Tag: New Gear
Vaca Over
by Xanther on Jan.04, 2010, under World of Warcraft
Ho hum, vacation over. Always reminds you how much fun not going to work is. Guess that means I should schedule the rest of my vacation for this year. I’ll tell you though, WoW has been pretty crazy. Fun, was finally the opportunity to get into ICC for some rep runs. Even got high enough that now I can make my own Awesome Arrows. New Gear was cool too, from ICC.
Also got the PuG achievement, and of course the fun new pet. We still think that there should be an achievement for 100 pets, which would give you your 101st pet – a dalmation… I’m not quite there, only like 2 more to go, but my wife is. So from all the PuG’s, I’ve realized/learned a few things. I guess a reminder is that I really don’t care for PuGing. I like it when you meet nice people, but more often than not, it’s a bunch of jerks. Like the tank who was already pulling trash before the healer had even zoned into the instance, let alone changed specs, buffed, or done anything else necessary to start. Or the ones who try to just chain pull the entire place without a pause or a break. Also – how hard is it to say “hello” before getting started? Or make a comment or two along the way, just to keep it fun? PuGing has really become a chore, rather than fun. It seems that with the ease of picking up gear far above heroics, that the point of a heroic now is to see how fast you can get the badges. Not to go in and have fun, not to use any mechanics other than straight AoE DPS, and so on. And if the healer makes a mistake (or if the tank is stupid and blames it on the healer, or vice versa), or if DPS makes a mistake, etc – what is the response? “You’re an idiot, I have an XYZ alt (or my boyfriend has one) and it’s so easy.” Seriously dude – just chill! Remember, Xanther says play nice! It’s ok if one or two chars die. It’s ok if everyone wipes once or twice. It’s only your character that dies – not you! And don’t forget, many people are chaining heroics to get gear. So yelling at someone to “get better gear before you run heroics” when they’re running heroics to get better gear doesn’t make you cool – it makes you an elitist jerk. Lighten up and help them. Oy!
So all that aside, ICC was fun. Why? A practical use for an ability mostly just used when bored – Eyes of the Beast. It’s fun to run around there as your pet, looking for traps. It also makes hunters feel useful for something other than simply MD, since everything is AoE’d and not CC’d anymore. Though we have been using it a little on the 2 5-pulls right after Ick. Still hate those guys tho, lol. But anyway, I should probably get back to work, since I’m at work…
Thoughts on 3.3
by Xanther on Dec.09, 2009, under Patch Comments, World of Warcraft
Sooo I did have time to jump in last night. Conference call got done early, and I just stayed up way too late. Aside from the typical patch-day nightmares (“Additional instances cannot be launched…”, Dalaran nightmare lag, etc.), it was pretty good. The new instances are fun, and a bit of a challenge. I even picked up a new crossbow! Rest of the stuff was mostly shaman gear (no one could use) or tank gear. Very nice, is dungeon queuing that lets you port right from dungeon to dungeon. Also nice is the random heroic option, which means we don’t have to sit around going “what dungeon do you want to do?”.
But nicest of all… It looks like the Hunter Misdirect is finally fixed. Not only that, but AoE Damage seems to work as well. Thus we’re no longer limited to pulling 3 mobs weakly onto the tank – we can actually AoE a group onto them! Or more importantly, once we hit MD, we can actually lay into a target without fearing that we’ll be pulling agro by our 6th shot… Yay!
Now if they just fix it so we can actually get the schematics for epic ammo… I understand that it’s epic ammo – should take a little effort to get. But after ages of gnomish/goblin engineering not really mattering, it seems so random to make bullets go to one and arrows to the other. Not to mention, why does the schematic have a rep requirement and the ammo not? Doesn’t that basically defeat the purpose of trying to get the schematic? I mean, to get the bullets, I don’t need the rep, but to make the bullets someone else needs to get the rep. Just seems a little weird to me. Seems the schematic and the ammo should both have the requirement. Oh well. I doubt I’ll buy the ammo, and at some point I’ll get the rep up and then I’ll make them. So not a big deal. Just seems a little odd.
