AV Weekend: Friday

Holy Honor! AV Weekend is here. Talk about wracking up the honor this weekend. This is my total for the end of today (friday). I swear I had 2k honor in 3 games that lasted 15 minutes. It was sick. And believe it or not, Alliance lost over half of the AV games I was in tonight. Not the healers fault of course. hehehe. But still, even with losing the game, we got around an avg of 500 honor per game.


I had to take a screenshot of this to show why alliance suck. We really are a bunch of 10 year olds. :) Oh and get this, one AV run, the Battlegroup leader organized the entire raid into classes. I sh*t you not he spent most of the raid making sure all of us were organized by class. hahahahahaha. Needless to say, we lost that game.

I'm still getting the hang of it. I know how to solo cap towers and duo cap graveyards now. My best bet is to role with the offense because no one ever wants to heal the tanks so I make it my job. I can't tell you how many times I was in an O group with 3 pallies and instead of healing, they taunted the mobs off the warrior because they wanted to tank. Ret Noobs. :)

I should try playing defense sometime this weekend but I'm not sure how much a Holy Priest would do to protect a horde zerg. In anycase, the honor is rolling in! I've made more honor tonight in a few hours than I have doing EoTS for 3 days. The que's are good..roughly 4-10 minutes. On a non-AV weekend, you could be waiting close to 45 minutes to an hour for each game. So if you want your tokens and tons of honor, this is the time!

WoWcast Vids: Arena2

Team JAE in Blade's Edge Arena. This was the same day as the last video.
Here, we're going up against a Warlock, Mage, Mage, Priest, Rogue
I get CCed for the first half of the fight and then have to decide who lives and dies..

appologies on the video quality of this one. I somehow deleted all of the original avi files and was stuck with the compressed wmv files. :p



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WoWcast Vids: Arena1

So here's my first WoWcast Vid: Arena session.
Please be mindful to respect the privacy of the people you see in this video. I couldn't really edit their names out. :)

Hope you enjoy watching me get pwned!

This is one where we get spanked by a Warrior, Priest, Pally, Mage, Hunter combo.
We went 4-1 this day and this is the 1 we lost. heheh.

AH Queen

So the night before last I got a hand upgrade Energis Armwraps from Botanica...so today when I went to go buy my Grand Marshal Mooncloth gloves, I noticed it wasn't that big of an upgrade anymore..... After talking to Maebee about her opinion, it made more sense to upgrade the shoulders instead and add gems to them.. So I got my pretty shoulders afterall!

However, I still look like an AH queen. That's my new term for people whose outfits look uncoordinated and are probably all mix matched from AH buys. :) hehehe.

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7-3, Arena Team inverse

Well, this week, we lost one of our Arena players. Maebee had to quit due to family stuff. So Vish volunteered to help us out this week for our ten games last night. We did pretty well for not much practice. Sadin hadn't played WoW in like four weeks cuz of business.. We won 7 and lost 3. Two of the games were so sooo soooo close. One of them came down to a warrior and Taint's druid. It was pretty fun to watch. He respecced resto for this round of games so he just could't pull it out in feral form... later, we talked about it and he should have entangled moonfire spammed. We'll never know.

I was so pissed at myself for forgetting to Fraps except for the very last game in which we got wtf pwned so hard. Hehehe. I'll have to edit and you can see what it looks like when Alachia gets totally pwned.

Crazy Talk!

Taint: yo

Taint: i've come to a conclusion

Alachia: conclusion?

Taint: yeah that we need to role shaman and pali
felix rolls mage

Alachia: you're out of your mind

Taint: for next season
if u want to continue on the pvp track

Alachia: you already made me roll this priest

Taint: well that was in mind for the pve track
so we can drop pvp

Alachia: i'm not dropping pvp

Taint: and go do warp splinter some more

Alachia: pvp is the most fun i've had in this game
pve sucks

Taint: ok
so pick
shaman/pali/mage

Alachia: those are my options?
those suck

Taint: well

Alachia: you know how much time i've invested into my priest?

Alachia: you know what i had to do to get her ready for crusade?
sheesh
you were on vacation

Taint: yes and when we switch to pve
you'll be happy we have a priest
anyways
so
if u want to get serious about pvp
half the battle is class make up

Alachia: i definitely DO NOT want to play a shaman

Taint: i mean i dont mind
doing the team we have
but we are gimping our selves
u know wut i mean?

