Wow this is going to be super cool to get a peek at the new City mechanic whenever the heck Mythic opens the test server.
I've not done the PTS before although I had all the intention on doing it in the past. But this time, not to worry, I'll be there for that shit. Looking forward to a patch that will hopefully (for many) save this game.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Warfronts
I don't like these weekend warfronts. It hasn't had a SC yet that I like, doomfist crater being the worst. Could you have a more Bomb friendly map then Doomfist? I'm not sure, probably. However, it was pretty horrible this weekend, Renown was trash and no good fights to be had.
A lot of people are complaining about how this last patch has 'ruined the game'. I'm compelled to disagree yet I see their point. I used to get angry about the AFK situation but hell, I can't control it so I won't bother to let it ruin it for me. But guildies are getting upset about it, they're not wanting to group up for SC's because they just want to solo que Reikland Factory to farm the crests for their weapons and this makes no sense.
Hear me out.
I do SC's for the fun of the PvP. RF offers the minimum amount of PvP in any scenario. RF is just like the old Thunder Valley SC, while there are plenty of places to duke it out, the PvE aspect of the SC scores far too many points leaving the whole thing lasting 5 to 8 minutes max with a 500 pt win with no one getting any renown at all. Now, I like Nordenwatch... plenty of places to fight, 3 nodes that cap points at a reasonable rate and hell everyone loves Nordenwatch. I want to run Nordenwatch all day every day. But most people are running around RF AFK or just BO humping their way to royal weapons. Which I cannot blame them for because those weapons are awesome but seriously... what happened to the PvP in this game?
A lot of people are complaining about how this last patch has 'ruined the game'. I'm compelled to disagree yet I see their point. I used to get angry about the AFK situation but hell, I can't control it so I won't bother to let it ruin it for me. But guildies are getting upset about it, they're not wanting to group up for SC's because they just want to solo que Reikland Factory to farm the crests for their weapons and this makes no sense.
Hear me out.
I do SC's for the fun of the PvP. RF offers the minimum amount of PvP in any scenario. RF is just like the old Thunder Valley SC, while there are plenty of places to duke it out, the PvE aspect of the SC scores far too many points leaving the whole thing lasting 5 to 8 minutes max with a 500 pt win with no one getting any renown at all. Now, I like Nordenwatch... plenty of places to fight, 3 nodes that cap points at a reasonable rate and hell everyone loves Nordenwatch. I want to run Nordenwatch all day every day. But most people are running around RF AFK or just BO humping their way to royal weapons. Which I cannot blame them for because those weapons are awesome but seriously... what happened to the PvP in this game?
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Duel Redemption
The second I logged on last night I logged on in CW right smack in the middle of Duels... so random.
But there was something about it that made me happy. I owed 3 of those people an ass kicking...
Sokaki
Lichblade
Whitejackal
Now, I give credit where credit is due. That's my thing.
First
Sokaki is a slayer. Slayers typically are AP dependant even if they are stacking AA and I know that Sokaki has been doing that lately. He challenged me, not I him and I ran a train on him two duels he never got me below half. The Third Duel he won, indeed he won I blew my knockdown and he got his off. Not much to say about that but boy it felt nice to kick his ass 1v1 because you never, ever see Sokaki without his Black Talon buddies assisting him. He's probably one of the best killing machines on Badlands in that group, truly it's rather impressive. But I won't lie, it felt awesome serving up some pain to him.
Lichblade and I had some really fun duels a few weeks ago which he won each one. Sword Masters are a bitch, especially with that shield out but for some reason he was rocking a two hander last night and he was made short work of by myself in 2 duels. He was up against Fixxxxer earlier, whom I have known since the long ago days of Dark Crag and Fix was wrecking him. That isn't so surprising as I know Fix to be an excellent Dueler + rr80 + rocking serious gear.
In an interesting display of "Class Mirror Balance" Whitejackal and I went toe to toe several times with I'd say him winning the majority of them except when he took his AA haste axe off. It shows that Marauder AP drain trumps WL's yet WL AA haste trumps Marauders. That being said I'm sure Jackal is a better dueler/player then I am and there's no difference gear or RP points between our levels (77 vs 73). When he took that Tomb of the Sun axe out I knew the pain was coming. But when he was using some other weapon I would beat him sometimes badly. I suppose that comes down to a gear fight for him and a build fight for me. This I find interesting.
But there was something about it that made me happy. I owed 3 of those people an ass kicking...
Sokaki
Lichblade
Whitejackal
Now, I give credit where credit is due. That's my thing.
First
Sokaki is a slayer. Slayers typically are AP dependant even if they are stacking AA and I know that Sokaki has been doing that lately. He challenged me, not I him and I ran a train on him two duels he never got me below half. The Third Duel he won, indeed he won I blew my knockdown and he got his off. Not much to say about that but boy it felt nice to kick his ass 1v1 because you never, ever see Sokaki without his Black Talon buddies assisting him. He's probably one of the best killing machines on Badlands in that group, truly it's rather impressive. But I won't lie, it felt awesome serving up some pain to him.
