Spirits of Vengeance of Medivh

Pirate Day

bradlee — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:11:41 -0000

Posted 09/21/2009 04:11 PM by bradlee.

Thanks Crawurm.

Class FAQ's

bradlee — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:32:35 -0000

Posted 07/17/2009 11:32 AM by bradlee.

Blizzard has been posting Class FAQ's recently. If you haven't had a chance to read up on the class from the designer's point of view then please take a look at these links.

Posted by Nethaera (link)

We are looking for community class questions and topics for a class Question & Answer series. Over the next few weeks, we will be posting in each of the class forums and discussing the latest high priority questions and topics the community has. We will then be compiling these questions and topics into a larger Question & Answer post to address as many of questions as possible. While we will be creating one post in each of the class forums to solicit questions and topics of interest, we will also be keeping a close eye on additional posts and discussions.

It is important to keep in mind that we have a schedule of classes we will be addressing and will be getting to each class individually over this period of time. Please note, this list is subject to change.

Shaman - http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=17730193271&sid=1
Mage - http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=17899681390&sid=1
Warlock - http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=18031102314&sid=1
Death Knight - http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=18031186236&sid=1
Paladin - http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=18331429262&sid=1
Warrior - http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=18358914172&sid=1
Hunter
Druid - http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=18600870072&sid=1
Rogue
Priest

For more discussion, check out the forums.

Bradlee

Progressing and Getting Pumped Up

bradlee — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:44:49 -0000

Posted 04/20/2009 06:44 PM by bradlee.

Have you noticed your gear getting better and better lately? Have you been logging in at almost any time of the day or night only to jump into a RAID or Heroic run?

Guild activity has been great lately and certainly enjoy logging in and jumping right to a dungeon run of some sort.

Remember that you can schedule your own runs in the Forum under Parties / Raids / Events and even get a calendar item for your Heroic / 10-25 Person run.

Send Gilthian or I a PM on the forums or in game and we'll help you out.

Bradlee
- I only hide behind my shield as an off spec

A New Year

bradlee — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:25:07 -0000

Posted 01/03/2009 11:25 AM by bradlee.

Fellow Guildies,

We have made yet another milestone. It's now 2009 and we are still playing games together, as friends, and guild-mates. While we sometimes drift in and out or even play other games we are still having a great time and a positive social experience. Unless, of course, you aren't!

With many members into 80 and starting to gear up we have announced our first WOTLK raid. It's tonight and the signups are here:

http://spiritsofvengeance.guildomatic.com/raid_calendar

I look forward to reading about your exploits tonight.

Bradlee
- still working up to 80

Got Yours?

bradlee — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:23:16 -0000

Posted 09/24/2008 12:23 AM by bradlee.

If you haven't already pre-ordered your expansion then now is a good time to think about it. I'm sure that we'll all be online late nights when WoTLK releases and you won't want to miss a moment of it.

Here are some suggested links - we make no money on these links.

Amazon: WoTLK Collector's Edition
Amazon: WoTLK
Gamestop Preorders and in-store pickup

Where will you get yours?

Bradlee

Blizzard Authenticator

bradlee — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:21:17 -0000

Posted 07/13/2008 01:21 AM by bradlee.

If you have not ordered your Blizzard Authenticator yet then you might be out of luck for a while. The page shows that they are sold out. Here is my experience so far.

The token arrived in the mail and appears to be exactly the same as the pay-pal verisign authenticator with a rectangular case that says "blizzard" on it. Once you have your token in hand you log in to your WoW account page and link it to your account. There is a menu item there for this purpose. Immediately after linking the token and the account I logged into WoW and was prompted for my token's code. Awesome!

So what is it doing? The token has a display of six numbers. The first number is incremental and changes every minute and the other numbers are generated by a hash that the back-end server knows. This second factor of authentication makes an attacker on your account have to know your login name, password, and the current incremental number and then guess 99,999 possible combinations within the one minute interval in order to hack into your account.

If Blizzard is using the same Verisign back-end that Pay-pal uses then this is a rock-solid and highly effective system. I am very glad to have purchased one.

What about multiple accounts? It seems that we are able to link multiple accounts to one token. So when you dual box you don't have to two tokens in your pocket or leave one account unsecured.

Check out the token FAQs for more info.

Bradlee

P.S. I heard a brief mention of the authenticator on Security Now Episode #152 - link

Quoted from Security Now #152 Transcripts:

STEVE: In another bit of interesting news, and you may - you're clued into all of what's going on enough, you may have heard this. Blizzard, who makes World of Warcraft, has now adopted a bizarrely painted PayPal football for World of Warcraft authentication.

LEO: Yeah, somebody mentioned that to me, and I thought, that's - so when you play World of Warcraft now you can use your football to say this is me.

STEVE: Now, I don't know if you can register an existing PayPal token. What I found interesting was that they are offering this at a very low price. Just like PayPal, they're trying to encourage people to use this for authentication. $6.50.

LEO: Great deal.

STEVE: Unfortunately, they're all sold out.

LEO: Already.

STEVE: You go to their website, it's like $6.50. Oops, sorry, sold out.

LEO: Wow.

STEVE: So I don't know how many they had, how quickly they sold out, or any of the stats for that. But if we have World of Warcraft listeners, you should know that there is a way to increase the strength of your authentication using the technologies that we've talked about here many times. And it may well be, I mean, it does, it looks like the same technology that PayPal is using. I don't know, but it's worth exploring, whether an existing PayPal football might be transportable so that you'd be able to register that and wouldn't need to set up another one. I would think, I don't know, whether Blizzard is using, like, a VeriSign backend or whether they've implemented their own backend servers. It's impossible to say.

25 man signups

Gilthian — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:58:50 -0000

Posted 07/09/2008 03:58 PM by Gilthian.

As a reminder, the 25 man sign ups are over here:
http://spiritsofvengeance.guildomatic.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=17
Then find the latest date posted and sign up on that thread

The 10 man sign ups are on the calendar.

Gilthian

Welcome and Congratulations

bradlee — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:06:31 -0000

Posted 07/09/2008 12:06 PM by bradlee.

To the many of you who have recently joined SOV, Welcome! To those of you who killed High King Maulgar for the first time last night, Congratulations!

Don't forget to sign up on the Calendar and reserve your space for future runs.

Bradlee

ZA / Kara Signups

bradlee — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:45:05 -0000

Posted 07/07/2008 10:45 PM by bradlee.

Space is still available!

Don't forget to reserve your spot by signing up on the Calendar for ZA and Kara Tuesday night at 12pm Server Time.

Last week we successfully ran two ten mans simultaneously. The "B" team (for Bradlee) totally rocked for a gear-up group. You guys did great!

Bradlee the Righteous

Have a great weekend!

bradlee — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:25:48 -0000

Posted 07/03/2008 02:25 PM by bradlee.

Dear SOV,

Have a great weekend and I hope to kill with you soon!

Bradlee