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13
Jul

WoW on a shared 56k dial-up connection

   Posted by: WoWGrrl

So, for a week I’m visiting my parents who live on a beautiful piece of lake-front property 30 minutes drive from the nearest town of 4000 and two hours drive to the nearest city of 100,000.

In other words, I’m out in the (civilized) boonies where high speed Internet is a rare find. While there may be options for bringing Satellite internet connectability out here over the summer for a chunk of change, right now my brother (who I am staying with in the guest cabin) and I are sharing a 56k connection.

I’m quite impressed, actually, about how World of Warcraft operates under these conditions.

Sure, I can tell when someone’s active on the network (browsing, up/downloading) as it lags my connection a few seconds, but playing itself is only infrequently laggy, especially when only one is playing, and the other is hopping worlds checking auctions, etc.

Warsong Gulch With My Bro

My brother and I started new toons together on my main realm and we’ve advanced to 15 in the first week of play time. Last night we ventured into WSG for the first time, as my brother enjoys the player-killing aspect of online games and has twinking aspirations (especially since he’s earned 50g in the first week of playing from tips I gave him).

For the first while we played together, but we got split up having died seperate times, and after a bit of us both being lagged in casting or shooting our bows, I logged out to see how much more responsive his connection would wind up being. I was quite satisfied with the result, fully expecting that 56k isn’t really meant to support more than one player of such a rich-environmented game like World of Warcraft.

In other words, brother moved from dying without getting a single spell off to at least getting a spell off before he died, and dying mainly because he gets way too close to the action for his level of interface, targetting and casting familiarities. Exactly the way it should be as he continues on his path of the learning curve.

That being said, I haven’t tried a 5man dungeon or anything more complex than two of us questing together or trying out that battleground… not sure how well one of us could perform in a dungeon, nor am I sure whether the fact that I have Burning Crusade and my brother does not would affect anything.

Hmmm… :) I have a few more days to test!

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3
Jun

Epic Land Mount: Frostwolf Howler

   Posted by: WoWGrrl

Horde side epic land mount from Alterac Valley

My 64 Hunter finally finished the painful trek of Alterac Valley games required to get 50 tokens and purchase the Epic Land Mount for that battleground, this weekend.

I’m happy with it for the main reason I originally sought it out - it’s a smoother ride than the Epic Raptor mount I purchased when I first could afford the Journeyman Riding training skill (150).

The biggest disappointment is that it really doesn’t look very Horde-like. The colors are BLUE and white. So, it looks like I accosted some Alliance kid and Concussion Shotted him off his mount and stole it while he /spit and /cry’d at me, thumping his fists on the ground in frustration.

But hey, I’m all for funny stories of how I got what I got…

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4
May

Torturing Myself With The Slow Alterac Valley Grind

   Posted by: WoWGrrl

As a Hordeling, I’ve been told that we have an “inherent terrain deficit” in Alterac Valley.

Whether or not it’s true, we sure lose a lot in the Ruin Battlegrouping. In fact, the last 20 games I’ve been in have all ultimately been losses for the Horde side.

Don’t get me wrong - I have fun when I’m in there… the whole 40-on-40 PvP thing brings me great joy, especially when there’s a large “front” advancing and I am part of it.

As a level 63 Hunter in the 61-70 bracket, I’m not one of the powerful ones in the game, and I’ve never appeared on the first page of Alliance-and-Horde combined results at the end of the game. But, I still get in there and use up as many arrows as I can, using my traps to strategically slow groups, using my ranged powers to distract guards standing around a flag, and using my body, where required, to draw enemy fire and die so my teammates can progress.

The main reason I’m playing Alterac Valley these days is to get the Frostwolf Howler epic wolf mount. I wrote about it originally back here, but haven’t been pushing at it again until just recently. I’ve now got 40 Alterac Valley Mark of Honor now, and only need 10 more, so hopefully soon I’ll be posting that I’ve got the mount and I’m happy with it.

Hopefully that won’t take another 10 full games, however.

But whatever… whenever I’m killing Alliance on the battlegrounds and can toss a /cheer over at someone who catches me offguard and takes me down, I’m happy!

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