tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post6348561897538170932..comments2024-03-29T05:19:30.673-04:00Comments on The Grumpy Elf: Monday Random ThoughtsTheGrumpyElfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-68267564368433915032015-07-14T07:57:29.543-04:002015-07-14T07:57:29.543-04:00I am equipping for 100% until I get all the ones I...I am equipping for 100% until I get all the ones I need done, after that, I will do it that way and not care.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-79240401295609724242015-07-14T07:56:10.591-04:002015-07-14T07:56:10.591-04:00I am partly part of that problem tank wise. I hav...I am partly part of that problem tank wise. I have a rule with my characters, if it has a tank spec, it is a tank, if not and it has a healer spec, it is a healer, and everyone else is a damage dealer.<br /><br />That means my monk, DK, warrior, paladin and druid are all main spec tanks and I never tank with them. I go as heals on my monk, paladin and druid and I go as gladiator on my warrior. My DK, as he can not use his tanking gear for DPS, does not even do it. Or I will DPS in my tank gear and hope no one notices. lol Usually will still be top 10 DPS even with tank gear sadly.<br /><br />I won't tank for randoms. Just won't.<br /><br />Wow, I thought my druid was doing bad with having 10 boss kills and only 2. I think you are doing a little worse. Sorry to hear that, it sucks.<br /><br />691? Damn, I think every hunter in the world has a higher item level than I do. lol<br /><br />I am sure it will automatically send some people in, and not make people decide who goes in. That would be a recipe for disaster.<br /><br />Yeah, one person not moving when they have the aim thing on them can get everyone hit, everyone with the debuff and a ton of blobs spawning. We had one wipe when a new person did that. Needless to say, he got a little talking to. I hate mechanics like that on normal.<br /><br />I think for normal, things like that should not penalize the raid, but the person. If it hits anyone else, it should not debuff them and drop more orbs, it should one shot kill the person. That way, they learn they did something wrong and while it hurts the group to lose one person, it is not as bad as getting a bunch of blobs and a ton of debuffs on people.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-4292326262966578672015-07-14T07:45:38.225-04:002015-07-14T07:45:38.225-04:00Wow, you are moving along quick with your shipyard...Wow, you are moving along quick with your shipyards. I got my druids and my hunters level 3 shipyard last night.<br /><br />Seems like over all your DPS in that group was better than my group was. Everything lived forever in my group. It is nice to think that I spanked that MM hunter, numbers wise, even if he way out gears me. lol <br /><br />BM is good for the first and third boss there. I think is sucks for the second. I rock that one as MM. Odd to see the MM hunter in your group do so well on the multi target fight (48) and so poorly on the single target one (33). I am going to guess he is completely new to MM, that is the only way someone in near 700 gear does not do over 40K on that as MM, that is the perfect MM fight. Single target most of the time, not a lot of movement. aimed shots and kill shots on bombs for extra DPS, yeah, that fight has MM written all over it. Guy must just be learning the spec.<br /><br />I am still going to use my rep, even if I have them all at exalted, because it gives me the PvP faction rep and I do not do that one. But I have all others this expansion at exalted already now.<br /><br />Use the group finder to find groups for them. Mind you that they do not last long, so be standing there when you look and only join groups that were just listed. Even if it say 2 minutes it might be dead already. It is not "easy" to find groups that way, but it is possible. I've found a few.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-90335397599207595342015-07-14T06:45:04.260-04:002015-07-14T06:45:04.260-04:00I am not sure why. I really can not place it to s...I am not sure why. I really can not place it to say for sure. I just do not like tanking for randoms. Partly because I do not feel comfortable doing it for some reason. Even if I know I am more than skilled enough for that level of content. Maybe it is that I do not trust my healers if I do not know them. The few times I have tanked LFR I always had at least one guild healer with me. As long as I have some backup I feel okay, otherwise I don't.<br /><br />Maybe it is because bad players love to blame the tank. I hate having to defend myself against idiots. But if I die because the off tank will not taunt and I get a debuff the healers can not heal me through I get blamed for being a bad tank because people are not smart enough to realize it was not my fault but the fault of the off tank for not taunting.