Sorry for the lack of interesting titles, but I really just can’t come up with an interesting one for what I have been doing since last post.

Lets start with the fact I got Sero to Northrend! Yay go me… and so I have spend countless hours looking up what to do with her next. I have to say that Shadow Priest and Lock have been probably the easiest to level classes, it’s almost boring.

Dot Dot Drain…Drain… Life tap.. start again. but well it’s fast and I’m showing a bit of interest in the class it’s self. I hope it get’s a bit more interesting when I actually have to worry about DPS.

I herd that affliction is the highest dps, but ranked one of the hardest spec/classes to play. I guess I’ll just have to check it out a bit more to come to a conclusion.

I also found out what Weight scaling is all about. I didn’t really get it all at first, but it took me looking in to level 80 warlock gear to really figure it out. I normally just threw any old gem in to my gear as long as it matched.  I guess it really doesn’t really matter all too much to the person who doesn’t care about 1/100 of a dps. But one should always try to maximize his/her potential right? right!

So I spent about 2-3 hours punching numbers in to both my cell calculator and my computer. Don’t ask me why both…. seemed more…productive. I can just tell you this.. I can’t effing wait till Cataclysm now. Not having to waste such time on trying to Min-max my gear will be a god send. I could have been doing something more productive like…. like…. watching cute puppies on Youtube! THINK OF THE PUPPIES! “/clear throat” What I ment to say was like using such valuable web space and time trying to maximize your UI or rotation, or even getting out of your chair.

And trust me a lot of UI’s I have seen… omg…how can you SEE?! all you see is your buttons.. damn..

Back to something less….yea..

Another thing I have been waisting my young life on is reading the Crap that players seem to drag in to the wow forums on a daily basis.

Witch just means that 95% of all complaining is QQ.

People complaining about the Stat changes in Cata (Cataclysm) saying it’s going to take the skill out of playing. Math isn’t a skill. Time isn’t one either.

People whining that Horde is Better then Ally.. or vise versa…

One class is OP… like Druids and Paladins.. Well… bout flippin time druids are.. and dammit why couldn’t I stay a druid… Any one wanna adopt a Bear tank?

That there dps is too low and so they roll Enhancement shamans, and use Fast off-hands and Dual windfury…
Sorry that one went a bit to ..personal.

Or Raid leaders who whine about one person not doing well enough. when they tend to put double standerds on you.
“I want you doing 7k dps….but don’t die, and dispel, interrupt, and run around nakid.”

but I guess the stupidity about people thinking other people are stupid.. or undeserving. Will continue to go on and on forever. At lest I get a good kick out of it!

Lastly I leave you rogues with.. I’m sorry you had to be come dinner! >)

Now that I have plenty of time on my hand with my recent departure from my ex-guild. I have been bored out of my mind! I have been left doing:

• Dailies
• Alt Leveling
• Working on Off Set
• Rep grinds
• Professions
• Achievements
• and much more

I will admit. I have been making quite a good number of gold since I no longer have to pay the 100g repair bill (on a good day).  But who actually thinks doing those kinda things “fun”.  It’s kinda masochistic. I will be honest here, it really isn’t that much difference to do your dailies every day then to raid. Only thing that makes one better than the other is [Epics].

So how dose one manage to get these things done with out pulling their hair out?

Looking at the gold.

I find if I look at it any other way, I end up not doing it at all. Look at this, I’m not yet exalted with Sons of Hodir. Why? I hate their dailies. I have always looked at it as, I need to get to exalted. Rather then, I’m making 13g a quest, and plenty of meats, eternals, and grays to boot. So when I actually get down to doing them, I don’t watch my reputation bar go up, I watch my pickets fill.

Of course there are other ways to build up my reputation with Sons rather than doing their ridiculous dailies, that is if you want to spend days grinding any old Monster out in Storm speaks. Cause we all know 95% of your realm’s population is doing the same thing you are at the exact same time, unless it’s an ungodly hour, the other 5% is in your guild. Or Spend a good chuck of your change at the Action House to have some one do the work for you.

