WTB 3.3

will tip. Meet at SW bank, kthnx

Bright Idea!

So, I had a great idea driving home from a work meeting this morning. One of the new guys at work said that he was also a professional gamer, he plays in Madden tournaments and such where he has won a few of those giant fake checks they give to golfers and such. So I was thinking, gamers of all genres can be “professional” by entering tournies and winning said tournies. From Madden/EA Sports, Call of Duty/SoCom/Halo, to WoW Arena tournies. But what if there was another way? Every gamer has the dream of being able to make a “decent” living off gaming. Now, WoW has something like 13 MILLION subscribers…13 FUCKING MILLION. Thats ( I would imagine) more people than the NFL has fans. If I’m a product rep, PR person, Ad rep etc. of a corporation who manufactures or sells a product that could possibly, conceivably, maybe linked to gaming….I would do everything I could to get my name into the World of WoW. Now, saying this, I don’t mean I want an NPC giving me a quest to go rescue 6 crates of Mountain Dew from some orcs. I don’t want ads IN the game. But, if I’m selling Monster(c) Energy Drinks, why not contact the GM of a top guild like Ensidia or Vodka and say “hey, if you and your officers go to Blizzcon/Comicon/Other Convention related to gaming/fantasy etc, we’ll pay you guys to go and wear shirts that say “Vodka, powered by Monster(c)” WHY HAS NO ONE THOUGHT OF THIS!? 13 MILLION PEOPLE play WoW. Get your damn name out there. Get the top arena players to go to these tournaments wearing a DELL hat/bandana/shirt etc. (Dells suck, don’t buy a Dell. Seriously, I sell computers for a living. Don’t buy a Dell.) And BAM! instant marketing. Not only will you get publicity from these guys wearing your gear, but your guarunteed to get Pub from sites that talk about WoW (i.e. mine or WoW.com). So far, only Mountain Dew (and Hot Pockets i think?) have taken advantage of this. For any other Ad rep/PR dude who reads this….I just saved your job. Give me a cut

Banhammer

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