Sad, Strange Little Man

Jan9

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So I was out in Spires of Arak, enjoying the quests out there again.  Reshad and his pet Percy in particular have some enjoyable dialog.

Now, earlier in Veil Terrok, 4-5 Horde were killing every Alliance that happened to come around.  There is no “Horde is attacking” messages because the npcs are all neutral, and therefore no guards.  I got killed a few times by the level 100 mage, hunter, druid, rogue, and warrior before I decided to go somewhere else.

I later came back and headed into Admiral Taylors Garrison.  While dancing around a rare I found there, I found myself OMFGPWNED by an 8 (or so) boxing group of hunters and shamans.  I’m guessing about 4 of each.  I sarcastically comment in general that “wow, so it takes like 300 pets to kill me I guess”.

I then get a PM from a rogue, something along the lines of “I could solo you bitch, STFU”. It takes about 2 seconds to realize this is the Alliance character, of the bot-train of horde characters.  I tried to get a screenshot of the pile of health bars rolling past me but I wasn’t quick enough.

 

I’m not unfamiliar with people boxing a ton of characters, I’ve seen 40 or close to 40 of them in Alterac Valley, 5+ in Halaa, and such, but I’ve never quite seen a situation like this.  So this person not only bots (yes I said bots, it’s botting, deal with it) but they ALSO keep an Alliance toon in the area, to read all the Alliance raging his shenanigans causes.

 

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And then apparently rages at the people that complain.  Now mind you I haven’t been on a pvp server all that much, but I did play on Mal’ganis (HEAVILY horde dominated)  for a few weeks or so, and Tichondrius for a while, but I’ve never seen this exact situation.  This person continued to imply that I was a baddie, and that he could 1v1 me, but was apparently content to put some 8 level 100’s on lower levels instead.

Needless to say I said some bad words and may or may not have called him/her a ‘bundle of sticks’.

Mr. Terrible’s Power leveling Service

Jan6

I found this strategy on Wowhead, but noting workflow mostly for myself.

 

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1) Low level pet, can even be level 1

2) Emperor Crab (P/P) or something with Whirlpool, Surge, and Healing Wave.

3) Nexus Whelpling, Frost Breath, Mana Surge, Arcane Storm.

 

Things of note.  Surge will always  before Mr. Terrible moves.  Healing wave will not.

 

Step one: Carry pet comes in.  Gets hit, swap out.  Bring in second crab pet.

Surge.

Ask the questions per round:

 

Does he have Spiked Skin?

No, Surge

repeat until he does Spiked Skin.

Does he have spiked skin, but you have more than 70 health?

Surge.

Does Mr. Terrible have less than 800 health?

Whirlpool then…

If he doesn’t have Spiked Skin, Surge, then Healing Wave.

If he does have Spiked Skin, pass, then Healing Wave.

Whirlpool hits, Surge once more as required.

If he’s STILL alive at that point, Whirlpool again, and repeat  last whirlpool pattern.

(Try to end this fight with at least 500 health)

Carroteye comes out.

Surge

Surge

Healing Wave if it’s up, otherwise Surge until dead. With luck the carrot will be almost dead.

If the Carrot isn’t less than 1k health before the crab dies, forfeit.

Bring out Nexus Whelp, Frost Breath if Carrot is under 500 health, otherwise Arcane Storm and Mana Surge.

Sloppus comes out.  Either continue 2 more mana surges from prior round, or Arcane Storm, and Mana Surge.  Frost breath to end it if needed.

 

And after all that, even THEN sometimes it fails.  Pet battles can make me so mad. A crit, or a string of misses on the last pet and you’re done.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SEVEN MINUTE ABS!

Dec31

No seriously though, 7 minute fights. I ran with a guild tank, because they were new, and we did that train dungeon.  We wiped some 5 times on the cannon boss, at one point exceeding 7 minutes just doing nothing but killing the adds.  We replaced most of the dps before getting it.

I’ve been leveling my holy paladin, and more than a few times I got stuff like this “why we need a healer?”WoWScrnShot_122914_200633

 

I’m on Sargeras which I guess is mostly Alliance but all I see is Horde, like in the case of this warrior who opened on me, who I beat to death.  As holy.

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But maybe it’s because I look so good!

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Anyway did a dungeon on my druid later in the day, and that went 7 minutes.  Fastest time, 2.  Sigh.  It’s all because dps don’t know what they are doing either. No more face rolling through stuff.

 

Y U Always Jump?

Dec27

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On the other hand, a paladin with the glyphed version of consecration, kept that annoying disc priest from kiling the Westfall npcs for a while.  I have to wait for her to flag to do anything, he can just spam that and prevent her from doing much of anything without actively waiting for a target.

 

Spent time, on Timeless Isle trying to farm the rare pets, but didn’t see Garnia up not once.  Got a new moth though.

 

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There have been several fights lately where pets with a lot of defensive’s, such as moths, and rabbits, have been extremely useful.  Dodge and burrow for instant, are golden for undead fights.  Damn double turn racial.

“They chose death”

Dec23

I watch World Defense so much I often know what is happening at locations before I even get there.  Spam like this means someone is attacking the Alliance airship.

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I killed this warlock, then a warrior, who managed to leap off the side… and half a second later died to my bleeds, and got to watch his corpse fall nearly a thousand yards to the ground.

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The warlock came back, with the warrior, and both chose to bail off the side before dying to me again.

An amused monk commented “they chose death, lol”, speaking of their death leaps.

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Spam at Nijel’s Point is USUALLY lower level Horde not knowing they are heading into an Alliance camp.  I usually just CC them until they get the point and leave.

 

Halaa these days seems to be just PVErs trying to get the mount.   I miss the Thunderhorn people fighting just to fight.

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This guy was fun too.  Killed him at Honor Hold, and he tried to fly off.  I hit him with a moonfire as he left, and decided to follow.  Rather unwisely he tried to drop flight form and TRIED to instantly fly again.  Either he borked that up, or my moonfire prevented it, I am not sure, but he crashed to his death on the ground.  I couldn’t help but laugh.