WoW catch up

[thistlechaser]

Rogue: 67
Sanity: Hanging by a thread
Levels needed: .5

The conversations on /BG (/battleground) have reduced my opinion of the average WoW player down to less than zero. Some of the "charming" topics from the last 48 hours:
1) The benefits and drawbacks of using spit as lube when raping women. (Seriously. Conversation went on for twenty minutes, and if these people were to be believed, most of them have raped in the past. Yes, I know they were lying, but still! Who would claim to have raped! Gah! Idiots!)
2) The ability of one to have sex with bacon and the willingness of one to eat that bacon after. (The general agreement was that you should have sex with it while it was raw, then cook it and eat it...)
3) A whole conversation based off this comment... (Tiny screenshot, but NWS for ideas through text.)

Thankfully naikitty mentioned that she has /bg filtered into another window and then ignores that window, so I tried that as well. So much better! Seriously! Days upon days of endless hours of listening to these little assholes holding the worst conversations on the planet, arguing about the stupidest crap, and acting all e-thug at each other. It was making me physically sick to my stomach.

On to better things!

How's this for something? Two weeks ago, my reps were split between neutral and friendly. (I haven't quested since level 18 or so.)

All that is from turning in blood/armor bits in AV! Woo!

Other high points related to that: I have a "real" wolf now, an Org rep one. I own the AV one and the Black War Wolf, but the Org ones are my favorite, so yay!

How in the world does one do this? I've never seen graphics used before, other than the logo when a GM talks to you.


25K down, 75K to go! x.x


Can anyone tell me what this is? I think he was a warlock. Eee cool wings! I wish I could have gotten a better picture of it, but he had purple-black wings and his body was the same color. So pretty!

A bull in a chef's hat? Poor Crowfeathers is sooooooooo ugly! When I look at my login screen Keen is so bright and colorful and sexy... and right below him is dark, blah, colorless uglycow.

That's about it! Tomorrow I should get Cold Weather Flying for Keen, eeee! Mining and engineering have been worked on. Mining is close to 300 and engineering is nearly 300 as well. I hate mining so very very very much! (But I've always hated metals. I took a metalworking class in college and hated it. I hated blacksmithing endlessly in FFXI. So I guess it makes sense that I hate mining as well!)

Comments

[achika-soladia.livejournal.com]

Can anyone tell me what this is? I think he was a warlock.

You're correct, that's a warlock. A warlock's last tree ability is called Metamorphosis. It turns the warlock themself into a demon. =D

[fealubryne.livejournal.com]

Aye, it's the 61-point talent of the Demonology tree. And quite possibly the strangest ability in the history of the world. They actually have a taunt, a ton of armor, and HP... so they become a tank. For, like, 16 seconds.

...I've actually had a warlock attempt to tank ToC while I was on my druid, healing. I told her this would not work. And indeed, it did not. She held threat, I healed her... and then Metamorphosis wore off and she went squish.

Guess who got blamed for the squish.

[achika-soladia.livejournal.com]

You did, of course. Didn't you know it's always the healer's fault?

A guild member asked me if I'd heal H ToC, I said I'd try. Note that I'm a Discipline healer, my guild leader didn't even want me to change when I offered. But this member, upon everyone going squish because DKs are retarded and left their pets out on Paletress, sent me a /tell saying "You're dual specced, right? Please tell me it's holy!" After I said that my dual spec was Shadow, he said "Why would you spec Discipline for healing?"

My guild leader near went off on the guy after I told her.

[fealubryne.livejournal.com]

*facepalms*

I know they nerfed Disc a bit, but truth be told... I've known a LOT of priests, and quite a large number of them still prefer Disc over Holy for raiding. For as little as I know about priest healing (I've got a Resto druid, and I've been dabbling in Holy pally recently), I've seen both be very viable choices, just different styles/strengths and weaknesses.

Paletress is just a bitch and a half, and DKs are generally facerollers, with very little idea what they're actually doing. Hate to generalize like that, but unfortunately it's true.

[achika-soladia.livejournal.com]

I've played both Holy Priest and Disc Priest, as well as Holy Paladin. I kept as Holy Priest for the longest time because I thought it was the penultimate healing spec. After I read down the Disc tree a bit, and I asked a friend about it, I switched to Disc for a bit.

