Patch 5.0.4 + Returned

For starters, I'm back for a while. Just trying out some of the new abilities and spells that are changed within the talent system. So far, it's a little tricky with Feral Druid since we're going back to SR uptime, but I'm ok with that. The game maybe simplified, but not all aspects are. Also trying to get back into Survival Hunter as well. Kinda tricky as well since I'm gaining so much focus when I don't need it. Not to mention my pet dies extremely easy now. Overall though, the changes are ok. I would like to use Incarnation more, but Soul of the Forest is decent for Feral Druid at the moment. I'm not too sure with Survival Hunter since it seems like any talent will do. But having Thrill of the Hunt is nice though.

The reduce slots was saddening, but I do get gold from it. So it's not entirely a bad loss. Getting items in LFR is a lot more personal and a welcome change. No more whining about that heroic geared warrior getting raid tier because it's for his off-spec (although there's more whining about Blizz doing this to them). Not to mention getting 25 gold for a lost roll is a pretty good trade off. Getting back into PvP is hard since most people are out-gearing me. So I don't focus on that aspect too much.

The only, true problem I have with this patch is that there is a visual bug where I see half the skin of a player. It was (un)funny at first, but now it's just straight up annoying to look at every time I walk by people. Fortunately, a Blizz rep knows about this and it deals with the CPU. Yes, I have a single-core processor and that is not the problem because people with duo-cores (and a couple of quad-cores) have the same problem. So hopefully, it's not a costly fix on the user side.

Overall, the patch is looking promising to fix up the expansion. A couple of hickups here and there with other classes, but mostly satisfied with what is given. Now all I'm waiting for is the Theramore incident and the expansion to pop out and every can begin playing again.

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This will be my last week. So I'll be trying to get a Netherdrake for my druid this week. It'll take a couple of days, but should be able to get it done before my subscription runs out. I'll post another post after I get it. Just be patient with me.

Didn't Want To Do This... *EDITED*

As I realizing , having multiple toons is getting tiresome and I'm just tired of seeing half of my toons in crap gearing. So,  I'm going to delete a good chunk of them. I'm hoping to have just two or three toons altogether. At least one for my Alliance side and one for Horde. Obviously, Meomeo is going to be kept because I love my tauren. But everyone else is up for grabs. I'll be back to post after I'm done with it.

*EDITED* And I am done. Meomeo made the cut (obviously), but my worgen hunter Corphria made it as well. That means every other toon I didn't listed are officially gone. I'm not plan on making another toon until MoP kicks in. Until then, I shall enjoy my increase amount of free time.

So Much Is Too Much

So one of my guild mates (beforehand, I didn't know until we were done) was making a pug raid group and asked if there is an able tank for a Nefarian kill in BWD (Blackwing Descent). Most of the other tanks were not on, leveling their alts, or waiting for Hard Modes. However, I came into the picture with my feral druid Meomeo and accepted the offer. The raid group was soon ported to the instance and I began discussing with the other tank for what to tank. At first, I thought I was going to tank Onyxia and the adds from Nefarian. But then the other tank quickly prefer that he'll do what was mentioned instead (since he had experience with it anyways). Intimidated enough, I was in an unfamiliar territory with tanking Nefarian.

At first, my health was in scary place since I never been use to being this low in health. But after a while, it just felt natural and fun taking his attention. Fortunately, the raid group was able to kill him without too much hassle (in one attempt as well). Funny enough, I think I obtain a tier item from that place and never used it. I think I should since all I got is engineering helmet (which is nice, but I prefer the bonus). I'll try to tank later on for other raids, such as Baradin Hold and The Bastion of Twilight. Hopefully, I'll get geared enough to do Firelands later on (or wait for 4.3 to do the Dragon Soul raid). Either way, more stuff to come for my druid. And even if I don't do so well with tanking, my DPS specc is pretty good.

In other news, my holy paladin Hammerwind has leveled up to 85 recently. Now, I have been trying out healing with her and all it has been doing for me is getting my poor tauren crushed under Alliance's feet 24/7. Every moment, I'm looking at the world in gray scale because I can't heal for nothing and I keep dying very quickly. However, when I switch to my Protection gear and specialization, everything suddenly got calmer for my tauren. There's only been a few moments were I die very quickly. Aside from that, I just been tickling (occasionally helping) the Alliance. At the same time, however, the worse treatment I received was from a warlock in PvE gear and that legendary staff that everyone been getting lately (that blue dragon in the sky is becoming very annoying now). Aside from that, I have been very helpful with a few BGs. Of course though, this is just a few. I bet in many more, it'll be a lot worse. Hopefully though, I should probably live up to my tauren's name.

