I don't know how much total I made because I listed all my stuff on the AH, proceeded to go do homework, and then I raided after I finished my homework, when I get home from school today I'll check the total amount I made.
errr, been done. Was funny the first time, not really this time.
ITT: Old joke is old
I thought it was all right. Considering Oboro usually talks about how people don't want to do things, it seems odd to be upset that people came with, even if they weren't 70's.
the Half Happy part is the part where I decided to Grind for a S1 helmet and a S1 Ranged weapon(crossbow). I start friday with 4k honor and need around 37k. Lucky for me there is an AV weekend. I make enough Honor per day that I didn't even grind yesterday(Wensday is maintance day in EU, gear is available today). Got my helmet(thinking of getting shoulders) and My Crossbow. Finally got a ranged weapon thats good enough for raiding. Yay!!
The Half Hate; Those that read this thread may remember that I swore a few weeks ago that I would have the Epic bow from the Steam Vaults. And that I in my arogance told people that I was no Punk-ass Quiter Bitch."Well, My name is Kipling217 and I am a Punk-Ass Quiter Bitch". I stand ready to accept your scorn an Ridicule, knowing full well that I brought it upon myself. "Lay it on me people! I got it comming!"
Unrelated happy; getting a workmate to explain to me how I should place my talents in my Shadowpriest for maximum dps. The difference is amazing, Pew, Pew, Pain, PAIN. And then heading to Dustwallow Marsh to lvl. No more Stranglethorne gankage for this guy.
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The sky was full of stars, every star an exploding ship. One of ours.
The Half Hate; Those that read this thread may remember that I swore a few weeks ago that I would have the Epic bow from the Steam Vaults. And that I in my arogance told people that I was no Punk-ass Quiter Bitch."Well, My name is Kipling217 and I am a Punk-Ass Quiter Bitch". I stand ready to accept your scorn an Ridicule, knowing full well that I brought it upon myself. "Lay it on me people! I got it comming!"
Eh. Weaseling out of things is what separates man from the animals.
Except the weasel.
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errr, been done. Was funny the first time, not really this time.
ITT: Old joke is old
I thought it was all right. Considering Oboro usually talks about how people don't want to do things, it seems odd to be upset that people came with, even if they weren't 70's.
And I think Oboro learned an important lesson.
If you wish to do something alone, don't announce it to the world.
Happy: When chance works in your favor with amusing results. Apparently I had a 57% crit rate on Loot of Akama tonight. 13% of the total raid damage, next highest was 8%.
Also, got a Chronicle of Dark Secrets. And several other casters got good things. It's nice to not just see physical DPS loot every night.
Does he bug out for you too? Where you don't have to do the event at all, just murder a few of the adds and then make a bee-line for the Shade the moment he becomes targetable?
It's a highly amusing bug, in that it takes an already fairly easy dps race and makes it a giant 45 second joke.
Also; we hit 5 bosses last night, 0 physical dps loot. WTB your loot seed, pst.
It's hard to catch up to the crew I'm with when nothing I can use actually drops, but it's only been a few weeks, so I'm not actually complaining. I consider it more a point of pride every time I sit in the top 3 or 5 in the gear that I do have.
Also, the PVP weapons are insane, so yes "Abloo, abloo, I have to pvp to pve" stands, in a manner of speaking, but even the armour is pretty damned good. Gem'd with a 24 AP ruby and a haste proc meta, the S3 helm seemed like a fine upgrade (or at least on par with benefits) to my T4 helm.
Lost 0.13% hit and like 24 AP to gain a whole assload of life, 0.93% crit and over 80 armour penetration (nearly putting me at 200 with my cloak), which seemed like a good trade to me. That said, my hit has dropped from 300 to just over 260, which while still a fine amount, is kind of annoying. The haste and armour penetration gained, however, are very nice indeed.
Hate: 17 more EOTS badges for my boots. I don't know about you guys, but PuG EOTS weakens what little remaining faith in humanity I have left.
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First they came for the Muslims, and we said NOT TODAY, MOTHERFUCKER!
Solo'ing Strat as a Mutilate Rogue sounds like a very painful task.
I was on a Ramparts run earlier this week on my wee shaman, when I realized "holy shit, it's going on midnight". We had a very painfully new warrior tanking, who was not prot spec (which I wouldn't expect him to be for levelling, but it doesn't help matters), and while the dps was good, it was moving slowly.
After getting my 10th blood for the quest, I was like "Screw this guys, brb, getting Rogue", at which point I essentially solo'd the rest of the instance. We took a good hour just getting up to the room with the first boss, and then probably finished the rest of the instance in like 20 minutes.
Solo'ing things 9-15 levels below you isn't too bad. It might be for frustrating as dagger spec, but at that point I'd probably just throw on a pair of swords and suck it up anyway. At that point, you're not just dps, you're the tank.
