Yes today the end of WoW went live. We say goodbye to the WoW we used to know and be addicted to and say hello to something completely different and alien.
The drama is necessary as I am extremely disappointed in Blizzard, they had something not completely broken but fixable with Cataclysm, and then they decide to completely destroy it. We have all had the normal patch day lag, and that is not what is putting me off, but the fact that they removed so many fun things!
What happened to Have group will Travel for example, just a teaser I say.
And the way they humiliate druids even more, have you seen any balance druids today? I think they are all hiding.
Do not get me started about my precious hunter.
And the talent "tree" made me now want to drink several gallons of alcohol and never see the light of day again.
Then there is the way loot is distributed in Raid Finder, I have yet to have tried a normal 10/25 man raid, I will update on that.
The only thing I found myself doing today was to level my old friend, a druid. After the talk in trade about how brilliant they now are I decided to bring her up to level 85, this took me a little under 12 hours. Unlike some I welcome the reduced XP required, I have always hated that last level of levelling, you know you're close but the last bars are always slow, today they just flew by and I got it before I could say hello to level 84.
I do realise the Valor point system is out the window and have now gathered up a healthy amount of Justice Points so I can buy some gear for my druid to get her in to the raiding business tomorrow. I thought I might give bear a go, but the fact that I can look like a tree again won me over and I will instead go for the humiliating Balance spec + some tree spec. Having been a tree all through Wrath I decided this would be fun for raiding and Balance for random dungeons.
But enough about me, back to this patch of theirs'..
Short simple sweet, that is not the correct description of it. Horrible humiliating and soul destroying works better.
As you may have gathered, I am not happy about this, it has completely destroyed my gaming experience and many agree. Before today I was excited about MoP, but now I wonder if it is worth the money, just to be able to be a panda monk.
To me this game is now history and we're moving in to something new, something that is nothing like the old World of Warcraft we all fell inlove with.
Rest in Peace
Wednesday, 29 August 2012
Monday, 27 August 2012
How to..Gear up
Congratulations, you've reached level 85 and you now want to get on to raiding and doing heroics. There are easy and quick ways of doing this, and there are slow ways.
If this is your first level 85, this will be a slow process of farming normal dungeons and buying gear. What you want to do is keep an eye on the Auction House and buy yourself any bargain gear, such as Valor point bracers and boots, this is a great way of saving your points but at the same time get some great gear. If however you do not have any gold, or the pieces are really expensive you can simply farm for lower ilvl gear in dungeons and eventually heroics.
If you do have another level 85, this will be easy you may want to spend a few Valor points on the bracers and boots, if these are expensive on your realm. This is a great way of getting your new character up and running quicker and start enjoying it properly.
Having bought the essentials, with gold or Valor points, it is time for the grind. Before this you want to make a list of the gear you need and the dungeons they drop from. A nice and easy way of doing this is getting the AtlasLoot addon, so you can quick and easily check what gear drops from where. You will want to list what you can buy from Justice and Valor points, such as relics, trinkets, rings and necks which may be hard to get your hands on in dungeons. Since you will have done the random cataclysm dungeons all through your levelling you will have a nice little collection of Justice points to spend, this you want to spend on the item that will give you the biggest update and that will be difficult to get from dungeons and heroics. This may be good trinkets and rings or relics and wands or to start up your tier collection that will give you good set bonuses, you will want to make sure the set bonus is worth the points for your class. If it is useless, go for other items that gives you better stats, you don't want to spend your Justice points on tier gear that will not give you any benefits.
Now at this point you will have made your list and gotten some gear. Hopefully this will have gotten you over the ilvl requirement to start doing cataclysm heroic dungeons. This is a great way of getting Justice points and also gear and achievements, as this is only for gearing up, you do not want to do random dungeons but only the ones that you actually need gear from, otherwise it is a waste of your time. If you are lucky and get a brilliant group or that you have a good group of friends that will help you through the heroics to get you geared up and ready for raiding you will get to the Hour of Twilight heroics within hours.
This is the point you want to get to by the end of the day, this is where the good gear is and this is where you spend your time before getting in to the raid finder. Because of the fact that you will get Valor points for the HoT HCs you want to do the random finder and not do specific heroics. You can use the AtlasLoot addon to see what gear drops where and pray to the WoW gods that your heroic will come up and the loot will drop, but until you have reached your weekly Valor point cap, 1000 Valor points, you want to do the random finder. If you are still awake after this and want to do more, do your specific dungeons to get your preferred gear that will give you the biggest ilvl boost and gives you the best stat updates.
This is something of a rinse and repeat operation til you reach the ilvl of 372, at which you can queue for the raid finder. This is where you want to be within a day or two and hope to get some gear from the DS raid. At this point there is no point in even trying to get in to the normal DS 10 or 25, because you are just not good enough, I'm sorry but however much you know your class, your gear will just not be good enough. Spend a few weeks in raid finder and do the less demanding raids, such as Firelands to get yourself in to Cataclysm raiding.
At this point you will be in and running DS raid finder every week, not only for experience and making your knowledge of your character higher, but also for the 500 Valor points the raid finders bring. This is also the end of the massive gearing up process from your greenies to an average ilvl of around 380 that will give you a better chance of getting in to the end game raids. A good thing to do, no the only thing you need to do is reading up on the tactics for DS, and watching youtube videos for all the boss fights to make sure you know the tactics off by heart before you try and apply them to raiding. For your first raid with your new character it may be good to bring some friends and if you're lucky you will have a guild that still raids to get your through the raid and get you that all important [Destroyer's End] achievement that might get you in to PUGs around the realm.
I hope your gearing up went brilliant and stay tuned for more How To.. guides!
If this is your first level 85, this will be a slow process of farming normal dungeons and buying gear. What you want to do is keep an eye on the Auction House and buy yourself any bargain gear, such as Valor point bracers and boots, this is a great way of saving your points but at the same time get some great gear. If however you do not have any gold, or the pieces are really expensive you can simply farm for lower ilvl gear in dungeons and eventually heroics.
If you do have another level 85, this will be easy you may want to spend a few Valor points on the bracers and boots, if these are expensive on your realm. This is a great way of getting your new character up and running quicker and start enjoying it properly.
