Monday Random Thoughts

- I've been thinking of finding a server to move my horde characters too.

- Have a few scattered around and would like to get them collected on one server.

- PvE server, so I can PvP when I choose to.

- US side.

- If you have any suggestions please feel free to speak up.

- I am looking for a server with a decent pug community where things are always going.

- Horde dominated of course.

- Lets get real, if there are 100,000 people on a server which server is better?

- The one with 50,000 alliance and 50,000 horde or the one with 10,000 alliance and 90,000 horde.

- The one with 90,000 horde of course, because there is a more active community that way and more people to do things with and presumably more things going on.

- That is why servers get imbalanced, people just want to play, and it is easy to play when there are more people around, so people want to be on imbalanced servers.

- I do not play horde side often, but all the guilds I am in horde side are effectively dead.

- So when I do want to play I can never really get much done.

- My DK I got to 82 last week I got to 90 this weekend.

- 58 to 90 time, 1 day 2 hours 12 minutes.

- I like when you first hit 90, it seems like there is so much to do.

- All that timeless gear to get ready.

- Doing the scenarios for the 502 boots.

- The one guaranteed 516 heroic deeds scenario.

- Opening up the land fall, because I will need to if I decide to do the cloak quest.

- Opening up the isle of thunder.

- Doing all those solo scenarios and getting a key to stock up on elder charms, not like I need them any longer with timeless gear, but still like to get them.

- Got black price to over 4000 into friendly just from doing those.

- Did they raise reputation gains?  That just seems like a lot so quickly.

- I managed to get myself to a nice even 500 item level on that first day.

- No Celestial love and no Ordos love either.

- I do have 18400 timeless coins already however, so I will be getting a 489 weapon soon.

- The damn 502 blacksmith weapons range from 18K-24K on my server, so screw that.

- I'd pay maybe 3K for a 502 weapon I know I will replace soon, hopefully, but not 18K+.

- Being it takes forever to making them I can not blame the people for selling them for that much, but I can blame the idiots that pay that allowing them to sell for that price.

- Nothing wrong with the person selling it wanting that.

- I want 1K each for my sha crystals again, doesn't mean it will happen.

- I've played every class at various gear levels through the island and I can say without a shadow of a doubt that a DK is the easiest to get by playing around on the timeless island.

- I was doing rolos questline and landed at garnia with three dead people there.

- I said, in say, invite me to your group and I will mass revive you and help you kill it.

- The did, I did, and then I said, just keep it interrupted and it is easy.

- They said, just take off blood so you do not get aggro.

- I said, I am a tank, that is what I do.

- I spanked the ever living hell out of it.

- Interrupted it with my interrupt, with asphyxiate, step back and grip, step back and grasp and then using cooldowns for the few that got through, because none of the others interrupted it.

- No wonder they died, she hits like a train if you do not interrupt that and do not have the DPS to burn it fast.

- Either way, quick and easy kill and my brand new DK when I was the only one that interrupted and even beat 2 of the 3 there in DPS.

- No wonder they died.

- Even at this super low item level I could pull massive amounts.

- Two expansions later and DKs are still a hero class.

- I've got another DK getting close to 90, this made me want to finish that one off as well.

- I had forgot why they are fun to play when you just want to mindlessly slaughter things.

- Even at a lower item level I can get away with a lot.

- A 500 item level hunter, something, the only thing, I am actually good at, could not get away with the stuff my DK can do on timeless island.

- Speaking of hunters, got a few more 3 v 3 arena wins.

- Seem to be playing at roughly a 50% winning percentage.

- This time we had a 494 healer with us, so winning half was actually quite good.

- But the healer was a paladin and holy paladins are to PvP what DKs are to PvE, a hero class.

- One match we faced three fully conquest geared DPS and all three focused the 494 under geared healer.

- The healer kept himself up, we picked them off one at a time, and we won.

- Name one other healing class that could manage that.

- Even with healing in general being OP in PvP and items scaling down to 532 having three, presumably, decent players pounding on you should be able to take anyone out.

- I am going to guess they were not that good.

- Not even guess, I know they must have not been that good.

- Three people should easily have been capable of making sure he never cast a spell.

- Guess it helped that me and the other damage dealer were kind of quick about it in taking them out too.

- I now have 2 conquest pieces and am saving for my weapon.

- When I have enough to buy the weapon I should also have enough earned for the season to allow me to buy it.

- Have to love the PvP gearing system and the catch up system.

