Out of Character

Scared of spiders? This one’s not for you!

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 20:50:54 +0100

Scared of spiders? This one’s not for you!

Firelands, anyone?

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:02:18 +0100

Firelands, anyone?

Long time no Tumble, but our guild finally killed...

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:35:23 +0100

Long time no Tumble, but our guild finally killed Cho’gall, Nefarian and Al’akir on normal mode. Purple phoenix overload! (Yeah that bitch below has the original phoenix, nerf them.)

My Letter To Blizzard (Re: Warlock Nerfs)

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:52:45 +0000

Dear Blizzard,

I am a warlock. Up until TBC I played a mage. I rerolled to warlock because I preferred a playstyle that wasn’t 1 button spamming. Affliction warlock was perfect to me, and I really enjoyed it. I have never played anything but affliction, as I explain to people time and time again - I /do/ have a mage, and if I wanted to play a mage, I would play my mage.

Let me say this, affliction has never been that huge on DPS. Not compared to destruction, not in TBC, and not in WotLK. My DPS was never amazing, I was never top, but I enjoyed my class - that was the main thing. I play only in PvE - raid scenarios. I enjoy my time in a 25-man raiding guild. I hardly ever PvP - so this entire post is written from the perspective of a PvE-er.

Come Cataclysm I hear of nerfs. More nerfs?! What do warlocks need nerfing for? We were never /that/ great anyway! But fine, I continue to play my beloved affliction… and in the past two weeks, I have managed to keep up with my rogue friend in DPS, at the top of the meters in a 25-man raid. Amazing!

How is this?! I thought that warlocks were nerfed?! Well, I can tell you, it was the ISF. That talent, although very destro in nature, and clunky in its mechanics, was the affliction warlock’s saving grace! It’s what made us raid viable, and what made me feel as wanted as a hunter!

But now you have decided that, due to a few people’s moaning, you will take ISF away from us. That is fine. But people were not asking for you to take away their 15% haste buff, they were asking you to change the mechanic. If you do not replace that 15% haste buff with something else, like the 8% spell damage increase you have given destro, then affliction warlocks will go back to being the low DPS that they always were before.

On top of that, what is this you taking away our Fel Armor health regeneration? The last time I checked, warlocks didn’t need to keep an eye on their mana because they could easily life tap to keep themselves topped up. This is one of the more unique things about a warlock! We do not have to watch our mana, make sure we have adequate regen or use an evocation mid-fight to have a second chance at depleting our entire pool - we simply have to make sure that we have enough health coming in!

Without the health regeneration from fel armor, and with the pants healing that drain life and siphon life provides, the reliance on healers grows ever higher. You will hear them complain yourselves, if you listen quite hard enough, about the mana preservation problems they have. Now what is that extra 10% mana going to do for us? Nothing! You may as well allow us to grant an additional 10% mana to a healing class in order for them to keep us alive as we life tap throughout a fight! We are not mages!

I was enjoying my time at the top - but I was never overpowered. I am one of the better geared raiders in my guild, and I am on par with, or DPSing ever so slightly higher than, similarly geared rogues and hunters, and they are being buffed, or at least not nerfed! Why was this particular nerf called for?

Granted, I will probably never stop playing this game, probably never stop playing my warlock, probably never stop playing affliction, but I have never felt compelled to complain about ANY of the warlock nerfs on the public forums before… but this one touched me in a way I cannot describe.

PLEASE, DON’T DO THIS TO US, BLIZZARD.

Sincerely,

Maccath

From http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/1535613810#4

We killed Magmaw last night. :) Unfortunately it was on 10man...

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 09:27:45 +0000

We killed Magmaw last night. :) Unfortunately it was on 10man due to lack of signs, and I died halfway through due to overaggro. Oops.

We killed it.

Sat, 18 Dec 2010 11:52:43 +0000

Live Whale Shark

Dead Whale Shark

We killed it.

Do You Grammar?

Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:52:19 +0000

Hungry: christmas!
Exallion: Winter Veil, get it right
Zamjin: WinterS Veil.. Get it right! xD
Maccath: Nah it's Winter Veil. Get it right.
Réaver: Christmas!
Exallion: *checks* nope it can be called Winter Veil, or the Feast of Winter Veil
Zamjin: Indeed it is Winters veil... Do you grammar :D
Maccath: If it /was/ Winter with an s on the end, it would be Winter's Veil. Do you grammar?
Réaver: "Do you grammar" lol! =p
Yivry: You are all wrong... open your calendar it says "Feast of Winter Veil"
Zamjin: I can go with Feast of Winter Veil.. but no just Winter Veil... That is just incorrect
Exallion: So are there multiple winters, or perhaps the winter owns the veil?
Zamjin: Indeed the winter owns the veil
Maccath: Well that's why I said it's Winter's not Winters.
Exallion: Then it would be Winter's.
Maccath: Because it's winter's possessive veil, there aren't multiple winters.
Zamjin: Yeah but I dont have that on my keyboard
Maccath: What do you mean you don't have that on your keyboard? It's a bloody apostrophe.
Vortrakk: But who owns the winter in that case? :p
Exallion: Are you sure it's possessive? As this is the first of 4 Winter Veils that I've seen someone try to call it 'Winter's'
Maccath: It's not winters, posessive /or/ plural, but Zamjin was arguing it had an s on the end. And I was arguing that it doesn't, but even if it did, it wouldn't be winters, it would be winter's. :P
Zamjin: Indeed thats what i meant... Winter's...
Exallion: Well said Maccath...and I believe we have been trolled by a Grammar Nazi
Maccath: You asked if I 'grammared'. I was suggesting that I 'grammared' better than you. ;)
Rapsodie: Sigh
Maccath :D

Too bad, Littlenuts.

Tue, 14 Dec 2010 23:12:39 +0000

Too bad, Littlenuts.

Better Levelling Through Archaeology

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:32:22 +0000

Has anyone else been having fun with the archaeology profession?

I am only on ~125 skill - it seems quite slow to skill up, but there is something strangely addictive about flying around Azeroth trying to piece together ancient artifacts and discover the lore behind them. I am aware there are also pets and other rare items to obtain.

Apart from the items, however, there is something else I noticed about archaeology; it grants huge experience!

At level 83 with rested experience I was getting 1% per dig site. Bored with questing, dungeoning or grinding? Try archaeology!

☐ Single. ☐ Taken. ☑ Cataclysm just came out.

Thu, 09 Dec 2010 10:09:48 +0000

Visit Gurboggle’s Ledge in Vashj’ir and you can find yourself a...

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 22:52:58 +0000

Visit Gurboggle’s Ledge in Vashj’ir and you can find yourself a wooden companion cube.

A little bit of a bug perhaps? I did get the achievement, but...

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 01:41:48 +0000

A little bit of a bug perhaps? I did get the achievement, but there were more than 115 quests in the zone. About 16 more than 115. :P

Do the strange wing-flapping jousting quests inside the second...

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 23:35:35 +0000

Do the strange wing-flapping jousting quests inside the second Flamegate in Mount Hyjal and you can obtain one of two vanity pets - Gold Mini Jouster (shown) or Blue Mini Jouster - as well as an achievement “Beware of the ‘Unbeatable?’ Pterodactyl”. The mini jousters have little dolls riding them. :)

The jousting quests have a bit of a knack to them. Point your hippogryph in the direction you want to travel and hit ‘flap wings’ once or twice to go that way. You may only need to flap once to jump between islands at the bottom of the cave, but you may have to spam it repeatedly to get back to the quest giver!

Goblin party! Yes, the goblin starting area rocks.

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 19:08:24 +0000

Goblin party! Yes, the goblin starting area rocks.

Goblins?

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 13:08:19 +0000

Maccath: is it the best starting area ever? :P
Athanasius: YES

Cataclysm

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 09:30:41 +0000

So, Cataclysm has arrived, and so has this blog! (After Tumblr managed to fix itself.)

I’m from European realms so I was there and ready approximately ten and a half hours ago, but, rather expectedly, the login servers went down as everyone tried to relog at the same time. It took approximately an hour for me to get back into the game. But…

As Thrall is off at the Maelstrom I run around Orgrimmar becoming an illustrious grand master in all of my professions and learning to fly. I quickly sit down on top of the bank roof for a picnic (a favourite pastime, made impossible until now by the new bank structure!)…

and picked my starting zone… Mount Hyjal.