<br /><br />I'd say my reasons for not wanting to tank have more to do with the other tanks in randoms than anything else however. There are three types of tanks you run into most of the time. The guy who thinks he knows everything and is an arrogant bastard about it, the guy who knows nothing and won't listen to anything even if he doesn't know what to do, and the no communicative jerk that when you ask if he knows the fight you hear silence, when you ask if he wants first, you hear silence, when you ask if he wants adds, you hear silence.<br /><br />Sorry, I can not and will not tank with any of those people. Can't do it, won't do it. And I'd say 95%, if not more, of the tanks I have ran into fit into one of those three categories.<br /><br />I've said before and will say again. If they want me to tank LFR make all fights one tank fights and I will tank on all my characters that tank.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-29550336094320506572015-07-14T06:21:04.120-04:002015-07-14T06:21:04.120-04:00Quick note on Galleonville: stop caring about your...Quick note on Galleonville: stop caring about your ships or investing any time or resources in them.<br /><br />I use Masterplan to allocate the best available ships to each mission I need to do, but they go out whether it's 40% chance or 90% chance.<br /><br />If a ship sinks, replace it. Much quicker and cheaper than equipping it to 100% chance.<br /><br />If a Green crew dies, the RNG gods may give you a Blue or Purple when you replace it. So you could be better off.<br /><br /><br />If a Purple crew dies all that happens is that your chance of completing the next mission may be a little bit less. That's it. Who cares, really?<br /><br />It's a stupid side game where Blizz rely on human nature to always want to succeed and not suffer losses that imbues it with any meaning whatsover.<br /><br />If you look at the mechanics they don't add up, so don't waste time trying to make them make sense.grumstanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-59491636361960640932015-07-14T05:59:55.871-04:002015-07-14T05:59:55.871-04:00LFR is a joke in this xpac. None of our guild tank...LFR is a joke in this xpac. None of our guild tanks choose that role in LFR, they go heal or DPS off spec. Lack of tanks explains the long queues for everyone as you note.<br /><br />I was thinking of learning tanking but I'll do it in a 5 man guild team in dungeons going on to Normal raids, I won't try to learn it in LFR.<br /><br />I only do LFR to grind the stupid tokens you need to progress with the legendary quest line, and to see the layout and basic boss mechanics to help me with Normal guild raids.<br /><br />My drop rate for the tomes is appalling, after a full week of LFR and 4 Normal bosses I sit on zero. Joy.<br /><br />In HFC LFR I was top dps by some way, doing around 10% of overall damage. I am a bit overgeared to be fair, at ilvl 691 MM.<br /><br />After wiping all night on Normal Kilrogg yesterday, I'll be interested to see that fight on LFR. Either it'll be a wipe, rant and rage-quit fest, or the mechanics will be so nerfed you won't learn anything meaningful from it.<br /><br />I hate Normal raids where one person causes a wipe, and Kilrogg is that from beginning to end. One person puts so much as a toe out of line or misses a single mechanic and we wiped. Grrrrr.Grumstanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-34831533425337832015-07-14T00:03:37.841-04:002015-07-14T00:03:37.841-04:00I've had a lvl 3 shipyard for about a week; gu...I've had a lvl 3 shipyard for about a week; guess I've gotten lucky with the missions. Finished all the Legendary ship missions as well.<br /><br />I don't even bother to try maximizing missions anymore. I just do whatever is green or yellow based on Master Plan and build new ships when shit blows up.<br /><br />I agree though that we probably shouldn't be able to lose a ship if it's over 80% or so.<br /><br />LFR queues have been horrible. Mine took over two hours this week as well. Even worse is that I tried on Tuesday night for 90 minutes and got into a bugged instance that wouldn't let me enter... I opened a bug report and logged out.<br /><br />I don't know what the drop rate is supposed to be on the tomes, but I've had a 50% drop rate so far...<br /><br />Looking at my logs for this week: (yes, I upload LFR logs to WarcraftLogs...)<br />Hellfire Assault:<br />48K - 1 player (698 MM hunter)<br />33K - me (689 BM)<br />23K - 2 players (one being a 660 shaman...)