And with today comes the end of Hallow's End. Even though it was supposed to end today at 2AM on the servers, it's currently still active, so I did in fact get more attempts in on all of my 80s at acquiring more mounts/helms/swords/whatever. Much like I did a list-off with Brewfest, I'm now going to proceed with one for Hallow's End.. (Totally going to do this with every holiday event, just so you know.)
Hallow's End 2010!
Warrior: Hallowed of '08, finally received the mount, had the 70 and 80 helm, had the 80 sword, had the pet, had the pumpkin hat, 17/20 on the Masks for All Occasions. [Male Blood Elf, Male Goat, Male Human]
Paladin: Hallowed of '09, no mount, no helmet, had the sword, had the pet, had the pumpkin hat, 18/20 on the Masks for All Occasions. [Male Blood Elf, Female Gnome]
Druid: Hallowed of '09, no mount, got the helm, got the sword, had the pet, had the pumpkin hat, 19/20 on the Masks for All Occasions. [Female Draenei]
Death Knight: Hallowed of '10, received the mount, got the helm, had the sword, finally received the Squashling (all I was missing from last year), had the pumpkin hat, 19/20 on Masks for All Occasions. [Female Blood Elf]
And introducing the newest of my 80s..
Mage: Hallowed of '10, no mount, no helmet, got the sword, had the pet, had the pumpkin hat, 19/20 on Masks for All Occasions. [Female Blood Elf]
Honorable Mention..
Level 65 Rogue: Didn't complete the Outland Candy Bucket run, I was slacking pretty hardcore on that one. Since he's not 80; no mount, no helm, no sword, had the pet, got the pumpkin hat. 11/20 on the Masks for All Occasions. [Male and Female Blood Elf, Male and Female Gnome, Male and Female Undead, Female Draenei, Female Dwarf, Female Troll]. He should be a Hallowed of '11.
And while I'm still trick or treating every hour, until work, and then hopefully after work, to possibly complete MFAO on multiple characters, I don't think it's going to happen this year again. My druid was the only one close last year, I've obviously boosted those numbers quite a bit this year in hopes of clearing off one of the most annoying achievements ever.
Day of the Dead begins tomorrow, it's a short two-day holiday with little to no long-time value. If only the pet would stick around.. I want a haliscan hat wearing skeleton wielding maracas. And three weeks from today is Pilgrim's Bounty. Two weeks after that, roughly, is the release of Cata and then Winter's Veil starts the next week after that.
I really never get anything productive done when Holidays are around in WoW.. I spend too much time doing them. But it's alright, I usually get quite a bit of experience on my alts that I wouldn't get otherwise. Not this year though, I slacked a bit. I actually spent more time leveling my rogue through quests and dungeons, instead of farming for the buckets. >.<
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Retraction
I'd like to retract my earlier statement about rogues being stupid..
They are actually quite enjoyable. After twink 19 dueling with a friend of mine, I decided to give my level 60 some much needed attention. And have proceeded to level him repeated throughout the last few days. He's currently level 65, out of rest, and using dungeons and the Hallow's End candy buckets as a boost for his experience gain.
Oh, and he's Combat. So I don't give a damn what my weapons are, mwahaha.
On a note that wasn't addressed.. I used to hate hunters too. The change to Focus over Mana has, for some reason, made me want to put some time into my hunter as well. I ran a random on her earlier today and while the group I was stuck with was rather idiotically decent, I was proud of how well I handled my hunter's rotation and abilities.
Maybe I'll finally level that Warlock and Priest that I hate so much with a passion?
They are actually quite enjoyable. After twink 19 dueling with a friend of mine, I decided to give my level 60 some much needed attention. And have proceeded to level him repeated throughout the last few days. He's currently level 65, out of rest, and using dungeons and the Hallow's End candy buckets as a boost for his experience gain.
Oh, and he's Combat. So I don't give a damn what my weapons are, mwahaha.
On a note that wasn't addressed.. I used to hate hunters too. The change to Focus over Mana has, for some reason, made me want to put some time into my hunter as well. I ran a random on her earlier today and while the group I was stuck with was rather idiotically decent, I was proud of how well I handled my hunter's rotation and abilities.
