As some of you may recall in the past I have mentioned that I have become something of a toon/class purist. When dual spec'ing became nothing more than the press of a button I used this to create, for me, a spec for PVE and a spec for PVP. Trouble is I found that as the toon leveled one of the spec's went on to be used less and when I did try to play it often fell WAY short on doing so with any degree of proficiency.
What a grand excuse to roll MORE TOONS....
Er, um, so the conundrum created as a result of this is....I have to level my healers as healers.
One of my more recently created toons is Aelona:
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/norgannon/Aelona/simple
She is my first Mistweaver monk, it is a toon I bonded with fairly immediately (always a good thing!), and I was able to level her from 90-100 as a Mistweaver! Now the kick here is that the class has the Stance of The Spirited Crane. The stance boots DPS but still allows for a decent amount of heals. There is no equivalent for the other healers. Alas, I found that trying to take on mobs of the same level took way too long and if there were two or three of them it ended up being much too much of a close call.
The best thing for me was to level her to 93 using LFG and BG's and THEN tackle questing.
Frankly it kind of sucks!
The first toon a leveled was a Blood DK, as a Blood DK. Slower killing, but she wudnt going to die no matters! Second was Aelona........way to long to kill anything not at least two levels below her, but it also takes too long for mobs to die! Next has been my Fury Warrior, Zyrranelda....who kills anything in three seconds or less.
The next healer I am working on is my Tauren Druid Klowd. Klowd Ive gotten about half way through the starting event....and lemme tell ya...killing anything is a TOTAL event. Its starts with a Wrath at the farthest possible range followed by a Starfire, kitty form shread, but not before applying a Rejuv, and dropping a shroom, and the killing what ever while I am in bear form....I am tired after typing all that.
So lets see how it goes, shall we? Anyone else doing anything like this or am a I a true snowflake...."CHARLIE....."
Love and hugs
K
Saturday, January 24, 2015
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Its been too long!!!
Helooo all my World of Warcraft friends!! So, as my Seasonal Affective Disorder fades, and my comfort level with my writing ability starts to renew itself I have decided to post a little post about my thoughts of Warlords of Draenor.
I feel there are a few things I must divulge first!!
1) For those of you who may not know my gaming history started with WOW back in 2008. I Played the original Diablo, but never "On-line".
2) I was never into computers.
3) I was never much into computer games. (Okay,okay....Tomb Raider, Medi Evil, Kingdom Hearts and Twisted Metal, DID have me up until dawn 15 years ago, but I never knew there was a community of players out there!)
Why did I want to tell you these things? I don't even remember now. Anyway, my regular schedule has me off work on Friday and Saturday. I did stay up and was able to get a little of the game in on launch day, but my plan was to keep away until I got home around 1:00 am on Friday and then go balls to the wall for as much as I could.
I love the excitement of an expansion. All the chatter on podcasts....people yapping about it in trade....all the talk about what may or may not happen! For being alone in my room the whole thing provides a significant level of thrill, and WOD delivered. Yes there were issues, yes there was the DDOS thing, yes the Tannan jungle is as of yet unopened, and yes we still cant fly, but most of us expected these kind of things going in.
Visually....its just stunning....STUNNING!! It took me about a week to get my first toon to 100. I had no plans to rush, I wanted to see, read, and just fucking DO an expansion for the first time, and for the most part I was able to do as I wanted, and there were a few time I hit such a wonderful WOW "ZONE", that hours would have gone bye and I hadn't even noticed. However there were times I literally had to stop, look and catch my breath.
(((Zone in the above refers to a Zen kind of thing....not an actual zone in the game)))
Garrisons were the new shiny flavor of the day. Not my thing personally (although I do like them), some of the people I play with have become full fledged "garrisonites", putting as much thought into plots, missions, followers and resources as any top tear raider puts into raiding.
Others are all about the treasure chests! Also not my thing personally (although I am not above squealing with high pitched glee when I happen upon a random pile/box/stash of goods, I certainly don't look for them, and have removed HandyNotes from my add-ons (TOO much clutter on my map!!). I find I like when I stumble upon that stuff anyway!
Professions, professions, professions......they have never exactly been something I could say I was good at. My brain just does not seem geared to be able to absorb, and become proficient with them. I don't think I am that dim, as far as being dim goes, but I think its one of the things my brain finds boring, as it would much rather being doing anything else. I feel the same way about playing the auction house, there are people who can do it in their sleep, I aint one of them!
I do love the new five mans...OH MY GOD....do I love the new five mans. I have started doing them on all my level 90's and the actual dungeons have delivered just about every time. I am enjoying the fact that there is a degree of know-how required and you cant just blast your way through them. I love the artwork, I love how loot works now, just love love love them!!
And my sweet sweet PVP. To know me is to know that I am not at all a competitive person...like at all! And my upbringing is such that when I am loosing I tend to kick and scream like a spider eating man bitch...but NOTHING else I do thrills me as much as kicking ass in a BG. I want to say that PVP changes are the cause, but I really think that my DK is just so AWSOME (PS...if you are into PVP and do not have a "Gladiators Sanctum" you are seriously clipping your own wings), but I will admit that the whole experience feels ironed (no pun intended) out some how. Although....the South Shore BG was no good if you are melee, and low level hunters in a BG just wreck the whole experience for everyone else, it is still my favorite part of WOW, and its likely to be until the end of my days.
What I don't like about WOD is the same thing that I don't like in any of the MMO's I have played. I don't expect it to be too easy as too easy is boring, but the other thing I find boring is realizing an objective is on above or below me, and trying to FIND the way to the objective is not entirely clear. Even typing this out my face is getting warm. There have been times when I simply can not find the path, or entrance or whatever it is I need to find to get me where ever it was I needed to go, and it just was no fun at all....and that all ima going to say about that!! (I'm not in the mood to be all aggie about it!!!)
Is it my favorite expansion? No. My favorite was actually Cataclysm.
I think there is a lot to be said for the leveling experience and I just don't think leveling is considered important any more. I can imagine that re-doing everything for an expansion would be impossible but I think tweeking "Old world" stuff could be warranted, and could be a lot of fun.
So in closing it is a wonderful, beautiful, lore-full, expansion, with games in side the game for all kinds of game players and skill levels. It still has some kinks (and I think my computer is getting old) but its a home run for sure!!!
I swear I am not a blizzard fan boy!!
Love you all....peace and stuff.
K
I feel there are a few things I must divulge first!!
1) For those of you who may not know my gaming history started with WOW back in 2008. I Played the original Diablo, but never "On-line".
2) I was never into computers.
3) I was never much into computer games. (Okay,okay....Tomb Raider, Medi Evil, Kingdom Hearts and Twisted Metal, DID have me up until dawn 15 years ago, but I never knew there was a community of players out there!)
Why did I want to tell you these things? I don't even remember now. Anyway, my regular schedule has me off work on Friday and Saturday. I did stay up and was able to get a little of the game in on launch day, but my plan was to keep away until I got home around 1:00 am on Friday and then go balls to the wall for as much as I could.
