Monday Random Thoughts

- Taking a day off from the garrisons and professions posts.

- Because it is random thoughts time.

- Been running horseman on my paladin because there is something I want from it.

- Have the mount from a while back.

- How many people do you know that are doing horseman to actually get the sword or helm?

- Yeah, that is how poorly my paladin is geared.

- Both of my paladins really.

- The lower one did the blasted lands quests.

- Not sure about anyone else but my paladin feels powerful even at a 498 item level.

- It is my lowest geared character.

- Don't think I touched it since it hit 90 and I made it all timeless gear and did the world boss rounds that first day.

- It actually needed every single piece of gear from the blasted lands quests.

- But I had absolutely no problem with it, even at that item level.

- I could pull multiple mobs in tank spec, and make fairly quick work of them.

- In the end my 498 paladin had a much easier time than my other low geared character, my 518 second mage.

- Say what you want about the blasted lands lead in quests, but they were designed for everyone, and I think that is good.

- Even a fresh 90 could hit timeless island, grab a couple of pieces, and have little to no problem there.

- This seems to be blizzards new direction, and I like it.

- Make all outdoor content intended for everyone.

- There is always a problem however because the well geared people complain.

- And blizzard has this horrible problem of listening to the 1% and they really need to stop doing that.

- Well guess what, the content is not made for the well geared, it is made for everyone.

- So the well geared people should just be happy they can get it done fast and they have something to do.

- Games need to be designed from the bottom up, not from the top down.

- Can't make new content for people with 570 and 580 gear and expect more than 1% of the population to have fun with it.

- Not to mention, us people in 570 and 580 gear would still blow through it in a matter of minutes anyway even if they did make it harder.

- We would still say it was super easy no matter how hard they made it.

- Because we are that type of player that would find it easy.

- That is why we are 570 to 580.

- So instead of designing for the 1% and telling everyone else to go to hell they designed it for the 99%.

- Like I said, works for me, no matter how they made it, I would have blown through it quickly on my mains.

- But at least this way I was able to do it on my 498 paladin, and I like that.

- Speaking of item level, got one of my hunters to 580 item level.

- And it is still wearing 2 LFR pieces.

- What?

- I know right.

- Talk about bad luck with drops.

- I finally ran into a situation that I said I knew would happen.

- The new group finder declining people and causing drama.

- I had two personal experiences with it.

- Trying to get that previously mentioned 518 mage some gear I looked for an ordos group.

- First off, with the new design it is nearly impossible to find a group.

- After 30 minutes waiting for one I signed up for the one that popped up and got declined.

- I assume based on item level.

- I just do not understand that.

- They ended up going with 20 people.

- Why not go with 21?

- It is not scaled content, the boss does the same abilities for the same damage and has the same health whether you have 20 people or 200 people there.

- So who cares that I would only pull maybe 3K, it is still 3K more than they would have had without me.

- I always run up to ordos when I queue for it, because everyone should.

- I don't believe in that "press 1 for summon" BS.

- If you want to do ordos, get there.

- Don't assume a warlock will be there.

- If you are too lazy to head there on your own, I am too lazy to invite your worthless ass.

- Seems fair to me.

- At least make an effort and start heading there and just be happy if you get a summon.

- Either way, standing there on my mage, wasting my time, because I can't do anything else up there at that item level.

- Not like I can go killing the mobs for coins and rep in that area at 518 on my mage.

- I waited until another ordos group popped up.

- I requested to join, they let it time out.

- I requested again, they let it time out.

- I figured maybe they are doing the "nice" thing and not declining me, so I do not feel rejected.

- If that were the case, I guess it is a good thing, because it really does suck to be declined.

- Another group popped up and I applied, and immediately got declined.

- It is as if they saw 518 item level and instantly declined.

- Even with a low item level, the more the better, even more so now that ordos seems to be a hard fight with few people.

- So I thought maybe they were declining based on item level because they assumed I did not have the legendary cloak.

- Makes sense I guess, no way you would have the legendary and still have that low of an item level.

- So I actually put a comment this time.

- Standing at ordos, have 12 cloaks, this is an alt.

- Okay, so there is absolutely no way anyone could decline now.

- I am there, I have the cloak, and still I got declined.

- I said screw this and just teleported out of there.

- World bosses are intended to gear up alts.

- If an alt can not get there, what the hell is the use of even having a world boss.

- In the end it did not matter to me, I was just doing it for something to do.

- I like gearing up characters, but it is not necessary, more so when it is now just wasting my time.

- I am not a fan of wasting my time.

- That was my second mage to begin with, and I do not even raid on my first mage.

- But for many other players, getting turned down for content like that, stuff that is intended to help them gear up, can really hurt the game.