Having bought the essentials, with gold or Valor points, it is time for the grind. Before this you want to make a list of the gear you need and the dungeons they drop from. A nice and easy way of doing this is getting the AtlasLoot addon, so you can quick and easily check what gear drops from where. You will want to list what you can buy from Justice and Valor points, such as relics, trinkets, rings and necks which may be hard to get your hands on in dungeons. Since you will have done the random cataclysm dungeons all through your levelling you will have a nice little collection of Justice points to spend, this you want to spend on the item that will give you the biggest update and that will be difficult to get from dungeons and heroics. This may be good trinkets and rings or relics and wands or to start up your tier collection that will give you good set bonuses, you will want to make sure the set bonus is worth the points for your class. If it is useless, go for other items that gives you better stats, you don't want to spend your Justice points on tier gear that will not give you any benefits.
Now at this point you will have made your list and gotten some gear. Hopefully this will have gotten you over the ilvl requirement to start doing cataclysm heroic dungeons. This is a great way of getting Justice points and also gear and achievements, as this is only for gearing up, you do not want to do random dungeons but only the ones that you actually need gear from, otherwise it is a waste of your time. If you are lucky and get a brilliant group or that you have a good group of friends that will help you through the heroics to get you geared up and ready for raiding you will get to the Hour of Twilight heroics within hours.
This is the point you want to get to by the end of the day, this is where the good gear is and this is where you spend your time before getting in to the raid finder. Because of the fact that you will get Valor points for the HoT HCs you want to do the random finder and not do specific heroics. You can use the AtlasLoot addon to see what gear drops where and pray to the WoW gods that your heroic will come up and the loot will drop, but until you have reached your weekly Valor point cap, 1000 Valor points, you want to do the random finder. If you are still awake after this and want to do more, do your specific dungeons to get your preferred gear that will give you the biggest ilvl boost and gives you the best stat updates.
This is something of a rinse and repeat operation til you reach the ilvl of 372, at which you can queue for the raid finder. This is where you want to be within a day or two and hope to get some gear from the DS raid. At this point there is no point in even trying to get in to the normal DS 10 or 25, because you are just not good enough, I'm sorry but however much you know your class, your gear will just not be good enough. Spend a few weeks in raid finder and do the less demanding raids, such as Firelands to get yourself in to Cataclysm raiding.
At this point you will be in and running DS raid finder every week, not only for experience and making your knowledge of your character higher, but also for the 500 Valor points the raid finders bring. This is also the end of the massive gearing up process from your greenies to an average ilvl of around 380 that will give you a better chance of getting in to the end game raids. A good thing to do, no the only thing you need to do is reading up on the tactics for DS, and watching youtube videos for all the boss fights to make sure you know the tactics off by heart before you try and apply them to raiding. For your first raid with your new character it may be good to bring some friends and if you're lucky you will have a guild that still raids to get your through the raid and get you that all important [Destroyer's End] achievement that might get you in to PUGs around the realm.
I hope your gearing up went brilliant and stay tuned for more How To.. guides!
Saturday, 25 August 2012
Old raids
Sorry about the lack of posts lately but IRL has been hectic.
The little time I've had on WoW has been spent doing old raids, like BT, Karazhan, Ruby Sanctum, Naxxramas and such.
Karazhan was the only one I soloed, mostly because the others where locked, and being alone I thought the chess game would be a pain, but it turns out I did it the first time. This was something that annoyed a few guild members that had tried countless times.
I went on a different blog to find an easy way of doing it and it seemed alright. The first thing you have to do is get on the King and cast Bloodlust. I did this and was then unable to get off the King, I couldn't dismount. So I made the best of the situation and cast Bloodlust as much as possible.
The opponent king then started going towards me and I simply cleaved and bloodlusted til he was right infront of me. Saying this I was in the same position as where I started. All I did was casting bloodlust til the king was in range and then used cleave and bloodlust. This worked a charm and took me possibly 5 minutes.
Something worth mentioning is that the cheat that was used was fire. But I just had to cleave on every CD in the end instead of using bloodlust to make sure the opponent's king was down before the fire took me out.
I would love any reader to try this out again as I couldn't verify that it worked a second time, I will try again on Wednesday and hope it goes to plan. I will keep you updated.
The rest of Karazhan is amazingly easy to solo as a hunter, although the Netherspite drake was impossible because I was too short to interrupt the beams, goblin height is an issue!
When it comes to other raids that are 80 or below, just grab a few friends and run off, a healer and a tank is a good thing to have, especially for the 80 dungeons, but other than that it is a laugh and you fly through everything. Also giving you achievements and giving you something to do til MoP.
If you want any other ideas on what to do for a month, just scroll down to my other posts. It has plenty of ideas and you'll spend hours on each and every one of them!
The little time I've had on WoW has been spent doing old raids, like BT, Karazhan, Ruby Sanctum, Naxxramas and such.
Karazhan was the only one I soloed, mostly because the others where locked, and being alone I thought the chess game would be a pain, but it turns out I did it the first time. This was something that annoyed a few guild members that had tried countless times.
I went on a different blog to find an easy way of doing it and it seemed alright. The first thing you have to do is get on the King and cast Bloodlust. I did this and was then unable to get off the King, I couldn't dismount. So I made the best of the situation and cast Bloodlust as much as possible.
The opponent king then started going towards me and I simply cleaved and bloodlusted til he was right infront of me. Saying this I was in the same position as where I started. All I did was casting bloodlust til the king was in range and then used cleave and bloodlust. This worked a charm and took me possibly 5 minutes.
Something worth mentioning is that the cheat that was used was fire. But I just had to cleave on every CD in the end instead of using bloodlust to make sure the opponent's king was down before the fire took me out.
I would love any reader to try this out again as I couldn't verify that it worked a second time, I will try again on Wednesday and hope it goes to plan. I will keep you updated.
The rest of Karazhan is amazingly easy to solo as a hunter, although the Netherspite drake was impossible because I was too short to interrupt the beams, goblin height is an issue!
