Monday Random Thoughts

- For today's random thoughts I am going back to basics.

- I'm going to complain, going to be grumpy.

- I want to complain about the fact that mists has not been announced yet.

- It will most likely be released two months after announcement.

- Come on blizzard, we want it sooner, not later.

- I love the idea being thrown around about raids not being in the initial release to get it out faster.

- Maybe that is because I'll be raid ready 2 days after release, at the worst, and I know the rest of my guild won't.

- No raids on release means I don't get antsy waiting for everyone to play catch up.

- I want to complain about how female worgen look in dresses.

- They should not be allowed to be any cloth classes.

- Men look even worse, but at least you can laugh at them.

- The females just look scary bad.

- I want to complain about random group make up.

- Is there such a thing as a random dungeon horde side without at least three blood elves.

- There are so many of them I am surprised I do not see them on alliance side too.

- Just like worgen should not be allowed to be any cloth class blood elves should not be allowed to be any plate class.

- How can that tiny frame even hold that plate up without crumbling into a puddle of goo on the ground?

- It just does not look right.

- I want to complain about people in randoms.

- Not like you might think either.

- While I am sick and tired of people pulling 3K DPS in heroics that isn't all it.

- In just 329 gear when you start them you can do 6K if you suck.

- So if you do 3K that means you worse than suck?

- I did a whole slew of randoms this weekend, each one had at least 1 person under 5K.

- We wiped more than a few times.

- We worked as a team and still made it through all of them.

- That is what I want to complain about.

- How can a group with a half geared healer, a baggie tank (which means he was the only geared player there) and three DPS that seemingly just hit 85 manage the heroics, even grim bartol twice, yet some other groups can't.

- I say blame the good players for that one, not the bad players.

- The good players that rag on the bad players that is.

- They are the ones that make the randoms horrible.

- We wiped, I explained what went wrong, we tried again, it took a little longer, some of the fight I did not even know could last that long, but we managed it.

- It felt good.

- I was on a fresh 85 myself, so it was not like I could make up for the others lacking.

- However, I would like to complain a little about the dps now.

- Fresh 85, nothing gemmed, nothing enchanted, still pulling 12K-14K with the 15% random buff.

- I honestly want to know, how is it possible to do 3K.

- I bet a boomkin in agility gear can do more than 3K.

- I bet the healer can do more than 3K.

- Eh, at least we finished the runs and a few new people learned the fights.

- I do want to complain about one more thing in randoms however.

- Why does everyone wait until you wipe before they say they did not know the fight?

- Say you do not know the fight before it starts and I will happily explain it, give you tips for your class, and understand if we wipe because at least you are trying.

- Don't say nothing and wait for three wipes before you say you do not know the fight and guess what?

- I agree with the group if they want to kick you.

- You just wasted our time, if you just said something we could have explained it and downed it the first time.

- I know why they do not say anything however.

- They are afraid one of the others might be one of the so called good players that will rag on them for not knowing the fights.

- It is one of those caught between a rock and a hard place things for them.

- I want to complain about why they left any difficulty in the original heroics after the game started.

- Corla is still a killer for most groups with all new people.

- They love to give out gear to get people caught up to the current raid tier, so why are you punishing people with the older heroics still?

- They should have all been nerfed to the point the 3K DPS and people that do not know how to beam dance could do them the moment the zuls came out.

- There is no need for them to be any problem any more.

- But as they are, they are still quite the adventure.

- Glad to say I did not drop one group, or even get tempted to start a kick.

- Also glad to say we finished them all.

- Even one GB run with two of the DPS doing 3K each.

- No, I am not kidding.

- I want to complain that we where not given a filler raid.

- A one boss thing, like an OS style thing where we can do it normal or with three different increasing difficulties would have been nice.

- I think something, about 1 month ago, to tide us over would have been nice.

- That is just me, because I like to raid, but I understand that raiders are a very small percentage of the population.

- Which brings me to wanting to complain about blizzard trying to push everyone to raid.

- Stop doing that blizzard.

- There is a reason less than 5% of the player base raids.

- Because most do not want to.

- If they wanted to they would get better at the game.

- Making raiding easier for them is not a good solution.

- These people are not raiders because of more reasons than they are not good at their roles.

- They are not raiders because they do not want to learn tactics.

- They are not raiders because they don't like working as a team.

- They are not raiders because raiding is something that is set up at a certain time and they can not make that type of commitment to a game.

