Monday Random Thoughts

- Can you believe that 378 BoEs are still selling for 25K-35K on some servers?

- In a week or so you can get 378s from heroics and better from VP, LFR and raids, why spend that much?

- I always say, blizzard can use the auction house to hunt down gold buyers.

- Anyone that will spend 35K on something they will be replacing with a drop from a random heroic in a week is a gold buyer.

- Or not so bright.

- You know the type, random dungeon finder, 370 item level, 4K DPS.

- Either way they should be banned from the game.

- Okay, maybe that is a bit harsh.

- On the gold buyer, the 4K guy needs to go.

- Just kidding.  If blizzard banned all the bad players my server would be nearly empty.

- Some servers the BoEs are in the 5K-10K range.

- To me that seems more reasonable.

- Embers are still 4K on my main server.

- They are around 500 on two of my other servers.

- Makes sense because progression on my server sucks.

- We just got the realm first on my server.

- For T11 stuff.

- Nope, not kidding.

- By "we" I don't mean my guild.

- We could have, meaning us, but we had no idea no one ever finished T11 on heroic on my server so we never tried, we just moved to firelands.

- If I had known we would have knocked out some realm first stuff.

- Or at least tried.

- If the number one guild on my server could not get realm first for T11 content until T12 was over what makes me think my guild could have done it.

- I am guessing we will get realm first Rag about the second week of MoP maybe.

- Not really, T12 is leaps and bounds easier then T11 was.

- Even at 6/7 heroic I don't see anyone doing rag until they are all in dragon soul gear.

- For such an easy fight it is hard to get people to do it correctly.

- This is why I hate fights with too many mechanics.

- I have no problem wiping 100 times while trying to down a boss.

- I do have problems when there are so many mechanics that one mistake from anyone means a wipe.

- Wish they would change back to the three or four big mechanics and healing, tanking and DPS requirements designing.

- Much easier to teach with only three mechanics per fight.

- Much easier to pug.

- Put the weight on the shoulders of the players to "play correctly" by giving more healing, tanking and DPS requirements.

- Take the weight off peoples shoulders if they have lag, a slow computer, less then ideal reaction speeds or a bad memory for patterns.

- Nothing is more stressful then knowing that everything will happen in a pattern and trying to explain it to people that just can not get it no matter how much you explain.

- Had a new crew last night in firelands for an alt run and one was a new player that had never raided with us before.  On gatekeeper we assigned him to crystals, explained it in excruciating details.   He never moved, caused three wipes.

- I gave up, this is farm stuff, even on alts.  I can accept some wipes to new people learning.  I can not accept wipes to people not learning.

- I gave the job to a hunter that knew the pattern.  Sure, we lost a tiny bit of DPS here and there, but we downed it.  All because he knew the pattern.

- Pattern designed encounters are hard to teach and even harder for people that "just don't get it".

- Like the first boss in ZG.  The poison is always in a pattern.  It is always the same pattern.  Once you die from it you should know the pattern.

- You know how many times I wiped 4 or 5 times on that in pugs and there was a mage that had 4 or 5 stacks of his bones on the exact same space.

- Dude, it is a pattern.  If it went under your feet once there, it will always be there.  Move.

- If ever I rage quit a dungeon or raid it will be because of stuff like that.

- I can see learning a DPS rotation.  I can see learning to heal.  I can see learning to tank.  I can see doing your role poorly and getting better at doing it.  That is fine, that is how you learn, that is how you get better.

- I can not see how anyone can die to the same freaking mechanic over and over and over.

- This is why mechanic fights suck.

- They are just too frustrating.

- My baby hunter just made it to outlands.

- If you blinked you missed the old world.

- Seriously, my skills all fell way behind because I was leveling so much faster then they were.

- Except for skinning.  I ended with outlands level of skinning, 375, in the old world.

- Surprising that they give skill ups that far in the old world.

- It used to be that you wanted to get to outlands/northrend because leveling sped up then.

- Now when you get there leveling slows down.

- Can't believe they are lowering northrends experience required again.

- Northrend, even originally, was the best designed leveling experience ever.

- Great involved storyline.  Quest hubs and not completely linear.  Choices on where to level next.  Sometimes challenging quests.

- Questing is a repetitive thing to begin with but with northrend it never felt like "more of the same", even after bringing 20 players through there.

- If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

- They are fixing it anyway.

- Sad really.

- I used to joke that I had a pattern to leveling so down pat that I could tell you on what quest I would hit 80.

- Two characters in a row I hit 80 on the same quest, and two others after them I got it within three quests of that quest.

- How is that for having a perfect pattern?

- I found it kind of humorous.

- I've been having so much fun leveling my hunter that I am considering doing another right after.

- With the changes to how their abilities work I can do things I could not do before.

- Best one is kiting 10 mobs at a time.

- The joys of a multi shot that hits everything instead of just three things.

- If only fox and misdirect where around at low levels too then hunters would be even more amazing.

- I love that I can move constantly and kill.

- Is there a way to have all loot just automatically picked up?

- That would rock.

- Or at least have something like Rift where it loots everything as one big loot.

- I never pass up loot.  Loot is free gold just laying on the ground.

- I guess there is something to be said about killing a massive amount of mobs and then spending a few minutes looting that mound of dead flesh for goodies.

- I am not an adventurer... I am a zombie.

- At least I feel like that leveling sometimes.

- Have a great day all.