*soup nazi's voice* NO GRUUL FOR YOU

Arrrggg I’m getting really tired of my internet making me look like a schmuck on wheels. Last night the guild went for another Gruul attempt. Fight starts, BAM – disconnect, reconnect – take two swings – disconnect, and that’s how that went the whole fight. They got Gruul down to 4% then wiped, I am arms spec so I know if my internet hadn’t spewed ass all over my gaming experience I probably could have come close to making up that difference. Having such a crappy connection I gave up my dps spot to someone else in the guild. Even though I think 4% was the best attempt they had last night. To my guildies; I am very sorry about the connection problems, I promise I am trying to get these issues resolved. Until they are though I may have to just sit out on the 25 man content, and that’s really going to suck.

Trash Talk

So I find it happens all the time that when competing in arena’s I’m either the one getting cussed at or the one getting made fun of, depending on if we win or lose (If the opposite team is of the same faction of course). Yesterday take for example, doing some 3v3, we lose to a team and before the game ends several of them yell “Raydz Sucks , Raydz Sucks!”. Why is it I gotta be the one being picked on, don’t they know that behind all this plate is the tender heart of a child? Why not yell out “Dirty Sucks”? How do they know that they didn’t permanently damage my psyche forever causing me to become some type of hermit afraid to leave my home because of low self esteem?

Even though that is the complete opposite of what happened, in fact I was a little sleepy at the start of that arena game but that just flat out pissed me off and as luck would have it we played that same team three more times in a row. I can honestly say I play much better when I’m angry. Now don’t get me wrong I wasn’t angry like punching holes in my walls, but yes I was a perturbed. Perturbed enough that every time we got the last standing member down to low health I called off dps and I would run over and T-bag his friend’s dead bodies and yell out anything I could think of to piss them off. I really wish I had some screen shots, I forgot though because I was trying to type as much as I could. Chat looked something like this though
Me - “Wow that first game must have been a fluke”
Him – “F&$K you “
Me-“Seriously you should uninstall wow forever or perhaps go kill yourself, try a chemical fire.”
Him-“F&$K you F^G, you suck”
*i wish i was better at trash talking*

This went on each of the 3 games we stomped them. I do have to say that adding a little bit of Smack and gloating at the end of a battle brings a lot of fun and emotion to the game. It would be cool if at the end of an arena blizzard turned off all faction restrictions and gave both teams 15 seconds to scream at each other before being kicked out of the game. I apparently need to make some macro’s or something because it seems like everyone else spams all this trash talk on me but I never have enough time to type something witty or cleaver back.

--Macro 1 --
/cast Execute
/whisper %target You and your team mates can lick my chode. <--- I realize this isn’t witty or cleaver i just wanted to put an example up.

I would like to point out that my team has never started the smack talk and if it’s the same faction team I try to end it with a “Good Game Guys” or a /salute even if we lose. Anyways this whole post was created because I’m curious how common trash talking in arena’s is, is this possibly the most enjoyment people get from an arena battle? *Poll on the top left side of page*

*stand over enemy body*
/sit
/emote lays his b**ls on your chin
/stand

Smelly Hookers

This weekend I really did not get much accomplished. Friday night I hopped into a guild Kara run for Curator which I was hoping either the plate pants or tier 4 gloves would drop off him but neither did. As far as Kara loot goes, I really only need items from Curator or Nightbane with a few dps “wish lists” from random bosses. I will still gladly tank Kara for any group that needs me but besides those bosses if another tank needs a spot he is more than welcome to it. While I still do enjoy Kara I am really looking forward to the new 10 man instance coming out for the new encounters and graphics (I’m a graphics whore). Also in guild news they tried Gruul on Sunday. I believe they came closer than they ever have by implementing more ranged dps, but just couldnt quite get him down. I had some family stuff to do on Sunday so I missed out , but hopefully I can get a spot tonight if we go.

My quest to raise the 2v2 arena team is going alright. When Dirty (resto druid) and I first got on this team the rating was 1340’ish, we have raised it now to 1540. It would be a little bit higher but the other 2 people on this team had a ruff go over the weekend. Tonight if 5v5’s or Gruuls doesn’t happen I think me and Dirty are hoping to take the team up to 1600. 1540 is the highest I have ever had an arena team rank, sad but true.

