Thanksgiving, So Here’s Dad

It be thanksgiving up here in Canadia, so I’m spending some quality watching TV with the family. I didn’t even play WoW yesterday.

In lieu of an actual post featuring actual things, here’s my dad with a couple stories.

-=-

I knew this guy when I was a youngster, Gary. His whole family were christians, real bible thumper types. Every Hallowe’en, Gary’s house was our first stop.

His mom would always cook up hot dogs, a lot of hot dogs. My friends and I would swing by, inhale five or six hotdogs apiece, and she’d be cooking more, saying “Eat more! Eat eat!”

Well, ok! So we ate.

Read Full Post »

Shadow of the Colossus

Fame. Success. Popularity. Expectations, perceived or actual.

BigRedKitty was an immensely popular blog, with almost an entire community springing up around his fervor. Then, with an unrivaled abruptness, he was gone. Poof. Tens of thousands of hits a day, if not hundreds, and that’s the end of it.

So who steps up to take over management when BRK left? Who steps forward, eyes shoes the size of moons, and says “Bah, I can do that.”

Well, nobody can, of course. But sometimes people try anyway, and sometimes there’s an expectation that the new guy(s) will be able to fill in exactly the same.

A fantastic manager retires, everyone loved him and his system. Big shoes to fill. Is the new guy going to be able to firmly take over that legacy?

The main tank of your guild decides to quit after raiding with you for three years. Someone else steps up. Is the new guy expected to be the same?

So and so always did it this way. Whatserface always pulled that way. Damn, I wish Name hadn’t quit.

There are those who went to Aspect of the Hare as the replacement for BRK. After all, she does a blog revolving around BM hunters, she absolutely loves huntering, it’s the only logical choice, isn’t it?

It’s a sad situation, more than anything. I’m sure nobody intended to try and force Pike into replacing BRK, she never tried to do so or even intended to replace the big RK.

But the pressure was there. Intended or not, real or not, it was there.

Read Full Post »

Thought I’d post this here

Did this up for my guild, so’s peeps would have an idea of what mages do raid-wise, specific to Anathema anyways.

It’s occured to me that this guild has not had much exposure to mages as a class.

When me and Vox joined, you guys had… what, Sequel?

So I figured I’d put up this post here, in an effort to (briefly) explain how mages work, and most importantly, how us mages currently affect our current raids/dps make-ups and such.
Any wacko with half a brain can say “Mages does DPS, yuh” but feh.

First off. This guild already has incredibly strong DPS capacity. We have multiple hunters and rogues that consistently do incredibly high amounts of damage, and a couple other caster types who make me feel all sad and happy at the same time (I’m looking at you, Abby and Mord).
Frankly, we could drop a DPS group entirely and we’d be fine, damage wise. I mean, we have, what, 4 minutes to spare on average for Void Reaver?
In this regard, Anathema does not really need to have us few mages go all out balls-to-the-wall, because we already have the DPS there. We aren’t filling in any holes, because there simply aren’t any holes to fill.
You need look no further than some of our random WWS stats pages to see that the magey DPS is always on the low end of the list.
I can QQ all I want, mage DPS is gimped, blah blah, cry, whine, bitch, warlocks are better, blah blah I want some fucking pie.

Read Full Post »

Azeroth’s Biggest Failures

Tonight on Azeroth’s 3 Biggest Failures

A guest column by Voxmortis

 

Heyo, Voxmortis here, you may recognize me from such posts as “why Voxmortis needs to re spec frost” and assorted rantings about how I fail. Damn good reading IMO, you should take it to heart.

 

Now, being the epic failure that I am, I am gifted with the magical ability to spot and write down even bigger failures than myself. The following 3 transpired over this AV holiday weekend.

 

#3: The alliance on Stormstrike.

Okay, this is more of a cheer for the horde on stormstrike than anything else. If you didn’t notice, or just don’t play on the stormstrike realm, some moronic alliance members decided that it would render more honor if they turtled then tried to push us back into mandatory cave defense. Now, this may seem like a good idea to you for the following reasons:

1. It pisses off the horde (and who doesn’t want that?!)

2. It renders more honor per battleground

3. LOL! I KILLED A ZMOBIE! LOL! ROFL! I LIKE ANIME AND FAIL HARD BECAUSE I PLAY A GNOME! (totally unbiased here….)

Now, this is why it is a bad idea:

1. Horde has a shitstorm of druids.

Despite wave after wave of alliance defense, successfully pushing us back into the cave, the alliance failed to look at the score sheet to notice that we had 10 druids in this particular battleground. There were a couple feral tanks, a tree or two and a handful of boomkin & feral dps. Guess what alliance? Cat form+stealth+walk north a bit=well-constructed 10 man to take on Vanndar. Now anybody who looks back on the days of 30 folks or more on cave defense KNOWS that thats all you need to take out Vanndar. So guess what? We Won. Eat it gnomes.

 

#2: A particular hunter who I repeatedly saw in AV

This hunter was a troll. He left his pet on aggressive entering Vann’s room. Nuff said? I thought so. It took this rube 4 wipes to realize what was going on and by then, alliance had gotten bored of defense and killed Drek. GG ebay character, GG

 

#1: Though I regret to do this…. The mages of Anathema

Though I am deeply excited to join Anathema, that I can finally see some endgame content and be able to actually defend my spec as viable (arcane raid DPS ftw!), I look on with trepidation and absolute horror at meeting Anathema’s mage community.

 

Case 1: Their Frost Mage….

He is specced for arena… only no piercing ice… /facepalm

Case 2: One of their fire mages…

She is specced 13/48. Sure, there are ways you could feebly argue its superiority over 10/48/3 as the bread-and-butter fire raid build. But not for this one. Instead of elemental precision, my toasty comrade has chosen ARCANE FORTITUDE and WAND SPEC. Yeah. I know.

Case 3: I havent slept in 21 hours, and have no motivation to go to the armory to remind myself about what I was talking about.

 

 

 

Well thats it for me, this was a rant by Voxmortis. Oh, and next time you see me in the arena? Put fire ward up, and ice block when the big orange burney thing comes towards your head. I’m tired of shitkicking frost mages who don’t know what they’re doing.

 

Nukeymcsquishy, AKA Voxmortis,

 

Signing Off.

Read Full Post »