes, which is awesome, taking into consideration that before the games would take more than 4 hours, which made the entire thing very, very boring.

Yesterday Patch 1.12 (Drums of War) went live in US-Servers, and after last night, there were some things I really liked about the patch (some of them):

• Honorable Kills now diminish at a rate 10% per kill rather than 25% per kill.
• V key functionality has been improved in several ways.
  1. V key now shows summoned monsters (such as the gargoyles in Stratholme.)
  2. V key now shows both monsters and player enemies.
  3. V now shows enemies only (no longer shows friendly targets.)
  4. Shift-V now shows friendly targets only, not enemies (with a new bindable hotkey.)
  5. Control-V shows both friendly targets and enemy targets (with a new bindable hotkey.)
• There is now an option to turn on the display of your own name above your head. You can find the option in the interface options screen.
• The player inspect range has been increased to 10 yards.
• New API Functions.
• Neutral guards are now able to see through the rogue Vanish ability.

The things I didn’t like (some of them):

• Due to significant talent changes, Rogues will have all talent points refunded and can be re-spent. Training costs for all talent spell replacements have been significantly reduced.
• The options screen has be redone and expanded due to space required for additional options. Also the location of various options has been changed in the options screen. They should make more sense now, though they will not be in quite the place you remember them being.

The rogue review is good, but it’s going to be a pain to get a new spec, lol. Here’s a screenshot of the new Interface Options, the thing I don’t like is that it blocks all the screen (compared to other options).

But not everything was cool last night…

Servers had issues almost the whole night (with a couple of other servers having the same issue), after they came up it crashed three or so times, we got kicked before and while we were doing Ahn’Qiraj, which was rather stressful.

Not to mention the latency…

Because we started late and kept being interrupted (all because of server issues), we weren’t able to make as much as we wanted last night

[item]Amulet of Foul Warding[/item] — Skeram
[item]Beetle Scaled Wristguards[/item] — Skeram
[item]Robes of the Battleguard[/item] — Sartura
[item]Thick Qirajihide Belt[/item] — Sartura

One more [item]Qiraji Lord’s Insignia[/item] and I’ll reach Revered with Brood of Nozdormu (right now @ 11609/12000) ^_^

Patch 1.12 is a very good patch, addons work awesome (like CT_RaidAssist), since you don’t have to broadcast and stuff like that. ScrollingCombatText got updated with some nice options as well. A recap of those addons that I use that have been updated so far (as I’m writing this, not going to keep an updated list, tho):

• CT_RaidAssist v.1.54
• Natur EnemyCastBar v.5.0.0
• Pe rl Classic Unit Frames v.0.78
• Decursive continued v.1.9.8.RC2
• UseByName v.12
• ScrollingCombatText v.5.0