However, I’m cheap, broke, and lazy. Also a pack rat… /clear throat.

So I have stocked up about 400 some Uldar relics from the time I started doing Sons’ quests. I figure that I have about 2 more days of dailies to do before I can turn them all in to get exalted and then those half defrosted giants will be out of my life. Unless I manage to get back in to raiding.

Your Eye on the Prize.

Only way I can possible bring my self to do achievements is if it has something interesting. Such as the Skunk Pet. I think hes probably the cutest thing in wow right now. So, slowly but surely I’m stacking up other pets I find cute. (3 left! woot!)

I do like however that achievements really don’t have any item that effect’s game play. Such as Gear or the ability to purchase gear. I don’t think blizzard wants us to spend ungodly amount of hours on achievements.Witch people do any way, but if the BiS item comes from some kissing 2,000,000 random people. Only the stupid would go for it, we all know you can get the plague that way. Yep it’s called the “50-year-old-virgin-in-his-mother’s-basement-eating-hot-pockets” plague.

I also use this for grinding reputations such as the Wintersabers. (I wish they would make it as easy as the new raptor but any way). I keep my eye on that purple kitty…that I want to…okay that’s not right.. It looks cool we will leave it at that.

Don’t do it alone.

This same goes for a lot of daily grinding, achievements, leveling, and grading gold. Don’t do just one thing. If you really do wanna get that Epic Fishing pole. Do another reputation while your at it, or do a few achievements at the same time. Level with a friend. Having bigger number returns in more than just one area will make your task of killing 20 million furbogs less daunting. cause not only will you be getting a nice shiny purple kitty but you will also get a trinket of just sheer enjoyment value out of it as well, and an achievement to boot.

If your leveling alts. Grab friends or just talk over vent/teamspeak. I have had plenty of fun running friends alts through instances, or having them run me through a few. Or just picking on some one on vent untill I’m blue in the face.  It really dose take your mind of your mundane tasks.

Don’t Do it unless you really need to.

With the new championing from tabards has made these dailies much more enjoyable. Because well.. I don’t have to do as many, if at all, as long as I’m doing a heroic or level 80 instance.  Witch means I can hang with friends or meet new people along my boring path of redundant tasks.

At Least learn to laugh at others. Like Meleeing warlocks.

Later intarwebz!

Hello interwebz! I was working on some elaborate post but I took a brake to mess around with my new UI. I came along a post on WoWI. I wont link to the post.. since its pretty obvious and I found it on the front page, but I don’t wanna give any one at WoWI any greeph.. Besides.. I think they handled it quite nicely. So we will call the poster.. DephKnight and I’m at loss for words on his final paragraph:

“PLEASEEEEEE !! Someone do this, so sick of spamming several buttons and making decicions while in combat at the same time as I am supposed to read raid chat and answer and keeping track of healt/RP and what the boss does and what others do … As you can see it is an mission impossible for a human
to play a game that needs that much attention ..” – Def Knite

Like many other people at WoWI, I thought he was joking. In the post he was asking for a UI to act like a Bot. To basically do his rotation as a human would, while he did every thing else. It’s a shocking state to see this since well.. I do all those things with one hand behind my back and a sandwich in my mouth, while watching tv. Okay maybe not the Watching tv thing.. I tend to zone out when I do that. One replier did state it perfectly we will call him LeetMage

“I suggest turning off the TV shows. Stop trying to play your gaming console at the same time and just focus on your raid/group” – 1337|V|463

Thanks leet mage.. You rock!

P.S. Can’t wait till I can play!!!!

Whoa I’ve been so out of the loop lately when it comes to WoW. With All the moving and lack of net. sigh. Normally I’m on top of the latest news and gear going around. Most of the time I know what I want from each instance, but I really don’t even know what gear drops in TO(G)C.

