If this game is "so easy," why do baddies fail so hard?

I was on my mage, who belongs to a small guild recently formed by one of the members who also left the raiding guild we were both in. The following conversation occurred between me and who I gather is one of the new tanks that were recruited for the core team. We were discussing how he can get geared up before the next raid so he asked if anyone wanted to do HoF, but most of us were saved.

The guy wants to raid but thinks preparing for it is "too much work." Seriously? I looked him up and yes, he used to be in a solid raiding guild, though not Top 20 US like he claimed, and the GM to boot. But he was only in that guild for a grand total of 3 days so his claim was hardly a big deal. Why do people who get called out on their crap always have to claim that they're better than they actually are? How could you possibly expect people to believe that you used to be in a Top 20 guild when you think watching videos to learn fights is too much work? I'm willing to bet he left that guild after only 3 days because his attitude didn't fit in with the raiding environment. I've grouped with some of the people in that guild and they sure didn't mess around.

As a former GM of a raiding guild, I never would've let someone like this raid with my team. And we weren't even Top 20 or close to that. If he was the GM of such a guild, I really doubt they would have made even Top 20 on their server with his attitude, much less Top 20 in the US. He continued to argue and spout crap but I just paid him no mind since there really isn't anything more I could say to the guy. But he is a prime example of a raider who wants to get carried by others who came to the raid prepared. Fail "raider" is fail.

The lighter side of WoW

As I troll through the Intarwebz each day, I come across some really funny gems. I sometimes post them on my FB but so few of my friends actually get the jokes. I thought I'd start sharing all the good ones I find on here :)

Enjoy!

How many of my peeps out there remember this mess??

This one really made me laugh since I jump through the instance portals all the time.

I never actually thought about how/where the loot masters would find the loot, if this were a realistic scenario...

Ogres and their butt pockets...

Escalation begins!

Firstly, I would like to say that I'm 100% with the Darkspears in their campaign against Garrosh. Blizzard had said prior that they would make Garrosh more - err, likeable - in Cata but I think they pretty much failed on all fronts in doing so. If anything, they made him even worse. If Vol'jin can /end Garrosh, I wouldn't be the least bit upset. It would free up the title of "Warchief" for someone more deserving, such as Saurfang or even Vol'jin himself. Even the young Bloodhoof would be a better choice, though he lacks in experience compared to others.

With that said, moving on to new adventures as players begin assisting the Darkspears with their rebellion. Just like with Landfall, I'm not particularly happy about being forced to complete several scenarios before being able to get the actual quests. I'd be fine if they allowed us to do these solo, like with the Isle of Thunder ones. I dislike scenarios because they throw three players in there, group makeup be damned, and expect everything to go smoothly. It almost never does. The groups always rush in there and just start killing crap without even bothering to think, "Hmm, we're all dps - no one to tank and no one to heal. We should pull carefully." Thankfully, the Blood in the Snow and Dark Heart of Pandaria scenarios were fairly easy and, once each of my groups wiped once to stupid shit, they became more cautious with pulls.

I just started on the quests themselves so I'll write more later on those since I'm still not sure how I really feel about them. But the ones I'm doing are all in Durotar and when I arrived there yesterday, it was jam-packed with players, of course. It made it a little difficult to kill the mobs I needed and to loot the overturned caravans before anyone else got to them. However, it did make it easy to kill Commanders, since it's faction-tag and more horde seem to be around than alliance.

I'm happy with some of the class changes, and very unhappy with others. Mage aoe's were buffed, which is great because I could feel how weak they were before and they needed a little boost. Now I don't feel quite so useless when Frozen Orb is on cooldown. With the changes to Living Bomb, I swapped out Nether Tempest for that talent instead and it seems to do better for single-target than NT. I noticed a 1-2k dps increase. But for mass aoe, Frost Bomb still looks to be king.

More crying from the populace led to even more paladin nerfs. I should be used to this, really, since nerfs have been making paladins their bitches since the dawn of WoW. Oh no, how terrible that the pally tank in your raid is doing more healing than you because of Battle Healer. That shouldn't really be happening if you are actually healing and not whispering your friend while simultaneously chatting with your guild about how cute it is when your cat chases your mouse as you move it around. NERF. Non-bubble healers (and even rival disc priests) crying over how much holy pallies can absorb with Illuminated Healing. Sure, that's always #1 in my top 3 heals on the meters. But I have to actually cast heals to make that shield happen. Do you see how much mana I have to use to even cast that many spells for that many shields? Give me the heal-over-time capabilities of a druid or the mana regen of a priest, then you can nerf one of the few things that actually make my job easier. It's like taking crit/Illumination away from me all over again. And I'm still waiting (though not holding my breath) for Blizzard to give me back my 1-minute Divine Plea. At least the small change to Daybreak will make the T15 2-piece bonus a little more appealing. Yay for small blessings?

