Essentially it is a documentary following the lives of a number of different raiders.  It is more than “just a documentary”, its a great film that showcases why we play the games we play, why we enjoy World of Warcraft, why we enjoy the raiding enviornment, and why we become friends with our guildmates. I am very excited to see this.

A number of community sites and blogs are going to be giving away/contesting away tickets to this very exciting event! A full list of supporting websites/blogs is available here. It is with much gratitude to the folks over at Rawrcast and The Raid that I am very excited to share with you all that Tales of a Priest will be giving away 6 PAIRS of tickets. Entering is easy! Simply send an email to contests(at)talesofapriest.com declaring your interest in entering the contest:

• You must be at least 21 years old to enter, as the Pre-screening event will have a bar and have valid Photo ID.
• You must be in attendance of Blizzcon or able to get to the Anaheim, CA area; this contest does not include Blizzcon tickets, transportation, or accommodations.
• You must have your own transportation to and from the event
• The contest is for a ticket/invitation to the Pre-Screening event only; any other goods promised or implied is not provided by Tales of a Priest its writers, or the filmmaker and its promoters. The ticket cannot be exchanged for cash.
• The contest ends and all email entries must be received by September 25, 2010 11:59PM Estern Time
• The winners will be selected at random from all eligible entries and contacted via email requesting their contact information. This information will be supplied to the Denise Duke of PeaPod Group/Rawrcast who managing the ticket distribution.
• One email entry per person.

Sadly due to work conflicts, neither Avalonna nor Derevka will be in attendance this year and we are very sad about missing this event! We’ll have to get all the dirty details from the winners!

Below is an excerpt from their press release that was published yesterday.

“The Raid” Documentary Pre-Screening & Blizzcon After-Party

Saturday, October 23rd, 2010
9PM – 1AM
House of Blues
1530 S. Disneyland Dr, Anaheim, California
Rose Terrace

Mix and mingle with your favorite podcast personalities like:

·       Stompalina & Hafrot from Rawrcast: World of Warcraft Podcast

·       Mike Schramm & Turpster from The Incredible Podcast

·       Wych from Bind on Equip

·       Starman from World of Warcast

·       … and many more.

Get resourceful with teams from websites like:

·       Curse.com

·       TankSpot.com

·       Wowhead.com

·       ZAM.com

9PM: Cocktail Hour

Chic Goes Geek with music and video of from World of Warcraft machinima artists like Olibith, PVP Gurl, and Druid Boyz

10:30: Pre-Screening

Special Presentation by the film’s creator & producer, Kevin Michael Johnson

11:30: After-Party

The night will rock as famed DJ, Big Daddy, throws a spin on all your favorite World of Warcraft scores.

The Raid Pre-Screening Giveaway & Blizzcon Event! is a post from: Tales of a Priest

It’s time for another contest and giveaway here at Tales of a Priest! As many of you know, I am a little obsesed with my UI… I love mods;, I love seeing what they can do to improve my gameplay. One of the most annoying things about having a UI that you love: is keeping it updated.

The Curse Client is a great  application that lets you search for mods, read the description, install them, and helps you be sure you have the latest and greatest version. If that was all that the Curse Client did, I would be happy. But wait –– There’s more!!

The Curse Client also helps you keep your mods synched up across different computers. Many of you who follow me ton Twitter, know I travel a lot for work  and I bring a gaming laptop with me. The Curse client helps me keep my Desktop PC and my Laptop synched up as the Client keeps my Mods and Settings synched up! Had to reformat your computer or zombies stole your hard drive? You can use the Curse Client to restore your mods and settings.

So today, thanks to the generous folks over at Curse, we are giving away 2 One-Year Subscriptions to Curse Premium!

What are the differences between a Premium client and a Non-Premium client? The Premium client is has all the great stuff the Non-Premium client, and much more:

• Update all your addons with one click
• Addon Sync
• Addon Settings Backup
• Faster addon downloads
• Automatic addon updates
• No ads

Visit www.curse.com/client and www.curse.com/premium for more information

How do you win? Easy! Send an email to contests@talesofapriest.com with the answers to these 2 questions:

1. With the release of a good deal of Priest Cataclysm information what one thing are you looking forward to the most.
2. What one thing do you want Blizzard to revisit in their reviews of the Priest class in Cataclysm? We all know that with Beta not even annouced yet, changes WILL happen!

(And of course, if you want to provide any comments or feedback or Blog Post topics, please feel free to comment in that email as well.)

Two winners will be selected, at random, from the emails received.  We will be accepting emails through June 22nd, 2010. Emails must be received by 11:59PM Eastern Time to be considered eligible for this prize. Each winner will be given One Year of Curse Premium. The two winning entries will need to provide their Curse username/email to us to have the Subscription activated.

A big THANK YOU again to the folks over at Curse.com and good luck to everyone!!

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I want to play a game.....

