Tuesday (20 Nov) - Professional Zen Master

Tuesday (20 Nov) - Professional Zen Master

It's usually all about Fist in the Wild family these days. However, Wild did manage to sneak in a first for the family that Fist thought she would get. On Monday night Wild was clearing out his mailbox and discovered that Happy had sent him some of the new enchanting mats - spirit dust, mysterious essence, and ethereal shards. Seeing his new toys, Wild powered up his enchanting profession. Wild had rather lazily gotten his enchanting skill up to 540 (600 max) without too much effort. With the new mats from Happy, and several enchants that gave as much as 5 skills for one enchant, in a remarkably short time and at a pretty cheap price, Wild reached max skill 600 in enchanting. That earned him the title of Professional Zen Master. Wild now has all of the trainable enchants for Pandaria. What has been a continuing source of irritation, though, is that I can't find a complete list of enchants that do NOT come from a trainer, and where to get them from.

Fist has been working her butt off earning her leather working skills and still has a ways to go at skill 546. But she acknowledged Wild's accomplishments - she certainly wants to be on Wild's good side so she can get enchants for her gear.

Tuesday Project - I am getting a bit desperate to get these screen lockouts corrected. I have little faith in Blizzard's recommendations, which involves many hours of time spent deleting folders and testing the results, followed by a complete reinstall of WoW if that didn't work. I'm more than half convinced it will be for nothing, and the screen lockups would continue. I can't leave things are they are, though. I can't trust entering a dungeon or raid knowing that at any time my PC could freeze up.

So, Step 1 - I'm going to delete key folders to get a "clean" addon free setup. This will be done after the Tuesday maintenance.

Happy was the initial guinea pig for this, and when he saw what had been done to his Auction House he nearly cried. All of his buy and bid information, built up over many years, was gone. Happy will have to rebuild all that. Fortunately, he remembers what all of the common item pricing is so he should be fully back in business in no time. Even the resetting of pricing might be a good thing in the end. Pandaria has radically changed the value of things, so perhaps getting a fresh account sheet will do Happy some good. Happy doesn't use any addons except for the Auctioneer, and has never gotten a screen lock down in the bowels of the lightly populated Undercity, so that was no check.

Fist was then tossed into the ring to see how she fared. I can manage without addons for everything but the UI, for which I use the addon Dominos. However, in order to ensure that Dominos was not the culprit, Fist was forced to set up his UI using only the basic game defaults. I did manage to set up a basic DPS rotation and assigned keybindings for the number keys just as I do for Dominos. It's a little more awkward having a line of spells instead of the nice 3x3 square that mirrors the number keys, but ... Fist tested the thing first on a target dummy, and although it felt weird it was workable. She then made a short run outside one of the little towns in Pandaria. She killed a couple dozen panthers, collected some leather she could use, and declared she could manage it. I'm going to set up a few more keybindings (my twitch reflex kept going for keys that I hadn't set the bindings for, yet) and then attempt some quests. I'll see how long I can go before ... well, we'll just see.