Dragosteel

So, in the early afternoon yesterday, I go to log onto WoW.  I get a password error.... oh crap.  Fearing the worse I hop onto the WoW website to change my password, try it again and get a message that my account is suspended.... aww crap.  I check my email and apparently I was banned because some douchebag hacked into my account, wiped all the gear from 3 of my toons clean out all the worthwhile items from the guild bank and its gold, then had the audacity to advertise with my character(s), which was the reason for the ban.  I got an email today with the ban lifted, because they know it wasn't me. So, after work tonight I get to go home open a gm ticket and wait to get all my stuff back. What a pain in the ass!

01/28/09 Update.
Got most of my stuff back yesterday, they need to further investigate some stuff before the rest of the items and my gold are returned.  Would have gotten it sooner, but somehow my escalated gm ticket got wiped out. Oh, and a big thanks to dragonoflife  for the recommendation of lavasoft adware, that program found an alarming ammount of stuff, macafee sucks.

This will be raid number 4 for me, headed back into Karazhan, and I must say, I am actually quite enjoying the experience.  Something about a large group working together to proceed.  The is an obvious "jump" in difficulty from instances; mobs are bigger and hit harder.  Most bosses in instances can just be "tanked and spanked," a few here and there need some different techniques to take down (Last boss in Steam Vaults is a great example). But, every boss encounter in raids seem to require quite a bit of organization and coordination between everyone.  It's not too bad in a 10 man, but how bad does it get in the 25 man raids?  I guess I'll find out soon enough.

I think my only beef with Raids is how long they seem to be, then again looking at what is involved in Kara, that seems to be one of the longer ones. The New raid that came in 2.3, Zul'Aman seems to be dramatically shorter.  Which is a bit of a relief since our last Kara run, from start to finish (and killing Prince)  took about 5 hours!  And we only wiped 3 times. 

So, here's to a smooth and relatively quick run tonight.  I sure do hope the tier 4 helm drops for me.