It’s a keychain of everybody’s favorite racial leader, Lor’themar Theron! (And if he’s not your favorite, he should be.)
You can get your own, or pick a different character, at this Etsy store right here.
Now one of the best characters in game can go with me everywhere!
What kind of dorky WoW stuff do YOU have, if anything?
I’m not a huge fan of trillions of dailies which is probably why I only played MoP for like two months. I mean, yeah, we all did them back on the Isle of Quel’danas in TBC and whatever and it was all well and good. But that was then and this is now. And now I’ve definitely had my dailies fix for a lifetime.
But I really like how WoD has done it. You only get a couple! And they’re like… “freeform” so can improvise on them a little! You know, pair this up with that today, and pair that up with this tomorrow, and so on.
I dig it. I dig it a lot. The one thing I do wish that Blizzard included was more of a story, the way they did with the Dominance Offensive in MoP. I mean, I guess there’s kind of a story there but I don’t think it was pulled off as well. And besides, WoD’s story isn’t super engaging to me anyway (it’s one of the few aspects of this expansion that I find truly lackluster.)
Anyways, I realize that this expansion hasn’t exactly had a lot of fans but I hope that Blizzard doesn’t throw the baby out with the bathwater when it comes to future expansions!
What are your thoughts on the dailies this time around?
Recently, Warcraft Pets reported that cat mini-pets will now sit on your lap in game. Which is absolutely, 100% adorable. Absolutely nothing wrong with that, right?
WRONG.
This is my real life pet cat.
She is absolutely, 100% a sweetheart and she loves sitting on my lap. Her name is Scout.
This is the calico cat in game.
They look almost exactly the same. And yet, Scout cannot join me in game to sit on my lap. Why?
BECAUSE “SCOUT” IS ON BLIZZARD’S NAME FILTER
Look, I get it, it’s a title. If players can’t name themselves that, then okay, whatever.
BUT LIKE
IT’S A BATTLE PET
I just want Scout to sit on my lap with me in game at the same time as she is sitting on my lap while I’m at my desk. 🙁 Come on Blizzard. I thought you said you didn’t hate fun!
This morning has kind of sucked. I’m going to avoid details for now but suffice to say now I get to do the fun adult game called Spending A Bunch of Money On Grown Up Stuff That Isn’t Video Games.
Fortunately, Blizzard Video Game Fun Company Ltd. Inc. has decided that they love me. That Bestial Wrath buff I spoke up yesterday? Guess what: it’s LIVE!
It’s live, and it’s glorious. I’ve heard some people say the min/maxing isn’t a big improvement. I don’t care. It’s big, it’s red, it’s BACK, baby.
(I do so love how this was announced and then given to me all in one day. I swear they did this specifically for yours truly.)
Also I can make carriers in my shipyard now. And the dicerolls are giving me carriers with A++ names. Like Rommath’s Fire. It matches well with Lor’themar’s Arrow, and with Halduron’s Stupid Sexy Hair (okay, I don’t have that boat yet) (but I will)
So yeah. Real life may not be my friend, but at least video games still are!
Bestial Wrath now lasts 15 seconds (up from 10 seconds).
I REPEAT, BESTIAL WRATH NOW LASTS 15 SECONDS
Do you guys remember back in the day when this sucker lasted 18 seconds? Do you? DO YOU?
WELL THIS ISN’T QUITE THAT BUT IT’S PRETTY DURN CLOSE
Okay. So let’s relax. Everybody stay calm. Couple deep breaths. This is still “in testing” so it may not go live. And if it does, who knows when it will actually hit.
But… but… guys…
OLD SCHOOL BESTIAL WRATH MOTHERF*CKERS
So today I hopped over to MMO-Champion to see if there was anything going on and it turns out there’s a poll on the front page asking if you’d do Timewalking even if there was no reward. My first thought was, “Pffft, of course I would. Wouldn’t everyone?” So I clicked on the Yes button aaaand guess what: most people actually don’t agree with me.
And for a minute I felt absolutely flabbergasted. Only 15.96% of players love this stuff as much as I do? Really? How bizarre! I mean, I know that not everyone finds the same stuff fun, but dang.
After some thought, I realized that I’m probably coming at this from a different perspective than most other players. To me, WoW is not really a social game. Yes, I know, it’s an MMO. But as Bhagpuss recently very eloquently stated, it’s sort of like going to a cafe. Other people may be at the cafe to hang out with friends or socialize. Me, I’m there to eat. The other people are just atmosphere.