Maybe I'll finally level that Warlock and Priest that I hate so much with a passion?
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Blogovision
I'm going to be customizing my blogger/blogspot/whatever it's called to be more WoW related in nature.
My tumblr, on the other hand/foot, will stay my normal blog and I'll post it with relevant real-life information. Relatively relevant.
On that note.. WoW stuff..
Fury Warrior threat is insane.
-----200% threat increase for tanks DOES NOT HELP.
Ret Paladin rotation is awkward.
Arcane Mages have shitty damage.
Fire Mages are KABOOM
Frost Mages are viable in PvE.
Rogues are still stupid.
Balance Druids are amusingly fun.
Unholy DKs are pretty much the same.
My tumblr, on the other hand/foot, will stay my normal blog and I'll post it with relevant real-life information. Relatively relevant.
On that note.. WoW stuff..
Fury Warrior threat is insane.
-----200% threat increase for tanks DOES NOT HELP.
Ret Paladin rotation is awkward.
Arcane Mages have shitty damage.
Fire Mages are KABOOM
Frost Mages are viable in PvE.
Rogues are still stupid.
Balance Druids are amusingly fun.
Unholy DKs are pretty much the same.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
The Shattering
Patch 4.0.1 hits today. Lots of people are excited, lots of people are less so. I'm more in between than anything.
I've been playing for 5 1/2 years now..
Learned how to rock the charts with Fury and be "decent" with Protection on my Warrior..
Learned the ways of facerolling with Retribution, how to throw out heals with Holy, and own everything with Protection on my Paladin..
Learned the ways of the now null Blood DPS spec, taught myself to enjoy a pet with Unholy, and even attempted to learn the ways around proc-spec of Frost on my Death Knight..
Learned how to spam spells for repetitious procs with DoTs through Balance and how efficient Swipe-Spam is for Feral (Bear) on my Druid..
Leveled with the critical mass of pewpew that is Fire, ignored Frost, and came to enjoy Arcane with my Mage..
And now everything that I've learned is out the window and I have to start to re-learn the classes I already figured out how to play, once again. I know that this is what Blizzard was working toward achieving when they decided to go back to Azeroth and revamp the landscape. It's pretty much a new beginning to the game.
New talants, redone trees, new abilities, new rotations, stat updates and changes..
It's all about starting over, really. Or that's how I see it to be. But I don't want to have to start over again. I already did that once.
I know that in the end my opinion doesn't matter and that this is going to turn out to be wonderful for the Blizzard gaming market and that this, for all intents and purposes, actually makes it very easy for Blizzard to keep pumping out expansions for World of Warcraft without having to pull an Everquest and make a II.
I've been playing for 5 1/2 years now..
Learned how to rock the charts with Fury and be "decent" with Protection on my Warrior..
Learned the ways of facerolling with Retribution, how to throw out heals with Holy, and own everything with Protection on my Paladin..
Learned the ways of the now null Blood DPS spec, taught myself to enjoy a pet with Unholy, and even attempted to learn the ways around proc-spec of Frost on my Death Knight..
Learned how to spam spells for repetitious procs with DoTs through Balance and how efficient Swipe-Spam is for Feral (Bear) on my Druid..
Leveled with the critical mass of pewpew that is Fire, ignored Frost, and came to enjoy Arcane with my Mage..
And now everything that I've learned is out the window and I have to start to re-learn the classes I already figured out how to play, once again. I know that this is what Blizzard was working toward achieving when they decided to go back to Azeroth and revamp the landscape. It's pretty much a new beginning to the game.
New talants, redone trees, new abilities, new rotations, stat updates and changes..
It's all about starting over, really. Or that's how I see it to be. But I don't want to have to start over again. I already did that once.
I know that in the end my opinion doesn't matter and that this is going to turn out to be wonderful for the Blizzard gaming market and that this, for all intents and purposes, actually makes it very easy for Blizzard to keep pumping out expansions for World of Warcraft without having to pull an Everquest and make a II.
