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it concept but this was different at one point i got aggro and i popped hand of salvation and stopped hitting but i kept aggro i bubbled and i still kept aggro standing there in the middle of the mob with nowhere to go and waiting for my threat to go down was an exercise in frustration especially when the hunter was also pulling aggro the tank seemed to be on auto attack and the healer was jumping around and popping holy nova somehow we made it to the end and defeated razorlash i was typing in my standard thanks for the group when the tank and hunter ran onward obviously going to celebras whatever i thought and followed along i could use the extra xp after all well celebras wasn t the end the tank and his guildies kept going and it was obvious by now that they wanted to take out theradras herself i hadn t signed on for this and the only time party chat was used was when the lock died for the third time and the healer said i m not rezzing you any more send me a heal now and then the lock replied i grimaced and kept going i could have taken the easy way out and dropped but i wasn t going to leave the lock alone with these clowns besides their asshatery hadn t really risen to my i m dropping group threshold the mobs got tougher and they started getting silence effects the way the healer was jumping around and attacking meant he was well within range for being silenced and i knew it was a matter of time before the mobs got big enough for us to wipe right at a choke point that happened the tank pulled two groups and about 20 seconds later that was that almost immediately the three guildies dropped maybe they just did it on a spur of the moment but to the lock and myself it sure felt like they were leading us on until we both bit it they had to be on vent together i told the lock how so there was no way they were working all this without there being a chat going and since nobody paused to type they had to be on vent i think they had it out for me the priest hardly healed me at all he hardly healed anybody i was healing the tank as much as he was crap i now know why some people cringe when they see several people from the same guild in a lfd pug if they re talking on vent doing their own thing then they re not really participating in the group this ain t exactly a formula for success especially when you re one of the people being ignored how do you fix it be more open don t play like this is a private club if it were you wouldn t need extra puggees right on the flip side don t ding and drop people hate that and it gives your guild and your server a bad name in short don t make a pug run into all about you it s a team remember posted by redbeard at 1 30 pm 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels fail pugs sunday september 12 2010 for the darkspears the darkspear trolls are kind of the bastard stepchild of the horde they were kicked out of stranglethorn vale by their own race they had a home until zalazane took over and vol jin now hangs around in orgrimmar as gilligan to thrall s skipper right o little buddy at least he got to hang around with the wrathgate event whereas loth remar wasn t even invited to the party i guess sylvanas was afraid he d try to pull rank on her or something well vol jin finally got up the gumption to go after zalazane and kick him out of the echo isles he sent out requests for aid to anyone and everyone in the horde and we came by the thousand when quintalan made it to sen jin village the crowd had noticeably thinned which was just the way he liked it nothing like the sight of your character leading a pack of troll volunteers into sen jin village venomhide raptor not included the retaking the echo isles event was part wrathgate part bg part raid and thoroughly enjoyable sure you re buffed to the point where you won t take any damage but you actually get to participate as part of a group in one of these lore events not as a single toon this was a real undertaking and vol jin and co impart a degree of seriousness to the event that is very welcome the entire event could have turned into an excuse for bad puns and terrible jokes but by keeping the tone serious i think blizz hit this out of the park when vol jin asked for the aid of the spirits in his undertaking he made it plain his motives were for his people in that respect it was an eerie echo of the end of the wrathgate event where an inconsolable thrall is in the throne room of the undercity and he s talking to saurfang the elder about how all his hopes for his people have just been dashed vol jin like thrall is thinking about his people first the way a good leader should it s a lesson that varian and garrosh and to a lesser extent sylvanas have yet to learn it would not surprise me in the least that a major theme of cataclysm is one that was learned at the end of the battle of mount hyjal we have to all hang together or we will most assuredly all hang separately to that end history points out that people on rival factions who have fought together for a common cause do not think of themselves as enemies if blizz wants to emulate history a bit all of those people who fought in northrend alongside the argent crusade are the perfect group to stand up to the ongoing war between the factions saying that the fighting has to stop if the mortal races are going to save the world from deathwing posted by redbeard at 7 59 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels cataclysm horde lore thursday september 9 2010 wooot first picture of warrior tier 11 concept art and best of all no pigs on the shoulders posted by deftig at 12 46 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday september 8 2010 loregasm this is a freaking loregasm out here that was how someone in gen chat described the chaos surrounding senjin village last night i haven t seen framerates that low since ruby sanctum opened and almost never in an area not called dalaran or orgrimmar i will freely admit that i avoided the high tinker s call on my alliance alts but that s not due to any horde bias my head hurt after watching framerates in the upper single digits while i was playing as neve and i didn t want to deal with that again now for few short comments about the vol jin s call to arms i loved the opening letter it was well written and spiced with a lot of true troll flavor you got the sense of we re tired of being shoved out of the way and we re not going to expletive deleted take it any more from zalazane and his dark magic if i ve the bank space i m going to keep that sucker around for a while i thought it interesting that we got to ride bats when tossing the frog spies onto the markers in the echo islands and it was all done without a forsaken npc in sight the sight of riding into senjin at the head of a group of troll recruits on raptors was really cool don t mess with the voodoo mon the integration of the hidden troll druids into the lore was well done since the trolls were finally going to take back the echo isles and defeat zalazane they felt they could finally come out in the open and join vol jin there was a lot of annoyance that only l78 and up could finish the quest chain and i can t say i blame people for that here s the vital part of lore being added to but a chunk of the wow populace would be unable to participate when i run the quest chain as q and on the alliance alts i ll write those