Lichblade and I had some really fun duels a few weeks ago which he won each one. Sword Masters are a bitch, especially with that shield out but for some reason he was rocking a two hander last night and he was made short work of by myself in 2 duels. He was up against Fixxxxer earlier, whom I have known since the long ago days of Dark Crag and Fix was wrecking him. That isn't so surprising as I know Fix to be an excellent Dueler + rr80 + rocking serious gear.
In an interesting display of "Class Mirror Balance" Whitejackal and I went toe to toe several times with I'd say him winning the majority of them except when he took his AA haste axe off. It shows that Marauder AP drain trumps WL's yet WL AA haste trumps Marauders. That being said I'm sure Jackal is a better dueler/player then I am and there's no difference gear or RP points between our levels (77 vs 73). When he took that Tomb of the Sun axe out I knew the pain was coming. But when he was using some other weapon I would beat him sometimes badly. I suppose that comes down to a gear fight for him and a build fight for me. This I find interesting.
Monday, March 22, 2010
Ding RR 77
Thanks to that random r37 Iron Breaker who tried to kill me in Black Fire Basin while running the part who gave me the last 70 renown for rr77. DPS Iron Breakers are so Cute when Cave-In is on cooldown.
I also got my 'Invader' weapon last night. Cool looking Mace, I like it. It bumps my wounds up, which I like. I'll use it with the Scalebreaker off and on methinks. The Warlord Weapon is something I'm looking forward to, but I'm not going to make any sort of extra effort to get it or any of the new weapons. I've sworn off Reikland Factory now for a week unless I'm in a Premade that goes in, but I just really hate that scenario.
TOVL this week was epic, with 5 Tyrant drops for the first 6 bosses. It was also the most unbelievably buggy TOVL run ever with the 5th boss mobs just refusing to obey the rules of Aggro and it took like 2hrs to get past it's insane glitches and bullshit. We still have a day on our timer for 7 and 8 which we may or may not do. Finally the freaking Chaos Shoulders dropped but lo I did not win the roll against a guildie Zealot who I couldn't ask to not roll because it wouldn't have been right. I continue to be the only Marauder on badlands without the Shoulder Piece (no way to confirm that but I sure as hell see a lot of Marauders out there with it). FUnny thing is we finished boss 6 and I just logged as it was 4am and I was not enjoying the fact that it was taking so damn long. Apparently as party leader this bugged the shit out of it and when we went in with a new MT and Zealot the 6th bosses were back up and needed to be killed. We got lewtz again killing and getting the Helm Drop LOL.
GG Mythic.
I also got my 'Invader' weapon last night. Cool looking Mace, I like it. It bumps my wounds up, which I like. I'll use it with the Scalebreaker off and on methinks. The Warlord Weapon is something I'm looking forward to, but I'm not going to make any sort of extra effort to get it or any of the new weapons. I've sworn off Reikland Factory now for a week unless I'm in a Premade that goes in, but I just really hate that scenario.
TOVL this week was epic, with 5 Tyrant drops for the first 6 bosses. It was also the most unbelievably buggy TOVL run ever with the 5th boss mobs just refusing to obey the rules of Aggro and it took like 2hrs to get past it's insane glitches and bullshit. We still have a day on our timer for 7 and 8 which we may or may not do. Finally the freaking Chaos Shoulders dropped but lo I did not win the roll against a guildie Zealot who I couldn't ask to not roll because it wouldn't have been right. I continue to be the only Marauder on badlands without the Shoulder Piece (no way to confirm that but I sure as hell see a lot of Marauders out there with it). FUnny thing is we finished boss 6 and I just logged as it was 4am and I was not enjoying the fact that it was taking so damn long. Apparently as party leader this bugged the shit out of it and when we went in with a new MT and Zealot the 6th bosses were back up and needed to be killed. We got lewtz again killing and getting the Helm Drop LOL.
GG Mythic.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Sign me Up for This Group
Thinking about exactly what I'd want for my own shiny premade Group to do some Scenarios with. So many classic premade make ups out there. The Bomb Group the Rift Group, the melee train and all that good stuff.
If I could make a wish list of classes to make a premade with I'd go with something like this.
Me - Marauder in AP Drain and Debuff spec. I do alright damage so I'm able to DPS although no where near a Choppa or a WE but it's a different class. The Group is based on singling out targets of priority and burning them down, hence why a Marauder is here, heal debuff, wounds and armor debuffs and of course the Pull.
Chosen - 2hander or S/B makes little difference. the Chosen is there to guard the Marauder and guard hop to healers as well as lay down CC and Rending blade with Crippling Strikes and of course DPS.