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First they came for the Muslims, and we said NOT TODAY, MOTHERFUCKER!
Right, all the trash would be easy, in fact, easier than sword builds because of stunlocks galore. Extra Adds and boss fights would be where Mutilate would completely blow. Spamming SS with a 1.6 speed dagger is not good times.
I solo'd most of strat on my Rogue the other day as Combat/Hemo, but just barely. Thank god for Prep/Blade Flurry, Evasion and AR, without those I could never have done it.
Now that I've finished farming for epic riding and have my mount, I can get back to the fun part of leveling alts. My level 24 gnomish mage is now running around with +106 frost damage. Level 24 troll mage with +86 fire damage. Doing magey things for fun.
Happy: When chance works in your favor with amusing results. Apparently I had a 57% crit rate on Loot of Akama tonight. 13% of the total raid damage, next highest was 8%.
Also, got a Chronicle of Dark Secrets. And several other casters got good things. It's nice to not just see physical DPS loot every night.
Does he bug out for you too? Where you don't have to do the event at all, just murder a few of the adds and then make a bee-line for the Shade the moment he becomes targetable?
It's a highly amusing bug, in that it takes an already fairly easy dps race and makes it a giant 45 second joke.
Also; we hit 5 bosses last night, 0 physical dps loot. WTB your loot seed, pst.
It's hard to catch up to the crew I'm with when nothing I can use actually drops, but it's only been a few weeks, so I'm not actually complaining. I consider it more a point of pride every time I sit in the top 3 or 5 in the gear that I do have.
Also, the PVP weapons are insane, so yes "Abloo, abloo, I have to pvp to pve" stands, in a manner of speaking, but even the armour is pretty damned good. Gem'd with a 24 AP ruby and a haste proc meta, the S3 helm seemed like a fine upgrade (or at least on par with benefits) to my T4 helm.
Lost 0.13% hit and like 24 AP to gain a whole assload of life, 0.93% crit and over 80 armour penetration (nearly putting me at 200 with my cloak), which seemed like a good trade to me. That said, my hit has dropped from 300 to just over 260, which while still a fine amount, is kind of annoying. The haste and armour penetration gained, however, are very nice indeed.
Hate: 17 more EOTS badges for my boots. I don't know about you guys, but PuG EOTS weakens what little remaining faith in humanity I have left.
Yup. We've killed him three or four times now I think... The first week he wasn't bugged yet, and we wiped a few times before the tanks and mages worked out their shit, but the kill went easy as rumored. The next week, he wasn't bugged on our first attempt, when something dumb happened like a tank dying, and when we ran back to try again, he was bugged, and free epics. Since then he's been bugged straight off, those channelers have gotten lazy! Hence, Loot of Akama. That fight is mostly for melee to pop all their cooldowns and then brag all night... I have no cooldowns, but I lucked out and had the elemental shaman with drums of battle in my party. Oh the totems and haste!
The abloo bloo over PVP-to-PVE is running high on our Vent at the moment, almost entirely due to one hunter who doesn't actually like to PVP but forces himself to do it for the s3 crossbow. He refuses to wear PVP gear, so the teams he can manage to burst down in the first five seconds he can't stop gloating over, but failing that he just bitches about how hunters have no survivability. OH REALLY MR ZERO RESILIENCE IN SEASON 3?
Annoyed: seeing heroic badge rewards with lower defense ratings than my current gear. I mean, felsteel leggings rock, but I'd really like to get the Unwavering Legguards. My prot pally cries when I have to juggle defense points.
Hate: WTB 5 of Furies. Such a dearth that I'm considering this an AH conspiracy. cue X-files theme music
Love: The mote extractor. It even got other professions crying about it! WOO!
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I don't think I could take a class without sparring. That would be like a class without techniques. Sparring has value not only as an important (necessary) step in applying your techniques to fighting, but also because it provides a rush and feeling of elation, confidence, and joyful exhaustion that can only be matched by ... oh shit, I am describing sex again. Sorry everyone. - Epicurus
Eventually I got super greedy and posted some 95g runed living rubies from a later prospecting batch, but there does seem to be a line folks aren't willing to cross, even if uncut living rubies start at 75g right now.
I take this back. Somebody bought the 95g Runed Living Ruby.
Whee: Emergency maitenance that coincides with raid start time.
Titles are serious business
Silver lining: Holy fuck it's been a great day to be a jewelcrafter. I had the worst luck with prospects the previous night, but it didn't matter because I just posted everything for 25-50% above what I normally would cost it and almost all of it sold by the time I was home from work. 75g Runed Living Rubies and Solid Elunes, sure. 30g Steady Talasites, no problem (the one cut literally every jewelcrafter has for a gem that often goes for well under 10g uncut). Eventually I got super greedy and posted some 95g runed living rubies from a later prospecting batch, but there does seem to be a line folks aren't willing to cross, even if uncut living rubies start at 75g right now.
