As promised, a few small videos of me having fun in the arena. I only show the victories, ofc :PP
A shaman and a warlock...the shaman was using a nice spot, but doing the wrong thing, he should be healing the lock, not dps'ing. Instead, he died, and the destro gnome..too LOL.
A warrior and a hunter. The warrior missed resilience, he went down too quickly with dots and didnt break fear. The huntard managed to kill Tari but then.. it was too late for him.
Saturday, July 05, 2008
Friday, July 04, 2008
Discipline, the World needs discipline !
Being away from raids, although today I'm officially above the required +1800heal/+9k mana/+170mp5 for raiding, I decided to give it a try with discipline and watch the changes for arenas and Balinda.
And .... it improved !!! Reflective Improved shield, Holy Nova, Suppression, 5 points in Shadow for blackout, means Tari now makes some respectable damage, while keeping ~1700 healing (Btw, hurrah, Brutal Gladiator's Mooncloth Gloves). I was able to win 5 arenas out of 10, even with some stupid mistakes. Pretty good, considering I played with a few S3 teams that are starting to go up the 1500 ladder.
The only not so perfect thingie is that Holy Nova has a small range, and sometimes Net doesn't get Nova'd. Also, it takes more mana than CoH.
I'll now fraps some arena movies for the joy of the "galera" !
Continuing to farm Baron Rivendare in Stratholme, I'm now aiming for the 45 mins goal, which is about 10 mins far away. My main problem is with the Baroness, because she MC's Net and kills or cripples Tari LOL, and takes a long time. So, I'll just have to solo her with Net, while Tari stays away... how much away, I wonder ?
On reputation, I'm finally exalted with Sun Offensive with Net+Tari, and exalted with Scryers+Aldor. Ofc I now got my exalted enchants for shoulders and
...Sorcerer's Alchemist Stone
And .... it improved !!! Reflective Improved shield, Holy Nova, Suppression, 5 points in Shadow for blackout, means Tari now makes some respectable damage, while keeping ~1700 healing (Btw, hurrah, Brutal Gladiator's Mooncloth Gloves). I was able to win 5 arenas out of 10, even with some stupid mistakes. Pretty good, considering I played with a few S3 teams that are starting to go up the 1500 ladder.
The only not so perfect thingie is that Holy Nova has a small range, and sometimes Net doesn't get Nova'd. Also, it takes more mana than CoH.
I'll now fraps some arena movies for the joy of the "galera" !
Continuing to farm Baron Rivendare in Stratholme, I'm now aiming for the 45 mins goal, which is about 10 mins far away. My main problem is with the Baroness, because she MC's Net and kills or cripples Tari LOL, and takes a long time. So, I'll just have to solo her with Net, while Tari stays away... how much away, I wonder ?
On reputation, I'm finally exalted with Sun Offensive with Net+Tari, and exalted with Scryers+Aldor. Ofc I now got my exalted enchants for shoulders and
...Sorcerer's Alchemist Stone
Thursday, July 03, 2008
Top DPS is back
It's been a long time since I PVP'ed. This time, while farming AV for some Merciless gear, I decided to go for Balinda, and save her from the evil Horde. Tarithel heals, Netcownt kills. The result ? Amazing Top Dps. Funny how kids get disoriented when someone presses them.
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
This is what happens when Blizzard coders are recruited in Bangalore. Look at the picture... nothing wrong with it ? It's an arena, richtig. It's also 2v2, but there's 3v2 in there. Netcownt is human, and is playing together with .. the Horde ! And it logged on inside the Arena, before it started. Isn't this wonderful ?
On a more serious topic, both accounts are reactivated, with a nice scroll of ressurection.
As S4 has started, Netcownt has farmed a bit of honor and arena points for brutal gloves and the rest of the S2 stuff (pity, I had 2 pieces of Merciless sh*t that I got the hard way, during S2, not honor based, now they are so easy to get). I've been having tons of fun at Balinda, I just send Net and Tari multiboxing inside, setup an alliance flag, and wait for horde. Then I spam Seed of Corruption, and watch them die. Tarithel heals, Shields, Fears, the delay is usually enough for alliance to win,also because when horde delays, it helps pushing alliance minds into a winning state. In the end I get around >500 honor per game with all the deaths in 15mins, and always Top DPS. Balinda FTW !!!
