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Hates, Hopes, Happies, Hags, and Turkey Termination
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So Hilarity: Not a huge accomplishment but fun anyway... My achievement whoring Druid buddy is planning ahead for a 100 non-combat pet thing to be added and realized - he had no Mojo. (nothing has been mentioned yet, but we're that hardcore we plan for future nerd points) So off to ZA we go in search of wands. Well, after realizing I could pull the entire gauntlet and tank it to death, we decided to go for a "bear run." Um yeah, Feral Druid and Prot Pally can 2 man 4 chests in like 20 min, it's silly.
And happy: We both got new frog pets.
X = Undead
Y = Troll
I considered orc, but I was already expertise capped, so didn't need the axe bonus. Berserking is hot when stacked with speed pot, blade flurry and bloodlust.
Origin: KafkaAU B-Net: Kafka#1778
Happier: Guild took me with them through VoA Ony and TotC.
Happiest: First piece of Tier Gear from Triumphs
Ahhhh
Hope: I can finish off my Guardian of Cenarius rep grind tonight. Look out Steamvaults.
or at least that's what I'll tell myself until I forget this happened.
happy: I swapped my main and secondary spec so now wowarmory shows me the way I'd want someone to see me geared and specced. and as much as it's hated, wow-heroes as well. which means if someone looks it up they'll at least see reality, not my terrible terrible dps shit. not sure if they would have been able to swap before some way that I didn't see but now I've removed that extra step.
Come get the voodoo. You picked the right race.
And yet what harm would there be in having a large cost "full realm" service, wherein you could transfer and/or faction/race change/rename all your characters in one shot at a discount?
Which isn't to say I'd use it, but most players with 4-10 level 80's aren't going to have half a grand to spare changing servers en masse, but offering a bulk discount for $200-300 might be low enough to expand said service use. Not significantly, but I can't see the harm in offering it either.
I would have loved this.
I happened to luck out though; Free transfers opened from my old server to my new server last January, which saved me like... $250ish?
On top of the monthly fee he dropped, what, another $50 to Blizzard just for the right to look around on another realm for 4 weeks and then come back? Probably took some support worker like 2 minutes to do the changes combined? Now times however many tens or hundreds of thousands of such requests they get each year?
$Texas indeed.
My choices are Human, gnome{hell no} and maybe Worgen in a few months
I deal with a few bad players like Towelie, Drkphyre and the Unholy skulls guild
It's multiplied ten fold if I switch
Twins 1 shotted (we had been doing them consistently for a month but for some reason Tuesday was pants on head day) and Anub down after maybe 10 total tries between last week and this week.
Also the sigil upgrade I got was from ilvl 70 to 245. Scary.
Steam/PSN/XBL/Minecraft / LoL / - Benevicious | WoW - Duckwood - Rajhek
Happy: My dwarf paladin is now a draenei.
Happy: Grabbed ilvl 245 badge helmet for my resto druid.
Where the hell did this Gearscore thing come from anyway? It seems like everybody's riding this add-on's cock all of a sudden.
HATE: "Ur gearscore suckz -kicked from heroic H CoS group-" WHAT. REALLY? WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU WANT, FULL ULDUAR EPICS YOU COCKEATING GUTTERSHIT?
Follow up hate: Wow is the only game I ragequit because of shit like that.
I think this is one of the few things you and I can really agree on.
Happy: I got to do Ulduar again with my old raid group. It was one of the best experiences I had with WoW. Our guild, as a guild (most PAA guilds are like this), doesn't raid but we have a raid group. They took me to ToC10 on Tuesday, and I got to see what was what. Now I want to become a full time raider, but at the same time, I want to graduate college soon, because college is starting to suck.
/agree
I dont understand why anyone would base anything of that system. If someone with a "high" gear score is looking for a raid spot (especially in LFG) something just doesn't seem right.
Though one day I will have to gear up my pally in cloth and leather (with high ilvl) and join a raid as a tank :P
Pffft, it's easy enough to do both. Just quit sleeping!
Silly: the difference between combat and assasination is dumb (although combat is my secondary spec now). 2k on trash packs to 5-7k depending on cool downs used.
Did I not mention that sleeping was my #1 hobby? #2 is WoW, #3 is more sleeping. Which reminds me...
/snooze
Although now I'm having a ton of fun tanking the whole damn world to death on my Paladin...
lol
Reminds me when I was getting my hunter gear which was my old main. I was laughing and crying at dps numbers because I was in Sunwell gear and pug dps was in 219+ gear. I will let you guess who was in the top 5 in 25 man Naxx and VoAs repeatly.
Ghostcrawlers joked about the idea of a ilvl 300 shirt. Sadly it'd last about 1 day before they worked around it.
