To Sheep or not to Sheep

5 11 2008

I’m faced with a quandry at the moment - I haven’t preordered my Wrath of the Lich King. 

If i’m honest, i’m in no rush because I don’t want to play it until my new PC comes back (if… it comes back) so that gives me some room to breathe. The question is, do I buy the Collectors ed?

I vowed I would never buy another over priced collectors edition based on the pretty packaging becaus Bungie, EA, etc all gouge £10-20-$$$$$$ out of you for something crap + a pretty box.

But Blizzard have a good track record for collectors editions and i’ve always regretted not picking them up for previous games, so just to list it out:

Standard Retail Game: £18

Collectors Edition: £50

  • Art Book
  •  In-game Pet (Baby Frost Wyrm)
  • Behind-the-Scenes DVD (hours of interviews)
  • Music CD with over 20 tracks
  • Northrend Mousepad
  • Two trading card decks

Thats a steep price increase, but a substantial collectors edition package - so advice?

Regards,
JamesR.





Re: 11 Reasons Why Shaman Suck In PvP

3 11 2008

This post is a response to Mark’s post on Laputan Machine.

1,4,6 and 7 are the ones that I certainly agree with. We receive some fairly immense buffs from our totems (20% haste, 80-100 Str and Agi … Errr) on top of that we as Enhancement get our +10% AP and an instant cast spell every 10-15 seconds.

The problem is, that instant cast in PvP is almost always going to be a heal and with our ultra poor mana effeciency coupled with the suddenly shocking amount of mana drain means in any prolonged fight (which by Shaman standards is about 20 seconds) you’re completely fucked.

Shammy Rage is supposed to not only combat this but provide us with a window through which to engage people with ultra burst attacks and CC lock downs.

the problem arises when it’s only a 15 second dispellable (is it still? I forget) buff which is just long enough for Rogue, Mage, Priest, Warlock and Paladin to stunlock you for the duration and in most cases continue to do DPS and drains while you’re locked.

Our burst is reasonable though, when we’re on a target and getting off some DPS we’re pretty hard to match with the exception of Ret pallies (notably missing from your list), Critilate Rogues (see what I did there) and correctly spec’d Mages.

I think you’ve hit the nail on the head with regards to our weak buffing system and the overzealous application of crowd control - But it’s also the sheer number of “Out” clauses that classes have these days.

There are plenty of things related on this topic to be irked about, from a Rogue’s perspective all feral druids get Shadowstep, but only 1 spec of Rogue does. Shadowstep doesn’t even work if you’re snared anymore (i.e. frost nova) and yet blink breaks not only all movement affects but even stuns. Druids can charge, stun, stealth, heal, root, cyclone, poison, gouge, kidney shot and bleed … All with a single spec. Paladins can crit big (bugged DPS aside), get instant heals when they do (they get instant heal on 1 crit, we get instant heal on ~5 hits…), STILL make themselves invulnerable, STILL use Lay on Hands (with a reduced cooldown) and got even better buffs after 3.0.2.

I know i’m running around with only a tiny bit of Resillience and mediocre gear on my Shaman/Rogue … But on my Rogue I feel like I can go toe-to-toe with a moderately geared resillience character purely on the grounds of interrupts and burst critilates but with my Shaman it’s often over before I even got into range.

If Shaman could stealth, could you imagine? Appearing out of nowhere, stomping down earth bind and beating the living shit out of the guy before he even knew what a Stormstrike Debuff was.

*Sigh*

Regards,
JamesR.

Yes, this is a very lazy post, so shoot me.





Another Weekend

12 10 2008

It seems that it only takes an afternoon to go from Friday evening to Sunday afternoon … Especially when there’s a hulk of useless PC sat on your desk reminding you of the shit you have to deal with.

Anyway … I don’t really feel like posting so you’ll look at these screenshots and YOU’LL LIKE IT.

Blood Elf Males are Gay - Dont play them

Blood Elf Males are Gay - Don't play them

WoW players are stupid AND blind

WoW players are stupid AND blind

A New Mage is Born!

A New Mage is Born!

Regards,
JamesR.

I wonder how many Elemental Templites still read this regularly.





Dreadmoore - 70

29 09 2008

And about damn time. I did my last 25% of XP in  Nagrand with a little help from Rob getting some of the group quests done then later on teamed up with guys from Mortem Deceptus to do the Talbuk Mastery elite Qs and a team consisting of 3 novus members for Durn.

