Note: I don't actually play on a Mac. I just like the image to show my disgust at my PC rebooting itself.

So the fun with the Dungeon Finder continues. My priest hit 64 today. Here's the breakdown of dungeons (and loot from satchels since my last entry - satchels suck).

• Slave Pens: FAIL - no one could tank
• Ramparts: Turbulent Necklace of the Sorcerer
• Slave Pens: Turbulent Necklace of the Invoker
• Slave

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So this morning I decided to finally get started on using the Dungeon Finder. A few reasons:

1. Level up my priest. She started at 61 and is now almost 63.
2. Get some upgrades from bosses via drops and the bags you get for using the Dungeon Finder.
3. Get experience healing groups on my healer.

So I used the Dungeon Finder 5 times today. I had wait times of instant to 5 minutes as a healer. I actually...

So I took my level 60, holy spec'd, priest (94% to level 61) to Alterac Valley last night. I queued up and waiting probably 30-45 minutes before one started.

Breakdown: 6 killing blows, 6 deaths, 206 honorable kills, (I don't remember how much honor), top healer.

For the most part, I pulled a lemming and just followed the pack, throwing heals using Healbot (and a really annoying as hell...

So, a fair amount has happened in the last month since my RAF expired.

I've been focused on team Sandwich (5 paladins - 1x prot, 4x ret). Currently, they are level 70 and I've been training my skinning to farm some leatherworking materials for sale on the AH. Before that, they basically did 60-68 in Outlands questing with about 4-6 runs through some instances. At 68, I took them to Northrend and they've been running around a little bit there (mostly just grinding).

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Tonight is the last night I will have RAF. Actually, instead of spending all evening playing it out to it's fullest, I will first be using those "grant-a-level" bonuses to fill out my main account. When all is said and done, here's what I've gained out of Recruit a Friend.

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Ok, so I picked this up last night and played with it a bit this morning. Here are some of my quick observations.

• The mouse feels a tiny bit undersized for my hand, but I'm sure these are designed with the "one size fits all" mentality. Don't think I've ever seen a mouse that

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I'm still running my girls (2xShaman, 2xWarlock) through SM. The latest rotation has been running through SM:Graveyard and then hopping over to SM:Library and then to SM:Cathedral. (Don't ask me why I skip Armory. I just do.) What I might do is time each run and record the xp/minute that I get for each given my playstyle. Then just keep running that wing over and over again.

As much as I'm focused on leveling this team to 60 through boosting (I feel I can get them up to around 40...

I reworked all my ret pally's macros last night. Now I have a single macro (called it 'iWin') that makes use of /click to call 4 different ones.

For those interested, here's the raw macro definition from my macro-cache.txt file.

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10 days left in the RAF bonus. Real life is getting in the way (a good thing), so my play time has been somewhat limited. However, I've been trying to self boost one final team through instances.

Well, last night, I figured out I was doing it all wrong (and my team was already level 20). *cry*

My RAF setup: Account 2/3/4/5 are all linked to Account 1. I have level 60 paladins and druids on all accounts.

Account 1 (level 60) + Account 2/3/4/5 (level 20)...

RAF ends on the 13th (only 11 more days!). As I mentioned in my last entry, I created a new 4-man team (2x Shaman + 2x Warlock) with the intent of boosting them through instances as much as possible with my level 60 prot pally. I leveled them off quests to 8 and then took them into RFC. This worked well, though I was expecting more XP/mob. However, the lack of XP/mob is more than made up for by the fact that I can kill a ton of them all at once, so the XP adds up quickly.

Once the...

Well, this morning, the druids hit 60. I was going to hit 60 last night (I was sitting at 97% done with 59 when I logged), but I was just too tired.

For some reason, going from 57-58 seemed to take forever. I had intended to hit 58 and then switch over to Outlands and finish off the remaining 2 levels. Well, after hitting 58, I still have a few quests left to turn in (I was in Winterspring at the time), so I figured I'd finish those off. Before I knew it, I was 59 in < 30 minutes...

