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Spiritual Guidance: Adapting to 4.0.1 priest healing {WoW}
Oct 17th 2010 7:34PM From a newly 80 priest, I just want to say thanks, Dawn. I have never played a priest much before, but took advantge of a friend of mine wanting to get into WoW, and the oh-so-overpowered Recruit A Friend bonuses to level one. I spent my 70-80 levelling popping into 5-mans to heal as discipline, and it was fun. But now, having reached 80 right before the patch dropped, I went holy, and have been having a blast. I am still a bit undergeared, sand so mana management is a bit of an issue, but I am finding the Chakra system to be an absolute blast in heroics. Thanks again, Dawn, for giving us up-to-date info when it comes to healing with the most adaptible healing class in the game.
Breakfast Topic: Does your heart follow your main? {WoW}
Oct 17th 2010 8:47AM I am pretty much the polar opposite, I guess. I've been with my guild since Vanilla, when we were raiding MC. We have evolved over the last two expansions, slimming down to our current form of a 10-man casual raiding guild, but I consider the people whom I've been playing this game with for the last five years to be some of my best friends, even if the majority of us have never met face-to-face. And all of my Alts are in the same guild. Anything else just feels wrong to me somehow.
Contest: Win one of five Steam codes for Left 4 Dead 2 {Big Download}
Nov 20th 2009 12:31AM WOOOOOOOOOOO!
Your fourth chance to pick up a Creative World of Warcraft wireless headset {WoW}
Oct 7th 2009 6:26PM Headsets. i wants one.
Breakfast Topic: I love {WoW}
Sep 14th 2009 8:18AM I love the lore. I love running through a raid, and watching major events in the story of Azeroth play out with my guild and I as central(-ish) players in them. I loved running Blavkrock for the first time, and MC, and BWL, I loved the Death Knight starting area, I loved the Wrath Gate questline. I loved the Greatmother quest chain in Nagrand, I loved Running Naxx the first time, I loved Ulduar. I loved Black Temple, Hyjal, and pretty much everything they did with the Caverns of Time. In short, I love being a part of the world Blizz created.
I love that Blizzard has taken a game that was a huge leap forward in terms of character development and storytelling (Warcraft III), and made us as players a bigger part of it than I could have ever dreamed.
I love running almost every instance the first time through, and watching as all the minor characters and plotlines go through their bits in the grand scheme of things, whatever it may be.
That is all.
Breakfast Topic: The You that you can't leave behind {WoW}
Sep 5th 2009 8:26AM I am the same way with my main, a lvl 80 Horde Paladin. I know, Horde didn't get Pallies until BC, but as soon as I had BC installed, the first thing I did was start leveling what was to become my main. I had played both Human and Dwarven Paladins before, but about 6 months after Vanilla launched, I switched to playing Horde with some RL friends, and loved it. The only thing I missed was my Paladin.
So I switched to a Warrior, but it never felt the same. I leveled a Warlock, thinking maybe playing a Paladin's counterpoint would maybe satisfy me. It didn't. I still love my Warlock, but nothing ever felt like the class I wanted until BC.
When Blizz first announced Tauren Pallies and the upcoming Race Change, the first thing that went through my head was, "Finally! Now I don't have to be a ridiculously effeminate tank/DPS who twirls while jumping and dances like Napolean Dynamite!"
But, like you, I don't think I can do it. I've spent so many hours leveling my main, and seen and done so much with my guild on him, that I don't think I could ever change him.
It would feel like I was killing a small part of myself. I know that sounds melodramatic, but when you have spent so much of your time with one character, a part of yourself becomes vested in that piece of code. Yes, I know it's only a game, and yes, i know that my paladin doesn't go home to a wife and kids whenever I log out. But there's still something about these little chunks of programming, at least for those of us who have now gone through so many hours of leveling, questing, raiding, PvPing, and working on professions, that keeps us coming back for more.
So to answer your query: Yes, I do feel that level of connection with my character, and no, I won't be rerolling him as a Sunwalker, cool as they may be.
Take the Joystiq Scribblenauts Challenge {Joystiq}
Jul 31st 2009 6:56PM 1. Spawn a robot
2. Spawn a bellows
3. give the robot the bellows
4. spawn a hose
6. Attach hose to bellows
7. Spawn Balloon
8. Attach balloon to hose
9. Summon Gozer.
DESTROY!
The Queue: Punching our way to greatness {WoW}
Dec 17th 2008 6:40PM Just wondering, what kind of stats (besides Uncrittable) a paladin tank should be striving for in preparation for 10-man Naxx? I seem to be trading off stam for defense, and am having a hard time working my way up through heroics to get the epics that will give me both.
Breakfast Topic: The way we was {WoW}
Nov 23rd 2008 9:39AM Wow. 4 Years. That just makes it seem like I've spent way too much of my adult life in this game. Ah, well, I enjoy it still, and I am a part of a wonderful guild who I look forward to chatting with, even if I'm not playing at the time.
I have to say, where the game was 4 years ago, I would not have expected to be playing today. My first character was a NE Hunter (What a shock, right?), along with a few other GameStop employees who had picked up the game at launch.
We started a guild, I got to level 14, and wanted to try something different, so I made a NE Rogue. Got him to 14, and decided I hated NEs. So I made a Dwarf Hunter. Got him to 28, and was getting bored, so decided to take a break. At this point, a break for "a day or two" turned into "three weeks". Every time I thought about coming back, I couldn't really muster any good reason two. So within a month of launch, I was bored. Not that that's Blizz's fault, but at the time, I was looking for a more social game than just quest grinding.
After the game had been out almost 2 months, a friend back in Texas called me, and asked me if I was playing WoW. I told him I had tried it, but remained unimpressed. He asked what server, I told him Dragonblight, he laughed, and said, "No S***? That's the server me and all your other friends down here play on. Horde or Alliance?" "Well, Alliance." "Dude, you gotta come play Horde. We gotta guild and everything. It'll be fun." "Alright, I'll come give it a shot. What classes you need?" "Honestly, we've got it pretty much covered, so choose what you want."
So I made a troll Shaman, got him to 22, and got bored. Why couldn't I find a class that I enjoyed? All the classes with back stories that were interesting, or seemed to have interesting tactics, all ended up being boring after a while.
And then it happened. I decided to create a tank. Now, my guild of friends already had a tank, but he was not on very often, and he tanked while arms, so he would have problems while tanking with holding hate. So I thought to myself: "So far, this game has been an excercise in boredom for me. Let's try and level while prot, let's see how boring we can make this. "
And that's how I got my first 60 character. Soon after that, I levelled a warlock to 60, and then ended up moving to a different guild, that was more about casual raiding, and had a lot more members, since my guildies at the time amounted to a total of like 7 people.
I joined Evil Empire, and have spent the past 3 years and 3 accounts (a story for another day) having a blast with them.
So yes, the game has changed much, but in most cases, that change has been for the better, except for Rogues doing more DPS with swords than daggers. That change was dumb.
TL;DR version: I didn't like this game until I started playing a tank, and since then I play all the time. Changes were mostly for the better.
Breakfast Topic: The Man with a Plan {WoW}
Nov 21st 2008 8:23AM Well, due to being unfortunately unemployed, and then finding myself with a horrible case of Strep, I find myself at 80 before anyone else in my guild is even at 78. So now I spend most of time just doing PUGs, farming rep to get better tanking gear, and on occasion, getting a couple levels on my alts.
