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s uniform after that you don t get any new class quests until about 10 levels or so later which is when you re sent on another fetch and carry quest but this time it s considerably more dangerous you could potentially solo it but this is more of a social test for the mage you have to put a group together to go achieve the fetch and carry and since a mage has high social standing you have to demonstrate that you can navigate the complex social life in azeroth your reward for this is a better set of robes but you have to assist in getting them tailored you ve moved up the food chain to no longer being a 1st or 2nd year mage but rather a 3rd year mage at least she s no longer a freshman and now cardwyn has just reached the next round of respectability as she just received the class quest for a wand of course that quest means that she has to travel to dustwallow marsh and hunt for a human witch out in the swamp at l30 there s a reason why this quest shows up as beet red in the quest log because you d have to have a full group to run through dustwallow marsh at l30 and even then you re all likely to wipe once you go south past the fork in the road that heads to the barrens it s not that a mage hasn t stumbled across a wand or three out in the wild but this is a class wand which may not be the most powerful wand available to you but is another social cue to others in the profession you know it s kind of strange to approach the class quests like this because until i started writing about cardwyn s journey i never really noticed these details i certainly remember quintalan s two biggest class quests which involved him learning how to rez people l20 and obtain his blood knight tabard l60 the quests involving the blood knight tabard left a bitter taste in my mouth as so much of that questline was driven by revenge against the alliance for abandoning quel thalas in the third war that being said i don t recall much of neve s leveling process and corresponding class quests because she was still at a fairly low level when cataclysm dropped and removed all of the class quests the same with tomakan my draenei paladin with the benefit of hindsight however these mage class quests while optional provide flavor that was lost when wow streamlined leveling questing with cataclysm and subsequent expacs i ve a similar experience now that i ve been playing in a d d 1e campaign the past year or two while newer versions of d d have a better grasp of various actions there s something about the quirkiness surrounding 1e that was lost in 3e and 4e which helps to explain the popularity of the return to basics that d d 5e espouses when everything becomes a mechanic you tend to look at actions in strictly a gaming the system fashion but d d 1e like wow classic there are quests and options and other things that aren t there strictly to propel the plot forward but reflect your toon s interaction and status within azeroth itself i guess an argument could be made that classic was far more open world than subsequent iterations of wow and as the mini reds would put it you re not wrong now if you re excuse me i m going to let cardwyn contemplate her place in the universe while i go work on some fishing and crafting with az i ve finally decided that she does need a mount sooner rather than later for alliance toons in stormwind it s the get the vial filled quest okay it s not that hard to get a group together for the quest at least in the redridge mountains version but you still have to be social enough to pull the group together the more i play classic the more i realize that because i post in lookingforgroup and trade chat i m the one who frequently gets the job of putting a group together there are a lot of people out there who simply passively watch and not get actively involved in the social aspect of putting a group together we just finished the slave lords modules a1 a4 and are starting in on the against the giants modules g1 g3 that s not the only reason by far but it is one that has captured the interest in long time players such as myself posted by redbeard at 9 10 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels classes musings wow classic wednesday january 2 2013 how i learned to stop worrying and love those op classes you don t know how much you ll miss something until it s gone yes it s cliche and also the subject of an 80 s power ballad by cinderella but it s also quite true in this case the something i missed was internet access on this past saturday we lost our internet connection which didn t get restored until a few hours ago no this wasn t due to any natural disaster but to mac address problems between our dsl modem and our isp not counting the occasional vacation that was probably the longest time i ve been without internet access in about 20 years in the internet era we ve become used to permanent online access and we reduce ourselves to complaining about first world problems when we don t have it but really is it all that bad no not at all this kind of dovetails right into a favorite complaint of mmo players right after i m bored and pick a faction sucks pick a class is over underpowered you can t enter into a battleground or read gen chat without someone making an observation that monks are soooo op right now or damn warriors are beasts i ve been as guilty as the rest since i saw how locks got revamped compared to their cataclysm incarnation but i don t spend my bg time complaining about which class is the favored class right now others however live for that sort of thing there s an entire cottage industry built around maximizing classes and specs for raiding and pvp so it s not surprising that people complain when they feel that a spec has gotten some unfair love or hate from the devs but really is it that big of a deal unless your toon is being picked on by the op ones is this really that much of a problem that it requires a dev to get out the nerfbat is absolute class equality the goal while a nice idea i don t think class equality should be an overarching design goal you can lose sight of the overall game while trying to make everything equal for everybody i realize that a basic tenet of blizzard s raid design philosophy is bring the player not the class but the reality is that people will bring a specific class for a specific raid boss mechanic that can t be avoided likewise a bg arena team will look for specific specs classes because they bring the best chance at survival tweaking things to promote class balance is tricky and doesn t necessarily work to encourage more classes to take over specific roles i m reminded of pencil and paper rpgs with the common complaint in d d 3 x and it s successor pathfinder is that the spell casters are overpowered in high level campaigns well wizards of the coast decided to fix that in d d 4e to the point of having constant tweaks to different classes via the d d insider subscriptions i was unaware as to just how much tweaking wizards had done until i signed up for ddi much to my surprise wizards had tweaked classes to the point where they d even gone and changed the names of some of the basic classes just to make them sound more in tune with newer class names gone was the cleric in its place was the templar that to me seems to be taking things a wee bit too far while mmos haven t gone down that route just yet it seems that temptation is there after all