Shamman - Spec'd with Sticky Feetz. The Shamman puts SF right behind the Pulled target. Most ppl, the vast majority of them after being pulled detaunt and run away. This would eliminate this or at least help to quell it. Odjira would be pretty much neutralized so that you could get off knockdowns in time when they turn to run. Also, obviously the heals are important.
Zealot - Most ppl would want a DoK and hell I can understand that. I like the buffs you get from a Zealot coupled with the Chosen buffs it gives the party more opportunity to spec and stack differently if they need to. Plus those great single target heals and Flash is getting buffed so hell I'll take that for sure. If no Zealot was available then that's no problem I'll take a DoK for Group heals and the Armor buff
Choppa - I love to have a Choppa for "Chop Fasta" to get Thunderous Blow spam, one of the Marauder's better dmg attacks and drop Terrible Em. cooldown. Also "Git stuck in" is great, more attack speed means more AP missing from your enemies.
Sorc - Single target Sorc with some Destruction in there for AoE the pulls and general preasure on the enemy. I love Sorc's that slot Frozen Fury for all the extra proc dmg.
If I could make a wish list of classes to make a premade with I'd go with something like this.
Me - Marauder in AP Drain and Debuff spec. I do alright damage so I'm able to DPS although no where near a Choppa or a WE but it's a different class. The Group is based on singling out targets of priority and burning them down, hence why a Marauder is here, heal debuff, wounds and armor debuffs and of course the Pull.
Chosen - 2hander or S/B makes little difference. the Chosen is there to guard the Marauder and guard hop to healers as well as lay down CC and Rending blade with Crippling Strikes and of course DPS.
Shamman - Spec'd with Sticky Feetz. The Shamman puts SF right behind the Pulled target. Most ppl, the vast majority of them after being pulled detaunt and run away. This would eliminate this or at least help to quell it. Odjira would be pretty much neutralized so that you could get off knockdowns in time when they turn to run. Also, obviously the heals are important.
Zealot - Most ppl would want a DoK and hell I can understand that. I like the buffs you get from a Zealot coupled with the Chosen buffs it gives the party more opportunity to spec and stack differently if they need to. Plus those great single target heals and Flash is getting buffed so hell I'll take that for sure. If no Zealot was available then that's no problem I'll take a DoK for Group heals and the Armor buff
Choppa - I love to have a Choppa for "Chop Fasta" to get Thunderous Blow spam, one of the Marauder's better dmg attacks and drop Terrible Em. cooldown. Also "Git stuck in" is great, more attack speed means more AP missing from your enemies.
Sorc - Single target Sorc with some Destruction in there for AoE the pulls and general preasure on the enemy. I love Sorc's that slot Frozen Fury for all the extra proc dmg.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Twas nice to Premade again
Lately a lot of Solo Queing was the recipe for me on Badlands much to my dismay for most of the time. The Server is a bit of a funny little animal especially now with the cronic AFK'ing of many high RR players who just don't feel like they need to earn their SC weapons. I'm sick of it but again they do what they want.
When I logged on last night quickly we put a group together as we actually had ppl on including tanks and healers as well as Laonsela our leader and rr80 Sorc with 5 Sovereign bonus and general wtfownage. That coupled with our only active Magus we rift grouped our way into SC's black listing Reikland AFK Factory and Temple of "population imballance" Isha.
While we did not claim victory in all SC's we actually had some PVP for a change with good fights, premades and pugs alike on both sides and it was really great to get that in for a change. We went into a Caledor Woods SC with a lot of Feared ppl who were high RR and pretty much kicked their ass because the 2nd group had no healers. Which is too bad for them, way cool for us since I think I topped off 5k renown which is a lot considering I'm rank 76.
Lately I've been running a little more of a Tank and Melee killing spec by dropping Draining Swipes for Scything Talons. I am on the fence about it because I want more Weapon Skill (sitting just below 500) but don't want to sacrifice melee power which is what I'd have to drop. Either that or swap out a Str talisman for Weapon Skill, which I'm not all that interested in doing either. Still I hit a KOBS last night for 890 with Thunders Blows before cutting claw (twas on cooldown) and I was pretty excited about that. I used to run a 600 Weapon Skill build before I started collecting LOTD glyphs and that was just a good laugh if melee came up to fight me 1v1 because my Parry was so high I could disarm and gutrip at will.
I like Draining Swipes but I'm thinking that it might not exactly be worth it over the weapon skill atm. Tanks give me a lot of trouble because 1. Iron Breakers are not AP Dependant. 2. Sword Master bubbles are annoying. 3. Knight's seem to have a really low % to be Crit which hurts my ability to drain AP.
When I logged on last night quickly we put a group together as we actually had ppl on including tanks and healers as well as Laonsela our leader and rr80 Sorc with 5 Sovereign bonus and general wtfownage. That coupled with our only active Magus we rift grouped our way into SC's black listing Reikland AFK Factory and Temple of "population imballance" Isha.