I made about 800g last night, not counting any auctions I still left up when I went to bed. On my server, nothing went above 65g for rare gems, 5g for green gems. Our market was flooded with solid stars of elune, so I doubt mine sold, steady talasites went for 12-15g (market was also flooded, yet still sold well), runed living rubies/inscribed noble topazes was the one area that was in short supply. I think I sold a bright living ruby for 65g. Also, sitting & watching the trade channel - made a lot from cutting. Everyone needed powerful/relentless/bracing earthstorm diamonds.
I also sold a bunch of primal lifes & earths yesterday. Initially when I put my auctions (mid-afternoon), they were selling faster than I put things up. O.o
Oh yes, I love the mote extractor. 5 Primal Shadows an hour without even trying? Don't mind if I do!
It is the mythical PUSH BUTTON: RECEIVE BACON machine.
Also I think people misunderstood what my intent even was when I wanted to go to Stratholme. I wanted to fuck shit up, not babysit low-level characters. I was alright at first with one or two other 70s coming because it was still going to be 'Ha! Watch as I crush the Baroness beneath my mighty solo fist!" and the rest of us just go olol walkin' past da trash
Even at level 56, there is trash that cons orange to you. And we had a 55, to boot. I understand their motivation for coming but I ended up feeling really guilty really fast that they came all this way and just kept dieing and there was nothing I could really do. When the one guy swapped onto his Warlock he literally did just chain pull the entire instance, including the bosses. I got to sit on my patoot, except for when I solo'd one of the ziggurats.
He yelled at me afterwards because he had bitten off more than he could chew and they all died. He asked why I wasn't there helping and I told him there wasn't really much I could do to stop thirty level 59 elites from killing him and the pair of lowbies.
I wanted to occupy myself with something new and slightly challenging. I had potions all ready to go and everything-- Major Shadow Protection and everything. I had grenades for Baron's skeletons! I probably still couldn't have done various parts of the end of the instance, but I wanted to die trying. I didn't want to babysit and then have my role trivialized by someone else who completely usurped the run. I stuck with it of course, because we were helping some folks out at that point, but it doesn't change the fact I wanted to do something and it ended up becoming something other than I wanted.
Also, I prefaced the anecdote with 'annoyed,' not 'super-pissed rawr' or anything like that. I had to put something there in order to post it in this thread, and putting 'happy' would have been a lie, and 'meh' is a touch too ambivalent for my tastes. :P
errr, been done. Was funny the first time, not really this time.
ITT: Old joke is old
I thought it was all right. Considering Oboro usually talks about how people don't want to do things, it seems odd to be upset that people came with, even if they weren't 70's.
And I think Oboro learned an important lesson.
If you wish to do something alone, don't announce it to the world.
Well, I thought Dhalphir was trying to steal a joke, though I think it's funny that he had the same idea independant of whoever else posted it
The fact that the people who I know who were really cool who were in my guild when I joined seem to have steadily left for greener pastures (or wowquit.) Not that a lot of the new people aren't cool, but still.
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hold your head high soldier, it ain't over yet
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
Added in the context of the other half of my reply, re: Shade of Akama being bugged for most people for weeks.
The way it's supposed to work is you're zerged by a bunch of adds for a few minutes and if you stay alive long enough to kill a few channeler dudes then the Shade of Akama fights Akama and you help and get easy loot. But recently he's been bugging out so there have been no adds, just the twenty-second burst DPS e-peen demonstration. So imagine the mind-set of a raid who's only experienced the bugged version, and one day he's not bugged...
Guild is starting a second kara group, and I've RSVP'd a spot. But I've sorta got my mind in PvP mode now, having given up on raiding as an option. So now I don't know how I feel about it. Weeeeird.
The fact that the people who I know who were really cool who were in my guild when I joined seem to have steadily left for greener pastures (or wowquit.) Not that a lot of the new people aren't cool, but still.
Amen to that.
On the one hand, it's completely understandable that they maybe want to raid more or find a guild more aligned with their goals. On the other hand, I can't help but wonder what kind of things we could have accomplished had they stayed. Our attendance has shot up a lot lately though so who knows, maybe they will find their way home.
The fact that the people who I know who were really cool who were in my guild when I joined seem to have steadily left for greener pastures (or wowquit.) Not that a lot of the new people aren't cool, but still.
Amen to that.
On the one hand, it's completely understandable that they maybe want to raid more or find a guild more aligned with their goals. On the other hand, I can't help but wonder what kind of things we could have accomplished had they stayed. Our attendance has shot up a lot lately though so who knows, maybe they will find their way home.
I'm comin back, don't you worry.
Happy: Returning to WoW after an absence to have everything feel new and exciting again.
The fact that the people who I know who were really cool who were in my guild when I joined seem to have steadily left for greener pastures (or wowquit.) Not that a lot of the new people aren't cool, but still.
