Ok, I admit it, that last post I did was pretty trashy. I had no plan going in, I didn’t think about the main points I wanted to hit. I just kinda dove in and went for it. Kinda like Patton during the siege of Fort Driant. Yah, I’m a history nerd, leave me alone.
So have you guys checked out the new Armory? Do it. I’ll wait.
Isn’t that cool? Finally you get a 3D image of what your (or someone else’s) toon looks like in all their shiny gear. I like it. GG Blizzard.
Ok, so two nights in a row, my server, and all of my battlegroup (Whirlwind) have crashed at roughly 10pm EST. Bullshit. Monday night a few friends and I were in the middle of our weekly attempt at the Less-Rabi achievement (yes I know it resets every day, but if I tried that thing daily I would quit WoW out of frusteration) when the server went down. Last night I had jumped in to dps a PuG Naxx10 run on my warrior (he needs the badges) and the crash actually came at a great time! This PuG was total fail. Whether it was healers trying to be on the ground level during heigan to the tanks PULLING Razuvious…yes…he Avenger Shielded the boss AFTER those of us who had run naxx before told him about the Understudies and the crystals. Ugh. Anyways, we were about to head down the Construct wing after giving up on military when poof! “Realm is down” Thank you blizzard for saving me the frusteration of wiping on Patchwerk.
On a more positive note, I was by far and away the highest dps on there (on my Arms warrior) which made my epeen grow a bit. Not as much as Jong’s but…a bit. Of course there was only one other person wearing anything comparable to my gear, and that was our very good Retadin. But I still beat him, even with him running around with Aesir’s Edge.
So, I spilled water on my laptop last week, and after giving it a few days rest, it seems to have recovered almost completely. Some of the keys are a bit stickier than usual.
Anyways, so, over the weekend Blizzard bigwig Jeff Kaplan (I think it was Kaplan) said during an interiew that the biggest mistake in WoW was the creation of Arenas. His reasoning was that the class balaning tango they have had to constantly change has been a constant headache for player and Dev alike. This I can understand.
One of the reasons that I have heard as to why class balance wasn’t as big of a headache back in vanilla was the fact that it’s alot easier to hide imbalances in a BG or world PvP where any number of outside forces can influence the outcome of a skirmish. This I believe.
And while I do enjoy the occasional Arena night ( except last night. It was horrible. We went 1-12), I do think that the way blizzard has been forced to balance classes not on how they do against raid bosses but rather by how the fare against other players is a disappointment. So, I guess I kind of agree that Arenas were certainly a HUGE mistake. I just can’t bring myself to condemn them as the BIGGEST mistake. Of course, nothing else comes to mind right now as being worse…but I’ll keep pondering and see if I think of anything.
How about you guys? Do you think Arenas were the single biggest mistake in WoW? Or do you think something esle is the bane of your existance?
So, Ghostcrawler dropped a banhammer on an unfortunate (not me) forum troll this week, as the bannee had told GC to DIAF (die in a fire). The reason? Possible 3.3 pali nerfs. Now, I personally think these nerfs are horribly unneeded, uncalled for, unneccessary and mostly, uncool. As alot of people have pointed out, Paladins have been a constant whipping boy for the life of WoW. In classic, they were “loladins” and “retardadins”. Pali’s were a support class. They couldn’t do competitive dps, they couldn’t tank, they couldn’t really heal, even though blizzard claimed they could do all 3. In BC their holy and prot specs got reworked. Palis could tank, and could really heal. Ret was still weak. In Wrath, Bam! Paladins could do everything, they were the “golden” children of Blizzard. Ret was “just right” according to Blizzard, and the Paladin class had finally been shown some attempts at making them a real class. Then the QQcommunity was in an uproar over Pali’s being TOO good. So we got nerfed in 3.1. We gt nerfed in 3.2. Now we’r getting nerfed in 3.3. That’s fine, if we are too far above what the other classes are and need to be brought down a bit fine. But seriously, make up your mind! We were “just right” from your standards, but because other classes couldn’t kill us, we were nerfed. So, for the first time in game history, 5 years, paladins were able to perform all 3 of their roles effectively, yet we still need nerfs. This makes no sense, we are one of only 2 class (druids I’ll give you some credit here) that blizzard has said “you can do this, that AND the other thing!…..except we arn’t going to give you the gear or talents needed for that or the other thing, so you can only do this.” Every other class since day 1 has been able to perform their main roles. Yes, even the whiny mages have been able to put out competitive dps since launch. Warriors could tank, priests could heal, shamans….actually I’v never played a shaman so…..w/e I’m done ranting, I forgot the whole point of this post 