While we did not claim victory in all SC's we actually had some PVP for a change with good fights, premades and pugs alike on both sides and it was really great to get that in for a change. We went into a Caledor Woods SC with a lot of Feared ppl who were high RR and pretty much kicked their ass because the 2nd group had no healers. Which is too bad for them, way cool for us since I think I topped off 5k renown which is a lot considering I'm rank 76.
Lately I've been running a little more of a Tank and Melee killing spec by dropping Draining Swipes for Scything Talons. I am on the fence about it because I want more Weapon Skill (sitting just below 500) but don't want to sacrifice melee power which is what I'd have to drop. Either that or swap out a Str talisman for Weapon Skill, which I'm not all that interested in doing either. Still I hit a KOBS last night for 890 with Thunders Blows before cutting claw (twas on cooldown) and I was pretty excited about that. I used to run a 600 Weapon Skill build before I started collecting LOTD glyphs and that was just a good laugh if melee came up to fight me 1v1 because my Parry was so high I could disarm and gutrip at will.
I like Draining Swipes but I'm thinking that it might not exactly be worth it over the weapon skill atm. Tanks give me a lot of trouble because 1. Iron Breakers are not AP Dependant. 2. Sword Master bubbles are annoying. 3. Knight's seem to have a really low % to be Crit which hurts my ability to drain AP.
Monday, March 15, 2010
Duels are FTW yet... FTL
I never dueled with any sort of intent or skill or practice until Badlands. DarkCrag was duel heaven for a lot of ppl but I never had the gear or the Renown to compete with any of the Duelers on that server. I showed up a few times and pretty much got owned hardcore. Sure I won a couple Duels but I didn't really understand the rules or strategies to defeat other classes.
Plus back then Marauders were so unbelievably horrible that getting anyone to half health was a Miracle in and of itself. My Chosen did better in duels by far and I still didn't show what I was doing.
The last two weeks (with little success this week) Iite has been hosting Duels in Chaos Wastes with an open Vent channel. He tried to get 2v2 happening but no one was showing up because *shock* Order was too busy out in the lakes pushing. We tried to get in as much as we could before the Zerg hit.
Just what bugged me was it was like all Witch Hunters (two were 80) and a S/B Sword Master (80) and eventually a Warrior Priest. Some AM's were there but acted as rez bots and were mostly just watching between SC pops.
Rosar wanted to Duel me. Last time we dueled he excessively wtfpwned me. We went at it and we killed each other, and I didn't kill him in like a 'dots ticking after i died'. I actually was able to keep up with his DPS which was awesome for me. I've beaten WH's in Duels before but they were bad WHers and Rosar is good. He said in Vent he was impressed especially after our last Duels a few months ago where I was basically feeding him Renown (which I had no issues with, I considered it Practice).
Finleth(sp) who was Rene back on DC is one of the best WHers anywhere. Really heavy dmg and smart play style. We dueled and I lost but I got him down to 15% which I was happy with. We didn't Duel again because he was constantly dueling Gobfather which were very good duels. The Warrior Priest and I threw down and I killed him in a long duel but a duel where he was pretty much on his back pedaling the entire time. I tend to do really well against 2handed WP's but any WP with a book out is going to beat me eventually after like 8 minutes of back and forth healing.
What was funny were a few things. First there was a R7 Rune Priest running around like a chicken with his head cut off. Ppl ignored him for the most part until he started to put Dots on ppl. Now his Dot ticked for 5dmg... so it was cute. When he started to flash heal ppl it healed for 50. Still it was a Duel and someone on Order over Vent said "just kill him" so everytime he came out of the camp he'd get one shotted... by me.
Next funny thing was several Destro guys running up and attacking Order. Destro would watch and /lol /weep for them as they would get destroyed. One Choppa was running up and attacking Rosar and Rosar would 3 shot him and the Choppa would send tells "Why AREN'T YOU HELPING ME" and stuff like that. Funny.
Lastly what was cute was some Engineer would run out of the camp and stand behind some of the other order, drop his Torrent and sick it on me. I'm standing there getting hit for like 100 dmg thinking... why is this Engineer attacking me? Then he'd toss a grenade. I'm like "ok he has to die now" and I'd kill him in 3 seconds. He was extra squishy for an Engie I guess but was funny. The order guys would /lol him. I don't know why he kept coming back. Oh well, free RP
Difficulty with classes is what makes Dueling both awesome and lame. For the Awesome it helps me learn how to deal with and contend with classes that are going to have a natural advantage over a Melee DPS (S/B Tanks, WHers and good Kiting AMs/BW) and gives me practice even though I'm going to more then likely get taken down. I love a good evenly matched Duel, some classes right now are insane mode if they have 4th Tyrant gear bonus (White Lions and Slayers). But I know that WLs or Slayers not wearing the auto attack buff set are cake for me in Duels because of their high Action Point cost and I debuff their Auto attack %50 with my Savagry Mechanic. But with the 25% auto attack haste from Tyrant + 50% auto attack tactic and if they're using the Vessel weapon with the auto attack gem in it they just hit far far to often with their AA that you cannot contend with the mad dps they are putting out. I suppose if you just stacked up on armor and wounds you might be able to survive long enough to kite them but I dunno, it's hard to kite a White Lion who specs Pounce or sicks his TTT Lion on you. Slayers are easier to deal with in that respect but they hit so damn hard...