Amen to that.
On the one hand, it's completely understandable that they maybe want to raid more or find a guild more aligned with their goals. On the other hand, I can't help but wonder what kind of things we could have accomplished had they stayed. Our attendance has shot up a lot lately though so who knows, maybe they will find their way home.
I'm comin back, don't you worry.
Happy: Returning to WoW after an absence to have everything feel new and exciting again.
Really going to have to bring my Mage over there now that Defrag is there too 8-)
Hate: Terrible PuGs, I know everyone does, but this one was tragic. So, I decide to go to BRD last night on my 53 Protadin (An okay level, I'd have some trouble tanking the later mobs, but I could deal with it).
Group make up ended up being:
53 War
54 War
52 Paladin
53 Hunter.
And I ended up healing, because I got there before the other Paladin, and I'm a sucker. The 53 war decides to tank, and charges into groups. Which I don't mind, I did it when I levelled, it's not safe, but, it's only BRD. Except, he's using a 2-hander. His HP Drops like a rock (These are the 5 pulls on the Thorium Highway or whatever it is). I have to spam Holy Light because if I don't he dies. So on the next pull, I tell him he's taking too much damage and to use a shield, and he keeps his 2-hander out, charges, and then uses deathwish, which I barely manage to keep him alive through. He then pulls while I'm drinking, he dies before I get to him, I run out and live. Long story short, I got two quests done in that little area, and when we wiped on the next boss I feigned a DC and did some group ABs on my hunter.
Happy:
Group ABs. 5v10 at Lumber Mill and still winning? Gogo people not sucking.
Hearing stories about BRD always brings a smile to my face. Of coarse, there is a nice story to go along with it as well.
Old, but Happy: Back when I just hit 60, I started doing quests for BRD. I was very excited because it was my first time in Blackrock Mountain and I was like, "Wow, this is the place that I have always seen from afar and contain super villians like Neferain and Ragnoras, it would be cool to see them one day."
So I start this nice little group with myself and a guild (old guild) paladin with the rest PuGs including a warlock named Sinsation. Now understand, I had no freaking clue how big the instance was. I just thought you would do the whole thing in one run like any other. Go in kill the bosses, complete the quests, profit. I had the marsall quest and the Magni quest. I also wanted to do both
We started with getting to Marshal Windsor by killing the key dude and then getting even more quests (including the ghost king quests lol) and decide to head to the Emporers chamber. At this point, we were in there for about five hours. We wiped a lot and also attuned everyone to Molten Core. We also switched out several party members except for the paladin and warlock.
We were determined to kill that damned Emporer however. My God that fight took a long time to finish, not because of the Emporer himself, but the room before him, with the infinte respawns and such. We probably spent about two hours on that part itself. But at least we killed him. I finished my quest for Magni's ring AND as a bonus, my pally friend got theIronfoe as a drop too.
Now by this point, you would think we would be done right? Seven hours in BRD and you would want to call it quits right? Wrong. Sinsation and I decided to stick it out and finish our Marshal Windson quest chain. We had no clue as to what pain we were in for. Cause we thought that having cleared that super-fucked-up-infinite room, Windsor must me easy right? Wrong.
After looking forever to fill out our group again, including Sin 'forcing' her husband to log onto his rogue named Baretheon, we started on trying to get to Windsor again to turn start the next phase of the chain. Of coarse, we did not clear the circle, because once again, we didn't know. And we had many a wipe before we realized that, "Hey, maybe we should clear this circle before we start the quest!" And it worked out great.....untill we realized the fucker walks TWO GOD DAMNED LOOPS. So more wiped untill we finally complete it.
In the end, Sinsation and I completed every quest in BRD in one run. We were also pretty impressed with each others performance so I was invited to her guild that later on, started me on my progression through ZG, MC, Ony, BWL, and AQ20. Sinsation and Baretheon and I became great friends with my wife, and we all still play to this day. The only real negative thing that came from this was the break up of my old guild when I left (another story) and the fact that I have never seen the Emporer again. EVER.
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Happiest moment in my entire WoW career: I'm out in Skettis, trying to get my Daily done before my guild PvP group re-queues for BG fun. So i'm bombing eggs out there, and at the first stop (closest to the camp) I see the escort guy, surrounded by 3 level 70 Alliance. Hunter, Paladin, Druid.
So I figure I'll just chill on the outskirts and watch the escort, then zoom around looking for his respawn, as I sit there watching, the Druid decides to Moonfire me.
At that point i'm like whatever bitch, I'm going to die doing it but i'm going to make this escort as hard as possible for all of you now, you could have left me alone and everything would have been fine, but now I'm just going to be a dick.
