Collect some thoughts, write them down.
Had a slight achievement revival and made Pilgrim in the first 3 days of the festival. Took a break from shooting at things, and slipped back into the paladin shoes. Krakenoah the pilgrim. Tank spec in my PVP gear am now at about 30K unbuffed health. Tiddly by high end standards but still rather thrilling here, and comforting too, when your being shot to bits in your 12k attack-power mail at 75. particularly enjoyed the first day of the festival when all the achievement geeks logged on to get their stuff together. I didnt realise how many people on Nordrassil had got the Insane title. Too many. We may not have any world beating raiders or arena types, but we do have achievement chasing down to a fine art!
Depending on how my time breaks down this weekend, I might have a burst of levelling with Fear, and get to the hallowed 78 mark (at which point I can put on my crafted Resillience outfit, and offer some serious threat in the brackets). Saturday night is the annual Motorhead gig, and next week is the christmas Fitup in my home venue, so the playing I do in the next few days will be my lot for a couple of weeks. I had 3 days fitting up panto in East london last week, so Christmas is here for us in theatreland. Am currently at work purely to provide a ladder for a florist decorating a christmas tree in a foyer. I love these calls. I don't even have to foot the ladder, as I have a Casual in for that. This may be the worst attack of 'Health and Safety' I've seen all year, but its a close call...
Making the switch to a Gaming pad from my regular rather shit keyboard is pretty much done now too. I am developing some decent "twitch" with Fear, although you do have to stand still occasionally on a hunter more than you do on a paladin, I am learning to dance about all over again and loving it. Beastmaster hunting has been excellent through from 10 to 70 in the Battlegrounds, but now I'm having my ass handed to me by survivors and marksmen, so I may have to go back to the drawing board. It is amusing watching people trying to kill my raptor though, and he seems to hold people's attention quite well. I may well get dual spec for Fear, just because I love respeccing so much, and being BM is always going to be attractive for the big pet, but we will see. I was in WSG yesterday, howling down everything I had onto a Paladin, but he wasn't getting even remotely scratched. Now, he was 79 to my 75, but thats just not cricket is it? He was Protection Spec, with two druids backing him up (one of whom I took down, before you ask) and he was actually just invincible. We had a paladin, but he played like a lemon, so it was game over once this Blood Elf took the first flag. Unfortunately, we still played all the way to 25 minutes! Thats how it is in the brackets, and it's been very interesting time spent in them with Fear. At 39 its rogues, at 59 its Death Knights, at 79 its Paladins. Feels like 19 and 29, where a lot of the twinking goes on, is actually quite well balanced (and my apologies go out into the twisting Nether for all those guys watching me be truly bad at being a 19 rogue. Its tougher than it looks!). However, as mentioned above, at 78, I'm going back for his head. Oh, and that blasted Tauren Hunter who was on his team as well.
Have been playing a lot of Magic: the Gathering lately which has been very cool. two of my colleagues here at the house have got into it, and we've uncovered a web of people in their thirties who own cards but never seem to have played the game and are interested now we are! I have a lot of time for sit-down-at-a-table games, I still play a lot of BloodBowl and Space Hulk, as well as Scrabble and Carcassone, so getting back into MTG has been a treat. Last night we sat drinking in the bar at the Royal Festival Hall and played, and if that isn't a good combination of the convivial and the geeky, then I'm not sure what is... We're thinking of starting a league, but running that sort of thing requires a bit more than enthusiasm, so we'll wait and see.
Wednesday, 25 November 2009
Sunday, 1 November 2009
hunting, going to work, then hunting some more
I have had a testing week at work, with my rigging skills put under scrutiny, and a large, very blue set to make look as spiffing as possible. In some of my quiet moments, when the talk hasn't been the usual stage mix of taxes, the many times people have hurt themselves, or how big a thing can you lift, I have been thinking a bit about my hunter.
Levelling Fearwings is really good fun after almost 2 solid years as a paladin, with a bag full of paladin tricks, which often feels like the same tricks as anyone else in PVP, cos we're all here aren't we Terry? (and very soon Tauren are going to nail us all to the walls in their holy plate) I’ve rolled Fear to do battle with the Horde, in all of its forms, and in order to see some more of the old world before Cataclysm comes out. I will be levelling a dwarf shaman at some point, post expansion, and It will be nice to compare and contrast, and soak up the lore, of which we can all agree, there is ridiculous amounts.
