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rming ore has more than doubled and i ve spent 10 minutes or more hunting around before i found a lonely hunk of saronite that wasn t being mined at that very moment strangely enough this doesn t translate into an overabundance of gold farming in the bc zones khorium and eternium are still easily mined while the bc herbs have been left alone as well my worgen lock finally made it to outland so he s ready to get some clown gear to match up better in bgs i guess you could chalk it up to not a lot of demand out there for the bc stuff but if you read the blogs touting transmog you d think otherwise perhaps what really attracts the gold farmers is the near 5 digit price tag that a chopper or mechano hog will fetch on the ah since i ve been farmer bob the past couple of weeks instead of running bgs i ve queued up for a few normal 5 mans instead i figure that the time it takes for the queue to pop is better spent cruising for mining nodes than the extremely short entry times for bgs i still don t know what the heroic queues are like but the random normals are clocking in at a half an hour based on that i ve been reluctant to specifically queue up for those normals i haven t done on tom yet mainly stonecore and throne of the tides it s not like i ve not seen stonecore before it always seemed to proc whenever i queued up on neve but it would be nice to actually mark that as finished on a ret pally and throne of the tides well i think i ve seen that pop once all of cata naga just aren t as popular as they were in bc i guess i didn t quite notice this until the past couple of weeks but leveling via bgs in wow is cyclic when you start out at the bottom of the level range for a bg you re just glorified fodder clothies such as priests and locks are even more so it can be painful to drag yourself up to that next level and you get used to dying a lot once you make that level however then path to level after gets easier and the next one even more so until you just kind of cruise out of one level range into another then the cycle starts over again this cycle is a lot like leveling via questing in age of conan there s a pretty big dropoff in xp when you kill a mob two or even one level beneath yours in aoc even more than wow what that means is when you re questing in a zone and you level up to where the mobs close to you are 2 levels below you your xp intake drops precipitously and your leveling slows to a crawl you then have to push yourself to another portion of the zone where you match up better with the mobs the thing is aoc orients those mobs so that you have to be really precise about your pulls so that you don t end up with 3 or more mobs on you at once oh and did i mention they spawn more frequently than wow if you enter a higher level zone you ll not only have to fight your way in but also fight your way out i m sure this was done to encourage grouping but for someone who plays at odd hours that means that the leveling process operates in spurts you gain a level or two fast then you have to go to a higher level area where your progress slows to a crawl just like leveling via bgs in wow i don t often talk about my kids mmo playing but i figured i had to share this little tidbit my oldest managed to get her l22 elf hunter to rivendell last week the kids had tried to get their toons to rivendell before they play f2p so they had to run there but they always would get zapped by the high level mobs once they got past weathertop so it was no small effort that she managed to zip through that last zone to reach the last homely house east of the sea she then proceeded to start geeking out omg there s frodo and there s gandalf and bilbo and look there s merry and sam and pippin this is just so cool i don t think she stopped grinning the rest of that evening the battered hilt still shows no sign of dropping in value probably more due to transmog and desire to see the questline than anything else the thing is you can clear most of the mobs in the entry area of heroic forge of saron without that much trouble so why not just do that instead until you get a drop you ll even get a nice supply of frostweave to sell on top of it eta have i mentioned that i disklike trackpads that are too sensitive they make whenever i change into when i ever sheesh posted by redbeard at 2 04 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels musings the wow life wednesday may 9 2012 blog alert need more rage has gone sentimental i could try to post something about the death of maurice sendak but anything i d come up with pales in comparison to what ratshag did at need more rage go now and smile posted by redbeard at 11 52 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blogs miscellaneous monday may 7 2012 when rateds attack last week i had an evening to myself so i logged in as tomakan to get in some bgs the first couple of runs were okay but when i got arathi basin i ported in and was greeted by groans what i asked in bg chat i may not be the best bg player out there but i m certainly not that bad the mal gannis crew is here one of my team replied i took a look at the horde side s lineup and saw the telltale server name mal gannis five times oh crap maybe we should give up now another alliance player suggested hell no a rogue replied we ll beat those assholes having met the mal gannis five before i had my doubts they were all members of the same guild and at the very least they were kitted out with a full set of cataclysmic gear that indicated they either ran rateds or 5s in arenas and they were all used to working with each other compare that with a traditional pugged bg and the differences were obvious in this particular ab run they were a roving group of five and smashed everyone in their way the lopsided loss took its toll on a few players alliance always sucks said one enlightened soul come on i replied we re a bunch of puggers up against a rated team you don t think that has an impact alliance sucks i rolled my eyes when confronted with such logic there s not much you can do still that does bring up the question what a rated or 5s group was doing in a traditional pug anyway i d put it up to a blowing off steam or taking a break except that they ve been staples of the random bgs for the past month well sort of random anyway you ll find them in the lower sized bgs for the most part where they can have a larger impact on the outcome wsg bog tp ab and eots the advantages of a well oiled machine like what they have over a bunch of puggers ought to be obvious it would take a massive screw up on the rest of their side to lose or having a comparable rated team on the alliance side from a game standpoint a rated team has just as much right to run a regular bg pug as the next group but i can t help but think of the similarities between that and an event that happened several years ago my son was playing baseball in an instructional league for six and seven year olds each team was allowed a maximum of two eight year olds per team because of the instructional nature of the league if you ve ever seen six and seven year olds play you know that you ve got the wide spectrum of abilities and attention spans assembled out there on the field i used to pull my hair out watching my son looking all over the place rather than at the batter on more than one occasion the ball would be hit toward him and it