I'm not really sure but I might try main-healing on my priest, instead. Just a bit burnt out from playing the paladin for so many years and Blizzard completely gutting the class every time they feel like it. I don't think I will retire Rhu - she'll always be my favorite - but I think I just need a break. I got my druid to 90 but find healing on her to be kinda meh; same with my shaman. But I haven't touched my priest in a while and have always liked healing on her before so I might give that a shot now that the xp needed to level was been reduced by 33%. It gets a little tedious after the first 2-3 alts. And! I'm ecstatic that there is no GL bottleneck for rep with the other factions anymore. Time to get that Royal Satchel pattern!

Council down!

A nice, clean kill with only 24 raiders and 3 of them constantly disconnecting throughout the fight. Onwards to Tortos!

Winter came, but not for Impulse.

For the Horde!

As mentioned in a previous blog post, my guild (and the entire Silver Hand server, really) has been dying/dead for quite some time now. In searching for a new home, I decided to make a character on Zul’jin since it was a relatively progressed server with a large population. Last I checked, Zul’jin was #11 in progression while Silver Hand was #156. Tanmaya later informed me that Silver Hand fell even further to #193 later that week. The extent of progression is quite prominent; on ZJ, I was surprised at how many people were pugging heroic modes for tier 14 already whereas on SH, very few guilds had even finished those as a group. 

The amount of active subs on ZJ far exceeds SH also, at 15,000+ subs to 3000+. I can put up obscure and obsolete items like Hearts of Darkness on the AH and they’ll actually sell. Good luck trying to sell such items on the market of SH. Items in general are cheaper on ZJ also since the population is too large for any one person to corner the market, which has been such a huge problem on SH. And with such a large population, one would think that the amount of trolls on ZJ would be higher, but luckily such is not the case. People actually use Trade to spam for – gasp – Trade-related things! On SH, ads for guild recruitment or pug raids would be drowned out by all the trolls in Trade; on ZJ, the trolls are the ones being drowned out. What a wonderful twist of events.

It is a little more difficult to farm things on such a high-pop server, though, so there are some drawbacks. Gatherers and rare-hunters will find stiff competition. With so many people on the server, it can also be difficult to remember which guilds and players one should avoid when trying to form pugs. For those of us who don’t have top-of-the-line rigs, densely-populated areas such as Orgrimmar and the Shrine of Two Moons are hell on frame rates, even with all settings turned down to Fair. 

And you might be wondering, “Why, Rhu… What are you doing in the Shrine of Two Moons?” Yes, after 8 years of being a human crusader for the Silver Hand, Rhulain now belongs to the Blood Knight order. I felt it was time for a change and so long as I was changing servers, I might as well switch factions, too. So far, I don’t regret it. Though the Horde are not largely deemed to be as “honorable” as the Alliance, I find them to be much more interesting. My only complaint is that I absolutely can’t stand Garrosh and wish for him to die in a (very large) fire. Vol’jin once threatened to “be there to end [Garrosh’s] rule” after which Garrosh spit at his feet. I think it’s time soon for Vol’jin to make good on that threat. I’ve only been Horde for a few months and I’m already tired of Garrosh’s attitude. Vol’jin would make an excellent warchief, I think. Even Baine, who although is young, will be a better warchief since he’s proven to be his father’s son. Thrall must have been out of his damned mind, passing the title to Garrosh…

One by one, I will be moving my characters to Zul’jin. I have a lot of memories on Silver Hand and will likely leave my lower-level alts there for nostalgia, but it’s definitely time to move on, though the decision to do so didn’t come to me easily. And so here begins a new chapter for Rhulain.

At least I kept her original hair style? lol

Runescape spammers, really?

Anyone else getting a lot of spam comments from people linking stuff about Runescape? I've had to delete at least 12 comments in just as many days. It is getting frustrating. I don't want to have to start restricting the settings for comments but it looks like I might have to...

Holy transmog

It's been a while since I last posted a transmog screenie. Here is what my paladin is currently wearing for her healing transmog. I've gotten quite a few queries from people, even from LFR and LFG, about what pieces I was using. It's not all from the same set so I usually just refer them to my Armory page for simplicity lol.

I know Wrathion thinks my mog is cool.

 

 

So here are the pieces that I used to build this set:

Shoulders - Shoulderguards of Radiant Glory (Raid Finder)
Chest - Valorous Aegis Tunic
Gloves - Gloves of Radiant Glory (Raid Finder)
Belt - Girdle of Soulful Mending
Pants - Valorous Aegis Greaves
Boots - Silver Sabatons of Fury
Axe - Last Laugh