Everyone knows that they should be using an authenticator and I was, it was the authenticator that you run on your iPhone. Well long story short, my iPhone broke and I had to remove the authenticator from my login so I could play the game. I had figured that once I received my new phone, I’d install the authenticator software and all would be good. Well between the time I changed my login and the time I received my new phone, all went downhill.

I was in Vegas for a weekend and hadn’t been playing when I checked my email and received an email from blizzard saying they had suspended my account for some reason. I’ve seen some of the phishing emails and since I was checking this on my (borrowed) phone, I couldn’t tell if it was real or not so I ignored it. A couple hours later I received another email saying my account was probably hacked and please contact support. Being in Vegas, I left this till I returned home.

Apon returning home the first thing I checked was the WoW Armory, I knew if for some reason I had a virus, using the armory I wouldn’t have to log in. The Armory showed me what I was expecting, my toon standing there in his underware. Time to contact Blizzard.

I’m not sure what or how I was hacked, I ran a virus scan and even tried a different virus scanner, I haven’t had or check any emails that could have been phishing. So I’m not sure what happened. I sent all this info to blizzard in an email, the hard part about letting blizzard know that you’ve been hacked is that you don’t receive an email saying ok, we’ll check it out.. you just wait.

I had actually sent them 2 emails, 1 saying I think I was hacked and 2. letting them know yes for sure I had and all the steps I had taken to make sure my computer wasn’t compromised. While I waited, I ordered an official authenticator from blizzard. I then waited, luckily I had other things to do, but the wait was around a week and a half. I then received an email from blizzard stating that they’ve investigated my account and they’ve replaced all my items and if any were taken from my guild, they were emailed to the guild leader.

Again to make sure of things, I had received my authenticator, so from work I updated my account to take the authenticator. now from home I can fee pretty safe about logging in. All my items were in my mailbox when I joined WoW and within 30 minutes I was off and questing like nothing had happened.

So one of the things I’ve found fun is, when I have an hour or so (on my own time) is to run my own raids on old lower level instances. For most of the dungeons this is my first time visiting but I usually don’t have to worry about dieing since I’m 80 and they are lower levels. Since I don’t know the maps either I do get lost some but it’s kinda fun exploring.

This past week I’ve had a little time on my hands so I was able to run Gnomeregan and Stratholme. Stratholme was great, since it’s level 56-61 I still had to be on my toes when attacked but groups. Not alot of gear dropped but it was a tense and fun solo battle. Last night I ran Gnomeregan, at times this could get a bit boring because usually everything was a one hit kill, but the drops were crazy last night! I bet I sent 30 greens and a couple blues to my bank alt and had the good luck to get both Schematic: Lil’ Smoky and the Schematic: Pet Bombling. So not only did just selling gear get me around 300G but I learned to create 2 new pets that I can sell and sent some sweet gear to my alts. Oh and I almost forgot I also received another drop that I didn’t know existed, the Manual: Strong Anti-Venom.

What should be my next solo dungeon? Have you ever done this?

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I started my quest at the very bottom of the Eastern Kingdoms and took the next 3 days (only an hour or so a day) to work my way over to Kalimdor and then to the rest of the known world. Being Alliance I did have a small amount of trouble in the Ghost lands but one you get out of the old world and can fly to most your destinations, you’r home free.

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I know this is a silly question but it came to mind this morning while listening about the 1 year anniversary of MJ’s Death.

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The hard part about getting any rep with the Wintersaber Trainers is he will only give you 1 quest, after you grind that quest around 5-6 times, he offers another quest. You then have to grind the 2 quest until you reach the reputation of Honored. Once you reach Honored, he offers one more quest for a long hard grind to Exalted.
Read PVE Rougues daily log of his grind for the long drawn out details of this Rep Grind Grinding Wintersaber Trainers Reputation

As for my grind, I’ve just become Honored and will be starting the 3 quest grind, but for a break I read a post on wow.com on how to obtain the Dartol’s Rod of Transformation, which will transform you into a Furbolg. How better to fight the Winterfall Furbolgs for my mount than to fight them as a Furbolg.

While you should choose the talent tree that works best with your style of fighting or how you’d like to fight, Got Warcraft says:

Retribution paladins, the offensive variant of the paladin class, have more recently become increasingly viable candidates for raiding positions as well as taking spots on arena teams where we were once seen as only healers. In fact, Paladins are now very common in high ranking arena teams and Ret Pallies are feared in the Battlegrounds.

Holy Paladins, however, have suffered somewhat for this, becoming increasingly unused in favor of shamans and druids as replacements. This in large part due to our inability to heal on the run and complete lack of AoE healing abilities, such as priests possess.

Finally the protection variant of paladin has prospered the greatest, finally taking a place alongside warriors and druids as a true possibility for primary tank throughout the raiding dungeons and various instances open to us.

My first instinct was to go the path of holy since I like using the all the spells and they help a lot while fighting but I’m going to give a good look at the other talents and combined with what weapons and armor I’d like to use, I may choose another talent spec. The good thing about choosing a talent in WoW is that you can test one, pay a small amount and change your talent tree when ever you like.

Most of the time when I have a question like this I’ll do a lot of research and the when I have a good answer, I’ll combine all that info to a post so it’s easier for people to find. But for once my search has brought up a link that says it all and is worth sending my readers off to.

Identify what your Paladin needs the most. Again, this will vary depending on your spec. Retribution Paladins are mostly in need of Strength, Attack Power and Agility. Protection Paladins need Stamina, +Spell Damage, Intellect and possibly some +Spell Hit. Holy Paladins need Stamina, Intellect and +Healing. If you use a mixed spec, decide which you need the most of.

Read on as the site goes into greater detail on not only the weapon specs but what weapons work with what talents. How to Choose Weapons for your World of Warcraft Paladin