Every single week when someone pugs to zerg Sartharion for the drake mount I try to make sure I join in. It’s a fun mount that I wouldn’t mind having. Both the black drake from 10-man and the Twilight drake from 25-man. Sadly, the First 25-man version I did ended with the raid leader ninjaing the mount.

But yesterday night I did another zerg. Not only was I amongst the top 3 in dps, I was also the only one who survived! As I’ve made it through the exit and rolled on the drake and whatnot I cheer in raid chat “I survived! Woot!” a couple of the others point out “And you got the drake, you lucky bastard!” I hadn’t even noticed. I just naturally assumed I lost the roll. But I didn’t. I really did win.

I flew around circling Dalaran for at least 30 minutes playing with it. Even though I already have the red and bronze drake mount, and the albino drake on my tank, I still thought this particular one was better then all of them. Go figure.

Furthermore I joined an ICC 25-man pug. These pugs usually ends at the first wing since people tend to drop or ninjalog by the time we finish Deathbringer Saurfang. The resto shield of Lord Marrowgar -finally- dropped and I won the roll against another resto shaman with only SEVEN points. I was so excited, finally I didn’t have to farm for a new shield anymore.

I’ve been farming ToC 10 and 25-man every week to see if it would drop. Unfortunately, either the groups were so shitty they never made it to the bosses that drops the shield, or it didn’t drop at all. Frustrating to say the least. Especially since it’s one of the very few lower item levels I had that were starting to become obsolete compared to the content I was running. I had already been chatting about it on vent while the group was forming, so when I won the shield several people were almost as excited as I was, and one guy enchanted it for me on the spot.

And later today.. I’m healing the Lich King in 10-man. I’m hoping we’ll get him down, cause it’s an achievement I’ve been wanting to have ever since it got out, and this is one of my few opportunities before I go on vacation.

Wish me luck!

I’ve noticed a very peculiar coincidence. And I’m quite convinced it’s a pure coincidence.

I have 3 WoW accounts. One is on EU servers that I created back in 2006 when I first started playing. My Enhancement/Restoration Shaman has still not reached level 80 for a variety of reasons. One of which being that I didn’t reactivate that account until just recently after closing it down in 2007. It’s currently hovering at level 65 as I have yet to bother levelling it or.. buy Wrath of the Lich King for that account…

My two other accounts are on US servers. My main account there is with my toons in specific, obviously. The other account is with M’s toons that he levelled. He sadly got massively burned out and started playing Age of Conan instead. The traitor…

The coincidence I’ve noticed are as following, because of these three accounts I have three different emails attached to them obviously. NONE of these three emails receives any kind of “Blizz Spam”. And by “Blizz Spam” I mean those fake emails regarding upcoming expansion, betas, account suspensions and whatnot. My OTHER email account however, that is not signed up for any of that stuff just recently over the past week received no less then 15 emails telling me that

1) My account has been banned for 3 hours for buying digital gold, please click link to appeal.
2) A Faction change on a character is pending, please click link to confirm.
3) Blizzard has chosen YOU to participate in the Cataclysm Closed Beta, click link to confirm.
4) Blizzard has picked YOU to receive a new shiny pet no one else wants, click link to retrieve pet.
5) You have been banned for 72 hours from Aion (wtf, I don’t play Aion) for buying digital gold, click link to appeal.

It should be mentioned I found all of these emails in the one email account I have that does not have any wow accounts connected to it, and they were all located in my Spam-Folder were Gmail had been kind enough to automatically ditch them.

I did not click any links, I only hovered the mouse over to see which specific link it would REALLY take me to. And none of it belonged to World of Warcraft, Battle.net or Blizzard at all.

To never click any links should always be rule one when dealing with emails you’ve received. Even if Blizzard WERE to send you an email asking you to log in, you should always type in the address yourself in your web browser.

That being said, I bought an authenticator from the BlizzShop. I’ve attached it to both of my US accounts. It’s fully possible to have multiple accounts connected to the same authenticator. I remember this being something I was concerned about when I first purchased one. I didn’t really want to buy three seperate ones.
The further good news is that even if you’re in Europe playing on US servers you can still buy it from the EU-shop and use it for your US accounts and vice versa.

I’ve never been hacked though, and I’m quite happy for that. Not that my toons are superawesomely geared or anything. I’d just be very sad if something happened to my favourite hobby that I spend a lot of time on.

And to finish off, Magdeline is finally a Kingslayer. Congrats!