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Saturday, January 8, 2011
Friday, January 7, 2011
Introducing: My New Main?
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| It ain't easy swingin' this big 'ol mace and keepin' these braids perfectly plaited all at the same time. |
Following the guide I made the other day, I started by choosing a class. I've always wanted a Holy Paladin. The first toon I ever made was a Dwarven Paladin, and although she never made it past level 20, that has kind of always been where my heart lies. Knowing that I wanted to be a Paladin, I couldn't bring myself to make a Blood Elf or a Tauren, so if I'm going to be Alliance, I might as well be a Dwarf. Archaeology bonus FTW! I can't wait til I get her to level 20 so I can pick up that profession. Speaking of professions, she's an Herbalist/Scribe. Lord knows I'm going to have my work cut out for me to role-play that.
P.S. Gwennis is on Argent Dawn (US), so if there is any bit of SAN still around, please let me know. Otherwise, I'm on the hunt for my special sort of guild which includes a little bit of everything but especially socializing.
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Shit My Friend Says: Blink
Friend: There's this bug where sometimes the boss dies under the stairs and you need a mage to blink under there to loot it. So I'm trying to blink through the stairs.
A few seconds pass.
Friend: Wait. Why am I the only one alive?
Me: Maybe because you were trying to blink through the stairs instead of fighting?
A few seconds pass.
Friend: Wait. Why am I the only one alive?
Me: Maybe because you were trying to blink through the stairs instead of fighting?
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
How to Choose
Class
Which class should I play? Tanks try to attract the attention of the monsters and can take quite a beating. Healers can heal, duh. Pure DPS is a damage dealer. They may not be able to take a beating, but hopefully they can kill faster than being killed.
Tanks - Death Knight, Druid, Paladin, Warrior
Healers - Druid, Paladin, Priest, Shaman
Pure DPS - Hunter, Mage, Rogue, Warlock
All classes have the ability to be dps. Ranged stand at the back and shoot or cast at the monsters. Melee get up in the fray and stab, whack, bam.
Ranged - Druid, Hunter, Mage, Priest, Shaman, Warlock
Melee - Death Knight, Druid, Paladin, Rogue, Shaman, Warrior
Each class has a preferred armor class. Cloth wearers are the squishiest, with Plate wearers having the strongest armor (and consequently the higher repair bills).
Cloth - Mage, Priest, Warlock
Leather - Druid, Rogue
Mail - Hunter, Shaman
Plate - Death Knight, Paladin, Warrior
Race
How do you choose which race?
First you must ask, which Faction. Then you must see which races can be your chosen class. Then, you could play around with Min/Maxing and choose based on racial attributes (you're better off going to Elitist Jerks for this information). Or you could be like me and choose by looks or role-play-ability.
Racial Bonuses to Professions may also make a difference to you.
Dwarf - Archaeology
Gnome - Engineering
Worgen - Skinning
Goblin - Alchemy
Tauren - Herbalism
Profession
Which professions should I have? Gathering professions are just that, professions that consist of simply gathering things. Production professions rely on gathering to craft different items.
Gathering - Herbalism, Mining, Skinning
Production - Alchemy, Blacksmithing, Enchanting, Engineering, Inscription, Jewelcrafting, Leatherworking, Tailoring
Well matched pairs:
Herbalism/Alchemy
Herbalism/ Inscription
Mining/Blacksmithing - ideal for plate wearer
Mining/Engineering
Mining/Jewelcrafting
Skinning/Leatherworking - ideal for leather or mail wearer
Enchanting/Tailoring - ideal for cloth wearer
In the end, play what you enjoy. I encourage all of those new to the game to try out every combination that appeals to you, but then you might wind up an altoholic like me. This "guide" was written purely as an aid to myself in making choices. I post it here in the event that it may help others.
Which class should I play? Tanks try to attract the attention of the monsters and can take quite a beating. Healers can heal, duh. Pure DPS is a damage dealer. They may not be able to take a beating, but hopefully they can kill faster than being killed.
Tanks - Death Knight, Druid, Paladin, Warrior
Healers - Druid, Paladin, Priest, Shaman
Pure DPS - Hunter, Mage, Rogue, Warlock
All classes have the ability to be dps. Ranged stand at the back and shoot or cast at the monsters. Melee get up in the fray and stab, whack, bam.
Ranged - Druid, Hunter, Mage, Priest, Shaman, Warlock
Melee - Death Knight, Druid, Paladin, Rogue, Shaman, Warrior
Each class has a preferred armor class. Cloth wearers are the squishiest, with Plate wearers having the strongest armor (and consequently the higher repair bills).
Cloth - Mage, Priest, Warlock
Leather - Druid, Rogue
Mail - Hunter, Shaman
Plate - Death Knight, Paladin, Warrior
Race
How do you choose which race?
First you must ask, which Faction. Then you must see which races can be your chosen class. Then, you could play around with Min/Maxing and choose based on racial attributes (you're better off going to Elitist Jerks for this information). Or you could be like me and choose by looks or role-play-ability.