So 2 Guards always spawn at the end of the first bridge you cross, so I fly over and stealth behind the side there and wait for the spawn. They Spawn, I sprint in and follow them, cheapshot the Druid, throw up Adrenaline Rush, Blade Flurry, get another Hemo in and then kidney shot her, the Hunter is right next to the druid, so all my hits are hurting her as well. I down the Druid in about 3 more Hemo's and an Arcane torrent, and then turn my attention on the Hunter.
At this point i'm thinking, okay i'm fucked, paladin is going to heal the hunter as he kites me around, I already burned sprint, but whatever. So I focus on the Hunter, bam, dead in seconds, he didn't even try and get away or bring his pet out. I then vanish, cheapshot the Paladin, Hemo, Kidney Shot, throw up Prep and Adrenaline rush again.
The Paladin just stood there, I don't know if he was stunned or stupid or just panicking, but he didn't even bubble, so he went down shortly after.
Three Alliance down and I still had about 70% of my health left, I couldn't believe it. Icing on the cake was that the escort guy respawned immediately in the same spot, so I talked to him, walked him through the entire thing and completed the escort in a few minutes without any interference.
Most of this was due to the fact they had to be absolutely horrible players, but still, taking down 3 people like that felt so good.
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Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
Wunderful!: Got edged out of the Kara spots I was expecting, went with a non-PAA one that vouched quick and routine clears. We had to rotate people and nine-man some of it, but we finished the instance up in 6 hours. I got Emerald Ripper off or Moroes, picked up 20 badges (too many people left for us to do Nightbane), and got to play Chess! We had two silly wipes on Aran and one when we tried to 9-man Moroes, but it was otherwise just very slow because of the rotating peeps.
Eventually I got super greedy and posted some 95g runed living rubies from a later prospecting batch, but there does seem to be a line folks aren't willing to cross, even if uncut living rubies start at 75g right now.
I take this back. Somebody bought the 95g Runed Living Ruby.
That's kind of retarded. I don't think I spent 75 for my Runed Living Ruby, and my server tends to blow horsecock as far as AH prices go.
Hate: Our raids catchall stance on consumables for raids. The general rule is that on any progression content you're expected to be flasked/elixir'd, food buffed, and preferably oiled. This is vehemently supported by one of the raid leaders, a hunter. Who doesn't seem to realise that on a lot of content, the healing flask is not going to help. Tonight we intended to kill Azgalor and work on Archimonde. People didn't turn up so we had six specced healers and one off-spec healing. Before we began this raid leader demanded that everyone flask. Fuck that, I don't need extra regen on Azgalor or his trash. We wiped during the trash, twice, then went to SSC. Neither of these wipes had anything to do with healers running out of mana. Yet afterwards he rattles of a list of everyone flasked followed by "thankyou these people for making us wipe".
It's so retarded to assume that each flask in the raid adds directly to the likelihood of success. I know when I do and do not need extra regen, thankyou very much. Don't bitch at me for not spending money I know is wasted.
Hate: With all the resilience arena gear being available for honor, lots of people seemed to have taken advantage of that and my crits kind of suck now, which is beginning to frustrate me. Stupid people with their welfare epics all over the place!
Happy: I added up all the totals and with ~135k honor and a bunch of tokens I can get a full set of resto arena gear with all the trimmings. I figure once I make some headway in that direction I can respec resto to do my arena games and hopefully either start doing better or join a team who's better, and then respec back to feral for everything else. Yay, welfare epics!
I was using the term "welfare epics" facetiously of course
But let's hope this will be the last attunement run for everyone and we can go on to BT/
Edit: I ABSOLUTELY HATE that the PVP stuff looks like tier sets. HATE HATE
Oh and absolutely LOVE:
The very FIRST MH ID after downing Kael, we manage do down 4/5 bosses and get archimonde do 21%
While clearing hyjal in the first ID would've been nice, I think two weeks is OK too.
Hate: Our raids catchall stance on consumables for raids. The general rule is that on any progression content you're expected to be flasked/elixir'd, food buffed, and preferably oiled. This is vehemently supported by one of the raid leaders, a hunter. Who doesn't seem to realise that on a lot of content, the healing flask is not going to help. Tonight we intended to kill Azgalor and work on Archimonde. People didn't turn up so we had six specced healers and one off-spec healing. Before we began this raid leader demanded that everyone flask. Fuck that, I don't need extra regen on Azgalor or his trash. We wiped during the trash, twice, then went to SSC. Neither of these wipes had anything to do with healers running out of mana. Yet afterwards he rattles of a list of everyone flasked followed by "thankyou these people for making us wipe".
It's so retarded to assume that each flask in the raid adds directly to the likelihood of success. I know when I do and do not need extra regen, thankyou very much. Don't bitch at me for not spending money I know is wasted.
The problem is.. if everyone does this, you'll be losing MUCH. And how are you going to tell everyone else "I don't have to flask, but YOU do!"