Alachia: well you knew that class make up was 70% of arena success

Taint: yeah
but when we rolled we didn't think we were doing hardcore pvp

Alachia: OMG. i'm going to kill you!
i wanted to roll a pally to begin with!

Taint: we had like hardcore 10 man epics
and shit in mind
if that was the case we would be fucking set right now

Alachia: OMFG... i can see it now

Taint: we had kara on your wish list for a loooooooooooong time
10 man epic instances, we were so excited about it

Alachia: you're gonna flake on me again

Taint: again?
i'm playing druid

Alachia: yeah...your priest?

Taint: yeah i'm on druid
u can just do mage?
64-70
isn't that bad?
i just have to do shaman
no biggie

Taint: i'll be supplementing
but if u dont want to

Alachia: what level is your shaman?

Taint: roll pali
i understand
lvl 0?
i haven't created it

Alachia: ahahhahahahaha
i thought you did
i saw it once

Taint: that was my pali^^

Alachia: oh

Taint: lvl 6
there

Alachia: is draenei or human better for palli?

Taint: i kinda want to play shaman any ways
i have no idea
i mean draenai dont get much
they get like gift of naruu

Alachia: they get the resist right?

Taint: some weird shadow resist

Alachia: ah

Taint: humans get perception
which is real nice

Alachia: and spirit

Alachia: don't know if that matters to pallie

Taint: pallies dont use spirit

Alachia: damnit!

Taint: they stack mp5, and crit gear

Alachia: It's too bad PvE sucks

Taint: well
i wouldn't say that

Alachia: it's boring
last night was boring after we stopped doing arena and did PvE

Taint: pve doesn't really suck if u go fast
and are specced right

Taint: kara might be a lot more fun
anyways

Alachia: might maybe cuz I'm not shadow now

Taint: so u gonna roll?

Alachia: all these fights are the same regurgetation of other fights we've done in PvE

Taint: if anything i'll lvl my shaman

Alachia: my palli is at level 19
i guess I'll continue with her

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update:

Taint: k back
so
anythoughts
u rolling mage
felix rolling pali?
or
actually
u staying priest
felix going pali

Alachia: who rolls mage?

Taint: and doing tri healer
no mage

Alachia: oh
is that a good combo?
no dps?

Taint: pali/priest/druid/warlock/warrior
i like tri healer

Alachia: who is our lock?

Taint: i mean rogue instead of lock

Alachia: so have felix roll up his palli?

Taint: wut u think of that team?

Alachia: no dps
we have so little dps as is

Taint: rogue/warrior/druid

Alachia: oh, DPS druid

Taint: i would go mangle

Taint: i think the power of druid is its feral side
not resto side
cuz as long as i stack int
i can spot heal
and cyclone
after we burst one down?
u know?
and we get innervate
but if ppl dont want to switch
its kewl

Alachia: that combo is easier, i'll give yout that

Taint: like i just kinda want to climb the ladder

Alachia: i can talk to felix about it

Taint: and i'm willing to switch
to w/e for that

Alachia: and it'll give me a chance to roll up my mage
with him

Taint: for water at the least

Alachia: yeah
okay. that's doable

Taint: but if he likes warlock no biggy

Alachia: and can be done soon for start of next season

Taint: if ppl want to stay their class they should stay
i have absoutly no preference

Alachia: and we'll be geared by then

Taint: in my class

Alachia: it's about time investment
did you guys get owned by the tri-healer team?

Taint: we get owned by tri healer teams
like a mofo
plz our burst with druid/rogue/warrior
would be pretty heavy imo

Alachia: okay. i'll talk to felix

Taint: i mean i dont mind staying with wut we got
it will work
just not as easy

Alachia: we could probably push for it in the next two weeks...he's on spring break so it's a good time

Taint: yeah
i mean u guys are like 64?
or 63
rested?
u could roll that shit fast

Alachia: 63
so you think pallie > warlock?

Taint: well i think tri healer
is gonna be easy for us

Alachia: okay

Taint: when i say tri healer i mean druid as feral

Alachia: but that means you're gonna have to yield as much dps as a lock

Taint: with stacked int to help heal after burst
and cyclone
cuz basically we go from a 5vs5 to 3vs5 fast

Alachia: cyclone is a bitch!!! a mother f0=cking bitch!
i hate it

Taint: yeah
i think the power of druid is his hybrid ability and cyclone

Alachia: even with the nurf to mangle?