For some reason, Fear seems to attract vast amounts of attention in the BGs though. Maybe it’s because I tend to jump in and return the flags. I also like to use my hunter bag of tricks to find people to target, and send the pet after them. Flagdragon kills dudes on his own, defending the roof of the base in the Gulch. How galling must that be, not even managing to beat the pet on his own? The excitement of that is worth every 2shot rogue death going. Interestingly, there are rogues who can 2 shot you in every bracket. (Mine has just got to 18, so one of them is going to be me very soon). I prefer “2shot” to “globalled” which is a term people think is interchangeable in blogs at the minute. “Globalled” refers to being killed in the space of one global cooldown, you actually don’t get this problem much outside the top end pvp, I happily get to watch plenty of cooldowns go by whilst I am stunned by targets 3 and 4, unable to do anything in my levelling gear, and my pet away on target 1.
I am now at 63, so deep in the doldrums of not being hard enough to do BG’s, and facing the world of Outland quests. There is an unbelievable amount of things to do in Outland, and I still haven’t managed to get through one of the “Do 90 quests” there yet, and this is my third time through. I seem to be a few levels above a quest chain by the time I complete it, partly because it is easier to just quest out of one hub, not follow the chains from place to place in exclusivity.
My main cause for concern is that I have been in a queue for AV every time I log on, for the whole of my playtime since 55, but not once has a match started. I am looking forward to AV, and getting some badges, and capping a few towers and running about, but apparently this isn’t for people in their 50’s and 60’s. I guess people want to run WSG for the quicker return on their investment. An HK is an HK, and sentinel’s medallions and swift runner’s weapons are a thing of joy. Who wants to be stood in a draughty tower in some snowbound valley when they can be tucked up nice and warm in a cosy flagroom with your mates?
Levelling Fearwings is really good fun after almost 2 solid years as a paladin, with a bag full of paladin tricks, which often feels like the same tricks as anyone else in PVP, cos we're all here aren't we Terry? (and very soon Tauren are going to nail us all to the walls in their holy plate) I’ve rolled Fear to do battle with the Horde, in all of its forms, and in order to see some more of the old world before Cataclysm comes out. I will be levelling a dwarf shaman at some point, post expansion, and It will be nice to compare and contrast, and soak up the lore, of which we can all agree, there is ridiculous amounts.
For some reason, Fear seems to attract vast amounts of attention in the BGs though. Maybe it’s because I tend to jump in and return the flags. I also like to use my hunter bag of tricks to find people to target, and send the pet after them. Flagdragon kills dudes on his own, defending the roof of the base in the Gulch. How galling must that be, not even managing to beat the pet on his own? The excitement of that is worth every 2shot rogue death going. Interestingly, there are rogues who can 2 shot you in every bracket. (Mine has just got to 18, so one of them is going to be me very soon). I prefer “2shot” to “globalled” which is a term people think is interchangeable in blogs at the minute. “Globalled” refers to being killed in the space of one global cooldown, you actually don’t get this problem much outside the top end pvp, I happily get to watch plenty of cooldowns go by whilst I am stunned by targets 3 and 4, unable to do anything in my levelling gear, and my pet away on target 1.
I am now at 63, so deep in the doldrums of not being hard enough to do BG’s, and facing the world of Outland quests. There is an unbelievable amount of things to do in Outland, and I still haven’t managed to get through one of the “Do 90 quests” there yet, and this is my third time through. I seem to be a few levels above a quest chain by the time I complete it, partly because it is easier to just quest out of one hub, not follow the chains from place to place in exclusivity.
My main cause for concern is that I have been in a queue for AV every time I log on, for the whole of my playtime since 55, but not once has a match started. I am looking forward to AV, and getting some badges, and capping a few towers and running about, but apparently this isn’t for people in their 50’s and 60’s. I guess people want to run WSG for the quicker return on their investment. An HK is an HK, and sentinel’s medallions and swift runner’s weapons are a thing of joy. Who wants to be stood in a draughty tower in some snowbound valley when they can be tucked up nice and warm in a cosy flagroom with your mates?
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