Random Monday Thoughts

- Another set of random thoughts and another mount.

- I am starting to sense a trend.

- I finally got the drake out of VP after what I guess is about 80 attempts.

- Now for a moment to share feeling like an idiot.

- At the beginning of the expansion I used to solo SC and VP for the drakes.

- It was a lot harder back then with only dungeon gear so I only did it once in a while.

- After not doing it for a few months I started doing it again about 4 or 5 weeks ago.

- Each, once per day, on heroic.

- I forgot the drake drops from normal.

- How the hell did I forget that?

- Do you know how much easier they are in normal?

- A lot easier.  Heck, a lot is an understatement.

- After reading a guide on soloing both last week it reminded me about doing it on normal.

- Thank you hunter community, the best community in the game.

- Got it on my 8th run on Saturday.

- Logged in early in the morning and did 5, came on later in the afternoon and got it on my 3rd try.

- Like I said, maybe 80 runs for it.

- Compared to others I am lucky.

- Two weeks in a row with a rare mount drop from soloing.

- I am on a roll lately.

- Stonecore, UP, and SH here I come.  You're next.

- I think those are the last three modern ones I need.

- Still need the baron mount as well.

- Had some luck with rares this weekend as well.

- Got two more toward frostbitten on my way to do a UP run.

- Also got a few of the achievements I was missing from the cata glory meta.

- All I need now is headed south.

- The bane of all hunters.

- Tried doing it in a guild group the other day, the easy way.

- Four people got it, I wasn't one of them.

- I made one mistake, I took a step back to help with DPS as two died, missed the debuff.

- Sad face.  Otherwise I would be writing about two mounts.

- Oh well, I will get it one day.

- For those that do not know, I will give a quick break down of the easy way.

- Kill the boss before downing the melee adds.

- Well, almost kill him, bring him to like 10%, kill all the ranged adds as they pop up.

- When he is at 10%, burn the three adds, burn him, easy achievement, and a ton easier on the healers.

- We did some randoms trying to fill out some achievements other people needed just for fun.

- One run we did not have a healer so figured we would pug one.

- We got a shadow priest that said they where trying out holy so they might not be so great.

- We said, then you won't mind our horrible DPS.

- It was GB, first boss was dead as soon as he summoned the first adds.

- Second boss was dead as he choose his first weapon.

- Third boss was dead before he jumped off to get on the dragon, we still needed to down the dragon anyway, in case you wanted to know how that would turn out.

- Forth boss was dead as the first set of adds came out.

- Easy way for me to get the egg achievement.

- Can't believe I never got that in a pug.

- It seems everyone and their mother got that one in a pug.

- I just have the worst luck ever.

- At the start of the expansion, the first time in GB, I was able to solo DPS one down.

- I had never gotten a group where the other 2 DPS and the tank combined could down the other one.

- That is what I call bad luck.

- The healer said to us when it was over... please take me with you.

- We all laughed.

- He said he has never seen dungeon bosses go down that fast.

- I said, it is all gear, don't mistake any of it for skill.

- Sad part is that is somewhat true.

- Gear inflation is insane this expansion.

- But you do need some skill to use it to its potential I guess.

- Is it only me that thinks there is something wrong that T11 is harder than T13, even in T13 gear?

- I see groups where the average item level is 400 wiping dozens of times in T11 content.

- I see groups with no one over 380 item level one shotting every boss in T13.

- I think there is something wrong with that.

- Is it only me or do you see people in 390+ item level still not able to do over 20K?

- I would think you have to purposely try to do bad to have an item level of 390 and not do at least 20K.

- I could ungem, unenchant, and unreforge my hunter and probably still pull 25K.

- Heck, one of my baby hunters with an item level of 320 has pulled up to 18K on a normal boss in a dungeon.

- Sure, that is with the 15% buff, but that should really embarrass these people in 390 gear that can't do that.

- Goes to show you that all the gear inflation in the world is not going to help bad players.

