Friendly Teasing or just MEAN?

Jun11

The guild I joined in classic has been pretty fun so far but I hadn’t grouped up with anyone really until around 60.  I honestly think they are just mean and the teasing is just over the top into that meaness category.

First, they did mail me 5 g when I was short that amount for my first mount.  I sent it back the next day however when I earned it.  So, that was nice.  They did help me with that quest in Arathi where I simply couldn’t solo the escort around the farm out there. However, there were a few instances that bug me and I’m probably going to gquit over it.

I got asked to do Uldaman at least twice to help their alts.  I was far above that level so I was doing a favor, however I was sassed when I was casting into the basilisks and getting my spells reflected into my face.  I was basically told ‘lol, you cast when they reflected, how didn’t you know that?’.  Well, the mob doesn’t show any indication of reflecting by a buff or graphic so I had no idea it was going to reflect when it didn’t do it the first few shots. This guy.   Now, I hadn’t done this dungeon in years and years and certainly didn’t remember the reflect and I was out there doing a favor so I thought it was rather rude to point out I was being an idiot, I guess. Not “don’t cast on these guys they reflect” just ‘lol, stupid’.

Some time later when I was 60 and switched to frost I was asked to help out on a quest.  I was in a nearby zone doing something but offered to help.  I looked up the quest while flying over and it was in a cave somewhere.  It’s literally in a zone with a giant canyon with multiple cave entrances, and I wasn’t able to hook up with them since they were already deep in the cave and their location didn’t do me any good.  I legit got told “so in so was further than you and got here quicker, lol”   Hey, I mean I stopped what I was doing to come out and you’re asking me to find you in a cave! I got demoted to a rank called something like ‘wears a helmet’ on top of that.

Anyway last night we formed up for BRD with me being the only 60 and Poof bear tanking at like 55 and not good gear.  I died at least twice because I couldn’t do anything without pulling aggro.  I tried to help at the start by sheeping the second mob but poof’s husband quickly broke it, then mocked me for having bad dps. I was doing 60% of the groups dps according to recount but ok?  I said I wasn’t the one who broke sheep and he told me to mark it next time.  I said I didn’t have time for that.  Then he said to call it out.  What? Why don’t you just fucking dps the tanks target instead of spraying your dots all over the place? But ok ok spell batching might make that hard.

 

Then mister poof asked for 45 water because they weren’t 55, so I made 40 and tried to trade while they were standing there but they kept cancelling.  The hell?

When the misses poof bear tank pulled a ton of mobs I got asked ‘why don’t you sheep one of these?’ which I also felt was rude.  What would be the point of sheeping a batch pull? it would just get broken.  Now you’re just being a smart ass and making fun of me for trying to crowd control for a bad bear tank.

Now during this whole thing, Poof sounded A LOT like Sylvansuede from Lineage 2.  I hadn’t described her here ever but it’s basically someone who brags non-stop.  We joined vent for this thing and it was oh, I was the admin of a hospital, I was a mental health specialist, I have a degree in astrophysics, I am an interior designer, did you know I have 4 different degrees, I’ve been to 200 countries, just on and on and on.  Plus her and her husband talking sex to each other constantly.

I got teased for dying a few times, more jokes about how I wasn’t doing sheep right, then we paused for like 15 mins to get some other person in.  It was late anyway but I left.  I totally get friendly teasing but when you get shit on every group, it’s not amusing.

 

This entry was posted on June 11, 2020, in Classic WoW.

I love fire but…

May14

So I’ve leveled as fire from 1 to 60 but today I am respeccing to frost.  Fire is a thirsty, thirsty spec and on the advice of a friend I took improved scorch to help that. It did help but you have to watch stacks.  That’s not a problem, I kind of like that, but when I went to solo even level 40 dungeons and I got my ass kicked, I decided to go frost.  I need to be able to solo farm to make gold and fire can barely handle 2 level 45 elites in a row without going OOM.   I hope to switch back to it later at some point, since I really enjoy ignite lighting fools on fire. When it triggers and the mob or players bursts into flames, it’s so rewarding.

