A lot has changed since I last posted. Well, not really... but enough to make an impact.
I've been working tons more than I used to and I'm mostly happy about that. Money is money, job is a job... and WoW is not a job therefore it never made me any money... and that's why it's not a priority. :D
Anyways, the gnome lock and a horde alt I'd started awhile ago are gone from Alex. I'm sure those who read this noticed as much already. Anyone that I cared to inform of where they are and that sort of thing has already been informed, so if you don't know.. then I doubt I really care for you to know! :p
I'm happy where I am with them. I barely play, though. Just no time and a general lack of motivation most of the time. I spent a lot of time running heroics on the gnome for awhile, though... had fun with that. I finally ran ZA on her... so I've cleared that place, wasn't overly impressed. I did manage to summon a Doomguard upon killing Zul'jin though. Hahahaha... always a good time! No, I'm not in a raiding guild - lol. I didn't have to be to get in on the run... I have no intentions of ever raiding full-time, again. Doubt I'll even attempt some sort of part time schedule... I'm pretty happy with running stuff once in awhile if invited without any expectations.
I see Jago quit playing a bit ago. Good for him. :) I'm guessing he isn't alone but I haven't stayed in touch with too many of the people I used to play with. As it stands, I'm still not entirely quitting... but I haven't been in the mood to play in awhile. Not a bad thing... breaks are never a bad move.
Moderation, with anything, is the only way to keep it fun. ;)
Thursday, December 27, 2007
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
So....
It's been awhile since I've raided.. or even logged into WoW with serious plans and intentions. I've been playing around an a few alts that I've had for awhile, but that's about the exstint of my WoW life.
I haven't seen inside of ZA. I'm glad. I hear it's so similar to ZG that it's basically boring. I'm not surpised. I've seen screenies and loot tables.. seems interesting, yes.. but it's the same shit, different instance.
Sorry to disappoint, but I've fallen into that % of former hardcore WoW players that have found a Real Life and are enjoying it.
World of Warcraft is finally just a game to me once again. For 2 years, it was more than that... I hated admitting it and I often had to pull myself out of it to say that it was just a game, but I never fully played it like it was. It is now.. I login when I want. I do whatever I want when I do login. No one relies on me, there isn't a schedule for when I am required to play... no attendance to keep, no judgement of how I did at night. Sure I haven't seen any epics come my way in months, but who gives a shit. I ran BRD and got some upgrades on an alt yesterday... was pretty exciting :p
Next week I may give myself some sort of goal for the game... via Arena. This will NOT be taken on too serious of a level by any means and I won't have high expectations that ruin all of the fun. I'd like to just do arena with friends... and if it requires setting aside a couple of hours a week for it, so be it... but I'm not going to play so much that I lose my job,lol. Whatever comes of it, so be it.. I just want to have fun. It'll be a different aspect of the game seeing as I'll actually be going for PvP gear to put me on the same level as the other people who play in arena. Currently I don't have any arena gear... so it's been fun to do, but limited. Hitting that wall of all gear vs. just your skill is pretty annoying, lol.
So... I haven't quit playing WoW entirely. I don't really intend to right now. The conclusion I've come to is that I was a moron for dedicating way too much time to a stupid video game that is mostly just a cult-like fad and in a few years will fade off and die in popularity. There will always be those old-skool people who stick to it (like EQ!) but some other game will come along and replace it for most, as WoW did when it was released.
I'm happy. I'm happy going out at night... working at night and making tons more money than I do most days... I'm happy having a night-life that doesn't require me to be at my computer desk with a headset on! Happy... who would've thought that WoW was the main reason I wasn't very happy for so long? Lol. Cruel cruel addictive video games.. tsktsk.
/guffaw to those of you who are still stuck playing it every night for 8 hours a night. No offense my friends... but is that really a life? And how often is it really that fun? Eh, who am I to judge... for awhile I thought it was fun, too. Maybe it is what some people consider true fun... and maybe it does make some people sincerely happy to play that way - who knows. To me, it becomes a second job (or first for many) that you'll never get paid for except for in epics that you may someday be able to auction off to someone for real money, but not enough to justify the amount of time it took you to get them.
Give real life a shot, especially you youngins out there. GTFO of your houses and live a little. You bitches that live on the coast.. in Florida and Cali... jesus christ. Get out and do something... I envy that you guys live so close to plenty of shit to do. Try living in Ohio... we have Cleveland... and Ice Surfing on the lake... which is actually a sewage dump. Nummy.
Life won't come to you. You have to make your life fun.. I guess living in WoW is probably just easier, but RL doesn't have to be so bad. Do things in moderation... even WoW. It wouldn't kill some of you to take a break every now and then.
I haven't seen inside of ZA. I'm glad. I hear it's so similar to ZG that it's basically boring. I'm not surpised. I've seen screenies and loot tables.. seems interesting, yes.. but it's the same shit, different instance.
Sorry to disappoint, but I've fallen into that % of former hardcore WoW players that have found a Real Life and are enjoying it.
World of Warcraft is finally just a game to me once again. For 2 years, it was more than that... I hated admitting it and I often had to pull myself out of it to say that it was just a game, but I never fully played it like it was. It is now.. I login when I want. I do whatever I want when I do login. No one relies on me, there isn't a schedule for when I am required to play... no attendance to keep, no judgement of how I did at night. Sure I haven't seen any epics come my way in months, but who gives a shit. I ran BRD and got some upgrades on an alt yesterday... was pretty exciting :p
Next week I may give myself some sort of goal for the game... via Arena. This will NOT be taken on too serious of a level by any means and I won't have high expectations that ruin all of the fun. I'd like to just do arena with friends... and if it requires setting aside a couple of hours a week for it, so be it... but I'm not going to play so much that I lose my job,lol. Whatever comes of it, so be it.. I just want to have fun. It'll be a different aspect of the game seeing as I'll actually be going for PvP gear to put me on the same level as the other people who play in arena. Currently I don't have any arena gear... so it's been fun to do, but limited. Hitting that wall of all gear vs. just your skill is pretty annoying, lol.
So... I haven't quit playing WoW entirely. I don't really intend to right now. The conclusion I've come to is that I was a moron for dedicating way too much time to a stupid video game that is mostly just a cult-like fad and in a few years will fade off and die in popularity. There will always be those old-skool people who stick to it (like EQ!) but some other game will come along and replace it for most, as WoW did when it was released.
I'm happy. I'm happy going out at night... working at night and making tons more money than I do most days... I'm happy having a night-life that doesn't require me to be at my computer desk with a headset on! Happy... who would've thought that WoW was the main reason I wasn't very happy for so long? Lol. Cruel cruel addictive video games.. tsktsk.
/guffaw to those of you who are still stuck playing it every night for 8 hours a night. No offense my friends... but is that really a life? And how often is it really that fun? Eh, who am I to judge... for awhile I thought it was fun, too. Maybe it is what some people consider true fun... and maybe it does make some people sincerely happy to play that way - who knows. To me, it becomes a second job (or first for many) that you'll never get paid for except for in epics that you may someday be able to auction off to someone for real money, but not enough to justify the amount of time it took you to get them.
Give real life a shot, especially you youngins out there. GTFO of your houses and live a little. You bitches that live on the coast.. in Florida and Cali... jesus christ. Get out and do something... I envy that you guys live so close to plenty of shit to do. Try living in Ohio... we have Cleveland... and Ice Surfing on the lake... which is actually a sewage dump. Nummy.
Life won't come to you. You have to make your life fun.. I guess living in WoW is probably just easier, but RL doesn't have to be so bad. Do things in moderation... even WoW. It wouldn't kill some of you to take a break every now and then.
Thursday, November 1, 2007
RL Takes the Lead
I raided once last week for a total of probably 3 hours. I only had one night off last week from work and even on the days in which I worked in the AM... I was busy in the evening with other shit or just far too tired to try and log onto WoW and accomplish anything. All in all, money is far better than epics... and I'm pretty sure I won't be able to raid anytime soon, at least not nearly on a full-time basis. This probably means I'll be recruited over and I really don't care.
Some comments have been thrown out by other guild members along the lines of... because x, x, and x, we haven't been able to down Illidan. Funnily enough the comment made referred to 3 people who quit the game basically and one person who transferred... as well as Baz and myself.
So I'm to blame for the guilds inability to down the final boss in the game? Awesome.
Glad that my hours of endless dedication for so long were appreciated. But apparently because my actual life has taken a turn for being time consuming... the only thing that matters is that I'm part of the reason why the guild cannot down Illidan.
/guffaw
It may be somewhat true, but ffs... I'm a god damned warlock. We are a dime a dozen... I'm not decked in full t6... it's not like my dps could possibly that amazing with my imp bitch spec. It's not my fault we only have one full-time raiding lock... and even then, it's played by 2 people!
So I dunno... I'm enjoying the money from my job - and since I'm only working part-time the idea of getting a second part-time job isn't such a bad one. I miss raiding some nights and I do feel bad for no longer being reliable, but when it comes down to it... it's just not that important. I'd rather go to bed before 1am my time when I need to be up at 7am the following morning... I'd rather not be stressed out over pixels and people I'll never actually have to deal with in person. It's kinda sad, but I think I'm officially a casual now... mostly not by choice, but in part it is. There's just no reason for me to take the bullshit and make the game so important anymore - what's important to me is getting a house in some other state.. far far away from the shithole that is Ohio. What's important... is getting out... seeing the city at night again... and deciding on a whim that I feel like watching a movie at 10pm on any random night. What's important... is not planning my week or work schedule around a video game.
I think this is called _being grown up and responsible_. Hmm. I'll get back to you on whether or not I actually like it.
Some comments have been thrown out by other guild members along the lines of... because x, x, and x, we haven't been able to down Illidan. Funnily enough the comment made referred to 3 people who quit the game basically and one person who transferred... as well as Baz and myself.
So I'm to blame for the guilds inability to down the final boss in the game? Awesome.
Glad that my hours of endless dedication for so long were appreciated. But apparently because my actual life has taken a turn for being time consuming... the only thing that matters is that I'm part of the reason why the guild cannot down Illidan.
/guffaw
It may be somewhat true, but ffs... I'm a god damned warlock. We are a dime a dozen... I'm not decked in full t6... it's not like my dps could possibly that amazing with my imp bitch spec. It's not my fault we only have one full-time raiding lock... and even then, it's played by 2 people!
So I dunno... I'm enjoying the money from my job - and since I'm only working part-time the idea of getting a second part-time job isn't such a bad one. I miss raiding some nights and I do feel bad for no longer being reliable, but when it comes down to it... it's just not that important. I'd rather go to bed before 1am my time when I need to be up at 7am the following morning... I'd rather not be stressed out over pixels and people I'll never actually have to deal with in person. It's kinda sad, but I think I'm officially a casual now... mostly not by choice, but in part it is. There's just no reason for me to take the bullshit and make the game so important anymore - what's important to me is getting a house in some other state.. far far away from the shithole that is Ohio. What's important... is getting out... seeing the city at night again... and deciding on a whim that I feel like watching a movie at 10pm on any random night. What's important... is not planning my week or work schedule around a video game.
I think this is called _being grown up and responsible_. Hmm. I'll get back to you on whether or not I actually like it.
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Pewpew
So after a few months of rerolling I've managed (with a small loan from Nard) to get my epic flying mount on the gnome.. FINALLY. (Insert Screenshot soon)Now it's time to help Baz get his. :)
I've been raiding some this past week... but it hasn't felt so stuffy and stressful. I think because a certain few people have left and transferred recently it's been a bit better for raiding. We've brought in a lot of new people and it hasn't been a bad transition as of yet... though we're still lacking healing, it seems.
I spec'd destro for one night of raiding. I wish I could stay that spec, it's totally boring as hell but so easy to put out 1600+ dps at any given moment. I mean it's retarded... you throw up a curse, I was using immolate, and then you spam shadowbolts. You just sac a succi and spam 2 keys. It kind of makes me cry that the best dps a warlock can put out now is through something so simple. :( It did feel good seeing 8.1k shadowbolt crits though...... lol.
I'm back to demo/destro because another lock that was formerly our only Affliction lock left decided he needed to be destro - so I bit the bullet and will officially be imp bitch in raids. >.>
So hm... I dunno. IRL.. we got a new puppy. Dear jesus... housebreaking is like punishment. I like cats soooo much better. Puppies make me cry... but damn can they be cute. (She's a redbone coonhound named Meeko, btw.)
I've been raiding some this past week... but it hasn't felt so stuffy and stressful. I think because a certain few people have left and transferred recently it's been a bit better for raiding. We've brought in a lot of new people and it hasn't been a bad transition as of yet... though we're still lacking healing, it seems.
I spec'd destro for one night of raiding. I wish I could stay that spec, it's totally boring as hell but so easy to put out 1600+ dps at any given moment. I mean it's retarded... you throw up a curse, I was using immolate, and then you spam shadowbolts. You just sac a succi and spam 2 keys. It kind of makes me cry that the best dps a warlock can put out now is through something so simple. :( It did feel good seeing 8.1k shadowbolt crits though...... lol.