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I thought it was all right. Considering Oboro usually talks about how people don't want to do things, it seems odd to be upset that people came with, even if they weren't 70's.
the Half Happy part is the part where I decided to Grind for a S1 helmet and a S1 Ranged weapon(crossbow). I start friday with 4k honor and need around 37k. Lucky for me there is an AV weekend. I make enough Honor per day that I didn't even grind yesterday(Wensday is maintance day in EU, gear is available today). Got my helmet(thinking of getting shoulders) and My Crossbow. Finally got a ranged weapon thats good enough for raiding. Yay!!
The Half Hate; Those that read this thread may remember that I swore a few weeks ago that I would have the Epic bow from the Steam Vaults. And that I in my arogance told people that I was no Punk-ass Quiter Bitch."Well, My name is Kipling217 and I am a Punk-Ass Quiter Bitch". I stand ready to accept your scorn an Ridicule, knowing full well that I brought it upon myself. "Lay it on me people! I got it comming!"
Unrelated happy; getting a workmate to explain to me how I should place my talents in my Shadowpriest for maximum dps. The difference is amazing, Pew, Pew, Pain, PAIN. And then heading to Dustwallow Marsh to lvl. No more Stranglethorne gankage for this guy.
Eh. Weaseling out of things is what separates man from the animals.
Except the weasel.
And I think Oboro learned an important lesson.
If you wish to do something alone, don't announce it to the world.
Does he bug out for you too? Where you don't have to do the event at all, just murder a few of the adds and then make a bee-line for the Shade the moment he becomes targetable?
It's a highly amusing bug, in that it takes an already fairly easy dps race and makes it a giant 45 second joke.
Also; we hit 5 bosses last night, 0 physical dps loot. WTB your loot seed, pst.
It's hard to catch up to the crew I'm with when nothing I can use actually drops, but it's only been a few weeks, so I'm not actually complaining. I consider it more a point of pride every time I sit in the top 3 or 5 in the gear that I do have.
Also, the PVP weapons are insane, so yes "Abloo, abloo, I have to pvp to pve" stands, in a manner of speaking, but even the armour is pretty damned good. Gem'd with a 24 AP ruby and a haste proc meta, the S3 helm seemed like a fine upgrade (or at least on par with benefits) to my T4 helm.
Lost 0.13% hit and like 24 AP to gain a whole assload of life, 0.93% crit and over 80 armour penetration (nearly putting me at 200 with my cloak), which seemed like a good trade to me. That said, my hit has dropped from 300 to just over 260, which while still a fine amount, is kind of annoying. The haste and armour penetration gained, however, are very nice indeed.
Hate: 17 more EOTS badges for my boots. I don't know about you guys, but PuG EOTS weakens what little remaining faith in humanity I have left.
I was on a Ramparts run earlier this week on my wee shaman, when I realized "holy shit, it's going on midnight". We had a very painfully new warrior tanking, who was not prot spec (which I wouldn't expect him to be for levelling, but it doesn't help matters), and while the dps was good, it was moving slowly.
After getting my 10th blood for the quest, I was like "Screw this guys, brb, getting Rogue", at which point I essentially solo'd the rest of the instance. We took a good hour just getting up to the room with the first boss, and then probably finished the rest of the instance in like 20 minutes.
Solo'ing things 9-15 levels below you isn't too bad. It might be for frustrating as dagger spec, but at that point I'd probably just throw on a pair of swords and suck it up anyway. At that point, you're not just dps, you're the tank.
I solo'd most of strat on my Rogue the other day as Combat/Hemo, but just barely. Thank god for Prep/Blade Flurry, Evasion and AR, without those I could never have done it.
Yup. We've killed him three or four times now I think... The first week he wasn't bugged yet, and we wiped a few times before the tanks and mages worked out their shit, but the kill went easy as rumored. The next week, he wasn't bugged on our first attempt, when something dumb happened like a tank dying, and when we ran back to try again, he was bugged, and free epics. Since then he's been bugged straight off, those channelers have gotten lazy! Hence, Loot of Akama. That fight is mostly for melee to pop all their cooldowns and then brag all night... I have no cooldowns, but I lucked out and had the elemental shaman with drums of battle in my party. Oh the totems and haste!
The abloo bloo over PVP-to-PVE is running high on our Vent at the moment, almost entirely due to one hunter who doesn't actually like to PVP but forces himself to do it for the s3 crossbow. He refuses to wear PVP gear, so the teams he can manage to burst down in the first five seconds he can't stop gloating over, but failing that he just bitches about how hunters have no survivability. OH REALLY MR ZERO RESILIENCE IN SEASON 3?
Edit: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=3168238122
Hate: WTB 5 of Furies. Such a dearth that I'm considering this an AH conspiracy. cue X-files theme music
Love: The mote extractor. It even got other professions crying about it! WOO!
I take this back. Somebody bought the 95g Runed Living Ruby.