up but for now this has me pumped we had the teaser with the tauren speaking of the power of the sun in thunder bluff and the highborne showing up in the temple of the moon and now there s this as an appetizer i can t wait until the next changes happen eta apparently the take back the echo islands event is broken environment wide so i haven t missed anything by not having q run through the quest chain yet eta it s fixed posted by redbeard at 12 36 pm 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels cataclysm horde lore friday september 3 2010 finding a place to call home so what is it about warcraft that feels right for any individual player is it a faction maybe it s your chose faction or perhaps you feel most at home playing a certain class or role i m sure it s a combination of all of the above what about a literal place you call home in game one of the main differences between the alliance and horde main cities is the fact that there s housing of all of my time playing as horde and spending so much time being bored in orgrimmar the only place i could really call home is the bank roof or perhaps the rock next to the palm trees and mailbox outside the bank the alliance cities however seem to have an abundance of housing albeit most of the doors in stormwind are shut and i spent some time riding around the main cities recently looking for a spot that would feel the most homely for my character i d like to first introduce you to my main character deftig the proud dwarf warrior rawr fierce ain t he i found a spot that i think suits my character quite well firstly it s in ironforge and he s a dwarf it just fits additionally i seem to prefer ironforge to any of the other alliance main cities i m not sure why perhaps it s because i worked in an iron foundry for a while myself or the fact that it s centrally located and most importantly you don t have to take any fall damage when you port there and run out of the portal chamber as opposed to stormwind jumping off the mage tower or falling down the side of the city in org i don t know what that bothers me but it does the spot i ve picked is in the military ward part of the city and it s right between craghelm s plate and chain and timberline arms can t pick a nicer spot that that riiiiiiight here so with out any further ado come on in main room properly decorated click to read text i made it a bit small upstairs yep this house has it all good location perfect decorations great neighbors and it s quiet most of the time so what spot is home for you i m looking forward to seeing some replies and hopefully some blog posts detailing your own homes in game and the reasons why posted by deftig at 11 58 pm 8 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest paladin sends mage alt into shadowfang keep film at eleven so what are you looking at can t a guy send an alt into a 5 man without commentary sometimes you just want to stop playing your main for a little while oh right most of my alts are paladins too well i was up way late last night with sleep nowhere in sight so i got on wow instead of clicking straight through to quintalan when i selected the area 52 server i paused my mage was staring back at me with her blood elf snarky attitude daring me to pick her instead why not and why not actually try her on an instance at l26 she s ready to go and i think i know enough about instances to handle ranged dps just keep yer threat down willya a place like shadowfang which is a straight shot without lots of trash coming at you from behind seemed the perfect first instance well that and that it s fairly short and at l26 neve is right at the maximum level for the dungeon i queued her up and proceeded to wait about 1 2 hour for a group to assemble in that copious time i conjured up about 100 food and 100 water ready for when people needed it cruised through the barrens and mulgore working on the exploration achievements for each after months of riding the thalassian mount and charger a hawkstrider just doesn t look right neither would a raptor for that matter a worg now that d be interesting practiced on sacrificial raptors in the barrens it had been months since i d done anything with her other than level tailoring and enchanting and i needed to get back into the swing of it danced with the flight master in camp taurajo hey if you re gonna go go out with a bang right when the lfd tool finally assembled a group and we ported in the instance was very nearly over before it began i started buffing people with int and asked if anyone needed food do i look like a mexican the warrior dps snapped i m still not exactly sure how but i resisted my almost immediate urge to drop group or smack him for that crack you look like an orc to me i finally responded i made a mental note of the timer left on vote kick because i wasn t screwing around with this guy at last the warrior tank moved forward and we got going he pulled the first group of trash and i mentally counted out the time where i felt comfortable with his aggro lock ran forward and holy crap what the hell am i thinking i immediately burst frost nova and skittered back to the edge of the group where i remained every chance i got i found a corner to cast from watching my threat the entire time because i d never run neve through an instance before i was pleasantly surprised when healbot came in handy for her you d not expect a healing add on to give any extra boost to a decidedly non healer but when you right click on a member of your group on the healbot bar it s the same as using a macro to assist whatever they re attacking very handy indeed and saves me a key binding decursive saves me another slot because remove curse is used very heavily in shadowfang keep for the most part i managed threat well in fact the only time i pulled threat was when the tank died and being the one dishing out the most damage i was the one that the mob aggroed on scratch one squishy mage the rest of the group finished off the mob so it wasn t a total wipe and the tree was nice enough to raise me once the fight was over not that i can t run back in shadowfang but let s face it a mage is armored with glorified tissue paper and wandering mobs are not soloable by a mage the fight with arugal however was a bit of a problem the tank left him on his spot at the top of the steps and i couldn t get a good line of sight to cast at him without getting far too close for comfort looking around for somewhere anywhere to go i saw the top of the steps that you entered with i ran over and up the steps and i was in range for casting that was very considerate of blizz to set that up for ranged dps that way my only regret the mouthy dps dropped before the kick timer expired he was earning a vote kick throughout the instance but i never got the chance to initiate one because he dropped after the the tank death incident so what did i think of something decidedly non paladin not bad at all once i got over my initial urge to go in there and mix it up in melee i learned the joys of staying to the rear and keeping an eye over your shoulder you have to manage blizzard even if it is off cooldown because of the mana bite it takes you also have to stock up on mana potions because you might just end up with a tank that won t listen to anyone and will just keep pulling i do have big issues with being so squishy but i guess that s 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