As to PVE, I'm in pause/holidays mode. Priest gear is stalled at +1700, and not enough for MH/BT. I got a bit demoralized with the time I was away and everyone moved ahead with gear in SSC. I'll get +1800 this week and get the required minimums, but I'll always be undergeared compared with the other healers. Badges ? Heroics ? No thank you. Still, I'll try going to MH on a farm day to see the real sights, and SSC to see the remaining bosses in action.
In Azeroth, I did a Straholme dual run, easy peasy, but no undead horsey. I'll have to try harder.... a lot harder.
Meanwhile, I leveled Patalogica and Alfragitax by nearly 3 levels only by Summer questing, honoring and desecrating fires all over Azeroth. Fun, for a change.
And I'm dualboxing two shammies for WSG19. They are 12 atm.
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
To WoW or not to WoW
Today I've talked a bit with people that play other games, and got some info.
- Remember when I tried LOTRO once, and then twice ? Well, LOTRO is fun. It also has a nice environment, ie, the story background is JRRT based, not modern. It also has a nice player base, RPG oriented, as I like it. What is LOTRO problem ? It was created to fight the WoW player base, so it LOOKS like WoW, too much.
- Remember when I tried EVE ? I loved the graphics, I liked the player base, I liked the chaotic, non-linear way to improve, I liked the gamer conventions and prized battlegrounds, live on the Internet. What I did dislike ? The combat. You simply never miss, even when you are in an X-Wing kind of ship. It doesn't make sense.
- Remember when I tried Star Wars Galaxies ? I've read ALL the Star Wars books, so I know the Universe from the ground up, but... the graphics. OMFG. So bad it hurts.
- Remember when I tried A Tale in the Desert 3 ? Nice graphics, a friendly PVE, an easy to learn interface, daring challenges, but a bit too empty for my taste. Might try ATITD4.
- Remember when I tried Dungeons and Dragons Online ? Ha ! That's it. I never tried it, although I played D&D 3.5 RPG, and ffs, I've read a lot of Ed Greenwood's Forgotten Realms books (Elminster, mostly), and I've even have the rules book. Why not give it a try ? It's also Turbine/Codemasters, just like LOTRO. With some luck the graphics engine will be as good, meaning better than WoW. The player base will most certainly be good, with mature players, not hot teenagers with <0.1s hand reflexes.
- Remember when I tried The Chronicles of Spellborn ? Well you don't, it hasn't come out yet. It looks promising. Furthermore the soundtrack is from Within Temptation. Look !
- Remember when I tried LOTRO once, and then twice ? Well, LOTRO is fun. It also has a nice environment, ie, the story background is JRRT based, not modern. It also has a nice player base, RPG oriented, as I like it. What is LOTRO problem ? It was created to fight the WoW player base, so it LOOKS like WoW, too much.
- Remember when I tried EVE ? I loved the graphics, I liked the player base, I liked the chaotic, non-linear way to improve, I liked the gamer conventions and prized battlegrounds, live on the Internet. What I did dislike ? The combat. You simply never miss, even when you are in an X-Wing kind of ship. It doesn't make sense.
- Remember when I tried Star Wars Galaxies ? I've read ALL the Star Wars books, so I know the Universe from the ground up, but... the graphics. OMFG. So bad it hurts.
- Remember when I tried A Tale in the Desert 3 ? Nice graphics, a friendly PVE, an easy to learn interface, daring challenges, but a bit too empty for my taste. Might try ATITD4.
- Remember when I tried Dungeons and Dragons Online ? Ha ! That's it. I never tried it, although I played D&D 3.5 RPG, and ffs, I've read a lot of Ed Greenwood's Forgotten Realms books (Elminster, mostly), and I've even have the rules book. Why not give it a try ? It's also Turbine/Codemasters, just like LOTRO. With some luck the graphics engine will be as good, meaning better than WoW. The player base will most certainly be good, with mature players, not hot teenagers with <0.1s hand reflexes.
- Remember when I tried The Chronicles of Spellborn ? Well you don't, it hasn't come out yet. It looks promising. Furthermore the soundtrack is from Within Temptation. Look !
Netcownt versus Xaire
For the record, here is the fight between Netcownt and Xaire on EU-Chromaggus (2007).
One of the best 70 PVP players versus a humble 70 lock with 60 gear !
