tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post3661346780544269983..comments2024-03-18T02:52:51.478-04:00Comments on The Grumpy Elf: Monday Random ThoughtsTheGrumpyElfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-50543242681672351782014-01-13T09:26:36.101-05:002014-01-13T09:26:36.101-05:00They need to realize that if they want to make the...They need to realize that if they want to make the LFR "fun" like he says that is needs to be watered down a great deal more to accommodate the people that are in it for the most part.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-48231558617517759332014-01-13T09:17:42.443-05:002014-01-13T09:17:42.443-05:00I do believe the actions of people in game reflect...I do believe the actions of people in game reflect on them as a real person. And people that act badly are probably bad people in real life as well.<br /><br />Keep up your troll killing, I just ignore them.<br /><br />As james said, a true troll will love the attention, because that is what they want.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-76767596097995135502014-01-13T09:13:03.589-05:002014-01-13T09:13:03.589-05:00Undergeared mage in anything is not fun, even leve...Undergeared mage in anything is not fun, even leveling. A mage can be either brutally powerful or completely fragile at the same time. The true glass cannon. Even with gear some of the bigger guys give me a bit of a problem on my mage whereas none of my other characters have that issue.<br /><br />They need to give us some additional valor options when we get to that point. Maybe let us buy pets that can only be purchased with valor, or mounts, or BoE stuff we can sell, or crafting materials. Something.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-81653123846055996582014-01-06T04:22:24.176-05:002014-01-06T04:22:24.176-05:00if they're a true troll, they will be just sta...if they're a true troll, they will be just standing there and laugh at your comments, being overly excited they managed to bother you<br />that's the problem with trolls, they have no common sense and feel no shameJameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18173436197557929355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-12511608760921101832014-01-03T12:43:32.794-05:002014-01-03T12:43:32.794-05:00http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/01/02/warlords-of-drae...http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/01/02/warlords-of-draenor-flex-group-finder-and-raid-finders-roles/<br /><br />I don't think that new general mindset is going to get much argument from anyone regardless of what they think of LFR as it is today. :)Rnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-92228646765583193122014-01-02T13:41:33.123-05:002014-01-02T13:41:33.123-05:00I am ornery with players in-game. I have been kno...I am ornery with players in-game. I have been known to call out "mammoth on the mailbox guy" in general chat and force him to talk. I told him he migfht be playing a role in a stupid game but that he was kidding himself if he thought the actions of his avatar did not reflect on him as a human being. That in real life people would drag him off his mammoth and kick his ass for being rude and that hiding behind his character really hid nothing. A person's true personality always breaks through the avatar in the end. I ask them if nop one pays attention to them in real life so they demand it in games. I offer my friendship to them. I remind them that being hated in the game bleeds through - they dont hate your lvl 90 gnome with full epic gear - they hate the sad little person on the other side of the monitor. They either log or run or break. I AM TROLLSLAYER!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-37023116675285621472013-12-31T00:04:45.450-05:002013-12-31T00:04:45.450-05:00-I've only done a couple of partial pugs. I d...-I've only done a couple of partial pugs. I did do one mixed pug of flex 3. It was a bad experience overall... Haven't raided since actually.<br /><br />-Haven't done a dungeon in a while. Been at 3000vp for weeks, so no point.<br /><br />-I have full plate, leather, and cloth heirlooms for my toons already, so don't need the jp either. No other mail wearing toon...<br /><br />-I would love to get epics from dungeons. I'd actually tank them on my DK, whereas I won't tank LFR. Even if it just dropped 502s or something, it'd be better than nothing. Hell, you get 496s for free from Timeless Isle...<br /><br />-Timeless Isle let's you skip LFR for the most part as well. My hunter is 553 using legendary cloak, world bosses, upgraded Timeless items, and an LFR weapon and trinket.<br /><br />-Looking back, I haven't gotten an actual upgrade in 6 weeks... Been doing Ordos/Celestials every week using a coin on both. Got a couple PvP items, but that's it.<br /><br />-14 Ordos kills, so that's 28 loot rolls -> 4 items. That's about 14% I guess.<br /><br />-Same # for Celestials -> 2 PvE items (won the tier legs twice...) and 4 or so PvP items. <br /><br />-I wish we could solo scenarios like we can solo dungeons. It's annoying that we have to queue.<br /><br />-Been doing the Greench daily on 3 90s every day... no pet... stupid RNG...<br /><br />-Played on my mage a bit today. Got her from 473 to 484 iLvL.<br /><br />-Undergeared mage on Timeless Isle does not equal fun...<br /><br />-I couldn't really kill anything, so had to constantly try to escape things while going after chests. I spent a lot of time as a corpse...<br /><br />-Got all the chests though.Jaegernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-21719077858573015422013-12-30T13:47:14.927-05:002013-12-30T13:47:14.927-05:00I'm leaning toward needing a break more than a...I'm leaning toward needing a break more than anything else. The people are fine but because of the holidays we have not had our main people in a month, always with fill ins, and that is never as fun.