What dose this mean for me? More math then I thought, but since I won’t be able to get WoW for a few more days. I suppose I have plenty of time to figure that all out before I relapse in to a 4-year-old addiction.

What did I do with my time before I had internet, phone, or TV, oh dear faithful Interwebz? Warcraft and simulators… but I only have a few. Total snewz zzz. For some odd reason I can’t get past one scenario in warcraft 2. Damn Alliance B*st*rds…wait…/clear throat

Since I already stated my interest in what has come in 3.2, which was really just the totem bar (Thank The Loot Gods!) .  I here the Enhancement shamans are still Sub par to Elemental Shamans.  Blizz still thinks they are on track. Explain the DPS difference then huh?! I get hazed all the time to switch.. I’m just not interested.

I was a tad bit concerned with the implementation of Axes for Rogues (That sounds kinda catchy). I loose a lot of good weapons to them as is. They want my fist weapons, then they wanted my maces. Now I have nowhere to run from them. Enhancement shamans really don’t have any gear to call thier own. After clear thought and meditation I realized there really isn’t much Axes I want any way… they can fight with the hunters on that one.

I wish they would give me a chance to snag a mace or a fist weapon, so I can push my DPS a tad bit and I wont me mocked as much.  I fear the day when my Raid Leader comes to me and says “your dps just isn’t enough Vel“. I don’t think a witty sarcastic joke would win me any props then.

As for the guild I am proud to say they have gotten down a lot of new bosses since my leave of absence. I still feel they are coming though, sooner or later! I just wish I could have been there for the epic first time kills.

I will probably be spending the rest of the time, playing on my little trial account mage (Ima gonna cry when I gotta give her up) and finding out what gear Vel needs. With the way loot works in my guild I wont be getting much of any thing for a bit (even though I think I can argue it  but I just wont). I’d rather just learn the fights, I don’t know.

For now, I’m off to play around on Chardev.org. 2nd most visited site for me next to wow head. hehe!

Adios Interwebz!

With the resent change to the Jewelcrafters Gem’s I find my self with having to do some more math…  I had my self sitting before I left wow at 27 expertise with the Unleashed Rage talent… Now I’m sitting at 28 with out it… rawr? hardly. Besides the fact I lost most of my socket bonuses with the switch of Prismatic to color.

I’ll admit it.. I flamed the thought of me losing the functionality of Prismatic Gems. I really didn’t wanna load my self up with blue gems, since I really didn’t see any need for Ap+Stam gems. I would rather have put my Expertise gems in my Blue sockets and fill the Red up with agility and as I got more Expertise form gear, I would replace them with more Agility Prismatics.  Let’s be honest though, Socket bonuses just are not all THAT great. I know Ak with his Rogue doesn’t always fallow them any way.

So the question about this being a nerf or not? I dought it. It’s not what I have been doing nor the mind set I was in Pre 3.2 but I’ll cope… That’s what being a good gamer is all about. “adaptability”? any one?

What am I fearing about this change and me having to correct it? Going in to Dalaran.. We lost our only computer that can handle it… Nothing like moving at less then .5 frames per sec. Also the countless hours staring at Warcrafter.net and Chardev to figure out the correct numbers. So I don’t end up putting the wrong gem in an unoptimized spot. I’ve blown 600g that way… not pritty and since I don’t have time to farm gold any more.. even less pretty.

Lil’ Missy? nah no one ever calls me lil’ missy any more these days. I feel old. However I logged on to my Sham Yesterday after the realms were finally back up, I found a letter in my mail box. It was complaining about one of my Fellow Officers.. besides calling Him a chick. It was talking about how I needed to kick him from the girl for his “Questionable Language” Because it’s bad for our guilds image. After mocking him I just deleted the letter.

I wouldn’t kick any one from the guild on that consensuses. besides I’m not even the GM… One they never stated exactly what was Offensive about his speech. My guild has always advertised them selves as an Adult guild, and to be honest I wouldn’t have it any other way. If I can’t say what’s on my mind the way I wanna say it and talk about inappropriate stuff. I just wouldn’t have any fun. Yes.. I have a dirty, vary dirty mind.