I love the excitement of an expansion. All the chatter on podcasts....people yapping about it in trade....all the talk about what may or may not happen! For being alone in my room the whole thing provides a significant level of thrill, and WOD delivered. Yes there were issues, yes there was the DDOS thing, yes the Tannan jungle is as of yet unopened, and yes we still cant fly, but most of us expected these kind of things going in.
Visually....its just stunning....STUNNING!! It took me about a week to get my first toon to 100. I had no plans to rush, I wanted to see, read, and just fucking DO an expansion for the first time, and for the most part I was able to do as I wanted, and there were a few time I hit such a wonderful WOW "ZONE", that hours would have gone bye and I hadn't even noticed. However there were times I literally had to stop, look and catch my breath.
(((Zone in the above refers to a Zen kind of thing....not an actual zone in the game)))
Garrisons were the new shiny flavor of the day. Not my thing personally (although I do like them), some of the people I play with have become full fledged "garrisonites", putting as much thought into plots, missions, followers and resources as any top tear raider puts into raiding.
Others are all about the treasure chests! Also not my thing personally (although I am not above squealing with high pitched glee when I happen upon a random pile/box/stash of goods, I certainly don't look for them, and have removed HandyNotes from my add-ons (TOO much clutter on my map!!). I find I like when I stumble upon that stuff anyway!
Professions, professions, professions......they have never exactly been something I could say I was good at. My brain just does not seem geared to be able to absorb, and become proficient with them. I don't think I am that dim, as far as being dim goes, but I think its one of the things my brain finds boring, as it would much rather being doing anything else. I feel the same way about playing the auction house, there are people who can do it in their sleep, I aint one of them!
I do love the new five mans...OH MY GOD....do I love the new five mans. I have started doing them on all my level 90's and the actual dungeons have delivered just about every time. I am enjoying the fact that there is a degree of know-how required and you cant just blast your way through them. I love the artwork, I love how loot works now, just love love love them!!
And my sweet sweet PVP. To know me is to know that I am not at all a competitive person...like at all! And my upbringing is such that when I am loosing I tend to kick and scream like a spider eating man bitch...but NOTHING else I do thrills me as much as kicking ass in a BG. I want to say that PVP changes are the cause, but I really think that my DK is just so AWSOME (PS...if you are into PVP and do not have a "Gladiators Sanctum" you are seriously clipping your own wings), but I will admit that the whole experience feels ironed (no pun intended) out some how. Although....the South Shore BG was no good if you are melee, and low level hunters in a BG just wreck the whole experience for everyone else, it is still my favorite part of WOW, and its likely to be until the end of my days.
What I don't like about WOD is the same thing that I don't like in any of the MMO's I have played. I don't expect it to be too easy as too easy is boring, but the other thing I find boring is realizing an objective is on above or below me, and trying to FIND the way to the objective is not entirely clear. Even typing this out my face is getting warm. There have been times when I simply can not find the path, or entrance or whatever it is I need to find to get me where ever it was I needed to go, and it just was no fun at all....and that all ima going to say about that!! (I'm not in the mood to be all aggie about it!!!)
Is it my favorite expansion? No. My favorite was actually Cataclysm.
I think there is a lot to be said for the leveling experience and I just don't think leveling is considered important any more. I can imagine that re-doing everything for an expansion would be impossible but I think tweeking "Old world" stuff could be warranted, and could be a lot of fun.
So in closing it is a wonderful, beautiful, lore-full, expansion, with games in side the game for all kinds of game players and skill levels. It still has some kinks (and I think my computer is getting old) but its a home run for sure!!!
I swear I am not a blizzard fan boy!!
Love you all....peace and stuff.
K
Monday, May 26, 2014
The add-on/cheating line
Yes, its been nearly two months since I last published. And to be honest the thought of even looking at this thing hasn't even crossed my mind. This is partly due to issues in real life. Although I often fantasize about being the "emo artist", writing while I am depressed or unhappy is more work then I want it to be, so I don't, cuz I am sure no one wants to read that kind of thing anyway!
So, what shall I talk about?
Here is one subject that always seems to raise a voice or two: When do add-ons become cheating?
Now I am SO not being all mother superior here, and there have been times and places when and edge was made available to me and I took advantage of it, and afterwards never felt very good about it. These times were when I was horribly stuck on something like Tomb Raider or Spyro the Dragon, or Medievil, or Kingdom Hearts. I remember trying over and over and over to kill Ursula in KH and after weeks consulted a cheat guide, beat her, and then didn't go back to the game for a while because I felt guilty.
The one add-on that I did stop using (remember, this is my own opinion, and everyone else is free to think or use what ever they want), was spell-flash. There was something about it telling me what I should do next that gave me that same feeling that I got when I started eating my Thanksgiving dinner before someone started saying grace. Now, to be my own Devils advocate here, one could argue that Deadly Boss Mods tells me when to move or when to taunt, so......
I dunno! Is this a huge issue that is going to break the game...of course not. I find I have something of an issue with mods like: Healers have to die m(more because I play lots of healers) or any add-on that reads and broadcasts MY cool downs to another player...those piss me off.
Just a wondering here!
Best and love to you all!!
Kurly
So, what shall I talk about?
Here is one subject that always seems to raise a voice or two: When do add-ons become cheating?
Now I am SO not being all mother superior here, and there have been times and places when and edge was made available to me and I took advantage of it, and afterwards never felt very good about it. These times were when I was horribly stuck on something like Tomb Raider or Spyro the Dragon, or Medievil, or Kingdom Hearts. I remember trying over and over and over to kill Ursula in KH and after weeks consulted a cheat guide, beat her, and then didn't go back to the game for a while because I felt guilty.
The one add-on that I did stop using (remember, this is my own opinion, and everyone else is free to think or use what ever they want), was spell-flash. There was something about it telling me what I should do next that gave me that same feeling that I got when I started eating my Thanksgiving dinner before someone started saying grace. Now, to be my own Devils advocate here, one could argue that Deadly Boss Mods tells me when to move or when to taunt, so......
I dunno! Is this a huge issue that is going to break the game...of course not. I find I have something of an issue with mods like: Healers have to die m(more because I play lots of healers) or any add-on that reads and broadcasts MY cool downs to another player...those piss me off.
Just a wondering here!
Best and love to you all!!
Kurly
Thursday, April 3, 2014
Have I become I surly WOW player?
Rage quitting!
It has become a daily occurrence in my WOW experience, and its pissing me off! LOL...okay....I couldn't resist that....but its sadly kind of the truth.
I cant think of the last time I didn't log on only to experience some kind of MMO disgust that had me leaving whatever group or BG I was in after saying something utterly sinful in chat. Especially when the Demonology Warlock, who, has been afk for half of a dungeon started plowing ahead me (I was tanking) and pulling agro from all the mobs. Frankly I don't care what they say on World of Warcast, blowing off group protocol is rude, and not fun for me. So I called the player a dick and left the group. (I still live Mike and Eric, but that episode of Warcast had me red in the cheeks for hours!)
