Satchels are not always worth it

Mar3

Same old same old lately, missed FL this week because I had to work late Wed. Got the Ledger of Revolting Rituals on my shaman though I’d prefer the shield during DS10. Haden’t gotten anything lately so that was nice.

Ran DS10 in the “alt” group on my priest and won healing plate BS plans, Dragonfire Orb offhand, and the glove token. We also went on to get Deathwing the next day so I got that achievement. I feel a little funny when Angelic says things like “we need a good healer” repeatedly when talking to me, or other such comments. I don’t know if that means he thinks I’m one, or, not. Anyway a rogue named Effects was really obnoxious that fight.

My random healy dungeons continue to be mostly Rag/Goldrinn/ etc all Portuguese groups and it’s getting rather annoying. Today we wiped on End Time with an all Goldrinn group, on that dumb moon lady when I got stunned and the tank went down too fast to recover. They said a ton of stuff that I couldn’t understand, then we wiped on Baine when they were in the lava too long. Some of the phrases included “patience of a saint for this garbage healer”, and “healer doesn’t understand us”. Before I knew that though I decided a satchel wasn’t worth it and left.

Then the next run I got complimented on my healing and when I mentioned the group before got “well you can’t heal stupid”. I laughed at that.

Office Buildings?

Mar3

It just feels wrong to see all these NPCs that use to have lore, in the correct location, in an “office building” now.  It would be like Blizzard putting the warrior king of Stormwind in a cubicle.    The dialog all so far feels like it came from the same person with no variance in what race or class the people are.

There’s also confusing text “lore” wise, like Celin in the ruins says that Amadeo Cadmus may be young, but he’s charming, has looks and power, long blonde hair and a beautiful face. Uh, well Amadeo Cadmus was the King of Aden, and did not look young, or have blonde hair.

http://wiki.catchmehooking.com/index.php?title=Amadeo_Cadmus

I did a quest where you had to show your sorrow by crying over corpses on the ground.

veteran20

It warned you not to laugh or dance, and I took that as a dare so I did, and that just spawns 2 mobs to kill you, even though I was able to fight them off.  There’s also one where a dog escorts you around the ruins. First escort quest I’ve seen in the game, ever.

veteran24

I plan on getting to at least 40 but so far there’s been 2 clear points where if I was really new I would have quit.  First would have been the confusion with the quest that went nowhere, and secondly, being repeatedly PK’d even with protection on early in the game.

When I hit 19 I started looking around to class change, and I went from the ruins back to town from the direction of the npc there.  They told me to talk to Rivian who gives this confusing bit of dialog.

veteran21

I don’t remember getting a newbie travel token.  It says to see Rosella in Elven village, only no npcs are in elven village any more.  Then it says to SEE Rosella who will send you to the village, but prior to that it says Rosella is IN elven village. Ok?

veteran22

Then it says to go to Gludio to High Priest Raymond. Elven Vilalge is clearly deserted so I go to Gludio who also says to see Rosella in Elven village. Sigh.

veteran23

I feel like this will be a lot of “this is so easy it took me 30 mins to hit 20 wtf” but being new to the area and going by quest and npc text only, I’m having a hell of a time.

Surfer dude?

Mar3

Recently when I logged in, it made me enter a pin. It’s the same one all the time unlike the WoW authenticator.

I picked up another quest which took me to Flame Lord Kakai, who looks completely out of place in the “administration office”.  He’s an ORC, a FLAME lord.  At an office building?  Seems weird.  Where’s his stone village lit by fire? Sad. He also said something about building a new home “here on the Immortal Plateau” but um, Orc Village was nowhere NEAR Talking Island, how can that be? I don’t know besides all that the dialog just seems written more hip, it’s odd to read after doing all the old style quests.  Kakai things like “killer headache”, “this stuff” and “nasty little” which makes him sound like he’s from California or something. That quest gave me 13,000 exp, the first serious batch I’ve gotten so far. After that point I got the little guide arrow that pointed seemingly off into the ocean.

veteran16

it’s like uhhh hm. Doesn’t work well on hilly areas I think. The next quest marker shot straight into the side of a mountain for example. But after that I got leather armor rained on me, clearly inappropriate for my class, jewelry and before I knew it I was 3 levels higher for doing nothing.

