My mom took it upon herself to talk to the manager of the bus drivers in my town. He wasn’t there (haha yeah), so she gets a call back from the head boss guy about an hour later.
“Hi, I’m Tom from Transit.”
So my mom said, tersely, her name. So he responded with…
“No, I’m Tom.”
Not even joking. So not joking.
Believe it or not, the conversation went downhill from there.
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“We”, meaning us, meaning For Whom The Bell Tolls, have cleared ICC. Lady Deathwhisper keeled over, sexy rogue loot was handed out, then the elevator kidnapped me. It was hilarious.
At one point you have to fight a trash mob dragon with a million hitpoints. Your spell effects look absolutely monstrous on a model this huge. Our druid threw up Insect Swarm and it apparently looked like space invaders from melee.
Gunship battle was all kinds of crazy awesome. People rocketing back and forth, rifleman tearing into our raid, fireballs and cannonballs and rockets, oh my! It took a few wipes to figure out what was killing our captain tank, but we shortly got to watch that silly alliance ship go down in flames.
Then our zeppelin bugged out and we were stranded in the middle of nowhere.
The druid took a leap of faith and died.
The priest levitated gently to the ground, where she was promptly ripped apart by angry alliance NPCs. Then one by one we all teleported to her corpse and were mercilessly murdered as well.
It was both sad and hilarious. Bugs are fun!
Saurfang was an absolute blast. A merciless enrage timer, cleave damage like you wouldn’t believe, and unforgiving adds. Saurfang summons these blood beast things (FEAST, MY MINIONS) and you have to kill them. The trick is, you can’t let them melee any raid member. So you have to kite them while killing them.
Frost Trap from Ghostkid and absolutely pro roots from Tomms (the druid of awesome) kept them under control, and emergency frost novas and death grip/chains of ice combos kept us going through emergencies.
Down goes Saurfang the young, and Saurfang the old wept in the manliest way possible.
We tried to screenshot the corpse, but Saurfang the old just picked up his son and walked off with our screenshot. Jerk.
I picked up a couple hot pieces of loot, though I didn’t win the rolls for anything. Tomms won them all, but he graciously passed them to me, I have no idea why. I rolled a two for Muradin’s Spyglass. A TWO. WHAT IS THAT?
Oh well, got it anyway, thanks to the infinite kindness of the best druid in existence. Now comes the tough decision whether to use both Muradin’s Spyglass and Eye of the Broodmother, or go with Muradin’s and Resurgence…
My gut feeling is to go with Muradin’s and Eye, but I reeeally like the extra intellect on Resurgence, and having nearly 600 extra spellpower during cooldowns is awesome. But does that compete with a near permanent 125 spellpower?
By the way, just so you know, Slow Fall counts towards stacking the buffs on trinkets like Eye and Muradin’s. Feel free to spam that to build a full 5 stack before the fight even starts, and to keep it going during lulls.
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Got my 50k lifetime kills achievement thingy yesterday. There was much grats, and all I could think of was “I’d have like 150k by now if I didn’t have alts”, but you know what? That’s fine. PvPing on multiple characters teaches you far more in the long run then just PvPing with one class forever.
I am absolutely in love with fire for PvP. It’s surprisingly easy to control both enemy casters and melee, and the damage is really, really good. I didn’t really think Scorch would be this powerful, but chain casting it into a target afflicted with Living Bomb leads to extremely quick kills.
My fire build, however, is being tailored specifically for BG combat. So, I took Empowered Fire, but not Improved Fireball. I do use Fireball, though infrequently, but the purpose of it isn’t a combat nuke.
It’s for those situations where there’s a fight going off a long ways away, nobody is paying attention to me, and I see a good target to snipe. Nothing ruins a healer’s day faster than getting crit out of nowhere for 10k. My highest crit so far with fireball is 12k.
Totally random strategy. Find a destruction warlock, and follow them around. Just attack whatever they attack. Hilarity ensues.
Tactis wise, I play extremely defensive. Hiding as far away from the main fighting as possible, judiciously applyig fireballs, scorchs and living bombs to everything. Immediately LOS anything gunning for me, run from melee whilst wearing them down with instants and living bomb.
Lemme tell ya, melee gets really tired of chasing something that never stops moving whilst maintaining DPS on them the entire time (even just using LB and fireblast, that damage adds up extremely fast). I can’t even count the number of death knights, ret pallies, etc, who chased me for a good twenty seconds before saying “you know what? screw it” and breaking off to go fight something else. At which point I killed them.
Silly melee. Never let a mage cast freely. It leads to you burning to death.
Also, Flamestriking a stealthed or vanished rogue is probably the best thing ever.
Actually, reflecting Chains of Ice onto a death knight is the best thing ever.