Now, this next moment has been on my mind lately and it's quite irritating to the point I want to be unprofessional right now. But for the sake of keeping this blog up, I'll be calm and explain the situation. Last night, I was on my shadow priest Wilda while searching a group to do BH before today's reset. I found my first one and tried to sample out that someone was saved. So I went back and forth and suddenly, my computer just gave up on me and froze the game. I was rushing my computer to start up the game again and it was just acting very slow. Eventually, I log back on only to see that I'm out of my group. So I search for another group and it was taking a while. Eventually, someone made one and I joined a second group. The same intro to the scenario of someone being saved happened. However, I didn't disconnected this time and the raid leader eventually found out the saved person. We booted him and finally started to get through the raid zone.

Then we got to Occu'thar. Now, we made two attempts on this dog. First attempt, people were being bad and standing in middle of the area were we suppose to group up and kill adds at. For the uninformed that never did this boss, don't stand in the area were people need to stack up. Otherwise, he focus on a random player and place a lasting AOE on the ground. What's worse is that some people that group up while that AOE was below them just sat there instead of standing near each other. Not only the healer is using even more mana to heal people, but they're most likely dead in a few seconds. Eventually, our DPS was too low since people kept dying and had to retry. However, I'm use to stuff like this because I'm quite patient with bad players during gameplay. But this is clearly not the worse part of this ordeal.

On the second attempt, players were still doing poor, but the job was done. And when I went to check loot, T12 DPS gloves dropped. I was quite happy since there was another priest and she was just heals. But soon, my happiness turn into so much endless rage, that Ragnaros would be afraid of. The raid leader (reading only the Spirit part of the gear) gave it right to the healing priest and said priest disappeared. Gave the poorly-geared healing priest T12 DPS gloves...all I wanted to do was express myself in such reckeless and violent rage to quench this anger, but the best I can do is make inappropriate swearing. 

So I learned a very valuable lesson last night. Do my BH runs earlier. Most likely, the smarter players will be trying to get it done as soon as possible. Or worse comes to worse, do my own.

I Told You To Leave!

Yes I did, but not without ninja pulling you before leaving the group. Before you ask why I ninja pulled Kilnara in Zul'Gurub, it was not because I was just being a bad player, but because people accusing me of wiping the whole group on her (the shaman healer got killed by the Wave of Agony and the DK tank decided that popping Army with the adds still alive was a good idea). Well, they can now accuse me of that, but suffering more grief with no payback of any kind. But what can you do. Next time, mainly shamans who thinks I'm just a pushover, I'll make sure of ninja pulling before I leave.

Alehs

Alehs 

Race: Draenei
Class: Warrior
Current Level: 85
Date Created: 9/??/2009
Realm Location: Ner'zhul
Current Spec and Gearing: Arms with Bloodthirsty Set

Description: I created this character back in mid-September 2009. This was my first character I use for WoW time, mainly for PvP. I had various reasons as to why I wanted a warrior. Mostly, it was to live up to the name a bit. If you spell Alehs backwards and put an "i" between "l" and "a", it's actually Shelia. Shelia was based off of the tank in the Red vs Blue series. The Blue side took the tank in, and did wonky stuff with her to try to corner the Red side. So being blue (Alliance and Draenei), and based off of an in-game specc (Warrior Tank), this was an interesting name for this lady in plate. Sadly though, things change, and she wasn't really a tank nor indestructible. Defeats the purpose referring something that you're not is somewhat awkward.

Around the time I was 80, it wasn't really easy dishing out damage due to my low output. Heck, most of the times I don't really do that much damage with this character due to having a poor weapon. But as soon as I obtain this weapon, it was slowly going up and I was taking down people. Very late in the previous expansion, I never really killed the Lich King (much less get passed Professor due to bad pug groups) and only obtain a few weapons from there. My PvP career wasn't so great either since I didn't went that far with the previous system for arena teams.


When Cataclysm kicked in, I leveled pretty quickly with this character. However, once I reach 85, I nearly abandoned this warrior since she was poorly geared and was practically free honor to anyone that gives me a second glance. Tol Barad Peninsula didn't help that feeling either, but the area did geared my warrior quickly due to the 1800 honor boost that happen around Christmas Break. Eventually, I was able to do some damage upon my opponents. Since this was primarily a PvP toon, I didn't do much with her when it comes to PvE. No raid experience with her yet, but only has been normal dungeons as Fury.

Hopefully, I'll get back into WoW again to probably use her for some PvP action. I wasn't perfect, but I did like hacking and slashing at things close with her. They still need to fix Heroic Leap though. That ability is atrocious.

As Of Right Now...

I'm not actively playing. Now I understand that you may call me silly and telling me you can't say much without an active subscription. Well, there are a ton of things I can still talk about WoW. Like the interesting content that Boubouille posted about the current and future updates about WoW. The plans of what I'm going to do when I get back on WoW. And maybe a few posts about my characters that I played a lot. In fact, you'll probably get to see my first one the next time I post, so stay tuned.