Server Maintenance - Under The Gun
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iTZKooPA on Wednesday, May 6, 2009 - 29 Comments Tags: Maintenance day, Server Maintenance, dailies, daily quests, gold, gold per hour, morning routine, questing, tuesdays, wow morning routine
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I'm a creature of habits in the morning. I have a well defined morning routine consisting of a PvA (Person versus Alarm) battle that I always lose, a shower, getting dressed and breakfast. In all fairness the alarm does get its opener in every morning. Like many of you, I manage to fit World of Warcraft into the slice of time before noon. It's not always productive, sometimes I just have time to check the AH - go go gadget Auctioneer! - other times I manage to steamroll a handful of dailes before the workday beckons.
You can imagine how flustered I get on maintenance days. I mean how dare Blizzard mess up my morning routine. I have half a mind to run into Blizzard's office and slap coffee cups out of each and everyone on of their hands until I am satisfied. I digress though. To avoid this week's frustration, I arranged my PvA skirmish about an hour earlier, allowing me to get some play time in before the servers had to turn their head to the left and cough. Yesterday was one of those productive days.
I logged in only 14 minutes before the server was set to go down. Once that first strip of yellow popped up, I knew it was on. I snagged the Champion quests for Stormwind - only 2 factions to go! - and mounted up for the day's Valiant challenge. I quickly moved to the main tent, picked up the four Champion dailies and returned to my Exodarian mount for some more challenging jousts. With under five minutes remaining I flew out to Sindragosa's Fall to lay waste to some Scourge. As I went in for my first kill Blizzard's script politely notified me that I had 3:30 remaining. Fifteen kills in 3:30 for a rogue who wants to loot and pickpocket applicable mobs. "It'll be close," I thought as the first baby frost wyrm struggled to fly away before collapsing. I tore through the mobs, dropping them faster than Manny Pacquiao. With 10 seconds remaining on the clock I dropped the last mob, went down on one knee to collect my rewards, and was logged off.
I missed that last batch of loot. With my luck it was a guaranteed epic item, but I am happy with what I accomplished in that short time frame. In 15 minutes - add a minute to return and hand in the quests - Solidsamm completed four quests, earned himself circa 75 gold, scored a few Writ's, some Seals, and a round of reputation. Not bad for the morning routine. If the 2004 Solidsam (originally had one s) heard about 300 gold an hour he'd explode.
Does WoW play a part in your morning? Just the general AH/mail stuff or do you take it a bit further?
Reader Comments (29)
My weekday schedule is too tight to play on mon-thurs but of course on the few days i have off servers go down..
Anyone else notice he said Solidsamm has two s's originally instead of 2 m's? :P
I don't fight server shutdowns. I log off, and take an hour (or six) off, depending on the time.
weekends are my best friends when i get to slepp as long i want and play as long as i want i do not participate in the PVA but i do co participate PVM (person vs mother) wihcih i usauly lose i start my day 8:00am i get up 7:00am i walk to school half an hour so i have an hopur window i nteh morning i to get cought up in the game and often will miss i my first class cuase i want get that finnal bar or that easy quest and server shutdowns are be far not my biggest worry my biggest worry my connection absolutt;y sucks i often spend that half an hour trying to get on and when i do get on the lag is terrible when i get taht massage unless i am in a middle of a quest doing an instance and near end i will wait out the 15 minets other wise i will just go do some thing else the lag makes it impossible for me to do anything in that little time when i come home i get on wow do some quest or do some instances waht ever i need up till 8:00pm when i like get of watch TV unless my dad works over time my computer and TV are both in the living room so i caan watch TV and play at the same time but when my dad is home he turns on the russian chanel watching teh same thing over and over again owcurse me staying on past 8:00 usaly results in me not doing home work and do it the next morning which means get up earlier or do the home work at school usauly during other classes managed to get by so far on weekends i just play all day
i allso check on PL when i get teh chance to