ALLIANCE
HORDE
Racial Bonuses to Professions may also make a difference to you.
Alliance
Draenei - Jewelcrafting Dwarf - Archaeology
Gnome - Engineering
Worgen - Skinning
Horde
Blood Elf - EnchantingGoblin - Alchemy
Tauren - Herbalism
Profession
Which professions should I have? Gathering professions are just that, professions that consist of simply gathering things. Production professions rely on gathering to craft different items.
Gathering - Herbalism, Mining, Skinning
Production - Alchemy, Blacksmithing, Enchanting, Engineering, Inscription, Jewelcrafting, Leatherworking, Tailoring
Well matched pairs:
Herbalism/Alchemy
Herbalism/ Inscription
Mining/Blacksmithing - ideal for plate wearer
Mining/Engineering
Mining/Jewelcrafting
Skinning/Leatherworking - ideal for leather or mail wearer
Enchanting/Tailoring - ideal for cloth wearer
In the end, play what you enjoy. I encourage all of those new to the game to try out every combination that appeals to you, but then you might wind up an altoholic like me. This "guide" was written purely as an aid to myself in making choices. I post it here in the event that it may help others.
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Starting Over All Over Again
I never seem to be satisfied with any of my toons anymore. Maybe that's why I'm an altoholic. Don't get me wrong, I love the game. The time I spend playing is a lot of fun to me. But when I look at my character selection screen I just can't decide. More often than not I press the "Create New Character" button. Is it wrong to just want to start all over fresh again and again?
Maybe it's a case of "your first love is your best love" and it'll never feel the same again. Maybe I'm searching for that feeling. I get it briefly when making a new toon and playing it for the first few levels, but the love quickly fades. Then what?
I think part of the disconnect is being guildless. If it weren't for a few people, I'd probably have switched realms again a long time ago. More and more, when I log on my toons on Cairne I feel as though I'm only going through the motions. More and more, I just want to de-clutter and delete all of my high level toons.
I'm not really going to do anything dramatic like that. I know I'd probably regret it. But the urge is there.
I've been through this before. I've server hopped before. I ended up coming back to Cairne. What makes this time different?
Maybe its the feeling that I just don't care about end-game at all anymore... Viva would have been 85 a long time ago, if I wanted her to be. I've been deliberately avoiding playing her because I'm afraid of hitting the dreaded level-cap. How backwards is that?
What is even more frightening to me is the feeling that I'm becoming more and more of a soloist. I love people. I like to socialize. But when I'm questing I'd rather go it alone, that way I won't feel guilty wandering off of the beaten path to mine or do some archaeology or just smell the roses. It feels as though everyone is always just rushing to hit the next level, and Blizzard has rewarded this behavior by making everything give Exp. Sometimes I just want to turn Exp gains off.
I want a guild to socialize in, but that's about all I want it for. I'm turning into Gevlon's M&S, I suppose. Is that wrong? Does that somehow make me bad? Gevlon would say it is and it does.
My partner in crime would ask me to join his guild, but how much in common will I have with a group of people that are focused on end-game? Not much, I don't think. Honestly, I think I probably have very little in common with the majority of people who play WoW altogether. Considering that I'm such an unusual person, I have no idea how to find a guild of like-minded people. All guilds seem to eventually end up focusing on end-game or disbanding.
Anyone else feeling like I'm feeling?
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Shared Topic: Pet Peeves
This week's Blog Azeroth Shared Topic is Pet Peeves, suggested by myself, of course. See other responses to this topic here.
My personal pet peeve is trolling in trade chat, and its the main reason I keep /2 turned off most of the time when I play now.
What I can't stand is people who blatantly say something controversial or stupid solely to draw attention to themselves or to start an argument. These are the people who bring up Hitler, rape, or suggest that no girls play WoW. These are the people who make general assumptions about other players based on absolutely no true knowledge, calling others bad, fat, no lifers, etc. These are the people who flat out give incorrect information to people asking a question or for advice.
My Personal /2 History
You see, once upon a time I was one of the regulars in trade chat and on the forums for my server, of course this was a long time ago, before transfers were allowed on or off of the server. Trade chat was typically somewhat interesting, if often kind of stupid, but rarely degenerated to anal spam or worse. I'm one of those who actually finds the Murloc movie game rather fun and interesting (until people start repeating things that have already been said). I'm all for a little debate in trade, over, for example, which class makes the best healer and why. I look forward to a little friendly banter in the chat channels.
I have to admit that I miss the idyllic world that I had prior to the opening of transfers. Maybe I'm looking at it through rose-tinted glasses, but I think the overall feel of the community on our server, both in trade and on the forums, was much better prior to that fateful day. The flood of people, both leaving and arriving, was truly shocking. This caused a dramatic change in the feel on the chat channels and on the forums.
Then, because of the change in atmosphere on the realm, I decided to leave for a while too. I transferred my main to a different server for a few months and discovered that the grass was definitely not greener. It's really funny because I'd heard from many of my friends who had left that they found their experiences on other realms to be far superior. I have no idea what their criteria was though. To me, the gauge of quality to a server is its trade chat, and I was appalled at what I found elsewhere. I ended up transferring back to Cairne, and I don't regret it for a moment.