The druid team hit the border of 52/53 this morning. My main hit 53, while everyone else is on the edge of 52/53. I'm still on a 4 levels/day pace since the last time I blogged, though I really don't think we're going to be able to level another group fast enough before we hit the RAF expiration.

Hinterlands provided a BIG boost last night and I still have a handful of quests to do there. In particular, I picked up all the quests I could. When I went to turn them in (about 8-10 of...

LOL?
Why is it every time I run across someone new out in the wilderness, they stop and "LOL" my team? This has happened no less than a half dozen times already. I mean, you could stop and say "Hello, nice team you got there." Why "LOL"? Do I have something on my shirt? Is there gnome stuck on the bottom of my shoe?

Regular Updates
Last night was hella laggy, to the point of frustration. If you didn't loot bodies, use vendors or play...

After a long weekend without WoW (was in DC, with Internet access, but no WoW), I played a little yesterday and got the druids up to level 37.

Remapped my small thumb button on the mouse (would normally act as a 'forward' button in a web browser) to have my slaves cast rejuvenation on my main.

Remapped my wheel button on the mouse to have my slaves cast regrowth on my main.

Remapping the mouse buttons was a little experiment to see how this would go....

I hate RMA's (shouldn't have shipped something DOA to me in the first place!)

Got the stream up and running last night, but I'm not happy with the quality so far (everything is a bit too washed out). If anyone can share their FME 3.0 config, please send me a message. My fear is I'm ISP-bound and I really don't want to upgrade my connection.

I'm about ready to break my "100% quests - no instances" rule with the druids. The quest route I have seems to be jumping...

Let's talk about the macros I'm using on my druids.

Macro limits (without addons)

• 18 global macros
• 18 character-specific macros
• 255 characters per macro

Global Macros

1. Focus (set focus in party order, checking for not dead, exists; if all else fails, target leader as a fall through)
2. Follow (follow and various 'accept' script calls to automate group invites, quest sharing, trading, release spirit, retrieve corpse)
3. AssistAtt (assist focus and start attack)
4. Rejuv1 (target

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• My druids (RabidBear, RabidCheetah, RabidGrizzly, RabidHawk, RabidRaven) are all now 21.
• Played time is about 7 hours now.
• Due to my hardware issues and network crapping out at the wrong time, leveling these guys was pretty difficult this weekend.
• I'm having a hard time finding a groove with this team. I'm probably too use to having all melees from the pally team.
• Tank + 4 casters should be easier, but I just can't get a good grip on how I should be playing my tank (feral, bear).
• I

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Ok, so I finally nuked my drives and installed Windows 7.

Bad

• Random reboots are still happening.
• To add more frustration to the reboot issue, Windows 7 has this wonderful "Windows System Repair" feature that pops up when you crash and reload. The default is to attempt a repair (with another option to start Windows normally). The 'repair' option gives you the option to cancel but gives you the message "You cannot cancel this operation". Seems pretty f'd up

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My random reboots are back (and getting frequent). This is extremely frustrating.

System Specs

At this point, I'm convinced its either the motherboard (ASUS has a new BIOS coming out today) or my RAM. I'm hoping the BIOS update fixes things since it purportedly adds more memory support.

On a related note, I picked up another hard drive yesterday, bringing me up to 3 physical drives.

My current plan is to backup my system one last time,...

Team Rabid!

• RabidBear (leader)
• RabidCheetah
• RabidGrizzly
• RabidHawk
• RabidRaven

Details

• Everyone is a Tauren druid (moo).
• No idea what specs to go with, so I'll have to read up or listen to suggestions from the fans.
• Screenshotting every time RabidBear levels up. Unfortunately, still haven't gotten the /played to show up right.
• Currently, everyone is sitting at level 4.
• Played for an hour this morning, but spent 90% of that time configuring all the UIs and fighting with

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• Short post today.
• Ok, so the paladins are now 60 (main) and 59 (slaves) - basically gained a level last night doing some questing around Plaguelands.
• Once I hit 60, I'll be creating a new team. No name(s) yet. I find this the hardest part of creating new characters. Being prepare with a bunch of names helps.
• New team will be 5 x druids (woo hoo! cows!).
• I'm going to try something new this time. Instead of doing instances, I will be doing 100% questing, with a goal of getting

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Team Sandwich

• Good news: SandwichA ding'd 60 this morning!
• Not-so-good news: The rest of the team is still 58.
• Did a lot of questing this weekend.
• Felwood + Winterspring = lots of quests (and with many giving around 25k xp, leveling was f-a-s-t).
• I'll finish these guys off to 60 (to maximize the grant-a-level reward) then switch to another team.