Taint: mangle nerf was only bear form mangle nerf
same mangle dmg in cat form

Alachia: ah

Warlock Disguise

So we ran Shadowlabs tonight in 1 hour and 2 pulls to the first boss in Mana-Tombs in 12 minutes. We had 1:15 total to get 10 spirit shards before the tower reset in Terokkar.

We were succesful and I got my warlock disguise! woot! aka, otherwise known as my warlock diguise. Priest? I see no priest! Exorcist's Dreadweave Hood

I also scored a new PvP wand as well. Wand of the Netherwing

Four more AV tokens and I get my Grand Marshal's Satin Gloves!! You don't know what kind of discipline it has taken to not get the cool "looking" gear first but rather the best upgrades. :( I'm proud of myself but damn if I don't want to get the shoulders and headpiece soon!

Warrior Protest

Because I'm still pissed off, this seemed appropriate. :)
Big brother in the WoWverse, our beloved Blizz Gods at their best.

Two months ago, in an attempt to bring attention to problems with the Warrior class, a protest was staged on the Argent Dawn Server. As a result, the GM's threatened to ban people who were a part of the protest if they did not cease what they were doing.

It's kind of a duality. I'm pissed off but I know why the rules are in place. I know what they're trying to protect, our game play. But it kind of makes me wonder as well as to how limited WoW will be for an evolving metaverse in the near future.... as our desires for game interaction expand beyond the scripted and venture into possibilities that relate more to our social culture..

This site explains what happened during the Warrior Protest:
These screenshots are worth a *ban*!
Submitted by Abalieno on January 29, 2005 - 07:02.

Here's a "visual" reportage of the protest that took place about two hours ago on the Argent Dawn server of World of Warcraft. The subject of this protest was the problems of the warrior class, the purpose of the protest was to draw the attention over those issues and 'to awaken' both the playerbase and Blizzard.

In general I do not care about class discussions, in fact I rarely rant about nerfs or direct unbalances of the classes. But I was there, of course. These type of "happenings" are way too fun and interesting from an "observer" point of view. They are something unique that has its roots directly in the very potential of the genre....read more http://www.cesspit.net/drupal/node/491


(image of the warrior protest on Argent Dawn Jan. 29, 2007
taken from http://www.cesspit.net/drupal/node/491)

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Censorship Sucks

I am pissed. This is why my friends hate my podcast.

Censorship sucks.

But my friends are more important than freedom of expression.

Doesn't it seem hypocritical from a snitch who violates his/her work contract to begin with? I don't appreciate people threatening my friends. That is complete bullshit. I guess I'll just be a "pretend" WoW player. and we'll ignore how everyone really plays the game...

Apparently some GM has it out for me. I wish I could get this kind of attention when I have real problems with the game. If all you care about is banning people's accounts..that's fine. Destroy my love for the game.

Sorry for cryptics. I'm not playing WoW this weekend in protest. >(

Why I don't do pugs, EVER.

Ah yes, I remember why I have the steadfast rule of absolutely NO PUGS. No matter how easy the goal might seem.

I had just done Shadowlabs with JAE and the tanks who I run with NEVER use sword/ shield (super rare). So healing has to be at its best. Less than perfect and the party wipes because healing through 4 elite mobs wailing on the tank sucks some serious @ssage.

Anyhow, so I get this /whisper afterwards from some people in a guild called Tainted.

They're like, "Arcatraz last boss, we just need one healer, we can summon, please"

I'm thinking..okay...I can handle one boss fight. Also, wiping doesn't phase me at all as long as everone is trying.

I thought we were doing great. The tank pulled out a sword and shield and I was like SWEET, easy mode! He was super easy to heal. It wasn't until the final pod (boss) that things got hairy....

So we're doing the boss encounter and I see the mage in the party type:

[party][DumbassMage from the Guild Tainted]: lopl sweet (yes he typed lopl)
[party][DumbassMage from the Guild Tainted]: we got a bot
[party][DumbassMage from the Guild Tainted]: on our team

First off, who has time to type during a boss fight? Must be nice not to have to heal. So I've never done the encounter before at all. I've never been to Arcatraz. I think we were on the final wave (4th pod) and there is some kind of mindflay that happens. The other priest got mindflayed and we wiped after that. She died with 96% mana though. I never understood why she didn't heal herself. I guess other priests don't look at other priest's mana pool? Dunno. I was out of mana and using my shadowfiend to restore mana and I potted. The boss was at 8% or something and we wiped. I had no mana left to heal. If I had 701 mana left, we would have won the encounter.

