Around Azeroth: Why your healer is laughing at you
by Elizabeth Wachowski 
Oct 12th 2009 at 10:00AM
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Zhiva Oct 12th 2009 4:44AM
That picture could be an illustration of battle between Melcor and what-was-the-name-of-that-noldor-king.
Meethan Oct 12th 2009 10:08AM
That last statement actually made me laugh. Great picture Jim!
Diablo Oct 12th 2009 10:33AM
This article provoked a thought. I was pondering the nature of the common multi-comprehensions of the concept of "god" or "original creator that science doesn't really have an exact answer for". I suspect that the religions passed on are not actually answering that question, but I wonder if in fact the concept of god has something to do with instinct. Both are passed down, both are not well understood by science (mostly due to a lack of legal options for research on humans, and to a lesser extent animals) and yet there is consensus that humans ought to have some sort of instinctual behaviors that may or may not manifest during times of survival, since apparently for most of human evolution the "brain" of the animal was what it used to move and control its body in order to survive. This may have started in a plant like form as grow-direction behaviors that were based around finding pleasure (sunlight, water, nutrients) and also to avoid painful things, such as a hard impenetrable area or something like that.
It should also be noted that many creationists claim we are 'descendants of monkeys" but they fail to realize that monkeys are a modern animal, just like every living plant and animal, which evolved co-existively and at the same time, and currently survive today. All of the ancestors of everything that is alive now are dead now, although a very small % were nice enough to die in a way that their bones were preserved for us to dig up later. Thus, very early plants and animals may or may not resemble modern plants/animals.
Mordockk Oct 12th 2009 10:56AM
Bro, are you just posting to start a debate in an otherwise low population comment post?
Dude, we all know humans evolved from Pokemon'
Silversol Oct 12th 2009 10:48AM
Actually creationists believe that some religious form created everything *religious form, as in everyone may have a different religion and some different form of their being of creation*. Evolution is what you were thinking. And some anthropology classes would help explain that.
dom_wynn Oct 12th 2009 10:44AM
Give yrself an Obscure Tolkein Ref point :¬)
Feanor? (guessing wildly)
Klop Oct 12th 2009 12:40PM
You're thinking of Fingolfin's duel with Morgoth at the gates of Angbad.
Mordockk Oct 12th 2009 11:01AM
LOL
"Thus, very early plants and animals may or may not resemble modern plants/animals."
so that was your conclusion.... I'm a picture of a giant egyptian statue swinging a hammer raises these typs of conjectures.
DeathPaladin Oct 12th 2009 10:59AM
This picture is ideal for the caption "Somehow I don't think you thought your cunning plan all the way through."
Mordockk Oct 12th 2009 11:16AM
Did wow.com ever take these screenshots/AroundAzeroth posts and do caption contests? that would be really fun and make the article more amusing than just a cool screen shot. Give us a chance to caption it. i'll start:
"WTB bigger shield"
Muse Oct 12th 2009 11:32AM
"Urk, his footsweat alone is killing me."
Tirrimas Oct 12th 2009 12:55PM
Anubisath warrior:"Hold still, you little -!"
STHedgeHog Oct 12th 2009 1:27PM
"YAY, Time to play Wack-A-Warrior"
Babasyzygy Oct 13th 2009 1:19AM
"We're going to need a bigger boat."
"Gonna need another Timmy!"
Gimmlette Oct 12th 2009 11:43AM
I had to chuckle because my guild ran into AQ40 last night; well, not all of us...actually, 6 of us. We had no tank so my bear did the honors. I remember, as a level 70, struggling to down these guys because they will spell reflect and our casters, unprepared for that even though we told them, kept getting things reflected back at them. And the sheer size of these guys was enough to wonder what we were actually doing. I remember someone asking in Vent, "We don't take damage when they fall on us, do we?"
Last night, the 6 of us couldn't get past Skeram as his mind control would do us in every time. We had a lot of laughs when we would try again and someone would kill the person who had killed them the attempt before. "Revenge is mine!"
But, Neretzek dropped for us. The only non-80 in the party, a level 60 DK, thought I was teasing him when I linked it in raid chat. He got it runed and I have to say, it is one sweet looking weapon.
This is one of the reasons I go back to the classic stuff. There was so much diversity in weaponry and armor. Everyone didn't look like everyone else and there were some awesome weapons on very low (0.1% for Neretzek) drop rates. We all got bug mounts, too, and the battles in the classic instances can be just as deadly as anything in current content. (Stay out of the fire?)
WOW.com used to do a caption contest. You would pick 5 from the submissions and then we'd vote on the best one. I do a caption contest about every 2 months in my guild. Winner gets a choice of prizes. It's great to see the creativity of guild members. I second the caption contest return.
Kolyarut Oct 12th 2009 12:18PM
I love the art in WoW in general, but this pic is emblematic of the main problem I have with it - when everything is big, nothing is big. I know "big monster" is meant to symbolise "you are high level and powerful if you can defeat this", but lets face it even the fel orc peons in Hellfire Ramparts are twice the size of you. Beyond level 40 all you do for the rest of forever is stare at creatures feet.
I would adore it if in Cataclysm we could get a size reset, whereby they'd bring the size of a typical boss to no more than two or three times the size of a tauren. It would be nice to be able to zoom the camera out to maximum distance and be able to see something other than the boss's waist.
Yaroukh Oct 13th 2009 6:44AM
great point
KarnnExodar Oct 12th 2009 2:47PM
IT's HAMMERTIME!!!
artifex Oct 13th 2009 12:42PM
break it dowwwwwn!