Sigh. This is just not me....well maybe a little me. I do have a reputation for being slightly dramatic and very off color, but does that excuse me yelling in vent last week when 13 people were telling me the best way do the crawler mines while tanking that boss to "SHUT THE FUCK UP FOR FIVE MINUTES!!" Yes, I said (or rather yelled this) to 11 other people in vent.
I am wondering if I am feeling the first effects of burnout, and this upsets me. When I realized that the existing five mans where going to be the only five mans available to me, I knew I was in trouble. Although I love the Scarlett Monastery instances any of the Pandaria dungeons have been over played SO much that I don't even bother queuing for them, and have toons I want to level.
I don't want to be this angry WOW player. I love WOW, there are so so many reasons I love WOW, but if I am being honest I have to say that I feel like Blizzard set me adrift about five months ago, and adrift I shall be for another five.
Anywho.,..thanks for listening.
Love your guts!
Kurl
It has become a daily occurrence in my WOW experience, and its pissing me off! LOL...okay....I couldn't resist that....but its sadly kind of the truth.
I cant think of the last time I didn't log on only to experience some kind of MMO disgust that had me leaving whatever group or BG I was in after saying something utterly sinful in chat. Especially when the Demonology Warlock, who, has been afk for half of a dungeon started plowing ahead me (I was tanking) and pulling agro from all the mobs. Frankly I don't care what they say on World of Warcast, blowing off group protocol is rude, and not fun for me. So I called the player a dick and left the group. (I still live Mike and Eric, but that episode of Warcast had me red in the cheeks for hours!)
Sigh. This is just not me....well maybe a little me. I do have a reputation for being slightly dramatic and very off color, but does that excuse me yelling in vent last week when 13 people were telling me the best way do the crawler mines while tanking that boss to "SHUT THE FUCK UP FOR FIVE MINUTES!!" Yes, I said (or rather yelled this) to 11 other people in vent.
I am wondering if I am feeling the first effects of burnout, and this upsets me. When I realized that the existing five mans where going to be the only five mans available to me, I knew I was in trouble. Although I love the Scarlett Monastery instances any of the Pandaria dungeons have been over played SO much that I don't even bother queuing for them, and have toons I want to level.
I don't want to be this angry WOW player. I love WOW, there are so so many reasons I love WOW, but if I am being honest I have to say that I feel like Blizzard set me adrift about five months ago, and adrift I shall be for another five.
Anywho.,..thanks for listening.
Love your guts!
Kurl
Thursday, March 27, 2014
Surviving Boost-gate!
Since the option to boost a toon up to 90 has been available for a while now, its no surprise that I've been hearing comments about it in just about every available medium. Podcasts, Facebook, Google+ and Twitter have been alight with tales of woe ranging from Boost remorse to folks who are more than happy to humiliate an obviously under-geared, less experienced player by calling them "boobs" (boosted + noob).
Oh brother!
After warlocks went through their class change a while back, I was having THE hardest time making the new skills and talents make any sense. Out of sheer frustration and spite, I removed all of my spell and ability icons from their boxes on my UI, logged off and sat in the dark pouting for a while. After my tantrum I shamefacedly logged back in and realized I had a great opportunity at totally changing how I played that toon.
What I am going to offer here is my suggestion to someone who has boosted a toon to level 90. Mind you I am no genius and my suggestion may sound crazy silly, but here 'tis any way.
Each class has abilities that:
Buff themselves
Debuff the enemy to make them weaker or more sensitive to your damage.
Are direct damage or damage over time abilities.
Are crowd control
Perform an action that temporarily increases damage done by normal abilities.
Defensive abilities.
What worked for me was grouping abilities with the same or similar function together in groups on my action bars starting with the abilities that debuff the enemy (personal buffs go on my inside right column bar) followed by the abilities that do the temporary increasing of the damage, followed by damaging abilities. CC's and defensive abilities I put in the original UI boxes.
Certainly not rocket science and I may be totally embarrassing my self as this could be how people have been doing it all along. I had to laugh out of the other side of my face the other day when I was going through my Enhancement shimmy's abilities and found something I wasn't using and didn't even know was there!
Also, its a good idea to read through your passive skills. They may help you figure out a better rotation!
So that's is for now.
Thank for playing.....please, come back again soon....it gets lonely up here sometimes.
Peace....M
Oh brother!
After warlocks went through their class change a while back, I was having THE hardest time making the new skills and talents make any sense. Out of sheer frustration and spite, I removed all of my spell and ability icons from their boxes on my UI, logged off and sat in the dark pouting for a while. After my tantrum I shamefacedly logged back in and realized I had a great opportunity at totally changing how I played that toon.
What I am going to offer here is my suggestion to someone who has boosted a toon to level 90. Mind you I am no genius and my suggestion may sound crazy silly, but here 'tis any way.
Each class has abilities that:
Buff themselves
Debuff the enemy to make them weaker or more sensitive to your damage.
Are direct damage or damage over time abilities.
Are crowd control
Perform an action that temporarily increases damage done by normal abilities.
Defensive abilities.
What worked for me was grouping abilities with the same or similar function together in groups on my action bars starting with the abilities that debuff the enemy (personal buffs go on my inside right column bar) followed by the abilities that do the temporary increasing of the damage, followed by damaging abilities. CC's and defensive abilities I put in the original UI boxes.
Certainly not rocket science and I may be totally embarrassing my self as this could be how people have been doing it all along. I had to laugh out of the other side of my face the other day when I was going through my Enhancement shimmy's abilities and found something I wasn't using and didn't even know was there!
Also, its a good idea to read through your passive skills. They may help you figure out a better rotation!
So that's is for now.
Thank for playing.....please, come back again soon....it gets lonely up here sometimes.
Peace....M
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Boost-Shmoost!!
You know you are an altaholic when: The process by which you decide which toon you are going to boost to level 90 leaves you anxious and sweaty, and is eventually left up to something other than your decision!
This was me the other night folks!! I was going to wait, ride it out....decide on my own time...blah blah....but then my OCD kicked in the mere knowledge that that new amazing ICON was floating on my selection screen was making me nuts!!
I knew I would NOT be boosting any Alliance toons as I have 10 Alli 90's that I spend most of my time on.....so nish nish on that!
I also knew I would not be leveling any of my Horde toon on Ysondre, where be my level two, female toons only guild I call Living Dead Gurls. That is my little guild that I plan to try and focus more on leveling at some point and all of the guild rep you get from questing will work out better on lower level toons.
So that left Proudmoore and Earthen Ring!
So of course...it was CAW....My NEW level 90 Panda Prot Warrior who can tank for the guild!!!
WOO HOO!!
XOXO
Kurly
This was me the other night folks!! I was going to wait, ride it out....decide on my own time...blah blah....but then my OCD kicked in the mere knowledge that that new amazing ICON was floating on my selection screen was making me nuts!!
I knew I would NOT be boosting any Alliance toons as I have 10 Alli 90's that I spend most of my time on.....so nish nish on that!