When it comes to other raids that are 80 or below, just grab a few friends and run off, a healer and a tank is a good thing to have, especially for the 80 dungeons, but other than that it is a laugh and you fly through everything. Also giving you achievements and giving you something to do til MoP.
If you want any other ideas on what to do for a month, just scroll down to my other posts. It has plenty of ideas and you'll spend hours on each and every one of them!
Sunday, 19 August 2012
Achievements
Over the past week I have been knocking out quite a few achievements on my hunter, just because she is a new character and, well, I thought she deserved some!
My talk about these in guild chat plus the achievement rain at one point caused a bit of a discussion in the guild, it came down to what achievements are really worth doing?
I said that the only reason I'm doing these is because I have nothing better to do at that time, whereas the other person kept saying that an achievement is only worth doing if it gives you something, i.e. a title, a mount or a pet.
I didn't quite agree with that, obviously, because the person in question was simply sitting in Orgrimmar and complaining that there was nothing to do on the realm. This is incredibly true and the reason why I was running around loving and killing critters. I decided that spending my time on this will actually give me something for the money I'm paying to be on WoW every month, instead of just sitting in Orgrimmar complaining about the Trade channel.
So to you, what achievements are worth doing?
Yesterday I also decided to join an ICC group doing 10 man HC, just for old times sake sort of thing, it was good fun up until we had a couple of people leave and we had to bring in some fresh healers and DPS, this sent the whole raid into a different mood and the new healer kept linking the Recount for HPS and kept going on and on about how much more he was healing than the other healer.
Yes, this is one of those things I just can not put up with, if we were dying, fine, link as much as you want, but the fact that he was bragging about he much healing in a level 80 raid, when the other healer, a disc priest, was keeping us alive and kept us out of wipes, just pissed me off. I can take people randomly linking the DPS/HPS but then also having to brag about it, Really?
This was made worse by the fact that this same guy was from my guild, had complained about no one ever wanting to do anything and always ignoring him in the guild chat. So we invited him over to the ICC run, thinking it might get him feeling a little bit better and that, but 15 minutes in to the raid, for him, after one boss he decided he was hungry and went off and made dinner. We all sat about waiting for him before taking on Professor P and he came back and we kept at it the rest of us having a laugh and joking about everything from dinner to gear. We got ourselves up to the Lich King, where we failed a couple of times, mostly because of this one guy not moving at all. Third attempt; We get buffed up, ready check done, event started and this same healer goes "Sorry guys, gotta go" and leaves! We were all just like "What on earth! After all we been through with him and he does that?"
Where is the respect in these players? Do they really think doing that will get them invited to any guild runs or and PUGs with the people involved? If I would've been the guild master of this guild I would've thrown him out straight away, alts and everything, but unfortunately I can't do that and the GM was not online at that moment, so what can a hunter do?
[R][Player]says: I'm the beeest healr here guuys what you dooin?
My talk about these in guild chat plus the achievement rain at one point caused a bit of a discussion in the guild, it came down to what achievements are really worth doing?
I said that the only reason I'm doing these is because I have nothing better to do at that time, whereas the other person kept saying that an achievement is only worth doing if it gives you something, i.e. a title, a mount or a pet.
I didn't quite agree with that, obviously, because the person in question was simply sitting in Orgrimmar and complaining that there was nothing to do on the realm. This is incredibly true and the reason why I was running around loving and killing critters. I decided that spending my time on this will actually give me something for the money I'm paying to be on WoW every month, instead of just sitting in Orgrimmar complaining about the Trade channel.
So to you, what achievements are worth doing?
Yesterday I also decided to join an ICC group doing 10 man HC, just for old times sake sort of thing, it was good fun up until we had a couple of people leave and we had to bring in some fresh healers and DPS, this sent the whole raid into a different mood and the new healer kept linking the Recount for HPS and kept going on and on about how much more he was healing than the other healer.
Yes, this is one of those things I just can not put up with, if we were dying, fine, link as much as you want, but the fact that he was bragging about he much healing in a level 80 raid, when the other healer, a disc priest, was keeping us alive and kept us out of wipes, just pissed me off. I can take people randomly linking the DPS/HPS but then also having to brag about it, Really?
This was made worse by the fact that this same guy was from my guild, had complained about no one ever wanting to do anything and always ignoring him in the guild chat. So we invited him over to the ICC run, thinking it might get him feeling a little bit better and that, but 15 minutes in to the raid, for him, after one boss he decided he was hungry and went off and made dinner. We all sat about waiting for him before taking on Professor P and he came back and we kept at it the rest of us having a laugh and joking about everything from dinner to gear. We got ourselves up to the Lich King, where we failed a couple of times, mostly because of this one guy not moving at all. Third attempt; We get buffed up, ready check done, event started and this same healer goes "Sorry guys, gotta go" and leaves! We were all just like "What on earth! After all we been through with him and he does that?"
Where is the respect in these players? Do they really think doing that will get them invited to any guild runs or and PUGs with the people involved? If I would've been the guild master of this guild I would've thrown him out straight away, alts and everything, but unfortunately I can't do that and the GM was not online at that moment, so what can a hunter do?
Ignore these names as they have
nothing to do with the post.
Thursday, 16 August 2012
Item level
The age, 2 year, old debate about item level is once again brought up. Does item level really make up for the good old inspection? Of course sodding not!
I randomly got invited to this DS run with my hunter the other day, not having asked for it or even wanting to go really, and in trade they wanted people with ilvl 394, yes a normal DS 10 run this. Me on my hunter having a rather low score of 382 asked why I got invited in the first place, the leader said nothing so I went around inspecting the others and realised they were all, even the leader, in PvP gear expecting to get through DS on that, alright for a dps it maybe possible to sneak through, but a tank? a healer? So I did the obvious thing and left.
I wouldn't know how difficult it is to get the highest PvP set but everyone seems to have that and go for that ilvl, which in all honesty is just wrong, on my realm no one seems to inspect people before a raid, the item level is what is asked for and that's it. This based on the fact that most DPS walk around raids in their PvP gear.
