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[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

Seems my account has been hacked whilst I'm on holiday.

No idea how this has happened as I haven't played WoW for months and my password since I last lost my account has never been manually typed, copy/pasted each time (had an antivirus running since as well). I lost my account last year due to a keylogger which had been injected into one of those automatic WoW addon updaters - It was quite a big issue IIRC on the forums, lots of people affected.

Anyway it was an email to my gmail which said my email address had been changed. Blizzard won't help me till I'm home as they now say the registered email address doesn't match. I can't supply them with a CD key till im home.

It's been soo long since I've logged into my account can anyone tell me if the registered credit card is protected as in certain numbers/code on the back of the card are hidden/need entered?

[Sethos]

Yes, the credit card is secure, don't worry about that. Also, with newly hacked accounts they associate them with their own Battle.net accounts which is a new, annoying way to get hacked - I heard it's so much harder to get back.

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

Yes, the credit card is secure, don't worry about that. Also, with newly hacked accounts they associate them with their own Battle.net accounts which is a new, annoying way to get hacked - I heard it's so much harder to get back.

Thanks for the reply.

Ah well I'll be sending Blizzard pictures of ID and everything I think. I can supply my CD-Key but I can't for the life of me remember my secret question.

Usually sites supply you with the question and you need to know the answer, not remember the question as well :pinch: I'm sure I probably wrote it down somewhere at the time and stored it in a place I thought I'd remember, but that was like 2 years ago.

Last time I got hacked the guy didn't change my password so I managed to log in and get help in-game to get my items back.

[Sethos]

Yeah, usually you can go request your password / a password change and it'll ask you for the secret question but as far as I remember, in order to do that you need the email as well and that's hard when it's changed. In case you didn't know / forgot, here's the webform you need to fill out; http://eu.blizzard.com/support/webform.xml easy upload of your photo ID so it's no big deal :)

[Eric Veteran]

I'd stay champion with Silvermoon to earn Chamption Seals as three days was quicker then starting a new faction and going through valiant all over.

I must've misunderstood. I've been doing both. After I got the first Champion (Thunder Bluff) I started doing the next faction's Valiant quests and also went to the Champions' tent and started those quests. The Citadel jousting quest and the "Kill Scourge" quests overlap so you can do them both at once. I'm currently Exalted Champion of TB/UC/ORG.

Thanks for the reply.

Ah well I'll be sending Blizzard pictures of ID and everything I think. I can supply my CD-Key but I can't for the life of me remember my secret question.

Usually sites supply you with the question and you need to know the answer, not remember the question as well :pinch: I'm sure I probably wrote it down somewhere at the time and stored it in a place I thought I'd remember, but that was like 2 years ago.

Last time I got hacked the guy didn't change my password so I managed to log in and get help in-game to get my items back.

Get an authenticator if you can (or use the iPhone one.) :) Just make sure you scan your computer thorougly before you add its serial number to your account as hackers can keylog the authenticator's serial and fake it.

[Sethos]

On another note, I really want to get back into the game yet again. Last time I got my druid to around level 63, something like that when I decided to quit ... Again. My two friends left playing World of Warcraft are both level 80 and avid raiders, they rarely have time to do anything with or for me like boosts so I'm pretty much playing alone with the occasional whisper "Grats on level 60" etc. and the promise of instance running and raiding at level 80, help me get to 80 first you ******s - The same people I helped through thick and thin getting to 60 and 70 back in the days.

So no people to play with and no, I can't be arsed joining those random guilds trying to socialize with people I don't care about or know.

God I wish it was like back in the glory days where almost every friend I had played the game and we re-rolled in larger numbers or just two guys following each other all the way to 60 or 70 ... God I miss that :(

[the evn show]

Looking at the changes to twinking: I can't help but think making a 60 twink on a classic account (no tbc/wrath) is going to be the new way to be a huge jerk.

Recruit a friend to 60 only takes a few hours (longer than 1-29 solo, but only barely).