I'm back to demo/destro because another lock that was formerly our only Affliction lock left decided he needed to be destro - so I bit the bullet and will officially be imp bitch in raids. >.>
So hm... I dunno. IRL.. we got a new puppy. Dear jesus... housebreaking is like punishment. I like cats soooo much better. Puppies make me cry... but damn can they be cute. (She's a redbone coonhound named Meeko, btw.)
Monday, October 8, 2007
Breaking Away
So I haven't raided in almost a week... and I can't say I miss it that much. My parents have been in town for going on a week now and I've basically stayed away from WoW while they've been here. I see them maybe twice a year, so yeah... WoW is the least of my concerns. Hehe.
Overall though, I've been thinking about my previous post as well as how it's felt to not feel so obligated to log in... I like it. The game shouldn't be a second job... I mean maybe for a couple of weeks play the hell out of it, clear content... etc. But there has to be a break... because it's just too easy for most to get burnt out, bored, and seeking other ways to make the game more interesting to them. I think that's what a lot of the asshole/bully bs comes from in WoW... a simple lack of interest in the game itself, so people seek ways to have 'fun' and fun for some people involves the misery of others... and that's just that. It's no different than people in real life. Someone at your office is bored of their job so they begin harrassing a fellow worker. Nothing new there.
Anyways... I am enjoying the break. I've been sleeping like a normal adult and it kind of feels strange. Work is going well for the most part... and it's been much nicer coming home at night and not feeling stressed by something that should be a hobby :)
Overall though, I've been thinking about my previous post as well as how it's felt to not feel so obligated to log in... I like it. The game shouldn't be a second job... I mean maybe for a couple of weeks play the hell out of it, clear content... etc. But there has to be a break... because it's just too easy for most to get burnt out, bored, and seeking other ways to make the game more interesting to them. I think that's what a lot of the asshole/bully bs comes from in WoW... a simple lack of interest in the game itself, so people seek ways to have 'fun' and fun for some people involves the misery of others... and that's just that. It's no different than people in real life. Someone at your office is bored of their job so they begin harrassing a fellow worker. Nothing new there.
Anyways... I am enjoying the break. I've been sleeping like a normal adult and it kind of feels strange. Work is going well for the most part... and it's been much nicer coming home at night and not feeling stressed by something that should be a hobby :)
Thursday, October 4, 2007
Some Nights My Dps Blows........
Wtf am I thinking?
My grandpa is in the hospital near death.
My parents, who I haven't seen in nearly a year, are on their way up here right now.
I screwed myself out of hours this week at work because they accidently scheduled me nights. Instead of accepting and going in anyways, I got myself out of it and had to take an extra day off (today) because of it. Why? Raiding. Granted I am lucky enough to not _need_ money, it's still a damn nice luxury.
How fucking stupid am I? Why the hell does this fucking game even matter sometimes? Why do I let stupid ass people criticize how I play it to the point that I stress over it?
This has to stop... lol. I mean seriously, who am I kidding? It's cool as hell to have all this epic gear and shit... but I'm 21. Not 16. I love the game, but putting it over ANYTHING else in my life is just retarded. It should be a luxury... a hobby, even if it's a passionate one. It should never be more important than family, work... my real life.
Here I am stressing about how I'll probably miss a lot of raiding next week because of the family shit.. but why? Why the fuck do the people I'm guilded with matter that much? Sure I have some awesome friendships with a select few, but do they even really matter? If I died tomorrow, would they even care? Lol.
I don't matter to the guild anyways, overall. My dps is less than amazing some nights (mostly due to a pos Verizon DSL connection that I have to tolerate paying for) and honestly, some people there make jokes enough about girls not being able to play WoW that I believe they are just that ignorant. So wtf am I doing? Sure, end-game content and raiding is incredible... that's why I put up with the shit, I guess. But yeah... I need to re-think my life a little. Too much WoW.. too much of my brain being devoted to WoW, and I just can't do it anymore. Not like this.
I just want to enjoy WoW being a -part- of my life again... I don't want to live and breath the fucking stupid ass broken game anymore. There's no point. Especially when I currently play and raid with a large number or elitest assholes that really aren't that good in the end. We're what... top 100 in the US-Alliance? So what? Some of the guild members act like we're fucking doing World Firsts. It's pretty damned retarded and I honestly don't think I can be a part of it much longer. Not to this measure.
Besides... I'm loving 2v2 with Blaw. :D
So, alas... I'm finally admitting that I may just play a little too much. And it's not even the amount of time I put into WoW... it's how much I let it affect me even when I am not playing it. I guess it's just easier to focus on a video game than it is to admit that my real life has a lot of bullshit in it. I attempt to ignore and avoid family issues... but I shouldn't. It's easier, but anymore I've started wondering if it really is. WoW is fun... or should be. How did I ever forget that?
I miss PK.
My grandpa is in the hospital near death.
My parents, who I haven't seen in nearly a year, are on their way up here right now.
I screwed myself out of hours this week at work because they accidently scheduled me nights. Instead of accepting and going in anyways, I got myself out of it and had to take an extra day off (today) because of it. Why? Raiding. Granted I am lucky enough to not _need_ money, it's still a damn nice luxury.
How fucking stupid am I? Why the hell does this fucking game even matter sometimes? Why do I let stupid ass people criticize how I play it to the point that I stress over it?
This has to stop... lol. I mean seriously, who am I kidding? It's cool as hell to have all this epic gear and shit... but I'm 21. Not 16. I love the game, but putting it over ANYTHING else in my life is just retarded. It should be a luxury... a hobby, even if it's a passionate one. It should never be more important than family, work... my real life.
Here I am stressing about how I'll probably miss a lot of raiding next week because of the family shit.. but why? Why the fuck do the people I'm guilded with matter that much? Sure I have some awesome friendships with a select few, but do they even really matter? If I died tomorrow, would they even care? Lol.
I don't matter to the guild anyways, overall. My dps is less than amazing some nights (mostly due to a pos Verizon DSL connection that I have to tolerate paying for) and honestly, some people there make jokes enough about girls not being able to play WoW that I believe they are just that ignorant. So wtf am I doing? Sure, end-game content and raiding is incredible... that's why I put up with the shit, I guess. But yeah... I need to re-think my life a little. Too much WoW.. too much of my brain being devoted to WoW, and I just can't do it anymore. Not like this.
I just want to enjoy WoW being a -part- of my life again... I don't want to live and breath the fucking stupid ass broken game anymore. There's no point. Especially when I currently play and raid with a large number or elitest assholes that really aren't that good in the end. We're what... top 100 in the US-Alliance? So what? Some of the guild members act like we're fucking doing World Firsts. It's pretty damned retarded and I honestly don't think I can be a part of it much longer. Not to this measure.
Besides... I'm loving 2v2 with Blaw. :D
So, alas... I'm finally admitting that I may just play a little too much. And it's not even the amount of time I put into WoW... it's how much I let it affect me even when I am not playing it. I guess it's just easier to focus on a video game than it is to admit that my real life has a lot of bullshit in it. I attempt to ignore and avoid family issues... but I shouldn't. It's easier, but anymore I've started wondering if it really is. WoW is fun... or should be. How did I ever forget that?
I miss PK.
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Illidan and whatever.
So we're now working on Illidan as of last week. Council was one-shotted the following night after we went in for a first look at them.
Illidan is easily taken into P2 but we're waiting on the P2 tanks to get their fire resist gear together. Fucking scrubs.
The Demon Phase will be tanked by one of our locks who is Destro spec'd. We'll see how that goes once we get there I suppose. I've only ever seen it tanked by an Affliction lock... who knows.
I've recently started waiting tables for a local pizza place. It's pretty good monies, but can be rather stressful during busy hours. I enjoy the challange... and it's definitaly harder than raiding BT. :p I occasionally have to miss raids to work but it's totally worth it. So long perfect attendance. Rawr :D
Soooo... things are decent for me atm. I miss some of my horde friends though... moreso now than I have recently. Not sure why, but damn... you guys were so win.<3
Illidan is easily taken into P2 but we're waiting on the P2 tanks to get their fire resist gear together. Fucking scrubs.
The Demon Phase will be tanked by one of our locks who is Destro spec'd. We'll see how that goes once we get there I suppose. I've only ever seen it tanked by an Affliction lock... who knows.
I've recently started waiting tables for a local pizza place. It's pretty good monies, but can be rather stressful during busy hours. I enjoy the challange... and it's definitaly harder than raiding BT. :p I occasionally have to miss raids to work but it's totally worth it. So long perfect attendance. Rawr :D
Soooo... things are decent for me atm. I miss some of my horde friends though... moreso now than I have recently. Not sure why, but damn... you guys were so win.<3
Monday, October 1, 2007
Progress
So the guild is currently 1.5 boss encounters away from clearing all of the Burning Crusade content currently available.
We downed Mother Shahraz this past week (23% pre-nerf, so stfu) and the guilds been working on Illidari Council since. We have the pull down, now, and we had them to 5% once last night. Grr. I will say though, we did AMAZING considering we only had 7 healers. That was way too few for that encounter and I'm happy that the guild sucked it up and went for it anyways. If we kill them tonight, then all that's left is Illidan. Feels pretty strange to say we've almost beat game! hehe.
Illidari Council is a long and boring fight overall. I mean it's four mobs that share their health pool, similar to Twin Emperors. You have a Mage, Priest, Pally, and Rogue to deal with. The mage is tanked by a spell stealing mage, the priest has to be constantly interrupted and places melee/magic reflect shields on herself periodically... so you need both types of interrupts available. The pally hits for like 21k on cloth, and the rogue is the worst, probably. He does a poison attack that stacks and then Envenoms targets with the poison. Damn does it hurt! The trick to this fight... is getting the pull down and controlling your add. After that, it's all on the raid to avoid AoE spells that are constantly being thrown at us. Blizzard, Flamestrike, and Consecrate. It isn't hard... and it's a long fight. That's basically the gist of it, though. I won't give away all of our secrets. :)
Soooo... I have to miss the raid tonight, and will probably miss the kill. :( I hope the guild can do it though. It'll be awesome to come home to see them working on Illidan! All in all, I'm glad people are sticking together through all of the bullshit... it's nice to see things get accomplished, even if there are some pissy ass attitudes to deal with no matter what we're working on.
We downed Mother Shahraz this past week (23% pre-nerf, so stfu) and the guilds been working on Illidari Council since. We have the pull down, now, and we had them to 5% once last night. Grr. I will say though, we did AMAZING considering we only had 7 healers. That was way too few for that encounter and I'm happy that the guild sucked it up and went for it anyways. If we kill them tonight, then all that's left is Illidan. Feels pretty strange to say we've almost beat game! hehe.
Illidari Council is a long and boring fight overall. I mean it's four mobs that share their health pool, similar to Twin Emperors. You have a Mage, Priest, Pally, and Rogue to deal with. The mage is tanked by a spell stealing mage, the priest has to be constantly interrupted and places melee/magic reflect shields on herself periodically... so you need both types of interrupts available. The pally hits for like 21k on cloth, and the rogue is the worst, probably. He does a poison attack that stacks and then Envenoms targets with the poison. Damn does it hurt! The trick to this fight... is getting the pull down and controlling your add. After that, it's all on the raid to avoid AoE spells that are constantly being thrown at us. Blizzard, Flamestrike, and Consecrate. It isn't hard... and it's a long fight. That's basically the gist of it, though. I won't give away all of our secrets. :)
Soooo... I have to miss the raid tonight, and will probably miss the kill. :( I hope the guild can do it though. It'll be awesome to come home to see them working on Illidan! All in all, I'm glad people are sticking together through all of the bullshit... it's nice to see things get accomplished, even if there are some pissy ass attitudes to deal with no matter what we're working on.
Friday, September 28, 2007
Ninja'd
I'd just like to take this moment to say that having all of the loot off of one boss 'accidently' be looted by one person... SUCKS. Especially after we spent the entire fucking night wiping to him due to whatever... I fucking hope to God that Blizzard lets us redistribute the loot because if not... what a total fucking waste of time/consumables/gold. It's nothing that I would have even bid more than 40 for... it's just that there is a certain satisfaction you get from seeing your guildmates get better gear after a night of raiding.... and last night, that didn't get to happen.
In short, a dwarf priest 'accidently' looted all of Archimondes loot to himself. He claims he has some sort of auto-looting mod that caused it to happen, and I will believe this story simply because he's never done anything to make me doubt him. Regardless, it was a total let down and the chances of Blizzard actually going through with the redistribution are slim. I hope they do though... so far they've given some hope by actually accepting names of characters that should've recieved the pieces... but who knows. The matter keeps getting redirected to another GM then to another, so we'll see.
Anyways... it's not the first time it's happend... won't be the last. Anyone on Alex remember Rizzle? Yeah... how ironic it was another dwarf priest last night, eh? HAHAHAHA.
