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Raid/PuG habits should be kept separate {WoW}
Jan 18th 2010 8:25PM murabayashi.harukaze,
That describes me. I gave up trying to PUG heroics with my prot. warrior tank. I just can't stand the hassle, the rude/nasty players, the "gogogogogo," etc. Heroics were all about gearing up to level 200 items when they were first implemented. Now they are all about farming badges. There are a lot of impatient players in the LFG who are not going to tolerate a new tank with "only" 25k or without perfect understanding of all the boss battle gimmicks. You really have to run random heroics as a DPS to gear up your healer/tank spec. In the meantime you can run random normal mode dungeons as a healer or tank and learn the bosses in a much lower pressure environment.
Blizzard: Run Oculus, win fabulous prizes {WoW}
Jan 5th 2010 4:56AM In related news, to make players more eager to listen to the long-winded exposition in Heroic Culling of Stratholme, every time Arthas says, "Malganis," there will now be a small chance that the battered hilt will drop from the sky.
:-p
Time Is Money: Dungeon finder {WoW}
Dec 14th 2009 3:42PM As much as I love the new random dungeon system, it's of limited use to me at the moment entirely because most people using it are concerned with maximizing profit (money and emblems) and have little patience for players learning the ropes or gearing up.
If you are a fresh level 80, even if you have gear, hp, defense, dps, etc. appropriate to run heroics you will spend a good chunk of your time getting booted from groups by people who dinged 80 a year ago, already have full heroic gear (level 200 or higher), know each dungeon inside-and-out and are trying to outfit their characters in full tier-9 as quickly as possible.
This may change in a couple of weeks once these people are geared up. It the meantime, although doing random heroics seems like the next logical step, it's better to find a guild to help you gear up and learn the boss fights.
The Care and Feeding of Warriors: A Warrior's Bounty {WoW}
Nov 28th 2009 5:48PM As much as I love the sound of my shield slam, I have to say that I am still envious of the paladin's hammer of the righteous. The loud "ping" of the hammer is just so satisfying.
Patch 3.3 PTR: Sound files may reveal fate of the Lich King {WoW}
Nov 4th 2009 7:31PM The new voice actor for Sylvanas sounds like Barbara Streisand. I'm sad they couldn't sign the original actor for more material.
Patch 3.3 PTR: The fate of Bolvar Fordragon {WoW}
Oct 17th 2009 8:37PM Two comments:
1. The Lich King can gain mental control over pretty much anyone by simply killing them and raising them into undeath (See Mograine senior, Sylvanas, etc.). He doesn't need to torture a person into serving him. Clearly he wants Bolvar to serve him, "willingly," hence the efforts to break his spirit rather than his body. I'm sure the Lich King would derive all sorts of satisfaction out of extracting loyalty from the still living paladin.
2. That said, I am getting pretty tired of the, "good guy gets corrupted," story-lines in the various Blizzard games. We have the hero from Diablo I, the fallen angels in Diablo II, Kerrigan in Starcraft, Sylvanas, Arthas, and Grom Hellscream in Wacraft III, and the dragon in Blackrock Spire, the dragons at the Isle of Quel'thalas, and pretty much the entire Green and Blue Dragon dragonflights in WoW. It's tragic, indicative of human(oid), weakness, and an utterly predictable trope at this point.
Just for a change, can we get an untouchable, incorruptible hero? Some to inspire us and hold us accountable for our actions? Someone to prove that temptation can be resisted, that corruption isn't inevitable? Someone to rebuff and reject the Lich King and lay low his hubris? We've suffered years of Pyrrhic victories against the Scourge; I think it is high time to allow the Light a definitive victory.
Let Arthas see in his dying moments that there are better, stronger men than he. Let him ruminate on his moral failings in the presence of an unbreakable hero and despair. No Arthas, Bolvar wouldn't have taken the same path had he led the defense of Lordaeron.
