So, after a lengthy updating, "optimization", etc., i now have to download over half a GB. The P2P download isn't working, so it's not going as quickly as it could. I have subpar internet, which is why i made sure to download as soon as possible and well before patch day. I guess it's too much to ask for TPTB to actually provide the entire download ahead of time. At this rate...i'm not going to be playing WoW again for four days from what i figure. I hope i'm doing the math wrong. /facepalm
ETA: I did the math wrong. I'm 1/4 through the download, so hopefully i'll be able to play tomorrow. I have the early shift unfortunately...though it does mean that i get off work earlier, it also means that i can't stay up late and play as soon as the download is complete. Unless it speeds up and finishes in the next hour and a half. xD
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
the final hours before 5.0.4
I keep saying that i'm not going to play my hunter as my main anymore. That never happens. Oh, to be sure, i played my shaman a lot in Cata. She dinged 85, she healed heroics, and even occasionally in a raid (very occasionally), but i still played Luinel the most...and it looks like that trend is likely to continue. But i also leveled a druid to 82, another druid to 66, my original priest to 76, another priest to 63, and a new orc to 51 very quickly. I haven't been faithfully playing most of these characters lately, but part of what was so amazing about all of this is that i've now played two Allies into Nagrand and that i only have heirlooms on one server. I played a warrior to lvl 22 and actually enjoyed it...and discovered that i hate playing a paladin (and reinforced that i hate playing a dk). It seems like i usually hate pure melee classes. My rogue i used to enjoy but abandoned (i might return to her after getting my priest to 85) and my main druid has gone boomkin with occasional healing thrown in to change it up. It's becoming easier and easier to level, some of the leveling experiences i once had are now lost forever, and my alts are getting to higher and higher levels.
My biggest focus has not been raiding in this expansion. I really wanted to get Lui up to 100 mounts and i did manage that. There are some mounts out there that i still haven't been able to obtain (a ultramarine battle tank, more drakes, a fire bird, etc.) i did get my violet proto-drake and the long-elusive polar bear. I'm currently working on the companion pets now more than i used to, mostly from Wrath or older, and i know that there are a ton of Cata companions out there that i just haven't gotten around to yet. Tonight i rounded out my engineering pet collection with the Tranquil Mechanical Yeti (did the quests to learn the schematic and farmed enough mats to make two, one to learn, one to sell). I'm still working on the green, red, and black whelps and firefly off and on. I'm gradually trying to get more of the Argent Tournie mounts and companions, too, but it's slow going and kind of tedious.
Which brings me to my companion pet team...i still don't know a lot about it, but i think i'm going to go with Azure Whelp, Snowshoe Rabbit (Run away!), and...i don't know, my Crawling Claw? Little Fawn? (supposedly has decent heals) Phoenix Hatchling? A mechanical/engineering pet? It probably depends which character i'm on to a certain extent. I don't plan to have only one team.
Anyways, right now i'm at 82/100 companions and i plan to get farther before MoP goes live. Right now i am eager to see the changes that are coming down tomorrow and wish there were more happening right away. No pet battles, no pandaren, no monks, no Theramore (at least i think that's what i read at WoWInsider). I gave up on downloading the beta last night, uninstalled it all for the last time. It had finally stopped the constant crashing but was way too slow to be practical. I'm ready for tomorrow (unless there will be additional patching coming down tomorrow), but it's going to be really weird not have a melee weapon on Lui.
What am i going to do when MoP comes down? Roll a pandaren monk. Probably roll another pandaren, i just haven't decided which class to go with. I have a feeling that i'm going to like playing a panda a lot. Anyways, i just wanted to check in. Wish i didn't have to work tomorrow because i want to be online as soon as possible, which is probably ridiculous at this point, but i am excited even though the expansion isn't coming down yet. Now if i could only sleep.
My biggest focus has not been raiding in this expansion. I really wanted to get Lui up to 100 mounts and i did manage that. There are some mounts out there that i still haven't been able to obtain (a ultramarine battle tank, more drakes, a fire bird, etc.) i did get my violet proto-drake and the long-elusive polar bear. I'm currently working on the companion pets now more than i used to, mostly from Wrath or older, and i know that there are a ton of Cata companions out there that i just haven't gotten around to yet. Tonight i rounded out my engineering pet collection with the Tranquil Mechanical Yeti (did the quests to learn the schematic and farmed enough mats to make two, one to learn, one to sell). I'm still working on the green, red, and black whelps and firefly off and on. I'm gradually trying to get more of the Argent Tournie mounts and companions, too, but it's slow going and kind of tedious.
