Ugh. One thing that is getting on my last nerves lately is travel in this game. As much as I love viewing the landscape when flying around, at some point I have to say, enough is enough. The world seems to be getting way too large to continue moving around like this. We have Eastern Kingdoms, Kalimdor, Northrend, Outlands, areas you have to port to like Deepholm, Vashjir, Tol Barad, and of course the new area of Pandaria. If you need to get around you can totally zone out after taking a boat and flying for what feels like forever. I miss L2’s instant ports, I really do.
Ultrabomber/Warbomb
I’ve been doing arena with Warbomb, who use to play Ultrabomber and it’s been rather interestng. I can skill solo him as disc and kill him without ever having to trinket. He thought doing arena this late in the season in blue heroic pve gear with no gems or enchants was ok. We got arena cap last week, though it went poorly if any teams focused him because he went down like a ton of bricks, needless to say I suppose.
Anyway I convinced him to at least get all honor pieces. Still a little on the fence with his behavior though. He randomly asks for favors that are often so extremely inconvenient I have to say “no, that would be ridiculous”. Things like “hey can you fly out to Theramore, pick up the ore I have, bring it back to town and put it on the AH for me so I can continue mining without going back to town?” Hell to the no?
Or “can you go to town and see if there is a mining bag, I don’t want to stop what I’m doing to see their isn’t one”. Well I don’t want to stop what I’m doing, either. So no.
I got my horde priest to 90 today and went to WG where he was there. He was following me around and wasn’t attacking me when that DK came along. When Ang(Shockblocker) showed up, I healed him. He then went into an epic meltdown, much like Holystab did before, over it. I explained to him I enjoy fighting against friends and I have no problem being beat to death (if he could). There was much emo crying about how we are arena partners and it wasn’t honorable for me to “heal those scrubs” and blah blah.
Whatever. I like fighting people I know, deal with it.
ShieldWall Dailies
Not much going on lately. We only did MV this week because Silly was missing (computer probs) and Dor was out. I got another shadow piece but lost the roll on an off hand. We did not do HoF.
I am enjoying the Shieldwall dailies though, not too many, the area progresses as you move along, pretty cool. The sandy landing beach I was just at the other day, now has an alliance fort on it. I like it.
Prior to Base Resil…
This is pvp related but UGH my server sometimes. Picked up with an old arena partner from some time ago, he wasn’t that good but didn’t rage and gave it a good shot and that’s all I can really expect on my pve server usually.
He’d been away from the game for a while and wanted to do area again. We do a few Bgs and I notice he’s getting wrecked pretty quickly, and has about the same health as me. I take a look at his gear, 7 missing enchants, no pvp trinkets, several pve heroic blues, etc. I tell him he needs to replace all that crap with pvp gear. He’s like yeah soon as I get some arena in I will. I’m like yeah no, you need to replace that shit, with pvp gear. You are dying way too fast, you need the resil and pvp power.
He tells me STR/CRIT are important and that the heroic PVE blues are better than the pvp gear. Sigh. I’d been through this before, trying to do arena with a dps in epic raid gear and they get DROPPED. Not interested in doing it again.
Luck with gear
Had some insanely close Gilneas battles lately, had one we won by 30 and another we lost by 40 that I worked SO HARD OMGMGMGMGG to try to win. It was like trying that stupid BG in a RBG.
So anyway I’m not that pleased about my gear progress via raids right now. My helm, back, and chest, one trinket and weapon is all LFR. I’ve only gotten 2 pieces of tier which isn’t work even equipping right now. I’m using the LFR robe only because it has native spirit and my other one did not, and losing out on over 600 spirit is a problem. My neck, shoulder, belt, pants, and one ring are all from rep. My off hand is crafted and so is the other trinket. My other raid pieces after weeks and WEEKS are gloves, pants, and bracers I had to use a token to win. Bleh.