Eventually after doing 3 more quests solo and being a meagre 1.9% from levelling I just took to grinding near the Nessingwary expedition.

Level 70 Rogue, Mission complete.

Dinging in Nagrand

Dinging in Nagrand

Screen capped login - 2 70s

Screen capped login - 2 70s

Cheers for all those who helped levelling him, he came a long way since his humble days as a AB twink, don’t you think? :)

Old Screen Cap as a 29 Twink

Old Screen Cap as a 29 Twink

Dreadmoore - Stabbing faces since 2007 … I think ;)

Regards,
JamesR.

As I said to Rob - 2 Down, 8 to go. 2 Down, 8 … to Go.





Blogs of a Scandal

13 08 2008

One can only wonder how many legitimate appeals for foreign aid have been discarded into spam filters, how many forum users just really want you to know about these amazing penis enlargement pills to the point they post it in every thread, how many users have probably been randomly deleted by websites who are expecting … Someone.

We’ll mourn you RumpyPumpy … Best user name ever.

I am currently in a state of hang over at about a 2 on the scale but I am also hovering at about a 2 on the drunk scale. I clearly need to eat to sober up, but I really don’t want to. Sigh. And alas still no router.

One thing I do want to point out is just how bored I am with WoW … I just deactivated my account a few minutes ago because I’m just not playing it and have no will to play it. I’m busy, so there’s no “Filling-the-time” aspect and I have no interest in raiding/levelling another character right now.

So waiting for Wrath it is … Which can’t come any fucking sooner. If I ever get the PC I want to buy then I’ll probably just get back into TF2/CS:S and maybe trial out Eve or Supreme Commander - You know, all those games that don’t run on my fairly well specced laptop

I also can’t upload photos at the moment as a result of not having my camera with me at work so I guess i’ll just sign off after my two ‘big’ announcements:

  1. I will be reshooting the GTAIV Prison Break Episode 3 either this weekend or next - Depending on when Virgin actually bother to send us the router and I can pick up a wireless dongle for the 360.
  2. I will be coming down to Gosport on Thursday the 21st of August and staying till either Friday night or Saturday Morning.

We’ve had some requests on YouTube to join us in our next shooting of the Prison Break videos so if you’re interested post a comment or leave us an email and we’ll get back to you.

Oh and I’m looking for someone with experience with making Firefox plug-ins, so let me know if you have even the faintest idea.

Regards,
JamesR.

One Two Seven Dot
Zero Dot Zero Dot One
There’s no place like home.

Haiku by Martin from Bedford (Courtesy of Think Geek)





I Pity the Fool …

6 07 2008

… Who has to raid with this guy. It is nothing we have not seen plenty of times before; A teenage Alliance player who believes that the Horde are “Evil” and the Alliance are “Good” and refuses to believe otherwise even when evidence is placed right in front of him.

I like to believe that he has just spent his life with the Tolkien fantasy world (or perhaps the Warhammer derivation of this) which portrays the Orcs as barbaric monsters and the Humans as noble defenders of the light but the sad fact of the matter is I very much doubt he has even heard of it let alone managed to read the books. (Lord only knows I never could put myself through that)

The amazing thing is even though in effectively every post since his first the words or words similar to “The Horde Aren’t Evil” and “We didn’t do evil things in the COT” he seems completely oblivious. He also insults, derides and degrades people who correct him and then has the utter nerve to accuse people of bullying him.

Someone quite correctly pointed out that people like this guy (Also notably popular for telling Emo Jokes about Arthas and starting an entire thread dedicated to it) are what give the Alliance such a bad name! I have met only a small few Alliance who I did not find in someway offensive to me be it their complete lack of brains or otherwise.

I had originally skimmed over the thread and discarded it as garbage but d Mark asked me to come an Pwn him with my insurmountable logic … And Pwn I did.

A time came when I had to stop though, he poured his little heart out and was clearly quite upset by the posts in the thread. Being consistently proved wrong will do this to a person, and he began to become quite Emo himself.

It was around about then I decided to share it with you and throw in the towel. It’s nearly 5 A.M. here and I need my sleep. Facemelting Logic is mana heavy.

Regards,
JamesR.

Don’t get me wrong, I know the Horde have it’s fair share of idiots, but they’re all relegated to Barrens chat.

Selected Vids after the Jump remember.

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