Not calling for Auto Attack nerf's or anything to that effect. I think it's fine, probably could just tone down the stacking of the AA hastes. I want the 4th piece Tyrant bonus big time not for the extra dmg but for the extra Exhaustive Strikes procs. No one would have any action points ever fighting me that way. So we'll see...
Plus back then Marauders were so unbelievably horrible that getting anyone to half health was a Miracle in and of itself. My Chosen did better in duels by far and I still didn't show what I was doing.
The last two weeks (with little success this week) Iite has been hosting Duels in Chaos Wastes with an open Vent channel. He tried to get 2v2 happening but no one was showing up because *shock* Order was too busy out in the lakes pushing. We tried to get in as much as we could before the Zerg hit.
Just what bugged me was it was like all Witch Hunters (two were 80) and a S/B Sword Master (80) and eventually a Warrior Priest. Some AM's were there but acted as rez bots and were mostly just watching between SC pops.
Rosar wanted to Duel me. Last time we dueled he excessively wtfpwned me. We went at it and we killed each other, and I didn't kill him in like a 'dots ticking after i died'. I actually was able to keep up with his DPS which was awesome for me. I've beaten WH's in Duels before but they were bad WHers and Rosar is good. He said in Vent he was impressed especially after our last Duels a few months ago where I was basically feeding him Renown (which I had no issues with, I considered it Practice).
Finleth(sp) who was Rene back on DC is one of the best WHers anywhere. Really heavy dmg and smart play style. We dueled and I lost but I got him down to 15% which I was happy with. We didn't Duel again because he was constantly dueling Gobfather which were very good duels. The Warrior Priest and I threw down and I killed him in a long duel but a duel where he was pretty much on his back pedaling the entire time. I tend to do really well against 2handed WP's but any WP with a book out is going to beat me eventually after like 8 minutes of back and forth healing.
What was funny were a few things. First there was a R7 Rune Priest running around like a chicken with his head cut off. Ppl ignored him for the most part until he started to put Dots on ppl. Now his Dot ticked for 5dmg... so it was cute. When he started to flash heal ppl it healed for 50. Still it was a Duel and someone on Order over Vent said "just kill him" so everytime he came out of the camp he'd get one shotted... by me.
Next funny thing was several Destro guys running up and attacking Order. Destro would watch and /lol /weep for them as they would get destroyed. One Choppa was running up and attacking Rosar and Rosar would 3 shot him and the Choppa would send tells "Why AREN'T YOU HELPING ME" and stuff like that. Funny.
Lastly what was cute was some Engineer would run out of the camp and stand behind some of the other order, drop his Torrent and sick it on me. I'm standing there getting hit for like 100 dmg thinking... why is this Engineer attacking me? Then he'd toss a grenade. I'm like "ok he has to die now" and I'd kill him in 3 seconds. He was extra squishy for an Engie I guess but was funny. The order guys would /lol him. I don't know why he kept coming back. Oh well, free RP
Difficulty with classes is what makes Dueling both awesome and lame. For the Awesome it helps me learn how to deal with and contend with classes that are going to have a natural advantage over a Melee DPS (S/B Tanks, WHers and good Kiting AMs/BW) and gives me practice even though I'm going to more then likely get taken down. I love a good evenly matched Duel, some classes right now are insane mode if they have 4th Tyrant gear bonus (White Lions and Slayers). But I know that WLs or Slayers not wearing the auto attack buff set are cake for me in Duels because of their high Action Point cost and I debuff their Auto attack %50 with my Savagry Mechanic. But with the 25% auto attack haste from Tyrant + 50% auto attack tactic and if they're using the Vessel weapon with the auto attack gem in it they just hit far far to often with their AA that you cannot contend with the mad dps they are putting out. I suppose if you just stacked up on armor and wounds you might be able to survive long enough to kite them but I dunno, it's hard to kite a White Lion who specs Pounce or sicks his TTT Lion on you. Slayers are easier to deal with in that respect but they hit so damn hard...
Not calling for Auto Attack nerf's or anything to that effect. I think it's fine, probably could just tone down the stacking of the AA hastes. I want the 4th piece Tyrant bonus big time not for the extra dmg but for the extra Exhaustive Strikes procs. No one would have any action points ever fighting me that way. So we'll see...
Boss 7 can Kiss my @ss
I hate you Boss 7, i don't know your name, I don't want to know your name!
You ruin my evening when it takes forever to kill you and your buggy adds and Colour phase. You break my heart when you don't even drop the Tyrant Helm.