So yeah... FAIL. Archimonde is such a bitch of a fight.. it's like no matter how good you are at it, if just ONE person sucks ass at ONE thing... it can cause a trickle of deaths and a wipe. RAWR.
I'm rarely upset about anything but damn did I blow through consumables last night. Jeezus.
UPDATE: All the gear went the intended people! I'm shocked. GG Blizz... for once.
In short, a dwarf priest 'accidently' looted all of Archimondes loot to himself. He claims he has some sort of auto-looting mod that caused it to happen, and I will believe this story simply because he's never done anything to make me doubt him. Regardless, it was a total let down and the chances of Blizzard actually going through with the redistribution are slim. I hope they do though... so far they've given some hope by actually accepting names of characters that should've recieved the pieces... but who knows. The matter keeps getting redirected to another GM then to another, so we'll see.
Anyways... it's not the first time it's happend... won't be the last. Anyone on Alex remember Rizzle? Yeah... how ironic it was another dwarf priest last night, eh? HAHAHAHA.
So yeah... FAIL. Archimonde is such a bitch of a fight.. it's like no matter how good you are at it, if just ONE person sucks ass at ONE thing... it can cause a trickle of deaths and a wipe. RAWR.
I'm rarely upset about anything but damn did I blow through consumables last night. Jeezus.
UPDATE: All the gear went the intended people! I'm shocked. GG Blizz... for once.
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Just a thought!
There is a certain aspect to end-game raiding that a lot of people don't really think much about... it's something that can really bring out those who are dedicated from those who are just along for the ride. Back in the AQ40 days it exsisted and even in Naxx, somewhat... now with Mother Sharaz, you see it again.
For Mother every single raid members needs epic crafted shadow resist gear... at least for learning. It's quite possible that some could do it without everyone in full gear, but that's another story. My point is... it takes dedication to farm the materials needed to craft the gear. One of the items required in order to make the gear is called a Heart of Darkness. These things only drop from within Black Temple, off of trash beyond Najentus (and not usually very often, I might add). Every single raider needs like... 8 I think it was, for their whole set. Now on some servers I'm sure there are multiple guilds in BT... therefore the economy may include things such as Hearts of Darkness... but for us, it's taken a lot of dedication and outside effort to help get a solid group of 25-30 people their Shadow Resist set crafted. On nights where we've cleared everything up to Mother, we've spent the night clearing trash to her and then resetting it... just so we could gather hearts for gear. Meanwhile it was expected of each raider to do their part and farm the other mats needed... such as Primal Shadows.
This is where my original point can be made now... with something like this it takes a lot of dedication by the core raid group to stick together and get things done for one another. If we want to down this boss, we all need to be on the same page. There are times when you can carry a few slow members through an encounter... but this isn't one of those moments. Every single person has to have that gear and have it enchanted. Every person needs to do their part to assure they have the most hp possible in order to ease healing and lower their risk of dying to something simple... like falling damage and a hit of something else just before. It's a fight like this in which you can figure out really quickly who your actual motivated raiders are. You hope that everyone is... but it shows through who isn't in a lot of ways really quickly here.
So... for those of you out there who haven't had this kind of challange in WoW yet, just know that they do exist, and sometimes they bring a little drama with them. Either people don't want to put their effort forth on their own, or people just give up and leave for one reason or another. Regardless... sometimes raiding can require a little extra effort, but when we got Mother to ~50% the other night with people fresh into their gear and unflasked... it all made it worth it. It felt amazing to see something go smoothly that could so easily go wrong if people weren't prepared.
All in all, it takes some time to farm the shit needed for the gear - but at least the fight is hella funny, although frustrating in it's randomness. She hits like a BEAST, by the way. Oh, and it's awesome when I can wear my resist set and be fully buffed... and have 13,000hp. hahaha. These kinds of fights are what this game is about. It's a gimmick fight, but very much fun when she doesn't throw someone into the raid with the debuff. >.> It's frustrating as a magic user, because she throws up a resist shield that can screw anyone over at any time.. BUT... that's part of the fun. Viscidus was fun for the same reasons... it was different and every person had to do their part to be a part of it. FROST WAND!!!! Lol... good times. :)
For Mother every single raid members needs epic crafted shadow resist gear... at least for learning. It's quite possible that some could do it without everyone in full gear, but that's another story. My point is... it takes dedication to farm the materials needed to craft the gear. One of the items required in order to make the gear is called a Heart of Darkness. These things only drop from within Black Temple, off of trash beyond Najentus (and not usually very often, I might add). Every single raider needs like... 8 I think it was, for their whole set. Now on some servers I'm sure there are multiple guilds in BT... therefore the economy may include things such as Hearts of Darkness... but for us, it's taken a lot of dedication and outside effort to help get a solid group of 25-30 people their Shadow Resist set crafted. On nights where we've cleared everything up to Mother, we've spent the night clearing trash to her and then resetting it... just so we could gather hearts for gear. Meanwhile it was expected of each raider to do their part and farm the other mats needed... such as Primal Shadows.
This is where my original point can be made now... with something like this it takes a lot of dedication by the core raid group to stick together and get things done for one another. If we want to down this boss, we all need to be on the same page. There are times when you can carry a few slow members through an encounter... but this isn't one of those moments. Every single person has to have that gear and have it enchanted. Every person needs to do their part to assure they have the most hp possible in order to ease healing and lower their risk of dying to something simple... like falling damage and a hit of something else just before. It's a fight like this in which you can figure out really quickly who your actual motivated raiders are. You hope that everyone is... but it shows through who isn't in a lot of ways really quickly here.
So... for those of you out there who haven't had this kind of challange in WoW yet, just know that they do exist, and sometimes they bring a little drama with them. Either people don't want to put their effort forth on their own, or people just give up and leave for one reason or another. Regardless... sometimes raiding can require a little extra effort, but when we got Mother to ~50% the other night with people fresh into their gear and unflasked... it all made it worth it. It felt amazing to see something go smoothly that could so easily go wrong if people weren't prepared.
All in all, it takes some time to farm the shit needed for the gear - but at least the fight is hella funny, although frustrating in it's randomness. She hits like a BEAST, by the way. Oh, and it's awesome when I can wear my resist set and be fully buffed... and have 13,000hp. hahaha. These kinds of fights are what this game is about. It's a gimmick fight, but very much fun when she doesn't throw someone into the raid with the debuff. >.> It's frustrating as a magic user, because she throws up a resist shield that can screw anyone over at any time.. BUT... that's part of the fun. Viscidus was fun for the same reasons... it was different and every person had to do their part to be a part of it. FROST WAND!!!! Lol... good times. :)
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Something New
So I decided that I needed a new spec on the gnome. Her gear is amazing now (for the most part) and yet I just couldn't get my damage to go up much. It was frustrating as hell, and I finally decided that it seriously may be due to my latency spikes as to why Affliction wasn't working out for me.
It was suggested to me last week that I try a Demo/Destro build. I took this into consideration and thought it out... meanwhile still trying everything to make her current spec work.
To explain my latency issues:
I can have perfect nights where I'll never see my latency go above 300ms. Those nights I did pretty damn well in raids... who would've thought? BUT... especially here lately, my ISP has been a pos. I've rarely seen my latency sit below 400ms for more than an hour. It's typically bouncing between 200ms and 1000ms. That is just retarded... and trust me, I don't want to use it as an excuse... but when playing a spec like Affliction, latency can screw how efficent you can be in a heartbeat. I mean with UA in the rotation... you have CoA, UA, Corr, Immo, and SL to constantly refresh. Ideally you can watch UA start to fall and start refreshing it, Corr, and Immo basically all in one motion. Now, with my latency spikes here lately... sometimes I'd be attempting to refresh UA (even starting early because I knew my latency was shitty) and by the time the cast would go through on my end... everything else would've dropped. There's just NO way to efficiently keep that many dot's ticking on a mob 100% of the time when you're spiking up to 1k ms in the middle of the dot rotation.
Yes, I've called my ISP. Several times. I used to work tech support for them, don't lecture me on fixing shit. I live in the middle of nowhere currently... it is the only high speed service I can get out where I live. Don't even go there, I already know.
So, to conclude all of that ranting. I needed to find a spec I could enjoy playing that was latency friendly. That ruled out basically all heavy Affliction builds. This made me sad because I've honestly never raided as anything but affliction... even pre-bc. I love dark pact... I love CoEx. But... sometimes you have to compromise and so I did.
The spec suggested to me is something like this:
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/warlock/talents.html?0000000000000000000000350030133200100000000505000512200510430250
I spec'd a premade lock in t6 that on the ptr. Granted that gear is unenchanted, but it is socketed... I was able to get some idea of the playstyle it entails. It's very mana inefficent.. and very cookie-cutter. You basically sac a minion based on which school of magic you'll be using... throw up a curse and immo, at least, and then spam away at either shadowbolt or incinerate. Not a bad build, but not much room for compromise. If you have to become a utility warlock for one reason or another, you gimp your damage due to the fact that you may not be able to sacrifice your minion. You get a lot of neat buffing talents from the destro tree.. but it just wasn't what I was after. Nothing wrong with the spec by any means, but too mage-y to me.
So this is what I came up with about 15 minutes before the raid last night:
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/warlock/talents.html?0000000000000000000000350030133250100501350505000512200010000000
Being that there were only 2 warlocks present in the raid, I was using my imp all night. Not a bad deal considering that with Master Demo it reduces my threat by 20% to have the imp out. Also, with soul link active my damage is increased by 5%. With 2 pieces of t5 on, my pet gets healed for 30% of whatever I get healed for. Hmm... so if he's taking 20% of the damage from me.. but getting healed when I get healed... works out great, right? I never had to resummon a minion because it died to being soul linked... and we were clearing huge aoe packs in which I did get aggro from multiple mobs at once, many times. I watched my imps health basically stay 100% just like mine. We'd dip down... but the second I got healed, so did he. I never even had to health funnel. I was rather impressed! I'd totally overlooked the things offered in the Demo tree. It's so versatile... so I'm happy to be giving it a shot.
With the way the talents all work together in it, you can just leave a minion summoned for a raid... have it get all of the raid buffs... feed it a Sporeling Snack (nummy!), and suddenly you just buffed your damage because you buffed your pets stats.
At one point, fully raid buffed, I had 1500+ shadow damage. 1056 fire damage. 12.7k hp. 10k mana. 22% crit, and 12% hit. That's just nasty. I was throwing out shadowbolt crits that were 6.5k hits. Seed of corruption was critting for 3k at times when it'd explode. Even though I am fire dmg gimped... my immolate was critting for 1100 on inital hit at times. I mean wtf?
This is even an amazing lock tanking build due to the resists offered by the felhunter being out. I had an overkill resistance rating in my Shadow Resist gear of 403 because of my fel. Lawls... wtf?
The only downside to this spec, so far, is that it's mana inefficent. So I have to lifetap or mana pot... no more dark pact. QQ. But honestly, with nearly 13k health, one Lifetap isn't gimping me on almost any of the fights we do every week. As long as I play it smart, it doesn't matter.
Conclusion:
Even though we only spent the night farming trash for hearts (for shadow resist gears) I came out on top overall damage done. I even died once and ran back and still managed to pull it off. We did, I think, 4 or 5 full clears... and granted there were a lot of aoe packs to clear - even looking at my damage on single pull mobs I was top 3 nearly every time, I believe. From what I recall, only hunters and melee were above me in damage on any single target mob. Now... this doesn't say anything yet... I haven't had the chance to blow this up on a boss - but it has at least top 5 potential, I'd assume. Which is far better than I was pulling off with Affliction.
I love Affliction and always will... but until I move, most likely, I have to find something else that works better.. because I can't go on being that gimp on the damage I'm putting out when I know full well that I am way better than that.
On another note, I'm told this spec is godly for arena. Orly? I guess I'll have to try soon.
If you're bored and want something new to try... give this spec a shot. It's fun, if anything... so many directions it can go. :)
It was suggested to me last week that I try a Demo/Destro build. I took this into consideration and thought it out... meanwhile still trying everything to make her current spec work.
To explain my latency issues:
I can have perfect nights where I'll never see my latency go above 300ms. Those nights I did pretty damn well in raids... who would've thought? BUT... especially here lately, my ISP has been a pos. I've rarely seen my latency sit below 400ms for more than an hour. It's typically bouncing between 200ms and 1000ms. That is just retarded... and trust me, I don't want to use it as an excuse... but when playing a spec like Affliction, latency can screw how efficent you can be in a heartbeat. I mean with UA in the rotation... you have CoA, UA, Corr, Immo, and SL to constantly refresh. Ideally you can watch UA start to fall and start refreshing it, Corr, and Immo basically all in one motion. Now, with my latency spikes here lately... sometimes I'd be attempting to refresh UA (even starting early because I knew my latency was shitty) and by the time the cast would go through on my end... everything else would've dropped. There's just NO way to efficiently keep that many dot's ticking on a mob 100% of the time when you're spiking up to 1k ms in the middle of the dot rotation.
