tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post1141954882173367103..comments2024-03-27T07:57:48.010-04:00Comments on The Grumpy Elf: Monday Random ThoughtsTheGrumpyElfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-72346668588374061012014-09-16T09:44:38.777-04:002014-09-16T09:44:38.777-04:00They really need to fix that run animation, it is ...They really need to fix that run animation, it is beyond horrible.<br /><br />I've been working with garrisons a while trying to figure out my plan of attack and it is a little clearer now for me but you are right, there are so many options that it seems more like an annoyance than a choice. If that makes any sense.<br /><br />As you mentioned the medium and small all seem useful and the large all seem worthless. At least as I see it. I've been slowly working on eliminating which ones I don't need at all, like an enchanters study.<br /><br />Just make sure you fish up the three daily fish for nat each day. But if you do not, do not worry too much. Once you get nat you will start gaining friendship with him when he is on your garrison. So if you were not best friends you will become best friends in time. If you already were, that just means you can buy the stuff he sells sooner. But no big deal really.<br /><br />I pugged into a normal yesterday for a garrosh kill on my third hunter, did 334 on it and the person asked me if I was lying because that is not alt type numbers. I said, sure it is, if your alt is the same class as your main. lol<br /><br />250K is a minimum, I would like more of course. Sad part is I can not even find 250K people most of the time.<br /><br />When 6.0 comes I will surely need more people because we do not have 20 to run mythic. Maybe I will hit you up.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-10490612867641078132014-09-15T20:03:15.522-04:002014-09-15T20:03:15.522-04:00I just can't get myself to do anything in Beta...I just can't get myself to do anything in Beta. I don't have the energy/time, I guess. Logged in today. Setup my keybinds, saw the stupid night elf run animation was still there and logged out... :(<br /><br />Speaking of no energy/time, I just cancelled my ESO sub. I can't find the time to play two MMOs. If it was F2P, I'd dabble in it from time to time, but with a sub, I can't justify it anymore. I think I really just wanted another TES game. I didn't want an Elder Scrolls MMO.<br /><br />I've been trying to read all the Garrison guides on wowhead and it just seems like a mess to me. Way too many options and too many pros and cons with different choices.<br /><br />The medium and small buildings seem problematic. Too many options that look "good".<br /><br />Speaking of Nat Pagle. I've started working on his rep in MoP. Haven't done fishing in so long. Got my Kalu'ak rod from the Northrend fishing tournie and my fishing hat that has +75 lures on it. Nat Pagle's hat has +150 lures, so that's kind of my goal (other than the achiev). I should really try to get the +40 rod from the Boot Bay tournie and the fishing line enchant. But probably won't try for that for a while...<br /><br />My female draenei mage has her transmog around the Silksand Wraps robe and then the smallest shoulders, gloves, and bracers I could find. I wish we could hide the shoulder slot like we can with the helm and cloak. The shoulder gear models are just absurd.<br /><br />250K for heroics, huh? I did that on flex Garrosh the other day; first time doing it on flex and did 260k Dps (e) (290k Dps (a)) according to WarcraftLogs. I'm not too rusty, I guess...<br /><br />Grumpy, when do you usually raid? If you want another hunter on your SoO runs, I might be able to go. :DJaegernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-41998689747888221722014-09-15T15:43:19.590-04:002014-09-15T15:43:19.590-04:00It is completely up to you to accept my judgement ...It is completely up to you to accept my judgement or not but when I tell you that is how she got her gear from listening to her on voice chat I am sure of it. However, with that said, I will explain to you how I came to that conclusion, bad performance aside.<br /><br />I have played many games like this and others where a certain type of female use the fact they are female to prey on people to give things too them. With that experience I can judge someone that is a bad player and someone who got carried to gear because they had a cute giggle in someones opinion. She got carried to gear. She said a lot of stuff on vent that would you believe she was a bit of an airhead really but that does not mean she is a bad player, however there is one line among many that will even sell you. <br /><br />She said she split something on the shirt and had to play topless, so she was sitting there in her bra. And, interestingly enough, this just so happened to come out as part of her conversation when it was time to roll for loot. Side note, she was the only one in the raid that could use spirit plate anyway, so not exactly sure who she was trying to win over with her "i'm topless" giggle giggle comment.