Smokin’!

Ok, its a fact. Nothing looks as smokin’ hot as a female dwarf on a chopper! Admit it!

Smokin' hot!

3.0.8 hit today.

/wrist

That is all.

Grats to H E X E D!

Congratulations to everyone in H E X E D on Sartharion 10-man +3 drakes! Server first on what has been generally acknowledged by every WoW raider to be the hardest raid encounter currently in the game. WOOT! Grats to Pargi on his new Black Dragon mount!

I’ve been H E X E D!

Well it didn’t work out with Forsaken Bloodlines guild. Nothing against them, they’re a group of really nice people. Its just that their raid style didn’t really work for me, I was looking for something different. They’ve been doing really well for a young guild, but I’m looking more for a hardcore raiding guild hell-bent on progression. When Ulduar comes out, a progression-based guild is going to require throwing themselves repeatedly at a boss for hours on end, trying different strats, for however many weeks (or sometimes months in the case of Mu’ru in SWP) to get it down and on farm status. I’m looking for a guild that’s not content with being in the top 20 but wants to be #1 on the server. One where everyone can have fun but takes progression seriously, doesn’t have to be told to use flasks, use food, use scrolls and whatever other consumable it takes.  Where people don’t make excuses for continuously dying in fissures but try to correct their mistakes instead of whining about how hard it is because there’s so much going on.

And now I think I’ve found it. I’m now a member of H E X E D, currently third on the server with Sartharion25 +3 down and working on server first Sartharion10 +3.  I haven’t been with them long but they are very friendly, and after listening to their Sarth10 +3 attempts last night, I’m convinced they hunger for progression as much as I do. Lots of joking around and chattering between pulls but buckled down and got serious every single attempt. And as a HUGE bonus, they do a lot of things when not raiding – 5mans, old school content, helping each other work on achievements and farm mounts, etc.  That’s something that is really nice to see and of big importance to me. Doing things together like that helps build a cohesive guild imo.

I really hope this works out.

Vindictiveness reigns supreme!

So as readers of this blog know, I was in Exodus until I had a falling out with a couple of my fellow officers. Not all of them, just a few, but it seems as those few (or one in particular) holds a grudge like I’ve not seen in an adult in a long time. Sad. I logged onto their vent last night as some of my friends in Exodus (yes, I still have quite a few friends there believe it or not) and I were doing a few instance runs together. I’d been on their vent server before since I quit the guild and it didn’t seem to be an issue. Others who have actually been kicked out of the guild are still allowed on the server, so we figured no big deal, right? Guess again. Seems some people just can’t let things go and leave others alone. Even though nothing I was doing affected her in any way, she banned me from the server. Was I doing anything wrong? Nope. The reason given for the ban was simply because it was me. LOL

Seems a few of the officers hold a grudge because of what I wrote here previously about them. I didn’t say anything that wasn’t true, whether they admit it or not but guess its too hard for them to admit there were valid issues. Was I partly to blame for what happened? Sure, I could have handled things better. I could have stayed calmer when confronting them about some of the issues I had. Yes, I was going through some personal issues at the time that made me a little wiggy, but that doesn’t change what I saw happening or the validity of the complaints I and others had.

I guess what bothers me the most is that no one saw fit to try and work things out, to try and discuss the issues that I saw or whatever issues they were having with me. That would have been the grown up thing to do. But they took the cowardly way out, and still do. Oh, they have no problem talking about me to others and badmouthing me. I’ve heard what they’ve been saying from several different people. But talking to me seems to be out of the question. Go figure.

Just kind of sad to see people I once considered friends to be like this.

Hey Beenz!

Eat my ass, ya drunken sot!

There, I updated my blog. Happy? :p

So, yeah…

My last post may have been a bit premature. *sigh*

On another note, not to be a traitor to my race and class, but I made a NE Death Knight last week and leveled her hard to get to Northrend. No, I have no plans to switch my main, I still love my hunter despite the upcoming severe nerfs, but with my hunter being a Jewelcrafter and Leatherworker, I needed a farm bitch to mine and skin for me.

I had a DK during beta that I played around a bit with and I really enjoyed it. I’m enjoying this one, too. I started off as Unholy spec but, yeah, that doesn’t fit with my playstyle all that much and despite claims of how wonderful the AOE is, I still found myself single-targeting almost all of the time and not doing much AOE damage, but also dying far too frequently for my liking. So I switched to Blood spec and I’m a much happier camper. I can survive many fights I would otherwise have died in and it just feels more fun to me. I’m only 71 right now, having taken a break from leveling to do the Winter Veil stuff on my hunter as well as doing some instances and whatnot. My skinning is maxed already and my mining is close to it, so I’m going to work on my fishing and cooking a little. Hoping to get cooking up high enough to do the Winter Veil Achievements before the season is over, which shouldn’t be too much of a problem. It will also give me another toon to do the cooking dailies on so I can load up on more spices and recipes. Woot!

A new home

Well yesterday I decided to bite the bullet and try my luck with a few pugs.  I signed up in the LFG channel and was soon picked up for a group heading to Heroic: Halls of Lightning. Well, 90 gold in repairs and 2 hours later, I was back in the LFG channel looking for another instance to do. The group was pretty good, we burned through most of H:HoL without much problem, but then… yes, Loken cockblocked us. Bastard. We threw ourselves at him repeatedly, repaired and kept at it until someone finally had to leave. We tried different strategies. Loken kicked our ass every time, although we got VERY close at one point. Sometimes even good players don’t make a viable group for a particular boss. This was one of them.