Yes, I've called my ISP. Several times. I used to work tech support for them, don't lecture me on fixing shit. I live in the middle of nowhere currently... it is the only high speed service I can get out where I live. Don't even go there, I already know.
So, to conclude all of that ranting. I needed to find a spec I could enjoy playing that was latency friendly. That ruled out basically all heavy Affliction builds. This made me sad because I've honestly never raided as anything but affliction... even pre-bc. I love dark pact... I love CoEx. But... sometimes you have to compromise and so I did.
The spec suggested to me is something like this:
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/warlock/talents.html?0000000000000000000000350030133200100000000505000512200510430250
I spec'd a premade lock in t6 that on the ptr. Granted that gear is unenchanted, but it is socketed... I was able to get some idea of the playstyle it entails. It's very mana inefficent.. and very cookie-cutter. You basically sac a minion based on which school of magic you'll be using... throw up a curse and immo, at least, and then spam away at either shadowbolt or incinerate. Not a bad build, but not much room for compromise. If you have to become a utility warlock for one reason or another, you gimp your damage due to the fact that you may not be able to sacrifice your minion. You get a lot of neat buffing talents from the destro tree.. but it just wasn't what I was after. Nothing wrong with the spec by any means, but too mage-y to me.
So this is what I came up with about 15 minutes before the raid last night:
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/warlock/talents.html?0000000000000000000000350030133250100501350505000512200010000000
Being that there were only 2 warlocks present in the raid, I was using my imp all night. Not a bad deal considering that with Master Demo it reduces my threat by 20% to have the imp out. Also, with soul link active my damage is increased by 5%. With 2 pieces of t5 on, my pet gets healed for 30% of whatever I get healed for. Hmm... so if he's taking 20% of the damage from me.. but getting healed when I get healed... works out great, right? I never had to resummon a minion because it died to being soul linked... and we were clearing huge aoe packs in which I did get aggro from multiple mobs at once, many times. I watched my imps health basically stay 100% just like mine. We'd dip down... but the second I got healed, so did he. I never even had to health funnel. I was rather impressed! I'd totally overlooked the things offered in the Demo tree. It's so versatile... so I'm happy to be giving it a shot.
With the way the talents all work together in it, you can just leave a minion summoned for a raid... have it get all of the raid buffs... feed it a Sporeling Snack (nummy!), and suddenly you just buffed your damage because you buffed your pets stats.
At one point, fully raid buffed, I had 1500+ shadow damage. 1056 fire damage. 12.7k hp. 10k mana. 22% crit, and 12% hit. That's just nasty. I was throwing out shadowbolt crits that were 6.5k hits. Seed of corruption was critting for 3k at times when it'd explode. Even though I am fire dmg gimped... my immolate was critting for 1100 on inital hit at times. I mean wtf?
This is even an amazing lock tanking build due to the resists offered by the felhunter being out. I had an overkill resistance rating in my Shadow Resist gear of 403 because of my fel. Lawls... wtf?
The only downside to this spec, so far, is that it's mana inefficent. So I have to lifetap or mana pot... no more dark pact. QQ. But honestly, with nearly 13k health, one Lifetap isn't gimping me on almost any of the fights we do every week. As long as I play it smart, it doesn't matter.
Conclusion:
Even though we only spent the night farming trash for hearts (for shadow resist gears) I came out on top overall damage done. I even died once and ran back and still managed to pull it off. We did, I think, 4 or 5 full clears... and granted there were a lot of aoe packs to clear - even looking at my damage on single pull mobs I was top 3 nearly every time, I believe. From what I recall, only hunters and melee were above me in damage on any single target mob. Now... this doesn't say anything yet... I haven't had the chance to blow this up on a boss - but it has at least top 5 potential, I'd assume. Which is far better than I was pulling off with Affliction.
I love Affliction and always will... but until I move, most likely, I have to find something else that works better.. because I can't go on being that gimp on the damage I'm putting out when I know full well that I am way better than that.
On another note, I'm told this spec is godly for arena. Orly? I guess I'll have to try soon.
If you're bored and want something new to try... give this spec a shot. It's fun, if anything... so many directions it can go. :)
Friday, September 14, 2007
Recruitment Notice<3
The guild is recruiting a few exceptional players currently (various classes)... including a warlock. If you can't scroll down and figure out which faction we are, then don't bother reading on. ;)
Honestly, the guild is looking for people who have SSC/TK experience. (Meaning you've either participated in clearing both, or you've worked on all but possibly the last boss in either.) With that, your gear should show that you've raided both instances.
Being Hyjal/BT attuned is a huge plus, but can be worked with if you're not.
The raiding schedule is Sunday-Friday, 6:30pm-12am CST. If you cannot maintain 75% or more attendance with those scheduled times, then don't bother applying.
For more information: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=1371605294&sid=1&pageNo=1 that's the current recruitment post. (Not updated with the need for a warlock.)
To see the guilds website, visit: http://www.invictus-gaming.com .
Just thought I'd throw this up for the guild. :)
Honestly, the guild is looking for people who have SSC/TK experience. (Meaning you've either participated in clearing both, or you've worked on all but possibly the last boss in either.) With that, your gear should show that you've raided both instances.
Being Hyjal/BT attuned is a huge plus, but can be worked with if you're not.
The raiding schedule is Sunday-Friday, 6:30pm-12am CST. If you cannot maintain 75% or more attendance with those scheduled times, then don't bother applying.
For more information: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=1371605294&sid=1&pageNo=1 that's the current recruitment post. (Not updated with the need for a warlock.)
To see the guilds website, visit: http://www.invictus-gaming.com .
Just thought I'd throw this up for the guild. :)
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
A few screenshots
Someones random AFK bank alt happened to be my twin, so I broke out the tuxedo for picture time.<3
As Glint says: "He likes you."
This is how the Gnome is looking these days.Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Lootwhore?
...taking 3 pieces of t5 in the past couple of days makes me feel like one, haha. But hey, I don't bid everyone out on every item I want... typically I even drop out of the bidding early. So, essentially - I think I'm just trying to gear myself up so that I can actually compete with the other casters.
One thing that I have noticed and despise about the loot system of my guild... is that people can take items for one slot, say a chestpiece, and then the very next kill could take an item for the same slot - if they have the dkp to bid people out on it. It's kind of retarded, but I guess it shows how people really play the game.
Personally, I could never bring myself to do that... because I believe that gear should be spread out. That's not saying I don't want tons of upgrades, but if I took a helm tonight - I sure as hell wouldn't take another one anytime soon. I'd rather see the whole raid wearing exceptional gear, not just myself.
So, the gnome has T5 pants, helm, and shoulders now. She's looking pretty wicked. I can hopefully get a robe upgrade soonish and then go from there for everything else... not really concerned with my beyond robes at this point. :)
One thing that I have noticed and despise about the loot system of my guild... is that people can take items for one slot, say a chestpiece, and then the very next kill could take an item for the same slot - if they have the dkp to bid people out on it. It's kind of retarded, but I guess it shows how people really play the game.
Personally, I could never bring myself to do that... because I believe that gear should be spread out. That's not saying I don't want tons of upgrades, but if I took a helm tonight - I sure as hell wouldn't take another one anytime soon. I'd rather see the whole raid wearing exceptional gear, not just myself.
So, the gnome has T5 pants, helm, and shoulders now. She's looking pretty wicked. I can hopefully get a robe upgrade soonish and then go from there for everything else... not really concerned with my beyond robes at this point. :)
Saturday, September 8, 2007
Unstable Affliction vs. Ruin
I specc'd UA out of curiousity recently, for raiding, and I have to say... it's only mediocre to me. Like any specc for any class, some players will tell you it's God-mode, others will say it's only for PvP or PvE.
I dropped Ruin and threw in extra points into Affliction. Picked up UA and Malediction, since there's been discussion of how effective 3% more damage would be. I dropped a few things that I do miss, though, in the process. Intensity and Ruin being the most missed in raids... and Soul Siphon from the Affliction tree. Some fights I severly miss the extra bonus to drain life... though many fights it's not even noticed.
The difference between UA and Ruin is based mostly on what the fucking encounter is. On something like Archimonde where you can often be moving, constantly, due to doomfires and air bursts... UA is probably the way to go. You cast it and viola, you have another dot, ticking away. Ruin is nice, but on a fight like that... you can't promise you'll have much of a chance to spam shadow bolts, so it's better to have something like UA to promise that damage consistantly.
However, on tank and spank fights where threat isn't even much of an issue... Ruin does show itself. Lurker, for example, you can pretty much go all out on. I mean the only thing that prevents you from shadowbolting is the brief time you spend in the water during spouts. Otherwise, you can throw your dots up and spam shadowbolts all day while he's up. 6k+ crits add up really quick on a fight like that.
The biggest annoyance with UA is that it's a casted DoT and fairly mana expensive. Corruption is annoying when you have to cast it, haha. UA does it's biggest damage if it's dispelled, as well. Which does not often happen on trash or especially boss fights. So for raiding... I'm debating how worth it, it is. It's not entirely useless, but realistically... it depends on your gear. If you stack strictly plus damage and some hit, then yeah... by all means... stick to as many DoT's as possible. But seriously.. if you go for any amount of crit above 12%... shadowbolts aren't so bad, are they? Especially if you can get in around 20% crit - those 100% damage bonus crits aren't looking so bad, now are they?
I mentioned how on Archimonde another DoT is useful, however... you're still casting it as if it were a shadowbolt, in a sense (not quite as long of a cast time). You still have to be stationary for a short bit in order to place it on the boss. So... it's debatable on how useful it is, even there. It would depend on your luck with Doomfires and such, I'd imagine.
So... I'm pretty torn as to which is better to me. I enjoy Ruin more, but UA isn't treating me too bad. For my current gear, UA is probably more reliable... but once I get more crit - I may go back to Ruin for a bit and see how my damage stands.
I'm not entirely sure on Malediction. I need to go back through some raid stat stuff and see if there's a major difference in shadow damage, etc.
I know there are plenty of other warlock raid speccs and pending where you go or what you're reading, you'll see it say such and such is the best.. etc. I'm not saying UA or Ruin are the only ways to raid, at all. Lol.... just giving my opinion on both since I've raided with either.
I dropped Ruin and threw in extra points into Affliction. Picked up UA and Malediction, since there's been discussion of how effective 3% more damage would be. I dropped a few things that I do miss, though, in the process. Intensity and Ruin being the most missed in raids... and Soul Siphon from the Affliction tree. Some fights I severly miss the extra bonus to drain life... though many fights it's not even noticed.
The difference between UA and Ruin is based mostly on what the fucking encounter is. On something like Archimonde where you can often be moving, constantly, due to doomfires and air bursts... UA is probably the way to go. You cast it and viola, you have another dot, ticking away. Ruin is nice, but on a fight like that... you can't promise you'll have much of a chance to spam shadow bolts, so it's better to have something like UA to promise that damage consistantly.
However, on tank and spank fights where threat isn't even much of an issue... Ruin does show itself. Lurker, for example, you can pretty much go all out on. I mean the only thing that prevents you from shadowbolting is the brief time you spend in the water during spouts. Otherwise, you can throw your dots up and spam shadowbolts all day while he's up. 6k+ crits add up really quick on a fight like that.
The biggest annoyance with UA is that it's a casted DoT and fairly mana expensive. Corruption is annoying when you have to cast it, haha. UA does it's biggest damage if it's dispelled, as well. Which does not often happen on trash or especially boss fights. So for raiding... I'm debating how worth it, it is. It's not entirely useless, but realistically... it depends on your gear. If you stack strictly plus damage and some hit, then yeah... by all means... stick to as many DoT's as possible. But seriously.. if you go for any amount of crit above 12%... shadowbolts aren't so bad, are they? Especially if you can get in around 20% crit - those 100% damage bonus crits aren't looking so bad, now are they?
I mentioned how on Archimonde another DoT is useful, however... you're still casting it as if it were a shadowbolt, in a sense (not quite as long of a cast time). You still have to be stationary for a short bit in order to place it on the boss. So... it's debatable on how useful it is, even there. It would depend on your luck with Doomfires and such, I'd imagine.
So... I'm pretty torn as to which is better to me. I enjoy Ruin more, but UA isn't treating me too bad. For my current gear, UA is probably more reliable... but once I get more crit - I may go back to Ruin for a bit and see how my damage stands.
I'm not entirely sure on Malediction. I need to go back through some raid stat stuff and see if there's a major difference in shadow damage, etc.
I know there are plenty of other warlock raid speccs and pending where you go or what you're reading, you'll see it say such and such is the best.. etc. I'm not saying UA or Ruin are the only ways to raid, at all. Lol.... just giving my opinion on both since I've raided with either.
Friday, August 31, 2007
Hardcore Doesn't Mean...
...you give up your real life.
http://nihilum.wazap.com/news/84/
Read through that.
