So much WoW

[zillah975]

Well, only once. But almost over and over and OVER. Omfg.

So I've started this baby paladin, Besh, on Shadowsong, partly because I like my guild on Shadowsong and they seem perpetually short of tanks, so I thought I'd try making one there and see how it goes. She's a human! \o/ I am expanding my horizons. And she's doing the starting quests in Elwynn Forest, and got the one where you have to collect crystal kelp fronds or whatever, mostly by killing murlocs.

Dude, what the hell is up with the respawn time on that island?? Seriously! She was surrounded by piles of dead murlocs, she couldn't kill them fast enough to leave the freakin' island, much less loot the poor bastards. She only died once before I got the hang of healing her in time, but for the love of God, it was an unending sea of murlocs! She'd get one half-killed, and two more would come running up from behind! Loot one, kill two, loot one, kill three more, loot one, kill another two or three, loot one, kill four...the unlooted bodies just piling up. She probably would have died again if not for the timely intervention of a passing priest and his power words.

I swear to you, half an hour spent killing murlocs on one half of one teeny tiny island. A few times I got sick of it and ran away to the mainland to kill the two or three that were attacking her, just to get out of the respawn range. And then would look back at all the shiny loot just lying there on the island...and back she'd go.

After I finally got the bodies looted and got the fuck out, I sent my level 84 hunter in, because I wondered how long it would take a pack of murlocs to actually do her any damage. But apparently you have to be killing them, or the respawn time got fixed, or something, because although she killed a few, she never got the ravening packs of murlocs that tried to take down poor Besh.

It was sort of hilarious to watch Daniria just stand there staring at this poor murloc as it tried to stabinate her.

Yeah, I'm easily amused.



Okay, I am never visiting the Blizzard forums again, EVER. Holy fuck. Is there a more negative place in the multiverse? I DON'T THINK SO.

I mean yes, my first reaction upon hearing that pandas would be a playable race was to check and see if this is April. And initially I thought that when my guildies said non-combat pets would be able to fight, they meant fight alongside you, not battle each other like Pokemons. And yes, the whole "Asian-inspired" thing may be skeevy, but who knows, maybe it'll be awesome! The artwork is awfully pretty, that's for sure.

And I'm super excited about the new monk character class.

Kind of freaked out that they may be removing auto-attack, because I don't really understand what they mean -- do they mean that every shot I make has to be uniquely instigated by a click or keystroke? -- but apparently that's not a done deal yet, so I'm not yet in full freak-out mode.

And sad to see the end of my stat sticks for my hunter, but on the other hand, it's not like non-ranged classes will get to equip ranged weapons just for stats, and since they're doing away with the minimum range for ranged weapons (yay!), it doesn't hurt my ability to defend myself if I fail to keep the mobs at bay. It'll also save me time, as I typically spend way too long trying to figure out which of the available weapons actually gives me a better result. Hopefully they'll balance everything out, since a bunch of us have been relying on those extra stats from our non-primary weapons.

I am worried that the system requirements will go up. That would suck. I shouldn't worry too much, because right now I can play the game fine with almost all the settings at their highest, but still...I hate the idea of anyone being sysreq'd out of the game. :(

But overall, I'm curious, and cautiously optimistic, about the upcoming changes. They'll make things different, but not necessarily worse. And monks!

OH ALSO. The ability to capture non-combat pets! I hope all the critters of Azeroth are capturable.

And the forums, ohgod. What a cesspit. There are some awesome people there, but the amount of crap you have to wade through to get to them is just...ick. Because seriously, regardless of whether you think the new Pandaria designs are racist or not, the answer to "Dudes, this is pretty racist," is NOT, "lol ur stupid."

Honestly, that's always the wrong answer.



My hunter is about halfway from level 84 to level 85! I think I'm going to start trying to be online and ready to do old raid content every Saturday (or most at least) at 6:30 server time, which is 9:30 my time. It's raid night for my guild, but if they don't have enough folks to raid, they'll totes do old raid content, and have actually asked me to join the last two weekends, but I couldn't because I hadn't planned on it. I'm not geared to do the really-o truly-o raids, but they said they'd help me get geared, so yay!

gramina, Ebrasse should come too -- I'm sure they'd make the same offer to you, if they haven't already.



WOOOO! Omg. A seasonal festivity thing that I'm really enjoying! I've had so much fun just putting out fires in Goldshire, seriously. I got the achievement pretty early, but it's such a hard job that I've been hanging out helping so other people can get it too.

And I got to turn someone into a ninja yesterday. :) They asked in General chat if anyone could do it for 5gp, and I was on Daniria, who's got plenty of cash, so I said I'd do it for free.

I really, really like helping people out. It makes me happy to see them be happy.

And I got to turn Ebrasse into a pirate the other day! Ebrasse makes a sweet pirate.

I really wish I could use the wands on myself, though, or pass them to another party member to use on me. Oh well.

And I got to see the Undercity without getting killed! The "drop stinkbombs on the Horde" thing is pretty juvenile, but on the other hand, it does give hordies the chance to get the "clean up the Undercity" achievement, so I tried to drop them in easy places.

And I got the Feline Familiar for Daniria! Yay!! I want the flying broomstick for her too, but Besh got it in a crudely wrapped gift from one of the orphan kids. (She's banked it until she can get her riding skill.) So now I'mma start doing that fires quest every day for Daniria, in hopes she will as well, 'cause there's no way she'll be able to get another 150 Tricky Treats between now and the end of Hallow's End.



The weirdest thing happened to me while I was playing my level 41 mage, Lyrie. She was in Mudsprocket to turn in a quest, and got one-shotted by another player on their level 85 undead warlock. But I don't have any idea why her PvP flag was on. Her icon was flagged, but when I clicked in to disable it, it also already showed disabled. She hadn't been anywhere except Theramore, and Mudsprocket hasn't suddenly turned into a PvP zone, at least not as far as I can tell. I don't know. Is there a PvP zone around there that maybe I don't know about? It was extremely unsettling!



And I signed up for a year on WoW, just 'cause I doubt I'm going to quit soon, and signing a year agreement gets you Tyrael's Charger, which looks pretty cool, and also a free copy of Diablo III when it's released. Oh, and also beta access to the next expansion.



I shelled out $25 for the Celestial Steed on a whim the other day. I got the key, redeemed it, got the steed, had it for a few days, and then BOOM, got an email from Blizzard saying they hadn't been able to process the payment and were taking the steed back. :(

I checked with my bank, and on their end it shows a successful payment which was refunded a few days later. Blizzard has no insight as to what happened, but would be glad for me to try again!

I have no interest in trying again. I just hope my monthly fee payment doesn't get fucked up by the same glitch that screwed me out of my steed.



And that's all I can think of right now.

What about y'all? What've you been up to?

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[zillah975]

Ah, maybe it's started doing that to Alliance, too. She was definitely killing things on her way to Mudsprocket...and there was one weird point where she passed over a bridge and some weird disembodied voice started laughing about how it was going to rip her arms off or something, but nothing ever attacked. I'll have to go back (on a toon that won't get one-shotted) and see if I can get it to happen again.