Friday, October 8, 2010
Continuation of the First
Malygos Needs To Die!
Man, I love it when it's this weekly. I get to prove my superiority over the rest of the Lotharian community during Weekly PuGs.
Eye of Eternity truly is a fail for pugs. It's kind of like Anub'arak in Trial of the Crusader 25, PuGs can get to him, but they rarely ever get him down. Now, Malygos isn't on that scale of failure for PuGs, but it's definitely up there.
First off, you need a key. A key from Naxx 10, or 25 depending on the version of EoE you're doing. Unless you actually did Naxx pre-Uld, no one knows where to get this key. I raided Naxx, I have the key on my warrior main. It's cool, none of my alts have it, no biggy, someone usually does. Sadly, people don't know that it requires a key, and set up a PuG, and never ask. So you have 10 people sitting in Eye of Eternity.. With no key. Waste of time, Raid Leader is an idiot.
Now.. Phase 1 is easy. Burn him, keep sparks out of his mouth (I love it when DKs and/or Ranged fail to take care of this and a melee ends up downing it)
Phase 2.. Ugh. Everyone can be bad here. I've seen melee on disks fly down into the bubbles before deep breaths, when they aren't can't be hurt by it. I've seen melee NOT get on disks when they drop. And I've even seen ranged not shoot at the Scions. How does this work. It's the EASIEST idea. Kill things dead and move on.
Phase 3. Oh boy. My favorite part. No sarcasm, it really is. My friend can attest to this.. I've been in Phase 3 with a PuG to where I was the only person alive and was spam-healing myself, shielding, and hitting him with the fireball+flame burst combo. For.. About.. Five minutes? Maybe less, now that I realize how short the Berserk timer is at this point. So maybe three and a half minutes. The group had to demand I kill myself so we could try again. And then I got put in charge of leading everyone during Phase 3 due to how well I handle myself.
Now the part that irks me about Phase 3.. The Flame Burst DoT stacks. Most people try to enforce the three combo point DoT stack; so 1+1+1+2. I do a five combo point stack; 1+1+1+1+1+2. So how is it I can get my stack alone to 17+ stacks of the DoT on a five point combo, while people only doing three points can only get to 8.. 10.. 13? I'm wasting more time on my fireballs and ending up further ahead in the end.
How can people be so horrible at Phase 3 that a single person's damage can out-do everyone else's? I can even heal Phase 3 and get my Fireball stacks higher than the people that are supposed to be DPSing. Oy oy oy..
Man, I love it when it's this weekly. I get to prove my superiority over the rest of the Lotharian community during Weekly PuGs.
Eye of Eternity truly is a fail for pugs. It's kind of like Anub'arak in Trial of the Crusader 25, PuGs can get to him, but they rarely ever get him down. Now, Malygos isn't on that scale of failure for PuGs, but it's definitely up there.
First off, you need a key. A key from Naxx 10, or 25 depending on the version of EoE you're doing. Unless you actually did Naxx pre-Uld, no one knows where to get this key. I raided Naxx, I have the key on my warrior main. It's cool, none of my alts have it, no biggy, someone usually does. Sadly, people don't know that it requires a key, and set up a PuG, and never ask. So you have 10 people sitting in Eye of Eternity.. With no key. Waste of time, Raid Leader is an idiot.
Now.. Phase 1 is easy. Burn him, keep sparks out of his mouth (I love it when DKs and/or Ranged fail to take care of this and a melee ends up downing it)
Phase 2.. Ugh. Everyone can be bad here. I've seen melee on disks fly down into the bubbles before deep breaths, when they aren't can't be hurt by it. I've seen melee NOT get on disks when they drop. And I've even seen ranged not shoot at the Scions. How does this work. It's the EASIEST idea. Kill things dead and move on.
Phase 3. Oh boy. My favorite part. No sarcasm, it really is. My friend can attest to this.. I've been in Phase 3 with a PuG to where I was the only person alive and was spam-healing myself, shielding, and hitting him with the fireball+flame burst combo. For.. About.. Five minutes? Maybe less, now that I realize how short the Berserk timer is at this point. So maybe three and a half minutes. The group had to demand I kill myself so we could try again. And then I got put in charge of leading everyone during Phase 3 due to how well I handle myself.