- The old system of list your name and wait for an invite was ten thousand times better.

- At least people did not feel like they were being held back.

- Not getting an invitation is better than being declined.

- For the person, for the game, for everyone involved.

- Blizzards new system is nothing but bad when it concerns world bosses.

- And I am really skeptical about its long term use for anything else.

- People are already using it to troll.

- It is not like they are declining people for a real reason.

- One of my guild mates, a 578 healer, kept getting declined.

- From groups that needed healers.

- From groups that were only asking for 500.

- She has been killing garrosh for almost a year, has a 578 item level, they are in need of a healer, the only explanation for declining her is they are trolling.

- Then we started to talk, and it seemed to be the same for everyone.

- On low toons we could understand it, but even on high toons it was happening to everyone.

- Groups asking for a specific thing, 550 item level, you apply, 570+, say you have done it, still get declined.

- Happened to everyone I spoke to, over and over and over.

- The only answer is that people are trolling.

- Then the cesspool we call trade chat confirmed it.

- Hearing people talking about creating groups saying things like need 1 DPS than GTG and then declining everyone that applied.

- They were laughing because they knew they were upsetting people.

- They said so many things like they wonder how many people would be crying they got turned down, how many people would log off and rage quit, they were all laughing about it.

- Good going blizzard, once again you completely missed how the player base would abuse a system you put into the game.

- Great idea, horrible implementation, would be so much better with moderation.

- Just like the LFR.

- Blizzard always has great ideas, no doubt about that.

- They just need to realize that their player base will abuse those ideas.

- When will they just add moderators to keep people in line?

- How does blizzard not see this was going to happen but some idiot like me writing a blog called it?

- Maybe because I have a brain, something no one at blizzard has.

- Sad, the tool would have been great, but decline trolls already have ruined it.

- I killed heroic garrosh 10 times this week already, might do a few more kills tonight.

- Not a single one of them using the in game tool.

- I built all the groups myself the old fashion way.

- On my server, by inviting people, and having them invite friends.

- I stayed about as far away from the in game tool as possible.

- Had some one shots, had some wipes, even had one really really hard time, but over all, I had more success with that than anyone could have had with the group finder.

- I carried guild mates as low as 504 item level to a heroic kill.

- One guild mate who was trying to get a garrosh kill for him, his wife and his brother, all day and kept getting turned down started talking about wanting to quit the game.

- See, this is what I was talking about when I said that declining people would really hurt the player base over all.

- The invite if you want them option is better than setting people up for failure like it is now with the decline option.

- He spent the better part of 8 hours trying to get a group only to get declined over and over and the couple of groups that he did get into broke up after only one wipe.

- So it was about time for me to head off and I saw him saying this.

- He, his wife and his brother have never really raid with us much, maybe once, so I did not know what they could do.

- I whispered him and said, don't log off, give me a minute to check something.

- I shot out a few whispers, got me 2 healers and a tank, and filled with the most powerful damage dealers on, which was slim pickings.

- Figured I did not know what to expect from them, so want to hedge my bets.

- All three had never done the boss before, 2 did not even have voice chat to listen.

- I invited them, said zone in quick, I got 20 minutes.

- We killed trash, we one shot garrosh, they did quite well actually and were not being carried, they pulled their weight.

- I then logged off having gotten them their kill they tried for 8 hours to get but apparently the group finder didn't think they were good enough for.

- They did not seem to hinder my group which consisted of them, a bunch of 540 or so alts, and only 1 main out of 14 people there.

- Call it my good deed for the day helping them out.

- Maybe next week it will help me with my mount runs.

- Karma and all, you know.

- I had not known they were looking all day or I would have invited them earlier.

- Had done a couple of killers earlier in the day.

- Word to the wise, it helps to speak up people.

- We can't help you unless you help yourself.

- If anyone wants to know how I managed 10 heroic kills in one week I'll give a quick run down.

- I took one of my hunters being I have a bunch of them and already have a few heirlooms for them now, and quick cleared the first 13.

- I then dropped group and finished with another character.

- I then started a new group with the hunter as lead, invited 2 people, even if they had killed garrosh arleady, it makes no difference.

- I zoned in first, then they zoned in afterwards.

- I passed one of them lead, dropped group, switched to another character that needed the kill.

- Rinse and repeat.

- I am able to do garrosh over and over, and people that already killed him can do it over and over as well.

- The key is my hunter with the lockout needed to go in first.

- If you killed garrosh already you can not get awarded loot, but you can use a coin again.

- It works because it allows people to help others get their kill on.

- I tanked it 2 times on my druid, healed it 3 times on my priest, you get the idea.

- I did manage to get a few of my alts in there to get some heirlooms, so it is a one hand washes the other thing.

