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o nifty get out of jail free card so what s holding me back from leveling it out fully the frustrations i get when tanking it has to be a world of difference once you get geared up but tanking at my level while i can do it successfully seems to be more work than it s worth it s not so much that you have to change targets and weave in some cleaves and a devastate or revenge here and there it s feels like a constant struggle to keep everything focused on me maybe i ve been spoiled with my dk s abilities like placing an aoe anywhere i want to grab incoming enemies and having a spiffy pulling mechanic to get casters all lined up nice and pretty for aoe i m thinking now s the time to at least max out level and wait and see how the dk revisions are panning out i still love playing my dk but with a reworking of the entire mechanic a reworking of the dk talent trees to make blood the tanking tree and a reworking of the vital tanking stats i m afraid of another brutal balancing act by blizzard at least this way i ll have options once cataclysm is released but this all raises an interesting question and one i ve been thinking about recently what drives you to play a certain class it is role choice fotm one ability you love and can t do without posted by deftig at 6 26 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels dk tanks warrior zomg i can do 28k dps on aoe trash i m better than you ok so this past week we had a new boomkin join our guild his gear was good and at first he didn t really say a lot which i could understand since he was new to the guild and i guess getting a feel for who we are last night in raid we found quickly that it was a mistake to invite him i should ve known that someone with a gearscore as high as his that is unguilded is so for a certain reason but we gave him a shot now what i want to know is how someone who was able to get the gear he as not know what los means or not know to stop dps when he pulls aggro off a mob the tank is not on not to mention why someone like this feels the need to whisper people asking for a mage table or tell them how to play their class after globally muting him in vent we continued our run we get to rotface and we decide to go ahead and take a 5 min break to wait for our sated debuff to wear off what does this boomkin do hearths and goes to orgrimmar we didn t have a warlock in the raid last night so we couldn t summon him back facepalm he then asked us for a summon uhm no lock so what does he do starts spamming trade for a mage portal instead of you know taking the zep to borean tundra and flying over to icc no i guess that would be easy so we booted him from the raid and from the guild and of course i get the whisper from him asking why he was booted it was explained to him that he was annoying everyone when whispering them about how to play their characters how when a tank was trying to los a mob scientist he would start dpsing it and keeping the mob from coming around the corner and how when he pulled aggro on a mob the tank wasn t targeting he wouldn t stop dps me and the other healer purposefully let him die because he continued to do so and i was sick of seeing the aggro indicator come up on his name it was then he decided to call nate a little bitch and that he was the best player in our guild no sorry when you do 6k dps on a boss and never switched to adds when you re supposed to have no situational awareness and consistently annoy the piss out of everyone in the raid you re not the best player in the guild no one gives a fuck if you can do 28k dps on aoe trash when you die 30 seconds into a pull i swear i m a magnet for retards this is why i added the question do you have downs to our guild application posted by anonymous at 2 43 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels fail raid tuesday may 11 2010 drop drip drop i may not like it but i ve gotten used to people porting in seeing the instance and or gear scores and dropping heck i ve kind of gotten used to people dropping after a wipe halls of reflection will do that to you or even after a boss when someone actually apologizes and leaves i consider it a victory for civility but if there s one thing i ll never get used to it s when people drop in the middle of a pull what sort of person does this anyway i know that others have written about it darth solo vidyala and tam among others but the lack of respect for your fellow player is just ridiculous we re paying for the privilege to operate in an mmo world and as much as some people fly solo guilty as charged you still have to interact with people to play the game people will talk to you you can be an ass and ignore them but the courteous thing to do is reply even if you re not interested in what they re saying what got me all worked up about this i got queued up for two 5 man runs today halls of reflection and forge of souls both of them had instances wherein someone dropped mid pull in halls of reflection it was the healer midway through the waves of trash between the first and second bosses naturally when the healer goes in that place the tank almost immediately bites it and so does everyone else the second one in forge of souls the boomkin warlock died right after pulling aggro on the trash in the run up to the bronjahm rather than wait for a rez or releasing and running back he just dropped now in both cases there was no lasting damage we had delays in the runs but that was it but the lack of courtesy especially in the hor run really got under my skin just like what the warrior dps in an utgarde pinnacle run last night told the rest of us he was abused by the tank in the previous 5 man he was on because he was pulling so low a dps i mean he s a new 80 and instead of trying to tank heroics he s trying to dps them to pick up gear to improve his dps what more could you want i m aware of the general consensus out there in the blogosphere that the lfd tool has enabled or exacerbated this sort of boorish behavior but my contention is that even without the tool the mmo community has been gradually moving in this direction anyway the mmo world is a reflection of society a geeky segment of society no doubt and it was only a matter of time before the lack of civility out there in our society found its way into all aspects of wow even i got tired of trade chat and dropped it from my channels and that s saying a lot i used to think that if these people who are spamming trade chat were forced to say that out loud in a public gathering they d shut their mouths a bit more often sadly i think that won t deter a lot of these people what i m afraid of is that the boorish behavior in mmos is now becoming the norm and people like me who want some courtesy among strangers are now on the sideline posted by redbeard at 11 49 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels fail pugs the wow life saturday may 8 2010 love hate relationships i spent the early morning and then the late evening running lots of 5 man heroics i don t normally chain run a bunch of them at a time hell i don t normally have the time to do that either but since i m going to port a character loaded with heirlooms over to ysera i d better make it count by the end of the day my head was kind of spinning some of the highlights of the runs included a forge of souls run wherein i replaced a dps