Back in TBC and WotLK I was in big guilds and I raided and stuff. It was great fun and I looked back on it fondly. But the social game eventually grew thin, and I went dark.
Now I’m here for fun. I do things in game not because they’re an obligation to my guild, but because I want to do them. This is a playstyle that fits my life very well and I like it a lot. I often see people decrying the state of the game or the expansion, and honestly if I felt the same as they did I would have bounced to another game long ago. But presumably for these other people, the game is still, ultimately, social.
So! Gaming out of obligation. It’s not something I do anymore. I used to do it, and it was fun, but those days are gone. There’s nothing bad about playing that way, of course, but I prefer my current style. And that, I think, is probably why I feel so disconnected from many other players.
But that’s okay. Whatever makes me happy, I’m gonna go with it. 🙂
Earth Defense Force 2017 is about bad physics, bad voice acting, bad dialogue, and giant ants and spiders and dinosaurs and mechas inexplicably attacking Japan for no reason.
And it’s the greatest couch co-op game of all time.
The entire point of this game, you see, is just to shoot things. Shooting things has never been easier because basically you have two buttons, one to shoot and one to swap between two weapons of your choosing. This straightforward, arcade-style simplicity is one of the biggest draws of the game and why it’s so easy to pick up and play.
The other draw is the wide variety of ridiculous weapons you can collect in this game (like missiles that you can literally outrun, or bullets that bounce off of cave walls like ping pong balls), and even after hours and hours of playing you’ll still be excited when you happen to snag a new bizarre weapon.
Ultimately, this game is just utterly absurd. It’s the very embodiment of a shoestring budget in video game form. And that’s exactly why it’s so freaking good.
I’m not sure what else I can say about it, because you really have to experience the magic for yourself. Grab a buddy and a couch and this game. You won’t regret it.
Anyone here been around since the early days? Aaaaanyone? You there, in the back, maybe?
Well all two of you might remember my Wrath of the Lich King days when I was raiding on two characters. A hunter (of course), and a healer druid. I raided quite a bit on both and my druid was all kitted out in raid epics by the end of that expansion.
But then I rather unceremoniously retired her. Mostly in protest of the removal of perma-tree-form. And I haven’t healed anything since. I kinda feel like I would have no idea what I was doing.
But yesterday I got nostalgic thanks to WotLK timewalking and logged into my druid. She’s got the glyph that makes her a perma-tree and all the basics like Regrowth, Rejuvenation and Lifebloom still exist.
And I kiiiiind of almost miss healing.
Kind of.
Almost.
Hey, I might even give it another whirl someday! (Key word: “might”)
How IS healing these days?
…is when they kill your follower before killing you.
There’s some druid who hunts me down at least once a day (what did I ever do to you, bro?) and does just this. Yes yes, I know, PvP on a PvP server, whatever. But what did Vivienne do to you? What did Aeda Brightdawn do to you? WHAT DID TALONPRIEST ISHAAL DO TO YOU??
The second biggest dick move is in PvP is in battlegrounds when they take your insignia for no reason. Like really does anyone rez anywhere BUT the graveyard? No reason to take the insignia but some people do it anyway and I feel like it’s the WoW equivalent of teabagging or something. I dunno why I feel that way. Always have. Is it just me?
Okay, enough of my ranting. Originally I had a completely different post lined up but that fecking druid, guys. That fecking druid.
So, the big news! Remember not so long ago when I was lamenting the faction imbalance in PvP lately? Well have no fear, Mercenary Mode is here, which lets you queue up for the opposite faction in order to alleviate pesky things like queue times.
Although this doesn’t address whatever the core, underlying problems are– and I suspect racials have to do with a lot of it– I think this will probably do a decent enough job at helping to treat the symptoms, at least. I don’t really suspect us Hordies will be able to try the faction hop anytime soon, since it’s the Alliance who has most of the queue problems, but hey, maybe with some Alliance on our side we can actually win AV now? Maybe? Like, just once a week?
Honestly my biggest question right now has to do with battleground chat. It’s always been a toxic place; one that I put up with, rather than leave, just because it’s nice to be able to call out “incs” and be able to actually talk tactics on the rare occasions that I’m not making liberal use of the ignore feature. Presumably now you will be able to communicate with the opposing faction and I foresee a lot of dumb playground fights and namecalling from both sides.
Ah well. More people to sacrifice to Ignore for the Ignore God, I suppose.
The REAL question now becomes “Is Ashran fixable?” (Probably not)