If he was cussing some one out in General chat and using racist terms etc etc. I would have defiantly voted for it, but come on people. Other people cuss. Get over it and grow up! If you can’t handle it go play hello kitty island adventure. And of cores send your complaints to the person who can deal with it, and don’t tell them how to deal with it, I don’t tell you to spank your children.

Sorry for the silence around here, but we have been hella busy again.. that has been really keeping me from playing wow in general. For the large part, Ak and I wanted to prove to our selves that we were not addicted. Witch I’ll be honest, I never thought was the case. I just don’t have any thing better to do then to speed level up 21 alts…

Will we return to raiding? Probably not with our current guild.  With this new change to our lives. We pretty much have like 7 to 10pm to play.. well at least Ak dose. Being the loving wife I am, I go to bed with him. My current guild raids from 7:30 to about 12 or so. That just doesn’t work. Will I miss it? Hell yes! Specially with the Colosseum coming out. I think I’m just going to sit back and mess around with my Lock and Rogue for a while. Regardless of a lot of drama that has happened since my departure. I really don’t think I’m going to be leaving the guild, even though a lot of the people that did leave I became vary attached too. It’s kinda funny how All of the reasons I stay with this guild just ends up leaving eventually anyway. I will just step back for a while. If they decide to kick me, that’s fine with me. I know there is vary little shaman’s left in my guild.. but there was one person who could take my spot. He’s young and has more free time around those hours then I do.I think it is vary funny, that the day I actually want to play for an extended period of time… we have extended maintenance  ’till 5, my time. Fizzelsticks! Yes, my warlock gets her epic land mount and my rogue gets her first mount (I leveled her to 20 to wait for it).  I think right now I’d just rather play.

I guess You all saw this coming. MY take on the Shaman changes for 3.2?

A customizable totem bar will now be available for shamans allowing the storing of 4 different totems. These totems can be placed on the ground at once in one global cooldown for the combined mana cost of all 4 totems.

I think this is awesome for all 3 specs. Nothing like me rushing in to attack kologarn’s arm and having to wait till my totems are down and getting “POP HERO!!!!1″ from various people threw out the raid. I almost blew a gaskit on several people for calling for hero.. it always happens while I’m getting set up.  Piffles!

Earth Shock: Redesigned. This spell no longer interrupts spell casting, but rather reduces melee attack speed by 10% for 8 seconds (exclusive with similar effects such as Thunder Clap).

I find this one to be rather on the interesting side… However it is nice along with this change.

Wind Shock: Has been renamed Wind Shear and no longer shares a cooldown with Flame, Frost or Earth Shock.

I don’t think every one really understand my bitching about the shock cooldown problem. it was always “I can interrupt and do damage.. or lessen my threat and interrupt? . . . Damage.” or how i could complain about having to interrupt in the first place. I’m rarely in the top 5 on the dps or damage charts. and when I have to interrupt . . .  The one hit wonder is always above me.

The big reason why I always complained about this was the simple fact is that most interrupts were not “included” in any cooldowns, including GCD(global cooldown) such as pummel, and kick. However in many cases I was forced to interrupt over an arms warrior. Since he “can’t” switch in to zerker stance..since it messes with his “damage”. well.. for all of you out there.. Interrupting Blocks about 50% of our damage out put.. I don’t think going in to Zerker as an Arms warrior would hurt you any more then that!

Other then that really nothing is too spectacular. I’m still really mad about the statement that “Enhancement shaman’s dps is where we want it to be, and elemental is too far behind” load of BS… It’s the other way around blizzard.

I should probably end this here so I have more to talk about later. I am also considering turning this is to a dual purpose blog..? maybe…maybe not.

May the loot gods give you plenty of epix!

Ps: sorry for any bad grammer and misspellings. I tryed to get them all my self, but my editor quit!

