Thorns and Rebirth

This weekend was the beginning of Season 17 of Diablo 3, and after largely taking off the previous one we were back in the saddle again. I started the season on PC and hope at some point to start playing it on the Switch as well at least far enough to get the various season rewards. To the best of my knowledge this is the first season to double back and start repeating, as I had all of the cosmetics that were handed out this time around. This is both a positive and a negative in that I will be able to pick up the things that I have missed in the past, but it also will lower my overall drive to play a given season if I know I won’t be getting anything brand new.

I am amped for this season however because it allows me to return to my favorite build in Diablo 3… the “stop hitting yourself” crusader. Generally speaking I pick which class I play in a given season based on which class sets are available through Haedrig’s Gift, and this season the one available for Crusaders is Invoker… aka the Thorns build. The inner tank in me just really loves running around and watching the monsters explode when they try and hit me, and apparently everyone is pushing this one up high on their tier lists for long term clearing. Which makes me really want to try and get a bonus stash tab and the cosmic effect bat wings this season. I had a lot of fun this weekend playing around with Diablo 3 and I just wish that my schedule would have synchronized better with my friends because apart from the Friday night push and while recording on Saturday… I never quite managed to group up again. I did however finish chapter 4 and get the full set of Invoker… and am now working on the Slayer chapter.

Also the “Decades Behind” thing is starting to gather steam and I am shocked that for the most part the AggroChat crew seems really interested in it… or at the very least it is a thing that they feel like they are insane enough to do. With that however I decided that maybe I should see if I can get used to playing an Undead Warrior… given that raiding Horde side means you don’t have Fear Ward and having an extra fear break would potentially be worth it. It is weird that I am now thinking in terms of optimization for something that I have literally “been there and done that” for… which is going to make the whole raiding experience feel weird. I know these bosses and the strats to take them down… I know the drop tables and which gear I should seek out. I feel like Classic WoW is going to be a master class in optimization as much as anything else in trying to seek out the items you need. Like for example… I want to tank every single Warlock when they get their Felsteed… because that boss can drop one of the best +defense guns in the game at the time of Vanilla. All of this shit is coming back and my memory is on fire with all of the things I used to do to make things functional. This is going to be a really interesting ride.

Lastly this morning is the first post from a brand new web host. Over the weekend I uprooted both Aggronaut.com and AggroChat.com and moved them over to a brand new location. For the most part things seem to be going smoothly, apart from a few hiccups here and there. Aggronaut seems to be having more problems than AggroChat but that is largely because I am needing to undo the various customization I made to make it work on the previous host. Like this morning I could not get image uploads to work, but I ironed that out in short order. It was a sequence of events that made me to abandon ship. Firstly I was paying way more than I would need to make… but you can never underestimate the power of my laziness when it comes to avoiding paying money for something. Next there was the problem where at some point automatic upgrades broke completely… which was a big boost for moving but again something I was willing to deal with for the short term.

The final straw however is that the host itself has been wildly unstable… I use a cloud app called Uptime Robot to track if my sites are up or down. The above spam is from my inbox and the messages showing my site is going unresponsive on a pretty regular basis. This finally was enough of a kick to get me to go off and find better options. As it stands I am in the process of moving things over one by one but with AggroChat and Aggronaut both moved that really is the bulk of the work. It took forever to transfer the 77,000 files for AggroChat and the 25,000 files for Aggronaut… which is bizarre considering that the bigger of the two sites is roughly half the age of the other one. I think I have an addon gone awry on AggroChat that we use to cache copies of posts from all of the AggroChat crew’s personal sites. Every so often it will go on a binge and add the same post over and over… and apparently this has happened more times than I realized.

It is returning… time to start planning

Whatever the case I am on new ground now, and if things continue to go as smoothly as they have I will probably write a proper review of the service during Blaugust. That is right folks… I have not forgotten about Blaugust and will begin talking about this years running shortly over on the Discord.

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  1. Was Tremor Totem at live? I am pretty sure it was one of those Horde only benefits us Alliance folks were jealous about back in BWL raiding 🙂

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