Miss Mediocre

Well I reached level 90 this evening on my Paladin at last. It was pretty anti-climactic unfortunately. Usually I’m playing with someone and there’s all this build up and then I get there and we cheer and then go back to playing, lol. Getting there alone wasn’t as fun, I dinged, looked around smiling expectantly and was met with only a confused look from my cat. He wouldn’t even give me a high five!

It actually only took me a little over 5 hours to get from 89 to 90, which is maybe why it didn’t feel like a huge accomplishment, it just wasn’t a big time investment. Now I get to choose who to level next. I was leaning toward leveling my lock, but I found the Spear of Xuen (BoA level 85 polearm) from archaeology, so now I’m thinking I should level someone who can actually use it. I did find the Umbrella of Chi-Ji (BoA Level 85 caster offhand) too I guess, so I could make use of that on my warlock!

Decisions decisions!

I got a response to my ticket this morning but it was not a pleasant one. Basically they told me that there was nothing they could do about my missing gold. They said my account had been compromised back in August of 2011 and because it was so long ago, I was just out of luck. I was so upset and considered cancelling my account on the spot but then decided I’d try to clarify what had happened since I recently had to go through 10 different GMs before one of them could help my brother get his account back. The second GM I talked to today said they saw what had happened, that someone had accessed my account for only a few seconds so GM#1 had missed it. They restored the gold that had been stolen from my main character, Lauriella, but the 60k gold stolen from all my alts was still missing.

I clarified that I’d lost gold across all of my characters and listed each of their names and the amount of gold that had been taken from them through the Auction House. GM#3 said there was nothing they could do about that lost gold because they couldn’t find it in the logs. That was frustrating but I contacted them again with a screenshot of the Auction House receipt for the “Tough Hunk of Bread” the hacker had sold to my characters to get the gold from them and again listed every character that was effected. The 4th GM was wonderful and got all my gold back for me!

I’m so glad I contacted another GM after GM#1 let me down, otherwise I’d probably have never played WoW again, lol. Now I can re-focus on getting to 90!

I logged in tonight to do a bit more leveling. My pally is a couple quests away from 89 so I figured I could get that done before I had to sleep! To my dismay I looked up at my titan panel at one of my favorite things to see, my gold, and it was GONE! My character was exactly where I’d left her, somewhere in a field in Pandaland, yet she only had 56 silver on her. I thought it might be a glitch and quickly re-logged, but nope, my golds were really gone. I changed my password, opened a ticket and began inspecting the damage. As far as hackings go, I’ve heard some horror stories, but mine doesn’t seem to be too bad. I have all my gear, my banks and guild banks don’t seem to have been touched and the hacker only stole my gold on my main server.

It appears they logged into my 10 characters, recorded how much gold they each had and then created auctions for bread for each of the different amounts. They then bought the auctions on each of my characters and finally put them back in the exact same spot as I’d left them. The hacker was nice enough to leave me with 87g on my deathknight, but maybe that just didn’t seem worth the effort to take after the hundreds of thousands of gold they got from my other toons.

I’m not all that upset, as long as a GM can help me get my gold back then I won’t be upset at all. I even know who the hacker was because they left the auction house mail receipts in each of my character’s mailboxes. I have no idea how they got my password, I’m always super careful about what sites I visit and I have never given it out to anyone but I guess it’s pretty common. At least it was my WoW account that got hacked and not my bank account I guess!

Anyway, I took a mug shot of my hacker from the armory, just for fun, lol. His name is Tayneranos and he’s a warrior. He looks like a dick! I wonder if Blizz will suspend or cancel his account for this? It seems crazy that they would go through the trouble of taking all my gold, putting my characters back to where I left them, and then leave the auction house receipts so that I know who they are…

Needless to say I did not get to level 89 tonight. I just didn’t have the heart to play with an empty gold purse. I’ll update in 2 days when it says my ticket will be answered…

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Wanted to share this moment of this quest, because it made me giggle.

I finally caved and bought myself Mists of Pandaria. This was the first WoW expansion that I didn’t get right at the midnight release, but as my blog here betrays, I haven’t been quite as into gaming these days. I like Pandaria but I’m all by myself in WoW now, my 11 year boyfriend and I used to always play through the new expansions together but we broke up in the spring, so this is the first expansion I’m tackling totally solo. It’s definitely not as much fun without someone to joke about the content with and share in the experience, but I’m still enjoying it. It’s definitely a solo-friendly expansion, which has helped.

I’ve gotten my 8 year old Paladin to level 88 now. She’s always been ret, but with all the class changes I’m not really liking her anymore! I’m finding her boring and am looking forward to getting to 90 just so I can start on one of my other characters! I think I’ve got a Mage, Rogue, Warlock, Druid and Priest at 85 but I’m not sure which I’ll play to 90 first, or if I’ll start myself a Monk. The pandas are pretty cute so I don’t think I’d mind playing one, but I was also thinking I might make a Bloodelf Monk just to be different, lol.

I’m pretty out of the loop when it comes to making gold or organizing holiday guides now, but I’ll try to keep posting on here as long as I’m playing, even if it’s just to say what I’m up to!