Rants
Topic du jour: why our Mastery sucks
Sep 13th
Our Mastery, in its current form, allows HoTs to tick harder on targets at lower health. The lower the health, the more the HoTs tick for. Seems like a cool idea on paper – if people are hurting, then your HoTs are more potent and pick them back up and out of danger more quickly. The closer to death they are, the harder your HoTs will hit, nice. But it’s not that black-and white; here are the reasons why our Mastery just plain sucks. [...]
A 10man raider in a 25man guild
Jun 22nd
I’ll come right out and admit it – I am a 10man raider playing in a 25man guild. In Cataclysm there is a pretty good chance I will be a 10man raider within my guild – regardless of what our main raid nights are used for. If the guild continues to do 25s, I may participate, but I feel drawn to the 10man format, and feel that in Cataclysm there will be an abundance of 10man runs, so I will have plenty of opportunities to continue to slay dragons.
Graylo posted about equity in Cataclysm raiding, and the balance (or lack of balance) between 10s and 25s, going forward. He wants to know why 25s and 10s have to be equal, in terms of rewards, etc. He makes some great points, but I had to pull one of them out to respond to, because I disagree very strongly. [...]
Cataclysm: Tree of Life hobble fail
Jun 15th
Warning: long rant. Also: talents aren’t final, etc – but I’m ranting anyway.
I’m not usually negative towards Blizzard. I think that on the whole they do a great job, and it’s rare that I get annoyed about anything they do. I enjoy their product, so it’s not in my nature to bash them. Yeah, I’m still disappointed about losing TOL as a form, but I know it’s inevitable so I’m not wasting too much energy getting angry about it. Getting mad doesn’t usually help – it’s not constructive, and screeching at Blizzard doesn’t make them want to listen to you.
However.. [...]
I shapeshift, therefore I am.
Apr 10th
I know a lot of people out there don’t like the Tree of Life form – but I also know that MANY people DO like it, and don’t want to see it go to a cooldown ability. No other druid form is forced onto a cooldown – bears, cats and moonkins don’t have to give
Rant: when baddies attack, part deux
Mar 30th
I’m back from my little break! Sadly though, my first post is going to be a rant. But it can’t be helped – this is something that absolutely infuriated me, and I need to write it down so I can let it go. It’s long, and there are no pretty pictures – I apologise in
Contender for biggest LFD jerk ever
Feb 27th
Achein of Dath’Remar: Queued for ZF purely so that once assembled, he could run into the mobs, die, and get to a graveyard in Tanaris. And then left he the group. That is – he queued as a tank for ZF purely to die and get a shortcut to Gadgetzan. WOW. WOW WOW WOWOWOWOWOW. Possibly
Lovely justice: Charms now dropping for healers in instances
Feb 10th
Seems that during this week’s maintenance and tweaks, the “just go farm Ulduar derp derp” strategy (I use the term very loosely) has been nerfed and no longer works. You can no longer use vehicles in Ulduar, on bombing runs, or to trample Icecrown skeletons to get your charms. In addition, healers are reporting that
Healers and Killing Blows
Feb 8th
I really have to say that I am unimpressed by yet another holiday achievement demonstrating a lack of foresight on the part of the developers. I’m referring to “Charming” which requires you to acquire Lovely Charms and turn them into a Lovely Charm Bracelet (10 charms are then made into one bracelet). You can get
Dual specs + LFD + Need = drama?
Jan 13th
A snippet from Flash of Moonfire (read the full story here) – I queued for normal ToC on my feral because I wanted the Black Heart, and being that I wanted in faster, I queued for both tank and dps. When I first did that I expected to go as tank to be honest, but
“How do I get back to the instance?”
Jan 11th
This is my baby priest, Mephitik. I love her name; I chose it carefully. I think it’s fitting, for her race. I made her a while ago, because we didn’t have any priests, and because I wanted to try another healer. I was bored and felt like picking her back up again, and thought maybe
My name is Emma and I live in Australia. I’ve been gaming on and off since I was about 11. I won’t tell you exactly how long ago that was, let’s just say long enough.
