Two warlocks and a rant on AV and World PvP

So my Human warlock got to level 31, enchanted gold bloodrobe is pretty pro.  But didn’t work on him last night because of the super lag.  Played brawl until like 10:00, then just did AV a bunch on my gnome warlock.

I think I’m going to make my gnome a  PvP warlock (because of escape artist) and my Human a PvE guy.

Now, what the eff is with AV now-a-days?  Blizzard really screwed up.  So, like, AV was created with the intent of large scale Horde vs Alliance battles.  And that’s how it was, with large, 40 vs 40, 4+ hour battles, until some noob (probably Kalgan) decided to make the guards non-elite.  Now the object of AV is to avoid the opposing faction at all costs.  Run past and kill the leader.  Honestly that’s insanely gay.  I loved the long huge battles.  They were fun.  Now it’s all about honor.

Last night I had the best AV since they removed those guards.  Normally, at the start, Alliance and Horde rush to the opposing faction’s first commander and kill him.  This time though, Alliance was like “LOL SCREW YOU HORDE” and just sat in our commander’s base.   After that we pushed the horde back in a big ball-o-players and capped all the graveyards on the way down.  The horde kept the frostwolf relief hut, just because alliance wouldn’t cap it.  It was real PvP the way AV was intended.  Probably wouldn’t have even ended that fast if it wasn’t for the reinforcement points..  We won, and it was incredibly awesome.

And another thing, World PvP..  Pre-BC blizz tried to encourage it with objectives.  And they failed.   Blizzard just doesn’t get the objective of PvP.  PvP is for fighting players, not killing mobs to collect dust or capping towers or .  And the continued failing in BC in same manner, their slight redemption was the addition of buffs and the daily objectives.

My favorite kind of world PvP though, was the random encounters.  I mean coming across some noob horde riding along in Winterspring and roflpwning them.   Blizzard killed that in Outlands though, with the addition of Flying Mounts.  Now it’s 3-5 level 70’s dropping in on single level 60-67s.. which is pretty lame.

And I think I’ve written enough for now.  LATER DUDE.

Brawl interferes with WoW

So, missed all raid this week, not really on purpose.. Karazhan I said to bring less geared people instead of me, because I don’t take anything other than badges out. This is true, but really I just wanted to play brawl.

On saturday, we were raiding Gruul’s Lair, at about 3:00 I was like “eh got two hours before time to raid” so I decided to spend the time playing brawl. Not much longer I glanced at the clock and OMG It’s already 8:00. Flip, missed the raid. I kinda wanted to go too, because I want the t4 shoulders.

So, didn’t play much WoW this week, my new warlock alt would probably be 45 if I had been playing. Instead he’s only 30. But he’s pretty awesome. RAWR.

And here’s a random gif of Wolf’s intro:

That’s about all I got today, LATER DUDE

Olimar’s a pretty cool guy

He uses pikmin and doesn’t afraid of anything.

New UI (and Super Smash Bros. Brawl!)

Starting with Brawl:  It’s pretty freaking pro.  Going to have to put WoW on hold a bit.

Anyone who had any doubt about it’s awesomeness should go play it.  And I’ve barely even played it, still have the whole Subspace Emissary, Stage Creator, the whole online thing, all the stuff to unlock, FLIP too much awesome for you imo.

And also I got a new UI, previously my UI was extremely cluttered, and didn’t give me much viewing space of the actual game.

This new one is pretty sleek, same functionality (since I had most of my skills keybound), and gives me alot more viewing space.  The name of this is something that I can’t remember, but if anyone cares for it, I could look it up I guess.

And that’s about all I got for today, LATER DUDE!

Karazhan, Gruul’s Lair, Pre-BC raids and Life Tap

So about two weeks ago, I applied to- and joined a raiding guild. This raiding guild is right where First Legion was when I quit the game about a year ago. So it works out pretty well.

Of course, First Legion is very near killing Illidan now, but meh..

My new guild is named Asylum (and I kinda want to redo their website, it’s very functional.. but it looks terrible. We should at least move the forums to normal forums.), and we’ve cleared Karazhan, downed High King and are pretty close on Gruul, might kill him this weekend, next weekend for sure.

But anyway Karazhan–Back with First Legion, it was like a brand new instance, no one knew all the little secrets to kill the bosses easy and stuff. Back then, Kara was actually pretty hard. Now with Asylum, we just blow threw it all very quickly. Down bosses way different than I remember (and a lot easier too).

Gruul’s Lair–Only did this one like, twice with First Legion, never killed High King back then. Now, first lets just refresh: I’m a warlock, and during the high king fight, warlocks actually have to do something. Olm the Summoner summons Felhunters that rape people. So Warlocks enslave the felhunters and rape Olm with his own pets. With First Legion, we did all this by hand. Now a year later, there’s this leet little macro–just click it, if you don’t have a felhunter already enslaved, it targets one that’s hostile to me (if none exist, it doesn’t do anything), automatically starts enslaving it. Clicking it again with a felhunter enslaved will cause the felhunter to go attack Olm. So it’s pretty nifty.

Naxx, AQ40, BWL, MC–First: Zul’gurub is the worst instance in the game.

But I really enjoyed all those old raids. Nothing like 40 noobs running around killing giant things. Most of all, AQ40–First couple of bosses are annoying, and there’s a bit of trash.. but the Twin Emps and C’thun have got to be the funnest boss fights in WoW. Last week, made a post on the Dunemaul forums asking how many people would actually care to go back to AQ40. Got like 3 replys saying that even C’thun is pretty noob at level 70.. which was fairly disappointing. Meh, oh well, guess I’m never going to get that last 500 rep to be exalted with Brood of Nozdormu.

Life Tap: The other day, I told people I had talked with a GM, and he said I could keep the old version of life tap. I thought this was just because I’m pretty pro.. apparently it’s just because they’ve gone and reverted the changes. So no lame life tap after all. Oh, and the flame tongue mortal strike thing got reverted as well.

So, probably no one cares to read this, it’s kinda a lot to read, but oh well, read it anyway.

I’m going to try to have more pictures in my blogs from now on, just need to start taking more screenshots.  Maybe that will make it more interesting and seem like less to read.

Gnomes and Trolls

Alright, I was not feeling well last week, But I think I got a bit to talk about today.

First: Gnomes

seriously, wtf

When I first started playing WoW (somewhere around patch 1.6) warlock was obviously the class for me. Back then, I didn’t know much about the game and I rolled him as a gnome purely for stats. Now that I’m seventy and have nothing better to do in between raids, I go out and look for cool gear.

This is the closest I’ve been able to come.

That’s the Shadow Brim Travel Hat and the yellow robe off of Battleguard Satura (AQ40, forget what it’s called).

Now, recently my Dimensional Ripper–Area 52 malfunctioned, with some interesting results.

Now, take a look at those, Why does the gnome have to look so LAME?!?

I think that I’m just going to level a human warlock up to seventy and just leave him there until Wrath of the Lich King comes out. Then I can just pick him up when the expansion comes out. I doubt I’ll completely abandon my gnome, since he has alot of stuff that’s near impossible to get these days.. but I’ll raid with my human, solely for the purpose of having decent looking armor.

And later today I think I’m going to post another blog about Karazhan to make up for my lack of blogs last week, but feeling kinda lazy at the moment and I feel I’ve written enough for now.