Ugly Robes of the Battleguard FTW !
Btw, I've confirmed that Xaire is actually Drakonus, the magnificent 60 Horde Shadow Priest that battled against the alliance when CrossRealm battlegrounds were a dream.. and when Shadow Priests were a rarity.
Nice to see engineering shadow reflect trinkets in action (possibly also the fire one)
One of the best 70 PVP players versus a humble 70 lock with 60 gear !
Ugly Robes of the Battleguard FTW !
Btw, I've confirmed that Xaire is actually Drakonus, the magnificent 60 Horde Shadow Priest that battled against the alliance when CrossRealm battlegrounds were a dream.. and when Shadow Priests were a rarity.
Nice to see engineering shadow reflect trinkets in action (possibly also the fire one)
Utterly bored
And again, only a couple weeks later, I become again absolutely bored with WoW.
Several reasons:
PVP-wise, I find it too stressing to get involved in arenas the hard way. The easier way (dualboxing) is a simple point grinding, with little purpose. And I've proven my point, 60 games played, 30 solo wins. As to battlegrounds, although playing with new toons like Druid or Rogue I'm seeing the same damn things since 2005, everything is just too old.
PVE-wise, high level 25-raids aren't giving me the fun they used to do. One must be having fun with it, otherwise, it's pointless to be wasting 3-4 hours a night... and that's the point, I'm realizing I'll be "wasting" 3 hours a night to get a miserable chance of a loot that will be obsolete in a few months, and not exactly having fun doing it. Part if it derives from the fact that I've been actually coding Boss behaviour for the C++ based DLL's people are using on private servers, therefore knowing perharps too much about how boss mechanics work, yawning at the boss abilities, and sighing at wiping people.
I've also seen most of 2.4 patch content, ie, Sun Offensive dailies, Magister Terrace... ok missing Sunwell Plateau in live servers and with my gear I'll probably never will (remember Naxxramas?) but I'm coding it on the private server side, so... /bah. Tarithel is revered now with Sun Offensive...and yawning of boredom.
Overall, World of Warcraft, besides the roleplaying which is not existing, due to the average age of players and nation diversities (half of the people can't even speak proper english), is getting utterly boring.
So...what to do:
a) Continue running dungeons in heroic mode to collect badges for epic items to go to 25-raids to collect more epics to ... waste more time ? No.
b) Alting to a new toon ?.... but WHAT toon ? I've played them all, have most toons at 70 or around 60, played ally and horde, on PVE and PVP servers, ...
c) Stop playing WoW live until WOTLK comes out, and see what happens.
Several reasons:
PVP-wise, I find it too stressing to get involved in arenas the hard way. The easier way (dualboxing) is a simple point grinding, with little purpose. And I've proven my point, 60 games played, 30 solo wins. As to battlegrounds, although playing with new toons like Druid or Rogue I'm seeing the same damn things since 2005, everything is just too old.
PVE-wise, high level 25-raids aren't giving me the fun they used to do. One must be having fun with it, otherwise, it's pointless to be wasting 3-4 hours a night... and that's the point, I'm realizing I'll be "wasting" 3 hours a night to get a miserable chance of a loot that will be obsolete in a few months, and not exactly having fun doing it. Part if it derives from the fact that I've been actually coding Boss behaviour for the C++ based DLL's people are using on private servers, therefore knowing perharps too much about how boss mechanics work, yawning at the boss abilities, and sighing at wiping people.
I've also seen most of 2.4 patch content, ie, Sun Offensive dailies, Magister Terrace... ok missing Sunwell Plateau in live servers and with my gear I'll probably never will (remember Naxxramas?) but I'm coding it on the private server side, so... /bah. Tarithel is revered now with Sun Offensive...and yawning of boredom.
Overall, World of Warcraft, besides the roleplaying which is not existing, due to the average age of players and nation diversities (half of the people can't even speak proper english), is getting utterly boring.
So...what to do:
a) Continue running dungeons in heroic mode to collect badges for epic items to go to 25-raids to collect more epics to ... waste more time ? No.
b) Alting to a new toon ?.... but WHAT toon ? I've played them all, have most toons at 70 or around 60, played ally and horde, on PVE and PVP servers, ...
c) Stop playing WoW live until WOTLK comes out, and see what happens.
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