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

[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.