A Confession and a Diary

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Re: A Confession and a Diary

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Dog Pants wrote:The set pieces in Wrath of the Lich King were pretty good. The ones which explained what you were doing as you did them, like the assault on Undercity. The combat in Mass Effect 3 wasn't necessarily bad, it was just too prolonged and samey.
A lot of Warcraft's best stories seem to be set in the past, such as the ones accessible from the Caverns of Time, which reimagine events from the previous RTS games and are much more poignant if you're played the missions they're based on in those games.
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Re: A Confession and a Diary

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Day X - because I have now lost count
It's been a few days now since I last sat back and took stock of the situation, my paladin is now at the giddy heights of level 48 having spent most of his time in dungeons and the rest of it wandering around looking for ore to mine. With most players now at high levels means that lots of the lower level items for crafting are either priced stupidly high (remember I am doing this on a server away from my main and therefore cut off from ready cash and heirloom resources) or just not available at all and this has lead to an assesment and prioritisation of recipes/resources that has resulted in a rather quicker skill up rate than I would probably have experienced otherwise.
The dungeons are also falling by at a pretty quick rate, ensuring that my character levels do likewise. I assumed that the higher up the tree I got the more time I would spend LFG than actually in the dungeons, so far this is not the case, the cross server dungeon finder still works very well and folks are still levelling alts it seems - however I will wait until Outland to pass final word on that one.
At this point I should probably mention another rather good point about Blizzards cross server tech - lower population areas are merged together. I queried it earlier and Berk confirmed, low population areas are shared between servers which has massive benefit as my other half has been persuaded to at least try a seven day CatJism trial and this way she and I can play cross server should we wish. Although on this occasion we did nothing other than muck about with multi-person mounts - kicking folks out at inopportune moments never gets old - and testing the boundaries of this new-found cross server playground.
Predictably the capital cities are home server base only, this does mean that if you stand outside the gates of Stormwind or Orgrimmar you will see plenty of folks magically appearing in flashes of light - which if they are riding a mechano-hog leaves the impression of participating in a Harry Potter story.
Equally as predictable is the inability to trade across realms, though they have had the forethought to allow you to trade conjurable items like mage water and other useful but essentially worthless bits.
The rest of my time in the game has been taken up by deleting old alts, creating new ones and sometimes deleting the alts I had just created.
Once such example was the Pandaman I created so the two of us could experience Pandaland together.
I created a panda shamen just to experience the starter area, I hate the pandas for every bit of simpering and (sigh) pandering they do to the asian market - simpering and pandering that got them nowhere and disgusted a lot of their playerbase. What followed was actually a pretty slick starting zone that flowed along quite nicely without any indication of grind (I later recreated shamen as a dwarf and fuck are the old ways the hardest) The story is a bit crazy, a LOT stereotypical, a little bit over zealous on the mob spawners but enough fun that we played through the whole zone in one sitting. I don't really want to talk too much about the content as anyone can make a panda irregardless of whether you have the expansion and I think you should, just to see what there is to see (yes, we all thought of Terry Pratchett when we got to THAT quest)

Also, Varyn Wrynn is a dick - but we knew that already.
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Re: A Confession and a Diary

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Day X + 3

First bad dungeon run.

I've been levelling a dwarf shamen to play alongside my missus and I finally dragged him up to level where he can enter dungeons (15) so I queued and finally got throught to Deadmines as a healer - I am specced into healer as far as I can at this level (which means I clicked a button at level 10 which said "specialise in healing")
We get past the first boss no drama but that tank is pulling something fierce and at this level I only have two healing spells at my disposal and a cooldown that is pretty savage when I need to be spamming heals everywhere. Predictably we die, I die first followed by the tank and a rogue the rest manage to escape. Well, you would think this was the end of the world, the tank and rogue who died are calling for me to be kicked because I am "noob, he has no heirlooms" at which point I may have called the tank fuckwit and pointed out that I had died. His argument then was that because I had no heirlooms he couldn't "big pull" and then I was treated to "kick healer ffs, noob" from the rogue. I continued to explain to the tank that at low level nobody can spam heals and that I only had two and no chain heal yet - tank agreed to calm down his pulling and we proceded to finish the dungeon no problem.
Now I would like to point out that at several times I gained aggro and nearly died during that run, tank seemed to think that running in and stomping was enough and that he didn't need to hit anything (I should have taken screenshots, several times I caught him just stood there) so obviously heirlooms do not the tank make.

So this whole experience has soured me to healing again, which has the knock on effect that other folks don't get dungeon groups as much and I don't get to play as a healer which I actually quite like doing - just not with ball bags like that. I wonder how many other potential healers have been put off by similar experiences.

I should thank the other two for realising the tank and rogue were being dicks and not kicking me, proof that not everybody out there is a tool.
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Re: A Confession and a Diary

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If I remember correctly, the big advantage of being a healer is that if you have a bunch of dicks in your dungeon (not a code) then you can tell them to bugger off and not have to wait another 14 hours to find a new dungeon group.

