I had like 75 of each Mark of Honor laying around collecting dust in my currency tab, and mechanostriders are basically the best mount in the game, so yeah.
The bunny ears? A leftover from my Aspect of the Hare proc, of course.
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So if everything goes according to schedule, I have a Naxx raid tonight. This is good, because I haven’t been to a raid in a few weeks and I am getting reeeeeally antsy. I am loving the Argent Tournament which I just started doing these past few days– it’s way more fun than I was expecting, and I am addicted to jousting (I’ve got to a point where if I’m lucky, I can get the other guy down to 0% health in about fifteen seconds)– but yeah. I wants me some raid action. *twitch*
By the way, in case you hadn’t noticed, you probably won’t be getting any Ulduar posts from me anytime soon. I do not have the raiding group or schedule for it, and I’m probably not geared for it anyway. >.> It’s okay though, there are plenty of other good bloggers talkin’ away about it, so it’s not like you’re completely out of luck! I’ll still be here if you want some non-Ulduar chatting.
*bounds around on Mechanostrider*
Enlighten this Horde-4-Life on the appeal of the mechanostrider? Rilgon has this fascination with it too – I don’t get it 🙁
Slightly off-topic but how is the boyfriends’ guild doing?
Whee, we’re Battlestrider Buddies! 😀
Yay Mechanostrider!
For a long, long time I wanted a gnome riding a giant ram mount. I had things planned out, I rolled a gnome warrior and got her to 20 before getting entirely bored with her. She got deleted for another alt who’s gotten much farther in life.
I did, however, eventually achieve my goal. All it took was an Orb of Deception on Tchann and a Brewfest Ram. 😀
I have about 8 more days to go (and a patch to wait for) for my pretty purple Turbostrider, whee! And, of course, working on that of Gnomeregan title, so close I can taste it.
@Negathle I can only speak for myself but I just really like Gnomes, they’re so friggin cute.
“and I am addicted to jousting (I’ve got to a point where if I’m lucky, I can get the other guy down to 0% health in about fifteen seconds)”
How do you do this?! The jousting stuff is the most painful thing in WoW I’ve ever been through and it’s daily!
I think latency might be an issue with this one as it always happens that I can’t actually charge until a couple of seconds after my CD is ready, and by that point the target is too close. Basically, the CD is ready and I get “spell is not ready” “spell is not ready” “target is too close” as a regular routine.
I’ve read it’s technically possible to throw Shield Breaker while Charging, which the AI certainly does, but that’s impossible on my end, the CD delay doesn’t allow for it.
So Pike, what are you doing? Any suggestions to help here might reduce my chances of having an aneurysm or heart attack from high blood pressure!
“The bunny ears? A leftover from my Aspect of the Hare proc, of course.”
…Just epic. Brb, rerollin’ hunter.
Noah, how much latency do you run with? I’m at about 300ms. That’s about all I can stomach. I’m ET on a PT server. When I travel to the west coast and have a good connection, things are honestly a lot easier.
Jousting is just barely manageable.
Tawyn is definitely geared enough to tackle Ulduar. I wouldn’t worry about that issue at all.
@ Negathle – I think I agree with Awlbiste there. It’s mostly a gnome thing. I think everything about gnomes and their eccentricities is adorable and if Blizz annouced gnomes could be hunters in the next patch… that would be the patch where all my toons are rerolled. Not even exaggerating. It’s also just sort of an… “I like weird mounts” thing. You know, stuff like the blood elf chicken mount. I love it. Mechanostriders fall into that category. There are way too many Black War Tigers, Frostwolf Howlers and Black War Raptors running around. Waaaay too many.
@ Aerislan – He really hasn’t gotten it off the ground yet at all. He wants to take it slow and steady. He has also been a busy kid lately <3
@ Noah - I can see how the latency would be an issue. The trick, for me, is to get all three stacks of defense up before you talk to the person, talk to them from behind, and then as they walk into the middle of the ring... Charge and/or Shield Break them as soon as you can. After that it's mostly a game of not letting them ever charge you. If they start to get range, you Charge first, or toss a Shield Break and then run up to them and force them to melee. If you're good with it, you can get them down to having no shield pretty quickly and then it's game over for them pretty fast because their lack of shields means you hit them for much harder than they are hitting you =P
Kheldul, I’m around that same latency mark on average, it fluctuates but 300ms sounds normal to me. And like you I’m in the EST playing on a PST server.
Pike, that sounds pretty much like what I try and in theory it should work but that theory relies on pretty low latency I think. It’s unfortunately impossible to throw a Shield Breaker and Charge, the lag is too great. Mostly it comes down to luck, and myself and my significant other have taken to, let’s say, using teamwork to our advantage in order to win.
The biggest issue is the delay in abilities registering as “activation ready”, there’s a good 1-2 second delay between Charge being technically ready and actually being usable, during which point my opponent has closed the gap, charged or shield-breaked (broke?) me down.
I’ve read this is a common occurrence, which is unfortunate.
On the mounts topic, I’ve never been picky really. I still have my old standby wyvern flyer and I’ve never felt compelled to get another flying mount. I’ve got a couple of land ones, but I like my good old Raptor faction mount the best. Mammoths? Meh. The only “exotic” mount I actually like is the raven one, that’s nifty. And I get to ride in my zombie pet’s motorcycle side car.
If I could get myself a gnome mechanostrider, I’d stable my black war raptor in a heartbeat 🙁