Sunday, May 11, 2008
This Weekend
Well I hope you all had a nice weekend. I had some really crappy/tragic stuff happen in real life that I do not really want to talk about right now. So I am going to talk about my guild's progress this weekend. Friday night we went into Hyjal our first time and downed Rage Winterchill. And then Saturday we downed Vash'j and Anatheron for the first time. Also, I MT'd both fights =D. Too tired to post anything else tonight. Have a nice weekend folks.
Friday, May 9, 2008
New WOTLK Info
I know I am a little late on this, but I have been busy. I will drop some opinions on this new news tomorrow, but I am too tired at the moment, so I am just going to give you guys some links where you can find all the information.
Thanks to Wow Insider for these first few links:
-Hands on impressions with Wrath
-Interview with Jeff Kaplan
-WOTLK Videos
-WOTLK Raids
-More Impresions
-Info on the Death Knight
-J Allen Brack Interview
And thanks to Nighthorns for this post on the ELR forums that provides a summary of the updates.
Thanks to Wow Insider for these first few links:
-Hands on impressions with Wrath
-Interview with Jeff Kaplan
-WOTLK Videos
-WOTLK Raids
-More Impresions
-Info on the Death Knight
-J Allen Brack Interview
And thanks to Nighthorns for this post on the ELR forums that provides a summary of the updates.
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Pt. 1 of My Prottection Spec Warrior Guide-Races
So, gonna do a guide for Protection Spec Warrior guide...pretty much. Hope you all enjoy =).
This first entry will discuss the basics of the warrior: What to expect as a warrior, Basic Warrior Stats, and the various races that can choose the profession of a warrior.What To Expect-The Warrior is a very versatile, highly requested part of this game. Warriors are some of the best tanks, the best melee PvE DPSers, and one of the best melee classes in PvP. Warriors are also one of the most survivable classes as well, even those who are not specialized in taking a hit can survive longer than your average mage. Warriors can wear plate (the heaviest armor in the game) and hit 10k+ health with ease at level 70.While you are leveling your warrior, there is one thing you can guarantee will be asked of you. At least once a level, you will get the tell "Can you tank ?" This is something that, while you may not enjoy, is easy to do (to be covered in a later post) and will give you access to experience and rewards that will help you in what you would rather be doing. At the same time, you may occasionally be asked to DPS (damage per second) in an instance, but this is unlikely. There is a noticable shortage of tanks throughout the entire games, especially in regards to those willing to do instance below level 70. Basically, this breaks down into, "Do not expect to get to be considered as a real DPS class until 70."
Stats
A warrior who is leveling has 3 main stats. Stamina, to increase your health and thereby increase survivability. Strength, to increase the damage you do and for mitigation. Also, to a lesser extent, agility. Agility increases critical strike rating, and increases dodge. All of these stats and more will be covered in a later post. I do not want to get into Theorycraft in this post, as it is intended for someone new to the game who is interested in playing a warrior.
Races
Alliance-
Draenei: The Dreanei are a solid class to play a warrior as. Besides their excellent starting area, they have two great warrior related racials. Heroic Presence increases you and your party's hit rating by 1%, which will be highly desirable later in the game. Also, Draenei have "The Gift of the Naaru" which is a spell that heals you over time (It heals you for X ammount every X seconds) which is great in any situation in which your health gets low, and decreases your overall down time. Draenei also have racials that increase your Jewelcrafting skill, which is useful if you choose to go down that path.
Dwarves: Dwarves have great warrior stats (high stamina and strength.) As an added bonus to this perk, they also have stoneform. If you have any desire to be a tank (someone who holds the attention of the mob) this is a great skill for you. It makes you immune to bleed, poison, and disease effects, and increases your armor by 10% for 8 seconds.
Gnomes: The Gnomes are not the most hardiest of classes. As such, this will make starting one slightly more of a pain, as you have significantly less health. However, they do have a great PvP related talent, Escape Artist, which allows you to get out of any snare or root effect. Also, when you get PvP gear, and put it on a gnome, it is both hilarious and frightening.
Humans: Humans are another good choice. They have perception, allowing them to see enemies who are hiding, and their skill with swords and maces is better than any other race in the game (+5).
Night Elves: The Night Elves have a slightly lower starting health than other classes. However, their ability to stealth can be entertaining in PvP situations, and their increased chance to dodge is useful in mitigating damage.
Horde:
Orcs: Orcs are amazing warriors. They have high stamina and strength. Also, their racial ability Blood Fury greatly increases their damage output, and their natural resistance to stuns is incredible (15%.) They also receive +5 to axes.
Tauren: The Tauren are t he heartiest race in the game, receiving an added 5% bonus to their health. They also posses the ability of War Stomp, which stuns 5 surrounding enemies.
Trolls: The Troll's racial ability, Berserking, increases their attack speed from 10-30%. Also, they have faster health regeneration than other races.
