Weekend (9 May) - Can you Hear me Now?

Weekend (9 May) - Can you Hear me Now?

The Friday night pvp wrecking crew was missing our "you're already dead you just don't know it yet" warlock, Sis, so DER and Philly had to step it up to keep the pressure against our alliance foes.

Just as we both got logged in we heard about an Alliance raiding party heading for Orgrimmar. It was the alliance version of the For The Horde! achievement run to bring down the Horde leaders of our four main cities - Orgrimmar, Thunder Bluff, Silvermoon City, and the Undercity.

DER was already in Orgrimmar, while Philly was in Dalaran. Philly raced to a portal and popped into Orgrimmar, then galloped as fast as she could to the Valley of Wisdom where the horde king, Thrall, held court. The alliance had telegraphed their intentions with no attempt at stealth, and it was a Friday night, and Orgrimmar was rockin' with players. The alliance raid stormed into the city, and although I wasn't sure whether they came in through the back gate or the front, they managed to battle their way into Thrall's personal chambers. That's where Philly found the battle, along with DER, and Philly was very gratified to see that the chamber was filled to overflowing with horde players defending their King. Thrall himself must have slaughtered dozens of allies on his own as the allie tanks could not hold him, and the combined might of the King and his defending subjects obliterated the alliance. Philly only got in on the tail end of that, as well as the clean up as alliance raiders tried to rez, and, once they realized the battle was lost, trying to sneak out without being corpse camped. There would be no achievement for the Alliance on this night.

With that success already under our belt, we hit up Wintergrasp, attacking the Fortress, bringing down it's towers and sweeping through the defending alliance almost without pause to take back the fortress. Perhaps the alliance defeat at Orgrimmar had disheartened the alliance defenders in WG.

From there DER and Philly let the random battlegroup finder pick our next area to conquer. But first, we decided to see if we could get our voice chat system working. As Philly had done with Sis, we tinkered with our settings, relogged to ensure the settings took, and tested various setups. Our first success was DER being able to hear Philly, and after some more tinkering, we had voice chat on both ends. It looked like that at last, the Wild family would no longer be able to claim they did not have a working mic.

Or so I thought.

We got our invite to a random battleground, and when the zone in screen appeared . . . well, that's where it hung. It looked like Philly had been disconnected, but it was even worse than that. The computer had crashed. I had to reboot the computer and relog in.

We got everything set up again, and again, when Philly tried to zone in to a battleground, the computer crashed.

Well. I disconnected the mic before rebooting the second time. Strangely, DER could still hear the Warcraft background music coming from my computer even with my mic disconnected. I had to un-enable the voice chat check box in the Sound and Voice settings in order to completely shut it down.

After that I had no further problems zoning into the Eye of Storm and Arathi Basin battlegrounds, as well as one of either the Strand of the Ancients or Isle of Conquest, I get those two confused because I don't see them very often. Or maybe Philly did the Eye before DER rolled in game. It all got kind of fuzzy by the end of the day, but I do know that between Philly's battlegrounds earlier in the day and the bunch DER and Philly did Friday night, Philly did every battleground except Warsong Gulch that day. Philly earned enough honor points to pick up another piece of pvp gear, but it's getting harder to decide what to get. I think she is going to go after the four piece set bonus of her i232 pvp set, but then she is very tempted to buy an i264 piece she covets. Decisions decisions.