Monday Random Thoughts

- Got my new baby hunter to level 77 now.

- 1 day 5 hours and a few minutes.

- Will it beat my old record?

- I am making sure not to get city rested, that would speed it up even more and I just want to see how fast I can do it with a total quest grind.

- Hunters really are the best levelers.

- Started a new rogue on rift as well.

- Only played for a few hours, made it to level 8.

- Making it a tank.

- It is amazing how different the two games are when it comes to leveling.

- A few hours of leveling a rogue in WoW I could be level 30, not 8.

- Rift is no push over compared to WoW either.  I've died more times getting to level 8 than I have leveling my last 4 characters to 85 combined in WoW.

- I remembered one of the things I disliked about rift.

- Way to many abilities, I mean seriously, I have more skills at level 8 than my 85 rogue has.

- I think WoW has spoiled me to want everything simple.

- Was in looking for raid with a guild mate and he had to go, was just waiting on the roll to finish but because some jerk just left group without rolling he was waiting forever.

- He finally gave up and dropped.

- Two seconds later the rolls finished, he won two tier pieces.

- Murphy's law at its finest.

- The GMs where nice about it and sent them to him.

- That is another LFR update they need to make.

- If people move to the next boss, still assign the loot to them.

- I can not tell you the number of times I roam around after it is over and still see loot on the bodies in the first part.

- If people drop and win, send them the loot in the mail too.

- Or at least skip the person that won and give it to the second highest.

- Letting loot get lost like that is bad design.  They need to do something.

- Not saying this for me, I would not have won anything, he is on a different token then I am, I just hate seeing things like that.

- Simple common sense fixes that are not done, that is one of the reasons people complain about WoW.

- They do not hold the rights to that however, I think every online game I have ever played is like that.

- The more common sense the fix it, the less likely it is to get fixed.

- Why is that?

- Tried to do a FTA this weekend, did all but Org and something about PvPers popped into mind after the second wipe in Org.

- PvPers are a bunch of whiny little bitches.

- Excuse the language but there is no other way to explain it.

- We tried to get Org first because we all know the routine.

- The others are all super easy but that one is hard, still have not done it on any character this expansion.

- Get the hard one out of the way and have some fun.

- That was the intention.

- One wipe and half the people left group crying that it was too hard.

- I said, apparently you people do not do PvE, PvEers do not give up after one wipe.

- We decided to do the others.  Knocked out TB, UC and SM no problem.

- SM is always fun because the mobs are still old school.

- They stop following after a little while.  They believe me when I FD.

- New mobs don't.  I FD, they keep beating on me.

- Trust me, I've died a few times that way while trying to do some window shopping in Org when I was bored.

- Apparently they do not like foreigners shopping at their stores.

- SM is also fun because the only people there are usually lower levels and they just stand around and watch. 

- I find that humorous.  Maybe because I would do the same thing.

- When done with the other three we did another attempt at Org and wiped again being they knew we where coming back after we steamrolled the other three.

- It was our group of 40 vs the boss, the guards, and roughly 90 horde.

- We lasted 8 minutes.

- I consider that a huge success.

- After our FTA run the horde decided to dish out some revenge.

- They started in exodar and I assembled a group to be ready for the next move.

- I was in darn when they started to come.

- Hit have group and we surprised them, they never had a clue.

- 12 people from my guild wiped out a 40 man horde raid in Darn.

- Twice.

- We had others come join for the second wave, but they never really reassembled to put a good effort into it.

- Hey, at least we wiped in Org, they wiped in Darn.

- This round goes to alliance.

- I love PvP in the world environment but it is so rare.

- It is also nearly impossible to keep groups together for it.

- Some people do not have the heart for dying and give up so fast.

- When starting to PvP that is the first thing I noticed I needed to learn to accept.

- I might not be a great PvPer by any measure but it did make me a better player.

- Accepting death was an important factor.

- If you can't do that, you can't PvP.

- The funniest part is that all the people that dropped group when we had that first wipe where the PvPers.

- People decked in all conquest gear were crying like babies because we wiped on the hardest leader in the game, either side.

- PvEers in mostly justice gear listened to rules, stuck it out, and racked up a lot of achievements.

- I think that is the key to why we did not get Org the second time around.

- Well, that and being greatly outnumbered.

- Doing org is like a PvE raid, you need to assign roles and people need to stick to them.

-  Send your PvP geared players to the door to handle people coming in and let your PvE geared players take out the NPCs.

- Get a good balance, and it might be a challenge, but it is doable.

- The PvEers where willing to try again, the PvPers where too busy crying to attempt again.

- Without a good core of PvPers to handle the door we would not get it done.

- I thought PvPers where supposed to be more accepting of death, not less.

- The PvPers where crying to much to try again so we gave up for the day.

- I will get org sooner or later and I will get it at prime time, no late night or early morning BS for me.

- When I get it I want to get it, not be given it.

- This whole thing has showed me a recent change in my guild as far as content goes.

- We are primarily a raiding guild but lately we have been attracting a lot of PvPers.

- Not sure why, but it seems to be the in thing lately.

- We even have people that used to raid not signing up any more to raid, they would rather PvP.

- Guess we might have to drop one raid team soon if this keeps up, but at least people are having fun again with the game.

- I keep leveling new hunters because it is fun for me and my guild is getting into PvP a lot more because they find it fun.

- Fun is the most important thing in the game so whatever floats their boat I am all for it.

- I say the looking for raid is the reason for all this change.

- I'll explain in a post later why I think the looking for raid has changed the landscape of the game completely.

- I am still not sure if it is a good thing or a bad thing however.

- I am liking that I can actually get some world PvP in again even if we are losing one of our raid teams in the process.

-  So no more wednesday team means more time to level alts, play PvP, or just do other things for fun.

- I think I can handle that.  We still have the friday team and the thursday team.

- I wonder what our progression would look like if I could get the same people together for wednesday, thursday and friday to raid instead of them being three completely different groups.

- Ah, the joys of a casual guild and the delicate balance of trying to keep everyone happy.

- As it stands now, we have a lot of happy people in guild being we are doing a little bit of everything.

- Can't complain about anything there.

- Have a great day all.