Now the part that irks me about Phase 3.. The Flame Burst DoT stacks. Most people try to enforce the three combo point DoT stack; so 1+1+1+2. I do a five combo point stack; 1+1+1+1+1+2. So how is it I can get my stack alone to 17+ stacks of the DoT on a five point combo, while people only doing three points can only get to 8.. 10.. 13? I'm wasting more time on my fireballs and ending up further ahead in the end.
How can people be so horrible at Phase 3 that a single person's damage can out-do everyone else's? I can even heal Phase 3 and get my Fireball stacks higher than the people that are supposed to be DPSing. Oy oy oy..
Battle of Wills
Player of World of Warcraft, friend and co-worker of mine, as well as fellow guildie; Trever Beets.
He's been playing for quite a few months now, could be considered a massive altoholic, has been put to the test. When he was past level 70, but not level 75, I challenged him to a race to 80. I would take my level 60 Arcane Mage, with his Bind-to-Account shoulders and chest heirlooms and race him. To level 80.
As of today, as of this night.. I am level 76. And he is level 78.
Time is running short, the finish line is in sight, but who is ahead.. I have the experience gain bonus, but he has the head start.
Will I win? Can I beat him?
YOU BETTER FUCKING BELIEVE I CAN! >:O
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Spontaneous Creation
Because I wanna quote my Tumblr.
STALK ME ON FACEBOOK!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000947075440
DROOL OVER MY TWEETS!
http://twitter.com/Andehshun
TICKLE MY TUMBLR!
http://paragonallychallenged.tumblr.com/
Stalk me, follow me, just DON'T TOUCH ME.
STALK ME ON FACEBOOK!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000947075440
DROOL OVER MY TWEETS!
http://twitter.com/Andehshun
TICKLE MY TUMBLR!
http://paragonallychallenged.tumblr.com/
Stalk me, follow me, just DON'T TOUCH ME.
Officially First
Like I said.. Posting things I did that day. With some oddities mixed within when I decide to branch off into a random rant/tangent on something slightly related, but not related.
[I had to edit this in.. I play a bit of WoW. A lot of WoW in fact. So expect a lot of posts to be filled with WoW-related crap. If you don't get it.. Well.. Uhh.. Go away?]
First off.. Brewfest 2010 ends today. (2AM on the 6th, not counting, dailies don't reset.)
Warrior: Brewmaster of '08, had the kodo, had the ram, had the remote, got nothing this year.
Paladin: Brewmaster of '09, no kodo, no ram, got the remote, cried QQ tears of QQ.
Druid: Brewmaster of '10, got the ram, no kodo, no remote, is okay, got EVERY EFFIN TRINKET.
Death Knight: Brewmaster of '10, got the kodo, no ram, got the remote, is better.
Downloaded a new addon called Altaholic, it does.. I'm sure.. Exactly what you think it does. It's a tracker addon. Let's me know who's saved to what, how much gold they have, what their skills are, what's in their bags, what's in their bank, what's in their GUILD bank (haha this is awesome), their talents, their glyphs, and just about anything else alt related you can think of.
Questing on the mage.. Killed a "Two Large Pincers" mob, when she only really had one large pincer, the other was rather small and dainty in comparison. And a "He Who Plays With Food", who got three-shotted to death. Arcane Blast pewpew.
Weekly is Eye of Eternity. MAAAAAAAALYYYYYGOOOOOOOOOOOOS. I'm a master of Phase 3. A MASTER. I could solo him, swear to you, SOLO HIM. Not really, but it'd be neat to watch. I kept a group going for FIVE MINUTES before someone complained that I needed to just die. NOT THIS WEEK THOUGH, no way. Druid died.. In Phase 2. In a dome. To a normal arcane shot. Not even a Deep Breath, just an arcane shot. Inside a dome. /sigh
Radiant Crusade is officially recruiting. This is my new raiding guild with my wife and one of my friends. We're going to powerhouse through the last bit of ICC/RS content and set ourselves up for Cataclysm, bumrush the content there, hit 85, and plow the raids. Be a top raiding guild during the new expansion.