Undead: Cannibalize allows you to consume a nearby corpse, regenerating some of your health. Also, Undead have "Will of the Forsaken" which removes the effects of Fear, Sleep, and Charm from them.In the end it does not really matter what race you pick. You may want to consider these various racials into account, however, they all end up balancing out.
This first entry will discuss the basics of the warrior: What to expect as a warrior, Basic Warrior Stats, and the various races that can choose the profession of a warrior.What To Expect-The Warrior is a very versatile, highly requested part of this game. Warriors are some of the best tanks, the best melee PvE DPSers, and one of the best melee classes in PvP. Warriors are also one of the most survivable classes as well, even those who are not specialized in taking a hit can survive longer than your average mage. Warriors can wear plate (the heaviest armor in the game) and hit 10k+ health with ease at level 70.While you are leveling your warrior, there is one thing you can guarantee will be asked of you. At least once a level, you will get the tell "Can you tank ?" This is something that, while you may not enjoy, is easy to do (to be covered in a later post) and will give you access to experience and rewards that will help you in what you would rather be doing. At the same time, you may occasionally be asked to DPS (damage per second) in an instance, but this is unlikely. There is a noticable shortage of tanks throughout the entire games, especially in regards to those willing to do instance below level 70. Basically, this breaks down into, "Do not expect to get to be considered as a real DPS class until 70."
Stats
A warrior who is leveling has 3 main stats. Stamina, to increase your health and thereby increase survivability. Strength, to increase the damage you do and for mitigation. Also, to a lesser extent, agility. Agility increases critical strike rating, and increases dodge. All of these stats and more will be covered in a later post. I do not want to get into Theorycraft in this post, as it is intended for someone new to the game who is interested in playing a warrior.
Races
Alliance-
Draenei: The Dreanei are a solid class to play a warrior as. Besides their excellent starting area, they have two great warrior related racials. Heroic Presence increases you and your party's hit rating by 1%, which will be highly desirable later in the game. Also, Draenei have "The Gift of the Naaru" which is a spell that heals you over time (It heals you for X ammount every X seconds) which is great in any situation in which your health gets low, and decreases your overall down time. Draenei also have racials that increase your Jewelcrafting skill, which is useful if you choose to go down that path.
Dwarves: Dwarves have great warrior stats (high stamina and strength.) As an added bonus to this perk, they also have stoneform. If you have any desire to be a tank (someone who holds the attention of the mob) this is a great skill for you. It makes you immune to bleed, poison, and disease effects, and increases your armor by 10% for 8 seconds.
Gnomes: The Gnomes are not the most hardiest of classes. As such, this will make starting one slightly more of a pain, as you have significantly less health. However, they do have a great PvP related talent, Escape Artist, which allows you to get out of any snare or root effect. Also, when you get PvP gear, and put it on a gnome, it is both hilarious and frightening.
Humans: Humans are another good choice. They have perception, allowing them to see enemies who are hiding, and their skill with swords and maces is better than any other race in the game (+5).
Night Elves: The Night Elves have a slightly lower starting health than other classes. However, their ability to stealth can be entertaining in PvP situations, and their increased chance to dodge is useful in mitigating damage.
Horde:
Orcs: Orcs are amazing warriors. They have high stamina and strength. Also, their racial ability Blood Fury greatly increases their damage output, and their natural resistance to stuns is incredible (15%.) They also receive +5 to axes.
Tauren: The Tauren are t he heartiest race in the game, receiving an added 5% bonus to their health. They also posses the ability of War Stomp, which stuns 5 surrounding enemies.
Trolls: The Troll's racial ability, Berserking, increases their attack speed from 10-30%. Also, they have faster health regeneration than other races.
Undead: Cannibalize allows you to consume a nearby corpse, regenerating some of your health. Also, Undead have "Will of the Forsaken" which removes the effects of Fear, Sleep, and Charm from them.In the end it does not really matter what race you pick. You may want to consider these various racials into account, however, they all end up balancing out.
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
My Main
Well, just a quick WoW character update/introduction. As I don't feel like going through a complete summary of my WoW history, I will simply tell you all that I rerolled a new character a while ago, an Undead Prot warrior, to be specific. As can be seen by clicking on that link, I have just about everything I can get for my character outside of my nightly 25mans. The only thing I really have left to get is my epic riding skill. So, I really need to get that, and I am going to try and get it within a month or so (I have some fun farming ahead of me.) Sorry, having an off day today, I just wanted to at least put something up.
Also, tonight I have SSC (wish us luck!) We have everything but Vash'j on farm, and we will hopefully downing her tomorrow. Hopefully I will get
Mallet of the Tides. Have a good night folks.
Also, tonight I have SSC (wish us luck!) We have everything but Vash'j on farm, and we will hopefully downing her tomorrow. Hopefully I will get
Mallet of the Tides. Have a good night folks.
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
People Scare Me
Watch this video, and then read on.
