If you've actually read any of my previous posts, you know that I play pretty casually. Last night I was running through Coilfang Resivoir: The Slave Pens, and I got enough [Badge of Justice] to actually buy myself an upgrade, so I went off and got a [Flametongue Seal] (upgrade from [Hortus' Seal of Brilliance]). I wasn't too keen on losing the sta/int, but I gain a lot of crit, and fire damage (I lost overall damage, but 97% of my spells are fire anyway, which is why I still use [Ring of the Eternal Flame]).

My plan is to next upgrade my neckpiece through some PvP... even though I don't care for it much. Oh well.

I was bored today, so I decided to update the item stats code. What's that mean? It means that I simplified this to work better with this. Here's how Itemstats does it: Itemstats looks up an item by name or ID, takes the toolitp info and stores all the HTML (among other various fields, 7 in total) in the database. With my heavily modified version, now it stores the item's id, name, color and icon. Now take that data from my database, and have it generate a URL that links to Wowhead, throw on the "Powered By..." javascript, and poof! I get something like this!
[Atiesh, Greatstaff of the Guardian]


Also, on the left-hand side with all the other stuff, below the Random Tip, I put in a search box for the site. Dunno if it's needed, but it can't hurt to have it there.

Dang, as it almost been 3 months since my last update? Since I don't have a developer's version of the site on my work laptop, I guess I let this site slip past me a bit. Hopefully I'll get back into doing updates (news and site-wise). Well, let's get to it.

Loot

Here's my most recent loots:
[Reins of the Onyx Netherwing Drake]
[Collar of the Aldor]
[Spellstrike Pants]
[Gladiator's Touch of Defeat]

Finally, I got my Netherwing Drake mount. I admit, I didn't do my daily quests... well, daily, but I got it now, so I can stop fighting everybody to kill a stupid Nethermine Ravager.

I've only been to Karazhan twice. The first time, it was for the first 2 bosses (with no loots), and this second time, it was for the last 2 bosses. Luckily, I won the roll for the T4 token, and got my helm. It was a pretty nice upgrade from what I used to have.

I also buckled down and finally got the mats together for my [Spellstrike Pants]. The hardest part was finding a Tailor who knew the pattern, and either A) Had a [Primal Nether] they could use or B) Have enough [Badge of Justice] to buy one.

Lastly on the loot frontier, I actually did some PvP on my own. If you knew me, you'd be surprised. The most honor I've gotten is just over 10k (that's total, from the day I started playing 3 years ago, without spending any previously). So, I upgraded my wand for the Gladiator's.


I have some more junk to post about, and site updates to do (probably Gallery pictures of my new mount), but I'm at work, and should probably get back to that.

Just a quick update to post about my absence. We gots a new puppy a few months ago, and since he's just over 4 months old, he still needs lots of attention (which I don't mind giving). I don't get as much time on the computer as I'd like, but hopefully it'll change soon.

Also, the laptop that I made all the site modifications on (using a test server) is being watched by Big Brother, so I can only try to work on it here at home. I do have a big site overhaul coming soon, I just need to make sure there's no bugs left.

Anyways, that's where I've been, and here's some cuteness of our puppy Monty:

From Monty

Patches


Karazhan


Site Changes

Something else new on the site: Gallery Ratings. You can now rate each image in the Gallery on a scale of 1 to 5 (lowest to highest, respectively). Check out this example and rate it to see it in action.

Yes, I know that IE has some layout issues, and Opera thinks you can keep voting, even though it votes the first time. Opera users: do a full-refresh on the page to see the result after you vote. Safari and Firefox users, though, seem to be sitting pretty well.