On the Cataclysm note.. TWO MONTHS BLIZZARD. It's all you give me to farm ZG. 21 more attempts at the mounts to go. 21 more attempts. And 10 more attempts in MC at the Thunderfury bindings, since you're probably getting rid of that quest NPC too. Oh, and the AQ Scepter questline. Damn goblins hating me, can't finish that questline off either.
... Till later, cause I have ALL day to post this crap.
[I had to edit this in.. I play a bit of WoW. A lot of WoW in fact. So expect a lot of posts to be filled with WoW-related crap. If you don't get it.. Well.. Uhh.. Go away?]
First off.. Brewfest 2010 ends today. (2AM on the 6th, not counting, dailies don't reset.)
Warrior: Brewmaster of '08, had the kodo, had the ram, had the remote, got nothing this year.
Paladin: Brewmaster of '09, no kodo, no ram, got the remote, cried QQ tears of QQ.
Druid: Brewmaster of '10, got the ram, no kodo, no remote, is okay, got EVERY EFFIN TRINKET.
Death Knight: Brewmaster of '10, got the kodo, no ram, got the remote, is better.
Downloaded a new addon called Altaholic, it does.. I'm sure.. Exactly what you think it does. It's a tracker addon. Let's me know who's saved to what, how much gold they have, what their skills are, what's in their bags, what's in their bank, what's in their GUILD bank (haha this is awesome), their talents, their glyphs, and just about anything else alt related you can think of.
Questing on the mage.. Killed a "Two Large Pincers" mob, when she only really had one large pincer, the other was rather small and dainty in comparison. And a "He Who Plays With Food", who got three-shotted to death. Arcane Blast pewpew.
Weekly is Eye of Eternity. MAAAAAAAALYYYYYGOOOOOOOOOOOOS. I'm a master of Phase 3. A MASTER. I could solo him, swear to you, SOLO HIM. Not really, but it'd be neat to watch. I kept a group going for FIVE MINUTES before someone complained that I needed to just die. NOT THIS WEEK THOUGH, no way. Druid died.. In Phase 2. In a dome. To a normal arcane shot. Not even a Deep Breath, just an arcane shot. Inside a dome. /sigh
Radiant Crusade is officially recruiting. This is my new raiding guild with my wife and one of my friends. We're going to powerhouse through the last bit of ICC/RS content and set ourselves up for Cataclysm, bumrush the content there, hit 85, and plow the raids. Be a top raiding guild during the new expansion.
On the Cataclysm note.. TWO MONTHS BLIZZARD. It's all you give me to farm ZG. 21 more attempts at the mounts to go. 21 more attempts. And 10 more attempts in MC at the Thunderfury bindings, since you're probably getting rid of that quest NPC too. Oh, and the AQ Scepter questline. Damn goblins hating me, can't finish that questline off either.
... Till later, cause I have ALL day to post this crap.
Blog-ginings
I've had a MySpace, I didn't use it much and let it die.
I've got a Facebook, it sees some use, but never anything worthwhile.
I've got a Twitter, I tweet.. Once or twice a week on it?
This is a blog. I might use it. I might not. I'm kinda planning on use it to go over all of the wonderful crap that I did for the day, like a after-the-fact daily planner, y'know? Who knows.
Only problem is.. I decided to make this thing when a new day has just started. So that really doesn't work.. Guess the first REAL blog will be at the beginning and end of the day, TODAY. Holy crap, we have a schedule.
I've got a Facebook, it sees some use, but never anything worthwhile.
I've got a Twitter, I tweet.. Once or twice a week on it?
This is a blog. I might use it. I might not. I'm kinda planning on use it to go over all of the wonderful crap that I did for the day, like a after-the-fact daily planner, y'know? Who knows.
Only problem is.. I decided to make this thing when a new day has just started. So that really doesn't work.. Guess the first REAL blog will be at the beginning and end of the day, TODAY. Holy crap, we have a schedule.
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