Order breaks my heart when some retarded AM decides to solo purge us as we head up to 8th boss. I did laugh my butt off when she turned around the corner and got wtfowned by me in the hallway to Boss 5.... twice.
Work makes me sad when it's midnight and I have to sleep so I'm not a complete useless sack of mess, so I can teach and be effective.
You ruin my evening when it takes forever to kill you and your buggy adds and Colour phase. You break my heart when you don't even drop the Tyrant Helm.
Order breaks my heart when some retarded AM decides to solo purge us as we head up to 8th boss. I did laugh my butt off when she turned around the corner and got wtfowned by me in the hallway to Boss 5.... twice.
Work makes me sad when it's midnight and I have to sleep so I'm not a complete useless sack of mess, so I can teach and be effective.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Why Don't I play my WH More?!?!
I'm assuming because my marauder is 76 and my WH is 49. But everytime I get on my WH I have a blast. Maybe because I don't have a 'connection' the way I do with the Marauder because of the time I put into the bastard that when I get roflstomped on him I shake my head, on my WH I just say "figures".
I solo que with my Marauder a lot. In fact I'd say the vast majority of the time. I do what I can, I generally play to win the game and not farm RPs but you know it happens all the time. With the new RVR Weapons most SC's are incredibly lopsided one way or the other. Ussually it's the other way when I am on, Order runs their premades double que against two parties of PuG. Now, I don't care about the PuG's they do what they're going to do. But when I solo on my WH it is more fun. It is a better solo class. I don't care if I die, even if I die stupidly. I just get a kick out of 3 shotting Shammans and Sorcs. The DPS is outrageous and it's funny that I hit harder with my 49 WH then I do with my 76 Marauder. Although, My Marauder is better.
I solo que with my Marauder a lot. In fact I'd say the vast majority of the time. I do what I can, I generally play to win the game and not farm RPs but you know it happens all the time. With the new RVR Weapons most SC's are incredibly lopsided one way or the other. Ussually it's the other way when I am on, Order runs their premades double que against two parties of PuG. Now, I don't care about the PuG's they do what they're going to do. But when I solo on my WH it is more fun. It is a better solo class. I don't care if I die, even if I die stupidly. I just get a kick out of 3 shotting Shammans and Sorcs. The DPS is outrageous and it's funny that I hit harder with my 49 WH then I do with my 76 Marauder. Although, My Marauder is better.
%97 apparently isn't good enough
The Voltron Push with support from SAPS Yesterday afternoon got Altdorf to 97% in primetime which apparently is not good enough to 'win'. The system is broken, for both sides. I can't wait for the new City mechanic, regardless of whatever Mythic makes it, it has to be better then what we have right now.
I know some servers are able to Push into the 2nd stage of the city regularily. I have no idea how they do it, and it's really unimportant. At this point Badlands is pretty much a stalemate between the two sides, which you'd think is fun but really it's not.
The RvR lakes are empty when except when pushes happen and it's always RvDoor when that happens. No Guilds or alliances come out to stop the Push because all we need to do is farm SC's for renown and show up in 1 instance and win two PQs and they won't get their lockdown.
Make sense to you?
I know some servers are able to Push into the 2nd stage of the city regularily. I have no idea how they do it, and it's really unimportant. At this point Badlands is pretty much a stalemate between the two sides, which you'd think is fun but really it's not.
The RvR lakes are empty when except when pushes happen and it's always RvDoor when that happens. No Guilds or alliances come out to stop the Push because all we need to do is farm SC's for renown and show up in 1 instance and win two PQs and they won't get their lockdown.
Make sense to you?
Thursday, March 11, 2010
U Don't Pay my $15!!
The AFK situation on Badlands is pretty epic. It is sad, funny and so stupid that at times I am wondering why the hell I am putting up with it.
Reality is that there is nothing at all that can be done. Those people who need to get to that rr75 weapon without earning it in the game as it was designed to be earned are full of Fail. I'm not alone here, most people on both sides are getting pretty fed up with all this AFK bullshit.
That being said, I don't pay anyone's subscription fee. And it's a Free Country (I'm assuming we live in Free Countries) and if people want to AFK their toons to get their stupid little Crests then brag about it afterwards, posting their newfound weapons in /a chat they can all go straight to Hell.
I never AFK'd my way to anything in this game. I'm not an epic player or some sort of crazy bad ass Marauder. I'm geared, I have renown and I really enjoy playing. The Battlefield is full of Assholes and Nice people. I like reading on the Forums with people on Order are bitching as hard as the people on Destruction. Kudo's to them I say.
I've decided, for my end that I'm not going to bother with these people anymore. I wish I was a Healer so I could refuse to heal them if I ever see them actually playing, alas I must bring the deeps.
