Should I Stay or Should I Go?

I HATE PvP!

Let me repeat that so I can be perfectly clear.
I HATE PvP!!

Now that I have that out of my system, let me clarify what I mean by that bold statement. I do not hate the conflict between opposing forces, nor do I despise the often frustrating battlegrounds. Even the occasional battle between one toon and another can be fun from time to time.

HOWEVER!

I do not consider Corpse-Camping a valid or appealing form of PvP. Where is the challenge in attacking someone who has just rez'd? How difficult is it to get that person again? This is especially irritating when I am just trying to complete my daily quests, or simply trying to get that last Mote of Fire to make a Primal Fire, or maybe I am trying to bring my dismally low fishing skill up several points, or any one of a number of other activities that do not include attacking other players.

The last thing I want to do is corpse run 6 times because someone is camping my body. I (almost) never camp bodies, and I never camp a body after I have killed the toon twice. I have killed the same toon repeatedly - but they invariably attack me after they rez, because I am grinding the same area or whatever. Also, if someone I know (guildmate, RL friend, family member, or whatever) is being camped by someone, then I will definitely take a personal interest in seeing that the person doing the camping is camped back to the point of calling in reinforcements to clear me off.

Doesn't happen a lot. =)

/deep_breath
/another deep_breath

OK. So the point of all this is simply to announce that I am transferring Himhotepp off of Darkspear as soon as economically convenient. Since finances are always a problem, it ay be a couple months, but I would like to be settled into a new raiding guild on the new server before WotLK goes live.

Well, more later, I guess.

~Cheers, Scott

Lie? Me? Never! The Truth is far too much fun!

 

 

Spirit of Competition

So I came home from work yesterday with Scott excitedly showing me the latest cool thing Blizzard has put into the game, in honor of the Olympics.

One runs a battle ground, and gets a Competitor's Tabard (the Olympic Flag). For each BG win, you get a chance to get the Gold Medallion, which summons a Spirit of Competition. This looks strangely like a Chinese Dragon! I knew immediately this was a must have.

And voila - after only one battle ground:

"And so...

... so so so, I will tell you another good trick that I know."

Like the Cat in the Hat, I do in fact know a good trick. It's called /gquit.

Let's start from the beginning. Sadly, Death Threat has been disbanded. A lot emotions ran high and something happened which we can't really seem to get the actual story on, but it came down to the GM asked everyone to leave, after two members were booted and others left. Which is perfectly in his right since it was his own banking guild to start off with. Cue the search for a new guild.

Those that got booted started a new guild, and invited all ex-Death Threat members. I lasted about 15 minutes and begged out, knowing it was not what I was looking for. I could not see progression happening in this guild, regardless how they justified it. One less person does not solve the problem.

And so I joined another guild, Horde Mafia (which has one of those stupid o's with a line through it so I am not even talented enough to look it up on the armory much less link it here). Things were looking promising. They are a brand new guild with early raid times, and everyone was excited to start running Kara. Now while there is very little out of Kara I still even want (badges and a couple of enchants), I figured someone with some experience might be good in a group that was relatively new to the instance.

You would figure.

Except that they didn't listen. At all. Can you sense the frustration here?

The only boss we attempted while I was there was Maiden. Apparently they had already downed Attunmen the previous day, and had skipped Moroes. So when laying out the tactics, the raid leaders instructions were... "Spread out and stand on the first step" and "pop your trinkets".

:o

blink.

The tanks and heals were all new in this raid. They kind of need more information.

First wipe on Maiden (we had 2 getting to her): 15 seconds. I cast one scorch and was dead. The tanks didn't even hit her.

So we started again. This time I laid out the entire fight. Suggested instead of the pally tank, let the two warriors in the party tank her. Pull to the heals, etc... we all know the tactics.

After arguing with the pally tank that if she were stunned she would be dead (since the healers would be unable to heal being stunned) and therefore unable to pull aggro, they decided on another go. This time, everyone did the EXACT SAME THING AS THE FIRST TIME, with one exception - the tank got to get 5 sunders first. Cuz that helped. One repentance, everyone is stunned. The tanks stood there and kept on hitting. And guess what? They died, because no one pulled to the heals, as I had mentioned already in the raid chat 3 times. At least we got her down to 95% that time.

Ok, one more time. This time, I stressed yet again, the importance of the tank to pull her to the heals when the stun pops. This time, the raid leader started yelling that the healers need to pop their Insignia of the Horde!!!!! WTF? I don't have one, most raiders don't have one, and unless you are in the BG most of the time, you don't have one!

Sure enough, the two raid leaders had one. A hunter and a shaman. And assumed everyone else did, too. Sorry, sweet cheeks. Not like it was going to help.

Wanna guess what happened? Yeah, you know this story. A) The trinkets were freaking useless and b) the raid leader started yelling at the heals for not popping them!!!

I naively thought no one could be this stupid. Seriously. I was wrong.

Once more, I laid out the fight. Once again stressed that the only thing that stops repentance is damage.

And then. In chat.

"OMG"
"I'm such an idiot"
"OMFG"
"I can't believe I forgot this!"
(this is all from the same guy, our raid leader)
Other raid leader - "What?"
RL - "Jesus - I totally forgot - Tremor Totem."


/face palm

And so the totems were dropped, we wiped again, yada yada.

"Forget this, let's do Opera" said the raid leader.

To which I said, "No thanks", quit the raid, quit the guild, rezed at the grave yard and ported to Shatt where I started my quest for a new guild.

Fun trick that /gquit. Wish I had used it sooner.

Ding

I admit, I have been lax in my duties as co-contributor of this blog. But, as stated in previous blogs, I prefer to PLAY the game, rather than chat about it. :D

Let's see... what's happened...

Schokti is pretty much as geared as she is going to be, without running the 25 mans. Between the crafted and Kara drops, there is very little else out there. Now all that is left is to re-socket a few gems.

I have been busying myself with my main by starting to grind mounts and rep. I just think it would be cool to be exalted with pretty much everyone. And if they give me pets and mounts in the process, so much the better.

I have the Onyx dragon, but only since I didn't want any of the myriad shades of blue, nor did I want green. Alas, there was no red, because you know I would be all over that in an instant.

Next was the Shatari Skyguard grind, which went much faster as I could kill as many as I wanted and get rep for the kills plus the shadow dust drops. No worrying about finding eggs, and only two quick quests to do so it was mostly all a mindless grind. My reward is the Red Nether Ray. Of course. And the little pet that goes with it.

So now my grind is for the Cenarion Hippogryph. Alas, for that one in order to get rep I am at the point now where I need to run a thousand times in steamvaults. Or something. Either way, I am sure I will be sick of the Coilfang instances.

To take a break from this rep grinding, I have been playing Barbaracue. She dinged 70 yesterday morning. I have decided to make her my PvP toon, since she pwns now anyway, and I am not even geared. I can't wait to see what I can do when I actually learn how to play my spec correctly. I foresee a lot of Maxdps.com forum reading and BRK in my future.

Speaking of spec, I need to figure out where to best spend my talents. My BM portion is good, I have no problems there. I have been recommended to respec for the best hunters mark and aimed shot, with some pretty good arguements. I may do so. (Of course, by the time anyone reads this, I may have already done so).

That's where things are at the moment. You may notice my toons on the left have been updated, some have been deleted and a new one created. Xerzes is my 42 Dranei mage, and levelling her has been a breeze at this point. We shall see what comes of it.

Until later,

~Christine