I also knew I would not be leveling any of my Horde toon on Ysondre, where be my level two, female toons only guild I call Living Dead Gurls. That is my little guild that I plan to try and focus more on leveling at some point and all of the guild rep you get from questing will work out better on lower level toons.
So that left Proudmoore and Earthen Ring!
So of course...it was CAW....My NEW level 90 Panda Prot Warrior who can tank for the guild!!!
WOO HOO!!
XOXO
Kurly
Sunday, March 9, 2014
BORING!!
Hey folks....having a bit of a blog lull! Ive been sitting here looking at the blank page trying to come up with SOMETHING to blog about for the last three days.
I know there is a lot of news on the horizon! I am very excited to hear about what is going on with CC, and anti CC for PVP.
I am dieing to see what they do with curbing "Spell/Ability bloat" and what is getting removed or combined.
I wonder how many five mans we are going to have and what the item squish is going to look like.
I am wondering if I should roll a draenei or is the experience going to be the same no matter what race you run through it?
Is Sylvanis on her way out?
Are we ever going to see a new class or race, co-operation between the factions, or a third faction?
Is there a way to make it so I can eat whatever I want and then.......wha, who, oh, crap...sorry.
So this is it for now, sorry for the lame filler blog!
Love you all!
K
I know there is a lot of news on the horizon! I am very excited to hear about what is going on with CC, and anti CC for PVP.
I am dieing to see what they do with curbing "Spell/Ability bloat" and what is getting removed or combined.
I wonder how many five mans we are going to have and what the item squish is going to look like.
I am wondering if I should roll a draenei or is the experience going to be the same no matter what race you run through it?
Is Sylvanis on her way out?
Are we ever going to see a new class or race, co-operation between the factions, or a third faction?
Is there a way to make it so I can eat whatever I want and then.......wha, who, oh, crap...sorry.
So this is it for now, sorry for the lame filler blog!
Love you all!
K
Thursday, February 20, 2014
What me favorite Tank?
So the other day I decided to try and to the Mogu, Troll, and Seige raids....all at once, one after the other in order. I have two tanks (Tsutai: The Monk, and Tessitura: The Warrior) that are sorely lacking gear. My raid mate, Suzie, had asked if she could tag along and as we were waiting for the Queue to pop she asked me what my favorite class is to tank on.
I found this question amusing cuz prior to my Worgen Druid, Mezzaneen I was about as good at tanking as I am fixing rocket ships. I tried several times on all the different classes available prior to Cata, and although I firmly belive that my ability to play WOW finally peaked during Wrath, tanking at that point was just fucking scarey.
Having discovered healing during Wrath (Thanks to Jeff and Jessica...not that they tricked me or anything) I was no stranger to being blamed for the group wiping. Never mind the jerk off tank that pulled everything (back when you had to CC), or the damn Mage that never targeted the Tanks target or the Kuntard auto shooting at the boss....(wait...how did I spell that....hmm....works for me!) and then blaming the tank for not being able to hold aggro. Being on the listening side of all the berating tanks could be the target of, and then watching a good tank do their thang and not understanding just what the hell they were doing was enough to put me off of it. Until, of course, the altaholic part of my brain would NOT allow one moment of peace until I gave it another shot.
Call it kizmit, call it serendipity, call it something happening at just the right time it needed to happen but I rolled Mezzaneen and for the first time was able to "bond" with a tank toon, which meant I was learning to play the class, because Mezzaneen deserved it weather I wanted to or not (a phenomenon to date that would seem to be mine and mine alone as far as I know). I believe, at this time, there had been a change to tanking, making it easier in general, and then there was the addition of vengeance boosting attack power each time you get bopped on the noggin, making it easier to keep threat as it was often a DPS issue.
So, what is the answer to the question? What is my favorite class to tank on? Well there is my favorite and the one I think is the easiest. Being that I am not the kind of person that thrives on mastering the difficult (although, why I always want to roll the lowest ranking DPS specs is a mystery), and try to think, overall which of the classes is the easiest to heal, and considering which Tank I know best how to play, I would have to say that my answer is in order of favorite to least favorite: Druid, DK, Monk, Palladin (Although shes only level 40), Warrior.
As far as what I think is the easiest: DK, Monk, Druid, Pally, Warrior.
The hurtle with me and Warriors is getting around the fact that they are the only Tanking class without a heal that you can use at any time. I know they have a lot of mitigation, but having a heal that I can use at just about anytime on any of the other classes makes them my first choice.
Anywho...so there is a little more about me.
Thanks for listening!
XOXO
Kurly
Oh...and I never did all the raids...I think just parts one and two of the Mogu stuff...I got bored...SORRY!!!
I found this question amusing cuz prior to my Worgen Druid, Mezzaneen I was about as good at tanking as I am fixing rocket ships. I tried several times on all the different classes available prior to Cata, and although I firmly belive that my ability to play WOW finally peaked during Wrath, tanking at that point was just fucking scarey.
Having discovered healing during Wrath (Thanks to Jeff and Jessica...not that they tricked me or anything) I was no stranger to being blamed for the group wiping. Never mind the jerk off tank that pulled everything (back when you had to CC), or the damn Mage that never targeted the Tanks target or the Kuntard auto shooting at the boss....(wait...how did I spell that....hmm....works for me!) and then blaming the tank for not being able to hold aggro. Being on the listening side of all the berating tanks could be the target of, and then watching a good tank do their thang and not understanding just what the hell they were doing was enough to put me off of it. Until, of course, the altaholic part of my brain would NOT allow one moment of peace until I gave it another shot.
Call it kizmit, call it serendipity, call it something happening at just the right time it needed to happen but I rolled Mezzaneen and for the first time was able to "bond" with a tank toon, which meant I was learning to play the class, because Mezzaneen deserved it weather I wanted to or not (a phenomenon to date that would seem to be mine and mine alone as far as I know). I believe, at this time, there had been a change to tanking, making it easier in general, and then there was the addition of vengeance boosting attack power each time you get bopped on the noggin, making it easier to keep threat as it was often a DPS issue.
So, what is the answer to the question? What is my favorite class to tank on? Well there is my favorite and the one I think is the easiest. Being that I am not the kind of person that thrives on mastering the difficult (although, why I always want to roll the lowest ranking DPS specs is a mystery), and try to think, overall which of the classes is the easiest to heal, and considering which Tank I know best how to play, I would have to say that my answer is in order of favorite to least favorite: Druid, DK, Monk, Palladin (Although shes only level 40), Warrior.
As far as what I think is the easiest: DK, Monk, Druid, Pally, Warrior.
The hurtle with me and Warriors is getting around the fact that they are the only Tanking class without a heal that you can use at any time. I know they have a lot of mitigation, but having a heal that I can use at just about anytime on any of the other classes makes them my first choice.
Anywho...so there is a little more about me.
Thanks for listening!
XOXO
Kurly
Oh...and I never did all the raids...I think just parts one and two of the Mogu stuff...I got bored...SORRY!!!