Speaking of 5v5’s the previous team I was on “Jackson Five” was never able to get on at the same time and we missed two weeks in a row. That’s a lot of arena points missed out on so yesterday I bought a new 5v5 team and am hoping to get a couple of good guys together tonight and see how we do. Lined up so far I have myself (Arms Warrior – for pvp), Dirty (Resto Druid), Lumanati(Holy Priest), Ilna(affliction Lock), and I’m looking for one more hard core dps guy. I’m almost worried we are a little heavy on the healing, but both healers have good gear so I think the plan is to outlast the team. Wish me and my fellow “Smelly Hookers” luck!

Weekend Repair Bill:14g

Im a bad tank o_O

Last night was somewhat of an off night for me. I was doing a few quests in Netherstorm for some quick cash when a guildie asked me to tank arc for him so he could get his key frag for Kara. I said sure but warned them that I’m not prot (arms atm for some arenas) so if they have massive amounts of dps going then threat might be an issue. Turns out most of the guys going didn’t have that great of gear so threat was never an issue, except the time I was trying to hold my baby and tank at the same time while Kim made her a bottle. At that point the healer died and I felt bad so I gave him 2.5g to cover that repair. Speaking of that healer, he informed me I’m a bad tank in party chat. You know that first hallway at the beginning? I was tanking one of those large elite squid monsters, and two of the non-elite’s that come with him. To make my job easier I had asked the dps to just kill off the non-elites really fast, but either no one was paying attention or they just didn’t care. Dps was all over the place and I was taunting/sundering my balls off to keep agro, and I’m not prot so that made it all the more difficult. What I really wasn’t concerned about was those little maggot things that spawn. Seriously though they are 67 or 68 non-elites big deal if one or two is hitting you, even if you have one on you and your life gets low…maybe try healing yourself? As you can guess he died and started crying about it and how I’m a horrible tank. I wanted to point out that A – DPS was everywhere so it was all I could do to keep the elite and other non-elites on me and B – Sorry I assumed he was a good enough player to handle a level 68 non-elite. I wanted to type all this out but I just left it at a “You’re an idiot”. Maybe I should have tried to grab everything but if I had lost agro on the bigger things how would he have healed through that if he couldn’t heal through the maggots. That kind of left the rest of the run with a little tension, but I wanted to make sure my guildie got keyed. Long story short we finished the run, guildie got his key frag, and I later tracked down the priest in RL and made love to his mom. I guess I have to ask myself was I expecting too much of a Pug, have I become a lazy tank since I mostly only run with guildies, or did he just suck?

After the arc run a lower level guildie wanted help with the ring of blood quests so a bunch of us gathered up to do them. We show up and there is like 10 horde there doing their quests so instead of starting a huge war we dismount and help them out. It worked out well because they stuck around and returned the favor. I kept itching for something to happen since I was specced for arena’s and can pop recklessness out in the “wow world”. For a second I did think Sh*$ was about to go down because the horde tank started attacking me, but I realized he had targeted me accidently because he was trying to “tank” me (sunder, sunder, taunt) instead of the ring of blood monster. After the guildie got his quests all down I went for a quick flight down to Halaa and was able to join in on a raid, pop recklessness, and get about 15 tokens. Which was a nice way to cap off the night.

I think tonight there might be a Kara run going down I can squeeze into , if not ill probably try to raise my 2v2 arena rating up.
repair bill: 7g

FU$&ING A , Good Arena Night!

After relaying some advice to Dirty(resto specc’d druid) which I had received from Baconstrip about what it takes to have a good arena team we tried out this new strategy in some 2v2 arena’s. Let me tell you last night’s 2v2 arena’s compared to last weeks felt like night and day. I myself didn’t do anything differently except try to keep my hamstring on both guys as much as possible so dirty could kite them easier. The real difference came from Dirty’s stealth,kite,and heal strategy. I basically got a free card to bash faces without fear of dying, it was great! Now I realize our rating is still below 1500 so in the grand scheme of things it’s nothing great to be proud of, but after a few ruff weeks of arena’s winning was a nice change of pace. We ended the night with a record of 9-2, I think throughout the week were going to keep trying to raise the rating even though we have our 10 games in. Wish us luck! =)

FU$*@NG A, Good Gruul’s Layer!

