Soooo ... that happened.

Last Friday I got an email that Blizzard had tried to re-subscribe to WoW for me, but that the Credit Card info had changed and they were unable to (this makes sense, we had to get new cards recently). I made a mental note to take care of it when I got home, and then promptly forgot about it.

Sunday, I logged into this:

Woops! Guess my sub lapsed ... but you can use gold to purchase a game-time token from the character screen. I hadn't really planned on using gold to pay for my sub until I felt like my Mage's garrison was running smoothly, but ... clicking that button seemed so much simpler than having to get up and find my wallet and then logging into their website. So I just clicked it! World of Warcraft is now Free To Play!

I feel like I had a busy weekend, but we still managed to get a good chunk of arena games in. Late Saturday night, one of the hunters we had previously played with was online so we did some 3s games. We started off 2-2, spurring some comments along the lines of, "I feel like we're just stuck around the same rating" which, at the time, was ~1850. Then we went on a nice little run, going 6-2 and getting our rating all the way up to 1950! Our MMR was well over 2k, around 2100 at this point. At this point it was after midnight and I was quite tired, but I figured I'd stay around for a few more games to see if we could break 2k. Being really tired and doing arenas doesn't quite mix well, and we ended on a losing streak, back down to around ~1915. Still, it was an overall positive experience.

We were able to do some 2s the next day, and those did not quite go the same way. We faced one comp in particular that just destroyed us - Mage and Feral druid. We usually do really well against double DPS, but this one we went 0-3 against!! Outside of that we had some pretty close games that we couldn't quite end up winning, though we did beat a hunter / druid team which was enjoyable. We ended up losing more games than we won and ended in the high 1900s. Perhaps the funniest game of the weekend was this one:

Forget double DPS ... double healer is in!

Not sure what happened there, I think one of the players had accidentally joined without switching back to his damage spec. They left as soon as I opened on the first player.

It's possible that I was rusty - I hadn't played in about a week and a half, and it had been even longer since we had done 2s (probably 2-3 weeks?). Still, I thought the more frenetic pace of 3s would lead to 2s being even easier for us to handle ... and at least on Sunday, that wasn't really the case.