Out of Character Archive

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Back in 2012

By
Lufitoom
– January 1, 2012Posted in: Moonkin, Out of Character, PvP
After many months of inactivity, I have decided to cast a Rebirth on this blog and get back into the swing of things.  What better day to start than on January 1st? I thank so many of you for the emails and personal notes on Twitter.  It is humbling to know [...]

After many months of inactivity, I have decided to cast a Rebirth on this blog and get back into the swing of things.  What better day to start than on January 1st?

I thank so many of you for the emails and personal notes on Twitter.  It is humbling to know that people actually enjoyed my little bit of writing here and I hope that I can step up to the plate this time and keep it going with fresh content, more RP and a lot of Moonkin talk.

Looking into the new year, I have some personal goals for the game.  First and foremost, I want to get to at least 400,000 honorable kills before the expansion.  I am not sure if they are going to add another title/achievement for honorable kills but I sure hope that they do.  There has been some speculation that it will be for 500,000 but I am hoping they stick with the gap of 150,000 and move it up to 400,000 for the next one.  That is well within my reach.  As of today I have just under 357,000 and with my active guild and good friends (HI SNOWY), I am always in a battleground having fun!

Next, I would like to do a little more PvE.  I know, I know… that is very uncharacteristic of me but I actually had some fun doing it.  Just wish that I had a little more time to devote to it.  With work and PvP, there just doesn’t seem to be enough hours in the day.  Not to mention that I enjoy the social aspect of WoW tremendously and love to spend time just hanging out and RPing.

Lastly I would like to hit 2200 in RBGs or arena.  I have come close but always have the team break up or some other silliness happens.  My own lack of persistance hasn’t helped.  Hopefully, that will change.

To all of you, I wish you a very safe, happy and prosperous new year!  Please check back often, because I already have some posts ready for publishing.

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So, You Wanna RBG….

By
Lufitoom
– July 20, 2011Posted in: Battlegrounds, Out of Character, PvP
Last week we had a few open spots on our RBG team due to our regular team members dealing with computer meltdowns, Harry Potter and I think even some sort of infection.  This left us with the desperate move to PUG the spots.  Ok, so filling them with guildies might [...]

Last week we had a few open spots on our RBG team due to our regular team members dealing with computer meltdowns, Harry Potter and I think even some sort of infection.  This left us with the desperate move to PUG the spots.  Ok, so filling them with guildies might not be “PUGging” to some people, but in my opinion it still was.  I do prefer to go with guildies over the regular random scrub PUGs though so I was happy to see some new names and fresh faces helping out the team.  It became quickly apparent that they had limited PvP experience (which is fine with me if they have a willingness to learn) and were unsure of their abilities outside the relative safety of a PvE instance.  So, that is where the idea for this post was born.  Just some helpful hints for newbs to rated battlegrounds, with an emphasis on Balance and Restoration Druids.

  1. Come appropriately geared.  Blizzard makes it stupidly easy to get decent PvP gear if you just put in the effort.  Showing up to my RBG with low resil/blues/greens (yes, someone had a green on) is like me showing up to your progression raid in the same equivalent and under hit.  Get the gear before you step into the battle.
  2. Just because you are Resto in PvP, doesn’t mean that all you are supposed to do is heal.  This is why Resto Druids have to get the 4% spell hit as well.  Your heals are fantastic but you must be aggressive in addition to healing.  Anything that can stealth should have a Fairie Fire on it.  Insects should be a swarming.  Cyclones and roots galore.  Hunter pets… hibernate.  If you see someone low, don’t be afraid to Moonfire/Wrath.
  3. If you are not aware enough in PvP yet to be able to identify what is happening to you, get an addon that shows you the spells etc. that are affecting you or keep you combat log up.  I have some PvE addons and when I am going to PvE I turn them on.  When I am going to be PvPing, I turn them off.  No excuses.  Personally, I don’t like the idea of required add-ons.  I just know that in some situations I need the extra help for the betterment of the team.  You should be able to tell immediately that you are being mana burned and calling it out will help us help you.
  4. Communication is the key.  There are many things to remember during a match in regards to communication.  First and foremost, don’t be shy.  Although vent/mumble should be as clear as possible, silence is a bad bad thing.  Don’t be shy!  Call out your CC’s.  Call out a low target.  Call out the direction of the EFC.  (Don’t use left/right.  Always use directions such as North/East/West/South or landmarks like Waterworks or Graveyard side.  Remember, left and right depend on your perspective.  Inevitably, half your team will be facing the other direction and will run to the wrong side.)  If you are Resto, call for peels.  By peels I don’t just mean melee, it’s anything that is making it hard for you to heal.
  5. The only person calling out for heals should be the flag carrier.  Our healers should be aware of the damage being done and if you are dying they should know about it already.  If you do die (it happens), call out how many seconds to rez and where are you rezzing.
  6. Focus fire.  Seriously.  When a target is called, GET ON IT.  Make it dead.
  7. If you see a healer running around with no mana, keep it in combat but don’t make it a priority to kill it.  Kill the other healers or DPS first.  They are helpless/harmless and can be blown up after.
  8. If you are low on mana, call it out.  Chances are there will be a druid with our nerfed and weak innervate ready for you.  It might not be much, but it’s something.
  9. Rogues.  Tricks the Moonkin at will.  Thanks.
  10. Last, have respect for your teammates.  Coming into an RBG with a bad attitude and a PvE elitist demeanor will not be received well.  PvE/PvP rivalry will always be there and even I joke around about it but like it or not… when you are in an RBG, you ARE a PvPer.