who went afk right before the devourer of souls apparently he never mentioned anything and didn t disconnect but he just stopped moving so i was brought in we zapped the devourer of souls instance over had to be the quickest instance i ve ever been in a later run in the forge of souls where i actually had the music turned up what s with all the guitars and musical references with the brohnjam an inside wow joke about a developer who plays a lot of air guitar an azjol nerub run wherein i don t die i ve had this bad streak lately where i m the one that gets pounded and i m getting sick of it even when the tank has a good lock and i m on the side or the rear anub arak spins at the last second and grinds me into the dust a stupid tank move in utgarde pinnacle you know how ymrion makes everyone cower in fear several times while he buffs himself well the tank was in a hurry and decided to pull the last trash mob up into ymrion so that we could get this done quicker well guess what happens when you re cowering in fear and there s trash wailing on you yep you take lots of damage the tank assumed that but what he forgot was that the healer was also cowering in fear no healer no heals oops once the tank wiped the hunter s pet became the tank for the last 1 3 of the fight amazingly enough even with righteous fury turned on i couldn t pull aggro off of that pet the pet held aggro better than the tank did a drak run where the healer said pull the whole room i ll cover it i groaned the tank stared at him oookay she said at last and proceeded to do it for a change the healer actually delivered on his boast i m just tired of this place he said as we pressed onward a halls of reflection run where the healer was on the verge of dropping i don t think i m good enough for this he said you ll do fine i replied and the remarkable thing about that run was that nobody did die yes it does happen a trial of the champion run where i bit it because i was standing in the green goo well newsflash blizz i was outside of the green goo by a good margin but i still was dropping as if i were standing in the middle of the stuff the lag monster bites again the tank that got lost in the oculus and tried to tank on a bronze drake i should mention that i did ask beforehand if anybody was going for an achievement and nobody spoke up when one of the dps noticed the tank getting a bronze he took a red drake good thing he did because the tank died on the final fight trying to tank it from the bronze and then because the green drake was spending so much time trying to heal the tank the red drake dropped in the end it was just me and the green drake in a race against the last boss to see who would drop first miracle of miracles the boss did then the tank in a hurry to get back to claim his loot flew by a whelp and killed both himself and me sometimes life is not fair oh and we got the big ol doggy boss in violet hold so both i and the mage pulled out our corehound pets before the fight i couldn t resist i told her and she agreed it was like a pug vs a german shepherd sandwiched in between all of these runs were several uneventful instances well there was the one time where the tank ported in and started running but when the healer hollered i have no mana that kind of brought that little game to a stop ah what fun indeed posted by redbeard at 11 07 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels pugs the wow life friday may 7 2010 good advice here s one of my fellow tank s explanation on how to tank the rotface fight posted by deftig at 10 31 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday may 6 2010 it s good to be back i had a nice surprise awaiting me when i logged in this morning twenty five mails of stuff and one corehound pet for each toon i haven t seen the e mail from the results of the investigation but at least my stuff is back i was a bit rusty in uk and toc tho posted by redbeard at 7 58 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels the wow life wednesday may 5 2010 two bc races a study in opposites it s been mentioned before on this blog that a race s starting area is designed to influence your thinking and enhance the viewpoint of that race that s what makes the forsaken stand apart from the other horde races enemies on every corner they are consumed by vengeance hemmed in and reviled by the living they learn to give as well as receive hunted by the scarlet crusade they despise them as much if not more than the scourge the tauren have the lush rolling fields the spirits and hunting paths to guide them and the orcs and trolls learn early that the world is a rough place and you have to claw and fight your way if you want to survive the starting areas are what make the two burning crusade races such a study in opposites blood elves are set in their old homeland of eversong learning how to cope without the sunwell some blood elves can t handle their addiction to arcane magic and turn into the wretched the scourge and arthas are to blame for this we re told but there s hope for the blood elves they know that there s an eden awaiting them in a magical place called outland you learn to deal with the wretched push back the scourge from the infected forests of quel thas renamed the ghostlands and wreak vengeance on the necromancer dar khan drathir by contrast the draenei starting area is an unknown they ve just crash landed on azeroth hunting for this alliance to help them out with the burning legion not knowing where the hell here is you start off thinking that your group is the only batch of survivors and you pitch in to help the group survive after a while you discover other draenei and you are led through the starting area by the hook of finding others of your kind you also learn very quickly that blood elves have followed you there to eliminate your threat interesting no having played several blood elves i know without a doubt you never hear about any of the following while you re leveling draenei outland is in turmoil with the burning legion you re the bad guy likewise the draenei haven t heard as of yet in the toon i m playing of any of the following the scourge arthas illidan and their relationship to the burning legion you landed on the blood elves homeland when you play a blood elf you have absolutely no idea there s something wrong in outland until you reach 58 and can port to the blasted lands then right before you go through the dark portal you have that conversation with the draenei and the orc leaders you start to wonder wth is on the other side i have no idea if the draenei are fed a steady diet of hate the blood elves but if the be model is transposed onto the draenei they won t have an inkling up until they reach outland that a whole boatload of despised evil blood elves are now fighting on your side talk about hitting you with a 2x4 i have to admit that blizz has done a bang up job in creating stark differences between the two races if i develop split personalities later in life maybe i can blame these two races for my malady posted by redbeard at 11 44 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels wow tuesday may 4 2010 hmmm what to do what to do since i seem to have a copious amount of time on my hands i ve been thinking about the future no not cataclysm i m trying to not think about that too much but what i 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