Now I don't know their specific raiding schedule, but by the sounds of that alone it's easy to see that they don't stress over farmed content and they expect you to give a little more of yourself for progressive content. With that description it makes me think that it's possible to even set aside a week here or there as a 'farmed' content week without expectations of real progression. If that's the case, you could basically have easymode weeks here and there for whatever else you may want to do, so that you could come back the next week ready to work harder at whatever boss you may be after in the chain of progression.
No matter how hardcore you may think you are, you're only human. There's only so much any person can offer the game for so long. Without any sort of vacation you can easily become burned out playing, especially if any of the people you attempt to be a team with add extra stress to your normal gaming experience in one way or another.
Being in a progressive raiding guild doesn't mean you have to give up your real life. Sometimes an encounter may require you to give up a little more of your time than normal, but the game should never revolve around sitting at some cockblock boss, frustrated, because not every person is on the same page or is willing to give what's needed of them and then some in order to surpass it.
That's the tough part about raiding in WoW... evolving beyond the casual aspect and attempting to tackle difficult content in a timely manner. If you want to be a part of that, you have to be lucky enough to come across at least 25 or so other people who are willing to sit down and do the same. If you're in a raid with 20 other people who want to give 100%, and 3 others who aren't, then you have weak links and a weak spot that any truely difficult encounter will quickly expose. That's the frustration of it all.. and that's where raiding becomes a job.
But like I was saying, even progressive raiding doesn't have to be such a chore as many make it out to be. It is enjoyable.. even giving so much to make it happen can be enjoyable... if you're allowed a break here and there to refuel. A lot of the end-game progressive guilds I've seen work on a revolving door for a lot of classes simply because they never set aside a predefined time to 'take a break.' Not everyone wants those breaks, but trust me, more often than not people who play the game NEED it, even if they don't think they do. Just remember, your raiders ARE human... and Warcraft is often an addiction. Who out there honestly admits when they need a little less of their addicition? lol. If you don't freely give people a break once in awhile, then they burn out. Simple as that.. if you want your good players to stick around and happily give progression 100% - then provide them with that comfort of knowing they will have a break here and there so that they can keep going so strong.
http://nihilum.wazap.com/news/84/
Read through that.
Now I don't know their specific raiding schedule, but by the sounds of that alone it's easy to see that they don't stress over farmed content and they expect you to give a little more of yourself for progressive content. With that description it makes me think that it's possible to even set aside a week here or there as a 'farmed' content week without expectations of real progression. If that's the case, you could basically have easymode weeks here and there for whatever else you may want to do, so that you could come back the next week ready to work harder at whatever boss you may be after in the chain of progression.
No matter how hardcore you may think you are, you're only human. There's only so much any person can offer the game for so long. Without any sort of vacation you can easily become burned out playing, especially if any of the people you attempt to be a team with add extra stress to your normal gaming experience in one way or another.
Being in a progressive raiding guild doesn't mean you have to give up your real life. Sometimes an encounter may require you to give up a little more of your time than normal, but the game should never revolve around sitting at some cockblock boss, frustrated, because not every person is on the same page or is willing to give what's needed of them and then some in order to surpass it.
That's the tough part about raiding in WoW... evolving beyond the casual aspect and attempting to tackle difficult content in a timely manner. If you want to be a part of that, you have to be lucky enough to come across at least 25 or so other people who are willing to sit down and do the same. If you're in a raid with 20 other people who want to give 100%, and 3 others who aren't, then you have weak links and a weak spot that any truely difficult encounter will quickly expose. That's the frustration of it all.. and that's where raiding becomes a job.
But like I was saying, even progressive raiding doesn't have to be such a chore as many make it out to be. It is enjoyable.. even giving so much to make it happen can be enjoyable... if you're allowed a break here and there to refuel. A lot of the end-game progressive guilds I've seen work on a revolving door for a lot of classes simply because they never set aside a predefined time to 'take a break.' Not everyone wants those breaks, but trust me, more often than not people who play the game NEED it, even if they don't think they do. Just remember, your raiders ARE human... and Warcraft is often an addiction. Who out there honestly admits when they need a little less of their addicition? lol. If you don't freely give people a break once in awhile, then they burn out. Simple as that.. if you want your good players to stick around and happily give progression 100% - then provide them with that comfort of knowing they will have a break here and there so that they can keep going so strong.
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Funfun
I've been running heroics on a daily basis with my friends as of lately and I must say the difference between Horde and Alliance, in heroic instances alone, is huge. Not that we were terrible at heroics hordeside... I can remember running them with Krarr, Blawle, Jago, and Lycanno... and having tons of fun. But when that group started to fall apart, we really didn't run heroics anymore... so I just never bothered to see that aspect of the game, honestly. It wasn't worth it to try and PuG anything because well... the incompentancy of the horde running shit on regular mode was bad enough. I wasn't taking any chances.
So... I must say heroics aren't anything special, but with the right gear they go just as quickly as anything on regular mode. It's kind of like mini-raiding farmed content. I'm having fun... blahblahblah. I'm 7 tokens from the Icon trinket. After I pick that up, I dunno what I'll spend my tokens on. Possibly nethers so that I can craft the epic spell damage patches for golds. :D
Blawle has been playing his mage a lot with me and it's a lot of fun farming together. Warlock/Mage combos are pretty fucking leet. We farmed a ton of Scryer Rep last week together and it took practically no time at all. He even got the enchant formula for Intellect to Weapon. Pewpew.
Friends make the game. If it weren't for the people in WoW that I consider friends, I'd be playing something else. It's not the raiding for me... it's not progression or even gear. It's just being around people I like playing the game with. I miss the fuck out of my horde friends... but it wasn't a comfortable place for me to continue playing on... and thankfully I had a few good Alliance friends as it was. It hasn't been easy rerolling... but I have enjoyed it overall. I think the worst part is merely that I was so far behind in gear, but I've made it fun for myself to work on my gear outside of raiding... because fuck knows I'm not getting anything from raiding anytime soon. Haha. My most recent upgrades are Curators staff, Belt of Blasting, and the Exalted Scryer shoulder enchant. It's simple stuff but the gnome is finally sitting in some decent gear that gives her enough health for BT encounters without subbing in too many crap stam pieces.
I've been listening to a lot of Rise Against and Say Anything as of lately. Ooh.. and H.I.M. Anyone have any new suggestions?
So... I must say heroics aren't anything special, but with the right gear they go just as quickly as anything on regular mode. It's kind of like mini-raiding farmed content. I'm having fun... blahblahblah. I'm 7 tokens from the Icon trinket. After I pick that up, I dunno what I'll spend my tokens on. Possibly nethers so that I can craft the epic spell damage patches for golds. :D
Blawle has been playing his mage a lot with me and it's a lot of fun farming together. Warlock/Mage combos are pretty fucking leet. We farmed a ton of Scryer Rep last week together and it took practically no time at all. He even got the enchant formula for Intellect to Weapon. Pewpew.
Friends make the game. If it weren't for the people in WoW that I consider friends, I'd be playing something else. It's not the raiding for me... it's not progression or even gear. It's just being around people I like playing the game with. I miss the fuck out of my horde friends... but it wasn't a comfortable place for me to continue playing on... and thankfully I had a few good Alliance friends as it was. It hasn't been easy rerolling... but I have enjoyed it overall. I think the worst part is merely that I was so far behind in gear, but I've made it fun for myself to work on my gear outside of raiding... because fuck knows I'm not getting anything from raiding anytime soon. Haha. My most recent upgrades are Curators staff, Belt of Blasting, and the Exalted Scryer shoulder enchant. It's simple stuff but the gnome is finally sitting in some decent gear that gives her enough health for BT encounters without subbing in too many crap stam pieces.
I've been listening to a lot of Rise Against and Say Anything as of lately. Ooh.. and H.I.M. Anyone have any new suggestions?
Sunday, August 26, 2007
Raiding and Otherwise
Between RL stuff and raiding I've been pretty busy here lately. This isn't a bad thing because I like having something to do all of the time... I'm just hoping I hear back from the last job I app'd to soon because that would be the better way to fill all of my time and I know it.
Anyways - the gnome has seen SSC, TK, Hyjal, and BT now. Obviously not all of Hyjal or Black Temple, but she's getting there. SSC is overall a boring instance. Tempest Keep is short and sweet and I like it. The Kael fight is pretty sweet. Hyjal, so far, is pretty boring. Waves of trash leading right into a boss... ugh. We're currently working on Archimonde... it's a simple fight realistically, but execution is the key annnnd... we won't go there. We'll get it, just takes a little bit clearer thinking on more peoples parts. Black Temple is different. Each section is pretty unique to itself so far, and I like that. A few bad Line of Sight issues emerge all over in that place though... which is annoying. Overall, it's a pretty entertaining instance.
There's a lot more that could be said about any of the above instances, but I'll leave it at that. I think the guild has 6 bosses left in the game, currently. The guild has been fairly annoying most nights as of lately. It isn't any one person that makes it that way, it's just a collective part of the guild that bitches and fights with one another constantly... just makes for a few amusing arguments here and there, but mostly just annoying name-calling and blaming. I guess the mental age of most people shows itself under stress, right? Well... learning a new/difficult encounter is a bit stressful for most people... so I suppose there's an excuse for the actions of a lot of people. Maybe. Hopefully people just grow up, get over it, and play the fucking game soon... because the 4th grade bullshit gets old fast :)
Hmm... not a whole lot to say. I mean I spend my time raiding the above or... farming for the above. I've been running some heroics with my friends and of course that's fun - but that's about it for my gaming. Lots of stuff to do outside of WoW currently. I've heard bits and pieces about the expansion... I've heard that their re-releasing Naxx as the first instance in it... but it's supposed to be a clone of the current Naxx? Not a bad idea, really... BUT... pretty lame at the same time. So... whatever. Imo, Blizzard is losing it's creative niche. That totally blows... and at the same time, maybe by then it'll be time to get over the WoW addiction. Who knows.
Anyways - the gnome has seen SSC, TK, Hyjal, and BT now. Obviously not all of Hyjal or Black Temple, but she's getting there. SSC is overall a boring instance. Tempest Keep is short and sweet and I like it. The Kael fight is pretty sweet. Hyjal, so far, is pretty boring. Waves of trash leading right into a boss... ugh. We're currently working on Archimonde... it's a simple fight realistically, but execution is the key annnnd... we won't go there. We'll get it, just takes a little bit clearer thinking on more peoples parts. Black Temple is different. Each section is pretty unique to itself so far, and I like that. A few bad Line of Sight issues emerge all over in that place though... which is annoying. Overall, it's a pretty entertaining instance.
There's a lot more that could be said about any of the above instances, but I'll leave it at that. I think the guild has 6 bosses left in the game, currently. The guild has been fairly annoying most nights as of lately. It isn't any one person that makes it that way, it's just a collective part of the guild that bitches and fights with one another constantly... just makes for a few amusing arguments here and there, but mostly just annoying name-calling and blaming. I guess the mental age of most people shows itself under stress, right? Well... learning a new/difficult encounter is a bit stressful for most people... so I suppose there's an excuse for the actions of a lot of people. Maybe. Hopefully people just grow up, get over it, and play the fucking game soon... because the 4th grade bullshit gets old fast :)
Hmm... not a whole lot to say. I mean I spend my time raiding the above or... farming for the above. I've been running some heroics with my friends and of course that's fun - but that's about it for my gaming. Lots of stuff to do outside of WoW currently. I've heard bits and pieces about the expansion... I've heard that their re-releasing Naxx as the first instance in it... but it's supposed to be a clone of the current Naxx? Not a bad idea, really... BUT... pretty lame at the same time. So... whatever. Imo, Blizzard is losing it's creative niche. That totally blows... and at the same time, maybe by then it'll be time to get over the WoW addiction. Who knows.
Sunday, August 12, 2007
WoWless.
So in case anyone was wondering why I haven't been online for the past few days: My video card took a shite the other day just when the raid started. Woot >.> Anyways, bought a new card.. installed, but the computer is running like shit. Still working on that part. The power dimmed and went out during a storm which led to my computers demise... so any number of things could have gone wrong when this happened. Oh wells... such is life.
Without WoW to occupy my time I haven't been up to a whole lot. Okay, so I lied. I found plenty of shit to fill my time with. Shopping, for one, even though I never buy anything. Spending more time with Oliver and the Kittons... umm... just being outside more than usual. It's been super hot out, so I can't say I enjoy being in th sun, persay, but fresh air... or city air even... is nice once in awhile. Things haven't been all peachy tho... one of my kittons died a few nights ago. I'm assuming from heat exhaustion and dehydration. I did all I could to attempt to get him fluids and I've been giving the bunch a vitamin supplement daily... but the little runt just couldn't make it, I guess. :( He was a sweetie so this saddens me, but that's part of life, right? Pathetic to think that I can enjoy playing a game in which I slay anything from bunnies to dragons as well as other players... and yet I cry when a kitton dies. Guess I'm a softy afterall. Shh, don't tell.
My birthday is on Saturday. 21. Good... Bad? I dunno. Nothing really that special about it except that hopefully I stand a better chance at getting a job. White Russians? Oh yes, there will be. But since when is that so new? Hahaha.