What?! Shaman’s are going to get swords?! oh hell no.. besides most swords are not meant for shaman’s use. I wanna see titan’s grip before we can use swords.

There is something related to weapons that is in fact a “double edged sword” used in a figure of speech kinda terms. It’s called weapon speed.

To clarify this in a bit more technical terms.

Fast weapons increase the damage done by flametongue attack, also increases the proc chance of maelstrom weapon.

Slow weapons increase the damage done by Stormstrike, lava lash, and windfury.

There is also something called “proc stealing” (Not sure if that’s the correct term but yea…) this is when an off hand that is much faster steals the ‘hit’ from the main hand.  Yea, I know doesn’t make sense right? Nop, took me reading about it for a few months to actually get it, since there really isn’t any good way to explain it. I’ll take a crack at it.  Weapons will ALWAYS swing .5 sec after the other (Unless you’re a Rogue and can actually force your main hand forward. Not sure exactly how that works… never got a rogue past level 6…but Ak has drilled me).

Lets say your main hand has a 2.5 sec swing and your off hand has a 1.6 sec swing. Your off hand will hit 2 times before allowing your main hand to come thru, thus ‘delaying’ a windfury proc. If your thinking “well that’s okay I want my windfury imbued hand to hit out side of a 3sec cool-down”  that in away is good, but your main hand’s damage isn’t going to equal that of a 2-hander but be very close to it’s speed. In the end hurting your white damage, witch is a majority of our damage.

Another reason why fast weapons are bad for your enhancement shaman is broken down to simple Main Hand-Off Hand mechanics. Off Hand weapons have a 50% reduction to damage. Meaning, even if you have the same weapon equipped in both hands, your off hand weapon will do half the damage of your main hand. In many cases if you break down Stats, DPs and weapon damage of a weapon if placed in the off hand, actually does FAR less then the weapon ‘dps’ stats on the tool-tip.

The weapons that actually do a bit more or exactly the dps stated are the slower weapons. Since we don’t use our off hands like many other classes do, such as rogues, it’s better to get as much weapon damage out of your off hand as possible.

Now that I have explained that… Let’s look at all this in action? Let’s head to the good old Simulator.

Here is my current set up with just my totems, and my common consumables like fish fest and endless rage.

• white               1102.55   27.71%
• windfury            572.52    14.39%
• flametongue         417.66    10.5%
• stormstrike         200.16    5.03%
• lava lash           165.96    4.17%
• searing totem       213.43    5.36%
• earth shock         388.30    9.76%
• lightning bolt      555.30    13.96%
• lightning shield    135.54    3.41%
• spirit wolves       227.51    5.72%

DPS 3978.95

Now if I take the same stats and all that and just reduce my off hand speed by 1 sec (down from 2.5 to 1.5) This is what we get:

• white               1086.65   31.13%
• windfury            438.19    12.55%
• flametongue         369.92    10.6%
• stormstrike         170.87    4.89%
• lava lash           94.39     2.7%      7.98
• searing totem       187.03    5.36%
• earth shock         346.84    9.94%
• lightning bolt      450.02    12.89%
• lightning shield    135.99    3.9%
• spirit wolves       210.98    6.04%

DPS 3490.87

See that Drop? 500 DPS drop for just dropping a sec on your weapon speed.

You also can see a bit of proc stealing here. 2% of the slow hand’s windfury proc has disappeared when switching over to a fast off hand. However, flametongue didn’t see any increase in procs but did lose a small amount of damage,that could be to blame with the irregularity to most fights (can’t always expect to hit 100% if you only have a 99% chance to hit, if you know what I mean).  Most of the real damage was lost in White, Windfury, Lavalash, and Stormstrike.

So to this conclusion, weapon speed does matter when you get down to ‘nitty gritty’, and you have to be to compete with the BIG dogs.

I will admit it though, I was at first a bit pissed at blizzard, thought angry dread would outlast ulduar. THANK GOD it was just lack of searching and info out there..!