<br /><br />Trust me, she was "one of those". I know there are female players that are amazing. Had one on my raid team earlier this expansion before she quit. Came from a top 10 guild in the world because she wanted to take it easy and she liked us because in her words, "we are the first people she ever pugged with that didn't make a big deal about her being a girl". <br /><br />Funny thing is, she had that "girly" voice thing going too, and if you did not know her you might think that is how she got her gear but she was, without a doubt, the best damn healer I have ever played the game with. She held some WoL #1 spots, and not #1 for her class, #1 for all healers. She had serious skill. Guess that is why she was in a top 10 guild. lol<br /><br />I tend to like raid leaders with clear voices, like the perfect oxford british you mentioned. If they are not the yelling type it seems instructions are always clearer when someone is well spoken. I find most non-us raid leaders are so much better than their us counterparts. Most definitely better than me, who always forgets what all the abilities are called and has to say "that swirly thing".TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-81846034940341680402014-09-15T13:02:18.893-04:002014-09-15T13:02:18.893-04:00I didn't say there weren't cases like that...I didn't say there weren't cases like that, I said you were out of line. There's plenty of reasons for having 570 gear and being a bad player, you don't have to be a giggling whore for it. <br />For example friendly good friend Bob-a is such a helpful friendly person, we take her when we don't have anyone better around and she takes the gear since no one else needs it. Doesn't mean you have to do the same, but it also doesn't mean she's batted her eyelashes at the raid leader.<br /><br />Now if the girl had HC Garrosh kill, that might warrant such a comment and even then... <br />@Troutmonkey: I don't think girls go for accents as much as they go for beautiful voices. For example, the best voice I've heard was in perfect Oxford British. Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18173436197557929355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-45931861237777085262014-09-15T11:12:24.940-04:002014-09-15T11:12:24.940-04:00If your raid leader is a girl and you want to make...If your raid leader is a girl and you want to make sure you don't get kicked, talk with an Australian accent. In my experience it makes them swoon.Troutmonkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01862533672429720139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-60187884070027175502014-09-15T10:47:10.860-04:002014-09-15T10:47:10.860-04:00Mists started out great (outside of the double gat...Mists started out great (outside of the double gating) with fast releases, lots of content, you name it, and then just hit a brick wall. I do not think they have yet managed to find a way to keep up that pace. I would hate to have a new expansion every year. Every 2 years with a raid patch twice during works for me. But to each their own.<br /><br />I agree, if warlords would have been better off being released in may the latest. Blizzard spent most of the good will they had built up with this disastrous wait time and then to release a new expansion with so many unnecessary change like the stuff to professions and so little end game content is just adding insult to injury. It is like we waited this long for this???<br /><br />People must always defend their class. That is why we love our classes, because we like them best.<br /><br />I hope, hope, hope, they do not go this route of more expansions at a higher cost. Sure I can afford it, but it surely is not worth it. And even if I can afford something, I am not going to way for what is not worth it.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-8787530519218755382014-09-15T10:13:38.488-04:002014-09-15T10:13:38.488-04:00Yeah I just read that on WI and went "What???...Yeah I just read that on WI and went "What????" as that's just crazy. They have been saying every expansion that they want to bring the next one out faster and have never managed it. When Mists was so on point with the content patches, I actually started to believe that they might do it. Then this 14 months of Siege is enough to cure anyone of that belief.<br /><br />So I don't believe they can do it. I think they want to, and lets face it Mists had 18 months of content. If Warlords had been released April/May time then that would have been right. It would have lined up with all the other content patches and it would have been smooth. They couldn't do it.<br /><br />If they do bring out an expansion every year then they will have to put a lot less in the expansions. They will not be worth the same so if they try and charge the same for them then they are really having a laugh. However, people will do it. Maybe less people will, maybe subs will drop but they still have millions. So long as people keep paying, then blizz will do whatever they like.<br /><br />Oh and I was just teasing about paladins being the best class. Yes we have been through this before. I love paladins, you love hunters. We each love our own main class. That's the way it should be. I like hunters as well, I have great fun finding pets and thinking of names for them. However, I am not a good ranged player, never have been. So while I like to have fun, and used to play my hunter a lot in dungeons back in Cata when we actually had dungeons (it's my rant against Mists. I missed dungeons), it's not something I can ever do anything real with.