Reality is that there is nothing at all that can be done. Those people who need to get to that rr75 weapon without earning it in the game as it was designed to be earned are full of Fail. I'm not alone here, most people on both sides are getting pretty fed up with all this AFK bullshit.
That being said, I don't pay anyone's subscription fee. And it's a Free Country (I'm assuming we live in Free Countries) and if people want to AFK their toons to get their stupid little Crests then brag about it afterwards, posting their newfound weapons in /a chat they can all go straight to Hell.
I never AFK'd my way to anything in this game. I'm not an epic player or some sort of crazy bad ass Marauder. I'm geared, I have renown and I really enjoy playing. The Battlefield is full of Assholes and Nice people. I like reading on the Forums with people on Order are bitching as hard as the people on Destruction. Kudo's to them I say.
I've decided, for my end that I'm not going to bother with these people anymore. I wish I was a Healer so I could refuse to heal them if I ever see them actually playing, alas I must bring the deeps.
Crest Drops and You
One fun source of /rage in WAR always has been Mythic's excellent concepts of token drops in RVR to buy armor. I'm not sarcastic, I think the drops are great. However, the drop rate + the fact that there is no limitations on drops make many people /rage about who ends up getting their hands on Crests
Obviously, we aren't talking about Invader and lower. That shit is all over the place. I think right now I have 200 Invader crests sitting in my bag just waiting to be turned into Officer Pots, not to mention over 3k Officers and probably a couple hundred Conq medals. That stuff is easy to come by. There is no reason why on this server anyone RR55 should need Invader crests to get any gear since the city happens so much and ppl can just opt out on Gold bags or pass them via Master loot. At any given time I have between 6 to 8 pair of Invader Boots on my Marauder and just ship them off to my Sorc for salvaging once or twice a week.
The issue is with the Warlord Crests and the Royal especially.
What is the issue? Lowbie scrubs rolling and winning these crests when they drop. Nothing is more agrivating for a high RR player then seeing a Royal drop and some r32 Squiggie alt rolls and wins the Royal off you when he never put a point of dps out. Things like this don't only aggrivate me but my guildies to no end. To where the Guild rule is basically "If you don't drop it, don't roll on it" and if you're on an alt you pass on anything above Warlord if there are ppl in that group that need the Crest.
I think it is only right. A Royal Crest means absolutely nothing to a RR 40 toon who can't even wear his/her Conq gear yet. Yet he may just break that Royal down to pay for that gear set much to the dismay of that RR80 Choppa who needs 2 more Royals to buy his Sovereign Shoulderpads. What's more effective... a RR45 in Conq or a RR 80 rolling with 4 piece Sovereign?
Of course the other side to the coin that those Lowbie's claim is that if they killed it or had a hand in the kill they deserve the roll. Now, I'm not arguing that they don't deserve phat lewts. I'm saying that common sense should prevail and that you should sit and wait your turn. If you can wear Sov gear then good. I, being geared to the point where Tyrant and Sov are my only upgrades armorwise greed on WL crests in my auto roll, so that if I solo kill someone and they drop the crest I get the crest. If some one wants to QQ about that then send me a tell and I'll buy you your WL ring (which is shite anyway).
Last week I was passing on Sovereign's because Laonsela (Guild Leader) was 1 royal shy of buying his gloves (or whatever) and I knew that since I have a stockpile of Royals he would be more effective in the gear then I would be at that moment. Call me a team player if you want to, I'm a fan of helping guildies if I can.
All I'm saying in the end, if you see a crest drop think about what you are doing before you click Need. If you look at your paperdoll and are wishing for that last renown rank to put your annihilator chest on then pass on the god damn Royals and Warlords.
K thanks
Obviously, we aren't talking about Invader and lower. That shit is all over the place. I think right now I have 200 Invader crests sitting in my bag just waiting to be turned into Officer Pots, not to mention over 3k Officers and probably a couple hundred Conq medals. That stuff is easy to come by. There is no reason why on this server anyone RR55 should need Invader crests to get any gear since the city happens so much and ppl can just opt out on Gold bags or pass them via Master loot. At any given time I have between 6 to 8 pair of Invader Boots on my Marauder and just ship them off to my Sorc for salvaging once or twice a week.
The issue is with the Warlord Crests and the Royal especially.
What is the issue? Lowbie scrubs rolling and winning these crests when they drop. Nothing is more agrivating for a high RR player then seeing a Royal drop and some r32 Squiggie alt rolls and wins the Royal off you when he never put a point of dps out. Things like this don't only aggrivate me but my guildies to no end. To where the Guild rule is basically "If you don't drop it, don't roll on it" and if you're on an alt you pass on anything above Warlord if there are ppl in that group that need the Crest.
I think it is only right. A Royal Crest means absolutely nothing to a RR 40 toon who can't even wear his/her Conq gear yet. Yet he may just break that Royal down to pay for that gear set much to the dismay of that RR80 Choppa who needs 2 more Royals to buy his Sovereign Shoulderpads. What's more effective... a RR45 in Conq or a RR 80 rolling with 4 piece Sovereign?