Monday, February 10, 2014
My Suggestions to Blizzard
No new class, no new race? I CALL BULLSHIT!!
Here are my suggestions to Blizzard (no payment needed) for some new races and classes!
Race:
Half Elf - Why the heck not? They exist in the lore, they exist in game, a dragon actually CHOSE to look like one. They could be an either factional race, and just about any class I imagine and have a racial shaowmeld that frees your from all effects that incapacitate a character
Half Orc/Draeni - Again, why the heck not. Who doesn't love Garona? AND on a planet that is crawling Orc and Dranei you know that there are some green skinned gift of the Naruu using little stinkers out there and I think it would be neat to play one!!
Class:
Arcane Slasher - Melee Mage!! Plain and simple!! Imagine a mage/enhancement shammy hybrid swinging magically summoned weapons and conjured temporary armor. All of the basic abilities and animations are there, and with some creative tweeking could be a neat addition!
Witch or Bishop: These will never happen, but, I thought them up a while ago, so here the be!! They are my idea's for support classes. Classes that require some thought and are nothing close to a face roll. "Witches" are a de-buff class casting spells that increase damage taken and decreases armor, attack power and healing by their attackers, and would only be available to any race of female.
"Bishop's" are also support classes that are a buff class increasing armor, damage, and healing received by/to party members, and would only be available to any race of male.
I have also seen in other MMO's a warrior class that also uses a pet, I think this could also be a cool class in WOW, but I am not totally sure how that could work.
So there are my amazing idea's. Anyone have Ghostcrawlers number....hes gutta no a name or two over there, dudnt he?
Thanks for listening.......Kurly
Here are my suggestions to Blizzard (no payment needed) for some new races and classes!
Race:
Half Elf - Why the heck not? They exist in the lore, they exist in game, a dragon actually CHOSE to look like one. They could be an either factional race, and just about any class I imagine and have a racial shaowmeld that frees your from all effects that incapacitate a character
Half Orc/Draeni - Again, why the heck not. Who doesn't love Garona? AND on a planet that is crawling Orc and Dranei you know that there are some green skinned gift of the Naruu using little stinkers out there and I think it would be neat to play one!!
Class:
Arcane Slasher - Melee Mage!! Plain and simple!! Imagine a mage/enhancement shammy hybrid swinging magically summoned weapons and conjured temporary armor. All of the basic abilities and animations are there, and with some creative tweeking could be a neat addition!
Witch or Bishop: These will never happen, but, I thought them up a while ago, so here the be!! They are my idea's for support classes. Classes that require some thought and are nothing close to a face roll. "Witches" are a de-buff class casting spells that increase damage taken and decreases armor, attack power and healing by their attackers, and would only be available to any race of female.
"Bishop's" are also support classes that are a buff class increasing armor, damage, and healing received by/to party members, and would only be available to any race of male.
I have also seen in other MMO's a warrior class that also uses a pet, I think this could also be a cool class in WOW, but I am not totally sure how that could work.
So there are my amazing idea's. Anyone have Ghostcrawlers number....hes gutta no a name or two over there, dudnt he?
Thanks for listening.......Kurly
Sunday, February 2, 2014
How do you let someone know that they suck?
I'm betting that title got your attention! He he he.....but the question drifted into my mind the other night during an LFR where the other tank was clearly struggling with mechanics and having a very hard time following instructions.
Now, everyone else in the raid had no problem telling this poor person what they about about his or her taking ability, but being the sporting, sesative and nurturing kind of person I am, I /w (for the sake of ease I am just going to call him "him") him and said not to listen, we all have to learn, just listen to me and taunt when I say taunt. I even went so far as to ask the other folks in the raid to give the guy a break and cut him some slack.
By the fourth wipe on Immersius I was suddenly wishing I'd kept my fat trap shut.
I am by no means a GREAT tank when it comes to raids. The fights are too long and my ADD will often force me to channel surf, and usually at the exact moment I should be ass facing He to avoid that Gouge (Although....who doesn't occasionally enjoy a good gouge from behind....cough, cough.), but I generally get the gist and basics and can get the job done when the job needs getting done. I may need more test runs than most tanks, I freely admit that I don't watch taking videos (I get bored...SORRY), and often forget to gem, enchant and take flasks and food, so I am no stranger to abusive comments, and the occasional kicked by vote.
So this poor bastards issues were, um, many. He did not seem to grasp the idea of not taunting the boss while he had corrosive blast on him, he was not able to figure out where to stand when corrosive puddles formed underneath him (just move slightly to the right, the right....THE RIGHT!!), made no attempt to DPS down the blobs, and would drift onto another panel causing much injury to the DPS and lastly never taunted when I whispered "TAUNT.....FUCKER!!!" Whoops....did I use an expletive?
So back to the fourth wipe. By this point my patience had run out, there hasd been two attempts to kick the guy (I passed) , and the magma of foulness from the others in the raid had reached the point of trolling poetry. I excused myself from the party, making up some rediculous lie about the house being on fire or something when the other tank asked me if I thought he should give up tanking.
I said no.
Thanks for listening.
Peace....K
Now, everyone else in the raid had no problem telling this poor person what they about about his or her taking ability, but being the sporting, sesative and nurturing kind of person I am, I /w (for the sake of ease I am just going to call him "him") him and said not to listen, we all have to learn, just listen to me and taunt when I say taunt. I even went so far as to ask the other folks in the raid to give the guy a break and cut him some slack.
By the fourth wipe on Immersius I was suddenly wishing I'd kept my fat trap shut.
I am by no means a GREAT tank when it comes to raids. The fights are too long and my ADD will often force me to channel surf, and usually at the exact moment I should be ass facing He to avoid that Gouge (Although....who doesn't occasionally enjoy a good gouge from behind....cough, cough.), but I generally get the gist and basics and can get the job done when the job needs getting done. I may need more test runs than most tanks, I freely admit that I don't watch taking videos (I get bored...SORRY), and often forget to gem, enchant and take flasks and food, so I am no stranger to abusive comments, and the occasional kicked by vote.
So this poor bastards issues were, um, many. He did not seem to grasp the idea of not taunting the boss while he had corrosive blast on him, he was not able to figure out where to stand when corrosive puddles formed underneath him (just move slightly to the right, the right....THE RIGHT!!), made no attempt to DPS down the blobs, and would drift onto another panel causing much injury to the DPS and lastly never taunted when I whispered "TAUNT.....FUCKER!!!" Whoops....did I use an expletive?
So back to the fourth wipe. By this point my patience had run out, there hasd been two attempts to kick the guy (I passed) , and the magma of foulness from the others in the raid had reached the point of trolling poetry. I excused myself from the party, making up some rediculous lie about the house being on fire or something when the other tank asked me if I thought he should give up tanking.
I said no.
Thanks for listening.
Peace....K
Saturday, February 1, 2014
"Race" Lift?
