Razer Naga

So after much research and some skepticism I decided to pick one of these bad boys up. I figure $53 bucks and a 30 day return policy isn't too shabby to test out some new hardware since my Steelseries mouse was starting to wear out anyway.

First Impressions:
I got the thing home and unboxed it and had it installed within ~5 minutes. Install was simple and straight forward, updating the firmware was kind of annoying because my case is huge and you've gotta unplug it then hold Left, Right and Middle down while plugging it back in to boot into the firmware update mode of the mouse.

The feel of this thing is absolutely incredible, it's taking some getting used to given the switch from the WoW Steelseries beast, to this smaller more reserved shape. It glides across my mousepad effortlessly and has very good balance and weight compared to the Steelseries mouse. I used to play FPS (Counter-Strike specifically) competitively so it's something I tend to pick up on and appreciate greatly.

I have a very static UI that I spend hours upon hours putting together and I absolutely love it, after about 15 minutes of tweaking around I was able to replace bartender in my UI package with the Naga addon which is built off of Dominos, my UI typically doesn't have any of my action bars except my consumables/mounts visible so I've got the Naga UI bars visible to get myself a bit more associated visually with the button layout.

All in all I'm pretty impressed with the mouse so far, they claim it takes an average of 18hrs of playtime to get fully accustomed to using the mouse but I must say in the 2 hours so far in tonight's raid I've been slowly mixing in using the mouse along with my old keybindings and I'm slowy shifting the balance over to the mouse and noticing a lot more maneuverability and quicker reaction on a lot of what I'm doing (I'm a tank so).

I'll give a more in depth review later in the week once I've had more time to play with it.

Saronus Out.

Also read the full review over at World of Raids.

PeeVeePee?

So new PvP changes are upon us, this should be quite interesting. I've always been a huge fan of BGs over arena, just because I prefer large group based strategy in compared to tiny small scale battles. I remember the days of yore getting premade AB games together after a raid in our bleeding edge PvE loots and completely dominating. Those were the good old days, the old BG grind for rank and competing with your friends or even enemies to hold rank week after week, the dreadful fear of town raids and accidentally attaining DKs because someone decided to attack the wrong NPC. Hopefully with the coming of these changes along with the improved focus that is supposedly being brought along with Cataclysm we'll see a huge revival in the battleground scene. Only time will tell however.

On a side note because of this I've upped the timetable and rearranged some of my projects. Now seems like as good a time as ever to go for 100k HKs and Battlemaster. Wish me luck folks.

Netherwing has been completed as of yesterday, wasn't really too difficult, it's AV weekend and I've been attempting to take a slight break and work towards Battlemaster and 100k kills. Unfortunately Horde on our BG fails MISERABLY so this is going to be probably an even larger undertaking than I initially anticipated.

Should be fun.

Tonight marked the first night back into this weeks raiding schedule, with kills on 25 Man BQL and Velithria putting us at 3rd top guild on the server. Movin on up.

Netherwing is almost complete, I remember farming this on my Warrior back at 70 and it being a lot less boring. Then again I was a Gladiator and it was a PvP server soooo I imagine that was part of the fun.

Been soloing Heroic MGT in my spare time to work on the SSO stuff and that's going fairly well. I'm going to try and hit revered before doing any quests at all, figure it might make things go quicker.

As for Insane in the Membrane if folks have any tips on farming the stuff needed (namely Junkboxes and DMF rep stuff) lemme know.

Welcome!

I'm pretty terribad at introductory type things so I'll attempt to make this quick and simple.

This blog exists for a few reasons in reality, the initial reasoning behind it was to publicly track some what I consider lengthy and somewhat major undertaking's I've decided to pursue on my DK. I've become bored in my off-time from raiding and being on a battlegroup that's primarily Alliance dominated BG's really aren't that fun anymore. So with that I'll be updating this blog with not only my works in progress, but probably some interim posts related to raiding, and changes to PvE/PvP and my personal thoughts on them. I tend to play devil's advocate a lot so just because I may discuss something in a way that seems like I agree with it, don't consider that to always be the case.

The projects I have lined up are in my opinion from easiest to most difficult/time consuming. People obviously have their own ideas for what is deemed "difficult" so these are based on my available time/resources and time required to obtain necessary resources.

Project 1: Netherwing (In Progress)
Project 2: SSO (In Progress)
Project 3: Insane in the Membraine
Project 4: 100k Honor Kills
Project 5: Soloing all Old World Bosses (Including what is possible in BC)
Project 6+: TBD