I for one has never really cared about item level, it is just wrong to me, I've boosted it to get in to the raid finder and hour of twilight heroics but apart from that, it is useless to me. I remember it coming out and people were a little bit cautious about it, now its item level and nothing else thank you very much!
To me there's nothing like an inspect and checking the talents before inviting someone, if you end up with an ungemmed, unenchanted and rubbishly geared PvE character with a full PvP set in the bags he's no use.
If you do however have a slightly lower item level score, say you've got a few tier pieces and heroics gear and gemmed it perfectly, added the right enchants and buckles and all. To me that person is a lot more worth than someone that clearly doesn't know his class and spec or really cares about adding the correct buffs to the gear.
I for one will always pick the people that knows more about their class and spec and how to gear, gem and enchant than the one with a high item level. If I find people with brilliant knowledge about class and spec and they happen to have beautiful gear, I'm in love, but til then geared, but not perfectly topped item level, characters will always be my first choice when it comes to raids, even heroics. If that makes me stupid then so be it, but anyone from Wrath, who raided regularly will know that this is the way to go.
So from a slightly undergeared hunter to the rest of the world, I can still beat you on boss damage eventhough I'm 10 item level points below you. May want to consider this on your future travels, inspection is everything!
I randomly got invited to this DS run with my hunter the other day, not having asked for it or even wanting to go really, and in trade they wanted people with ilvl 394, yes a normal DS 10 run this. Me on my hunter having a rather low score of 382 asked why I got invited in the first place, the leader said nothing so I went around inspecting the others and realised they were all, even the leader, in PvP gear expecting to get through DS on that, alright for a dps it maybe possible to sneak through, but a tank? a healer? So I did the obvious thing and left.
I wouldn't know how difficult it is to get the highest PvP set but everyone seems to have that and go for that ilvl, which in all honesty is just wrong, on my realm no one seems to inspect people before a raid, the item level is what is asked for and that's it. This based on the fact that most DPS walk around raids in their PvP gear.
I for one has never really cared about item level, it is just wrong to me, I've boosted it to get in to the raid finder and hour of twilight heroics but apart from that, it is useless to me. I remember it coming out and people were a little bit cautious about it, now its item level and nothing else thank you very much!
To me there's nothing like an inspect and checking the talents before inviting someone, if you end up with an ungemmed, unenchanted and rubbishly geared PvE character with a full PvP set in the bags he's no use.
If you do however have a slightly lower item level score, say you've got a few tier pieces and heroics gear and gemmed it perfectly, added the right enchants and buckles and all. To me that person is a lot more worth than someone that clearly doesn't know his class and spec or really cares about adding the correct buffs to the gear.
I for one will always pick the people that knows more about their class and spec and how to gear, gem and enchant than the one with a high item level. If I find people with brilliant knowledge about class and spec and they happen to have beautiful gear, I'm in love, but til then geared, but not perfectly topped item level, characters will always be my first choice when it comes to raids, even heroics. If that makes me stupid then so be it, but anyone from Wrath, who raided regularly will know that this is the way to go.
So from a slightly undergeared hunter to the rest of the world, I can still beat you on boss damage eventhough I'm 10 item level points below you. May want to consider this on your future travels, inspection is everything!
Tuesday, 14 August 2012
Minor issues
Today hasn't been a good WoW day for me.
This based on the fact I have not been able to get on it, good thing I have no pressing matters in the game today. Tomorrow everything resets, finally, and we can all go back to normal.
Today made me think of all the issues WoW has, not just the inability of getting online but also any in-game issues, I guess this is where I need the readers' comments and problems.
To me achievements have never glitched and, touch wood, never will, however this is a massive issue for some people that for one reason or another did not get it. Which brings me to the issue, what is really fair for those who dc during a fight, say you're on Madness of Deathwing 25 Heroic, it is the first time he is being properly killed by your guild and 5% left, you dc! To me that is a rubbish way of not getting an achievement, you've been there the whole fight and contributed and for all of that, you will get nothing what so ever, Blizzard's rules states you have to do it again to get the achievement, which is something your guild will now do over and over again, but don't you just feel a bit cheated? I know I would!
However, if someone in the raid dcs early on in the fight and have not contributed at all, or just went offline to be a pain, then they don't deserve it, to be honest, it is people like that I'd kick and never come near again.
Now that is one of those issues you just want to cry over when they happen, touch wood, but those that are preventable. I recently joined a Thrones run with a different guild which I thought was a normal achievement run, that is what the trade message said anyway. So I join, kill the first boss and hey ho, something I need drops, I should have known something was wrong when the loot roll was a normal group roll, so I needed and so did two priests. It adds to this it was an agility staff, me being a hunter believes the priests just got the stats wrong. The priest wins it and I whisper the person saying "Sorry, think you missclicked? it's an agi staff" getting the reply "F**k off d*** face" Lovely as I am I whisper the raid leader, who also happens to be the GM for the guild that was doing the run asking him to tell the priest off, without replying the leader continues and says nothing for the rest of the run. Of course the priest decided he had the right to every staff, trinket and ring that dropped in that run and no one said a thing, so I once again confronted the guy who once again totally slagged me off.
This is something I just can not stand, people can missclick, fair enough, but intentionally needing on every single item possible in a run full of people that might've actually needed the gear, not okey. It is one thing if the run would've been an ICC run, just for the achieves and transmog, but this is gear that might still be used by alts gearing up. So what do you do in a situation like that, do you, like me report the player for being a complete ninja towards the whole raid, or leave it at just being quiet and trying to reason with him?
I am just one of those people that has a lot of opinions and I don't care if some people don't like me telling them my piece, if someone is being unfair to me or other people in the same run I will tell them what I think. I am not much of a reporter though, that was, to be completely honest the first time I've reported anyone based on loot. Of course we all report goldsellers for spamming but that is just the day to day thing.
Now this is where I need the readers' comments and response really, what do you find annoying in the game, anything from the people in it to the game mechanics.
This based on the fact I have not been able to get on it, good thing I have no pressing matters in the game today. Tomorrow everything resets, finally, and we can all go back to normal.
Today made me think of all the issues WoW has, not just the inability of getting online but also any in-game issues, I guess this is where I need the readers' comments and problems.