The guy who kicked me is in a guild I know all too well, so it's not surprising at all. This guild had to do naxx 25 so they could progress in ulduar 10 while we were running about in naxx 10 gear and blues, clearing up to freya / mim. They make up for their lack of coordination with gear or tried to.
It's the same thing with the pugs. They either lack skill or want to cheese their way through it with gear. Reminds me of late TBC only worse because of achievements, the bloody addons and the easy 5 man heroics / 10 mans. People want "epicz acheiv" for naxx 10 and 5 man heroics. So bloody frustrating.
I was going to gear out my mage but all this stupidity has put me off it. My mage does more damage and dps than 90% of the morons who snub her for groups despite running around naxx 10 gear. Can't get groups for anything due to this stupid crap.
....
ToC didn't exist before the most recent changes to holy pallies. Several of those changes came in with the expansion.
I've not seen much evidence of people using it yet on feathermoon.. But then again I'm not signing on for many thing other than 5mans that are outside of guild or friends. And when I do it's usually me or someone I know leading it.
SW:Tor - Tao - Kryatt Dragon Server
Bluntly, I still outdps most of my realm even while behind in the times (like when I outdamaged everyone in a group at 71 as a Warlock, with everyone else being 73-75.
Somehow these guys couldn't outdamage the 75 tank... but I could. With a 4 level disparity.
Been doing it on the Mage too. People a couple levels above me often can't keep up, and it's not like my mostly Karazhan gear is overly impressive by the mid to late 70's.
There are limits, of course. I wouldn't expect to outdo a fully ilevel 200+ epic'd dps'er or anything, but even with an 8 month break, I guess I still put out the numbers.
So after we kill the first trash mob I link the first 2 dps spots. A rogue from my guild in almost all Naxx25 gear, and my mage, at almost 4k.
Then we proceded to wipe on Ony when the tank lost aggro or something so she turned and firebreathed half the raid. The druid in question was 4th in heals. We had 5 healers, one of whom DCed on the pull. He had almost half the healing of 3rd healer. 2 of the ones above him were pallies. I loled.
This isn't much of a Hate, but it's more of a ... /facepalm from seeing it now and then from PuGs I'm in.
Burst dps in PVE is almost worthless, and I probably would've mocked you or anyone that listed one trash mob's meters. A full on boss or a decent sized chunk of a run is about the only thing I won't mock meters on.
I'll whore meters left and right as a dps'er, but even I recognize that being first or second on punching down something with like 200k health is more representative of how much the RNG felt like massaging my crit rating than anything truly indicative.
Now, killing Onyxia and linking yourself at 2nd would've gotten a high five from me. Fight the good fight on undergeared alts, my brotha.
Whut
*points at Snobolds, Portals, tentacles and other such things*
You know what I mean.
I once had a Shadow Priest do like 5,000 dps in Molten Core (at level 60) during one trash pull because the combat log only registered them in combat for a fraction of a second during which they got off one spell.
Being able to front load your damage has its applications, but linking meters from such an action like it proves something means very little.
Killing snobolds is important.
Killing one snobold and linking the meters, less so.
Finishing the encounter and linking the meters is something else.
Late edit: Perhaps I should've worded that more like "Using one example of burst DPS in PVE is meaningless, despite burst dps being useful itself in a number of encounters. I would still expect the player or classes doing said burst dps also be able to put out good numbers in general, rather than explosion of awesome for 5 seconds and then being useless until their good shit came back online."
Hence why dueling "3 minute mages" was worthless back in the day. They'd rape you and then go afk while their cooldowns came back up. Didn't mean they were unstoppable badasses. It meant that their talents and gear allowed them to essentially one-shot just about anyone.
So what about a mob with over a million health? I didn't even pop cooldowns and had almost all my mana at the end of the fight. Sure i had a string of crits, and at the time 4k was pretty high DPS for me (i've since upgraded several pieces) but it was still reflective of the actual numbers i can put out. With the gear I had i could maintain over 3k DPS for a long as time, which on an easy fucking boss with no enrage like Ony is quite sufficient.
It's not common yet, but i have noticed the odd LFG post "must have gearscore of X" for Ony or VoA. Or link achievements plz.
I just love the high expectations that people have from PuGs.
Yeah, I've seen the "link achivements plox" as well. Personally I like bringing the hunter that does 950 dps because it makes my lazy 2k look WAY better.
SW:Tor - Tao - Kryatt Dragon Server
It's that heroics (and some raids) are trivial enough that dps at all really doesn't matter that much, other than the auxiliary effect that it makes the run go faster.
It's definitely not brag worthy, unless you're going for speed record clears, or something. And then it becomes much more of a team effort.