One HELL of a birthday present
Prepping for my birthday. Got a pizza and a cookie from Papa Johns. Checked Thunderbird to see when it’ll show. Getting lots of “Happy Birthday” emails from several websites that think my birthday is today.
One email stood out. It was from Blizzard, titled “Warlords of Draenor”. At first, I thought it was spam(as in “It will be released at so and so time! Preorder NOW!”), especially when Thunderbird thought it was spam. But I viewed it and read it, then suddenly my eyes widened when I saw “you’ve been selected to participate in the beta test of World of Warcraft®: Warlords of Draenor™!” I then jumped out of my seat, squealing like a pig and yelling “OH MY GOD!!!! I GOT A WOD BETA KEY!!!!“.
YES, I’m NOT dreaming!! I even pinched myself! Holy FUCK I’m so happy! No more will I have to watch WoD Beta videos! I’ll be able to finally see the content MYSELF! 😀
I just changed my plans for tomorrow. 🙂 Originally, it was either going to be attempting to do an LFR of Siege of Org, or hanging out with Ter and Heol in Goldshire. THIS.. changes that. I will test WoD. And the first thing I will do, get to The Dark Portal, do the ‘suicide mission’, and all the other quests leading up to doing Garrisons! I’ll also figure out why you’re called a ‘Commander’ instead of ‘Champion’ or ‘Hero’. And I’ll be typing in every little thing I see into blog posts.
This… makes my evening. I feel like I won the lottery. This is the first Beta test I’ve been in since AOL 7.0, many years ago when I still had a 56k modem.
This whole thing bears a question, though: why was I selected to beta test WoD? I’m not YouTube famous. I’ve never been to BlizzCon(except the live stream of 2011). I’m just a soloer. Maybe they saw it was near my birthday and gave this to me as a way of saying “Happy Birthday! Now go have fun building a Garrison and talking all about it in your blog!”
Whatever’s the case, I got it and I feel honored, and I will use it to my advantage, check out everything I always wanted to, and report bugs. And, I also take back every mean thing I said to Blizzard for the past 9 years… without being a fanboy. 😛
Enter the Monk
Before I was blessed with this wonderful birthday present by Blizzard, I got Benie and my Monk on and proceeded to re-train how to be a Level 90 Monk by dueling myself, and Benie’s pets.
The training went as good as Blizzard on patch day(damnit. I said I wasn’t going to say anything mean about them!). I’m mashing every button in the hotbar, hoping one of them has high DPS. But, I think my Monk is ready, and got them to the Timeless Isle to begin gearing up for WoD and finding any remaining Mail gear for Beefhunter.
This is a first for me. A melee class, doing the Timeless Isle. The place is made for Hunters in my opinion (especially those troll tigers that love to Pounce on you constantly, stunning you).
I hope I can handle it. I really do. It’ll be, interesting to say the least.