- They are not raiders because they do not want to waste gold on gems.

- They are not raiders because they do not want to waste gold on enchants.

- They are not raiders because they do not want to waste gold on food.

- They are not raiders because they do not want to waste money on flasks and potions.

- They are not raiders because they can't follow orders.

- They are not raiders for a million different reasons.

- Making it easier will not change any of those other facts that prove they are not raiders.

- Making it easier will not make them raiders.

- Unless you plan to do away with gems, enchants, food, flask, potions, tactics, teamwork, reforging, rotations to get the most out of their class, and all those other things, they will never be raiders.

- Stop trying to push them.

- If they wanted to become raiders, they would.

- It is not like it is hard to become a raider for someone that wants to.

- They just do not want to.

- So they should not be rounded up and pushed into it.

- Remove the looking for raid so you can stop giving non raiders the idea they are raiders.

- Like the one hunter I saw with all near BiS gear doing 12K.

- I wanted to cry being a hunter myself.

- Goes to show you that just because you let him into a raid, you did not make him a raider.

- In that gear 30K would be bad, 12K, there is no word for it.

- 25K would be the suck mark, less than half that is way more than suck.

- This is the type of raider you are developing by making people think they can raid blizzard.

- Stop doing us raiders any favors blizzard.

- We do not want these people thinking they are raiders.

- Less than 5% of the player base raids because less than 5% of the player base wants to.

- Be happy with that and stop trying to force people to do things they are not capable of doing.

- I want to complain about the fun toys in game.

- A fun effect can last anywhere from 10 seconds to 5 minutes and it has a 30 minute to 5 hour cooldown?

- Chill with the long cooldowns for fun items, let them be fun and let us use them.  Nothing should have a long cooldown if it is a fun item.

- 30 minutes max for those things that have long initial effects.

- 5 minutes or so for those things that have short effects.

- Make the fun items fun I say.

- I would like to complain that come mists we will see our opponents in arena before it starts.

- Don't get me wrong, my 40% win rate proves I am not great at arena, but part of the fun is not knowing who your opponent is.

- I like trying to assign strategy as soon as the gates open.

- It makes it feel like the team that adjusts the fastest and best gets the leg up.

- I think that is how arena should be.

- Maybe seeing who we will fight before the gates open will help people like me.

- I say screw people like me.

- If I want to get better at arena I need to learn to get better.

- I do not want the game making it easier for me, I want to get better.

- It is this way of thinking that blizzard is destroying the game one little piece at a time.

- Let me lose at arena until I learn to adjust to the team I am facing on the fly.

- Now that is fun, that shows skill, the people that can do that deserve to win.

- I want to complain about the black market auction house.

- I hate the idea that I ran kara for years to get the mount and now some jerk that buys gold from a gold seller can get it from the auction house.

- I play the game as intended and have fun doing it and it takes me a year and a day to get it, but it sure felt worth it.

- Someone else breaks the ToS, buys gold, and you sell it to him without him ever even stepping foot into kara.

- I know it might sounds like special snowflake syndrome but the fact remains true that if that person wanted it, they should have ran kara like everyone else before them did.

- I don't think anything that can still be attained in game should be for sale there.

- I can even understand selling things that you can no longer get in game but anything you can get in game you should be told to go get it.

- Instead they are telling people, don't play the game as intended, buy gold and get it instead.

- Are you going to give a title out to all the people that buy stuff on the market?

- ToS breaker.

- Lets face it, most of the people that buy stuff from there will buy it with ill gotten funds.

- Don't worry, blizzard won't ban you, they want you to buy gold.

- That is why they are adding a place for people to use all that gold they buy.

- So for me it comes down to deciding if I want to join the dark side.

- Do I keep running UP for the 5th year, or just buy some gold and get the mount?

- I have never supported gold buying, but if blizzard is going to, I might as well too.

- Go out and buy some gold to get ready for mists.

- Just make sure you have an authenticator before you do so you do not get hacked.

- And never use the same password for a gold selling site (or any site really) that you do for your e-mail or battle.net account.

- Hey, just because blizzard want you buying gold doesn't mean they want you getting hacked.

- Do the above two things and you will drop your chances of being hacked by 99.9%, guaranteed.

- So make blizzard happy and go buy some gold.

- Or go old school like me and just earn it.

- Like I earned my kara mount.

- Have a great day.