On my way to the ruins I got killed by a red just looking around getting my bearings and again, the npcs just stand around doing nothing.  I’m not new to the PK scene but there should be severe protection for lower levels.

veteran17

Buuut on the way back I ran into the guy again, killed him, and looted 806 D bsps and 5 soulshots, ha ha. Served him right. I was going to say mean things to him but it said that “characters level 20 and below cannot use regular chat functions except answering whispers”.  Is that because of the gold sellers? Irritating!  Anyway I got my PK protection before I went out again. The guy was back to the ruins before I could manage to get there, he killed a few more players then went back to the ruins to kill people again.  I could not even whisper him to say mean things 🙁 Then I was killed a second time by another player some how,  did this a few times trying to kill the other player before someone chased them off.  I don’t know how I killed the guy once but the next times he resisted all my spells.  Ah well, once those two scattered I grinded out to level 12 old school style, got bored and logged. With no one to talk to it gets boring quick.

It seems the quests are more interactive than all the old ones, in this one you picked up papers around the area, then thieves spawn to killed you.

veteran18

It doesn’t sound like much but the most interactive NPCs ever got a few updates ago was spawning and just standing there, or with the 3rd class change, helping you attack.  Otherwise there was nothing like that.

I again run into reds AGAIN.

veteran19

It gets tiring, I leave.

OMG yer MMR

Feb26

Ran RBGs with Yoshimara again last night, which took a good hour to form up. Then Dirtydk, who sounds like he’s 13 wouldn’t stop crying about how my mmr was low. Yeah sorry it was 0 last week and went to about 1300 in one night, and that’s the last time I did it. Our server doesn’t exactly run those often. They wanted people 1700+. We won EoTS, AB, and a WSG and I hit 1600 and got the Knight title. I must have heard bitching about my mmr and exactly how much it changed each fight 5x. In EotS Dirty also commented how I kept dying repeatedly. Yes, when you run to a base with 6 of the other team who actually know how to pvp, they will pound me into the ground and without peels I will die pretty instantly.

After that we lost a WSG when the dps failed to do much damage at all to the EFC (was watching via focus) even though 4 of their team cc’d me and the pally healer real hard and killed our FC. There was much “are you kidding me?” like there’s much you can do with chain stuns/fears, Emfh on CD, and the FC in a smoke bomb. We then went on to get 3 capped in Gilneas, I think a few people weren’t on vent and not calling anything was most of the reason we lost, and half the raid raged and cursed and left, laying all the blame on the raid leader, like they shouldn’t be looking around at the situation and making their own decisions. I do feel stupid that I was at LH with a warlock, and I SHOULD HAVE stayed, but they told me to go, then LH got capped shortly after. Sigh.

After that I got picked up for a heroic 25m LK kill and got my token, so I have the pretty heroic sanctified alcolye robes now, was very happy about that. I brought my set with just to prove I wasn’t wasting a token, since you MUST have the 10.5 version to even use the tokens. I prefer how tokens in wrath worked; you can choose what item to upgrade and it’s not set as a head, gloves, etc piece.

Dude stfu

Feb24

Ran DS last night on my shaman, could not get Blackhorn down, and the annoying pally was with us. I think he just likes to hear himself talk, even after it’s been said, many times that the only alchemist is Lila on her alt, he asks if we have an alchemist, then asks if anyone has conc pots, which we’ve never had, then hearths to the AH and buys some. He’s also one of the first healers in as long as I can remember who insists on a role check even though he SHOULD know what everyone is doing, then asks for the main tank even though we know that’s always Cinor. On the 3rd boss last night he started randomly asking how to do mouse over macros and asked Shift to paste it in vent, but of course we were like, could you do this SOME OTHER TIME please????

For what feels like the 3rd week in a row, no loot dropped I could even roll on.