Although the trade chat can often degenerate into horribleness, every so often you run into a semi-intelligent conversation, and that's what makes it all worthwhile. Afterall, part of the draw of playing an MMO for me is that Multi-player bit. Perhaps I take the social aspect of the game too seriously, but I don't think I'd enjoy the game as much without it.
When I am in trade nowadays, I make it a habit to point out trolls to other players. I remind people not to feed the trolls, and sometimes will say things like, "Obvious troll is obvious." Every once in a while a troll will catch me in his trap, and once I realize it, I laugh it off and say, "I gotta learn not to feed the trolls." Hehe. I've even gotten into arguments with people over whether they are trolling or not.
I think maybe some people would say that I am a troll myself, but not by my definition. I know that trade is intended to be used for only trade, but I'm not a stickler for that rule. If I was then I'd be pissy about all of the people LFGing in trade.
What Trolling Says About Society
The amount of trolling I see in game and across the internet frightens me. It makes me doubt my faith in humanity (not that I had much to begin with). It really makes me wonder if our world is really worth fighting for. This is why trolls bother me so much.
I'm one of those people that firmly believes in The Golden Rule. When I see someone trolling it tells me a lot about that person. It tells me that they have no respect for other people at all.
I guess I just can't understand why it would be fun to deliberately hurt others. What would happen to the world if we all behaved like that all of the time? You see it sometimes in extreme cases of road rage. I wonder how far off before we start behaving like that to others in person? Once that happens, how far off is the fall of our society?
Morbid thoughts for a Tuesday morning, I know...
My personal pet peeve is trolling in trade chat, and its the main reason I keep /2 turned off most of the time when I play now.
What I can't stand is people who blatantly say something controversial or stupid solely to draw attention to themselves or to start an argument. These are the people who bring up Hitler, rape, or suggest that no girls play WoW. These are the people who make general assumptions about other players based on absolutely no true knowledge, calling others bad, fat, no lifers, etc. These are the people who flat out give incorrect information to people asking a question or for advice.
My Personal /2 History
You see, once upon a time I was one of the regulars in trade chat and on the forums for my server, of course this was a long time ago, before transfers were allowed on or off of the server. Trade chat was typically somewhat interesting, if often kind of stupid, but rarely degenerated to anal spam or worse. I'm one of those who actually finds the Murloc movie game rather fun and interesting (until people start repeating things that have already been said). I'm all for a little debate in trade, over, for example, which class makes the best healer and why. I look forward to a little friendly banter in the chat channels.
I have to admit that I miss the idyllic world that I had prior to the opening of transfers. Maybe I'm looking at it through rose-tinted glasses, but I think the overall feel of the community on our server, both in trade and on the forums, was much better prior to that fateful day. The flood of people, both leaving and arriving, was truly shocking. This caused a dramatic change in the feel on the chat channels and on the forums.
Then, because of the change in atmosphere on the realm, I decided to leave for a while too. I transferred my main to a different server for a few months and discovered that the grass was definitely not greener. It's really funny because I'd heard from many of my friends who had left that they found their experiences on other realms to be far superior. I have no idea what their criteria was though. To me, the gauge of quality to a server is its trade chat, and I was appalled at what I found elsewhere. I ended up transferring back to Cairne, and I don't regret it for a moment.
Although the trade chat can often degenerate into horribleness, every so often you run into a semi-intelligent conversation, and that's what makes it all worthwhile. Afterall, part of the draw of playing an MMO for me is that Multi-player bit. Perhaps I take the social aspect of the game too seriously, but I don't think I'd enjoy the game as much without it.
When I am in trade nowadays, I make it a habit to point out trolls to other players. I remind people not to feed the trolls, and sometimes will say things like, "Obvious troll is obvious." Every once in a while a troll will catch me in his trap, and once I realize it, I laugh it off and say, "I gotta learn not to feed the trolls." Hehe. I've even gotten into arguments with people over whether they are trolling or not.
I think maybe some people would say that I am a troll myself, but not by my definition. I know that trade is intended to be used for only trade, but I'm not a stickler for that rule. If I was then I'd be pissy about all of the people LFGing in trade.
What Trolling Says About Society
The amount of trolling I see in game and across the internet frightens me. It makes me doubt my faith in humanity (not that I had much to begin with). It really makes me wonder if our world is really worth fighting for. This is why trolls bother me so much.
I'm one of those people that firmly believes in The Golden Rule. When I see someone trolling it tells me a lot about that person. It tells me that they have no respect for other people at all.
I guess I just can't understand why it would be fun to deliberately hurt others. What would happen to the world if we all behaved like that all of the time? You see it sometimes in extreme cases of road rage. I wonder how far off before we start behaving like that to others in person? Once that happens, how far off is the fall of our society?
Morbid thoughts for a Tuesday morning, I know...
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