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17771213542953346538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-9851874442061696002014-09-15T09:50:37.708-04:002014-09-15T09:50:37.708-04:00I am not against females. 4 of our 10 people in t...I am not against females. 4 of our 10 people in the raid are females. I just hate those females that think just because they are female means they do not have to do anything. Doesn't work that way with me. We are not good enough to be carrying dead weight, and even if we were, why would anyone do that? Just having a cute voice on vent is not reason enough to earn a raid spot in my mind. Call me a dick if need be, but I will never take someone unless I believe they can help the group.<br /><br />I have seen so many pugs fall apart because he raid leader refused to kick the bad players because they were girls. So do not say that some girls don't get carried to gear just because they are girls. It is 100% true that it happens.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-30171015082398484422014-09-15T09:36:56.198-04:002014-09-15T09:36:56.198-04:00Reminds me of this hunter we had. A female rogue s...Reminds me of this hunter we had. A female rogue said something on voice chat and he started typing on chat that omg she talks too much. He was basically against females out of principle and their presence in the game / voice chat irritated him. To the point where he downright lied about their performance complaining non stop.<br /><br />Also, I'm looking up a friend who's just 13/14 normal, sitting at 574 iLevel. Never done any pugs, so no heroic pieces, nothing. You don't need to really do much on normal to get a few bosses down and some gear you upgrade. Just dedication in getting the back and VP. <br /><br />So yeah, I do believe you're out of line with your comment on girls and gear. She may not be a good player, but that's enough of a comment.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18173436197557929355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-73492190163681678122014-09-15T09:34:48.133-04:002014-09-15T09:34:48.133-04:00Hunters are the best class, I thought we have been...Hunters are the best class, I thought we have been through this before. ;)<br /><br />I agree that blizz is asking too much. I even made a post a while back saying I think it was time the expansion design was dropped and they just kept adding stuff as patches for the subscription price we play. It does feel like they are trying to rob us. And now they want to make only one additional raid tier and release a new expansion every year?<br /><br />I don't think they can actually do it. Look at this, we spent 14 months in it, but just the balls they have to want to soak people for a new box price every single year on top of a monthly sub is pure greed and nothing more.<br /><br />Biggest tip right now is fish. Sea scorpion and crescent saberfish will be one I see people scrambling for at the start and be willing to pay for. Of course anything can change, there is still time, but as it stands herbs and ore will be vendor trash.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-4127137678441518342014-09-15T09:24:31.932-04:002014-09-15T09:24:31.932-04:00Blizz do have nerve charging a sub + box price + h...Blizz do have nerve charging a sub + box price + having microtransactions. They are triple dipping and both the box and sub are going up this year. I do agree with your friend. I questioned whether it was worth it, realised it was not and that's why I unsubbed in March.<br /><br />I will be resubbing around the 10th of November, so it's as close to launch as possible, while still having time to do the launch stuff. I'm going to resub. No use kidding myself. I will be resubbing, I will be buying Warlords etc. but I resent it. I resent it and I haven't been paying a sub since March. I still feel like blizz are asking too much.<br /><br />However, they are getting away with it. Can't really blame them for trying it when they are succeeding. They are a company, they want to make the most money possible. I think it's wrong but I can't blame them for it. It's the way of the world.<br /><br />I've been playing a lot of Marvel Heroes lately. That game has it's problems. Gaz has basically been updating too frequently, they have been bringing out too much new stuff and the pace is starting to show. Fair few bugs in recent weeks. However, I like the business model. I can pay what I want, when I want and no matter what I can still play and enjoy. With blizz, if you don't pay then you lose access to everything. No money, no game.<br /><br />Anyway, I've never been a gold maker in Warcraft. I would like to, it's always been something I should do so I can collect more mounts and pets that cost gold, like all those jewelcrafting ones and the Mists mammoth. However, I don't have the patience. I'll eagerly read any tips you bring out and maybe try something. Have to see. Thanks for saying you might share, that's appreciated :)<br /><br />Oh and paladins are the best class, why they have good transmog haha.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17771213542953346538noreply@blogger.com