I later switched back to Holy, but after realizing that I never use AoE heals and people don't understand what Lightwells do, I switched back to Disc. My guild leader has kept me as Disc so that we have a strong single target healer rather than all being raid healers. =D

Yeah, DKs can be dumb. Some (Very few) of them have knowledge of what they're doing, but most of the ones I've seen play so they can give their keyboard to an untrained chimp with mental deficiencies.

[fealubryne.livejournal.com]

I've seen some excellent DKs, skilled players who take the time to actually learn the mechanics of their class. But for the most part people pick up a DK because it's an easy level 55 alt, and they just run around using their abilities haphazardly, with little idea how things actually work. Like trying to tank alongside a DPS DK with Frost Presence up ("But it gives me more HP!") or those fellows who run around Death Gripping everything, without understanding that it is, in fact, a taunt that FORCES the mob to attack them for a time ("Oh my god, you're a bad tank, why is it on me!!").

Sigh.

[achika-soladia.livejournal.com]

Part of the reason why I dread leveling my DK. There are a ton of mechanics that make it work. I *know* priest mechanics well, and what my limitations are. My paladin probably suffers because, while I know how to kill things, I tend to click buttons and it does things.

My death grip mostly gets used in solo play so I can be lazy and bring the mob to me. XD But if I ever planned to raid with my DK, or even my pally, I'd work on the mechanics.

[fealubryne.livejournal.com]

Truth be told, while the class does have some unique mechanics to learn... I've not been particularly impressed with it. So far I've got a SV hunter, a Prot/Arms warrior, a Boomkin/Resto druid, and a Prot/Holy pally, and of those I think the hunter and warrior are the most fun. Death Knight feels very powerful, and once you understand how it works, it's fairly easy. For that reason I get bored pretty fast with it, and I've not managed to level one very far. It's fun to mess around with if I'm bored, but it doesn't do much for me. I like feeling like I've actually got to think about what I'm doing.

Similar goes, honestly, for pally. I've tried a little of everything, and while I like it better than DK, it's like paladin is the "easymode" of everything I've tried before. DPS as a pally is easy, healing as a pally is easy (though ridiculously different from druid, which I'm way more used to), and tanking? I've in LOVE with warrior tanking, there are so many abilities, it feels dynamic, and I'm constantly paying attention to what's going on around me... and pally tanking just puts me to sleep. Pretty much three buttons, and make sure nothing runs off to nibble on the healer or one of the DPS. Which generally doesn't happen, thanks to Concecrate/Hammer of Righteousness. Yawn.

[firebyrd.livejournal.com]

Yeah...I can heal H ToC with a good group as disc and I do fine once we get past the first boss. Three at a time is hard, especially with as much damage as the damn rogue does with fan of knives and the poison cloud. Disc still works for me, though I seem to play it differently than others (but then, all the disc priests I've seen seem to have their own unique rotation).

[pomr.livejournal.com]

Man, people are so dumb.

Discipline =/= Healing
Discipline = Damage Mitigation/Prevention

Even I know that. And truth be told Disc Priests are awesome for raids, with the ability to prevent and/or mitigate damage Disc Priests sometimes do more for the tanks and raid than holy can. =)

Your warlock friendguildie is a twit and a moron. =)

[fealubryne.livejournal.com]

Alas, ToC is a wretched hive of twits and morons. It's a lovely free epic grind for my undergeared 80s, but it's like all the worst players have come crawling out of the woodwork to PUG that place.

Yes, I PUG. A lot. But for some reason my friends don't enjoy grinding every heroic in the game every day for badges.

Go figure...

[pomr.livejournal.com]

I haven't been playing as much -- Aion OB started last Sunday, finished today at 2AM, so I've been playing that. =)

FORTUNATELY -- the guild I'm in in WoW has several people that LOVE kicking the shite out of several instances in a row. The week before last I got like 55 badges in two days. Which is NICE.

Have yet to try ToC with them, and thanks to Blizzard's buggering all us faction transferring folks due to 'technical reasons' RE: Argent Tourney rep, yeah, it will be a while before I see the raids in the Crapiseum. =)

[fealubryne.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I've been wanting to give Aion a shot, but I just don't have the money to buy a whole new game with a new subscription and all that jazz. Maybe eventually... we'll see.