scooted right on by before he realized what was happening in one particular game however we arrived and i noticed several of our parents looking worried over by the sidelines i shooed my son over to where the coaches were and joined the group they d been watching the other team warm up and something wasn t right they re acting way too mature for six and seven year olds one mom told me sure enough that team had gotten the balls out and were warming up without any supervision whatsoever and their accuracy was almost frightening once the game began it was clear there was a mismatch their pitcher was throwing hard and i do mean hard and mowed down our players with three consecutive strike outs they came up to the plate and started killing the ball everywhere before the first inning was over the score was 6 0 i was annoyed but i couldn t say much i mean the other team was just that good it was like watching a major league team play against a college team when one of our coaches came back to the dugout however he was mad he d been talking to all of the other teams kids when he was out at second base as an additional umpire and it turned out that the other team was playing with a stacked deck all of the kids were eight year olds additionally that team had a game the next day in an eight and nine year old league they were using our team as batting practice as you can surmise the game was called after three innings due to runs our coach put in a protest to the league about the other team and we found out later that several other teams had done the same thing nevertheless the damage had been done it s kind of hard to explain to a seven year old that the ass kicking they just received didn t count because the other team cheated because they d just been beaten out on the field comparatively speaking what that baseball team did was cheating while a rated team running regular bg pugs isn t however the mismatch is very real and can be very disheartening to someone learning to play bgs spend an entertaining afternoon being corpse camped in wsg and tell me how you feel that makes you a better player here s a hint it doesn t when you respawn get buffed and then you get stun stun stunned to death you have almost no chance at actually learning to play instead you ll probably decide to not play pvp the hardcore eve types will argue that it s all for the better to separate the wheat from the chaff but there s a drawback to such behavior you feed into the stereotype that pvpers are all assholes who hang out with ninja looters and trade chat nutjobs l2p noob doesn t help the community it harms the community by making it shrink am i arguing for a self banning of rated teams from regular bgs it is tempting but i believe what s needed here is restraint sure you can wipe the floor of the ww with the other team s butts but there s no need to go corpse camping it isn t necessary to hold onto that last flag instead of capping just so you can farm honorable kills the big rule ought to be don t be a jerk after all karma can be a real bitch a short update in between the time i wrote this and posted it i spent a half an hour in wow i got into wsg and discovered the full mal gannis rated team on the other side what happened after the first flag capture they put us on farm players began leaving like rats fleeing a sinking ship after another five minutes of it even i gave up and took the debuff rather than get killed another dozen times soloing the pit of saron seemed like a better deal remember the armory is your friend and when that doesn t work create a toon on the server go to the hall of legends and inspect them that way know thy enemy eta corrected a couple of grammar errors in the baseball story posted by redbeard at 3 40 am 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels battlegrounds the wow life friday may 4 2012 just d wait what do you mean that line s taken this is written for the newbie blogger initiative which is going on throughout may 2012 you can find more info at http nbihq freeforums org trademarks aside that s the best advice i can give a new blogger just go ahead and write don t be afraid well be smart don t write things that ll get you in trouble at work or with your family or with your friends if you want guild drama the easiest thing to do is start posting about the scuttlebutt in your guild and what you think of it all if you wonder whether something you re writing is going to cause trouble skip it and come back to it later if however you really don t care what people think and you ve got the intestinal fortitude to back it up then damn the torpedoes i realize that people will say to write what you know and yes that does let a new blogger start out on familiar ground but for my money the act of writing itself is more important you re only going to get better as a blogger and a writer if you challenge yourself by pushing what you can do when i look back at my initial columns when writing pc i cringe i had no idea how little i knew about wow and what i thought then was decent writing now seems really klunky and pretentious do i wish i d been a better writer back then sure but the thing is the only way i really did improve was to work at it i played more learned more about the game and i wrote when you write a funny thing happens you gain perspective you analyze yourself and what you believe you realize that not everyone will agree with you hell you also realize that what you thought was pretty good might be utter crap to another person or worse boring as sin don t go into this because you want to be an awesome cool popular blogger because that s lightning in a bottle you can t chase fame without sacrificing yourself in the process instead blog because you want to and because you have words that want to come out when you blog like that you re exposing more of yourself than if you were chasing fame but in that risk lies the reward a blog is a strange thing it s composed of your writing and it can live indefinitely if you want it to it doesn t need readers to survive what it does need is a blogger don t worry about readers don t worry if it seems you re shouting into the wind concern yourself with what you can control and that s the content write posted by redbeard at 6 57 am 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blogging newbie blogger initiative newbie stuff tuesday may 1 2012 pc joins the newbie blogger initiative i found out about this initiative from spinks of welcome to spinksville and i can t think of a better way to help bring new blood into the blogging hobby this initiative is being run by syp of biobreak and there s a board nbihq freeforums org where bloggers both old and new can sign up and participate the initiative is slated to run over the month of may and both pc and many other bloggers will be posting encouragement and advice on blogging on their own blogs see you around posted by redbeard at 4 01 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels blogging blogs newbie blogger initiative newer posts older posts home subscribe to comments atom pages home about parallel context about redbeard contact us azeroth after dark a parallel context companion site mmo podcasts blizzard watch diablo 4 lord of hatred waiting room 2 days ago podcasts massively overpowered massively op podcast episode 563 in the name of the windrose 5 days ago 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