<br />~20K - 5 players (one being a tank)<br />~16K - 5 players (one being a tank)<br /><br />Iron Reaver:<br />33K - 1 player (that 698 MM hunter)<br />22K - me<br />20K - 1 player<br />~18K - 3 players<br />~15K - 4 players<br /><br />Kormrok:<br />42K - 1 player<br />28K - 2 players (me and a 686 arcane mage)<br />27K - 1 player<br />~25K - 2 players<br />~23K - 4 players<br />~20K - 2 players<br />~16K - 2 players<br /><br />The DPS definitely drops off fast. Excluding that over geared hunter and myself, the average players are doing 16K or less, so not as bad as Grumpy's group. The avg iLvL was about 670, so maybe that's why.<br /><br />Being BM on these fights doesn't work very well. My pet is running around far too much...<br /><br />I got one of the rep tokens today off Terrorfist. Only one I've gotten. I'm just going to sell it on the AH since I'll get exalted soon anyway.<br /><br />I haven't gotten any of the mounts. Terrorfist today is the first of the "big 4" that I've actually ever seen.Jaegerhttps://twitter.com/makosdvnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-79467491379233899592015-07-13T16:22:53.101-04:002015-07-13T16:22:53.101-04:00*poorly formatted
(at least these captcha picture...*poorly formatted<br /><br />(at least these captcha pictures are making me hungry)Calennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-48413370676781630912015-07-13T16:21:39.184-04:002015-07-13T16:21:39.184-04:00And sorry for this purely formatted wall of text ;...And sorry for this purely formatted wall of text ;)Calennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-58484739140387261872015-07-13T16:20:26.259-04:002015-07-13T16:20:26.259-04:00Im still confused, why does people being bad make ...Im still confused, why does people being bad make you less inclined to tank? For me tanking lfr is pretty chill, I run around spamming Thrash and occasionally taunting stuff. I pull back the mobs so its harder to pull more than I can handle, and if some people keep running ahead or have their pets on autotaunt I will just let them die, I only care about the progress of the whole raid, not the well being of everyone in it. If people flame me I can either shut them up by showing my achievements or at least prevent people from kicking me, and there is a reason for the ignore function :) Boss fights are purely about performing mechanics. The only annoyance is the length of fights, since dps is pretty low, thats why Im watching streams on my second monitor. Maybe I had a decent experience because I went in long after the release of the raid so most people running it were actually alts of experienced raiders?Calennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-1567585608763022382015-07-13T14:41:22.298-04:002015-07-13T14:41:22.298-04:00I screwed them because now they come in on the sec...I screwed them because now they come in on the second boss and will all need to re queue again a second time to get the first if they wanted it.<br /><br />I know when I wanted a fresh run and come in on an already in progress run that I feel screwed because now I need to wait in the queue again for the same raid.<br /><br />That is what I meant by I screwed them.<br /><br />I refuse to tank for randoms. Sorry, just am not doing it. Blizzard can't even bribe me with a bribe bag. Heck, blizzard could send me a check to my house paying me 100 a week just to tank the LFR once a week and I still would not do it.<br /><br />Tanking is the easiest role in the game when surrounded by even remotely competent players but it can also be a nightmare when not. <br /><br />I think the only times I have ever tanked the LFR is when I go with a least 10 people from guild. Because that way I know that no matter what I know the boss will go down even if the rest of the raid really sucks.<br /><br />I know, I sound bitter, but that is probably because I am.<br /><br />I doubt I am the only one. Just look at any group and see all the people in there capable of tanking that are not tanking it and ask them why. They will all say the same thing "I don't tank the LFR".TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-12820269069655093222015-07-13T14:13:32.737-04:002015-07-13T14:13:32.737-04:00Thats why I only tank in lfr, tanks have the most ...Thats why I only tank in lfr, tanks have the most responsibility, so if Im one of them, we have a much better chance at killing the boss. I did 5 full runs through lfr BRF over the last 2 months on my bear that only has lfr gear, and I only wiped once, and that was on Blackhand. Im not a amazing tank, I just know the mechanics, and that is good enough for lfr.<br /><br />Also Im confused by your comment on screwing over other people by not leaving: a) how is it your fault that they leave the raid? b) what would they gain if you left as well and the raid instance disappeared?Calennoreply@blogger.com