- I love being able to move at my own pace and gear as quickly as I wish while catching up.

- Having a 10K+ conquest cap is going to spoil me.

- What happens if I get into PvP and then when new stuff comes I am once again limited to 1000 a week?

- I really hate caps sometimes.

- If I wish to gear up in one day by busting my ass, let me.

- But playing catch up, having that huge conquest cap is great.

- Think I ran into a problem with PvP that might stop me from playing much later on.

- Once you no longer need honor gear there is no reason to run battlegrounds.

- It is not like alliance win, so why do it?

- If you do not need anything from it, do not get the satisfaction of winning, and get to the point where there is nothing to learn from them, what use are battlegrounds?

- Which goes back to the fact you need a group to do anything.

- This game really needs something, anything, that can support the player that does not play with a set group.

- Not everyone can be on the same time as their friends, or wants to look to make new friends every time they want to do something.

- Maybe they just want to play a game for fun at their own pace when they want to.

- God forbid.

- And no, group finder is not an option.

- Group finder gives you alliance groups that somehow manage to lose 10 games in a row.

- Even when half the horde team is comprised of bots.

- Group finder gives you LFR groups where half the players think they are too good to be doing this, so they do nothing and the other half are not good enough to do anything to help, and all of them love to spew their toxic hate at each other making it a nightmare.

- The game needs some sort of substantial way to gear up and keep progressing in a meaningful and enjoyable way either solo or with a group.

- They need to stop forcing people to group for personal progression.

- I mean why should personal progression require a group.

- I am building up "me" so let "me" do it.

- Without groups, no raid gear which means no gear, for the PvEer.

- Without groups, no or slow conquest gear because you never win, for the PvPer.

- No matter what anyone says, more solo ways to progress are needed.

- While some players might play as a group all players play solo.

- Like the expression, all poodles might be dogs but not all dogs are poodles.

- Even if you wanted to say 90% of the player base participated in group content, which you know is outrageously over estimating, it still does not equal the 100% of the player base that plays solo.

- So if everyone plays solo, and you do, don't say you don't, shouldn't they design more for the solo player?

- You should never need to depend on others being able to do their job well to determine if you get gear or not.

- You gearing is about you, not about finding a battleground that can win, or a raid group that can down bosses.

- The PvPer needs a way to get conquest without a group and without subjecting themselves to random battlegrounds.

- The PvEer needs a way to get top level gear without subjecting themselves to LFR or other group finding methods but since they removed valor gear a way like that no longer exists.

- And at that, valor gear was never really all that great.

- No weapon, one ring, one trinket, sometimes missing other pieces.

- PvE needs more solo gearing options and timeless island gear is not a gearing option.

- Unless you want to gear 2 tiers lower than current.

- It is a stepping stone into group content.

- And I want to avoid group content.

- We all should be allowed to skip group content and gear another way.

- Speaking of avoiding group content, I had this wild idea that is quite the opposite.

- I was thinking of bringing my new DK into the LFR and tanking.

- Yes, tanking only.

- Yes, me.

- Surprised?  Well so am I.

- I figured it would be a good way to find material to write about.

- Not like I need any.

- I will back down from that idea.

- But I did think of it all day yesterday, almost even queued up for it.

- I would have started in MV, not SoO like most people seem to do now.

- Need to get my "moves" down.

- Yes, I already have a blood DK at max, two even, but each character is different even when they are the same class.

- Just because I know what to do, I need to find the feel for this char.

- Is it just me or do you feel as if each characters has its own personality?

- And while I might be geared for SoO, item level wise, I am not gemmed, enchanted, reforged, you know, the things you should be.

- That is the problem with LFR they allow people to step right into the newest one and thanks to the instant 90s what you get is even worse than what you had been getting.

- Someone boosts a 90, gets timeless gear and is ready to walk in, heck, I went from 90 to 500 item level so an instant 90 can too.

- The thing is, they are not ready.

- Yet, as dreadful as it all sounds, I really am tempted to try it.

- More so try the lower LFRs.

- Why you ask?

- Because people like me, people that care about how they do and are trying to do it the best they can will more likely be in MV.

- People who do not know how to play and people with instant 90s will jump right into SoO for gear and gear only.

- And maybe now you see why I say we need other gearing options?

- Gear helps, of course, buy skill should always come first and it matters more.

- I tanked an SoO on my warrior, my first time tanking a raid on my warrior since last expansion.

