AOE Looting!

Sep26

So!  Thus far in the new update we can already tell things are going to go better than they did with Cata. I haven’t done any mining yet, but it’s easy enough to get herbs (in cata if you weren’t standing on a node, you didn’t get it, and 2-5 people were pouncing on it the second it spawned).  The cloth drops are reasonable enough to get a stack or two during play time.  In Cata you were lucky to get 5 cloths in hours.

The AOE looting, which we’ve had since patch 5.0, IS AWESOME.  Being able to get all the loot from mobs in a range is just fantastic.  It also seems you learn new alchemy skills by making pots/flasks rather than ranking up everything at a trainer.  I haven’t touched my mages/shamans skills yet.

The quests now give gear based on your class/spec, it appears.  So no more Cata nonsense where you did 10 quests in a row and only got plate or mail options.  Every quest so far has given me items I could specifically use.  This is pretty awesome. SO! On to the quest images!

Heading to Pandaria on the boat

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Shooting down horde stuff

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At one point you blow up a horde ship, and they all are swimming to shore to not drown, and that awesome night elf rogue fellow says to shoot them down like dogs! GOOD FOR HIM! XD

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Then on the island, so pretty, collecting apple cider with this guy.

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This was just a minor boss but the effects in the room were kind of cool

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The two dungeons I ran were pretty fun, not that hard (not heroics) but funny and fun to do.  We couldn’t get a tank to come with us, so we had a pug one this time I went with Onenightstab, Perfide, and Angeycakes, and he was ilevel 376 with 4 377 pvp pieces.  The guy was a little hard to heal.

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Flight paths are now on this glider, reminds me a little of the glider in the Last Airbender.

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And, really? I will pay, REAL MONEY for one of these guys to yell IT’S A TRAP!!!

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Oh and hey, it’s Minion from Megamind.

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And ok, wait for it, wait for it….

HEALS SUCK OMG

Sep24

Sometimes I wonder why you don’t see many pvp healers, but I guess if I used half a brain and thought about it, it would be pretty clear. There is the obvious like we get focused first, usually, and rarely does anyone “protect” or peel off you. In random battlegrounds this doesn’t bother me TOO terribly because I take it as a challenge to try to survive anyway. In persistent battlegrounds like WG/TB, it’s annoying because everyone should pay attention to their healers.

The additional insult is from random players who complain about not getting heals without paying attention to WHY they didn’t get heals. Was I the only healer? I can’t heal everyone across the entire map. Was I getting my ass pounded into the ground? Yeah I can’t really heal anyone else when I’m trying to not die. Was our dps not killing a fing thing? Yeah, these questions need to be answered.

Was in a random BG and in Twin Peaks. The other team had a prot warrior flag carrier with 4 healers. We had someone call out to focus the prot warrior and I said something about the feasibility of taking down a warrior with 4 heals.

This of course opened a whole can of worms discussing what an idiot I was, how I must never RBG, I’d never be accepted to his RBG team, blah blah terrible heals whatever. I was their only heals. The best comment however was:

“Nice mana heals, only 100k lawl”.

/facepalm

Then in Tol Barad the other day, a DK by the name of Deathbybean (think it’s that Meanbean guy) was yelling at everyone for not getting vehicles. The problem was, no one, NO ONE had even one HK so we couldn’t. It was that bad. Alliance had like 3 mages at every base with a healer. It was pathetic.

For no particular reason he started insulting me, saying I probably was a bad pvp healer, probably had no pvp gear, etc etc. I said I was fully pvp geared and well experienced in pvp, but I didn’t see how me healing was going to help dps who can’t kill crap for anything. Yes, it will keep you from dying but it’s not going to help you kill the enemy. AMIRIGHT?

It’s like when that horrible hunter named Kiya tried to kill my horde priest in WG, I kick her ever loving ass. But she gets a healer on her, she still can’t kill me but now she’s wasting all of our time getting heals.

We went back and forth arguing about this up until we lost the battle (predictable, the only HK I got was when I killed a mage myself) and I must have angered the guy because he took it to PMs. This is the fun I got, and I’m always up for an argument.

Deathbybean: haha man you must give it to your buddy good for him to stick up for you like that

(Stout told the guy off earlier)

Him: how far did you get your junk down his throat LOL

Me: Maybe I do, so what? Jealous?

Him: not at all ha ha… its funny when people talk crap then ignore you haha, its always about getting the last word in i guess right? thats always mature

(because insulting your healers is mature)

Then I told him if I wanted to shit talk I’d be more than happy to do it directly, and said I healed my ass off at Slags but we killed no one. Then I got

Him: well then I apologize cause I want at slags

me: no worries

him: thats all you had to say you didnt have to be so defensive XD

Uh huh. See the aforementioned “if there is a healer in raid and I’m not getting heals they must be bad” comment. WE MIGHT NOT EVEN BE NEAR YOU.

The Stoutspectre!

Sep22

I don’t know what is up with random battlegrounds, but I pretty much lose 100% of the time on alliance or horde.

Anyway, so, gosh!  Is it rogue season?  The Stoutspectre! He is back!

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Could hardly believe it!

Then the next day, Nicholopolis (also a rogue), who I haven’t seen in 6 or so months, was back on.  I hope to see more people on for MoP!

Holystab is awful

Sep22

So, yeah, I think Holystab is, not working out. We talked in skype for bgs once, had to listen to farting noises (I’m not kidding), repeated comments about what was going on in his pants, how he could outheal my disc priest on his shadow priest (to which I said, ‘that means you are playing a spriest wrong’), and so on.

Then yesterday he asked me to heal a heroic with “his girl”. I said sure. He invites me, then he and she are off somewhere losing a lot of life. I wait a bit then ask if we’re going to queue or what. We queue and get heroic VP, which is one of my favorites. He throws up a queue for multiple dungeons, then says he hates this one and refuses to tank it. Says he’ll sit there 15 minutes if he had to, basically stalling the group. Then he queued up for ZG, which I HATE, and I declined, then left taking 30 min deserter.

You ask me to heal something? Don’t waste my fucking time being a nit pick. I gave him a piece of my mind then went off to lose a bunch of battlegrounds.