I’ve been trying to get my ilevel up on Ocyla, but world quests aren’t really helping me out. But still, they can be fun.
I ran into one of the TWO mages I ever added to my friends list over the years, Cassio. He’s been around again.
Still had that rogue-like personality of course, very un-mage-like if you ask ME.
Speaking of quests, DEAR GOD KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!!
There’s something of a stinky-bink going on about Mei’s 3,000 legendary winter skin.
As can be seen, it’s literally a red and green recolor of her BASE SKIN. With a hat, and a bow for the buh-bomb. Her ice block also turns her into a snowman with a hat. But otherwise it’s a 75 coin recolor. Possibly 250 because of the hat and snowman. Since it’s a holiday item it would rightfully be boosted to 750 coins, which I think is fair. It’s not a legendary clearly, but 1,000 would still be an acceptable price, but by no means should it be 3,000.
THIS is a base 1,000 skin.
Notice how it’s new, everything. New boots, new jacket, snow goggles, hat, gloves. Everything is new. That’s what a legendary should be.
Now, of course, not all legendaries are made equal. Hanzo’s wolf for instance, is incredible. I can’t play him for shit but I bought it anyway. Totally different from the base skin on the left.
Additionally, his ult line changes because his ult changes from two dragons to two wolves. So new skin, new lines, new ultimate. His Halloween skin was cool, but really not a huge departure from his base skin, so why wasn’t there a huge thing for that?
I think Mei’s outrage was from a few things. In the case of most of the other heros, they have several different outfits, not just recolors. If we look at Mercy, she has the base skin, the devil/imp skin, the Valkyrie skins. That was before anything else came out, so 3 unique skins. Then she got the Swiss summer skin, which was a recolor but a touch above a base recolor at the 250 recolor range. Then she got Witch Mercy, which was incredible with just being crazy sexy, AND a granted wish to get the costume from the postcard, AND she got the Halloween Junkenstein event lines “My servants NEVER die!” in addition to a few random lines like “someone called for a witch” instead of “called for a doctor” and so on. And her weapon is a broom, it’s awesome.
Another example is Reinhardt, who has the base skins, the 250 recolors, the helmet-less skins, the legendary skins, the Crusader skins (which are incredible), and a Halloween skin.
Then we look at poor Mei. She has her base skins, the 250 base skin recolors, and 2 legendaries. Basically 2 unique skins. TWO. No summer skins, no Halloween skins. Her legendary does not change her ult, wall, or freeze. No new skins from LAUNCH.
That’s why the xmas skin, even with the snowman, is a bit of a slap. She’s still more or less at 2 skins. TWO!!!
Symmetra is somewhat in the same boat in that her legendary skins don’t really “do” anything But, she got a skin for Halloween and she has the base skin, the “India” skins (I don’t know what else to call them), and the architect skins. 3 unique skins, 3.5 if you consider the halloween one was a pretty decent recolor.
With Mei at 2 plus a hat/snowman. A perfect storm adding in a legendary holiday price tag. If it went to 750, this would probably have blown right over, with a sprinkle hint of a completely new skin for the Chinese New Year. I know red is lucky, but I want a blue and white sparkling cheongsam dress with white fur trim, a wand instead of a gun, and new reloading animations to account for the wand totally not being a gun. So there.
I don’t know why I even pug dungeons, really. I don’t think a single one has gone by without someone being insulting. Halls of Valor, the paladin tank was repeatedly pulling, dropping aggro, then running ahead and doing nothing. I lost the warlock during one pull. I rezzed him and I use the macro “Take your medicine!” which is from Ana in Overwatch when she heals. This is what I got:
That’s all I said that entire dungeon. Then at the end, when no one else died, I got this:
The tank defended me, at least.
They left without explaining but I couldn’t let it go.
Then tonight I ran Blackheart Thicket, with a so-so warrior tank who took a significant amount of damage, who afk’d several times to the point the dps asked about it. Then he would randomly leap off and pull a whole mess while not stopping at all and had the nerve to start this whole crap:
The dumb ass rogue chiming in, who died on the second to the last fight by standing in the floor junk too long. Then I get shit about how I didn’t need to cast while the tank was running and taking copious amounts of damage. Eat shit random dungeon people, seriously.
My main server, Whisperwind, has always been more Alliance favored than Horde, but back in Cata we were close to even. In MoP and WoD it seemed to go down pretty low but thanks to the ORCS there seems to be a lot more. I went to the Emerald Nightmare port while flagged, and had a shaman and mage blow me to pieces. They get brave when they have 20+ other horde around them.
But that’s ok, I am going to start back on a theme of humiliating hunters, again.
The Tol Barad battles are now every 1 hour, instead of 2. You don’t get any honor after, either, just the commendations. Scratch that, you DO get honor but I had to turn on honor gains in chat to even see it now. I guess it’s an unfortunate side effect of the honor talent grind. It’s also CRZ’d now so you see people from other servers BUT when you run into TB, it does NOT ask you to join. It does NOT throw you into a raid team. I hope they fix that.