To me achievements have never glitched and, touch wood, never will, however this is a massive issue for some people that for one reason or another did not get it. Which brings me to the issue, what is really fair for those who dc during a fight, say you're on Madness of Deathwing 25 Heroic, it is the first time he is being properly killed by your guild and 5% left, you dc! To me that is a rubbish way of not getting an achievement, you've been there the whole fight and contributed and for all of that, you will get nothing what so ever, Blizzard's rules states you have to do it again to get the achievement, which is something your guild will now do over and over again, but don't you just feel a bit cheated? I know I would!
However, if someone in the raid dcs early on in the fight and have not contributed at all, or just went offline to be a pain, then they don't deserve it, to be honest, it is people like that I'd kick and never come near again.
Now that is one of those issues you just want to cry over when they happen, touch wood, but those that are preventable. I recently joined a Thrones run with a different guild which I thought was a normal achievement run, that is what the trade message said anyway. So I join, kill the first boss and hey ho, something I need drops, I should have known something was wrong when the loot roll was a normal group roll, so I needed and so did two priests. It adds to this it was an agility staff, me being a hunter believes the priests just got the stats wrong. The priest wins it and I whisper the person saying "Sorry, think you missclicked? it's an agi staff" getting the reply "F**k off d*** face" Lovely as I am I whisper the raid leader, who also happens to be the GM for the guild that was doing the run asking him to tell the priest off, without replying the leader continues and says nothing for the rest of the run. Of course the priest decided he had the right to every staff, trinket and ring that dropped in that run and no one said a thing, so I once again confronted the guy who once again totally slagged me off.
This is something I just can not stand, people can missclick, fair enough, but intentionally needing on every single item possible in a run full of people that might've actually needed the gear, not okey. It is one thing if the run would've been an ICC run, just for the achieves and transmog, but this is gear that might still be used by alts gearing up. So what do you do in a situation like that, do you, like me report the player for being a complete ninja towards the whole raid, or leave it at just being quiet and trying to reason with him?
I am just one of those people that has a lot of opinions and I don't care if some people don't like me telling them my piece, if someone is being unfair to me or other people in the same run I will tell them what I think. I am not much of a reporter though, that was, to be completely honest the first time I've reported anyone based on loot. Of course we all report goldsellers for spamming but that is just the day to day thing.
Now this is where I need the readers' comments and response really, what do you find annoying in the game, anything from the people in it to the game mechanics.
Monday, 13 August 2012
Boredom
A month and a bit to go til MoP is released and it is just that time of the year, every single WoW player is bored of their mains and have nothing left to do.
So here are my suggestions on what to do until MoP arrives:
1. If you haven't already, explore the entire game! Get a pretty title and a tabard, stupidly easy with a flying mount nowadays.
2. Run all the old raids, everything from ICC to BT, beautiful places and if you run it with your guild you may get some more guild rep and an achievement, unless the guild has it already.
3. Run all the old heroics, you probably did this during the last months of Wrath of the Lich King, but if you didn't, enjoy!
4. Level a new character, will give you plenty of gold and something to do. Can NEVER get too many characters!
5. Gather pets, mounts and titles. You should get this if you run achievement runs in all the old raids and dungeons, you'll get plenty of beautiful mounts and titles.
6. Skill up archaeology, to me this is one of those professions I never bothered with, simply because it is irrelevant to the game, but now is the perfect time for some digging! Same with cooking, first aid and fishing, you can spend hours on those and get a few achievements.
7. Quest. Going for achievements such as [The Loremaster] and [Veteran of Molten Front] will take up plenty of your time.
8. Get exalted with every single faction. Now this is a grind! [The Diplomat] will have you crying but it will take you days. and days
9. Try getting all the achievements, going for all the things above will get you a fair few but there are still the easy ones that may just require some googling, time and gold, like [Higher Learning], [Cataclysmically Delicious] and [To All The Squirrels....]
10. I hate to say this, and therefore this is in a different colour, suiting ey? Do some PvP, I'm sure it takes forever and you get achievements out of it.
These 9, almost 10, suggestion should keep you busy for a month and a bit before it is time to start levelling again. I am, being a levelling addict, looking forward to it but will find myself going through most of these before late September.
So being bored should be no more! I expect achievement rains in the world of Warcraft.
So here are my suggestions on what to do until MoP arrives:
1. If you haven't already, explore the entire game! Get a pretty title and a tabard, stupidly easy with a flying mount nowadays.
2. Run all the old raids, everything from ICC to BT, beautiful places and if you run it with your guild you may get some more guild rep and an achievement, unless the guild has it already.
3. Run all the old heroics, you probably did this during the last months of Wrath of the Lich King, but if you didn't, enjoy!
4. Level a new character, will give you plenty of gold and something to do. Can NEVER get too many characters!
5. Gather pets, mounts and titles. You should get this if you run achievement runs in all the old raids and dungeons, you'll get plenty of beautiful mounts and titles.
6. Skill up archaeology, to me this is one of those professions I never bothered with, simply because it is irrelevant to the game, but now is the perfect time for some digging! Same with cooking, first aid and fishing, you can spend hours on those and get a few achievements.
7. Quest. Going for achievements such as [The Loremaster] and [Veteran of Molten Front] will take up plenty of your time.
8. Get exalted with every single faction. Now this is a grind! [The Diplomat] will have you crying but it will take you days. and days
9. Try getting all the achievements, going for all the things above will get you a fair few but there are still the easy ones that may just require some googling, time and gold, like [Higher Learning], [Cataclysmically Delicious] and [To All The Squirrels....]
10. I hate to say this, and therefore this is in a different colour, suiting ey? Do some PvP, I'm sure it takes forever and you get achievements out of it.
These 9, almost 10, suggestion should keep you busy for a month and a bit before it is time to start levelling again. I am, being a levelling addict, looking forward to it but will find myself going through most of these before late September.
So being bored should be no more! I expect achievement rains in the world of Warcraft.
Sunday, 12 August 2012
Goldsellers
We've all seen them, we all know people that have bought from them if not ourselves, yes I'm talking about goldseller.