You get access to all the bad-ass enchants.

You can easily out-gear everyone by doing AQ-40 and BWL (much of which can can be-5 manned by 80s easily)

If you don't upgrade to TBC/WoTLK then you can't level past 60

Which means you don't have to disable experience gain.

I suspect the 60 battle grounds are going to be ghost towns so it probably isn't worth it, but I do

like these changes for making a bank alt. and/or building a super twink. You can now safely

farm the super-rare gear without the risk of levelling out of the bracket. Plus being able to ensure

you only play against other twinks will make the low-level brackets way more fun. I liked the

simplicity of the mid-level battlegrounds but stomping kids with 1/3 your health and 1/5th your

damage in the hopes of coming across a worthy opponent ever 2-3 games is lame.

[Spookie]

So no people to play with and no, I can't be arsed joining those random guilds trying to socialize with people I don't care about or know.

Should give it a try. Most people I know, online, quit a long time ago. Instead made a whole bunch of new mates I still talk to in various diffrent guilds.

On another note: JC is a hell of a money spinner. I mean once you get over the 2000g entry fee to get it up to 300+ you start knocking out gems left right and center you can cut and make a fortune on.

My fresh level 80 priest is all blinged out. :p

Wish I caught this bandwagon back in TBC! :(

Edited June 21, 2009 by Spookie

[I am Redbeard]

Holy crap, today was nuts.

Got the flame keeper achievement/title in about 5 hours.

Sounds like a lot, but you earn gold the entire way, about 700 in total. I recommend doing this, even though the traveling is monotonous.

(Note: Even though it's not an achievement, there are Fires to honor/extinguish in Northrend. Extra gold, and Blossoms.)

On top of that, Dailies plus selling random BoE epics from a naxx25 pug, I made around 3k gold today.

I also spent it all, gladly, may I add.

I was around 7.4k gold and figured I'd just buy my exalted rep with Hodir. I didn't do it for just the enchant either, because anyone who's anyone knows that even though it's the best in the game, a month of dailies is insane for what little crit it provides.

Friendly-Exalted in 20 minutes.

I really did it just to say I did it. Kind of an arrogant thing, but, also kind of funny.

[Miuku.]

And judging by the 3.2 notes, PVP still blows from the butt.

I guess that's another patch not worth re-subsing.

[dead.cell]

Rerolled an alliance DK last month and got to 80 for the first time the day before. Kind of hit it thinking,"Crap... what do I do now?!" D:

But yeah, did my first Heroic in the Nexus. Didn't get anything, but the overall experience was nice. Nothing really special it seems. Was second in DPS, which was crazy considering the others had quite better gear than me. I've still got some greens on me for that matter. ><

Having fun though. :) Time to do Midsummer crap for gold.

[Prosidius]

Ugh, I feel sick to my stomach, lost the roll on a mount I'll never see again.

[Xilo]

Ugh, I feel sick to my stomach, lost the roll on a mount I'll never see again.

At least you've seen it drop. I've been soloing for the tiger and the raptor for a couple months now and never saw either drop.

On another note, 2nd time doing HMGT (never even did it during BC) and did it solo on my DK, the turkey dropped. lol

[-Clark-]

Looking at the changes to twinking: I can't help but think making a 60 twink on a classic account (no tbc/wrath) is going to be the new way to be a huge jerk.

Recruit a friend to 60 only takes a few hours (longer than 1-29 solo, but only barely).

You get access to all the bad-ass enchants.

You can easily out-gear everyone by doing AQ-40 and BWL (much of which can can be-5 manned by 80s easily)

If you don't upgrade to TBC/WoTLK then you can't level past 60

Which means you don't have to disable experience gain.

I suspect the 60 battle grounds are going to be ghost towns so it probably isn't worth it, but I do

like these changes for making a bank alt. and/or building a super twink. You can now safely

farm the super-rare gear without the risk of levelling out of the bracket. Plus being able to ensure

you only play against other twinks will make the low-level brackets way more fun. I liked the

simplicity of the mid-level battlegrounds but stomping kids with 1/3 your health and 1/5th your

damage in the hopes of coming across a worthy opponent ever 2-3 games is lame.