Actually, no, putting Living Bomb on somebody with low health on a flying mount, then watching them die in midair is the best thing ever.
“By the way, just so you know, Slow Fall counts towards stacking the buffs on trinkets like Eye and Muradin’s.”
Wait.
What?
A while ago they changed the tooltip to reflect only damaging or healing spells and Slow Fall got hosed. Did they really change it back?
I love working form home. I couldn’t take it any longer and logged on to check.
Equipped both the Eye and the Illustration…
Holy Fuck it does it again!
The tooltip is still saying damaging/healing spells so I would not be surprised if this is a bug and it goes away in the near future.
But until then… now I don’t know what trinkets I want. I’ve got both of those as well as the Talisman and the Abyssal Rune…
Sorry, I just can’t leave this alone… found the source for it being a deliberate change!
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=21626504633&postId=216244488337&sid=1#9
Derp.
Slow Fall does Eye of the Broodmother only.
Muradin’s IS NOT counted by slow fall.
Eye still works.
OMG OMG OMG!
I’ve been drooling over the idea of fire pvp since I saw the PTR patch notes.
If the king of QQ can give it this high praise… I will be fire as soon as I get home. I may even leave work early. In fact, I will.
Reading this post about fire PVP made me really really happy, I always loved fire, I used it up until far into BC leveling. Is there any chance of us being able to get a link to your spec of choice for Fire PVP?
Just came across your site a few weeks ago. Awesome work!
Question regarding fire PVP, and PVP in general I guess… I have never really tried it before, and want to get into it. Currently, I am frost spec, since most of my gaming thus far has been solo PvE. Is it viable to keep my frost spec, and then set my secondary talent-tree (dual thing, whatever), to a PvP fire build, and just go out and actually not suck? Or do I have a long hard road of having to work my way up through gear etc before I even have a chance at fun?
The key to playing fire, I think, is to not die. Being a suicide mage is great and all, but to really be awesome in BGs you have to play extremely defensive. Stay as far away from the fighting as you can, if anything even looks at you funny, run like hell.
There is nothing squishier than a fire mage, so more than likely you will die.
Play hyper defensive, you should be able to do quite well.
“The key to playing fire, I think, is to not die.”
This applies to PvE as well. What is it with PvE mages rushing in and hitting blastwave in an instance? You’re all nutz!
Mostly we like the sound.
And the feeling of power.
Or we may just be paying too much attention to the damage meters.
Lucy is right – for me, it’s the sound, and the (brief) feeling of power. i figure, if i’m gonna die, i wanna take as many with me as possible, so i might as well go out dramatically. XD
Where’d you find the points for Molten Shields?
But yes, reflecting Chains of Ice … while gunning for the flag in WSG … oh yes, the best.
I’m experimenting.
At the moment, I have dropped Imp. CS, so I only have 13 points in arcane, everything else invested in fire.
So far… I haven’t missed it at all. My damage output is too much too heal through without using casted spells, so regular counter so far has worked marvelously.
This is not a spec I’d use for arenas though, so I can’t speak for the spec in that environment.
I really wonna see a video of all the fun you have trying out fire PVP
“Actually, reflecting Chains of Ice onto a death knight is the best thing ever.”
As a warrior, I contest this. Spell reflecting 17k conflag crits is (was) the best thing ever, closely followed by cyclone, polymorph, death coil (the warlock one) and arcane blast crits. Although I will have my GF try these living bomb flying shenanigans you speak of.
Unfortunately, I can’t seem to find a group which can clear ICC alliance side
The dps from Muradin’s Spyglass must be amazing… *jealousy*
Maybe I should switch to Horde.. are they a lot more progressed than the Alliance, on Duskwood?
“The key to playing fire, I think, is to not die”
Truer words were never spoken. Well perhaps once or twice… but not much.
Do you use your mana shield much? I have found myself not bothering with it in BGs even though I still have it talented.
After all, why do you need a shield if you are hiding in a bush setting the world on fire?
also… what about using blast wave to knock a bloody shaman off something so they can fall to their deaths? Revenge rates pretty highly on my awesome scale for this kind of thing!
I do that frequently to shamans and balance druids.
The best part is when they try it on me, so I just slow fall, head back up there, and either kill them or knock them off too.
I got mauradins spyglass the other night and was so excited to see it procs off of all spell hits… so aoe cranks it up to 10 fast! It freaked me out though because I wasn’t use to the buff and I started using it on saurfang and thought it was some part of the fight that I wasn’t aware of.
Have you ever chased someone who attempted to fly away from you, caught up to them, dismounted to deal the final blow, and then quickly poked your handy little Slow Fall button…as they crash down before you?
It’s great.