It would seem that the accepted release date for Warlords or Draenor is sometime late Summer, or early Autumn this year, so I have anywhere from 8-10 months to catch up all my toons with the Black Prince, The Timeless Isle, Thunder Isle, professions and honor. However the thought of all the time I have to get caught up with the the Black Prince, The Timeless Isle, Thunder Isle, professions and honor is a little daunting.
This is nothing new,and frankly is not even a surprise to me.
People talk about Cataclysm being the worst of the WOW expansions, and I don't see that at all. Cata afforded my the time to get in touch with my altaholic self (or was the the 8 months of unemployment?), and as well as the chance to get to learn a lot more about the basics of the game and how it was played.
I am a little bummed that there is no apparent new race or class with WAD (and yes, I'M calling it WAD), although I understand the dilemma with introducing one of these to the game. True with the "can be either faction" option now in effect, couldn't they have at least given us, oh, I dont know a half Draenei/half Orc race....called a Draenorc....I mean come on...they have GOT to be out there that could be either faction and any of the available classes?
I am looking forward to the new character models, and I foresee some of my existing toons getting a race lift, but that is small potatoes, I think, for a nine month wait.
So....here I will be...leveling some of my 70 (thats in number not level 70) toons, doing my best to keep my eye on the prize that is the next expansion.
What are you all doing?
Best.....Kurly
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Is purism in WOW pure BLEEP?
Okay, so the title might sound a wee bit hostile (Ive discovered recently that my stuff is the stuff I do from the get go and if I think about it too much.....) but this is one of those questions I have often asked.
Years ago I was made aware of a guild that was all Druids and that the participants of this guild were Druid "purists". Now, what is purism in WOW? The variance here depending on the person, I imagine, would be gigantic, but from what I remember the guild was very into RP and stuck to what ever Druid lore is, and never used mounts, only using travel and flight form.
Kind of cool, actually.
My contribution to purism in WOW takes shape with my healers. I no longer dual spec my heals. There are a few toons that have a DPS spec that I will change in to from time to time, but that is more an aspect of that toons personality as I have come to know them, not a mechanic to make use of in the game.
Make sense?
Managing a second spec on a toon used to be a lot harder as there was no gear set option, it could never be done on the fly and talents weren't saved (or were they? Lord I am getting old!!!). Modern spec switching woes these days more or less amount to being able to play said second spec effectively. This, my dear friends, is one my foundation reasons for being an altaholic!
There are six healing spec's available in WOW. All of them have abilites that are offensive, but are not very powerful. Anyone of them can kill a mob, but it takes like 8 years, and one must be very aware of mana, as you can blow out all of your mana trying to kill something and then have nothing left to heal yourself! That kind of thing happend on my Monk. Monk abilities seem to have a GIGANTIC mana cost.
Druids have an ability that converts Spirit into Agility while in Bear/Cat form. You'd think that would make life easier playing Resto all the time, but no so much. Throwing down and Efflorescense to stand in while you kill a mob is helpful, but you can start attacking something and go fold laundry and come back before you will actually kill it.
To date the best "travelling" healing spec is Disc. I has to have the highest DPS output and you heal while you do damage.
All of this being said I am not sure how this could change. The balancing that would need to happen if heals were to be able to dps, like, well, a dps class would likely throw things all out of wack, but after all, these are just my rants, raves, and yelps.
Thanks for comming!
All the best!
Kurly
Years ago I was made aware of a guild that was all Druids and that the participants of this guild were Druid "purists". Now, what is purism in WOW? The variance here depending on the person, I imagine, would be gigantic, but from what I remember the guild was very into RP and stuck to what ever Druid lore is, and never used mounts, only using travel and flight form.
Kind of cool, actually.
My contribution to purism in WOW takes shape with my healers. I no longer dual spec my heals. There are a few toons that have a DPS spec that I will change in to from time to time, but that is more an aspect of that toons personality as I have come to know them, not a mechanic to make use of in the game.
Make sense?
Managing a second spec on a toon used to be a lot harder as there was no gear set option, it could never be done on the fly and talents weren't saved (or were they? Lord I am getting old!!!). Modern spec switching woes these days more or less amount to being able to play said second spec effectively. This, my dear friends, is one my foundation reasons for being an altaholic!
There are six healing spec's available in WOW. All of them have abilites that are offensive, but are not very powerful. Anyone of them can kill a mob, but it takes like 8 years, and one must be very aware of mana, as you can blow out all of your mana trying to kill something and then have nothing left to heal yourself! That kind of thing happend on my Monk. Monk abilities seem to have a GIGANTIC mana cost.
Druids have an ability that converts Spirit into Agility while in Bear/Cat form. You'd think that would make life easier playing Resto all the time, but no so much. Throwing down and Efflorescense to stand in while you kill a mob is helpful, but you can start attacking something and go fold laundry and come back before you will actually kill it.
To date the best "travelling" healing spec is Disc. I has to have the highest DPS output and you heal while you do damage.
All of this being said I am not sure how this could change. The balancing that would need to happen if heals were to be able to dps, like, well, a dps class would likely throw things all out of wack, but after all, these are just my rants, raves, and yelps.
Thanks for comming!
All the best!
Kurly
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Soon comming!!
All the holiday business is over!!
Back to blogging!!
There will be something coming soon!!
XOXO
Kurly
Back to blogging!!
There will be something coming soon!!
XOXO
Kurly
Thursday, December 19, 2013
Suggestions and Holiday Salutations!!
One of the things I do when I write one of these things, generally is sit back, start typing and let the blog Gods take it where they may. From all of the bits and pieces I try to pick whatever is the most coherent (that being extremely relative in my case) and try to run with it. I try to think about the kinds of things I would like to read about (cuz, after all, it is ALL about me!!!), and try to present them in a way that is helpful and or entertaining to those who may choose the read them. I do get a little gun shy a lot of the time, as I know there are some really good bloggers out there and I wonder just how I rate?
I know I have something of a target audience, mostly folks from the most awesome Clan of Darkness guild, and a few others here and there, and I am so grateful for everyone who come to read what I post.
All of this hoo-ha being said, I would like to open things up to you all. If there is anything you would like me to tackle, please please let me know. Or I am happy to go with my usual rabble!!
I wish you all the best, happiest, and safest of holidays!!
XOXOX
Kurly
I know I have something of a target audience, mostly folks from the most awesome Clan of Darkness guild, and a few others here and there, and I am so grateful for everyone who come to read what I post.
All of this hoo-ha being said, I would like to open things up to you all. If there is anything you would like me to tackle, please please let me know. Or I am happy to go with my usual rabble!!
I wish you all the best, happiest, and safest of holidays!!
XOXOX
Kurly
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Kicked by an add-on?!?!?!?!
So last night I am doing LFR last night with my raid buddies....the first time on my litte lady Dwarf DK. We had made it all the way to Garrosh one shotting all the bosses until the first attempt on him. I got up to have a wazzer and get a glass of soda, and came back to start the second attempt only to see her in Stormwind with a message in my chat box that stated "You were away during a ready check and have been removed from the party"
None of my friends in the party saw a vote to kick box.
THIS IS BULLSHIT!!!!
