This week-end my computer started breaking down.
I distinctly remember how I got it and was so happy when I could fly into Ironforge and it wouldn’t reduce me to 5 fps anymore. A few months later the Burning Crusade graphics update and the added polygons killed my fps again.
That is how I know how old my computer is. Actually I bought it to play Oblivion because I had enjoyed Morrowind so much. Only I never played Oblivion a lot.
We believe it is the harddrive that is failing now. There are funny noises coming out of the computer and all the fans are working fine. Sometimes it is working ok and I can play a bit or sort through photos from the guild meeting. (link to the public photos). Other times my computer turns itself off in the middle of an instance …
So I backuped all the data (mostly photos) to my usb drive and now I am contemplating buying new hardware. I really wanted to wait till next year at least when Cataclysm was closer. I would really like to have current hardware then, not now nearing the end of Wrath. I can live with having a mere 15-20 fps in Wrath (and that is outside Dalaran) …
Grmpf.
I just saw Siha’s todo list over at Banana Shoulders and since I already made one some time ago on my favorite online todo-list app, I thought it would be a wonderful way to get another post up – which seems so hard to do these days.
So do I really want to make my goals public? They aren’t quite as insane as Siha’s I have to admit. But I should do the software developer thing and give estimates how long all this will take.
These goals are in a particular order as I prioritize some higher than others. Highest on the list are those that I fear may be obsoleted by some future patch or expansion. I also do some other things like Heroics and PvP in the list are mostly things from older content now that I really want to get done before the next expansion hits:
- (5-6 hours) Loremaster of Kalimdor 110 Qs (Eastern already done)
- (5-6 hours, needs hunter) Loremaster: after Kalimdor only 110 or so Quests in Icecrown to be done. (Seeker is already finished)
- (2-3 hours, needs group) Down Malygos for Champion of the Frozen Wastes (can you believe it? I haven’t got that one yet? oO). I am not sure this one might not be going away just like Champion of the Naaru …
- (3-4 hours, needs hunter) Finish the remaining BC heroics (Mechanar, CoT 1 + 2, Shadow Lab)
- (4-6 hours, needs group) Finish all the classic raids (AQ20 + BWL)
- (1 hour, needs group) Go see Trial of the Champions on heroic oO (see I play a lot)
- (4-6 hours, boorring), Catch “The One That Got Away” – goal is the Dark Herring because in the Fjord I can also fish for the turtle mount
- (4-6 hours, borring) Catch me a Mr. Pinchy – no luck so far
- (10-20 min/day) Do the daily fishing quest in hopes of a strand crawler
- (5 min/day) Check every day if the Crokolisks are in the city
- (5 hours) Finish the tournament Champions: only Ironforge to go – a full 5 days of dailies ahead of me, will probably also finish off Silver Covenant rep. I hate jousting. Boooring.
- (10 min/week) Visit the Oracles for eggs
- (4 hours) Farm Kurenai Rep up for lots of mounts and tabard
- (4-6 hours) Farm Strat / Scholo oldschool for Argent Crusade Rep
- (9×30 min /day) Oracle Rep and then … switch
Meta Goals: Tabards, Mounts, Reputations, Minipets
- Reps (17/20): Kurenai for the mounts and the tabard. Just need to kill about 400 ogres. Farm myself through Strat & Scholo about half a dozen times to finish up the Argent Dawn. Quest for the Oracles about 9 more days. Just 10 more Heroics with the Wyrmrest Accord tabard. Do some instances for Honor Hold, Keepers of Time, Lower City and dailies for the Shattered Sun which should yield 4 more tabards as well. Finish the dailies for the Netherwing (I am only halfway through Honored) to get more mounts. Do more tournament dailies for marks and of course the Argent Crusade.
- Minipets (73/75): Get me 2 more minipets to get the Little Fawn. Options: 2 more crokilisks, tournament pets, Magical Crawdad, Strand Crawler, Whelpling or Hatchling farming, Mojo, WoW Bday Pets, Phoenix … lots of places to go farm a bit or just wait for World Events to give me some
- Mounts (49/50):I need one more mount to get the Albino Drake, just one! I cannot believe how often I failed to get one more of the bug mounts in AQ40 this past tuesday … well I got a yellow one at least. Of course I could easily spend 5 marks and 400 gold for one of the “cheap” tournament mounts. I am planning on the Kurenai mounts … soon. I really want to farm Sethekk for the Raven mount. I don’t think solo-ing that one is an option. So I need to get my hunter to go with me. Easiest would be to go do CoT-Strat for the mount there … take the hunter he has it already and chances are … better.
- Tabards (16/25): I bought all I could find. Now I guess I’ll have to farm a few more BC reputations and finish the Loremaster for more. There are the Knight’s Colors and the Alterac Tabard still out there as well … this is not too high on my priority list as simply farming BC reps will yield most of the missing tabards.
- Epic … missing so many pieces in so many slots. Most would be easier gotten through PvP. Maybe I will go that route. I even made a plan where the “cheapest” (in terms of effort) iLvl 213 items for each missing slot can be found. Welfare Epics hooray!
Of course all the Achievements for the different World Events are on my list but way too many to list. If I manage them all I should get the Meta-Mount around Children’s Week next year. Yes I missed out on many events since Achievements came about nearly a year ago.