I'd roll a 60 twink if we could get a bunch of us. haha

Should be easy to find a lot of pvp on more active realms.

[Prosidius]

* The hard mode of the Mimiron encounter has received the following changes: the damage of the flames has been reduced, the damage/health gained from the Emergency Buff has been slightly reduced, the range of the Emergency Fire Bot?s Deafening Siren ability has been reduced in heroic difficulty and this ability is no longer cast in normal difficulty, the damage of Heat Wave in phase 2 has been reduced, and the damage from Plasma Blast in phase 1 has been reduced.

Needless to say the # of guilds that are killing mimiron and seeing algalon have skyrocketted this week.

[Argi]

Yeah, mini hard was one of the hardest encounters in the game. Was kinda warrented though tbh.

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

Well to follow up on my account getting hacked... again, I finally sent off a photo of my driving license/cd key and everything else to Blizzard.

Oh and I got this message from my friend tonight

GAVIN, you were on warcraft tonight, NOT answering my /w. Whaiii?, did you pay some dude to powerlevel you to 80? i think you did!

Damn Chinese gold farmers...

Not sure how this has happened seeing as I haven't touched WoW in months (like 5-6) plus I have had an antivirus running for ages.

Sad to say but I think it's come from this thread. A short while back I posted my email address here and full name to allow someone to send me a scroll of resurrection. I'm not accusing any members here, but look at the popularity of this topic (guests)...

[Prosidius]

Well it's fast approaching but my guild is breaking apart sadly. Bunch of gquits, the GM not doing anything to fix it. I read he may server x-fer the guild and rebuild but who knows, I guess I'm not one he approached about that so...

[Sethos]

Gavin is secretly outing as a Chinese goldfarmer :shiftyninja:

[Shaun N.]

At least you've seen it drop. I've been soloing for the tiger and the raptor for a couple months now and never saw either drop.

On another note, 2nd time doing HMGT (never even did it during BC) and did it solo on my DK, the turkey dropped. lol

Solo, you think I could solo them?

http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xm...e&n=Karnock

[the evn show]

Solo, you think I could solo them?

http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xm...e&n=Karnock

I've been done them a few times on my DK for a while (in quest blues).

A friend was doing them at 70 as a T6-geared feral druid.

I'm not sure if the changes to avoidance will prevent warriors from doing it, but before Wrath came out

I know you could make mobs hit you for nothing just by stacking a bit of block value.

[Slane]

I'm not sure if the changes to avoidance will prevent warriors from doing it, but before Wrath came out

I know you could make mobs hit you for nothing just by stacking a bit of block value.

Can still be done. I just kept health around/close to 30k while using as much block as I could. Just make sure you keep a decent amount of hit and expertise, it'll help more than you think. Armory wasn't showing your spec/gear so I have no idea what you have Shaun.

Just make sure you keep commanding shout up, use Enrage Regeneration properly (normally at 70% combined with Last Stand to take you to full on boss fights, then again when it's avaiable. Some of the bosses can be stunned or you can out run them/LoS to get a bandage off if you do it properly. But mostly its just outlasting 'em. A good amount of block goes a long way, as well as knowing what each boss does.

[I am Redbeard]

Canceled my account again.

I'll be back, but for now, there are other things I'd like to pursue.

Just over 80 days /played.

[Slane]

So faction changes officially announced as a feature to come soon.

Could ruin the game. But you can only do it on your server and I'm assuming only if the faction's are balanced. This could really destroy BG's/Wintergrasp if there isn't any control/limitation to it. But this also makes me want to continue to play my Alliance Warrior as some time down the road I'll be able to take him horde if that would be better suited for me.

[Minifig]

They're still not being clear on what faction changes mean.

This could potentially mean Horde Gnomes. :laugh: :devil: