tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post8849776154259303392..comments2024-03-29T05:19:30.673-04:00Comments on The Grumpy Elf: Monday Random ThoughtsTheGrumpyElfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-27522477849511509802013-05-09T11:27:43.882-04:002013-05-09T11:27:43.882-04:00Yeah, I hate the term "casual" but in th...Yeah, I hate the term "casual" but in that context I felt it fit... in really, really basic terms, to me someone who plays casually is someone who won't dedicate an unlimited amount of time to a pursuit, either they simply don't have the time to do it or their personal drive isn't high enough and they're willing to do it over a longer period of time. By that definition I flip back and forth betwen the two... generally I play casually but there are times I'll play hardcore (capping VP on a reset day, for instance). Generally I consider myself to be a casual but most others would probably consider me more hardcore since I play quite a bit and get a lot done.<br /><br />Ultimately, we're all shaded somewhere between the two... there's no absolute casual player, just like there isn't an absolute hardcore player, we're all somewhere between and how we see ourselves and others on that scale is based on our perceptions. Unfortunately, we don't have better terms, we have to make do. :)<br /><br />By your "I just want to be the best I can be in the time I play", that's right in the middle of my imagined scale between the two... you stick to your time limits but you have little or no wasted time within it. "Hardcore casual". Based on that, I'm probably more casual than you are. I suspect others might disagree, though, so who knows.<br /><br />That third paragraph is where we disagree again... you want 4 or 5 character in top gear AND still have plenty of time left over WHILE sticking to your time limits. To me, that isn't the goal of a casual player and I think it's far too high of an expectation. You *can* keep that many toons in top gear, plus have time left over, even on a limited play schedule, but you can't do it the way you're currently playing. If you were in a top guild on a top server, they're probably doing alt runs with quick full clears on a nightly basis, gearing up would be almost trivial... in that type of environment, you probably COULD do what you want. But you definitely wouldn't be considered casual.<br /><br />I notice your recent post is about the 1.3M decline, I suspect this discussion will continue there. :)<br /><br />My Atonement priest is probably my favourite toon for soloing those rares... his health never moves, plus he does about 50K dps on those fights. Takes a bit longer than on other toons but man, it's awesome. The only problem is that, far as I can tell, he doesn't have anything that can interrupt... might be a talent somewhere but not going to respec just for rares. Haywire is the only one who causes my non-tank toons any issue, having to almost constantly run out 40yds sucks and usually ends up pulling other mobs running around.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-12941968430584213862013-05-09T11:06:52.878-04:002013-05-09T11:06:52.878-04:00Of course, SimC is just another data point, it isn...Of course, SimC is just another data point, it isn't an answer to anything.<br /><br />The two things I used it for are (1) knowing what my ceiling is for a particular toon (combination of race, class, talents and glyphs, plus gear), I judge my own performance against that ceiling on a per-toon basis (so, the more I play a toon, the closer I expect to get to 100% over time... but it doesn't necessarily mean that I'm better on my rogue, who does 95%, than my monk, who does 90%... it could mean that but I don't use it to compare across toons) and (2) the ranking of abilities in terms of value/CD (basically, your rotational priority). You can get general info on that elsewhere but it won't necessarily match up to specific priorities for you.<br /><br />The druid comment is surprising, might have been a bug in the Sim, it's updated regularly. The Simmed number is the average (or median) result based on the number of iterations selected (I think 1K by default, I usually pick 10K for a better result), that basically means that half of the returned results were higher than what SimC indicates... but that also requires perfect rotation to achieve, so chances of exceeding the simmed number consistently strikes me as unlikely. But more power to him either way, kitty is hard.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-49775184104841805102013-05-09T10:06:50.039-04:002013-05-09T10:06:50.039-04:00Lots of ways to cheese the system if you have the ...Lots of ways to cheese the system if you have the resources and the smarts to do so.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-15519163987234799842013-05-08T16:31:54.056-04:002013-05-08T16:31:54.056-04:00476 boots from Sha.
476 belt from Kirin tor sendin...476 boots from Sha.<br />476 belt from Kirin tor sending rep items from main.<br />"borrow" VP items long enough to queue.<br />BoA offhand, mainhand, trinket, neck from relic hunter/Arch.<br />Craft a few boe items or buy them on the AH. Don't equip any of them just put them in that chars bags and sell after. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-52842189485482497442013-05-08T14:41:03.593-04:002013-05-08T14:41:03.593-04:00Casual is also an extremely broad term. I am a ca...Casual is also an extremely broad term. I am a casual player. Even though I do play 7 days a week I am still casual in my approach to the game although it might sound otherwise most of the time.<br /><br />I just want to be the best I can be in the time I play and I can assure you that there are many people that play less, much less, that feel the same as I do. They want the best they can be in the time they play.<br /><br />That is really why I call it casual unfriendly. If I were able to keep 4 or 5 characters in tip top gear and still have loads of time to do other stuff just for fun, then I would call it casual friendly.<br /><br />I love soloing the island rares too. Nothing is better then seeing someone spam chat looking for more people and just running up and attacking. I can do that easily on my tank characters and my hunter. Would not even imagine doing them on others. I did solo 2 of them on my shadow priest however and wonder if I could do more. I only did them because I mentioned in chat they where there and no one came so I tried it. Quiet honestly I was amazed I did it.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-16710408888643523972013-05-08T14:13:00.166-04:002013-05-08T14:13:00.166-04:00Yep. Ultimately, most things people do in the gam...Yep. Ultimately, most things people do in the game just take a certain amount of time in hours... for someone playing casually, it will take longer in weeks, but not necessarily in hours. That isn't a bad thing. Blizz specifically and intentionally wanted to give us a TON of stuff we CAN do at max level so that folks who do play 40hrs (or more) a week can find things to do while, hopefully, people playing 10hr a week won't feel like they're missing out on anything significant, or at least they'll have those things to do later when they've done whatever they want to do first. Back in the later Wrath period, pretty much all I was doing was pugging ICC or chain-running the new 5-mans for gear. That got incredibly boring, there just wasn't anything else worth doing. Pretty much the same at the end of Cat, mostly just 5-mans and DS LFR. Now, there's other stuff that can be done, with SOME purpose to do so if purpose is required, if we choose to do it. Have enough time in the week to do LFR *and* do enough dailies to get enough lesser tokens to trade in for bonus rolls? Great! You'll gear up a bit faster. Only have enough time to run LFR, not for the dailies? That's fine too, might take a bit longer to get drops but if running LFR is what you want to be doing, you're getting to do it. Only want to run dailies? Fair enough, you'll have bonus tokens waiting for you if you do decide to run LFR in the future. It's all interconnected.<br /><br />I'm in the process of transitioning to that, I'm at the point where my raiding toon doesn't really need anything from LFR and the only reason I've capped VP in the past was more for the 50% bonus for my alts to help them gear up and I like running LFR on my raiding toon... completely optional but I was willing to spend the time that way. This will probably be the first week in a while where I don't cap VP... and I'm fine with that.<br /><br />Still, I enjoy playing that character and I'll keep running dailies once or twice a week for the lessers. Plus, soloing the island rares down in 30 seconds and ending up at full health is a lot of fun. I like the feeling of power.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-51681845640906040412013-05-08T14:09:12.973-04:002013-05-08T14:09:12.973-04:00I've never delved into SimC but I know people ...I've never delved into SimC but I know people that swear by it. I'm not sure why but I am a person that likes facts, or at least things that sound like facts. Simulation just does not ring the same as fact. It is nice to get an idea of where you should be but nothing in perfect and thus, nothing will ever reflect SimC. <br /><br />I've seen a feral druid I know destroy, and not just by a little, the numbers that SimC said he should pull on single target stand still. I've seen other classes with near precision perfection when it comes to play as can be told by WoL and come no where close to what SimC said they should be at.<br /><br />So with those experiences and many others I take SimC as I do Mr Robot, with a grain of salt. All great tools but nothing will ever compete with you getting on a dummy and doing it yourself to make a decision. Read, learn, test. That is how I try to handle it and I use those tools for some suggestions, not for fact.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-32355555389339112532013-05-08T13:56:58.567-04:002013-05-08T13:56:58.567-04:00I see your point where a casual player wouldn'...I see your point where a casual player wouldn't be aiming for the things I am talking about. It makes sense. I guess that would come down to the argument of should they be capable of getting them in a casual time frame, which is another conversation all together.<br /><br />I actually do know a bit about the casual approach. I've often made characters on different servers with no friends there, no heirlooms, no sugar daddy characters just to experience it "pure" and get them to max level. I've done it a few times. Usually leave them sitting there at level cap however because I do not like the idea of having to do everything I need to do without the entourage of characters I have become accustom to.<br /><br />Even at that, I can never truly experience the new player feeling again even if I have tired to emulate it. It comes down to I know to much about the game. I can make gold, I know the best way to level, the best areas for drops and gear, what I need and will need, etc. That too will taint me new player feel. <br /><br />I am like that on raiding character. The only time I am on it is for raiding. If someone needs a tank for a 5 man I might pop on as well. It does not do LFR, it does not do dailies, it does nothing but raid. When the raid is done it goes back to the inn and waits for the next raid.<br /><br />I am with you on that one. I always do thing while in queue. Dailies, pet battles, fish, archeology, kill rares, etc. If I ever got to the point where sitting and waiting in the main city was my best option of things to do while in queue I wouldn't queue.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-72904318738761736922013-05-08T13:20:08.989-04:002013-05-08T13:20:08.989-04:00Yeah, I generally try to use MR as more of a sanit...Yeah, I generally try to use MR as more of a sanity check or tiebreaker than anything these days, I usually have a pretty good feel for gear and will go with my gut more than I probably should. Still, it seems to work out.<br /><br />I haven't hit a dummy for testing purposes in years... these days I only use it to learn a new rotation, either a new spec or when there's a change in priority (my DK going from 2H to DW recently resulted in a half hour dummy session to train myself to hit Frost Strike before Obliterate, which then totally messed me up when I ran with my alt server DK for the gearing test... life is tough... :) ).<br /><br />Zeherah... that's a suggestion I haven't heard in a while, used it occasionally back in Wrath (?) but thought that it died back in Cat when the author stopped updating it. I recall that being hunter-only (which is fair, since most of the talk here is hunter-related) but my preference would be for a tool that'll work for all classes relatively equally.<br /><br />I used to use maxdps.com in the old days, then Rawr until it fell mostly into disrepair, and Mr Robot since then... with a side of EJ forums, although I haven't found much of value there for most classes in MoP, too much theory and debate, not enough "fact" (used loosely, but if everyone seems to more or less agree with something that sounds reasonable to me, I'll go with it).<br /><br />I've been also playing around a bit with SimC lately but more as a personal performance metric than a gear guide (I figure out pretty quickly what % of optimal dps I can do on a particular toon and try to make sure that stays the same or improves as I gear up, occasionally I fall back which usually means there's been some sort of rotation change that happens at higher gear levels that I've missed). For example, I still don't prioritize Chi Wave high enough on my monk but I like to hold that back for situtations where the healers can use a bit of an assist... for balls-out dps, though, I should be using it almost on CD. SimC can help with that type of thought process.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-64913847638893176532013-05-08T13:05:16.459-04:002013-05-08T13:05:16.459-04:00I again see your point but you're viewing it a...I again see your point but you're viewing it as not casual friendly from the perspective of someone who has put in the effort, and is willing to put in the effort, rather than putting yourself in the shoes of the casual player. In order for someone to get to where YOU are now, sure, it'll be difficult or impossible for someone playing casually. But that's the point - someone playing casually isn't going to care about most of that that.<br /><br />Realistically, someone playing casually isn't going to care about having all reps to Exalted, capping VP and CP every week, gearing up one (or multiple) toons to step into raids at a moment's notice, having a 2200 (is that good?) Arena rating. They MIGHT care about one or two of those but any subset of those CAN be done casually, it's just that EVERYTHING can't be done. And that's how it should be, someone with limited play time SHOULD focus on doing what they want to do rather than doing everything.<br /><br />I know plenty of people in-game right now who, basically, only raid. They log in 30m before raid, do the raid, deal with any gear drops afterward and log off. That's casual play to me and they're able to do it 100% successfully, they're getting everything out of the game that they want. Where's the issue?<br /><br />As a side note, your friend who didn't know to sell Jade Lungfish makes me sad. ASE - Always Sell Everything... or at least try to a few times before deciding it isn't worth it. Reminds of people who sit in a city while waiting out 45m LFR dps queues rather than actually DOING something with that time, even if it's just fishing, dailies, etc, and then complain about not having any gold. Grumble. I'm not talking about efficiency, I'm just talking about activity. When in the game with limited playtime, do stuff!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-8056574369285427872013-05-07T18:45:29.902-04:002013-05-07T18:45:29.902-04:00Zeherah's Female Dwarf simulatort site is very...<a href="http://www.femaledwarf.com" rel="nofollow">Zeherah's Female Dwarf simulatort site</a> is very helpful.Jaegernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-86849487013165703662013-05-07T12:25:13.890-04:002013-05-07T12:25:13.890-04:00In the end it all comes down to effort rewarded, w...In the end it all comes down to effort rewarded, which is why I say that this expansion is not casual friendly.<br /><br />Let me explain.<br /><br />Even if you have only one character, no money making skills and no useful professions to make yourself gear, even without tokens it will take you no longer than 3 weeks to get all the original factions to exalted. (as long as you are doing your one dungeon and one scenario for AC as they take the longest).<br /><br />In that time you can spend some valor to buy a few pieces. And the shieldwall / domination point / isle areas will also give you options for better gear than those original factions would.<br /><br />But the reason I say do them all is this. Those first few weeks of the expansion when I was just questing my ass off I was making near 5K a day just from questing and selling the junk I got while questing. That is on top of the fact I was getting rep, valor and coins.<br /><br />But it is effort = reward. I put in the effort and I was rewarded with everything including making money.<br /><br />Then there is the put in time to kill rares angle. If you happen to be an enchanter, even better. Kill rares, disenchant, collect bags, sell everything. You can do rare killing for 2 hours if your class and skill allow and easily make 20K in that time if you catch a lot of them and get lucky with drops and are an enchanter and perhaps 5K in that time if you are not very lucky, only catch some and are not an enchanter. Once again, effort = reward.<br /><br />But does the casual player really have the time to grind all those dailies never the less rare farm? Does the casual player even think to sell stuff on the auction house? <br /><br />I know a hard core player that was always broke and told me he had to vendor off all this crap food in his bag because it was taking up space. I told him, dude, I sell jade lungfish for 300-700g all the time, food sells well. <br /><br />He started listing, started rare hunting and then one day gave me a darkmoon rabbit he bought off the AH for 25K as a gift and I said it was too much. He said, it was a thank you for teaching him how to make gold and it was no biggie, he makes 25K a day now.<br /><br />So yes, if you put in the time and effort you can get everything but it is absolutely not casual friendly to do so.<br /><br />If anything, this is a very casual unfriendly expansion. I think that is blizzards one big mistake in their otherwise stellar expansion.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-31569324990869414932013-05-07T11:58:52.716-04:002013-05-07T11:58:52.716-04:00I tend to use mr robot as well, but I take it with...I tend to use mr robot as well, but I take it with a grain of salt. While the relative and absolute options do tend to help with their issue over extremely over valuing hit and expertise I still do not trust them 100%.<br /><br />I tend to go old school and put the stuff on and spend some times on the dummies, but that too has brought up an issue.<br /><br />Thanks to the insane numbers on gear, the luck factor, and the odd crit not being a blanket number I can do 10 attempts of 5 minutes in a row and get 10 different results. They can range from 65K to 105K depending on procs, crits, crits during procs, etc. <br /><br />DPS is all luck based now. If you get a nice sweet crit streak when you have no trinket procs and no crits when it does compared to that crit streak coming when the trinket procks it can mean 30K+ difference. All luck.<br /><br />So I average the attempts out and figure it from there. However, I have not taken the time to do that yet to test the 4 piece (502) over the 2 piece (502) and 2 off pieces (522).TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-18820516521354225832013-05-07T11:33:14.616-04:002013-05-07T11:33:14.616-04:00Your points are valid but I'm specifically the...Your points are valid but I'm specifically theorizing that gearing up an alt is easy... with a main who has already done the content, commendations should be in place and there should be enough gold to buy some cheap pieces here and there... the gear is going to have to be gemmed, enchanted and reforged, those are often more than buying the gear, especially for the PvP crafted gear. If someone doesn't have the gold to do that they should be worrying about that first, not gearing up a new toon.<br /><br />If someone doesn't have a toon that can craft the gear personally, doesn't have any friends and isn't in a guild, and if the AH is overcharging, just bark for someone to craft them for you, buy the base mats in advance and offer a 250g tip, pretty sure any crafter will jump on that... you'll end up paying ~750g total for a full set of cloth or plate and maybe twice that for leather/mail. That should be a trivial amount of gold these days. That's with zero personal resources, hopefully anyone actually playing the game will have access to SOMEONE who can craft them, or at least some of them.<br /><br />In terms of continued gearing progress, despite only having an i462 equipped iLvl (my i465 previous comment was apparently high, must have had a tank piece or two equipped at the time, I tend to quest as Blood), I decided my MV numbers were high enough to warrant giving HoF a shot. HoF went well enough that I finished off Terrace as well. Average damage position for the 10 bosses - 5.5th. I did take full advantage of bosses where knowing what you're doing can be unusually beneficial (Amber Shaper (#1, by 40K... seriously, how hard is it to press 1 when you're converted?), Tornado guy (#3), Garalon (#2, by about 15K over #3)). Was 10th on 2 bosses, those were my lowest finishes. Only slightly below average on even those ones.<br /><br />It'd be easy to argue that I was only doing as well as I was this week due to low dps groups but the bosses were dying without incident, none seemed to take unusually longer than usual. As you say, as long as the weakest folks can do 40K, there'll be plenty of dps to get it done.<br /><br />Poor drop luck again, only 2 upgrades in 10 bosses... total for the 16 bosses (19 rolls) - 3 upgrades. Should have gotten 6 or 7 based on the 35% estimated drop rate.<br /><br />Up to i467 equipped now. Almost i470, so not bad, but picking up another i13 next week will be rough without being able to get enough VP for another i522 piece. I'll likely park that toon until the weekend and will report back again afterward.<br /><br />Also, agreed, I'd want to be doing at least 60K sustained single-target to step into ToT. My DK is close to that now, actually (did, I think, 61K on Sha of Fear) so that won't be an issue but I've mentioned before that Frost DKs seem to do better than average at lower gear levels. I'm not sure my Warlock is doing much better than yours but I haven't run him in a while. I might give him a bit of attention this week to see.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-87319758643456757752013-05-07T11:13:55.245-04:002013-05-07T11:13:55.245-04:00Speaking of tools, what are you guys using tool-wi...Speaking of tools, what are you guys using tool-wise to determine when to break the T14 bonuses? I've been using Mr. Robot exclusively for a while but it seems to think the T14 2pc is crazy good for hunters... to the point where two equivalent but non-tier i502 pieces are inferior. I've always believed that you'd always want to break a tier bonus once you have two higher-tier pieces to replace them (one is iffy, sometimes makes sense to break, sometimes doesn't, but two is guaranteed break time).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-37315478957773364802013-05-07T09:03:14.883-04:002013-05-07T09:03:14.883-04:00Glad you like them. :)
Lei-Shen has the potential...Glad you like them. :)<br /><br />Lei-Shen has the potential to be a nightmare and I have been in a few of those runs. Some people just do not get it, no matter how many times you wipe.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-10586235133542843332013-05-07T09:01:57.250-04:002013-05-07T09:01:57.250-04:00Congrats on gearing up nicely. I am in the same p...Congrats on gearing up nicely. I am in the same place as you, but I had to break the T14 set for the T15 one. Never had more than a 2 piece in T14 so did not have much wiggle room.<br /><br />Have the 4 piece LFR version now but I really want the head tier one. That would be an upgrade from the head I am wearing and a big one at that. So I only have the 2 piece on right now. I have 522 legs and a 522 chest and not sure if taking them both off for the set bonus is worth it. But taking one off if I got the head, would be surely. Need to do some research.<br /><br />I could buy the gloves from the vendor, but I have tier gloves. I could buy the chest, but I have one. I could buy the shoulders, but exalted is a long time away and also, I have that as a tier piece. So yeap. Not a single thing to spend valor on. Lets hope 5.3 comes soon so I can start upgrading stuff.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-47123378083356714432013-05-07T08:56:21.847-04:002013-05-07T08:56:21.847-04:00I did it on my level 86 Paladin in tank spec. My ...I did it on my level 86 Paladin in tank spec. My paladin did it 5 times and never won anything however. Just time your cooldowns for the stomp and you are golden.<br /><br />Did sha on my lock at 87 without dying. DoT up that baby and run for the hills. ;)TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-23022365068308877142013-05-07T08:53:58.444-04:002013-05-07T08:53:58.444-04:00I did a x-realm world boss on my lock this week. ...I did a x-realm world boss on my lock this week. Didn't win but thanks for mentioning it. Glad to see that is back. On a server like mine if you do not kill things on tuesday you never will.<br /><br />I need to get that add on for groups. Would make it a lot easier to gear alts through MV instead of LFR MV.<br /><br />I still need to decide on a spec for my lock. Thinking of going back to afflic, that was always my spec but I changed for leveling purposes. Once I decide on a spec and get a rhythm down I'll give the LFR a try. I might not give 100% on my alts, but I do at the very least try to give as much as I can without perfection. Perhaps I can do that 40K in a group setting but I want to wait until I am more comfortable. Thanks for the vote of confidence on pushing into there however.<br /><br />I wonder if I should bring my 87 monk there. It should be 90 next time I play it, would be nice to start off with some 522s. lolTheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-86733385023711022172013-05-07T08:48:24.665-04:002013-05-07T08:48:24.665-04:00When teaching one person (or an organized group in...When teaching one person (or an organized group in progression) failure as a learning tool is perfect. When people fail at something they tend to learn from it.<br /><br />In random group content that will still be cleared even with their failure, it will not teach them anything. Or even worse, when failure happens and I am forced to die because of their failure it builds dislike for my fellow player because their failure is now wasting my time.<br /><br />I don't believe that just because I can make it through the maze even having problems seeing it that everyone should. But I do believe that everyone should try. I do believe that everyone should know it was going to be there before they attempted to do the content. I do believe that if you are not going to try and are willing to accept failure as an option you should not be playing a game where your failure wastes the time of others. <br /><br />I also believe that the only thing worse than someone that dies to the maze over and over 100 times and refuses to learn is that blizzard lacked the hindsight or research to know that a mechanic like this had no place in random content.<br /><br />It might be optional but just like the people that choose to make programming try to make their show so the target audience likes it, shouldn't blizzard have made their optional content so their target audience (the people that can't do the maze) were capable of doing it?TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-58264933505041002722013-05-07T04:31:22.513-04:002013-05-07T04:31:22.513-04:00Grumpy, I just want you to know that even if you o...Grumpy, I just want you to know that even if you only do these Monday posts, I will keep reading them. They are wonderful!<br /><br />Needless to say, I totally agree that LFR is easy. Even if you don't read or watch anything, after you have one or two wipes and a successful try on each boss, it is super-easy. Even the Lei-Shen fight, which looks so busy at first, is very simple, in LFR.PVP anonhttp://nowhere.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-63526818058245919902013-05-06T22:45:29.527-04:002013-05-06T22:45:29.527-04:00Up to 510 ilvl now. Got 2p T14 normal (upgraded) ...Up to 510 ilvl now. Got 2p T14 normal (upgraded) and 2p T15 LFR. Got a 3rd LFR T15 piece but it's a downgrade til I get a 4th.<br /><br />Trying to get the normal T15 pieces off Nalak.<br /><br />Don't really need anymore valor gear. I have neck, belt, cloak, ring, trinket, wrists. Could go for the exalted shoulders though, but it'll be a bit to get to exalted.<br /><br />Killed Oondasta for the 2nd time finally. No loot though.<br /><br />Went on an IoT elite killing spree on Saturday. Earned close to 300 vp just from elites.<br /><br />Got Veteran Nanny on hunter. Then dusted off my 85 DK and used him to get the last two pets I needed, so I'm officially done with Children's week.<br /><br />Ran BT with a guildie. Got the Black Bow off Illidan and the "useless for a hunter" MH warglaive. Guildie (rogue) wanted the OH but it didn't drop.<br /><br />Can't think of anything else interesting that happened during the week.Jaegernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-71397427490670421672013-05-06T18:45:24.869-04:002013-05-06T18:45:24.869-04:00I know! I do Galleon on my lvl 87s when they are ...I know! I do Galleon on my lvl 87s when they are there in the valley! Just stand in the HOTs blow your defensive cooldowns and if you can live through a STONM then you are golden! Free gear! (disclaimer: try that crap on Sha and you will be a stain)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-37345350988400740292013-05-06T18:31:53.478-04:002013-05-06T18:31:53.478-04:00We're straying slightly off-topic but yeah, th...We're straying slightly off-topic but yeah, there's the in-game rules and the generally accepted rules of personal conduct of the players, which pretty much boil down to not deliberately ruining someone else's gameplay and actually making some effort to play the game. <br /><br />Grumpy, depending what spec you are, with longer 'execute' phases plus aoe in raids and also full buffs, which if you're doing heroics you probably haven't got most runs, you'd prob break 40k in there and honestly, 40k and knowing what you're doing is probably more use in most cases than 80k and clueless ;p Just try and do the lock as soon after reset as you can for a good group and if you haven't, get your Key to the Palace of Lei Shen instance done on it for elders to use on bonus rolls, it's extra gold every boss you want loot off right? ;p Maybe even gear! <br /><br />BTW, I'd guess everybody knows Nalak and Oondasta are once again cross-realm same as Sha and Galleon, but some of you might not know about OQueue which is an addon for finding groups, mostly PVP but I do a bunch of my world bosses on it since I have multiple 90's. <br />Also, just because I find it funny....I got a couple guildies and a friend to summon my lvl 62 dk to Nalak....he got the 522 tank tier legs. Boosted my eagerness to level, having those sat in my bag is incentive ;p Katzbalger-Arthas (US)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-28815383260886831302013-05-06T18:04:42.534-04:002013-05-06T18:04:42.534-04:00When you buy a TV it must be capable of showing a ...When you buy a TV it must be capable of showing a picture but putting out content is done by others and is optional. No one is under any obligation to broadcast anything to you. This is why I said the concept is difficult. We force the square peg into the round hole and find reasons to justify it. If Blizz makes i460 the gate and not demanding performance then performance is optional. We demand it socially. It sounds like semantics but it isn't. People SHOULD make an effort but understand that effort still falls in the optional catagory. (notice i am saying nothing about polite/correct/decent or any of those words?) I am a father and I will tell you a secret: the only way to really deal with an unwinnable situation is natural consequences: let people fail and let them take the fall and let them clean it up. That is why people are angry - no one wants to work with people who have a different work ethic and that is the core of LFR. Also courtesy is expected in modern culture - also optional. It is an ugly truth for a reason. Blizzard made a world with rules - the players made assumptions outside those rules. Without police there is no actual social contract just verbal threats. Anything that isnt in the game rules is an illusion co-opted by the players. Believeing in illusions caused all of these problems.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com