10.000g for 7 euros, decent price I suppose, but what do you really want that gold for?
If you're going to get a mount you won't, at least not on my realm, spend 10 times that and you'll get yourself a bike. Pets? Seems to be one of those obsessions of players nowadays, everyone wants to show off their pets and brag. You may get a little something for 10.000g but nothing that you can brag about.
Why buy gold then, from those annoying little level 1s that run in to the capital and spam their advertisement, why not just grind the gold? Because you're thinking it'll take too long to grind it with quests and farming? Wrong
Just questing and not selling any herbs from level 80 to 85 gave me 4.800g that is the total I had when I dinged 85 and got my spells. I hadn't done a single quest up until level 80 and simply lived on gold from my other characters. This is not to be recommended of course, but if you really want to make money, but not spend any real cash, level a character, pick up gathering professions that will give you even more gold and do every quest to maximise profits. You will have yourself a nice little new level 85 character plus a few thousand gold to play around with.
Personally I don't really agree with buying gold, mounts, pets with real cash, simply because Blizzard already gets enough money from us players and certainly does not need us buying a single mount for 10 euro. Yes there is a reason I said Blizzard is one of the goldsellers, if not all. Think about it, if this company wanted to shut down goldsellers forever they could, but for some reason they don't, my theory is that either they are the goldsellers or they get a percentage of the real cash spent on buying gold. This to allow the goldselling to continue and for Blizzard to make more money. This may just be me playing on my conspiracy side, but have a think!
If players feel the need to spend more than the monthly fee that is their business, but I would never encourage anyone to spend more of your hard earned cash on Blizzard. This does not mean I pick on every single person that buys the mounts or pets, it is their money to spend whichever way they want and I am not the one to tell them to use it more wisely.
Lets face it, the goldselling business would not be booming unless players all over the world bought gold from them. In the end it is your decision to buy gold for your WoW characters instead of spending it on whatever your other hobbies are.
As for me, I'd rather have a brand new shiny character and a few thousand gold than spend my real cash buying it, but that is just me!
VS
10.000g for 7 euros, decent price I suppose, but what do you really want that gold for?
If you're going to get a mount you won't, at least not on my realm, spend 10 times that and you'll get yourself a bike. Pets? Seems to be one of those obsessions of players nowadays, everyone wants to show off their pets and brag. You may get a little something for 10.000g but nothing that you can brag about.
Why buy gold then, from those annoying little level 1s that run in to the capital and spam their advertisement, why not just grind the gold? Because you're thinking it'll take too long to grind it with quests and farming? Wrong
Just questing and not selling any herbs from level 80 to 85 gave me 4.800g that is the total I had when I dinged 85 and got my spells. I hadn't done a single quest up until level 80 and simply lived on gold from my other characters. This is not to be recommended of course, but if you really want to make money, but not spend any real cash, level a character, pick up gathering professions that will give you even more gold and do every quest to maximise profits. You will have yourself a nice little new level 85 character plus a few thousand gold to play around with.
Personally I don't really agree with buying gold, mounts, pets with real cash, simply because Blizzard already gets enough money from us players and certainly does not need us buying a single mount for 10 euro. Yes there is a reason I said Blizzard is one of the goldsellers, if not all. Think about it, if this company wanted to shut down goldsellers forever they could, but for some reason they don't, my theory is that either they are the goldsellers or they get a percentage of the real cash spent on buying gold. This to allow the goldselling to continue and for Blizzard to make more money. This may just be me playing on my conspiracy side, but have a think!
If players feel the need to spend more than the monthly fee that is their business, but I would never encourage anyone to spend more of your hard earned cash on Blizzard. This does not mean I pick on every single person that buys the mounts or pets, it is their money to spend whichever way they want and I am not the one to tell them to use it more wisely.
Lets face it, the goldselling business would not be booming unless players all over the world bought gold from them. In the end it is your decision to buy gold for your WoW characters instead of spending it on whatever your other hobbies are.
As for me, I'd rather have a brand new shiny character and a few thousand gold than spend my real cash buying it, but that is just me!
VS
Saturday, 11 August 2012
How to..80-85
After much consideration I have decided to write a How to.. guide. It is not as much a levelling guide as it is a "spend you time wisely" guide.
Basically, the first time I attempted to get to 85 from 80, with my paladin tank, awful experience, it took me a long time. I am now on my third 85 and as it only took me 2 days, approximately 19 hours to get from 79 to 85 and get in good enough gear to go to Cataclysm heroics I've decided to share my experience.
What do you need?
First of all, time! You won't get anywhere without it.
Secondly, patience. This is something I'm lacking but managed to endure it and get my head around it.
Thirdly, a flying mount! Whichever speed is fine, I don't spend my money on the artisan riding skill but on the fact I'll be able to fly anywhere. Something which you most likely already have by now.
Fourthly, tabards. When choosing your class and spec you should also make sure you can get the right enchants. So for your shoulder (unless you're an inscription fan) and head enchant you will need to be revered with a specific faction, just like Wrath of the Lich king expansion and so on.
The shoulder enchants are all from Therazane, yes that big lady in Deepholm. To even be allowed a tabard from her you must complete a set amount of quests in the area. I will come to this later.
The head enchants are from different factions for different stats, all of them requires revered;
60 intellect and 35 critical strike damage - Guardians of Hyjal
90 stamina and 35 dodge rating - Earthen Ring
60 agility and 35 haste rating - Ramkahen
60 strength and 35 mastery rating - Dragonmaw Clan/Wildhammer Clan
What you should already have is professions, in my case I went with herbalism and inscription from the beginning, this meant I could herb as I went and get free glyphs, which is as expensive as epic gems on my realm. I found it being easier with a gathering profession as every time you herb, you get experience.
When I found myself at level 80 I was going to go down the route of Vashj'ir as I had before, but decided against it, best decision of the day. Instead I went for Mount Hyjal, it is not only easier to navigate, not being water and all, but to me the quests are just more exiting. So grab yourself the quest of the board in your capital and begin your travels.
Since this is not a levelling guide I will not go through every quest in the area, because they are so nicely laid out, start at the beginning and keep going until you get the [Coming down the Mountain] achievement. At this point you should be level 83.