So... here's to my computer working again, warm summer days, healthy kittons, and a happy birthday to myself and the few who share theirs this week with me.
Without WoW to occupy my time I haven't been up to a whole lot. Okay, so I lied. I found plenty of shit to fill my time with. Shopping, for one, even though I never buy anything. Spending more time with Oliver and the Kittons... umm... just being outside more than usual. It's been super hot out, so I can't say I enjoy being in th sun, persay, but fresh air... or city air even... is nice once in awhile. Things haven't been all peachy tho... one of my kittons died a few nights ago. I'm assuming from heat exhaustion and dehydration. I did all I could to attempt to get him fluids and I've been giving the bunch a vitamin supplement daily... but the little runt just couldn't make it, I guess. :( He was a sweetie so this saddens me, but that's part of life, right? Pathetic to think that I can enjoy playing a game in which I slay anything from bunnies to dragons as well as other players... and yet I cry when a kitton dies. Guess I'm a softy afterall. Shh, don't tell.
My birthday is on Saturday. 21. Good... Bad? I dunno. Nothing really that special about it except that hopefully I stand a better chance at getting a job. White Russians? Oh yes, there will be. But since when is that so new? Hahaha.
So... here's to my computer working again, warm summer days, healthy kittons, and a happy birthday to myself and the few who share theirs this week with me.
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
About time I updated I guess...
So the gnome has been 70 for a couple of weeks now and has had two Kara runs. She's gotten fairly lucky on drops... first week I believe she got opera wand, prince neck, moroes cloak, chess ring, and possibly something else.
This past weekend she got the shadow necklace, attumen gloves, wicked witches hat, and of course rep ring. I could be forgetting something but yeah. Lucky so far :)
Would prefer the T4 helm to go with the pants since the 2 piece bonus is nummy, but I can't complain at all atm. All I'm really lacking right now is a belt and weapon setup.
As far as the belt goes, there's an awesome crafted one I'm considering farming for... except that I haven't had tons of free time to do so. Other options is the one from High King, which is actually very similar to the crafted one. I mean it's not too much worse, so I'd take it. With weapons, I passed on the Curator staff because I want to go with a 1h OH combo. Netherspite and Nightbane both drop good OH's... and Prince and Gruul both have 1Handers. Hopefully the guild decides to run Gruul's this week... and hopefully I can get into a decent Kara group on Saturday. We'll see :)
I officially got promoted to a Pledge last night therefore I'm actually allowed to raid now. Due to an influx of lock recruits I got put on hold, basically, regarding my status. Which was fine considering I was a reroll and it was friends that weren't warlocks that convinced me to do so. Everything will work out though... if anything, I'll just let the other locks do their thing and let the Class Lead sort it out, then worry about raiding. I'm happy just getting the chance to raid once in awhile... because I miss it. Some people are satisfied pvping or otherwise in WoW... but I play it to raid. I hate pvp ultimately and I just really want to be with friends and working on new content every week. I'm glad I have that here.
Anyways... it's terribly hot irl right now. Like 100+ every day... which is unusual for Ohio. It's too hot to really enjoy long spans of time outside and that makes me a sad panda. I have a litter of 5 kittens that I have to watch carefully at the moment because they aren't taking to the heat well. I have to give them all a dose of vitamin supplement each day and tend to other things that come up. I love doing it... because I love animals and it's my job... but this heat is even getting me every time I'm out with them. Lol. I had to babysit this past weekend some and just wow... I really suck with kids,lol. Like diaper changing... so fail. I'll stick with raising cats and finding them homes :D
This past weekend she got the shadow necklace, attumen gloves, wicked witches hat, and of course rep ring. I could be forgetting something but yeah. Lucky so far :)
Would prefer the T4 helm to go with the pants since the 2 piece bonus is nummy, but I can't complain at all atm. All I'm really lacking right now is a belt and weapon setup.
As far as the belt goes, there's an awesome crafted one I'm considering farming for... except that I haven't had tons of free time to do so. Other options is the one from High King, which is actually very similar to the crafted one. I mean it's not too much worse, so I'd take it. With weapons, I passed on the Curator staff because I want to go with a 1h OH combo. Netherspite and Nightbane both drop good OH's... and Prince and Gruul both have 1Handers. Hopefully the guild decides to run Gruul's this week... and hopefully I can get into a decent Kara group on Saturday. We'll see :)
I officially got promoted to a Pledge last night therefore I'm actually allowed to raid now. Due to an influx of lock recruits I got put on hold, basically, regarding my status. Which was fine considering I was a reroll and it was friends that weren't warlocks that convinced me to do so. Everything will work out though... if anything, I'll just let the other locks do their thing and let the Class Lead sort it out, then worry about raiding. I'm happy just getting the chance to raid once in awhile... because I miss it. Some people are satisfied pvping or otherwise in WoW... but I play it to raid. I hate pvp ultimately and I just really want to be with friends and working on new content every week. I'm glad I have that here.
Anyways... it's terribly hot irl right now. Like 100+ every day... which is unusual for Ohio. It's too hot to really enjoy long spans of time outside and that makes me a sad panda. I have a litter of 5 kittens that I have to watch carefully at the moment because they aren't taking to the heat well. I have to give them all a dose of vitamin supplement each day and tend to other things that come up. I love doing it... because I love animals and it's my job... but this heat is even getting me every time I'm out with them. Lol. I had to babysit this past weekend some and just wow... I really suck with kids,lol. Like diaper changing... so fail. I'll stick with raising cats and finding them homes :D
Saturday, July 28, 2007
Gnomish Raiding and Other Shit
So I raided yesterday... as in actually raided. I ran Gruul's Lair and Magtheridon's Lair. Was a good time, for the most part. Gruul's went extremely fast seeing as we one-shotted both bosses. With the guilds luck, as usual, both bosses dropped at least 1 Lock token piece. I did not need the shoulders piece, but no one else did either. So the gnome now has T4 legs and shoulders. GG. The pants were a huge upgrade, so I'm happies about that!
Mags was a pos and some people were being stupid. 'Nuff said.
I'm enjoying playing WoW with friends... though I wouldn't say raiding has really gotten any better in the few weeks I spent leveling and not raiding. We'll see how I feel IF I get to do any SSC and beyond soon.
While leveling, I recieved very little help in running lower level shit. Jago has been bugging me to run him through things, but I must say man... I think the only low level shit I had help with was SM. I never ran SFK or just about any other low level place. Just quested my ass off. I think I ran BFD or whatever once... and then BRD and shit. I'll run you through SM asap.. just let me know when you'll have some time so I can work with you on that. I have a few rep things to farm up right now, and I'll be raiding tonight - but I'll have some free time. Sorry I haven't really had that here recently. Just because I hit 70 didn't mean the grind was over >.>
It's been fun running normal mode 5 mans with the guys, I must say. I mean it's been awhile since I've been with people who are intelligent enough to handle all of the retarded shit we do. Pulling two 5 pulls at the same time in SL's... fear bombing into more mobs (oops!), just overall being dumb. I've missed that. I hope those who are running with me here lately are having fun too... =p
Soooo... yeah. Fun times with the gnome. I think more and more she's becoming more appropriate as my alter-ego. I mean I can't stop laughing when I die due to the fact that she squeeks and even hops before falling into her death pose. It's AMAZING. Ooh... and let's not forget getting punted. That is so SWEET. I mean, how many of you actually laugh when you die? Didn't think so.
GNOMES RULE. :D
Mags was a pos and some people were being stupid. 'Nuff said.
I'm enjoying playing WoW with friends... though I wouldn't say raiding has really gotten any better in the few weeks I spent leveling and not raiding. We'll see how I feel IF I get to do any SSC and beyond soon.
While leveling, I recieved very little help in running lower level shit. Jago has been bugging me to run him through things, but I must say man... I think the only low level shit I had help with was SM. I never ran SFK or just about any other low level place. Just quested my ass off. I think I ran BFD or whatever once... and then BRD and shit. I'll run you through SM asap.. just let me know when you'll have some time so I can work with you on that. I have a few rep things to farm up right now, and I'll be raiding tonight - but I'll have some free time. Sorry I haven't really had that here recently. Just because I hit 70 didn't mean the grind was over >.>
It's been fun running normal mode 5 mans with the guys, I must say. I mean it's been awhile since I've been with people who are intelligent enough to handle all of the retarded shit we do. Pulling two 5 pulls at the same time in SL's... fear bombing into more mobs (oops!), just overall being dumb. I've missed that. I hope those who are running with me here lately are having fun too... =p
Soooo... yeah. Fun times with the gnome. I think more and more she's becoming more appropriate as my alter-ego. I mean I can't stop laughing when I die due to the fact that she squeeks and even hops before falling into her death pose. It's AMAZING. Ooh... and let's not forget getting punted. That is so SWEET. I mean, how many of you actually laugh when you die? Didn't think so.
GNOMES RULE. :D
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Level 70
So after 16 days played time, I've finally reached level 70 on the gnome lock. Thankfully! Leveling has been burning me out as of lately.
Much love to those who have helped me out along the way, especially through these last 4 levels. Also, thanks to all of the support from everyone else... without you guys, I'd have just given up awhile ago. :)
The minute she hit 70, I was able to equip 3/3 Frozen Shadoweave, enchanted and gemmed, as well as a few other dungeon items. It was pretty hot. I am still not a fan of the tailoring crafted stuff deep down, but as a reroll it was definitely worth it to go this route. With Jade, though, I didn't want to drop herbalism of enchanting... therefore there was no way I was going tailoring just because of the gear I could farm for and craft. All in all it is still a ton of work to put into the gear just to know it is replaceable. T5 over it, anyday, honestly.
Anyways, the gnome is my second 70, ever... second 60+ ever, as well. Two 70 locks.. wtf is my problem? :)
I'm happy with my choice to reroll. It's been different this time around! Now I get to... rep grind. Yay. >.>
Picture inc soon, I suppose.
Much love to those who have helped me out along the way, especially through these last 4 levels. Also, thanks to all of the support from everyone else... without you guys, I'd have just given up awhile ago. :)
The minute she hit 70, I was able to equip 3/3 Frozen Shadoweave, enchanted and gemmed, as well as a few other dungeon items. It was pretty hot. I am still not a fan of the tailoring crafted stuff deep down, but as a reroll it was definitely worth it to go this route. With Jade, though, I didn't want to drop herbalism of enchanting... therefore there was no way I was going tailoring just because of the gear I could farm for and craft. All in all it is still a ton of work to put into the gear just to know it is replaceable. T5 over it, anyday, honestly.
Anyways, the gnome is my second 70, ever... second 60+ ever, as well. Two 70 locks.. wtf is my problem? :)
I'm happy with my choice to reroll. It's been different this time around! Now I get to... rep grind. Yay. >.>
Picture inc soon, I suppose.
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Lack of Sleep = Blog Post
So it's 6:42am and I cannot fall asleep. I'm starving for some reason. I attempted to go to bed around 3:30am and failed... so here I sit.
Gnome is 50% through 65 currently. I am pleased with the rate at which I've leveled her but at the same time, I feel I could have done it much quicker. Meh... taking time off to enjoy some RL hasn't been a bad thing.
I think since I've hit 63 I've started to come across a few people alliance side that are just fail at playing the game. This paladin for example, who has been 67 for at least the past 4 days, has shown up right behind me, and dove in to tag quest mobs that I had been clearing to. It's annoying, but funny at the same time. He'll seriously run in and pull 5 mobs with him, spam consecrate, and just heal tank shit. He will watch me clear into a building, then dive ahead to tag the quest mob. I find it fun to place Curse of Recklessness on all of the mobs he pulls because his hp suddenly starts to dive down much faster. Of course he'll bubble and the mobs drop to me, but I'll just have my void out to pick them up... run them back to his consecrate, and he'll proceed to spend 10 minutes killing these mobs. Mind you, I'm doing level 63 quests. I'm not sure why he's just now doing them... at 67, but congratz... you've stolen my mobs at least 4 times in the past 2 days.
To add to that, he was apparently in on an instance run with Blaw's alt one day. So I got to watch the pally in instance action. He was pretty epic... kept letting the tank die (He's holy specced with a mix of prot and who knows what gear, gg armory).
So yeah... it's fun trying to avoid this guy. Not really sure why he keeps appearing where I'm questing but hopefully I just level faster than him and move ahead of what he's capable of doing. He plays all of the damn time... so being stuck at 67 is impressive. He must spend a lot of the time he is online... just standing around waiting for someone to clear his way to some quest mobs. Pewpew.
Good news is... I have nearly all the mats banked for my Shadoweave gear at 70. I did the specialization quest today and made my first two pieces of Shadowcloth. Blaw has been making them on his alt for me for the past couple of weeks... so I have a stockpile of mats and this pleases me lots.
So yeah... good things happening with the rerolled warlock. It's been a trip playing Alliance so far... and I intend to raid some at 70, so we shall see how that goes.
