Hiya people,

With the loss of yet another Raid Leader and Officer from our guild, I decided to return back to the rank of Officer. Now this means that I’m having to help out alittle in raids doing thngs im not used to like being the loot master.

Noobiewan is now the Loot Master

The role scares me because I don’t know what loot is good for what classes specs. Hunter loot I know and luckily I’m usually the only hunter in the run and have most of the loot that drops from the places we are raiding. But with all other classes I have no idea. 

This for me causes a problem because our guild has a system where main specs roll first for an item followed by anyone wanting it for an off-spec should no main spec want it. What makes matters worse is the duel spec-ing that’s going to be brought in soon. My hunter brain can only take so much in at a time. It takes me ages to figure things out.

There’s only one way out! (I learned this one from a Mage!)

luckily have been given some help by Gormy and have been told to get Xloot and Xlootmaster mods. I installed and played around with them today. They help with the distribution but I’m gonna have to do some pre-raid reading to get an idea of loots and specs.

/shrug,  Oh well. Whats the worst that could happen…

-Noobie

Aloha People,

It’s November 1st 2008 and as such is the start of NaBloPoMo. With this in mind I have decided to start my return to blogging today and not when I get around to making new graphics and stuff. There’s alot to tidy up in the background and a few bits and pieces that i want to redo or remodel. I may put in a swimming pool or a gym but thats all in good time. For now though I am happy to say that I am back and planning to stay for a while.

I hope to write not only about my time playing Noobiewan but to also create new adventures for my character for you to enjoy. I’m likely to also throw in the occasional WoW inspired rewrite of a song sometimes too.

So I just want to do a quick round up of some of the changes that have happened since I last was writing here. Firstly, and most importantly, Noobiewan isn’t just Noobiewan anymore. He is The Incredible Noobiewan. I know I’ve had the film poster spoofs with that on but I’ve decided to make that the title of the Blog so I will be changing the banner shortly.

The Incredible Noobiewan

Next, I stepped down from being an Officer in The Black Citadel for health reasons however, I am planning on returning to that role as soon as I can. Here’s why: With the expansion coming the guild has been finding it harder and harder to do any raiding at all. They’ve only been able to get into Mount Hyjal once and that was with outside help to make up numbers. There have been a number of attempts to get the guild more focused by the Raidleaders and Officers. But in the end our main raidleader left the guild and I feel that I’ll be needed to help maintain moral until the expansion comes out and people pick themselves out of this slump. There have been reorganisations in guild structure and rewriting of the rules but it’s still the same ol’guild in the end. And there is hope.

Last night I logged on and, as usual, had nothing really to do. The zombie plague seemed to have phased out and the quests to stop the necropolis invasion had already been done. Only the new boss in Kara needed doing but I just couldn’t face that. I needed something fun. I needed Molten Core!

You see the achievement for MC was the only one that, for reasons unknown even to me, actually bothered me that it didn’t show as complete. I had slaughtered the Elemental Old God with 39 or my fellow guildmates and had the full Giantstalker Armour set to prove my time in that hellish hole. So it needed to be complete.

So I I asked one of my guildmates. and they said that they weren’t attuned to MC on that character. “Thats easy to sort out” said I, And soon, I was leading a small group through BRD to get the Core Fragment. We then went to kill the last boss and get the achievement for BRD. (Yay!). Heading back to the MC portal to then get to the MC attunment quest giver, I said why not see if we can get a group and clear MC (It was one of my more subtler moments). We managed to get hold of a total of 15 people (some swapped onto alts when needed) and we managed to fight ourway though MC. It was such a fun night. And the best bit for me is still when Ragnaros bursts up. He is still the coolest boss for me.

The Fire Lord himself!

Aloha!

My Guild is three years old today! 

The Black Citadel was the second guild I ever joined. The first was a guild a neighbour created but I left as there was only 3 members and their alts in there That wasn’t on Noobiewan but my warrior Subtlesnake. My Wife Softi had been in TBC for a short while and I used to come back from work to Her on TeamSpeak with them while they quested and raided. She had quickly been promoted up to officer and managed to get me in with no problems with Noobiewan. In the time I’ve been there I’ve been a guildie, a raider, a mentor and an officer. We have a unique guild, focusing on progression but also focused on building a fun community. We have Guild meet-ups and I’ve had members to stay with us in my home.  I’ve designed and had printed various guild related products, Hoodies, T-shirts, mugs, mousemats, baseball caps and computer wallpapers. My guild is an important part of my world. 

Happy Birthday The Black Citadel Guild!

- A Proud Noobiewan

Aloha Blog readers.

So two more members have been attacked. One has now had the account locked down for weeks now by Blizzard.  The other one is supposedly my friend Warlor. At this time I’ve not been able to confirm this with him. I’ve asked my guild to check with their out-of-guild sources to see if this is a major hacking offensive to the server or just an isolated incident. 

Its funny but as this has been happening I have been listening to the second episode of The Twisted Nether Blogcast Which mentions some some of the issues that have been highlighted this week. I had been discussing one of the possible countermeasures mentioned in the Blogcast, with Softi, about some sort of hardware code sent with the login that identifies the PC and other PC’s can be added with the additional secuirty questions being asked first would say a max of 2 or 3 PC at a time. Its like the authorized PC’s system that iTunes uses.

On a happy note though, Noobiewan managed to get the T4 chest from Maggy!

Hope to see you with better news soon,

-Noobie

Aloha People of Bloggingdom,

Sorry for not updating with my pc pictures. Discovery decided to keep crashing on me all of yesterday. After reinstalling drivers and a complete dismantle I read that the Ram might not be at the right voltage. have increased the voltage from 1.6v to 1.8v (the 1.6 was the auto selection) So far so good, but I’m just waiting now.

In other news, one of our beloved guild members known as Vack was hacked this morning about 4am (gmt). Luckly two of our officers were online and managed to get the real guildie to log in to the details and also to demote the thief so our guild banks were secure. Most of his stuff was saved and the gold from selling some items was still on the character. My thanks goes to my fellow officers for their fast work in preventing it from becoming any worse.

From Noobie

Aloha peeps.

Sometime being an officer in a guild has it’s bad points.
I want to say that we are a happy and whole group but sometimes that can’t be the case. Luckily it doesn’t happen to often.
But an ex-member has reapplied for our guild and after the directed written attack in his leaving complaint about Officers (myself being one of them) being told we’re useless and just greedy in raids. How I should have resigned because our second child was born and I couldn’t be online doing everything an officer needed to do. That had already been OK’d by the other officers and the Guild Master. (The pick of officers, BTW, is down to the GM who will take advice but makes the final decision on the matter) You can understand why I’m just a little reluctant to embrace him back like a returning lost brother.
My other Officers and most of the guild feel happy that he should want to return.
I’ve stated my case on our forums but at the moment I’m having bad feelings about this.

From a troubled Noobie

**additional** after several posts made on our forums, have just said that Im concerned about the effects in guild and my reasons, and made damn sure that any personal things were kept out. I think that my points may be taken into consideration. It might not go my way but at least i feel a fairer hearing has been given.

From a less troubled Noobie