So here is exactly what off hands are great for us, if you don’t already know..

Pre Naxx = Pride (40 Heroism Badges)
Naxx 10 = Stray (Trash)
Naxx 25 = Angry Dread (Noth)
Ulduar 10 = Bloodcrush Cudgel (Trash)
Ulduar 25 = Vulmir, the Northern Tempest (Thorim)
(to compare them click here)

On a bit of a side note: If you are replacing a green, stats will help you out more then that, so a fast hand won’t hurt since it is still an substantial upgrade. Just don’t ride the fast off hand for too long, have intentions of upgrading it to a slow. (Slows do have less stats then fasts but the change is worth it.)

So, not many things shake me to the very core of my nerd-self, but those that manage to get past the analythic part of my brain hit the emotional part. And I think that should be the goal of every game developer introducing a “serious” game trying to tell a story: to reach the emotions of the spectators.

So, while I was looking around blindly for addons at Curse and found a link to a certain cinematic trailer, I just middle-clicked it to open it in a new tab in Chrome, just out of curiosity. After I was done looking around the rest of my tabs (I often open way too many), I find myself facing this masterpiece of a Cinematic Trailer. Ladies and gents, welcome to the Old Republic!.

I have to admit it managed to get me all teary eyed and goose-bumpy with exciteness. So…I’ll just enjoy the moment and try not to think of what to do to get me a computer that can handle that kinda game, cause that’s a bit of a painful thought.

I proceed to embed the video here (assuming I have a clue of how to do that).

Um…wootness?

In this set of articles I am going to explain what I feel has changed and what can still be changed, and how I think it can be done.  Also addressingg some of the QQ I have herd around the intarwebz.

In this article I’m going to talk about the ‘ Raiding spectrum’. How raiding has changed. What hard modes and achievements have done to/for raiding.

Is every one happy? No, but I see more and more people complaining about one side of the story. One small bit inside of an encounter. A Raid instance is so complex is almost not even funny and it seems from the past 4-some years they are continuing to get far more complicated. There really is no single way to do things and there are no “tank ‘n spank”, only in one aspect.

If we look back in Vanilla W.o.W. everything was pretty straight forward. 1st you get your dungeons set upgraded, grind MC for months, head to BWL, and then take on Old NAXX. Numbers set at 40 meant more room for errors but more coordination and headaches on raid leaders. Raids were very clunky back then, but until you got up in to BWL players in raids could be clumsy and not really see any problem with it. Gear was also harder to get. There was no token system back then, and when you got tokens it only led to quests to receive the actual gear.

Many guilds never had the numbers to see such content, not saying they didn’t have the skill or the drive, but guilds of that caliber were harder to get in to, besides far and few in between. We have to remember only 3% of the world wide raiding population at the time saw Old NAXX. The instance was very well designed but 3% is a horrible number when technically everyone pays the same amount of money to see… In the end it was a bad marketing approach to this, but of course they didn’t learn from that mistake until much later.

In Burning Crusade,  you have a set path until you get past Karazan.  Its Gruul with  Mag, then SSC and TK, then BT and MH, so on so forth. So you have a consistent path inside of the instance but you can tackle 2 or 3 raids in one week. We changed our raid numbers to 25 and brought in more dynamic raids that required a lot more strategic approach to the encounter, brute forcing your way thru any encounter was almost impossible.

With the new token system for loot, you didn’t have to grind an raid instance for too long, normally just for rare items it would take you a bit. They also introduced a badge system were you, if you didn’t get better out of the instance, you could get things from vendors, as they called “Welfare epics“. Roughly 100,000 people out of 10 million got to see the “end game” content known as Sunwell. Again that’s 1% of the wow population that actually got to see this content before nerf. Many more I’m sure got to see it after, myself included.