Really! Really?! This stuff always gets to me, some politician and or political talk show host who has not had exposure to anyone under the socioeconomic standing of "upper middle class" and who then goes on to comment on a video game, a video game she/he has clearly never played. Just to make sure I cite my sources before I continue on this tirade, I got this from a Kotaku article that can be found here. I would also like to add that I have no intention of insulting Glenn Beck in this post, I am simply enraged at all media outlets who comment on video games without ever having seen the games they are talking about.
Firstly, I must give it to Beck. He at least is insulting all media instead of just video games. He cites other forms of media, such as various shows etc. etc. But this so called "defender of America" seems to want to censor all of these things and put us all in a white room with a bible (freedom of speech is silly.)
The thing that really pinches my nerves is the amazing amount of inaccuracy's he throws the viewer's way. For anyone who has played GTAIV, Niko is in fact a former soldier, and a lot of the more touching cut scenes have a strangely anti-war tinge to them. I simply cannot express how obnoxious this Fox-news-esque reporting is. I sometimes wonder if such ultra conservatives realize that, were their proposed plan of mass censorship to go through, they would be out of a job.
I really just cannot express clearly how much/why this angers me so much, but I believe it is quite easy to understand, as I assume anyone who has the misfortune of reading this is a gamer. Sorry if this is not my top quality work, but I am raiding at the same time heh >.>
Really! Really?! This stuff always gets to me, some politician and or political talk show host who has not had exposure to anyone under the socioeconomic standing of "upper middle class" and who then goes on to comment on a video game, a video game she/he has clearly never played. Just to make sure I cite my sources before I continue on this tirade, I got this from a Kotaku article that can be found here. I would also like to add that I have no intention of insulting Glenn Beck in this post, I am simply enraged at all media outlets who comment on video games without ever having seen the games they are talking about.
Firstly, I must give it to Beck. He at least is insulting all media instead of just video games. He cites other forms of media, such as various shows etc. etc. But this so called "defender of America" seems to want to censor all of these things and put us all in a white room with a bible (freedom of speech is silly.)
The thing that really pinches my nerves is the amazing amount of inaccuracy's he throws the viewer's way. For anyone who has played GTAIV, Niko is in fact a former soldier, and a lot of the more touching cut scenes have a strangely anti-war tinge to them. I simply cannot express how obnoxious this Fox-news-esque reporting is. I sometimes wonder if such ultra conservatives realize that, were their proposed plan of mass censorship to go through, they would be out of a job.
I really just cannot express clearly how much/why this angers me so much, but I believe it is quite easy to understand, as I assume anyone who has the misfortune of reading this is a gamer. Sorry if this is not my top quality work, but I am raiding at the same time heh >.>
Monday, May 5, 2008
Have to Start Somewhere
Well, I suppose this would be the part where I would start saying something relevant. So, to start you off, I would like to inform you that you have had the misfortune of somehow managing to find my blog, and, to make matters worse, you are now reading it. Some may be questioning the name of my blog at this point, and to explain that, I must first explain myself to some extent. I am into video games, and most other forms of media. As such, that will be the focal point of this blog, video games and other forms of media. If you have read this far, you likely know that World of Warcraft is one of the biggest games out to date. In my guild in WoW, we have a phrase; "Raiding is hard. Sometimes there is fire. You have to move out of the fire." And it is with this phrase in mind that I make this blog. While the phrase may not directly relate to video games, it makes me happy. And I am selfish.
The phrase makes fun, in a way, of what I love to do, not just in WoW, but in all video games. It takes something that is obvious to the utmost extent, something that has no need to be said out loud, but makes up a large part of the subject it pertains to. And this is what I enjoy so much about the phrase. It completely debases and oversimplifies everything about video games. However, after typing out that tirade, I realize that you probably do not care.
So, back to the blog. I hope to try and post daily, other matters permitting. You can expect reviews, opinions, and even my occasional, and quite pathetic, attempts to cover news, all mixed in with random tidbits that will manage to leak out of my brain and onto the tubes. I hope you enjoy your time here, and I think you for visiting the site.
Edit: sorry about some spelling errors, wrote this at 11, and on my laptop that doesn't have firefox =P
The phrase makes fun, in a way, of what I love to do, not just in WoW, but in all video games. It takes something that is obvious to the utmost extent, something that has no need to be said out loud, but makes up a large part of the subject it pertains to. And this is what I enjoy so much about the phrase. It completely debases and oversimplifies everything about video games. However, after typing out that tirade, I realize that you probably do not care.
So, back to the blog. I hope to try and post daily, other matters permitting. You can expect reviews, opinions, and even my occasional, and quite pathetic, attempts to cover news, all mixed in with random tidbits that will manage to leak out of my brain and onto the tubes. I hope you enjoy your time here, and I think you for visiting the site.
Edit: sorry about some spelling errors, wrote this at 11, and on my laptop that doesn't have firefox =P
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