In other WoW news... the ptr is out. I haven't downloaded it yet, but probably will. I'm not entirely sure what all is on there, but there are a lot of tweaks being made to current items... and then obviously some patches and changes. Check it out, I suppose.
I think I'm kind of sleepy now. I may go crash on the couch for a bit. Rawr.
p.s. - Jago... wtf update? Not sure where you're at buddy. Hope all is well.
And... Jezza returns home sometime tomorrow. Woot. I failed at 70 before he got back tho. >.>
Gnome is 50% through 65 currently. I am pleased with the rate at which I've leveled her but at the same time, I feel I could have done it much quicker. Meh... taking time off to enjoy some RL hasn't been a bad thing.
I think since I've hit 63 I've started to come across a few people alliance side that are just fail at playing the game. This paladin for example, who has been 67 for at least the past 4 days, has shown up right behind me, and dove in to tag quest mobs that I had been clearing to. It's annoying, but funny at the same time. He'll seriously run in and pull 5 mobs with him, spam consecrate, and just heal tank shit. He will watch me clear into a building, then dive ahead to tag the quest mob. I find it fun to place Curse of Recklessness on all of the mobs he pulls because his hp suddenly starts to dive down much faster. Of course he'll bubble and the mobs drop to me, but I'll just have my void out to pick them up... run them back to his consecrate, and he'll proceed to spend 10 minutes killing these mobs. Mind you, I'm doing level 63 quests. I'm not sure why he's just now doing them... at 67, but congratz... you've stolen my mobs at least 4 times in the past 2 days.
To add to that, he was apparently in on an instance run with Blaw's alt one day. So I got to watch the pally in instance action. He was pretty epic... kept letting the tank die (He's holy specced with a mix of prot and who knows what gear, gg armory).
So yeah... it's fun trying to avoid this guy. Not really sure why he keeps appearing where I'm questing but hopefully I just level faster than him and move ahead of what he's capable of doing. He plays all of the damn time... so being stuck at 67 is impressive. He must spend a lot of the time he is online... just standing around waiting for someone to clear his way to some quest mobs. Pewpew.
Good news is... I have nearly all the mats banked for my Shadoweave gear at 70. I did the specialization quest today and made my first two pieces of Shadowcloth. Blaw has been making them on his alt for me for the past couple of weeks... so I have a stockpile of mats and this pleases me lots.
So yeah... good things happening with the rerolled warlock. It's been a trip playing Alliance so far... and I intend to raid some at 70, so we shall see how that goes.
In other WoW news... the ptr is out. I haven't downloaded it yet, but probably will. I'm not entirely sure what all is on there, but there are a lot of tweaks being made to current items... and then obviously some patches and changes. Check it out, I suppose.
I think I'm kind of sleepy now. I may go crash on the couch for a bit. Rawr.
p.s. - Jago... wtf update? Not sure where you're at buddy. Hope all is well.
And... Jezza returns home sometime tomorrow. Woot. I failed at 70 before he got back tho. >.>
Saturday, July 14, 2007
Wal-Mart
So there was a spider hanging over some flowers in Wal-mart today... and it was orange. Tiny, but creepy as hell to look at.
I took a stick and slowly started moving towards it. The fucking thing attacked first.
Scared the shit out of me. I seriously screamed right in front of everyone in the store... dropped the stick and all. Yeah... was a good time.
Completely un-WoW related, but I thought you all should hear this. :D
I took a stick and slowly started moving towards it. The fucking thing attacked first.
Scared the shit out of me. I seriously screamed right in front of everyone in the store... dropped the stick and all. Yeah... was a good time.
Completely un-WoW related, but I thought you all should hear this. :D
Friday, July 13, 2007
World Boss Fun
So I ran around with 8 level 70's and we took out the World Dragons tonight. I'm level 62 now, so it was a lot of fun. Old content, but hey... it was great gold. :)
Need to hardcore work at leveling tomorrow. I've been slack this past week... it sucks. I'm starting into Terrokar for the second time... it's strange doing everything from the other faction. Hehehe.
Goodnight all.
Need to hardcore work at leveling tomorrow. I've been slack this past week... it sucks. I'm starting into Terrokar for the second time... it's strange doing everything from the other faction. Hehehe.
Goodnight all.
Jezza...
I'm only 61 atm. *sadface*
Had to spend a couple of days cleaning up some spyware/spam that sadly got onto my PC (I think from Project Playlist). I've also been out during the day a lot this week... so my play time has been cutback lately.
I am still determined to get 70 before you get back from vacation.
Don't worry... I miss you too. *hearts*
Had to spend a couple of days cleaning up some spyware/spam that sadly got onto my PC (I think from Project Playlist). I've also been out during the day a lot this week... so my play time has been cutback lately.
I am still determined to get 70 before you get back from vacation.
Don't worry... I miss you too. *hearts*
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Realm Downtime. Noooooes.
So I hit 60 last night. That makes my second level 60 warlock AND second level 60 character, period. I'd forgotten how much of a bitch it was gathering the shit for the warlock epic mount quest. Pewpew.
It's storming here right now. Not a huge storm, but enough to have made the power shutoff earlier. I hate it when the power just shuts off enough to reset everything, and that's it. Why not just fucking go out? Argh.
Lots of my friends are away or have been away this weekend. /cry
According to the patchnotes Incinerates graphics have been improved. I don't think I've used that spell in over a month... for one because the gnome obviously doesn't have it yet and two, because I rarely used it on Jade. The ability to specc into Improved Shadowbolt always made it make more sense to use because it placed a shadow vuln on the mob every time you crit it... and she wasn't a heavy destro lock, so yeah. I wonder if it actually looks better? Also, shadow wands will no longer look like death coil, I guess. Damn.
Also, various UI issues have been fixed/improved. The ability to bind keys by halves on your keyboard is being introduced. I'm unsure of if I'll ever effectivly use this as a warlock but we'll see. I have tons of spells, but I've managed thus far to happily only bind things with the old style bindings. Especially in pvp, I have my doubts that I'll substitute my mouse hand into using my right shift key for bindings, etc. I don't think this is a bad addition to the game, even if I won't be making much use of it.
So, here's to getting my epic warlock mount then promptly buying a chicken, most likely. I hate using mana to mount. It's like 'Oh, I just finished killing 12 mobs chained together, I'm out of mana but I want to get the fuck out of this area... oh wait, I can't mount.' Argh, yeah. Annoying.
I'm bored and hungry. I guess I'm out to go eat and bum around for the next few hours before realms are back up.
It's storming here right now. Not a huge storm, but enough to have made the power shutoff earlier. I hate it when the power just shuts off enough to reset everything, and that's it. Why not just fucking go out? Argh.
Lots of my friends are away or have been away this weekend. /cry
According to the patchnotes Incinerates graphics have been improved. I don't think I've used that spell in over a month... for one because the gnome obviously doesn't have it yet and two, because I rarely used it on Jade. The ability to specc into Improved Shadowbolt always made it make more sense to use because it placed a shadow vuln on the mob every time you crit it... and she wasn't a heavy destro lock, so yeah. I wonder if it actually looks better? Also, shadow wands will no longer look like death coil, I guess. Damn.
Also, various UI issues have been fixed/improved. The ability to bind keys by halves on your keyboard is being introduced. I'm unsure of if I'll ever effectivly use this as a warlock but we'll see. I have tons of spells, but I've managed thus far to happily only bind things with the old style bindings. Especially in pvp, I have my doubts that I'll substitute my mouse hand into using my right shift key for bindings, etc. I don't think this is a bad addition to the game, even if I won't be making much use of it.
So, here's to getting my epic warlock mount then promptly buying a chicken, most likely. I hate using mana to mount. It's like 'Oh, I just finished killing 12 mobs chained together, I'm out of mana but I want to get the fuck out of this area... oh wait, I can't mount.' Argh, yeah. Annoying.
I'm bored and hungry. I guess I'm out to go eat and bum around for the next few hours before realms are back up.
Sunday, July 8, 2007
Mostly Non-WoW Related Post
I have no idea why but for some reason I was thinking about this video today:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=JXmlA3p7EXo
I was actually watching the live broadcast of that thing when that happened. I still laugh whenever I think of it... and I don't really like Kanye West that much, but I can't say he was entirely wrong there.
Poor Mike Myers. :D
On the WoW side of things, I logged onto Jade for awhile to enchant some old friends. While there, I had two different guilds attempt to get me to play Horde again. Lol. It's funny how much the horde has changed in the two weeks I've been absent from it. Sorry guys, but Jade is retired from the raiding scene. There is a chance that I'll do favours for some of my good friends that side in regards to raiding, as Jago knows, but that's about it. I really don't have any interest in Hordeside raiding anymore. Much love to those who still want me around though.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=JXmlA3p7EXo
I was actually watching the live broadcast of that thing when that happened. I still laugh whenever I think of it... and I don't really like Kanye West that much, but I can't say he was entirely wrong there.
Poor Mike Myers. :D
On the WoW side of things, I logged onto Jade for awhile to enchant some old friends. While there, I had two different guilds attempt to get me to play Horde again. Lol. It's funny how much the horde has changed in the two weeks I've been absent from it. Sorry guys, but Jade is retired from the raiding scene. There is a chance that I'll do favours for some of my good friends that side in regards to raiding, as Jago knows, but that's about it. I really don't have any interest in Hordeside raiding anymore. Much love to those who still want me around though.
Thursday, July 5, 2007
So far, so good.
So in case you didn't already know it, I've been leveling a gnome warlock. . You should all know that she is sexy and I'm loving my decision to go Alliance. I spent countless hours staring at Jade's boney figure and half decayed limbs... and honestly... it's refreshing playing something cute.
I'm a leveling beast if I must say so myself. 9 days played time and she's nearing 55. :D
Could be going faster, I know, but I've been taking the opportunity to spend time doing lots of other bullshit since I don't have a raiding schedule to work into my life currently. I should be 70 before Jezza gets back... at least I'd better be. He's gone for two weeks. *sadface*
But yeah... loving my gnome and not regretting any of the choices I made regarding WoW. Escape Artist is hacks.. though I do miss Will of the Forsaken. GG for being on the fear ward side of the game though. pewpew.
I'm a leveling beast if I must say so myself. 9 days played time and she's nearing 55. :D
Could be going faster, I know, but I've been taking the opportunity to spend time doing lots of other bullshit since I don't have a raiding schedule to work into my life currently. I should be 70 before Jezza gets back... at least I'd better be. He's gone for two weeks. *sadface*
But yeah... loving my gnome and not regretting any of the choices I made regarding WoW. Escape Artist is hacks.. though I do miss Will of the Forsaken. GG for being on the fear ward side of the game though. pewpew.
Monday, July 2, 2007
WoW is Like Acting
Even though I'm not on a Role Playing Server, WoW is still a place in which people take on roles that aren't the same as who they are outside of the game. I've played on a RP server before, ages ago, until about level 20. It was rather different from a normal server, at the time. No idea how they are now.
I think it's unique and somewhat weird when people seriously take on their characters role. I mean some people are very much into the game... their name and the life of their character, it's all very detailed and meaningful. Honestly, maybe that's what this game should have been from the start. I know many other RPG's are the same way... and then there's always conventions attached to them in which players and fans dress the part and act like their characters... in real life. It's all different, that's for sure. A lot of the people on normal realms make fun of RP realm players... but realistically, they are more hardcore into the game than most of the people I've come across on my normal realms. You heard me.
Back to my original point, WoW in general is a lot like acting. You're playing a role, though it's very liberal and in your own interpretation of how you think it should be played, it's still a role. It amazes me the sides of themselves people let out in WoW. It's like every asshole thing some people think of doing at work and shit, they bring it home and take it out through their character. It's kind of sad.. and pathetic. But then again, maybe some people are just acting that way? Hmm.
I think it's unique and somewhat weird when people seriously take on their characters role. I mean some people are very much into the game... their name and the life of their character, it's all very detailed and meaningful. Honestly, maybe that's what this game should have been from the start. I know many other RPG's are the same way... and then there's always conventions attached to them in which players and fans dress the part and act like their characters... in real life. It's all different, that's for sure. A lot of the people on normal realms make fun of RP realm players... but realistically, they are more hardcore into the game than most of the people I've come across on my normal realms. You heard me.
Back to my original point, WoW in general is a lot like acting. You're playing a role, though it's very liberal and in your own interpretation of how you think it should be played, it's still a role. It amazes me the sides of themselves people let out in WoW. It's like every asshole thing some people think of doing at work and shit, they bring it home and take it out through their character. It's kind of sad.. and pathetic. But then again, maybe some people are just acting that way? Hmm.
Sunday, July 1, 2007
Time.
Jade's Played Time:
Total: 157 days, 21 hours, 50 minutes, 33 seconds.
@ 70: 50 days, 5 hours, 44 minutes, 14 seconds.
What's yours?
(My total is probably more than how long most of you have been playing. haha.)
Total: 157 days, 21 hours, 50 minutes, 33 seconds.