For my part, I got out of the panda starting zone and immediately lost interest. Its a shame, because if there were 80 more levels worth of content of the quality of the panda island I probably would have stuck with it for much longer. I think WoW has seen its day and needs putting down. Roll on a new MMO from Blizzard. Preferably with the Guild Wars payment model.
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Re: A Confession and a Diary

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I always quite enjoyed playing my Shaman as a healer at 80, but I'd have no idea what to do now. Jimmington said you can get a 7-day trial on your normal account, and I'm trying to stave off temptation to have a look.
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Re: A Confession and a Diary

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Anyone fancy sending me a scroll of resurrection so I can have a look?
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Re: A Confession and a Diary

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I will, but be warned you have a large download ahead of you. Given all these cross server shenanigans you can roll an Ally on ED and use heirlooms and still be able to play with the rest of us - or Horde but I have no real lowbie horde anymore.

Wait, no. I have a gobbo rogue
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Re: A Confession and a Diary

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I can download overnight, I wasn't planning on playing right now. Can I download the client first? Is there an expiry on the res or does it start when I activate it?
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Re: A Confession and a Diary

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Bah, wish I'd had a scroll sent to me now. Fucking thing will boost one character to level 80, will let you change faction and server too.
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Re: A Confession and a Diary

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Here we go then. I'm thinking of banging a priest or warrior up to 80 for the heals/tanks. The invite came from Emerald Dream though, so I can only transfer characters there.
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Re: A Confession and a Diary

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Ah, well, I have a level 80 priest on ED - Horde side
My druid is now a NElf again and on Blades Edge, I was never really happy with him as Horde after spending all that time with him as Alliance and as much as folks scoff, I have grown attached to this character.
I also have various other characters of differing levels scattered across realms and factions but that doesn't matter with the whole cross realm shenanigans
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Re: A Confession and a Diary

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I bumped my goblin warrior up to 80. I hated playing a warrior while levelling, so it's saved me the pain. I haven't a fucking clue what to do with it though, nor Soncho, my Shaman. I was going to start up a new character to learn the ropes of the new systems, so I'll do that on Blade's Edge. Might have to be a panda for the new starting area, although I fucking hate the pandas.
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Re: A Confession and a Diary

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Who do we have active at the moment? I was going to set us up a guild for the material swaps and chat, but we need four and only have three.
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Me :)
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Re: A Confession and a Diary

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You were one of the three :P

Anyone else?
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Re: A Confession and a Diary

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I'm afraid I've bailed out already. Pandaland was good, then I got bored and stopped playing.
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Re: A Confession and a Diary

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I have to admit, I've not even looked at Pandaland.
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Re: A Confession and a Diary

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Day X + 7

Altitis hit a few days back, I now have a dogman huntard at level 14, dwarf shamen at level 21 and my spacegoat pally at 51. I knew this would happen, it always does. It's because I start picking up materiels for other professions and I feel like it is a waste if they are not being used, or because I see a higher level class swanning around in gear and with skills that I think look pretty cool and I want to play...Hopefully I will be able to keep it in check otherwise I will never level anything.

In other news, tried to solo Mount Hyjal - a level 70 raid from TBC - and failed miserably at the first boss who throws an aoe dot that chugs 15% of your health away per tick but I do plan on coming back again (probably with help) at some point to pick up the T6 raid gear - you can transform the look of your gear into other gear a bit like GW2.
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Re: A Confession and a Diary

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Bought pandaland.
Feel dirty.
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Re: A Confession and a Diary

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So, I started playing the content for Pandaland yesterday. I don't think anyone else is likely to play through it (I'm filling the MMO gap until GW either gets a dungeon finder or Wildstar - my money is on Wildstar being first) so I won't bother with spoiler tags.

I got summoned to Stormwind Keep, apparently Prince Albert was part of an expeditionary fleet that encountered a similar Horde fleet and of course battle was joined. Some magic distress message was sent back to SW and voila, here I am stood before Cock Face Wrynn promising to go save his son. Le fucking sigh.
Anyway, off I fly to find a re-fitted Skybreaker (airship from Northrend) hovering about the habour captained by a obnoxious cow who really, really, REALLY hates the Horde.
Anyway, off we fly in search of the missing fleet and Royal Sprog and of course we find their last known position and it is crawling with Horde. Naturally the first few missions here are all about driving the horde off, one involves me jumping into a gyrocopter and machine gunning down as many as I can and sinking a few of their ships. This paves the way for a ground assault and I'm Back In Cat.
After comitting the usual MMO genocide I am treated to a cut scene, the remains of the Horde fleet are swimming to shore. Admiral twitchy britches gives the order to open fire despite arguments from my NElf chum from SI:7 - bitch.
Well, turns out that the reservations/fears/disgust for the actions of Bitch Admiral have manifest them and we are saved from complete corruption by a shadowy pandaman (seriously shadowy, that fat fuck could provide shade for a large school outing at midday on the fucking equator) and the redemption of the Alliance begins.
Suprisingly this begins by rescuing the booze and orchards of the pandamen which the horde are drinking and chopping down respectively - I should point out that at this point I have been saying Horde but I have only seen Orcs and Goblins - which is exactly what the cuntbags are doing in Ashenvale.
Ashenvaaaaaaale!
Ahem.
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