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Went Fury

Feb25

Decided to try to learn Fury warrior dps since I’m going to just dps for a while anyway.  I meant to level it some more last night, but they were running flex 3 in guild so I joined.

We got down the first boss ok but the second we wiped like 3x and I said I was tired of doing it.  Got one more attempt but it was pretty obvious half of the people were ignoring the mechanics and dps was not good.

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I have to give that DK props for not telling us to F ourselves and logging way earlier.  They stuck it out until it was called.

Insulting Healers

Feb20

Ran three Twin Peaks tonight with a druid guildie and a monk.  We only won one.  The first loss had a DK FC who had more healing than most healers, and 2 healers on him before that.  Our dps didn’t even dent him away from his healers.  I know how that feels on my hunter.  I held the flag like 10 straight minutes too. I didn’t yell in that match, any time I see a DK with 800k health and a few healers I just want to rage quit.

The second one, had no one on O at all but a single rogue.  Our entire team was on D.  I ran up to join the rogue and we nearly killed the druid EFC but then our flag dropped and they got a cap.  We never had more than 2 on O and didn’t get a single cap. One of the hunters on our team kept calling us fail healers and shit heals and blah blah.  I said I was top horde heals and he was like ‘yeah, for horde’.  Alliance still had the top 2.  I can’t help what is available to heal.  I outhealed the guild druid by TONS.  I think half the dps outhealed him/her anyway.

It turned into a pissing match of just who was stupider, dps insulting their pvp healers and or dps too stupid to kill an EFC that barely had any defense.   I really get on a roll when people are dumb like that.  Felt like playing Alliance again.  I think I ended with something like “maybe if I heal harder you’ll grow brains”.

New Character Models

Feb19

The new orc models were just posted and WoW.  Really impressed with all the updates so far.  It will be hard to decide what to pick on looks, everything looks so good.  Most of my characters now are horde, my tank is an orc, hunter blood elf, priest blood elf, and druid is a troll.  But with everything looking so good, I may need to also make a dwarf!

Hm.  So I’m finding tanking is so much pressure compared to healing, or dpsing, that I’ll leave an instance with the slightest provocation.  Can’t randomly afk like a dps, can’t lag a little behind like a healer.  Can’t type while tanking, like I can while dpsing or healing, or at least I can’t manage it yet because stuff dies so fast.  If I don’t know the way I have to constantly check the map while keeping aggro and watching dps run wherever they feel like it and make sure the healer is around.  So when someone yells “where the f are you going?” and “look at the DAMN MAP” I just leave.

Melee have it the worst, hands down

Feb18

So when I played a healer in pvp, I thought silences were the worst.  Garrote, silence, counterspell, yeah, awful man.

Then I played a hunter.  Disarms, geezes, way worse.

Then I played a MELEE.  Clearly the worst.  Snares, AND disarms.

I’ve tanked a number of dungeon since that rager at 17, and no one has complained.  I gotta admit though, healers are a bunch of whiners.  I watch their range and mana bar, nothing is unduly stressed, but yet they aren’t healing, or going afk.  In pvp they bitch even when we’re winning.  Though I did enjoy a little spar I had today with one on my warrior, where they called us a bunch of “ball lickers”.

I replied that if ball licking would insure a win, I was on board.

They correct me with “bored*”

They kept on bitching right up until a win, where they said “yw”. Ugh.

Tanking for the first time ever

Feb15

I rolled a warrior and went prot just to see how it was.  Took a while to hit 15 which Deadmeen was teasing me about, but pvp wins gives barely any experience now.  Like 10% for a win.  That’s horrible, what happened?

I am correctly geared in my BoAs and weapons (sword ‘n board) and read up on my skills.  I did a Ragefire Cavern, that went fine.

Then Deadmines, holy geez.

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That was after the shaman yelling at me for not holding threat.  When I pointed out taunt has a 8 second cd they said “my heal has a 10 second cd and I’m doing fine”.  That’s riptide you moron, that’s not your only heal though.

Prior to that it was ‘you have boas and you aren’t holding threat’ and ‘i’m holding threat better than you’

I have internetz of steel though and I promptly told the healer to fuck themselves and kick me if they didn’t like it.  I then ran back a bit to not pull anything and waited for the kick which happened soon after. Fine. I just wonder how new tanks handle it that don’t have a mouth of fire like I do.