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Drops nerfed

Dec19

I’ve read/heard there’s been a lot of unhappiness with the Cataclysm update, on various sides of the coin.  Casual raiders were not happy with the Firelands raids saying it was too hard.  I rather enjoyed them.  Hard core raiders were upset when it was nerfed and quit over it because they weren’t as hard. etc

I really had no problem with the difficulty of ICC, Bot/Bwd, or Firelands. What is kind of getting my goat lately is progress on gear, particularly tailored items. When cata first came out you could buy the epic pants/belt patterns with a bunch of embersilk or dreamcloth. You could make steady self-made progress on those.

Then Firelands rolls around and the patterns are drops from the FL raid trash ONLY.  Did I ever see those drop? No. Did I ever get a pattern? No.  I bought the spirit boots rec from the AH once and flipped it for profit expecting more to show up, but then the drops were nerfed into nonexistence and I literally never saw that boot pattern again until it didn’t even matter any more. Maybe it’s because I didn’t want to drop 15- 30k on a recipe that would never, EVER recup the costs of itself. But I had no way to get that pattern myself.

Now with Dragon Soul we still have the same crap with patterns, but ALL tier is based on tokens, when previously you could get everything but shoulders and helmet from VP. Now you have to win tokens to get anything, or get lucky in BH. Add to that you cannot prospect epic gems from any ore, those also only come from raids.  I know people asked for gear and such to go back to BC standards which I guess were “fun” to some people, but I personally like being able to make progress to some degree outside of raiding, even though I’ve always raided. The cost of inferno rubies have gone way up too since most people are using those instead of a 2-15k gems from raids.  Anyway my point is, I like being able to make my own, even if slow, progress on a few things myself, and not having to require raids 100% to get every upgrade.

Sometimes we win

Dec18

Only did one bg today but it was a totally boss one where alliance destroyed the FC (WSG) even through 4 healers.  We won, was just awesome. Oh and yesterday, we had a 5 cap, I swear.

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FML

Dec18

Did a DS 10 with mostly Relentless again, and fuck my life they had another disc priest in there again. Apparently no one called out loot rules so the druid won a weapon, then won a ring, and I lost the tier pants to the other priest. So to date out of BH, every week of LFR, and 2 10m DS, I got a side grade belt. I also turned in 4 of those geodes and got a single green gem. Really blizzard, really? I kill a RAID BOSS and get a gem worth 5g?

I was never mad like this when I had a guild raid team, but perhaps because I knew that eventually I’d get something and it wasn’t constantly walking away with someone I’d never see again. Anyway I should shut up my other characters have won enough but gosh, my priest is my MAIN so it bugs me.

I want this set

Dec17

Ran guild LFR tonight and won Gloves of Liquid Smoke. Was another 10/11m guild run and Shock got to tease me about a nice necklace that dropped, saying he would have given it to my priest if I was healing.  Buuuut since it’s just one guild group a week I can make I’ve decided to rotate the characters.

And, ok, where do I get this set? huh huh? XD Damn custom armor…

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The good bg streak continued today as well, getting in an ALREADY WINNING wsg, which we won, the just rapage AB win, then a SotA win.  Amazing how the days fluctuate.

It was Lag

Dec17

It seems like this patch, more than any other I’ve noticed, people are coming into the new dungeons completely and ridiculously under geared. People with equipped ilevel 340, wearing mostly pvp blues, or a bunch of 316 pve blues. Today I even had a ret pally with NO glyphs, no gems, no enchants, and a mismash of blues and some epics, pulling 8k in Well of Eternity. The first boss took twice as long as usual and the Dk tank pointed out that the second one might not go well. I heaped a bit of abuse on the pally who said nothing the entire time, and we figured him/her as a bot and kicked them.

The hunter was in almost all pvp blues also doing 8k dps but was blaming it on “lag”. During the last fight in Well I pointed out that they died straight away to fire, and that their gear sucked ass, so lag was probably less of their issue than they figured. I got the usual “dude relax I’m trying to gear up” stuff. Well everyone wants to gear up, but what those people are doing is called “being carried”. I pounded out regular dungeons and bgs on my poorly geared shaman to swap out all my crap gear for at least 3 pc t12 and related pve epics. But dps have it a lot easier since you can do bad and be carried by the healer and tanks. A badly geared healer, just gets kicked out.