Anyone know this add-on?
I want to submit a post to have the add on banned.
Oh...MERRY CHRISTMAS.
XOXO
Kurly
Fracking addon!
None of my friends in the party saw a vote to kick box.
THIS IS BULLSHIT!!!!
Anyone know this add-on?
I want to submit a post to have the add on banned.
Oh...MERRY CHRISTMAS.
XOXO
Kurly
Fracking addon!
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Just how many guilds I am in and why.
Guilds, guilds, guilds!! (Am I even spelling that correctly?)
Back in '08 while running around the human starting area on my then human Paladin, Annamia (she's a Dwarf now), I was asked by a stranger to sign a guild charter for a whooping five gold. I had no idea what I was being asked to do, and I feared that said stranger was some kind of reprobate that was after my private information, or some kind of sickie that would expect me to compromise my morals....wait....I had morals back then?
Regardless of the fact that she and I became friends and I have since met her and her family, as of right now I am part of five different guilds. (ITS JUST SO SAD!!!) Two are mine. One is one of the three largest guilds in WOW, and its not AIE! Its Taint on Proudmore.....cuz I am proud gay wow playing dude and I loved the idea of joining a huge guild where we discuss some of the most amazing things in guild chat! Not that AIE is not fantastic, but I just didn't feel very welcome there, no offense, just not a good fit.
Taint is a lot of fun, but as I am not on those toons with any degree of frequency, the few people I met there have gone off to do there own things, but the good thing is that there are almost always people on who want to do the same thing I want to do...talking trash in guild chat is one of them!!!!
The other mass guild is The Clan of Darkness on Earthen Ring. Something of an off shoot of AIE, but created and run by Ctrl-Alt-Wow, is a podcast fan guild with a lot of people who love to play wow, and goof around in in large groups usually on friday nights!! So many wonderful people in that guild, alas, this is not where I spend a majority of my time either, which is TOTALLY my loss.
The last two are my own creations!! Rabid Kittens....a name that came up as a joke, and has been me and my long time friends' guild. A very nice level 25 guild we leveled up all on our own...(all seven of us at the time), and my little level 2 Horde guild on Ysondre called Living Dead Gurls...so um...if anyone is up for leveling a guild....FEMALE TOONS ONLY!!!
Peace...and thank you for listening! XOXOX
Back in '08 while running around the human starting area on my then human Paladin, Annamia (she's a Dwarf now), I was asked by a stranger to sign a guild charter for a whooping five gold. I had no idea what I was being asked to do, and I feared that said stranger was some kind of reprobate that was after my private information, or some kind of sickie that would expect me to compromise my morals....wait....I had morals back then?
Regardless of the fact that she and I became friends and I have since met her and her family, as of right now I am part of five different guilds. (ITS JUST SO SAD!!!) Two are mine. One is one of the three largest guilds in WOW, and its not AIE! Its Taint on Proudmore.....cuz I am proud gay wow playing dude and I loved the idea of joining a huge guild where we discuss some of the most amazing things in guild chat! Not that AIE is not fantastic, but I just didn't feel very welcome there, no offense, just not a good fit.
Taint is a lot of fun, but as I am not on those toons with any degree of frequency, the few people I met there have gone off to do there own things, but the good thing is that there are almost always people on who want to do the same thing I want to do...talking trash in guild chat is one of them!!!!
The other mass guild is The Clan of Darkness on Earthen Ring. Something of an off shoot of AIE, but created and run by Ctrl-Alt-Wow, is a podcast fan guild with a lot of people who love to play wow, and goof around in in large groups usually on friday nights!! So many wonderful people in that guild, alas, this is not where I spend a majority of my time either, which is TOTALLY my loss.
The last two are my own creations!! Rabid Kittens....a name that came up as a joke, and has been me and my long time friends' guild. A very nice level 25 guild we leveled up all on our own...(all seven of us at the time), and my little level 2 Horde guild on Ysondre called Living Dead Gurls...so um...if anyone is up for leveling a guild....FEMALE TOONS ONLY!!!
Peace...and thank you for listening! XOXOX
Sunday, November 24, 2013
Flex raids
Here we have more of an admission then any kind of commentary or anything like that.
Raiding has always scared the BLEEP out of me...and frankly still does.
There are several different reasons for this.
First: I should stop listening to podcasts like Convert to Raid, My Epic Heals. Not that these are bad podcasts, in fact they are both very good, informative, and entertaining shows, but if you are someone that has any self doubt OR worry about falling prey to mechanics OR worry about putting out as much as you can, these shows and others like them can be a little daunting. Listening to these wonderfully intelligent folks go on about...well...math, and maximum this and that can, for me, suck the joy out of Christmas.
Second: When I'm the first to die on the fourth pull, the issue is mine and mine alone.
Third: Its a little scary when you and everyone else knows the wipe was totally your fault.
Fourth: Um, I don't always watch the fights on you tube, read up on them, OR look at the dungeon journal. OKAY I SAID IT! JEEZ.
There seems to be no easy slide into raiding. LFR, is not all that hard...and if you do fuck up, who cares. Not that I am suggesting you go into an LFR not caring about it, but learning curve errors that we ALL experience can be hidden in all the LFR trolling that go on when a wipe does happen, or you can blame the dude next to you who is probably going to drop anyway. The jump in difficulity level gets to me more because I fear failure, letting down the folks who have been waiting a week to raid down, and making me wonder if I am actually a good player, and should I be raiding at all...sniff.
Its on me, I know this, I understand this, and I hope that I am able to grow from this...isnt this kind of what a blog be for?
Thanks for hearing my confession.
COME ON.....LIKE YOU NEVER FUCKED UP!!
:-)
Peace all and thanks for listening.
Kurly
Raiding has always scared the BLEEP out of me...and frankly still does.
There are several different reasons for this.
First: I should stop listening to podcasts like Convert to Raid, My Epic Heals. Not that these are bad podcasts, in fact they are both very good, informative, and entertaining shows, but if you are someone that has any self doubt OR worry about falling prey to mechanics OR worry about putting out as much as you can, these shows and others like them can be a little daunting. Listening to these wonderfully intelligent folks go on about...well...math, and maximum this and that can, for me, suck the joy out of Christmas.
Second: When I'm the first to die on the fourth pull, the issue is mine and mine alone.
Third: Its a little scary when you and everyone else knows the wipe was totally your fault.
Fourth: Um, I don't always watch the fights on you tube, read up on them, OR look at the dungeon journal. OKAY I SAID IT! JEEZ.
There seems to be no easy slide into raiding. LFR, is not all that hard...and if you do fuck up, who cares. Not that I am suggesting you go into an LFR not caring about it, but learning curve errors that we ALL experience can be hidden in all the LFR trolling that go on when a wipe does happen, or you can blame the dude next to you who is probably going to drop anyway. The jump in difficulity level gets to me more because I fear failure, letting down the folks who have been waiting a week to raid down, and making me wonder if I am actually a good player, and should I be raiding at all...sniff.