So I repaired again and got into another group for a few more heroics. This group was mostly a guild run with others they knew. I think I was the only pick-up. We did several different instances with a replacement member here and there. After Heroic: The Nexus, the tank had to leave so we replaced him/her. Picked up a tissue paper tank from LFG. I think he was just learning how to tank, too, because not only was he taking huge amounts of damage but was really slow to pick up adds and never watched the caster’s and healer’s mana. He’d just go running through from one group of trash to the next, even while we were yelling “DUDE STOP!” in party chat. lol  Ah well. You win some, you lose some. We did Heroic: Utgarde Keep and what is normally a 15-20 minute run turned into over an hour. Still, we finished it, the tank got the xbow he was craving, then we all begged off and he went away.

I took a break for a few minutes, did a Winter Veil quests, chatted a bit with a very nice but totally p-whipped dude from the pug, and bought a JC pattern for a cut he needed. Didn’t want him to but he insisted on paying me 50g. At least I talked him down from 100g. I hate taking money from people I like.

I jumped into LFG channel again, hoping to do some more pugs. I’ve missed running instances it seems and I didn’t even realize it. I mean I knew I wanted to do more but meh, haven’t been able to for a few weeks. So I’m back at it again. Well, I got a pst from someone asking if I’d like to do Naxx10 with them. It was a guild run but they’d had a few members that couldn’t make it so needed to pug a few spots. I said sure, what the hell. They’d done the first boss in the spider wing but the rest were still up. Mostly guild members, a friend or two and like three pugged spots. I was hopeful that it would be a good run, even though we started REALLY late in the evening.

I think it was after we’d killed Grand Widow Faerlina that I got the fateful pst. “Hey, you looking for a guild? We could really use your dps!” After thinking about it a short while and talking it over briefly with my bud, I decided what the hell. They weren’t quite as progressed as the guild I’d just left but you know what? We had fun last night!  We burned through three wings in no time and were doing great until we got to The Four Horsemen. Having a couple of newbs to the fight made it a little troublesome, added with the fact that it was by now about 3:30 am my time and people were really tired and some had to leave. But it was a fun night, a good time was had by all (well, aside from the one warrior pug – someone please explain to me how the hell someone gets to level 80 without any flying skill at all? Not even slow flying. Cripes, he was a pain in the ass, had to keep going back to summon him at the stone because “Oops guys, I fucked up and released.”)

Anyway, yeah, they aren’t quite as progressed as my previous guild but they do know how to have fun. We got shit done AND had a good time doing it. Unlike before, when it was all business, ‘burn through and let’s get out of here cuz none of us really wants to be here’ kind of attitude. And its nice to be wanted and appreciated for once. And they aren’t too far behind, either, especially for a smaller, newer guild.

So now Khassie is the newest member of Forsaken Bloodlines. Huzzah!

Grats!

Congratulations to my best friends in the world for getting server first for Sartharion +3!  Great job guys!! Love you much! <3

Its two-for-one day.

Well sorta. You get two rants today instead of just one. I just read one of Ghostcrawler’s most recent retarded statements and had to comment. Maybe someone with some sense can smack this one in his ear for me. Pretty please?

GC says, regarding the horrible upcoming hunter nerfs: “Our job is to make the game fun, and part of that includes trying to keep it balanced. Sometimes balance requires buffs and sometimes it requires nerfs. Sometimes we need to overhaul mechanics. Rarely if ever will the entire community agree on those changes, and really that’s not the goal.”

Seriously? I mean really, SERIOUSLY? How, then, do you explain the lack of balance as far as druids are concerned? Disregarding all of their other OP abilities, lets just discuss shapeshifting.  How is it that they continue to be allowed to instant cast shapeshift forms, while it takes us a  seconds to mount up? The community-at-large, which consists of everyone but druids in this case, have been bitching about how unfair this is for ages. The ONE time we temporarily can compete, during All Hallow’s Eve when our brooms were instant casts, what happened? Brooms got nerfed. The beloved druids bitched about how we were now able to be rude and do the things they have always had the exclusive right to do, like instant cast forms to flit from one mining node (or herb or whatever) to another, making farming a joy instead of a chore. So during the event, brooms were hit with the nerf stick and got slapped with the 3 second mount cast. WTF?

So mounting isn’t such a big deal you might say, right? Well it is because it gives druids a HUGE advantage when it comes to farming mats. Not only can they instant cast into their travel forms, but they can also mine nodes, pick flowers, and do just about anything else while still in flight form. So as you are running to a node, working your way through mobs, INCOMING! They swoop out of the sky, mine the node WHILE STILL IN FLIGHT FORM, and fly off to the next one before you even get your pick out of your pocket.

Game balance? Right. Don’t insult my intelligence by saying all of this is about game balance.  It has nothing to do with game balance. If it did, dps warriors would be getting nerfed hard, too, considering they do huge amounts of damage above and beyond anything hunters can do on single-target attacks.  I’m the first to admit that Volley was doing a considerable amount of damage and probably should be brought down a bit. Then again, so do other classes that have AOE attacks. Are they going to get nerfed as well? Doubtful. On single target attacks, hunters weren’t over and above everyone else on the meters. Mages, dps warriors, rogues, they are all up there. But because of our one Volley attack, our single dps attack, Steady Shot, is getting hit badly, along with our beloved pets.

Yeah. Its all about game balance.