<br /><br />I understand where you are coming from. If they lock me and I am the weak link it doesn't really hurt my team. Or if they lock me they fear what I might be able to do, which of course could make some feel better. The thing is, being locked, for whatever reason, is NOT fun. Even if my team won 100 out of 100 times and always won, it would not be fun. I play to play, not to sit there with no control over my character. I can not see how anyone considers that fun.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-54523406680462832462013-12-30T13:11:14.434-05:002013-12-30T13:11:14.434-05:00Here's how I look at the PvP thing... unless y...Here's how I look at the PvP thing... unless you're a PvP elite, if they choose to lock you down rather than someone else, that's a net positive for the team. So either they viewed you as a high risk target or they erred and left someone better free. Either way is kind of a win/win for ego/team purposes.<br /><br />Is it possible you just aren't particularly happy with your raid group? For me the other raiders and various performance factors are the main reasons to stay with or leave a raid group, the raid itself isn't often an issue.<br /><br />It's also entirely possible you just need a break. I've pretty much taken the last month off any sort of organized raiding and I'm starting to get the itch again.Rnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-72281565871589537222013-12-30T11:19:17.726-05:002013-12-30T11:19:17.726-05:00I agree, there needs to be an option to LFR and th...I agree, there needs to be an option to LFR and there needs to be a better use for justice and valor. Blizzard has just lost touch.<br /><br />Was going to ask you how you managed Thorim but it seems you didn't. I have an idea on how I can do it my next time there on my new baby hunter who is an engineer. I am going to place some engineer junk on the ground and see if that will keep them distracted long enough for me to make it through.<br /><br />I have tried running it and hoping to be fast enough. The closest I've ever made it was making the turn up the stairs down the hall before it one shot me. So running for it won't work.<br /><br />Outside of that fight you should be able to solo anything in there.<br /><br />There is the one "toy" in shcolo but that is about it. But really there is not much to go back to them for. I soloed them just to see if I could, not because I wanted to do it for something.<br /><br />It was nice, hope yours was the same. Have a happy new years.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-40433175322999467042013-12-30T09:50:46.115-05:002013-12-30T09:50:46.115-05:00I wrote exactly that in a recent blog post. I all ...I wrote exactly that in a recent blog post. I all but begged for blizz to bring back choice. I haven't played alts at all really in Mists as I loathe LFR. I only did it on my main when I absolutely had to, no way I was going in voluntarily. I put in my post that dungeons and LFR should be on the same gear level. That valor and justice points should be worth something again. I know they said it was too easy but I really liked how it used to be.<br /><br />I'd feel like playing an alt so I'd log in and queue for a dungeon. Depending on what role it was I might have to wait up to 20 minutes but certainly nowhere near LFR levels. The dungeon wouldn't last that long, even with a terrible group it'd probably go ok, sometimes they didn't but nowhere near LFR levels.<br /><br />Depending on the alts gear level the bosses in the dungeon might drop upgrades. If they didn't well justice points dropped per boss and could be used for the previous tier gear level. Valor points would drop at the end and could be used for current tier level.<br /><br />If I wanted to play that alt a bit maybe I'd queue for a couple of dungeons in a row, if I had time. I'd get the same amount of valor for all of them. Hell if I had a lot of time maybe I'd get the weekly cap done. I could do this at any point during the week, I could spend a weekend or an evening, no daily diminishing returns.<br /><br />Progress would be incremental and measurable. I'd enjoy playing the alt in the dungeon. Every now and then I'd get a piece of gear so that my dps would go up, my spirit regen, survivability etc. so I did better at it. I'd get familiar with the dungeons which would mean I could spend more time perfecting my rotation than worrying about mechanics. So having fun playing the alt - check. Getting gear progress - check. Ability to play what I wanted, when I wanted - check.<br /><br />I understand people blew through this sometimes and geared up in a day. Hell I did it myself once but that's the thing - choice. You could grind till your eyes bled, or you could dip in very casually. It suited both people. I never fully geared my alts but I always enjoyed the process and played most everything. Now I play my main, I login to raid and then I log off and play other games.<br /><br />In other news I soloed over half of Ulduar 25 man this morning. Just normal mode but I was a little shocked at how easy it was though I suppose it was a couple of expansions ago now. If I can blow up Dragon Soul then yeah Ulduar is no challenge. My friend wanted Herald gear so I got him as far as Thorim where you need more people as it wipes you if no-ones in the arena. I mean part of me is sad that one level 90 in their OS (I was ret) can do that. The rest of me hopes like hell that I can still do that after the item squish on warlords. I want the same power jump tbh. I want to be able to start trying to solo Mists raids for the vanity drops.<br /><br />I miss vanity drops in dungeons. I don't think there are any in Mists? It takes away a reason to solo them.<br /><br />Hope you had a nice festive season and happy new year :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17771213542953346538noreply@blogger.com