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James Reynolds

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Mark does not approve of Loot Lag

So yesterday while I was *ahem* working away a friend of mine let me know that our Server hadn’t recovered from Extended maintenance and had so far over run by 2 hours. Not like I care really, I was at work and it has never been down as a returned home. Long gone are the years of 3 day maintenance cycles and daily refunds for lost time all of which were a hot spot on my server (Turalyon EU).

Roll on about 4pm our time and the same friend pops up and tells me that the server is back up but it really isn’t running well. As if Blizzard, rather than performing maintenance, had dragged our server kicking and screaming into the underpass before sodomizing it over and over again as it screams WHY DADDY WHY…

… I … Err … Count backwards from three and I’ll click my fingers and you will forget all of this.

Not terribly believing Mark I got home and logged in to the server to get on with my weekly VoA PUGs, sure the log in process took a while but ultimately I didn’t have any lag at all. Unless, you know, I went within 5 feet of a vendor. I have been playing World of Warcraft for a long time now, I’ve seen classes and races come and go and every single one of them has been overpowered for some period of time. I do genuinely remember a time when Turalyon was so laggy that you couldn’t play reliably for days and weeks at a time but this was shocking.

Just what happened during the maintenance cycle? It more or less resolved itself by the end of the day.

I recently got accepted on trial into one of the better guilds on our server with only Yogg Saron left to get down and I joined them rather laughably for DPS on the second to last boss (I forget his name, General something ) and have been tasked with hitting 25-mans as hard as I can in PUGs to try and fill a few of my gear needs, on Day 1 of this mission I landed my Holy T8 Legs in VoA 25.

Good first day.

Later on in the day having cleared out 2 Quarters and 2 Bosses of Naxx 10 (Mostly for badges, boots) I decided I was sick of wearing blue boots and there were only two places to get them – Raids and Crafting. The crafted plate caster boots are simply disastrous for a Paladin – They have no intellect on them and only mediocre other stats so I consulted the WoWHead comment database and threw together the mats for some craftable mail boots that are vastly superior.

I’m sure I’ll replace them quickly, as is always the way with loot you spend a lot of gold on, but it is the price you pay to be in the best gear. And congratulations to Mark on his first time in Naxx10 (Or any Raid?), he came in as our Off-tank as a Prot Warrior. Raid Buffed about 32k HP so you’re definitely getting there!

I’ll be in touch ;p

Regards,
JamesR.