In wrath we have a set way of going about things. Its FL then XT and so on so forth so in theory it is just like it was and has always been.  Unlike in TBC, we have one linear path of what instance to take. Yes, you can do VOA OS and NAXX in the same week. However, OS and VOA are more of a starter then a full raid, more like the Karazan of past. The instances you get your feet wet in ’til you get in to the big deals of Ulduar and Naxx.

New with Wrath is more of along the lines of a instance inside of an instance.  With achievements and hard modes, we no longer need to have so many instances, one instance can handle up to 4 different ways of completing a boss on it’s own. Thus adding more flexibility to your raid encounter, so grinding one instance no longer will seem so tedious. Even with in NeoNaxx you had 4 wings to choose which one you wanted to do first and what order you had the group to do at one time. However, progression wise it was still very linear.You also have heroic difficulty and normal, to fit your raid size.

So here is what has changed:

• • You no longer have to grind a instance for a ridiculous amount of time to get people geared.
  • You no longer have to have a ridiculous amount of people to see said content.
  • You have separation between Hardcore and casuals in both 10man and 25 man content.
  • Every one is ensured to see such content even if it’s only “easy modes”.
  • There is always something to entertain you with hard modes and achievements.
  • If some items don’t drop you still have badge gear to pick from.
  • You no longer need to have 1 specific class to even start a raid.
  • Every one is rewarded fairly for such actions they did, ranging form ” I did this!” to having a shiny legendary.

Pretty much I think that a lot of this complaining these days are not seeing what has really benefited every one as a whole. We have to understand, Blizzard really doesn’t care about any one more then the other. We are just money to them since they are a company, but they are trying to find some middle ground for every one. Their willingness to find a common ground between Casual and Hard core has made both sides rather spoiled I think.

We as gamers in wow think that blizzard will fix every thing and that our needs are their top priority, witch in fact we are 1 in a million . However, the player base has two sided spectrum. Hard Casual (those who probably haven’t even hit 80 yet) and Hard core (those who have 20 80’s and those have done or will do Algalon) with the silent majority hanging somewhere in the middle. So how do you think blizzard will keep all aspects of the player base happy? Giving casuals endgame content and giving hard core their exclusive legendaries?

They have accomplished such a goal, not perfectly, but pretty damn close.  In theory, hard cores have their legendary items and their epic boss encounters with hard mode and outrageously complex achievements, that is exclusive to them. While giving casuals something that anyone could get with ease and no batteries required. Yet giving the ‘silent majority‘ something to strive for.

Exclusive raid instances to me is a bad idea, it would be like spending millions of dollars on a movie, yet only letting the upper class watch such a movie. Their revenue might not be as good as they thought it would be, since they charged the same amount to watch said movie as the average movie coasts. It is a very ugly word to use but ‘Segregation‘ is a bad business strategy. Besides if I put a lot of work into something of this sort I want to show it off to every one I can! Shouldn’t blizzard be allowed to do that as well?

So I shall finish this post on that alone. They have put the tools and the goals in our faces, it is up to us to accept and attempt them. If you choose to not take such actions, such as not doing hard modes and achievements, then it is your doing to not challenge your self.

Next post I’m going to go over how these changes are effecting guilds, and what I believe people need to do to rectify.

Last thursday a certain item dropped, Velun won it by roll, however the next day it landed in my mailbox, she had put a GM Ticket for it to be given to me instead.

Calamity's Grasp

Thank you again, you’re the best!

(Some people were a bit upset about this, however I must say there was a good reasoning for it:

• First, she had won a weapon that same run -a second Angry Dread – and according to the rules, you’re given 1 item for main spec, 1 for off-spec, and 1 piece of tier gear per run, unless no one wants it and it is an upgrade.
• Second, I had the highest roll after Velun, so even if she had passed on it that very same night, it would’ve gone to me.
• Third, yes Idid win my T7.25 Helm off KT that night, however again according to rules, I’d have been eligible for the weapon regardless.

With those 3 things there I believe there’s no real good reason for others to complain, while it is true she might kept it had I not been there, it is also true this was not some sort of conspiracy to get me a weapon or anything.)