- If anything, it makes them stand out more.

- Randoms are still hell sometimes.

- Saw the baggie while I was on my priest and figured I would queue up and see if I get lucky.

- I only do baggie runs to get the mounts and pets for my main being my main is a hunter sadly and can not get the baggie.

- I enter into well on the stairs up to the second boss already in battle.

- I knew this did not bode well, I healed them up and we moved to the boss.

- No one said a word in party about interrupt.

- I hovered over the names to see if they where in the same guild, maybe they talked on vent or something.

- Nope, not the same guild.

- We are in trouble.

- The hand goes out, no one switches.

- I DPSed down the hand, yes, as the healer.

- The total control spell comes, no one moves.

- We wiped.

- I explain we need to interrupt that.

- The DPS all say the tank can do it.

- Now I am all for the tank doing it, I've done it as a tank, it can be done, but it does unnecessarily make it harder on the tank when there are three DPS that have interrupts.

- If you are in a group with two mages and a rogue there is no need for the tank to do it.

- One mage said, you just do it, to the tank.

- The tank said, I'll handle the mobs and use my interrupts on them, you can do it.

- The other mage said, my interrupt has a 28 second cooldown, I can't.

- I said, it only comes once a minute or so, you can do it.

- He said, no I can't, you don't know anything.

- The ganged up on the tank, basically telling him that if he does not do it he is a fail tank.

- Tank dropped group.

- I said, You can do it, you just do not want to because you are lazy.  There is a difference between can't and don't want to because you are a bad player.  Learn the difference.

- I dropped group.

- I rarely say anything rude in party, so rarely that if I where with a guild mate they probably would have had their jaw hit the ground.

- I just can't stand people that are like that.

- The tank was top DPS, the only one that knew about the hand, the only one that knew about the interrupt, and they where calling him the bad player?

- Sorry, I might not know the tank, but I needed to defend him.

- I think we should be able to report people for being stupid.

- Those two mages would have had a report filed on them.

- I can see the rogues argument which was, why does he have to go all the way across the room to interrupt when there are two perfectly capable ranged that do not even need to move to handle the interrupt.

- He was dead on balls accurate.

- There is no reason the tank or the melee should need to get that interrupt when there are two mages in the group.

- At least he was not a jerk about it like the mages where.

- It occurred to me that is not the content this expansion I don't like.

- It is the player base I run into doing the content in the random setting.

- As I said when cataclysm first came out, there is nothing wrong with the dungeons, they are significant challenge when at a low item level but once we over gear it they will be face roll easy.

- I stand by that, there was never anything wrong with the content of cataclysm when it came out.

- It was the random player in the random environment not being able to walk and chew bubble gum at the same time that made the content horrible.

- Sadly, I have the if you can't beat them join them attitude after so many failures.

- I agree, things needed to be made easier.

- I think they still do even.

- I healed another dungeon earlier, before that disaster, and everyone was at least an item level of 392.

- Not one person did over 18K DPS.  With the 15% buff.

- See, the dungeons are not the problem, the players are.

- I wish blizzard could find a way to hotfix the players.

- Is it just me or do they continue to get worse?

- I guess that is why I've been enjoying doing solo content again these last few months.

- The most fun I have in game are the times I am doing things alone. (with exception of guild stuff)

- I think anything that we can random up for should also be something we can do alone.

- The content is great, as long as there are no random people in it.

- So what mount will come next?

- SC, UP, SH or the baron mount?

- I have to keep up my one a week run don't I?

- Speaking of mounts, I started to do the argent stuff again, still need 4 mounts from there.

- Amazing, I am still doing wrath content many years later.

- Now that is good design.

- I have a nice wrath vs cataclysm article in mind coming soon.

- When you put the two together, there is no comparison, wrath wins.

- Well, I am off to work on some ideas for soloing Sunwell.

- I will do it, sooner or later.  I hope before mists.

- Have a great day all.

- BTW:  Mists will be out in July.

- Thought you would like to know that.