 

I played a bit of frost today and comparing the two specs isn’t really fair.  Frost has frostbolt, cone of cold, frost nova, and blizzard.  Right?  Fire has Fireball, Scorch, Flamestrike, Fire Blast and depending on talents, Pyroblast and Blast Wave.  Only, frost seems to hit just as hard with only frostbolt, and uses way less mana.  In fact, I am getting crits with JUST FROSTBOLT that rival regular hits with pyroblast, a skill that is a talent AND takes 6 freaking seconds to cast.  I was flabberghasted by that.

Now I will say that as Fire I only ran into two spots that had fire immune mobs.  That little spot in Arathi Highlands and the volano in Un’goro.  I have a feeling there are more water elementals than fire; a whole island of them in Stranglethorn Vale, ones in lakes like in Eastern Plaguelands, etc.

Lots and LOTS of mobs use fire, starting with the Defias Pillagers, pirates in Stranglethorn, etc.  I’ve only seen maybe 2 that used frost spells, and that wasn’t until 50+.  You don’t even see arcane until Eastern Plaguelands anyway.

 

In short, fire is more fun but frost is better, if just boring boring boring.

This entry was posted on May 14, 2020, in PvP.

Good deeds and getting myself killed

Apr13

I find myself trying to be helpful on my fire mage but it doesn’t always turn out so well.  I was on my mount in Tanaris and I noticed a horde druid getting trained by a few mobs.  I dismounted, frost nova’d, and thought I’d blink myself out of there, being cleverly helpful.  Well I didn’t notice I was low on mana from recasting all my stuff so I used nova, the druid ran off happily and I got dazed and beat to death.

Then today I was in Western Plaguelands and noticed a douchebag horde frost mage starting an AOE pull.  I find it especially obnoxious to do in an open area with other players.  Anyway this person rounds up like 5 ghouls but they happened to aggro an Alliance paladin somewhat near by.  The guy watches the paladin get aggro, walks up, does nothing, then just runs off.  I bounced to the paladin, nova’d as one goes and yelled RUN.  Well, he doesn’t, he invites me to group and tries to fight them.  I had started to run but I came back to help and guess what.  We both died.  Sigh.

Oh and the warlock that laughed at me when spell batching caused me to overpull and almost die? Fuck you Necropost.  On the upside since the servers don’t have CRZ, or group finder, I will just note this name down and if they need anything ever, refuse them. HA.

This entry was posted on April 13, 2020, in PvP.

The List

Mar23

So far people in classic almost across the board have been lovely.  Passing out buffs, helping each other randomly with mobs one way or another, grouping up for quests and waiting for everyone to get all of their items, etc etc.

Well, one guy today, Warriorbeast, asked for 1 more for the Captains Chest quest.  I PM’d him, no invite.  He asks again, I respond in general, no invite.  Maybe 3 minutes later he invites, only then he engages the mob, kills it, says he’s done and drops party.  I wasn’t even there yet.   He then ends with “wsp for inv in the future’.  I did, asshole.

 

 

The hunter however, Netharen, waits for me to get down there and keeps the group active, for me to try to loot it anyway.  I could not, so he offered to stay and kill it again, which we did.  A horde paladin named Sna even jumped in to help  The nice players far FAR outnumber the jerks but since you cannot jump servers any more, it’s good to note those being impolite.

This entry was posted on March 23, 2020, in PvP.

I thought I did but I didn’t

Feb25

When I started in Wrath I began with a mage.  Around the time ICC came around, I had switched to a priest who I still consider to be my main and played it as such through the rest of Wrath, Cata, and MoP.  I always thought to myself if classic came around again or if I could start back in 2004 I would make a priest.

Well classic DID come around and a made a priest.  Only, healing is brutal.  Like just as bad if not worse than healing at the beginning of Cataclysm.  Having to drink after EVERY SINGLE pull is crazy. So I swapped to shadow.  Only even at 42 it feels like it takes an entire mana bar to kill anything and killing is SO SLOW.

I’m now  26 on my mage and I LOVE IT.  Free drinks and food.  Blink, frost nova, sheep, counterspell, teleports, and spells that feel they can hit a mob from MUCH FURTHER AWAY.  So I think perhaps my mage will be my first 60 and I wasn’t wrong to start with one in Wrath.

Of course in Wrath I started as arcane and now I’m fire, but that’s neither here nor there.  I guess frost is better but I really like killing things with fire, so, oh well.

This entry was posted on February 25, 2020, in PvP.