@ 70: 50 days, 5 hours, 44 minutes, 14 seconds.
What's yours?
(My total is probably more than how long most of you have been playing. haha.)
Friday, June 29, 2007
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Burning Crusade
There are a lot of things that can be said about the expansion for World of Warcraft. Overall the lore for a lot of the end-game is interesting and entertaining, so at least Blizzard has that going for them.
It's been months now since the release of Burning Crusade and Blizzard has already introduced patch after patch of extended content, existent content fixes, and 'nerfs'.
The latest patch dismissed the attunement steps for SSC and Tempest Keep: The Eye. Both instances have been out the whole time and numerous guilds worked hard to get attuned so that they could complete more content together. This has always been the case with end-game content. MC, BWL, Naxx... AQ was a server-wide effort. They never removed the steps necessary to access any of those, so why did they change their minds with BC instances?
It's annoying, to say the least. Not that many guilds who weren't doing these instances prior to the change will accomplish much now, but the problem is that they've made these places easier to access for the casual gamer, thus in a few weeks I can definitely foresee a nerf to the trash and bosses within them so that the casual gamers can yet again easymode their way through things by having Blizzard cater to them.
I realize that expecting people to play hardcore is a bit stupid, because well... people have lives, but when you begin dumbing down the things that guilds have and are working hard to tackle in their current state, you leave a lot of the people who are putting the effort into the content as it currently, wondering why they even bothered in the first place.
Karazhan for example was the first step in BC raiding when BC was released. Why? Because you had to kill Nightbane and other bosses and trash in order to eventually obtain an item that allowed you to be halfway attuned to SSC. Since BC they've first nerfed the shit out of Karazhan, buffed the gear that drops in Karazhan, and now... have altogether eliminated it's necessity from the equation, ultimately. The only thing it offers now, essentially, is gear for a new to 70 raider. Even then, the gear released with the new Arena season surpasses that of the stuff from Kara... so guilds could basically drop Karazhan from their plate and take up arena for a few weeks, gain good gear, and work on 25 man content.
That kind of nerfing and crap is what gets to me. It's like when they nerfed Gruul. Lots of guilds went in and downed him right afterwards that couldn't even come close pre-nerf. I do understand and agree that some content does need a nerf... either the bosses health or the amount his spells and attacks hit for, or the the adds that spawn... yes, some of that stuff is much harder than it should be. It isn't impossible, by any means, but it's rough. Karazhan before they nerfed it and buffed the gear was annoying as shit. Some of the encounters in there such as Shade of Aran were seriously very luck reliant. No matter what you did, it was a matter of whether or not you got lucky with which spells he cast, who resisted them, and whether or not you could take care of the elementals without dying to blizzard... which you could barely see unless you wanted to lag the hell out. Yes, nerfing is needed at times. Lol.
But... entirely dismissing something such as an attunment... isn't it a bit much?
Blizzard has ruined their own game. Yes I am enjoying leveling at the moment, and ultimately I'll appreciate having it easymode to get into raids... but that doesn't mean I agree with it. I think there was something regarding scrolls that Vashj would be dropping for guilds so that they could get members attuned without all of the prior steps. Why do away with that? I think that would have made more sense... and made it worth it for all of the people who put the work into getting attuned in the first place.
All in all, nerfing content has always existed. Not to the level we've seen in BC, but it patches have always offered changes to content and additions as well. The issue I'm seeing now is that WoW is being rushed, per say. New content is being thrown out before many guilds can even come close to being ready for it. Attunments to existing instances are being dismissed so that people can 'catch up.' It's all a joke now. I mean where do you draw the line? Why cater to the top guilds by forcing new encounters so quickly (that are usually buggy as hell upon release and often get nerfed to hell shortly after one or two guilds can confirm that they are, in fact, buggy as hell), why cater to the casuals who complain about things being too hard or too time consuming? What happened to appealing to the crowd that seems to dominate the game all along... the people who want to play it? Did WoW really lose that many of it's hardcore player base?
It's been months now since the release of Burning Crusade and Blizzard has already introduced patch after patch of extended content, existent content fixes, and 'nerfs'.
The latest patch dismissed the attunement steps for SSC and Tempest Keep: The Eye. Both instances have been out the whole time and numerous guilds worked hard to get attuned so that they could complete more content together. This has always been the case with end-game content. MC, BWL, Naxx... AQ was a server-wide effort. They never removed the steps necessary to access any of those, so why did they change their minds with BC instances?
It's annoying, to say the least. Not that many guilds who weren't doing these instances prior to the change will accomplish much now, but the problem is that they've made these places easier to access for the casual gamer, thus in a few weeks I can definitely foresee a nerf to the trash and bosses within them so that the casual gamers can yet again easymode their way through things by having Blizzard cater to them.
I realize that expecting people to play hardcore is a bit stupid, because well... people have lives, but when you begin dumbing down the things that guilds have and are working hard to tackle in their current state, you leave a lot of the people who are putting the effort into the content as it currently, wondering why they even bothered in the first place.
Karazhan for example was the first step in BC raiding when BC was released. Why? Because you had to kill Nightbane and other bosses and trash in order to eventually obtain an item that allowed you to be halfway attuned to SSC. Since BC they've first nerfed the shit out of Karazhan, buffed the gear that drops in Karazhan, and now... have altogether eliminated it's necessity from the equation, ultimately. The only thing it offers now, essentially, is gear for a new to 70 raider. Even then, the gear released with the new Arena season surpasses that of the stuff from Kara... so guilds could basically drop Karazhan from their plate and take up arena for a few weeks, gain good gear, and work on 25 man content.
That kind of nerfing and crap is what gets to me. It's like when they nerfed Gruul. Lots of guilds went in and downed him right afterwards that couldn't even come close pre-nerf. I do understand and agree that some content does need a nerf... either the bosses health or the amount his spells and attacks hit for, or the the adds that spawn... yes, some of that stuff is much harder than it should be. It isn't impossible, by any means, but it's rough. Karazhan before they nerfed it and buffed the gear was annoying as shit. Some of the encounters in there such as Shade of Aran were seriously very luck reliant. No matter what you did, it was a matter of whether or not you got lucky with which spells he cast, who resisted them, and whether or not you could take care of the elementals without dying to blizzard... which you could barely see unless you wanted to lag the hell out. Yes, nerfing is needed at times. Lol.
But... entirely dismissing something such as an attunment... isn't it a bit much?
Blizzard has ruined their own game. Yes I am enjoying leveling at the moment, and ultimately I'll appreciate having it easymode to get into raids... but that doesn't mean I agree with it. I think there was something regarding scrolls that Vashj would be dropping for guilds so that they could get members attuned without all of the prior steps. Why do away with that? I think that would have made more sense... and made it worth it for all of the people who put the work into getting attuned in the first place.
All in all, nerfing content has always existed. Not to the level we've seen in BC, but it patches have always offered changes to content and additions as well. The issue I'm seeing now is that WoW is being rushed, per say. New content is being thrown out before many guilds can even come close to being ready for it. Attunments to existing instances are being dismissed so that people can 'catch up.' It's all a joke now. I mean where do you draw the line? Why cater to the top guilds by forcing new encounters so quickly (that are usually buggy as hell upon release and often get nerfed to hell shortly after one or two guilds can confirm that they are, in fact, buggy as hell), why cater to the casuals who complain about things being too hard or too time consuming? What happened to appealing to the crowd that seems to dominate the game all along... the people who want to play it? Did WoW really lose that many of it's hardcore player base?
Back to the Blog
So it's been awhile since you've all had the pleasure (or dissatisfaction as the case may be) of my blogging habits to entertain you. A lot has changed since you've all last heard from me, including my blog address. I must say, change is certainly not a bad thing some of the time. In this instance, it's definitaly been for the best.
To bring my readers up to date without spending an hour typing it all out, simply put, I no longer run Prom Kings and the guild no longer raids. I am also no longer playing World of Warcraft on my warlock known as Jaderosen. If any of you paid attention to any of the WoW blogs that spun off of my own, you may already know a few sides to what happened. I haven't spoken out about what happened until now, and even now I don't intend to dwell on what's already long in the past.
If you want to know a little more, read ahead. If not, the above summarized all I could possibly say on the matter.
What happened to Prom Kings?
After weeks of working hard with the same fifteen or so members, I came to realize that I was fighting a losing battle when it came to recruitment. I devoted more than any human should to the game and things outside of it in the attempt to recruit players so that I could progress my guild into 25 man content on a consistant basis. I began to notice that some of the transfers I'd talked into coming to the realm for PK were ending up elsewhere before I even knew they'd made it to the server. A few of my own members had either stopped logging in for the most part or had moved on. (Or at least hinted that they were ready to.)
It was all downhill.
The few reliable and hardcore members of the guild that stuck through everything were amazing. I'm thankful I had the opportunity to raid with those guys and I hope that they're finding a new place that is fun and welcoming to them. If not, I hope they realize that this is just a game and that no matter what, they aren't stuck where they are.
I won't say much regarding the faction as a whole because there isn't a point to QQ about it. I did the best I could with what I was given. PK was amazing while we lasted and I'm sad that it's over, but it had to be. We had good times, but I would have felt guilty passing on the job of leading the guild to anyone else. If I felt there was a chance to revive things, I wouldn't have made the choice to let us all move on. It was a bittersweet breakup, to say the least.
Just to clarify:
The Prom Kings guild is still existant. I didn't disband it and I never made anyone leave. I simply stated to the guild that we'd no longer be raiding and that if they wanted to raid, they'd have to look elsewhere. I did not transfer Jade off the server and most likely never will. I didn't end things so that I could disband and go join up with some SSC clearing guild on another server. I'm still occasionally on Jade to do arena with some old friends and such, so you may even be able to catch me around if you're lucky. :)
Outside of arena on Jade a few times a week, I'm happily giving the other side a chance. Before I was Jade, I leveled a human paladin to level 48. At the time the Alliance were a horrific cluster of 13 year old children and 22 year olds that acted 13. I grew tired of it fast hence why I rerolled Horde. Now, as I did years ago with my pally, I've simply moved on and decided to try the other side. I must say, the Alliance aren't half bad these days. I think a majority of the Alliance retards rerolled as Horde when Burning Crusade was released, and with that some of the more intelligent Horde have crossed over from the darkside of WoW. But that's for another entry, possibly my next.
Hai2allofu again. :D
To bring my readers up to date without spending an hour typing it all out, simply put, I no longer run Prom Kings and the guild no longer raids. I am also no longer playing World of Warcraft on my warlock known as Jaderosen. If any of you paid attention to any of the WoW blogs that spun off of my own, you may already know a few sides to what happened. I haven't spoken out about what happened until now, and even now I don't intend to dwell on what's already long in the past.
If you want to know a little more, read ahead. If not, the above summarized all I could possibly say on the matter.
What happened to Prom Kings?
After weeks of working hard with the same fifteen or so members, I came to realize that I was fighting a losing battle when it came to recruitment. I devoted more than any human should to the game and things outside of it in the attempt to recruit players so that I could progress my guild into 25 man content on a consistant basis. I began to notice that some of the transfers I'd talked into coming to the realm for PK were ending up elsewhere before I even knew they'd made it to the server. A few of my own members had either stopped logging in for the most part or had moved on. (Or at least hinted that they were ready to.)
It was all downhill.
The few reliable and hardcore members of the guild that stuck through everything were amazing. I'm thankful I had the opportunity to raid with those guys and I hope that they're finding a new place that is fun and welcoming to them. If not, I hope they realize that this is just a game and that no matter what, they aren't stuck where they are.
I won't say much regarding the faction as a whole because there isn't a point to QQ about it. I did the best I could with what I was given. PK was amazing while we lasted and I'm sad that it's over, but it had to be. We had good times, but I would have felt guilty passing on the job of leading the guild to anyone else. If I felt there was a chance to revive things, I wouldn't have made the choice to let us all move on. It was a bittersweet breakup, to say the least.
Just to clarify:
The Prom Kings guild is still existant. I didn't disband it and I never made anyone leave. I simply stated to the guild that we'd no longer be raiding and that if they wanted to raid, they'd have to look elsewhere. I did not transfer Jade off the server and most likely never will. I didn't end things so that I could disband and go join up with some SSC clearing guild on another server. I'm still occasionally on Jade to do arena with some old friends and such, so you may even be able to catch me around if you're lucky. :)
Outside of arena on Jade a few times a week, I'm happily giving the other side a chance. Before I was Jade, I leveled a human paladin to level 48. At the time the Alliance were a horrific cluster of 13 year old children and 22 year olds that acted 13. I grew tired of it fast hence why I rerolled Horde. Now, as I did years ago with my pally, I've simply moved on and decided to try the other side. I must say, the Alliance aren't half bad these days. I think a majority of the Alliance retards rerolled as Horde when Burning Crusade was released, and with that some of the more intelligent Horde have crossed over from the darkside of WoW. But that's for another entry, possibly my next.
Hai2allofu again. :D
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