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Disarmed

Sep13

I log in and say hello to Brd, and do my fishing daily which is Disarmed again.  I also fish up a Rusty Prison Key which I use in this chest in the water

I open the chest and receive Chain Gain Leggings (Blizzard, have I told you I love you recently?), Potion of Wild Magic, Pungent Seal Whey, Crude Eating Utensils, and Water Soaked Letter. Here is the letter, for fun

I waited for it to respawn since I had 2 of these keys and this time earned a Prison Manifest, Potion of Speed, Water Soaked Letter, and Crude Eating Utensils again and another bottle of moonshine.

I get in a WG battle and start out as Arcane, but my survivability and skill flexibility makes me unhappy and I switch back to frost.  I do a lot of Ice Lance spamming since it allows me to run, SPAMMING IT, to catch up to sieges and continue to do damage while still moving.

I die at least twice to a horde be paladin named Xiv around Sunken but unfortunately most of that was due to video lag, running into horde before they faded in on my screen.  Oh well.  I get him back later on a few times, as well as another BD paladin named Safety. I blow kisses both times.

They only manage to breach east and we win when the towers go down near the end. Unfortunately for the attackers, low numbers means you either have everyone in a vehicle with no on foot defenders, or you have a few vehicles with defenders, which can still be taken out fairly easily.  You need a sizable force to properly defend a vehicle since you have to shut down people like me willing to suicide just to break it up.

I don’t miss tenacity

Sep11

Logged in and did my fishing daily, running into Rexe doing the same thing.

Turned it in and earned some Gold Coins which I sold and Pygmy Oils.  I queue up for WG and get in with 8 other people, which grows to around 20.  I spent the  majority of my time destroying sieges coming out of Sunken

though it’s even MORE fun to have the horde jump out, kick their ass, then kill their vehicle too.  I do not miss tenacity at ALL, because I can actually kill horde like in  BGs now. They breached through to inner and had a siege on the steps, but we broke it up and won, it was very close. That was a ton of fun!

VOA25

Sep10

I log on to get in on a sorta guild run of VOA 25. Full clear.

 

Well, I haven’t been on this char for a while, and I feel like pvping.  I queue up and get EotS. There is the usual insulting on the alliance side of how much everyone “sucks”.   One guy gloats about how his dps is better than someones elses and I point out he’s 10th on my dps list so he shouldn’t brag.  Then he says he’s trying to win and not do damage, right after bragging about his damage. Good stuff.  Then he leaves an opening I just can’t skip over!

We do lose, though.

Next is up is WSG where we’re already up 2 flags, and we win shortly after I join. 109 honor for doing next to nothing.

Then we have AV which takes forever and I stop… somewhere…Frostwolf, I think, and we do ok until around 10 horde come in and roll us all. We lose, but it was quite a bit of fun anyway.

I TRY to queue for WG 8 minutes before it starts, but I am not called to battle then get the waiting thing.  This frays my nerves something fierce just standing around while it’s going on. In defiance I run out there anyway and attempt to kick a paladins ass, but he’s able to heal himself and survive against me until help arrives and I’m outnumbered.  Ah well. I get thrown out of WG on my ass.

I fly out there again, apparently just ignoring the “you’ll be kicked out” message doesn’t help.  On the way, I get into WG from the queue.  We lose, which is the third loss in WG I’ve had today. I’d still come even for losses all the time when it’s  like this, but the giant epic-ness is gone.

What I also don’t understand is how the other side gets vehicles so fast.  I’ve seen them with 5 vehicles shortly after it starts and I know you can rank up on NPCs and guns, but when you see 5 demos rolling around early on it’s like wait, what?  Do you no longer have to rank to build them?

I then run a WSG but we’re into, why even bother status with the flags when we don’t even get it once.  Still, I get to kill a lot of people, so that’s fun. We lose. I do get the Not so Fast achievement though.

Last one for the night is a queue that says my battle is ready, queues for 30 seconds then says my group has left the queue. Ok, what group and we did?  I was sitting on the edge of WG and Ice crown when I queued a second time, got a battle, then got “unabel to zone while in an encounter is in progress” then was thrown out to Rise of Suffering. I kind of meant to stay on the spot I was on because some nice nodes were spawning there.   On the third try I get into an IoC run. We lose.  I’m done enjoying my pvp for tonight.

Trial by Fire in pvp

Sep6

I run several battlegrounds in a row, and quickly learn that players equipped in Wrathful are given more criticism than normal. But in PVP often times that is a learning experience even if it’s humbling. I learn that using Ice Lance when a target is not frozen is pretty noob, so I remove it from my hot key and only use it when a target is indeed frozen. I went through many humbling battles in 2v2 arena with Plewps (Lemm from L2) on my mage and embarrassing as it is, it’s the fastest way to learn PVP. Trial by fire, I’m afraid.

Barfing

Sep6

This morning the Halloween event started so I queued up for it and 7 minutes later we had a group. The only problem is the “cog of death” is still in full swing so most people that mouse over the pumpkin to summon the Horseman gets frozen up.  I didn’t this time however and we killed him with no problems. I got my Loot Filled Pumpkin and the temporary flying broom.

Then I eat too much candy.

 

You know it’s been a good battle when you see this….