Its on me, I know this, I understand this, and I hope that I am able to grow from this...isnt this kind of what a blog be for?
Thanks for hearing my confession.
COME ON.....LIKE YOU NEVER FUCKED UP!!
:-)
Peace all and thanks for listening.
Kurly
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Some PVP Rage
Anyone who knows me knows that one of my favorite features of WOW is PVP. From my first shaking tour of Warsong Gultch and Arathi Basin, all the way up to whatever was/is the max level BG's, there I shall be. And there shall I be, getting my ass handed to me over and over again.
Now, to be fair, I am not the best PVP'er. I don't min/max, I don't always fully gem or enchant my gear, and there are many times when I loose sight of any kind of strat and just want to kill, kill, kill.
So, here is what I have noticed, and here is what I think: I think Blizzard stacks the deck in favor of one side. In part so that the loosing side's resolve to come back burns ever brighter with each loss. Does this sound like the theory of a ranting crazy person? Sure! Could I be totally wrong? Totally!
However, take into consideration the following pieces of info!
Over last week I did I total of 30 BG's, 15 on the Horde, and 15 on Alliance. Out of that 30 I won 9, five on the Horde, four on Alliance. During each BG I checked the number of toons from the same server on each team, how much health team members had and my observation of team work or cooperation. I played on toons of all levels.
Whenever I won we simply mowed over the other team, each time it was a shut out and on three occasions were able to pen up the opposing team. (which I think sucks even when I am the pen-ner). There were no close calls, no 2/3 type losses at all. We either won totally or were used to mop the floor. The winning team almost always had 50 to 75k more heath then the loosing team, and teams with no one in a party were pit against groups of people CLEARLY working together in a party.
There I said it!!
My intention here is not to troll. If I am correct, it is a valid and working way to rope me in and keep me coming back. Obviously I don't hate what happening as BG's are near and dear to my soul, but I do wish we could all go into a fair fight is all.
Best......Kurly,
Now, to be fair, I am not the best PVP'er. I don't min/max, I don't always fully gem or enchant my gear, and there are many times when I loose sight of any kind of strat and just want to kill, kill, kill.
So, here is what I have noticed, and here is what I think: I think Blizzard stacks the deck in favor of one side. In part so that the loosing side's resolve to come back burns ever brighter with each loss. Does this sound like the theory of a ranting crazy person? Sure! Could I be totally wrong? Totally!
However, take into consideration the following pieces of info!
Over last week I did I total of 30 BG's, 15 on the Horde, and 15 on Alliance. Out of that 30 I won 9, five on the Horde, four on Alliance. During each BG I checked the number of toons from the same server on each team, how much health team members had and my observation of team work or cooperation. I played on toons of all levels.
Whenever I won we simply mowed over the other team, each time it was a shut out and on three occasions were able to pen up the opposing team. (which I think sucks even when I am the pen-ner). There were no close calls, no 2/3 type losses at all. We either won totally or were used to mop the floor. The winning team almost always had 50 to 75k more heath then the loosing team, and teams with no one in a party were pit against groups of people CLEARLY working together in a party.
There I said it!!
My intention here is not to troll. If I am correct, it is a valid and working way to rope me in and keep me coming back. Obviously I don't hate what happening as BG's are near and dear to my soul, but I do wish we could all go into a fair fight is all.
Best......Kurly,
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Some things to come:
So along with some personal yuck yuck coinciding with Blizzcon I laid off for a week or so, but now I am getting back into the swing of things and are hoping to pump out some blogs on the following topics over the next few weeks!
PVP Woes
Flex raids
Tanking/Healing
Leveling
Just how many guilds I am in and why?
Melee V Ranged
Another Orc expans...um er, Warlords or Draenor.
Light be with you!
K
Monday, November 4, 2013
Where did "Kurly" come from, some good friends, and we still cant get past Pride!
Hello fellow WOW'ers!!
Before I go blathering on...I want to thank anyone who's reading this!!
Anyone who has ever asked me why I call myself Kurly has heard the story of how some "weird" lady named Jessica whispered me one day offering me five gold (HOLY SHIT!!! FIVE GOLD!! ) to sign her guild charter. Her and her boyfriend, Jeff, were starting a guild called Mana is a Myth. I was having cyber fear over telling these people my real name and the only nick name I had ever been called was Curly-Q, so that's what I had them call me. This would have been in the spring of 2007, and the three of us are still friends to this day!!
Although we don't see Jess as much as we used to Jeff is part of my Friday night Flex team, my biggest Tank cheerleader, chief encounter research specialist and honestly a great all-a-round guy. He is singularly responsible for my progression and growth as a tank, and I am truly blessed that he is a friend in my life!
So the week before last our Flex raid (A combination of two small guilds from the Norgannon server) team made it to The Sha of Pride. I was healing on my Disc. Priest, Sir Jeff was tanking on his Bear. We'd one shot the three bosses up until the Sha of Pride and could not get the sucker down. After about half a dozen attempts we called it quits. In an attempt best the damn Sha we decided that I would be the off Tank, primarily since Jeff and I have communication down to a science and to allow the previous off tank to bring his uber dps.
So did we get past the Sha of Pride? NO!!!! I think we did very well, but again, after five attempts we cant seem to get past the fourth of fifth cycle and most of the DPS get killed by adds that are popping up! Sigh. Next week we shall get him!!!
And yes, I am now Tanking Flex raid! YAY ME!
Thanks for comming!!
Best,
Kurly!
Before I go blathering on...I want to thank anyone who's reading this!!
Anyone who has ever asked me why I call myself Kurly has heard the story of how some "weird" lady named Jessica whispered me one day offering me five gold (HOLY SHIT!!! FIVE GOLD!! ) to sign her guild charter. Her and her boyfriend, Jeff, were starting a guild called Mana is a Myth. I was having cyber fear over telling these people my real name and the only nick name I had ever been called was Curly-Q, so that's what I had them call me. This would have been in the spring of 2007, and the three of us are still friends to this day!!
Although we don't see Jess as much as we used to Jeff is part of my Friday night Flex team, my biggest Tank cheerleader, chief encounter research specialist and honestly a great all-a-round guy. He is singularly responsible for my progression and growth as a tank, and I am truly blessed that he is a friend in my life!
So the week before last our Flex raid (A combination of two small guilds from the Norgannon server) team made it to The Sha of Pride. I was healing on my Disc. Priest, Sir Jeff was tanking on his Bear. We'd one shot the three bosses up until the Sha of Pride and could not get the sucker down. After about half a dozen attempts we called it quits. In an attempt best the damn Sha we decided that I would be the off Tank, primarily since Jeff and I have communication down to a science and to allow the previous off tank to bring his uber dps.
So did we get past the Sha of Pride? NO!!!! I think we did very well, but again, after five attempts we cant seem to get past the fourth of fifth cycle and most of the DPS get killed by adds that are popping up! Sigh. Next week we shall get him!!!
And yes, I am now Tanking Flex raid! YAY ME!
Thanks for comming!!
Best,
Kurly!
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