I actually think the ToC raid itself is quite fun. Simple, once you know what you're doing (minus the Faction Champions, who're a pain in the arse on 25-man), but I personally enjoy it more than most of Ulduar's encounters. The instance, however, seems to bring out all the retards looking for easy gear... the 80s in level 70 PvP gear, the tanks with 300-something defense and 23k health, the healers with less mana than my Prot pally. It's so not pretty.

[firebyrd.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. I was in a fail group on the 5-man a couple of weeks ago with a DK tank that was in the mid 20k with HP. But it was my fault when we failed. Uh huh. Riiiiight. And then people whine that it's too hard. It's like, dude, we're getting Ulduar-level gear! We shouldn't be able to just faceroll through it!

[achika-soladia.livejournal.com]

I'm still working on the damage mitigation part of Disc healer, but that's what my guildies are helping me with! Heck, I just learned Pain Suppression reduces threat and I've been using it on tanks. >_> But I've always thrown around PW: Shield.

When I'm healing, I know I tend to stack priority on PW: S, followed by Renew, then hit Penance, and Flash Heal when Penance is on cooldown. I got a glyph for PW: S that heals for a percentage of the absorption, along with a ton of talents in Disc tree that buff it that affect both me and the person I shield. =D

[firebyrd.livejournal.com]

You have to be careful throwing around PW:S, though. Druids and warriors gain rage by both hitting and being hit. If you throw it on them when their rage is low, it can seriously screw them over. Pain suppression has its uses on tanks in desperate situations as well even with the threat reduction.

[achika-soladia.livejournal.com]

I figured it was less bad because my talents actually give them rage when it's dispelled or used up. =x

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

o.O That does sound odd! I guess it'd be good for soloing? If things went bad and they needed to buy a little time?

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, so cool!

[pomr.livejournal.com]

Some of the Tier sets will periodically spawn wings that fan open, then fade away too. Very cool stuff. =)

Grats on 25K HKs! (Still think you're nuts!)((Well...MORE nuts))

I love my chef's hat. =) Also love the addon Iron Chef that equips it when I open my cooking tradeskill window. =)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ha! That does sound cool! :D And I may be a tad insane, yes. ;)

[doxxxicle.livejournal.com]

The symbols in chat are the same symbols you can place above mobs' heads as a group leader. I can't remember the exact syntax but you're able to write something like [star] in chat and it will show the symbol instead.

And congratulations on the 25K HKs. I think I may have like 1000 on my rogue. I wasn't very good at PvP. :P

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it looked like those raid order marking symbol things, but I had no idea they could be put into chat! That's pretty cool, I'll have to try it tonight.

And congratulations on the 25K HKs. I think I may have like 1000 on my rogue. I wasn't very good at PvP. :P

Thanks! The very, very, very strange thing is that you can be the worst PvPer on the server and still get numbers like that. You get credit for all the kills made by everyone around you... It's wacky and I'm not sure what the point of it is at all. If I'm in a BG with 40 other people (like AV) I get credit anytime anyone of those 40 people makes a kill...

[citizenbleys.livejournal.com]

They're the same kind of brackets you use to encapsulate code (such as a while loop) in the most popular programming languages.

{star}
{cross} (for the x)
{circle}
{diamond}
{skull} (my favorite)
{moon}

all I can think of off the top of my head.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ha! I'm going to have to remember to try that!

[doxxxicle.livejournal.com]

I think if you're put into combat (you know the little crossed knives symbol by your portrait) by whoever they're fighting, then it considers you a participant and you get credit.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm. I don't think so. When I play AB, I only defend. If I were in combat, I wouldn't be able to move into stealth, yet I do and the HKs pour in. (Took me a moment to think about that, because I don't generally look at if I'm in combat or not when I'm in a BG, but then I remembered how annoyed I get when I can't stealth and have to waste vanish instead.) In AV, sometimes I fall under a bridge (or hide in some bushes if I need to eat or take a call), and HKs still gather...

Maybe that's how it's supposed to work (it would make sense), but the code is buggy?