After Amnesia giving me back-to-back nightmares (not of the game, however), I wanted to play a quieter, happier game. So I chose WoW.
Trying to get into WoW was rough at first, due to angry putting his fucking parental control hands all over everything. Had to reinstall Steam because of it. WoW was nearly the same way, but it would had been alot worse on me.
Though it was a simple fix. wow.exe didn’t have the permissions I needed to access it. Fixed it.
When I finally got in, I knew of two things that would happen;
1. Server Maintenance (came back on Monday, and Tuesday is usually the day).
2. A patch.
Only the second thing was true. Harmless “Rolling Restarts” for the first one. The patch took just under five minutes to complete. Now knowing the current version, 4.0.6, I went to wow.curse.com to find updates to the existing addons I was using back then. Found updates to all except one, but that’s ok.
Came back in. Logged in using my new keychain authenticator, and saw Benie was in The Botanica. I assume the hacker was preparing for another run.
When I finally got in, I first notice my loadout (my GUI) was screwed up and changed. Had to take time to re-set it back to how I had it, and mostly got it back. There was a few things missing from it.
I left the dungeon and Outland, and headed straight for GS. It was night. Managed to land near “my house” without being seen, then made a ticket that the guy on the phone who unlocked my account told me to do once I got back.
Once done, I ventured over to GS to check my mail. There was several messages from Blizzard, restoring everything from the hacker attack. And then I saw the Darkmoon Faire cards. I personally have no idea the hacker got its hands on them, but there were many. I then noticed I got the Core Hound pet; the “reward” for buying the authenticator.
Went back “home” after that. Time ticked on by, and I waited for what seemed like hours. One time it said there was 20 minutes left. Then it jumps to 21 minutes…
Eventually had to copy/paste the ticket in a .txt file since I had to go soon.
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Today, I made the ticket again. 7 hours.. UGH. However it seemed like I only had to wait five hours. Eventually I got the idea of making a screenshot of my bags and bank and do whatever I want, and when the GM responds, I can use the screenshot to verify of any changes.
So I flew to near Southshore, where there was a Dig Site marker right over the river. Since it’s now Horde territory I had to go in low to not be spotted by Horde flyers.
When I got there, I noticed “Your ticket will be serviced soon.”, and tried to fly back to GS. When I reached the Wetlands, the GM responded. I landed and started my conversation.
It really didn’t take much (if any) convincing that I’m me, and the GM said that “this is your lucky day!” and said I could keep the items! I thanked the person, did the survey, and then went on of what I’m doing now; working on my Archeology skill.
Now I’m finally off the hook and all “restrictions” have been removed from me. Thinking of going back to Outlands to really see if I can really solo Botanica.
But from what I’ve seen when the person changed my loadout, the person “laid” all of my abilities “on the table” to use them. Meaning, my current loadout probably won’t do good in there. But it doesn’t hurt to try, right? If I need more cash (to pay for repairs from dying alot), I’ll go to the high level areas and grind (or sell the Darkmoon Faire cards the hacker collected).
No more gold buying for me. I’m playing legit for now on.