Next Steps

• Now that the paladin team is (almost) 60, it's time to start a new team (since RAF is still going strong).
• Looking for suggestions,

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• Wednesday night, we (Team Sandwich) made a guest appearance on Tim's stream. Tim wanted to see what a paladin team would look like in action, so we went to the Sunken Temple instance.
• To see us in action...
  1. Go to Justin.tv - Multiboxing in World of Warcraft Archives
  2. Click on Sep 23rd 2009
  3. Fast forward to 9:26 (Right before we get into the instance - you'll skip the 1/2 hour it took us to get there, including the Alliance scum that killed us.)
• Note that there are only 4 paladins in that

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Questing

• I've gone back to doing some questing instead of instances. I've kind of been missing the joys of doing quests and following some of the other mini-story lines. Currently, I'm going through Hinterlands (great cluster of quests there).
• XP from questing has been pretty good. In 30 minutes in the Hinterlands, I gained an entire level (48-49). Most quests were turning in for 18,900 xp.
• I'm actually using Jame's Horde Leveling Guide addon and have been trying to avoid the creature poop

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Since my last entry...

• Went from 42 to 48 (main) / 47 (slaves)
• Wasted a ton of time checking out Brewfest.
• Wasted a ton of time doing Big Game Hunter in STV. Should have done this earlier so that the XP would have been worth it.
• Got killed a bunch of times in STV trying to get the flight path to Booty Bay.
• Ran Zul'Farrak about 4-5 times, but never got all the way through due to RL interruptions.
• Hammer of Wrath x5 = Fun
• Might do Sunken Temple next. Haven't done that in about 4-5 years.

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PvP and Bugged Quests

• Went and played with the pirates in Tanaris. Good XP for pirates, great for quests. (FYI: Quest turn ins are usually 10k+ right now.
• Teamed with a DK and traded deaths with an Alliance druid (80) and priest (44). I think the priest got tired, but the druid was a lot of fun, even if I wasn't very effective. Had to log in the evening or I would have had more fun.
• After I was done with the pirate quests (kill a bunch and a named boss), turned in the quests only to find

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• Hit levels 38, 39 and 40 this session.
• Ran SM:Cathedral 3 or 4 times.
• Upgrade on the shield for my prot pally. Aegis of the Scarlet Commander
• Also picked up the Triune Amulet off Whitemane.
• Couple of random weapon upgrades as well. Sure makes a difference when you don't upgrade for 10-15 levels.
• Probably moving on to Tanaris for a while to do some question for a change.

• Fixed my issues with Herod.
• Finally got off my lazy butt and created a self-heal macro for all my toons.
• Herod whirlwind's, everyone backs off and casts self-heal.
• Now I'm 2-for-2 on Herod. Life is better.
• Dinged 36 and 37 in 2 runs of SM:Armory.
• Moving on to SM:Cathedral next session.

• Pally's went from 30 to 35 today.
• Ran SM:Graveyard, SM:Library and SM:Armory, but wiped on Herod in the Armory.
• Had a bit of luck with an auction the other day, 350g for an item! Money issues are slowly disappearing.
• Prot pallies are so wicked awesome.
• Have decent weapons for all of my guys now, so we're mowing through elite's like crazy.
• Need to set up macros for individual healing and/or group heal.
• Interact with Target and Click to Move are still FTW. Melees are a piece of cake

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Here's the obligatory, "What are your system's specs" entry.