Boosting your experience is the important part of this, always be in the Dungeon finder, it will not only get you experience, but also brilliant gear and achievements to make the killing easier. The quests in the dungeons are also a brilliant source of free experience as you automatically do them when you run the dungeons, over and over again. Another way is of course to use your gathering profession to boost the experience coming in. I found myself surprised when I realised I got almost 4000 XP for every single plant picked. Now that is a mob killed without rested experience. What you shouldn't do is fly around looking for the herbs, massive waste of time and not worth it at all.
If you don't have a gathering profession and just want to quest, that is perfectly fine by me. I would suggest you kill every single mob you come across in your travels, if there is a patrol around the mob you want, kill it instead of waiting for it to move. You will get experience and you will complete your quest sooner = saving time!
Another way of getting that little extra experience is exploring! Last time I checked you received 2000 XP for each area discovered, and don't forget those achievements! Don't go out of your way exploring the first thing you do in Mount Hyjal, you will go to every single area, and if you are close by to something undiscovered, just fly over and get your free experience.
So one way or another you have got yourself to level 83. Doing it through quests + dungeon finder + gathering + exploring? You will be done within 6 hours, without being rested, if you are rested you'll just fly through the levels. When it comes to getting your spells, I didn't unless you came across a trainer in the middle on Mount Hyjal, very unlikely, unless the spell is the difference between life and death for your questing.
If you for one reason or another you did not reach level 83 you have a choice, you can go to Deepholm to become eligible for the Therazane tabard to get your shoulder enchant. This is approximately 75 quests, it seems to differ from person to person, but it an easy chain to follow if you do every single quest you get. And look at it from the positive side, you get more exploring done and will be on your way to the achievement [Explore Cataclysm].
When you have reached level 83 in Mount Hyjal and not yet started a new area you should have a think, do you want to become eligible for the Therazane tabard or start a new area. This is totally up to you, if you need the shoulder enchant, which you will unless you're an inscriptioner, you can do this now or at the end of your levelling experience.
If you've decided against the Deepholm chain, or have another character being revered to buy it for you then go back to your capital and pick up your spells. Yes you're allowed to, also get profession training if needed.
From there you should pick up the quest for Uldum from the board and make your way to Tanaris and enjoy the little caravan.
Uldum for me can be a little bit confusing. You will pick up a few quests and start the chains, you will get a quest to begin the chain for Harrison Jones, brilliant rip off from Indiana Jones, which I strongly recommend. Do not do the whole chain at once as other quests will go to those areas and you won't have to fly back and forth. A general rule here is complete one area at a time, when you are done with one part, hand everything in and move on to the next. A warning, some of the Harrison Jones quest have cut scenes that are not skipable and might make you miss a dungeon finder or two (five in my case) but they are worth it.
As Mount Hyjal, you will here constantly be in the dungeon finder and exploring and gathering herbs or ores. This will again boost your experience and make the last levels go a little bit quicker. When you have gotten all the random dungeon finder justice points for the week, you may as well do the higher level dungeons, Grim Batol, Halls of Origination and Lost City of the Tol'vir as the mobs in there will give you more experience, and the quest rewards will be better. Plus, you will be bored of Blackrock Caverns, Throne of the Tides, The Stonecore and The Vortex Pinnacle by now!
After 8-9 hours of questing and running dungeons and grinding you should be level 85! Congratulations and you can now start gearing up! That however is a different post, you may need some rest after all this as your brain is likely to be a little bit tired.
Basically, the first time I attempted to get to 85 from 80, with my paladin tank, awful experience, it took me a long time. I am now on my third 85 and as it only took me 2 days, approximately 19 hours to get from 79 to 85 and get in good enough gear to go to Cataclysm heroics I've decided to share my experience.
What do you need?
First of all, time! You won't get anywhere without it.
Secondly, patience. This is something I'm lacking but managed to endure it and get my head around it.
Thirdly, a flying mount! Whichever speed is fine, I don't spend my money on the artisan riding skill but on the fact I'll be able to fly anywhere. Something which you most likely already have by now.
Fourthly, tabards. When choosing your class and spec you should also make sure you can get the right enchants. So for your shoulder (unless you're an inscription fan) and head enchant you will need to be revered with a specific faction, just like Wrath of the Lich king expansion and so on.
The shoulder enchants are all from Therazane, yes that big lady in Deepholm. To even be allowed a tabard from her you must complete a set amount of quests in the area. I will come to this later.
The head enchants are from different factions for different stats, all of them requires revered;
60 intellect and 35 critical strike damage - Guardians of Hyjal
90 stamina and 35 dodge rating - Earthen Ring
60 agility and 35 haste rating - Ramkahen
60 strength and 35 mastery rating - Dragonmaw Clan/Wildhammer Clan
What you should already have is professions, in my case I went with herbalism and inscription from the beginning, this meant I could herb as I went and get free glyphs, which is as expensive as epic gems on my realm. I found it being easier with a gathering profession as every time you herb, you get experience.
When I found myself at level 80 I was going to go down the route of Vashj'ir as I had before, but decided against it, best decision of the day. Instead I went for Mount Hyjal, it is not only easier to navigate, not being water and all, but to me the quests are just more exiting. So grab yourself the quest of the board in your capital and begin your travels.
Since this is not a levelling guide I will not go through every quest in the area, because they are so nicely laid out, start at the beginning and keep going until you get the [Coming down the Mountain] achievement. At this point you should be level 83.
Boosting your experience is the important part of this, always be in the Dungeon finder, it will not only get you experience, but also brilliant gear and achievements to make the killing easier. The quests in the dungeons are also a brilliant source of free experience as you automatically do them when you run the dungeons, over and over again. Another way is of course to use your gathering profession to boost the experience coming in. I found myself surprised when I realised I got almost 4000 XP for every single plant picked. Now that is a mob killed without rested experience. What you shouldn't do is fly around looking for the herbs, massive waste of time and not worth it at all.
