A Walking WoW Wiki O_o

Yesterday I decided it would be nice if my DK, Gwynbleidd, had her own Talbuk. Those of you who knew me when I first underwent the Mag'har faction challenge for my mage, know what this means. However, despite the evil, mind numbing retardation which goes along with Nagrand & everything in it, I can't help but be enthralled by my lovely talbuks every time I am on my mage. So here I am again, grinding ogres in Nagrand for those lovely, long-legged, eternally fit antelope-rams of the Outlands.


Being back in Outlands for a reason other than quickly levelling an alt & getting the fuck out of there, is a strange feeling. Especially to be in Nagrand again. When TBC came out I went diligently through all zones & did all quests I could find. Raided to my hearts content & crafted my most awesome frost gear for my mage, but after a little while it began to ware down on me until TBC is nothing but evil now. I resent that I have to take characters there to level & I resent that there is no where else I can reach 68 besides the Outlands, when I can move to Northrend. Generally, the 58-68 grind doesn't take my alts long, though, which is a relief. I do two achievements & I'm gone, & by that time I am, indeed, of the level where Northrend is now feasible.


From the Plaguelands, I travel to Hellfire Peninsula where I finish the quest achievement there, no more than it takes for that. By that time, I have gathered a few nice quests to take me to Zangarmarsh where I finish up the quest achievement. By this time if for some stupid reason I am not 68, I will slink into either Netherstorm or Shadowmoon Valley just long enough to ding 68. I always avoid the other zones now as the other zones are nothing more to me now than mote clouds, grinding, & ore. I don't even see the quests any-more, I don't see the lore now that I've let it seep into my skull to live peacefully. It's just work.


Earlier today I side-tracked myself, from the Mag'har faction grind, by collecting some crystals for the Consortium, for Gwynbleidd, & it was at that time when a discussion emerged in guild chat about Demon Hunters in WoW. I can't remember exactly who it was that asked the question, but it was in relation to why all demon hunters wear the blindfolds & why they burn out their eyes. No sooner had the question been asked, I stopped what I was doing & proceeded to launch into an detailed explanation about the rituals Night Elfs (& blood elfs to a lesser extent) perform in order to become demon hunters. Forty minutes later & about 30 questions spanning various obscure topics in WoW, I was dubbed a walking WoW wiki. I guess playing a game for five years & being OCD about lore & questing really comes in handy...?


Hm.


I haven't really been raiding in WoW at all for the last two weeks, I think. Why is this do you ask? It comes down to the fact that I really haven't wanted to hear anyone on Ventrillo or talk to anyone in the guild & when we do raids, you have to be in Ventrillo. It's not that I don't like talking to my guildies; I do. They are fantastic people, I just really don't want to be on Ventrillo at the moment. Not to mention, I am having loads of fun time in randoms & doing random achievements on my other characters. Call me crazy, but one thing I adore is the trade-skill grind. Getting a new character up in harvesting or crafting, that is so much fun to me o.O


I think last week my guild did get pretty far in ICC, which is great & awesome. I will be having a blast when I get back to raiding, but it's just not what I want at the moment. This is the great thing about being a social member now. I don't -have- to raid if I don't feel like it; it's the freedom that I desire.

How Do I Move?

I generally go into WoW with a good attitude at the beginning of the day. Okay, well a good attitude towards WoW. I might be in a foul mood elsewise, but as far as going into the first game of the 'day' it's usually a good thing. There are some days where this good attitude of mine quickly degrades into every other word I scream at the computer being a swear word in one language or another. But Terr! ( I hear you saying ) How is this different from how you normally talk? These swears are directed at people in the game.

Along with the glory of the Random Dungeon Finder, there has come a sort of merging of our Battlegroup which is Frenzy / Raserei which combines realms from English BG Conviction & German BG Raserei. Oh bliss & joy that we are combined with a German BG. Now I'm not sure how the random selector works for the German BG part, but I don't think I've encountered anyone from the German realms in the random PUG's yet, which I hope remains true as I can see the language barrier causing a lot of issues with people in randoms. Well, the English speaking realms in my BG are Balnazzar, Genjuros, Laughing Skull, & Magtheridon as the PvP ones & Hellscream (my server), Nordrassil, & Quel'Thalas as the PvE ones. On a side note here, it's hilarious to listen to the people from the PvP servers talking about carebear PvE players in their random groups... this generally leads to me votekicking or just normally kicking them from my team. Arseholes.

