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by Elizabeth Harper 
Feb 20th 2009 at 8:30PM
Adam Holisky: I'll be doing one word this weekend: microtransactions.
Alex Ziebart: Trying to get some Heroic groups going on my Protection Paladin, and if that fails I'll either be playing Warhammer or Left 4 Dead. If the PTR goes up tonight or sometime this weekend, everything else gets shelved for that. Also, giving Adam lessons on microtransactions.
Despite the desire for our bloggers to have a well-rounded knowledge of the gaming world, we are hoping that Adam finds something better to do. For the rest of the team -- and your own weekend play plans -- read on!
Allison Robert: We'll be working on 10-man Sarth 3D this weekend, in which I will sit absorbing Sarth's fire breaths and pretending that I am a voidwalker (I still think the whole voidwalker-tank concept on what's currently the hardest fight in the game is both incredibly clever and also funny as hell). Probably some 10-man achievements now that people are getting Glory of the Hero done. Hmmm. And I think I need to get some herb farming done too.
Amanda Miller: I'm setting aside a chunk of time to start making back some of the money I spent this week on my death knight's speedy flying training. Herbing and mining and skinning, here I come.
Dan O'Halloran: More 5-Man Heroics, daily Daily Dalaran cooking quests, daily Dalaran JC quests and getting back to my baby Hunter. And to that mage in the Heroic Oculus PUG last night who couldn't be bothered to summon water because your bags were too full, I definitely will not be grouping with you again.
Daniel Whitcomb: I'm currently at 44/50 pets for the skunk, so I think I'll try to pursue that this weekend. I still need the Mechanical Chicken, the Sprite Darter, the Worg Pup, and the Spiderling, so that's a quick easily quested 4 right there, then I just need to figure out where to grab the other two. I'm also slowly working toward getting the badges for a new breastplate and/or gloves, so hopefully I can knock out a few more heroics for badges this weekend as well.
Elizabeth Harper: Working towards the 100 mounts achievement, one Baron run at a time.
Jennie Lees: Away for the weekend, but easily contactable by guildies in case the PTR comes up so I can hop on it from my laptop. Who needs a holiday when there's new content to beat?
Lisa Poisso: Ditching the raiding life for casual life. I think a weekend's the perfect time to catch the attitude. ;)
Matt Low: Left 4 Dead.
Matthew Rossi: Getting my Tauren Warrior and DK ready for raiding.
Michael Sacco: Leveling my baby Mage, doing Sarth+3 again and hoping for good roll luck a Twilight Drake, making money for rogue's epic flying.
Mike Schramm: GTA IV Lost and Damned. But I will be playing WoW to raid and level my Leatherworking and reputations -- I finally fixed my hardcore gaming PC, so I'll finally be able to see Northrend in all of its graphical glory again.
Nick Whelan (who will soon be writing our Warlock column): Hopefully I'll be raid-leading two 4 hours sessions of 10-man Naxx. One on Saturday and one on Sunday. I say hopefully because so far only 6 people have signed up for what is usually a much more popular event. I was /planning/ to go destruction this week, to give me some background on the spec so I could write about it. However, given my rather abysmal performance in OS / Vault as destro, I think I'm going to need more practice before I ask 9 other people to rely on me as destro. >.>
Zach Yonzon: Inch closer to Battlemaster.
So, dear readers, what are you playing this weekend?
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Reader Comments (Page 2 of 2)
Malkavos Feb 21st 2009 8:49AM
Ladies and Gentleman, the above is what happens when you post at 4:30 AM after wiping for several hours on Frogger.
Marveen Feb 21st 2009 4:59AM
Got exalted with the Sons of Hodir (at last!) on my druid, so took a break from WoW last night. Might work on a few more reps (Oracles or finish the Kalu'ak). And possibly try to get the last 5 heroic instance achievements I need - if only the Violet Hold deigns itself fit to give me the last two bosses (Zuramat and Ichoron do not exist), or I can get a motivated group to try to either Make it Count or do a Ruby Void in Oculus! And Less-rabi sucks.. :(
Otherwise I may just work on getting my paladin, warrior or mage through Outland teamed up with my hubby's characters (death knight, priest or mage respectively). That'd be fun!
Berenixium Feb 21st 2009 5:02AM
Microtransactions are a steaming pile of evil. Evil, I say, evil. Runes of Magic cut into my bank account with a couple of horses purchased, and some house decor. I almost sobbed when I caught myself from buying more, and promptly put a stop to it. Bad me. But that didn't put the large sums of cash used to purchase Diamonds back in my bank account, so the buying stopped there and them indefinitely, to prevent further pocket burnings.
I vowed never to spend on that game again, and I noticed people disappeared without many words about it from the game until I stopped playing myself, other than they felt completely ripped off. If Blizz ever wants that kind of thing, then they should take note of consumers long term and eventual actions. Bah.
Thebum Feb 23rd 2009 3:54PM
I've spent my last few days playing trough the Warcraft 3 campaigns. I had to force myself to log on for the raid I signed up for today as I would much rather continue the campaign ^^