Last night was an excellent night for me. I logged on and chilled in Shatt until the Gruul’s layer run started forming. About 25 minutes later everyone is gathered up at the entrance and buffs begin. The few pulls before High King Mulgar go down with no problems, I love that there is hardly any trash in Gruul’s. I don’t know how many people used to raid Molten Core back in the day, but tons of trash with a quick respawn timer sucked. I think we wiped on HKM twice before we downed him, but both times it was just goofy mistakes so we reset him and continued on until he was dead. He dropped Pauldrons of the Fallen Defender x 2 and Maulgar's Warhelm( View his loot). I was pumped to see the pauldrons of defender fall again, I have been wanting these ever sense I passed the first time. I love the dodge rating these bring to the table even though they offer less stamina. I’m going to throw out a quick explanation on the way Mal Katai does loot. It is very different than what I was used to in my previous big raiding guild (I’m referring to my raiding guild pre-BC which we did MC, BWl, AQ40). My previous guild was pretty hard core and we had a DKP system. If we didn’t do a run which counted for DKP then it went straight to rolls. That’s the way it was done, period. For those of you not familiar with how a DKP system works here is an explanation. Mal Katai does it differently in that the guild master asks everyone to send her a whisper if we want the item that dropped and what item we are currently using. The GM will look over who wants the item and say who she thinks should get the drop based on what equipment they are currently using, but everyone who wants it is still allowed to roll. What usually happens is that whomever wins will normally pass their roll to the person the GM said should get it, either because they are happy to give it to this person or because they felt pressure into doing it. This is what I did the first time I “won” my tier 4 shoulders with a roll of 95, but I passed for a druid who still had green shoulders. I know that there are Pro’s and Con’s to both methods, for instance what’s good about the way Mal Katai does it is that she is helping direct the flow of loot to help better up the “guild” as a whole and will help our progression. What’s bad is that the individual who wants an upgrade and wins the roll feels guilty about it if his gear is better than someone else who needs the item, at least I did last night.
As you might have surmised I won one of the roll for the shoulder piece and took the item even though I had the epic shoulder piece from Kara where as some of the others had blues and even greens. At the moment I’m battling with my old mind set of “It was an upgrade for me, gives me a set bonus, makes me a better tank, and I won the roll” verse “ TankB could really use these because they are a huge improvement and it will help our healers out more”. I think I would be more comfortable with the “Pass to the lowest geared guy” idea if I hadn’t been burnt by this before. I spent several months in a guild as the highest geared DPS(a different character, different server) passing on almost everything so other guys could get caught up, and shortly after that the guild fell apart, and I wasted several months. I can say that was a different group of people and I don’t see Mal Katai going that route, so I should probably get with the program and start thinking less of my loot and more for the guild. I got a few tells last night about my roll/loot so I know I stepped on a few toes and feel guilty about it, but then again should I? I put forth work to improve my gear just as much if not more than many others. I will say though that my luck with drops on average seems to be much higher than a lot of other guys so I know that’s probably frustrating to other tanks seeing me gear up so quickly when they cant get thier loot to drop. *yes i have crappy gems in the shoulders right now, but im broke!*
ANYWAYS onto some fun stuff, after we killed High King Mulgar we went and took some attempts at Gruul. Our mage Faceeraser was playing “Eye of the Tiger” in vent, it was a new boss fight, and the boss graphic rocks. I must say this was the most fun that I have had on wow in quite a while. My job was strictly DPS which as an arms/prot hybrid at the moment I wasn’t topping the charts or anything but I think I did my fair share, at least while i was alive. We didn’t kill him and after 3 wipes(I think 3 wipes) it was late so the raid was called. I think we may be going back in tonight to give it another shot, im looking forward to it! I have included a few pictures of him for anyone who hasn’t yet seen him. He reminds me a lot of that monster in star wars that Luke fought in Jabba’s place.
Repair Bill: 22g

Moobs again?

I just thought this was a little humorous so I’m adding a quick little post before going home. Today I had 2 more people directed to my blog from google. Their searches were “how to fix manboobs” and “moobs or boobs”. I am sorry to those of you who are coming to this blog looking for Manboob help and not finding any. The best advice I can give you is to eat less, get off the computer and run your ass off. Just by mentioning moobs or manboobs again on this blog I bet I get another few hits again tomorrow. It’s very possible I’ll do away with all this wow talk and become the leading authority for moobs on the web.

*light blub over head*
This thought just occured to me as i was wrapping up this post. Maybe i can help the wow community by possibly getting world of warcraft exposed to people who generally woudlnt play and sparking thier interest. If I drop a few keywords here in this post, maybe google will pick up on them and direct the people searching for these items to my blog and hopefully my posts have done the smallest bit of good to intrigue them. What kind of new people would we want to attract to wow? I dont have a specific type of person in mind but as an expieriment lets pick out a few random words and see if anything happens.
2 keywords im just gonna randomly think of: G-string and Pasties