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Why does it always seem like my server is one of the ones that takes the longest? :cry:

Oh Burning Legion, why must thee be so cruel?

The boyfriend got me started on this only 2 weeks ago (our first time on WoW for both of us), and I'm already to the point of refreshing the Realm Status page for almost 2 hours straight, waiting for ours to come up. I never thought it would happen, but I've become a WoW-head.

Seems like ours is going to be one of the last to come up, too.

Is it possible to delete a character from an account with no subscription? I have a low level character on another account and want to use that name for another character on my other account, but I don't feel like paying a subscription just to delete it.

Negative. You could send yourself a scroll of resurrection however if you haven't used the other account for 90 days.

Negative. You could send yourself a scroll of resurrection however if you haven't used the other account for 90 days.

Ah. :/ Thank for the answer.

I think I'll try "begging" Blizzard Support, who knows, maybe they'll soft this out. Thinking of going like... "Look, here is the situation. Either you delete my char on that account, or I won't be not paying for this one also." :p

Even with all of the issues that come with patch day, my friends and I were able to do almost a full "heroic world tour" as we call it, where we run every single Northrend heroic in one night. I think we only missed Halls of Stone, but it was 3 AM and we were exhausted :laugh:

It was awesome, and I really like the new 5-man, Trial of the Champion. I got both Spectal Kris and Embrace of Madness from the Black Knight. I was not expecting that.

I love how Emblems of Conquest drop from everything too. I was able to pick up the neck and belt as well.

The boyfriend got me started on this only 2 weeks ago (our first time on WoW for both of us), and I'm already to the point of refreshing the Realm Status page for almost 2 hours straight, waiting for ours to come up. I never thought it would happen, but I've become a WoW-head.

That's usually how it happens :laugh:

Everyone dropping off the face of the planet because they are hammering 5 mans? :p

I have to admit I've not even tried the new BG, WG or VoA. I've got to try the new 10 man tomorrow. The new 5 mans are fantastic though. Really enjoy the fights in there. Loot is really good. I need to do the new dailys but I've had such little sleep I've been too tired to try any of them! :(

Good patch considering I though it was going to be filler.

The new boss isn't in VoA yet. I'm hearing he won't appear till season 7 starts.

Makes sense... kinda.. I consider VoA a PVP raid as it rewards pve AND pvp gear. So to have it come when the new season starts is kinda fitting.

Is anyone else stoked about the fact we can now have both horde AND alliance on pvp relms? Working on my 3rd 80 got him to 60 now Im playing a horde toon on what was my alliance server >.<

Karnocks gear is generally good on my tank , Its all pre Ulduar though, As I don't like keeping to a specific time to raid I pulled out of my guild and try to pug as best I can. Most pugs dont need tanks on my server.

(Shield missing for some reason)

Edited by Shaun_
How is that possible? The demand for tanks is well. Insane!

Ofc no one wants Melee DPS, got enough of them but if you've even got scraps of gear people will be lining up to carry you through instances.

I've found (at least being a DK tank), is that all good upgrades I can get are from the end bosses or from hard modes in Ulduar, both of which my guild can't do. Meanwhile, a lot of other classes get a bunch of upgrades a lot earlier on.

Another problem happens when you happen to have all BiS from the previous Tier (like I do). A lot of the gear that drops early on might have a better score but isn't necessarily better. When you're doing these raids and instances and have crap gear, everything is an upgrade. :p

Decided recently to scrap my mostly custom UI and build my own from the ground up and this is what i have come up so far:

http://i28.tinypic.com/1z1w9c4.jpg

http://i25.tinypic.com/5oz91f.jpg

You can see Omen and the Party frame + raid frames in the first screenshot. But I have since removed Omen (Now using Skada for my Threat meter and Damage meter, so much less CPU intensive then Recount + Omen were) and disabled the party frames from showing up when in a raid.

I still need to adjust the bars the top and bottom in terms of height and textures and a few other bits and pieces.

It is very much a work in progress though :)

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