- It has not even stepped into any LFRs and only had a 514 item level.

- It was ungemmed and unenchanted.

- I threw some quick stuff together for it and managed to tank up to jug based on skill and healer skill and ability.

- At jug I ran into the wall where I needed more gear.

- I "could" have managed it, but why make people wipe for me trying to prove something.

- I switched to another tank and we continued.

- But back to my DK and my odd yearning for doing some LFRs.

- I can do the lower ones, work a little toward the cloak, get better groups in easier content, and get a feel for my new 90.

- Or I can go into SoO with a whole slew of ungemmed, unenchanted, unreforged people that will just AFK, or not AFK and do worse than the person that did AFK with auto attacking.

- And I will wipe, and hear people calling each other names, and being blamed for everything because I am the tank and everything is always the tanks fault.

- Even when you run ahead of the group and pull the boss before any tanks are in the room, it is the tanks fault.

- Because your pet dies because it has taunt on, it is the tanks fault.

- Because the healer did not heal you, it is the tanks fault.

- Because you did not win the item you wanted, it is the tank fault.

- So lets spit our venom now and let the tanks know it is all the tanks fault.

- Maybe I am talking myself out of it.

- Actually, I am talking myself into it.

- Because if all "those" people will be in SoO, maybe MV can use some tanks and those people will be more likely to be grateful to be doing it because they care about getting somewhere, be it seeing the content, collecting quick valor, getting quest items, or just hanging out for fun instead of just in it for the gear.

- Yeap, I think I might give MV a try, and work my way up.

- Maybe start getting some gear worth gemming and enchanting.

- Because timeless gear isn't worth it.

- Even if you gave me the gems and enchants for free on general principle I would not use them.

- Timeless gear is throw away gear.

- Unless it is just one or two pieces then it is not worth the materials.

- Did I mention why I need a new horde server?

- My horde server merged with my alliance server.

- What are the odds?

- I'd prefer to have them on their own server.

- One problem, they are all really old characters and they all, well most, have three letter names.

- Where the hell will I ever find where I can transfer them that I will be able to keep three letter names.

- Well, that is the least of my worries.

- Until then I have some hordies that need a new home.

- Rarely played hordies.

- But still, would like them to find a home.

- My hunter still has arrows.

- Have to love I still have hunters around that have arrows.

- Wonder why when they changed stuff from not having a melee weapon when you first log into a hunter you have your melee weapon equip and not your ranged weapon.

- I had that happen on one of the hunters and did not notice it.

- When I logged in, some months back, and cleaned out my bags I sold the weapon in there thinking it was junk.

- When I logged back in to level from 85 to 90 I noticed I had a polearm and no ranged weapon.

- Damn it, sold my weapon and no way to get it back now.

- Blizzard does some stupid stuff sometimes.

- But no worse than me selling my weapon.

- Except my mistake was an honest mistake, their mistake was bad coding.

- Seriously, who did not catch it in the code that it was keeping hunters melee weapon and throwing the ranged one in their bags.

- I still have my, now gray, totem and relics in my bank on a few characters.

- Nothing beats a grey item with a gem in it.

- Ah, memories.

- Oh, I bought a green weapon for a few gold, did the first quest into pandaira and got myself a new weapon.

- So no harm, no foul.

- Glad they made the first quest give a weapon.

- Seems they do something right sometimes.

- Well, now to think about tanking MV, maybe tonight.

- I am a glutton for punishment, don't you think?

- Could be fun, who knows.

- Maybe all the dregs of humanity will be in SoO making their lives and the lives of everyone around them hell and I might have fun.

- For once.

- Doing the solo scenarios on the thunder island I noticed they changed a lot of them.

- How come they spend time updating those, but not other things that need it.

- No, seriously, if you have not done them in a while do them again, you will notice some subtle changes to things.  Range, visuals, functionality.

- Yet things like hunters kill shot error last for entire expansion, but changing the the size and functionality of the bombs you throw at the totems in old content that no one ever complained about anyway is high on their list?

- I sometimes wonder about the people that make the decisions on this game.

- "I think we should make the bombs a little smaller"

- "I think we should make it a set number of bombs instead of a timed thing".

- "Hey guys, how about you stop talking about something that has been old content for a long time now that no one has ever complained about even when it was new and fix something like the hunters kill shot error."

- "Nah, screw hunters, this will be awesome when we are done fixing it."

- "But..."

- "It isn't broken to begin with."

- Have a great day.