If you don't have a gathering profession and just want to quest, that is perfectly fine by me. I would suggest you kill every single mob you come across in your travels, if there is a patrol around the mob you want, kill it instead of waiting for it to move. You will get experience and you will complete your quest sooner = saving time!
Another way of getting that little extra experience is exploring! Last time I checked you received 2000 XP for each area discovered, and don't forget those achievements! Don't go out of your way exploring the first thing you do in Mount Hyjal, you will go to every single area, and if you are close by to something undiscovered, just fly over and get your free experience.
So one way or another you have got yourself to level 83. Doing it through quests + dungeon finder + gathering + exploring? You will be done within 6 hours, without being rested, if you are rested you'll just fly through the levels. When it comes to getting your spells, I didn't unless you came across a trainer in the middle on Mount Hyjal, very unlikely, unless the spell is the difference between life and death for your questing.
If you for one reason or another you did not reach level 83 you have a choice, you can go to Deepholm to become eligible for the Therazane tabard to get your shoulder enchant. This is approximately 75 quests, it seems to differ from person to person, but it an easy chain to follow if you do every single quest you get. And look at it from the positive side, you get more exploring done and will be on your way to the achievement [Explore Cataclysm].
When you have reached level 83 in Mount Hyjal and not yet started a new area you should have a think, do you want to become eligible for the Therazane tabard or start a new area. This is totally up to you, if you need the shoulder enchant, which you will unless you're an inscriptioner, you can do this now or at the end of your levelling experience.
If you've decided against the Deepholm chain, or have another character being revered to buy it for you then go back to your capital and pick up your spells. Yes you're allowed to, also get profession training if needed.
From there you should pick up the quest for Uldum from the board and make your way to Tanaris and enjoy the little caravan.
Uldum for me can be a little bit confusing. You will pick up a few quests and start the chains, you will get a quest to begin the chain for Harrison Jones, brilliant rip off from Indiana Jones, which I strongly recommend. Do not do the whole chain at once as other quests will go to those areas and you won't have to fly back and forth. A general rule here is complete one area at a time, when you are done with one part, hand everything in and move on to the next. A warning, some of the Harrison Jones quest have cut scenes that are not skipable and might make you miss a dungeon finder or two (five in my case) but they are worth it.
As Mount Hyjal, you will here constantly be in the dungeon finder and exploring and gathering herbs or ores. This will again boost your experience and make the last levels go a little bit quicker. When you have gotten all the random dungeon finder justice points for the week, you may as well do the higher level dungeons, Grim Batol, Halls of Origination and Lost City of the Tol'vir as the mobs in there will give you more experience, and the quest rewards will be better. Plus, you will be bored of Blackrock Caverns, Throne of the Tides, The Stonecore and The Vortex Pinnacle by now!
After 8-9 hours of questing and running dungeons and grinding you should be level 85! Congratulations and you can now start gearing up! That however is a different post, you may need some rest after all this as your brain is likely to be a little bit tired.
Friday, 10 August 2012
That first post
Well, welcome to this newly started blog about.. World of Warcraft *pause for effect*.
This is not a blog about the latest kills of raid bosses or how to PvP, for very simple reasons, I no longer raid seriously and I simply do not do PvP, ever.
I am not a female and I am not a man, call me something in between, like an orc female, you just can't tell. Anyway, if I was a female you wouldn't take anything I said seriously, and if I was a man you would go "Another chubster that knows nothing!" Therefore, I am an orc female.
I am not new to the World of Warcraft, I am just new to blogging, I have in fact been playing since 2006 and will forever remember the tacts for every single boss fight. I have played most classes and races, not so much undead, for years and did know the ins and outs of them all. I have played on different realms, 3 to be exact, always on horde and will probably move again in the future.
Important to know about me: I had a break of 1 and a half year from February 2011, mostly because I didn't have any money, then because I started university!
So what is this blog for you may ask? A way for me to get some of my knowledge out, mixed with my every day rantings, tips and pointers.
I am currently enjoying the company of a goblin hunter, gorgeous little thing, vicious but gorgeous. She is very recently dinged and will probably be replaced in a month. You see I have this thing about leveling, as soon as I get to 85 with a character, most recently the hunter, I get them geared for DS and get bored and start leveling a new class, it is what I do. Positives of this? Well I can tell you where the best quests are, where to level and why you should explore.
As an introduction I think that will have to do, I will give you the whine moments of WoW, I will give you good tips and I will, most likely, never stop being a brilliant information source. If you want to read, learn and possibly enjoy the World of Warcraft that little bit more, stay tuned for more updates!
Thank you and be careful with crocodiles, they will eat little goblins for breakfast.
This is not a blog about the latest kills of raid bosses or how to PvP, for very simple reasons, I no longer raid seriously and I simply do not do PvP, ever.
I am not a female and I am not a man, call me something in between, like an orc female, you just can't tell. Anyway, if I was a female you wouldn't take anything I said seriously, and if I was a man you would go "Another chubster that knows nothing!" Therefore, I am an orc female.
I am not new to the World of Warcraft, I am just new to blogging, I have in fact been playing since 2006 and will forever remember the tacts for every single boss fight. I have played most classes and races, not so much undead, for years and did know the ins and outs of them all. I have played on different realms, 3 to be exact, always on horde and will probably move again in the future.
Important to know about me: I had a break of 1 and a half year from February 2011, mostly because I didn't have any money, then because I started university!
So what is this blog for you may ask? A way for me to get some of my knowledge out, mixed with my every day rantings, tips and pointers.
I am currently enjoying the company of a goblin hunter, gorgeous little thing, vicious but gorgeous. She is very recently dinged and will probably be replaced in a month. You see I have this thing about leveling, as soon as I get to 85 with a character, most recently the hunter, I get them geared for DS and get bored and start leveling a new class, it is what I do. Positives of this? Well I can tell you where the best quests are, where to level and why you should explore.
As an introduction I think that will have to do, I will give you the whine moments of WoW, I will give you good tips and I will, most likely, never stop being a brilliant information source. If you want to read, learn and possibly enjoy the World of Warcraft that little bit more, stay tuned for more updates!
Thank you and be careful with crocodiles, they will eat little goblins for breakfast.
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