look at the wholesale changes to talents that each new wow expac brings to the table to say that the mists version of wow s toons bears only superficial resemblance to the vanilla wow version is probably an understatement the classes act in a similar manner but almost everything under the hood is different but why worry about it too much is that particular feral druid that s dancing around you firing off heals the source of your annoyance or is it the class odds are good that we ll hear people say it s the class when it really is the player so maybe it s time to be more specific that it is a player you re complaining about not the class that includes several days without power due to hurricane ike back in 2008 i was perfectly fine thank you very much but the lack of internet meant that we had to periodically go to a free wifi location to check to make sure there weren t any school work e mails that required addressing that warriors crack covers both wow and tor the wow warrior and the tor sith warrior posted by redbeard at 6 00 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels battlegrounds classes swtor wow monday december 10 2012 the curse of redbeard strikes again you d think that i d have learned by now i start a toon and that toon s class and or spec gets nerfed it happened with ret although it took cata dropping for it to finally get there it happened with frost again cata s release was the kicker it happened with locks too and now it s happened with rogues you don t notice that rogues got nerfed a bit in mists until you get higher up in level around the 30s that s when a lot of other toons start to get new abilities or their existing abilities take a big leap in utility like say those damn wild imps back in my day when i leveled adelwulf we didn t have no stinking wild imps we warlocks took our lumps from every other class and we liked it and we walked to school barefoot too uphill both ways it s more than a bit disconcerting that in the l30s bgs you can suddenly find yourself fighting 4 5 on 1 due to those wild imps couple that with some improved ai on the succubus and the lock is no longer the butt end of the bg spectrum like it was in cata in fact if you put two demonology locks together and add one healer you can pin an entire bunch of people down at the entrance in arathi basin a rogue s ability is designed for maximum damage close in sacrificing armor for speed if the rogue fails to kill the enemy quickly then they re a sitting duck in the l30s in mists what ends up happening is that those other classes take a big leap forward in survivability whereas the rogue s corresponding damage output levels off this results in the rogue being unable to pick on even the stragglers in a bg if they re of comparable level to the rogue and you can forget about a healer a rogue simply doesn t have enough stuns to take out a healer of comparable level in the l30s from where i stand watching bgs in the mid 30s the feral druid still rules the roost the disco priest has fallen back a bit and has been replaced by the mistweaver monk and demonology warlock warriors have gotten their mojo back a bit and two warriors together can handle a group of 4 5 dps what i ve found surprising is that frost mages have made a comeback of sorts back in cata you had fire and arcane making inroads into bgs based upon their higher damage output but it seems that in mists that frost has reasserted itself as the mage pvp spec once more as a retired frost mage player it s nice to see the spec doing well as a current rogue player however they re harder to take down than before paladins seem to have made a bit of a recovery from their easy pickings of the l20s but they still trail warriors in survivability ret still has the aftereffect from cata s overhaul the lack of decent emergency healing seems to hamper ret more than anything else being a retired ret player i ve noticed that the major paladin failing in l30s mists has nothing to do with the class but with the player type pallies are more prone to charging in alone than any other class save perhaps the warrior but without the warrior s survivability i call it the sir lancelot syndrome which is an offshoot of how pallies can simply plow through mobs in most other circumstances it feeds a belief in invincibility and encourages the follow me chaaaarge sort of behavior i was guilty of sls as much as anyone else i m sure the gleaming armor and servant of the light didn t help but i knew that even the holy spec wasn t as squishy as most classes so it only made sense to wade into the thick of the fight additionally in a game like ab where one player can gum up the works and divert 4 5 people away from trying to take another base it s only natural that a class that can take a beating would be the one to storm the beachhead in my hubris i also figured that if i led by example others would follow naturally a few years of playing bgs has beaten that idea out of me but i still backslide from time to time warsong gulch is one of those bgs where your opinion of it is entirely shaped upon how well your side does in it you can top the meters day after day but if your side doesn t win you start to get bitter i recognized that in myself in the most recent losing streak i ve been in as it was an echo of my time leveling adelwulf there was this long period from l20 through l40 where my lock could count on one paw the number of victories in wsg my rogue found the bg much better winning about half of the time will do that to a person but this current losing streak can wear on a psyche when you port in and you see half of the other side is a healer of some sort you know you re in trouble the backbiting starts before even the first flag is captured and the cries of we always suck fill the air players drop like flies and people who replace them look around declare what a fail group and drop themselves it s enough to make a body back up go out into a zone and work on a gathering skill for a while or maybe visit the darkmoon faire but wsg is still lurking there like lucy and her football hoping to get the charlie brown of bg players back in for another go surely it can t be that bad you say to yourself yes it can the pessimistic side of you retorts and don t call me shirley but maybe it s different this time you said that the last time and the time before that and you know when you talk to yourself that s when you realize you re a bit off your rocker so you re coming around to my way of thinking good job maybe i ought to give wsg another try this streak has got to end sometime after all even manchester city won the premier league last year sls makes a catchy acronym you know and your xp moves forward at a snail s pace posted by redbeard at 10 10 am 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels battlegrounds classes wow friday june 24 2011 some friday humor i d always liked the downfall parodies on youtube and was disappointed that they got yanked well it seems that they re back and better than ever this particular one hits kind of close to home since i play several pallys as well as starting up a warlock be warned there s some strong language but nothing that you haven t heard in the heat of battle before posted by redbeard at 8 25 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels classes humor videos thursday june 9 2011 coming to terms with my outer darkness as has 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