So after we all rez and they complain about failing, I type:

[party][Alachia]: done?
[party][DumbassMage from the Guild Tainted]: yeah you botter
[party][DumbassMage from the Guild Tainted]: your botting sucks

so I dropped party and flew off to turn in some quest I had finished earlier while running Botanica.

I asked a guild mate in JAE what it means to be called a botter. He said he had no idea. So I messaged the warrior and asked him what the mage meant by it. And he said the guy was a dumbass and was tired and on the eastcoast and he appologized for the guy being stupid. Regardless, they all ended up on my /ignore list but I wanted to thank them for reminding me why I don't do PUGs....ever.

So no matter how nice or sweet people seem when they beg me to come heal for them, I'm going to stick to my usual response....."Sorry, about to log, but thanks for the invite! GL!"

I guess healing is a bad thing???? Maybe he was hoping I'd DPS? I even healed the mage when he got mindflayed as he was the only person who took dmg besides the tank during the earlier phases. hmmmm. So confusing. I actually thought we were doing very well but then we just didn't have enough dps/healing mana ratio left. So close though.

Oh yeah...back to PvP baby. One day of PvE will remind you as to why PvPing is sooo sooooo soooo much more fun....at least for a healer. :) Although I did have fun running Botanica and Shadowlabs, it's just not quite as thrilling.

LOL. As I typed this entry in, I got three invites to run Sethekk Halls, Shadowlabs, and heroic Coilfang. Unfortunately, I'm not good at shrugging jerks off, so I politely excuse myself from the possibility of that situation all together.

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What it's like to be Horde

Last night was a blast! We went three Eye of the Storm games in a row where we four noded the horde! The first game we won 2000 to 0! I was shrieking! This must be what it's like to be horde!!! You guys are so lucky!

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Felix's Friend

I like it when we travel to Netherstorm because Felix always go off and gets himself a scary @ss pet! They last about 5-6 mins I think and then they either glitch out, run back, or start attacking him. They DO NOT like to be enslaved for sure!

Zoom-In

Woot! I got an A!
Now who do I have to gank around here to get an A+??

www.zoom-in.com-The top 10 World of Warcraft Podcasts

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Kharazan

My current wallpaper

I began my Kharazan attunement last night. Maebee and I finished off the first two quests. Since we are both specced for no DPS, we had to rely on a DPS bott to help us. hehe. Terrer (the uber warrior) helped us knock out the first part. We basically had to go to two pools of water and inscribe something. Then we had to collect 10 ghostly essences from dead people.

The next part requires us to run Shadowlab in Auchidon to obtain a Key from the final boss.

I was checking out The Armory for PvP specced priest in the top 10 brackets of the Arena. Granted, some of them mislead you on purpose as to their spec and gear, but for the most part, I saw that a lot of good gear was coming from instances. I checked out some of the gear and they appaar to have a 9% drop rate. It's not too bad. For DPS classes including spellcasters, even shadow priests, I totally recommend farming for PvE gear to help out with your PvP.

As for healbot priests, I still need a lot of stamina and resilience which I won't find too much of in the PvE realm. There are a few though so I'd like to take my shot at Kharazan attunement and see what I can get in the process. It's definitely worth it to use the PvE gear as a supplement until you can get your PvP gear. This is especially true for warlocks and mages. Burst damage is where it's at...so stock up on your bonus to damage.

From what I've looked at from the priests who are in the top 10 Arena teams, they have no less than 850 bonus to healing and no less than 8k HP. I have a long ways to go on the bonus to healing with my PvP gear. Right now I have 9800HP unbuffed but only 400 bonus to healing. I'm hoping this will balance out soon as I replace my pure stamina gear with resilience and + to healing.

Arena 3 Wins, 7 losses

One thing about being in JAE is that you're used to being the underdog. We are friends that play together and kind of just do the best with what we have. We were four man strong when we did FPS ladders but had to rely on 4 more rotating pugs to help us out. In WoW, we're definitely stunted by our class make-up but we're making due.

Due to time reasons, Saddin has to go back to NJ this week, we had to get 10 games out of the way. We had already missed the first week of arena battles. Taint is using two characters to do arenas and is gearing up both at the same time. His hunter and druid. It's all chaotic really with our static party because of schedule issues. We were like 10 losses is better than no games, so we opted to just do them and hope for the best. SO, we lost 5 games in a row. Partly because of our dps and partly because Felix's internet connection kept going out.