I made about 800g last night, not counting any auctions I still left up when I went to bed. On my server, nothing went above 65g for rare gems, 5g for green gems. Our market was flooded with solid stars of elune, so I doubt mine sold, steady talasites went for 12-15g (market was also flooded, yet still sold well), runed living rubies/inscribed noble topazes was the one area that was in short supply. I think I sold a bright living ruby for 65g. Also, sitting & watching the trade channel - made a lot from cutting. Everyone needed powerful/relentless/bracing earthstorm diamonds.
I also sold a bunch of primal lifes & earths yesterday. Initially when I put my auctions (mid-afternoon), they were selling faster than I put things up. O.o
Also I think people misunderstood what my intent even was when I wanted to go to Stratholme. I wanted to fuck shit up, not babysit low-level characters. I was alright at first with one or two other 70s coming because it was still going to be 'Ha! Watch as I crush the Baroness beneath my mighty solo fist!" and the rest of us just go olol walkin' past da trash
Even at level 56, there is trash that cons orange to you. And we had a 55, to boot. I understand their motivation for coming but I ended up feeling really guilty really fast that they came all this way and just kept dieing and there was nothing I could really do. When the one guy swapped onto his Warlock he literally did just chain pull the entire instance, including the bosses. I got to sit on my patoot, except for when I solo'd one of the ziggurats.
He yelled at me afterwards because he had bitten off more than he could chew and they all died. He asked why I wasn't there helping and I told him there wasn't really much I could do to stop thirty level 59 elites from killing him and the pair of lowbies.
I wanted to occupy myself with something new and slightly challenging. I had potions all ready to go and everything-- Major Shadow Protection and everything. I had grenades for Baron's skeletons! I probably still couldn't have done various parts of the end of the instance, but I wanted to die trying. I didn't want to babysit and then have my role trivialized by someone else who completely usurped the run. I stuck with it of course, because we were helping some folks out at that point, but it doesn't change the fact I wanted to do something and it ended up becoming something other than I wanted.
Also, I prefaced the anecdote with 'annoyed,' not 'super-pissed rawr' or anything like that. I had to put something there in order to post it in this thread, and putting 'happy' would have been a lie, and 'meh' is a touch too ambivalent for my tastes. :P
Well, I thought Dhalphir was trying to steal a joke, though I think it's funny that he had the same idea independant of whoever else posted it
I don't get it >.>
The fact that the people who I know who were really cool who were in my guild when I joined seem to have steadily left for greener pastures (or wowquit.) Not that a lot of the new people aren't cool, but still.
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
Added in the context of the other half of my reply, re: Shade of Akama being bugged for most people for weeks.
The way it's supposed to work is you're zerged by a bunch of adds for a few minutes and if you stay alive long enough to kill a few channeler dudes then the Shade of Akama fights Akama and you help and get easy loot. But recently he's been bugging out so there have been no adds, just the twenty-second burst DPS e-peen demonstration. So imagine the mind-set of a raid who's only experienced the bugged version, and one day he's not bugged...
Guild is starting a second kara group, and I've RSVP'd a spot. But I've sorta got my mind in PvP mode now, having given up on raiding as an option. So now I don't know how I feel about it. Weeeeird.
Amen to that.
On the one hand, it's completely understandable that they maybe want to raid more or find a guild more aligned with their goals. On the other hand, I can't help but wonder what kind of things we could have accomplished had they stayed. Our attendance has shot up a lot lately though so who knows, maybe they will find their way home.
I'm comin back, don't you worry.
Happy: Returning to WoW after an absence to have everything feel new and exciting again.
Really going to have to bring my Mage over there now that Defrag is there too 8-)
Group make up ended up being:
53 War
54 War
52 Paladin
53 Hunter.
And I ended up healing, because I got there before the other Paladin, and I'm a sucker. The 53 war decides to tank, and charges into groups. Which I don't mind, I did it when I levelled, it's not safe, but, it's only BRD. Except, he's using a 2-hander. His HP Drops like a rock (These are the 5 pulls on the Thorium Highway or whatever it is). I have to spam Holy Light because if I don't he dies. So on the next pull, I tell him he's taking too much damage and to use a shield, and he keeps his 2-hander out, charges, and then uses deathwish, which I barely manage to keep him alive through. He then pulls while I'm drinking, he dies before I get to him, I run out and live. Long story short, I got two quests done in that little area, and when we wiped on the next boss I feigned a DC and did some group ABs on my hunter.
Happy:
Group ABs. 5v10 at Lumber Mill and still winning? Gogo people not sucking.
Old, but Happy: Back when I just hit 60, I started doing quests for BRD. I was very excited because it was my first time in Blackrock Mountain and I was like, "Wow, this is the place that I have always seen from afar and contain super villians like Neferain and Ragnoras, it would be cool to see them one day."