- I do a weak character and a few friends do some better ones, and then we trade off.

- That way we all get kills and we all get heirlooms.

- And I bring along a few people that do not raid normally each time.

- And I do not charge them.

- Every time I see someone in trade selling a heroic garrosh kill and someone interested in buying, I take the buyer along for free.

- If they seems like they are a decent person.

- If they talk in trade like a half wit while trying to buy using things like "u" instead of "you" and never capitalizing the beginning of a sentence, or using leet speak, or things like that, they can rot for all I care.

- No reason anyone should have to pay for it.

- Even those half wits, but I let someone else help them.

- The game is supposed to be about fun.

- And maybe, just maybe, that really bad player I let tag along today becomes serious about the game later, he or she might remember the nice hunter that took them along for free when everyone else wanted to charge them.

- Karma and all you know.

- I would rather make friends than make money anyway.

- And even if I do not make friends, it makes me feel better helping someone than it would taking their money.

- Yeah, I am a sap sometimes.

- No new mounts to report, but that is not from lack of trying.

- Finally think I got spine down to a science.

- Have done it a fair bit now and always seem to make one mistake and always wipe at least once.

- But did it on one attempt this week, on multiple characters.

- So looks like I finally got the grove working for me.

- Let me offer a word to the wise for the fight before spine on the ship.

- Never kill the drake before it is over the deck of the boat.

- Most embarrassing wipe of the week.

- If you kill the drake before it is over the deck it will drop the elite it is carrying over the side and instant wipe you.

- :(

- Decided to try my hand at soloing on my rogue to see how well I could do.

- Did throne of the four winds on my rogue, which might not be impressive to anyone else out there, but to me I was really impressed.

- Wiped once on the first boss (bosses) due to not having enough healing.

- Switched the order I was killing them in and had no problem at all.

- No mount when I finished it however, but now I have another character that can do it.

- So even more characters that can not get the mount.

- Been running ZG on more than a few characters every day for those mounts.

- Rogue went there and killed the bosses faster than my hunter did.

- My hunters record was 2 second for one and 4 seconds for the other.

- Rogue did one in 1 second and the other in 3.

- Sad how my rogue kills faster than my hunter.

- At 30 item levels lower too.

- 1 second?  I laughed when I saw that.

- Not getting the mounts is an interesting situation.

- If I get the mounts I am going for I will be happy I got them, but I would lose my something to do when there are down times.

- So it is a double edged sword.

- Get them and have nothing to do, not get them and be upset I never get them.

- Did onyxia again on a bunch of characters, no mount, a friend did it for a mog piece he was looking for and got this 3rd one.

- He has only done it 4 times.

- I have done it at least 100 times over all my characters.

- More sad faces here.

- I was thinking of ZG and the fact that at the time I used to come on and valor cap at least 2 characters on tuesday.

- Being there were only 2 dungeons that means I was doing it either 3 or 4 times a week on each of those characters.

- Then on other characters over the course of the week.

- So I do not think it would be out of line to completely guess at a number of times I have killed them at being around 200 times and I have never seen the mounts drop from either of them.

- That is a really crappy drop rate if you ask me.

- I am sure I am well over that number on stonecore too.

- And a few others.

- There are three numbers I am trying to reach before the expansion.

- I was aiming for 600 pets, 250 mounts and 100 toys.

- I am pleased to announce, thanks to the argent tournament banners, I managed to get the 100 toys achievement.

- I am at 243 mounts and 574 unique pets.

- Both are attainable before the expansion, but time is running out.

- Another good mount week like I had the week before this one and the mount one could be done.

- The pet one would require a lot of luck or spending a ton on the auction house, which I am adverse to doing before an expansion knowing I will want to open all the garrisons ASAP.

- Not like it costs as much as I have, but I like to have extra.

- It could be done, but I am not stressing it.

- Wonder how many people have 100 toys already?

- I would have more but there are some things I never bought due to bag space issues.

- Some of them are no longer in game.

- I think blizzard should give us a chance to get them again.

- I am sure there are many of us that would have bought them if there were a toy box then, but didn't because of bag space issues.

- Would be nice to have a second shot at some of those things removed from the game, like the battlefield barrens toys.

- I bought pets with my mojos because it seemed like a better investment, and I could send them to another character to hold for sale later, so no bag space issues.

- I would have bought the toys, but had space issues.

- I want my toys.

- I will gladly trade the 20 pets I have for the 3 toys.

- But after putting in a ticket suggesting it and being turned down, it does not seem likely we will ever get a shot at picking up things we missed.

- More sad faces.

- Remember, toys make for great fun between pulls or on break in a raid.

- Can never have too many of them.

- Have a great day.