Of course the other side to the coin that those Lowbie's claim is that if they killed it or had a hand in the kill they deserve the roll. Now, I'm not arguing that they don't deserve phat lewts. I'm saying that common sense should prevail and that you should sit and wait your turn. If you can wear Sov gear then good. I, being geared to the point where Tyrant and Sov are my only upgrades armorwise greed on WL crests in my auto roll, so that if I solo kill someone and they drop the crest I get the crest. If some one wants to QQ about that then send me a tell and I'll buy you your WL ring (which is shite anyway).
Last week I was passing on Sovereign's because Laonsela (Guild Leader) was 1 royal shy of buying his gloves (or whatever) and I knew that since I have a stockpile of Royals he would be more effective in the gear then I would be at that moment. Call me a team player if you want to, I'm a fan of helping guildies if I can.
All I'm saying in the end, if you see a crest drop think about what you are doing before you click Need. If you look at your paperdoll and are wishing for that last renown rank to put your annihilator chest on then pass on the god damn Royals and Warlords.
K thanks
His Kruelness
Well it was a CrAzY week for me in this wild and wacky game. All capped by some unexpected support from the Baddielands community thanks to Mythic sending me a Name Violation... yes I was reported for the last name Job.
Kruelhand Job.
Voted several times for Best name on the server. I used to regularily get /t from randoms about how much they loved my Last name. Apparently this was fine and dandy for about oh, 8 months but heck it got reported. Not that I am surprised. I was expecting the report much much sooner and in fact it just sort of slipped my mind tbh. Eventually I even forgot that it was even possible and figured that if I had not been reported thus far, it could just be that Mythic doesn't care if I get reported or that no one is reporting me.
I was in Lost Vale main tanking on Encenon when I got the CSR and laughed out loud and wiped us on N'Kari twice because it was so damn funny that I got reported. What wasn't funny was the name reset.
Instead of just deleting my last name, Mythic deleted my entire name. A shortsight on their part I'm sure, it was the weekend and maybe they just wanted to get it taken care of now and fix the mess later. What ended up happening was two things.
1. I was forced to pick between randomly ingame generated names. All which were horrible, I eventually just clicked yes and ended up with the now infamous "Chrarrard"... possibly the worst name ever.
2. Because of the name change the game bugged out. I was unable to be selected by friendly targets for heals or guard swaps or rez or anything. Only Group heals. The only option was /target macro or clicking on my toon in game with your mouse... Not the most efficient way to keep a Melee DPS alive in the frantic insanity of RvR.
I almost raged but a post on the Forum turned into several supportive threads. Monday, Mythic contacted me saying they realized that the name deletion was not needed and that I would be given back my 1st name of Kruelhand as long as my last name remained tasteful and didn't violate the naming policy of the game. Which was fine.
Now I got a lot of great suggested names, and I will be trying out many of them. Currently "Luke" being the top of what ppl are suggesting. It seems like a fair choice. I like "stand" right now. I also am leaning towards "Occupation" however maybe that's too soon after the last report ;)
Kruelhand Job.
Voted several times for Best name on the server. I used to regularily get /t from randoms about how much they loved my Last name. Apparently this was fine and dandy for about oh, 8 months but heck it got reported. Not that I am surprised. I was expecting the report much much sooner and in fact it just sort of slipped my mind tbh. Eventually I even forgot that it was even possible and figured that if I had not been reported thus far, it could just be that Mythic doesn't care if I get reported or that no one is reporting me.
I was in Lost Vale main tanking on Encenon when I got the CSR and laughed out loud and wiped us on N'Kari twice because it was so damn funny that I got reported. What wasn't funny was the name reset.
Instead of just deleting my last name, Mythic deleted my entire name. A shortsight on their part I'm sure, it was the weekend and maybe they just wanted to get it taken care of now and fix the mess later. What ended up happening was two things.
1. I was forced to pick between randomly ingame generated names. All which were horrible, I eventually just clicked yes and ended up with the now infamous "Chrarrard"... possibly the worst name ever.
2. Because of the name change the game bugged out. I was unable to be selected by friendly targets for heals or guard swaps or rez or anything. Only Group heals. The only option was /target macro or clicking on my toon in game with your mouse... Not the most efficient way to keep a Melee DPS alive in the frantic insanity of RvR.
I almost raged but a post on the Forum turned into several supportive threads. Monday, Mythic contacted me saying they realized that the name deletion was not needed and that I would be given back my 1st name of Kruelhand as long as my last name remained tasteful and didn't violate the naming policy of the game. Which was fine.
Now I got a lot of great suggested names, and I will be trying out many of them. Currently "Luke" being the top of what ppl are suggesting. It seems like a fair choice. I like "stand" right now. I also am leaning towards "Occupation" however maybe that's too soon after the last report ;)
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