So I start this nice little group with myself and a guild (old guild) paladin with the rest PuGs including a warlock named Sinsation. Now understand, I had no freaking clue how big the instance was. I just thought you would do the whole thing in one run like any other. Go in kill the bosses, complete the quests, profit. I had the marsall quest and the Magni quest. I also wanted to do both
We started with getting to Marshal Windsor by killing the key dude and then getting even more quests (including the ghost king quests lol) and decide to head to the Emporers chamber. At this point, we were in there for about five hours. We wiped a lot and also attuned everyone to Molten Core. We also switched out several party members except for the paladin and warlock.
We were determined to kill that damned Emporer however. My God that fight took a long time to finish, not because of the Emporer himself, but the room before him, with the infinte respawns and such. We probably spent about two hours on that part itself. But at least we killed him. I finished my quest for Magni's ring AND as a bonus, my pally friend got theIronfoe as a drop too.
Now by this point, you would think we would be done right? Seven hours in BRD and you would want to call it quits right? Wrong. Sinsation and I decided to stick it out and finish our Marshal Windson quest chain. We had no clue as to what pain we were in for. Cause we thought that having cleared that super-fucked-up-infinite room, Windsor must me easy right? Wrong.
After looking forever to fill out our group again, including Sin 'forcing' her husband to log onto his rogue named Baretheon, we started on trying to get to Windsor again to turn start the next phase of the chain. Of coarse, we did not clear the circle, because once again, we didn't know. And we had many a wipe before we realized that, "Hey, maybe we should clear this circle before we start the quest!" And it worked out great.....untill we realized the fucker walks TWO GOD DAMNED LOOPS. So more wiped untill we finally complete it.
In the end, Sinsation and I completed every quest in BRD in one run. We were also pretty impressed with each others performance so I was invited to her guild that later on, started me on my progression through ZG, MC, Ony, BWL, and AQ20. Sinsation and Baretheon and I became great friends with my wife, and we all still play to this day. The only real negative thing that came from this was the break up of my old guild when I left (another story) and the fact that I have never seen the Emporer again. EVER.
Battlenet ID: MildC#11186 - If I'm in the game, send me an invite at anytime and I'll play.
2500 gold later
jesus christ.
So I figure I'll just chill on the outskirts and watch the escort, then zoom around looking for his respawn, as I sit there watching, the Druid decides to Moonfire me.
At that point i'm like whatever bitch, I'm going to die doing it but i'm going to make this escort as hard as possible for all of you now, you could have left me alone and everything would have been fine, but now I'm just going to be a dick.
So 2 Guards always spawn at the end of the first bridge you cross, so I fly over and stealth behind the side there and wait for the spawn. They Spawn, I sprint in and follow them, cheapshot the Druid, throw up Adrenaline Rush, Blade Flurry, get another Hemo in and then kidney shot her, the Hunter is right next to the druid, so all my hits are hurting her as well. I down the Druid in about 3 more Hemo's and an Arcane torrent, and then turn my attention on the Hunter.
At this point i'm thinking, okay i'm fucked, paladin is going to heal the hunter as he kites me around, I already burned sprint, but whatever. So I focus on the Hunter, bam, dead in seconds, he didn't even try and get away or bring his pet out. I then vanish, cheapshot the Paladin, Hemo, Kidney Shot, throw up Prep and Adrenaline rush again.
The Paladin just stood there, I don't know if he was stunned or stupid or just panicking, but he didn't even bubble, so he went down shortly after.
Three Alliance down and I still had about 70% of my health left, I couldn't believe it. Icing on the cake was that the escort guy respawned immediately in the same spot, so I talked to him, walked him through the entire thing and completed the escort in a few minutes without any interference.
Most of this was due to the fact they had to be absolutely horrible players, but still, taking down 3 people like that felt so good.
That's kind of retarded. I don't think I spent 75 for my Runed Living Ruby, and my server tends to blow horsecock as far as AH prices go.
It's so retarded to assume that each flask in the raid adds directly to the likelihood of success. I know when I do and do not need extra regen, thankyou very much. Don't bitch at me for not spending money I know is wasted.
Happy: I added up all the totals and with ~135k honor and a bunch of tokens I can get a full set of resto arena gear with all the trimmings. I figure once I make some headway in that direction I can respec resto to do my arena games and hopefully either start doing better or join a team who's better, and then respec back to feral for everything else. Yay, welfare epics!
We should start calling them "working poor epics."
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
But let's hope this will be the last attunement run for everyone and we can go on to BT/
Edit: I ABSOLUTELY HATE that the PVP stuff looks like tier sets. HATE HATE
Oh and absolutely LOVE:
The very FIRST MH ID after downing Kael, we manage do down 4/5 bosses and get archimonde do 21%
While clearing hyjal in the first ID would've been nice, I think two weeks is OK too.
The problem is.. if everyone does this, you'll be losing MUCH. And how are you going to tell everyone else "I don't have to flask, but YOU do!"