The bottom line was that we lacked the DPS. We had a warrior, a warlock, a druid, and two priests. So after the 5th battle, Taint respecced his druid out of healing and into feral. WoW!!! VAST improvement on our game. We won the next 3 games in a row. Then we lost the next two because we weren't focusing dps and CCing the healers in time and there was a bad call made about where we were positioning ourselves.

Felix is going to respec this week. Maebee and I are seriously thinking about a respec as well. I went to the armory and looked up the top rated PvP arena teams and checked out the priest specs. Holy 36/Disc 25/Shadow 0. I might go with this new one. It just feels weird chopping off my shadow arm.

Anyhow, I suspect we will do better with the new specs. Burst dps and burst healing is where it's at apparently. Plus, we're slowly gearing up which will help tons! Resilience FTW!

Help Solve the Mystery

"I summmoned my mount one time and I got a pic of this guy. He is also in some pics of thottbot. Who is he?" -Zachary

Can anyone help solve Zachary's mystery? His face does seem familiar.

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Neutral Ground

It still kinda trips me out that after a long day of beating down the horde or the horde beating down on me, that we retire to the same city and share the same bank and the same inn. Shattrath was a pretty brilliant idea, I think. It's kind of nice actually getting to see your opponents next to you. Before, they were always off in some distant tribal place...heheh.


AB weekend has been going fairly well. JAE forme a pre-form group with some friends and we've been developing different strats. We still totally get owned against preforms...particularly this one guild from stormscale...ouch. I can't even imagine how much honor per hour those guys get. They enter the battle, 5 node in less than 2 mins and then win in the next 2, collect their xp and token and repeat. It must be insane.

But for the first time ever, I won like 5 ABs in a row. It felt good for sure. But then we lost a bunch but they were super close games so we got good honor for it. I am less than 1k honor away from my bracers!

Oh, also, tonight, I ran Shattered Hand for the first time. zzzzzzz....snoozefest. Going from PvP to PvE raiding is like....gah. Boring. But it may be because that instance is particularly unappealing. The pulls are all straight forward, the boss encounters aren't that interesting, and the visual stimulus was nil. I bet I'd feel differently if I was running arcatraz or botanica...or kharazan. :) I think.

Spellsteal

This video proves my point. They should totally buff mages for sure!
Nurf Healerz!! WOOT!



You see, poor mages :( They're so under-powered.

*insert profanity*

hahahahaha... yeah. I have a mage, I know. Kind of why I like playing alliance and a healer now...makes it SOOO much more challenging. YARGH!

Extinction List: Healers

Snow Leopard, Humpback Whale, Giant Pangolin, African Wild Dog, Gray wolf, World of Warcraft Healers

What do all of those things have in common? They're on the endangered species list!

Hahahaha.. I don't often "CRY MORE!"

but seriously? Blizz? Patch 2.0.10? Seriously? Seriously????

Because we all know that Healerz need to be nurfed! YeS! Not mages who two shot and have that damn I-WIN button known as ice block. While you're at it. I think you should give hunters a 30 minute trap. You know..maybe a freeze trap that'll keep us detained for a good half hour. Also, I was thinking that Warriors need infinite rage and you should let rogues wear plate.

But regardless, you must nurf those damn healers! Perhaps you could take away two of their healing spells all together and just put one greater heal on a 10 minute cooldown. Yup, I think that'll balance things just nicely. :0

"NEVER GIVE UP! NEVER SURRENDER!"
"By Grabthar's hammer, by the sons of Worvan, you shall be avenged!"

hahahaha...

First Epic

PvP does teach you one thing...patience and how to deal with complete morons.
Sheesh. You just don't encounter this kind of blind sightedness in PvE for extended periods of a time. Kind of like the A&M offense when I was back in college. What's the next play? Up the middle! and the next? Up the middle! It didn't work the last 100 times so what now? Up the middle!

hahahaha..Eye of the Storm. How 10 alliance can think that running down the center for a flag with no towers caputured = win....I have no idea.

but the beauty of PvP is that it has micro-adventures as well as macro. You get to discvoer new things about your class every day...how to handle massively different combination of classes and specs.


tonight, I finally got enough honor for my first lvl 70 epic piece! However, I think I'm more excited about finally getting the piccolo trinket from Undead Strat! Woot! Everybody dance now! que 90s horrible techno-pop music! /dance