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Thrashing bad Hunters

Feb14

Ran into Ultrabomber out in Goldshire where Horde had been showing up, and thrashed him in a duel.

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I asked him if he wanted to do bgs which I had been doing that night and he said something sarcastic about having my partner 10 feet away and not wanting to do arena. I said I ‘wasn’t feeling it’ and he logged.

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Alliance has been quite good at bgs still, though I am repeatedly left alone at “boring” bases like Stables, Lighthouse, or Draenei Ruins. However more often than not, a rogue stays with me.

Ran EotS and we did so well I got the Bound for Glory achievement.

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We’ve been doing well at TB also, though this one I just had to laugh when 2 DK’s simultaneously popped army.

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I capped with Maice since I’m cross with Ultra, and Ladiesman hasn’t been around.  We lost like 4 and won 4 I think, but he just needs his resil up.  Ultra was at like 2k resil for a while and got torn to pieces as well.  I know some people run in full pve gear but that doesn’t seem to work so well right now.

Ran BH and finally won something on this char with a roll of 93, the haste pvp necklace, but I gave it to Cassio who was in the same group.  The reason being is, I need at least one item to have spell pen, and I already upgraded my cloak, so it must be the neck.  Even if I kept the neck, I’d need to replace my healing cape with a spell pen one, and it would be an equal loss in CP, so just silly to keep. Besides, he never wins anything in there.

Nicholopolis mentioned that I broke the “golden rule” or loot which is never, ever give it away.  I sort of disagree, I do this a lot and it’s come back to me many times. I give away red cut gems, flasks, I actually pass on loot in LFR I don’t need, and I’ve given away loot a number of times in BH or raids.  I don’t believe in game karma, or anything, but I did have that random pally give me the healing mace from Madness plus a tier token, I’ve had another shaman let me have tier pants, and another person let my mage have some pvp piece.  Maybe none of this would have ever happened but I don’t have to play like a dick, angry that it might not.

I then went on to run BH on the shaman, and again rolled a 93 which won the spell pen neck, only, I forgot I already had it, so traded it to Libem, the second highest roller, who fortunately is actually a pvper.

Jugger Not

Feb9

Had some epic bgs lately, got “Newbs to Plowshares” on my shaman during a Gilneas battle where we 3 capped, and kept 8/10 of their team off the LH flag the ENTIRE TIME. People knew how to aoe the flag, it was beautiful.

Also on my priest got “Jugger Not” after being down about 1200 points also in Gilneas, and came back to win it. I professed undying love to a rogue who solo capped WW to get us that win. I do find that I do the majority of the calling out in battlegrounds lately though. I use BG defender which saves typing time but that doesn’t work when I’m not at the base in question. I make frequent use of Mind Vision to latch onto people on my team to check out the other bases, then call out how many are there. A lot of people will yell “LH LH LH LH” and I mind vision only to see it’s 2 inc and we have 4 there. You should not need to call that out. Numbers are important to know. 2 defending and 5 inc, yes call that out, 1 inc vs 5 defending, don’t bother.

Doing Resto damage wrong?

Feb8

Did arena on my shaman with Joed today and went 8-4. I feel the lack of offensive damage abilities on the shaman, or maybe I’m just doing it wrong. LB and lava burst all seem too slow and too low of damage to bother with. Picked up the new pvp helm though.

We tried heroic Shannox tonight and on the first shot got him to 100k (no joke) but failed badly every attempt afterwards. I don’t think anyone really understood the mechanics, and the first pull I was mid way through asking how the healing arrangements would go when they pulled. I kept saying we should have one healer on the off tank which ended up being me, one on the tank, and one that mostly focuses on the rage-ing damage but I swear the other 2 healers never talk.

We called it without getting anything down.

Switched to my priest and did a random bg and ran into Cirruk (Kurric), who I met on his rogue in a random some time ago in Vortex Pinnacle, who is on my real id. Didn’t even notice we were in the same bg together until he called me by my real name and said he’d save me, from the rogue that was on me. What are the chances? Of course last time I said something like that, I ended up in a bg with Ladiesman. We won that one, queue for another and got EotS, and lost but it went pretty well.

Just the Two of Us

Jan23

Today was pretty good on the battleground scene, won a WSG so good we had horde camped at their GY

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Then when Acks was not available to do 2’s when he originally said he would, I picked up Alexmx and OMFG FINALLY “JUST THE TWO OF US 1550”

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It’s rather depressing it took me this long but partners were so random and repeatedly just stopped logging in, so yeah omg I’m thrilled!

Tharus beat my ass

Jan7

I moved my shaman into Relentless, which was my first ever guild, since I have a permanent spot with them DS 10 raiding now and I know people would not rather give gear to a “pug”.  We did the first 2 bosses ok and I won a new necklace, but the third we had bad healing problems.  The priests top heal was flash heal, and I focused them one fight and that’s all I saw going off during tank healing, and I assume shields in between.  We had a talk afterwards where I suggested talent and reforge changes, and I guess we’ll have to wait until the next raid to talk about healing rotation more and skill usage. They were only putting out around 12k heals as it was, and the grouping up damage parts we were failing something fierce on. I was doing around 22k.

Anyway I did 2’s with the hunter again and it went a little better this time.  I ran into Tharus during one match, with a rshaman.  He beat my ASS too, it was kind of funny.  Now I know what Ladiesman was talking about when he says he sometimes loses by underestimating a player.  That’s exactly what I did.  I then got asked by

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Leudraenei (I’m sure I spelled that wrong) to do RBGs with Ilikeanimals, but when they kept spamming for a resto shaman I said I had one with 4569 resil and switched to that instead.

We won 1, lost 2.  Both losses from pretty stupid mistakes.  The first loss I take responsibility for, though I still honestly have no idea how it happened.  We were in Twin Peaks in the alliance base (as horde) and I was nowhere near where the flag was, I was across the room near the back, and I noticed I had the flag.  I have no idea how I picked it up, so confused I ran out of the base and tried to drop it only I didn’t have the flag buff icon. In my panic rather than running away and trying to mount up to drop it, I just stood there unclicking every buff I had right and left clicking every buff and debuff trying to drop it for someone else while everyone in vent told me to drop it, got pwned and they returned the flag. I felt amazingly stupid but I really have no idea how I even picked it up to begin with.

The second loss was mostly because our FC, for no particular reason, left where he had two healers, myself included, guarding him, LoS’d us behind the wall and promptly died.