Which brings me to my companion pet team...i still don't know a lot about it, but i think i'm going to go with Azure Whelp, Snowshoe Rabbit (Run away!), and...i don't know, my Crawling Claw? Little Fawn? (supposedly has decent heals) Phoenix Hatchling? A mechanical/engineering pet? It probably depends which character i'm on to a certain extent. I don't plan to have only one team.
Anyways, right now i'm at 82/100 companions and i plan to get farther before MoP goes live. Right now i am eager to see the changes that are coming down tomorrow and wish there were more happening right away. No pet battles, no pandaren, no monks, no Theramore (at least i think that's what i read at WoWInsider). I gave up on downloading the beta last night, uninstalled it all for the last time. It had finally stopped the constant crashing but was way too slow to be practical. I'm ready for tomorrow (unless there will be additional patching coming down tomorrow), but it's going to be really weird not have a melee weapon on Lui.
What am i going to do when MoP comes down? Roll a pandaren monk. Probably roll another pandaren, i just haven't decided which class to go with. I have a feeling that i'm going to like playing a panda a lot. Anyways, i just wanted to check in. Wish i didn't have to work tomorrow because i want to be online as soon as possible, which is probably ridiculous at this point, but i am excited even though the expansion isn't coming down yet. Now if i could only sleep.
Monday, August 20, 2012
why we fight in pandaria and gotham
This past week i saw the new Mists of Pandaria cinematic and the Dark Knight Rises. I was thinking about MoP while i watched DKR. Let me just say...i'm not really a Batman fan. I like the new films a lot more than the old ones, but i don't love them by any stretch. They are dark compared to the Marvel comic films and Batman is too whiny for me. This one in particular is violent (per usual) but what i think really got to me was Bane's voice more than anything. He makes Darth Vader look like a kitten! Most of the time i had absolutely no idea what he was talking about, though. I must say that i was pretty happy about who he ended up with in the end.
Saturday, August 11, 2012
biting the bullet
I was just out of town for nearly two weeks on vacation and didn't get to play much in the week leading up to the trip. Well i have been semi-keeping up on WoWInsider but i haven't been playing nearly as much as i would like to. But i have been excited about the Mists release date...which is later than i expected but still super soon.
So i know that i said i wasn't going to be paying for anything until the beta was fixed...but that was when i was really mad in May. It's been ages now. I'm over it (even though the people at Blizz were super unhelpful and in no way professional when they were cancellingmy tickets without even properly addressing them or trying to help at all) and am whipped. I want to play a panda and i am excited about some of the hunter changes i've been reading about even if i still feel screwed over as a hunter and as a shaman. It may be stupid but i paid for the digital edition (addition? lol) today.
I am fully aware at this juncture in my gaming career that i am probably going to regret doing this, but i'm sticking with the game at least until Christmas (at least, that's when i'm paid up to). If they let me down, if they screw me over even more, so help me i am quitting for good. But with much regret. Yeah, don't quote me on that. They own me, unfortunately. Ho hum.
ETA: Wow that sounded depressing. I still love leveling. I always miss old content from the good old days (well...BC, as i wasn't around during vanilla). My issues are with the fact that i am on a low pop server that i love and have no wish to leave but that has been ravaged post-BC. I can't find a guild where i fit and most of the people i used to hang with have left the game. No one has room for me in their raids and i have been forced to become a more casual player than i'd really like. Yes, i dream of not having to work and being able to play 24/7. Actually, i would get bored of that very quickly, but to have that kind of time to be able to play, write, etc., would be completely awesome. Unfortunately i have to work post-graduating from college for very obvious reasons.
As a frequenter of heroics i can tell you that i don't hate the content, i hate the fact that most PUG tanks are complete idiots and jerks (arrogance seeming to be a pre-requisite) and most dpsers are completely ignorant to the point of taking noob to new levels. I was once a newb, i have always tried to help them as much as possible, but these people don't want to be helped. They want to get through content as quickly as possible whereas most of the time i would much rather savor the experience.