That stupid horse. That Retarded Horse. Everyone has it. It’s an atrocious, Sparkly, Star Horise Mount, & people waited in queues of 4+ hours to drop $25 of real world cash to get it. How absolutely idiotic.

So I bought two. One for me, and one for you. Wanna win it?

That Retarded Horse

Now I could make up some silly contest making you email us, explaining why you love Tales Of Priest, or saying your little brother Timmy has cancer, and his dying wish is to ride around on one of these fruit-cycles, but where’s the fun in lying like that? Or, seeing as it’s a WoW related item on a WoW related site, I could have WoW related questions, but it’s my damn contest and it’s my rules.

It’s no secret I love my horror movies (hell, I co author this site with a succubus) so let’s see if YOU love them too. It’s fitting, seeing as flying around on this mount would make Charles Manson crap his pants (or die laughing).

I will ask four easy horror movie questions, and on 4/24/10, I will pick one random winner from a group that answers all four correctly!

1) Freddy Krueger is the Son of a Hundred ___________ ? (fill in the blank)

2) What is the name of the main Cenobite in Hellraiser?

3) “Alright you Primitive Screwheads, listen up! You see this? This… is my____________ ” (Fill in the blank)

4) What was the name of the Android in ‘Aliens’?

See? Easy! So email me at Avalonna(at)talesofapriest.com with your answers, and maybe you too can stand around in Dalaran on this ridiculous thing! Good luck!

Now, that being said – what do YOU think about this mount, and the Blizz RMT store for pets and mounts? I’ll have a real post on that and my thoughts regarding it in the future.

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It was a dark and stormy night… Ok it wasn’t stormy, but it was dark – I went out last night for Margaritas with some friends, and we found out one of them plays wow… we all wind up back at my place, so my friend Anthony asks if he can see my account. Sure.

I try logging in, put my authenticator password in… Invalid.

I chuckle, and try again.

Invalid.
Invalid.

I try to log into Account Management.

Invalid.

I try to log into the Blizzard Forums.

Invalid.

…. fuck.

I check the armory hoping my character is still clothed. She is. /phew

I send Avalonna a text asking her to check if my toon is online. She texts back saying she’d check and let me know.

“Nope, not online.”

I’m sitting there thinking, “I know when you change your password you get an email letting you know you changed your password.” (I did it just the other day)…. yet I have no email.

Let’s try one more time, and then I’ll call customer support tomorrow morning. Boom. I get in. Hmm… is it really unlikely that after several pitchers of margaritas that I can’t type a password…. apparently so.

Friends don’t let friends drink and try to type in passwords.

While, my story is funny – there are other stories that do not end this way. They end with naked gnomes with not a copper to their name, and guild banks plundered… both of those things are very scary!

EVERYONE SHOULD GET AN AUTHENTICATOR. Period. The end. One of the more recent tactics of compromised accounts, is that the Hacker immediately puts an authenticator on the account. What this does, is that it makes it even more difficult for you to get your account back since you can’t even log in and change the password back. Most smartphones have the ability to download the Blizzard Authenticator for free or for a nominal charge – and I urge everyone to get one.

Yes, typically you need to do something to get hacked – be that a phishing scam, going to unscrupulous sites, downloading things from non-official webpages, using powerleveling services, etc. However, it is not unheard of that people who do not do any of these still sometimes fall victim to keyloggers.  You hear that excuse quite often: “Well I don’t go to weird sites and click ads or links.” or “I don’t watch Furry porn and type in my password there.” or “Those fake Beta Cataclysm emails go straight into my trash bin.” Be that as it may, you still can be hacked! These keyloggers are tricky… they don’t simply have a big banner ad that reads: “I’m loggin ur keyz!”

Blizzard recently launched their Account Security page, which does a fairly good overview about how to keep your account safe.

That being said, Tales of a Priest will be giving a Blzzard Authenticator away!! (Canada and US players only). To enter into this contest simply send an email to contests(at)talesofapriest.com with your characters name, realm, and a quick note! We’ll be picking a winner at random on Noon EST February 7th, 2010! Good luck!

Derevka’s Account Hacked? And A Contest! is a post from: Tales of a Priest

Enjoy your new pets! Please check your email for your code and thank you for reading.

For those folks who did not win this go around, don’t worry we’ll have more fun and exciting contests here at Tales of a Priest, so spread the word!

Congrats!
-Derevka and Ava

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To be eligible for the pet code, simply email us at derevkapriest@gmail.com or avalonnathepriest@gmail.com with the subject line of: “Tales of a Priest Contest”. In that email please note your preferred pet. (also feel free to provide comments, suggestions, or concerns with the blog – we want your feedback!) *There will be TWO winners one from emails to Derevka and one from emails to Ava.*

This contest will close on Noon Eastern Time on Saturday, November 21, 2009. The winner will be announced in the Tuesday, November 24th blog post. The winner will be emailed directly. Emails must be recieved prior to the closing date of this contest.

Before anyone asks: NO we do not sell or use your email, so you won’t be getting spam from us.

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