Anyroad, all these servers are combined to form my BG Frenzy from which the RDL selects the correct role needed for the group & combines them, then sends us into a random dungeon to fend for ourselves. This is mostly a fun experience as I love to do heroics, but sometimes I get shown a prime example of the most difficult thing to do in this game. Moving? Yes! Pressing WASD or the arrows, or the mouse buttons to move. MOVING THE FUCK AWAY FROM AE's. Or really anything. Everyone has become so goddamn content to sit in one place & spam whatever button that when something drops in an area or something whirlwinds or casts a flame area, people are totally confused at why they have died. Moving is the hardest thing to do in WoW. Everything else is like eating a delicious cake, but if you have to move? Heavens forbid!

Any boss or event which requires you to take two small steps to the right or left, or even *GASP* kite something away from you, it becomes the worst encounter in the game. It never ceases to amaze me at how bad people are at this. I'm not joking at all. You see this massive pink bubble expanding around you with lightning eminating off it? Think it's a nice idea to stand there & admire it? Dead. What's this green stuff on the floor? Can my pet eat it? Dead. What a nice blue shiny circle appearing under my... dead. Fucksake people, this isn't brain surgery. I am sick of going through five tanks & four dps by the time I finish half an instance because no one knows how to fucking move.

On the side of a side note, I picked up a game called Obulis on Steam today. It's really cheap & comes in some kind of a pack ( I was originally trying to buy Vigil which I did buy, but it's fucking up for some reason so I played this other one ). It's pretty awesome & requires brain power & puzzle solving skills. I love these kinds of games. Also, due to it finally being what I consider a resonable price for the game, I got Braid. I played it before at a friends & didn't think it was worth the previous price, but now that it's under £2 I decided to get it. I haven't played it yet. Been too busy raging over WoW today.

Back From The Dead

I don't really have any good excuses for not posting anything in the last month. Sickness as usual followed by complications in my social life which have consumed me to a state of retarded gibbering... but in a good way. I think that for the most part I am happy and doing fine now. I am feeling a lot more healthy now and it's a relief to tell you the truth. Since I am usually sick, it's rare to feel like this, so I will revel in it & also take the opportunity to make this post since I am more or less coherent.


The holiday season is aggravating to me, more so in that I don't celebrate christmas, but everyone around me does even though they say they don't. One of those they 'don't celebrate christmas, but got you a gift anyway' things that really annoys me. I prefer to occasionally get people gifts through out the year instead of adhering to a set day of distorted pagan religion. The Solstice was nice this year though, the sky was clear and the stars were lovely. Holidays are stupid, but astronomical events are nice.


I haven't been playing a shit load of games recently as I have only really wanted to lay in bed and stare at my walls in misery for the last month, but what I have been playing, I have been playing most happily. 


World of Warcraft has been a good friend to me again and this is partially due to the random dungeon finder which was released in patch 3.3. Let me explain. I play three characters to a point where I would say they are, all three, my main characters. I take each of these characters, each day, and do all 25 dailies on all of them, followed by every heroic dungeon. It always saddened me that heroics had lock outs. Now, now, now my dear readers, I am able to do even more heroics each day, as many times as I want, for however long I want. This makes me ecstatic. To say that I love running heroics is a gross understatement... it's probably the most fun I have in the game. Even more so than the drudgery of raiding becomes.  


Requiem is a game that not many, I know, play. It's one of those Free-To-Play games which aren't really free to play since to really compete in the world of any 'f2p' game, you will eventually have to use RMT. Anyroad, beyond that, it's your typical Korean grindfest, which, and call me insane about it, I really enjoy. The graphics are nice, the game-play is nice, the classes and races are nice. I play it every so often with a few friends. It's well fun, but I don't see how people can play it as a main game. 


The Witcher always occupies some of my time. Will I ever get bored with this game? Maybe it's time to start making my own scenarios, but the Djin scenerio creator is so baffling lol. 


Peggle on the 360. I own many copies of this game and decided it was time to get it on the 360. I'm so addicted to this fucking game it's retarded; it's almost as bad as I get with Puzzle Quest sometimes. -_-