Yes, I've said it many times already, but this time it's the truth. After learning about how one of the talents I had in my 1.11 build, I changed my mind yet again, and I'm now officially set at a 11/0/40 build. The 1.11 patch notes are also up to date, which I linked to in my previous post.

Last night was a pretty fun night. We killed Ony, then went out on our own to farm mats and reputation to get attuned for Nax. So I did an Undead Stratholme run, got my Polymorph: Pig spell, helped clear a Scourge Invasion area with 3 other mages, and wrapped up the night with a pretty fun time in Scholomance. Even though we died a few times, having 1 warrior, 1 rogue, 1 priest, and 2 Ice mages, we cleared the whole thing pretty quickly.

While browsing the net on my cell phone here at work, I found out that the patch is in fact coming today! I should have the final patch notes up tomorrow, along with what spec I finally do decide on (if I change my mind again...)

With the last couple versions of WoW Model View, there's been an option to export models to a few different formats (.obj, .lwo, .3ds, and .ms3d). I figured I'd have a play with this, and make a render of the Unbarc character I made. This is still a little bit buggy, and the textures didn't work properly with the export, so I had to add in my own, but here's a little render of Unbarc in Lightwave.

I've also made the Gallery live, so check it every so often for new pictures. I might be adding a picture block to the main page, that shows a picture of the day, most recent pic, etc.

Note: The gallery has been removed, and the picture is temporarily in limbo.

Ok, this time I think I'm done... I swear. After seeing some mage videos, I think I want the Frostbite talent, which has a chance to freeze the target in place. I figured this would be nice for when I farm for stuff, so I've updated my Profile's talents.

Well, last Thursday I was hoping for double-Netherwind, but unfortunately not a single one dropped. Luckily, we were able to kill Nef before the major lag hit. On our way down to AQ40, the server decided to crash and go down for a bit. All of the chat functions worked, but people were disconnecting left and right. Casting/looting didn't work either. Supposedly, while this was all going on, Stormrage wasn't even in the list of realms to select. It came back up a little while later, but the raid was called for the night already.

Last week, I recorded 2 of our kills with Fraps, one of Ragnaros and the other of Nefarian. The Rag fight ended up being our best time... 14isih% before the suns, and a total of just over 5 minutes long. Rag was somewhere around 19m22s or so. I'm currently working on the Nefarian video, but my Rag one has been posted on Google Video. If you have some free time while in queue to WoW, why not take a look?

A couple of nights ago, we cleared BWL up to Nef, and I happened to get the [Netherwind Belt], which brings me up to 6 out of 8 on my set. All I have left are the [Netherwind Mantle] and the [Netherwind Robes]. Last night was way too laggy to attempt Nef, so we cleared MC in just over 3 hours. Tonight, he should be dead, and since one of the other mages can't make it on, I have about a 1.2% chance to get the robes (double drop... /me crosses fingers).

Site Updates:
I've been working on some new improvements for the site. One being an image gallery, and the other being a rewrite of the way the url is displayed. For the url thing, I just did this to try and learn a bit about mod_rewrite in Apache. As for the gallery, I'm using an embedded version of Gallery2, and I'll be making it live on the site sometime soon.

Well, not much news lately (since I haven't really played all weekend), but I have updated my Profile recently. You'll notice that at the bottom of the page, there are 5 bags shown. These represent the bags I have on Unbarc, and show what I carry in them. Why would I do this? Because I'm bored as hell at work, that's why.

Last night I spent some time on the Test realm, messing with a few different specs. For about 3 days, I played with a talent calculator, and thought I had decided on an Elemental (Fire/Ice) spec, but after killing a bit with it, I realized that I didn't like it at all. So I went back to one of my previous specs that I had made, and hoepfully this will be what I settle with.

There are a few things I'll really have to get used to with this build...

1. No Arcane Power
2. No Arcane Mind (increases mana)
3. No PoM (insta-water no more)
4. Ice Block (never had/used before)
5. Ice Barrier (see #4)

I guess I'll just see how it goes.