There's something that's been lost...a sense of danger. These kids just walk up to a boss and slap them across the nose. I remember a time where it felt scary to enter new areas, where there was strength and safety in numbers. Heck, i remember what it felt like to go to UC the first time (from SMC). I ported, looked around at the locale, and freaked out. I was sure that it had to be somewhere dangerous and my newb self did not feel prepared to handle it. I don't think that i even had a pet yet. Everything feels much safer now, smaller, contained, tamed. I'm not sure that i like the direction that this x-pac is taking, but if Garrosh gets supplanted by Sylvanas or Vol'Jin then i will be okay, otherwise what the frak.
The only reason it makes sense (to me) to get rid of Thrall is so that the Horde will attack Theramore and that doesn't make any sense to me at all. Wrong enemy entirely. Jaina has been a friend to us, our ally/ambassador to the humans. Why would you piss her off? She's not the opposite of Sylvanas at all (though that's how she's been portrayed in certain raids/dungeons). It's not that she isn't powerful...it's that she's a sleep dragon. Only a fool would wake a dragon up on purpose.
Anyways...mixed feelings. I don't like feeling that something i have been faithful to for years is thumbing their nose at me rather than being faithful back. Maybe they don't care because they have a constant stream of incoming players, but the original base has thinned out enough without them actively trying to push us out. So they better come through for me is all i'm saying.
So i know that i said i wasn't going to be paying for anything until the beta was fixed...but that was when i was really mad in May. It's been ages now. I'm over it (even though the people at Blizz were super unhelpful and in no way professional when they were cancellingmy tickets without even properly addressing them or trying to help at all) and am whipped. I want to play a panda and i am excited about some of the hunter changes i've been reading about even if i still feel screwed over as a hunter and as a shaman. It may be stupid but i paid for the digital edition (addition? lol) today.
I am fully aware at this juncture in my gaming career that i am probably going to regret doing this, but i'm sticking with the game at least until Christmas (at least, that's when i'm paid up to). If they let me down, if they screw me over even more, so help me i am quitting for good. But with much regret. Yeah, don't quote me on that. They own me, unfortunately. Ho hum.
ETA: Wow that sounded depressing. I still love leveling. I always miss old content from the good old days (well...BC, as i wasn't around during vanilla). My issues are with the fact that i am on a low pop server that i love and have no wish to leave but that has been ravaged post-BC. I can't find a guild where i fit and most of the people i used to hang with have left the game. No one has room for me in their raids and i have been forced to become a more casual player than i'd really like. Yes, i dream of not having to work and being able to play 24/7. Actually, i would get bored of that very quickly, but to have that kind of time to be able to play, write, etc., would be completely awesome. Unfortunately i have to work post-graduating from college for very obvious reasons.
As a frequenter of heroics i can tell you that i don't hate the content, i hate the fact that most PUG tanks are complete idiots and jerks (arrogance seeming to be a pre-requisite) and most dpsers are completely ignorant to the point of taking noob to new levels. I was once a newb, i have always tried to help them as much as possible, but these people don't want to be helped. They want to get through content as quickly as possible whereas most of the time i would much rather savor the experience.
There's something that's been lost...a sense of danger. These kids just walk up to a boss and slap them across the nose. I remember a time where it felt scary to enter new areas, where there was strength and safety in numbers. Heck, i remember what it felt like to go to UC the first time (from SMC). I ported, looked around at the locale, and freaked out. I was sure that it had to be somewhere dangerous and my newb self did not feel prepared to handle it. I don't think that i even had a pet yet. Everything feels much safer now, smaller, contained, tamed. I'm not sure that i like the direction that this x-pac is taking, but if Garrosh gets supplanted by Sylvanas or Vol'Jin then i will be okay, otherwise what the frak.
The only reason it makes sense (to me) to get rid of Thrall is so that the Horde will attack Theramore and that doesn't make any sense to me at all. Wrong enemy entirely. Jaina has been a friend to us, our ally/ambassador to the humans. Why would you piss her off? She's not the opposite of Sylvanas at all (though that's how she's been portrayed in certain raids/dungeons). It's not that she isn't powerful...it's that she's a sleep dragon. Only a fool would wake a dragon up on purpose.
Anyways...mixed feelings. I don't like feeling that something i have been faithful to for years is thumbing their nose at me rather than being faithful back. Maybe they don't care because they have a constant stream of incoming players, but the original base has thinned out enough without them actively trying to push us out. So they better come through for me is all i'm saying.
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