GPU: Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 1GB
CPU: Intel Core i7 920 @ 2.66 GHz
Mobo: ASUS P6T LGA 1366 Intel X58
RAM: 6GB G.SKILL (3 x 2GB) DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
HDD: 2 x WD Caviar Black 640GB @ 7200 RPM
PSU: Corsair CPMSU-650TX 650W ATX12V / EPS12V
Case: Antec 902
Optical: LITE-ON 22x DVD Burner
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64
Keyboard: Logitech G11
Mouse: Razer...

• Only had time to play this morning (5am).
• Spent a fair amount of time on my banker posting auctions. Money still isn't a non-issue, but I'm not sweating about it either.
• Made the run back WC, but with so little time left only did 3 bosses.
• Interact with Target + Click to Move = Win
• Now that I turned on Click to Move, I basically do the following:

• Target mob with my main.
• Hit my Num 5 key (mapped to the following).
  Main:
  
  Code:

  /startattack
  

  Slave:
  
  Code:

  /assist
  

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• First attempt at Wailing Caverns (WC) cut short last night. Made it to the 2nd boss.
• Second attempt at WC cut short this morning. Made it to the last boss, but had to leave to go to work.
• Will probably do WC 1-2 more times (mostly to gear up some really nekid pallys in the back) and then move on to SFK.
• Wasted a ton of time leveling up skinning.
• Got a ton of greens and one non-BoP blue. Many upgrades.
• Ding'd levels 23 and 24 last night.
• Running Devotion, Retribution and Concentration

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Someone recently asked me how the 5-pally team was going. It's going fine, but not great. Now I figure this is due to a few things.

1. I'm probably lazy.
2. Multiboxing 5 melees probably isn't easy (particularly when this is only the 2nd team I've boxed).
3. Not taking the time to set up your macros/controls adds a whole lot of drag to your gameplay.

#1's mostly true, #2 might be true, but #3 is dead on true.

Now, I have a limited amount of time each day in which I might play. I've...

I need a slight change of pace for a bit, so I created a new team. I'll still play the priest/hunter team, but I'll probably alternate between the two.

Introducing, Team Sandwich!

• SandwichA
• SandwichB
• SandwichC
• SandwichD
• SandwichE

For now, all of these are paladins. I've always enjoyed playing paladins and figured I'd try and master multiboxing a team of melees.

Now the only question is what to spec each one! They are currently Level 13. I took a plunge...

Just running SM (done with Graveyard - got my priest necklace off one of the last kills of my run). Did a run of Library. I might do this once or thrice again to get glove upgrades for my hunters off the dog handler.

There's a ton of silk in here, so that's helping the tailoring leveling. Picked up a random mageweave or two, so that's starting to stack up in preparation of breaking through silk crafting.

A fair number of greens. I'm probably going to focus on raising...

It was a slow night tonight. Hardly anyone in the guild was online (I think Lindline was the only other person on that I saw).

Wiped everyone but my priest when the slaves didn't make the lift in time and fell to their deaths. Good thing the priest was there to rez everyone, but embarassing nonetheless.

Wasted time in Durator getting one of the slaves' Skinning skill up around 115.

Slowly raising up the Enchanting skill on my priest (and tailoring for...

For those interested in what rig I run with (5 boxing)...

• CPU: Intel Core i7 920
• RAM: G.SKILL 6GB (3 x 2GB
• Motherboard: ASUS P6T
• Graphics: Sapphire Radio HD 4870 1GB
• PSU: Corsair 650TX
• HDD: WD Caviar Black 640GB (x2)
• CD: LITE-ON 22X DVD (iHAS322-08)
• Keyboard: Logitech G11
• Mouse: MS optical
• OS: Windows Vista Ultimate
• Monitor(s): 22" + 19"

I run 5 accounts, but only have 1 team created so far (priest + 4 hunters).

Once I get these guys...

I like getting up early in the morning to play or an hour or two before I have to get ready for work and take the kids to school. I was wasted (tired) last night and hit the pillow at 9:30, so I ended up waking up at 4:30 this morning to get my time in.

Well, I finally got around to getting professions on some of my slave accounts (skinning/leatherworking on one, mining on another and herbalism on yet another). My main has tailoring and enchanting.

I'll try to do...