Oh, wait.  The most important thing is…

HAVE FUN!

People forget that sometimes.

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Just Chillin’

By
Lufitoom
– June 13, 2011Posted in: Out of Character
I know, I know. I’ve been a horrible Moonkin and I have neglected to write here in a long time. Part of it was the fact that real life got in the way with a new job and lots of family obligations, but mostly it was because I [...]

I know, I know. I’ve been a horrible Moonkin and I have neglected to write here in a long time. Part of it was the fact that real life got in the way with a new job and lots of family obligations, but mostly it was because I was a bit burnt out on writing anything. I guess you could say I was gunshy after the drama that my twitter account caused with some unstable folks on Emerald Dream.

With all of that behind me, I am now back and back for good. Being a Boomkin Blogger is important to me and censoring myself to placate some weirdos I don’t even know is just not going to happy.

So here I am.

I have been, as this post implies, “just chillin’”. I spend a lot of time with a rogue friend of mine named Barex. We do some twos, roll over Hordies in bgs and conquer that stingy bird Anzu every night. We have a blast and we work well as a team. Lots of ganking in Tol Barad Penisula, of course.

That’s about it in game. It’s sad but a few people pretty much sucked the fun out of it for a while. Things are about to change though. Got my new mouse ordered, new computer in a few weeks and I am so ready for 4.2 to arrive.

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Garrosh Lives! (But We’ll Be Back)

By
Lufitoom
– March 21, 2011Posted in: Out of Character, PvP, Screenshots
Last night, No Mercy Mafia, Kingship of the East and Ashes of the Phoenix joined forces with a few other people in “The Federation” and made our way to Orgrimmar. It was relatively easy, since our guilds have the “Have Group, Will Travel” guild achievements. So, three full [...]

Last night, No Mercy Mafia, Kingship of the East and Ashes of the Phoenix joined forces with a few other people in “The Federation” and made our way to Orgrimmar. It was relatively easy, since our guilds have the “Have Group, Will Travel” guild achievements. So, three full raids descended upon Garrosh.

The fight was going to be long, fighting the immense lag was the worst part. At about 50%, we crashed the server and Garrosh reset.

We logged back in, and started again. Adjusting a few things but again at about 50%, the server crashed once again.

Maybe three times the charm? We log back in again, and start to fight. The Horde obviously are angered at this time and had given up trying to fight us in any honorable way, so a certain guild sent five or so of their most nefarious characters to crash our vent. Then, one logged on their unguilded Alliance toon and taunted Garrosh to pull him out and reset him.

We continued to fight, my raid barely lost a soul until the very end. ~500 honorable kills later, we went back to Stormwind, unsuccessful in achieving our objective, but very content with the hurting we put on the Horde.

The Horde retaliated with a 39 man raid on the Trade District in Stormwind where they were annihilated immediately. We flew swiftly out to the the graveyard, and camped it to punish them for their tomfoolery.

For the Alliance!

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World PvP is NOT Dead (Just On Life Support)

By
Lufitoom
– March 20, 2011Posted in: Out of Character, PvP, Screenshots
Recently there was a blue post about the state of World PvP at http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2228418515?page=2#32 and after many a day stewing over this, I decided I needed to put in my 2 cents.  Sadly, it seems that when you disagree with “the blues” you tend to get banned for harassment or spam, [...]

Recently there was a blue post about the state of World PvP at http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2228418515?page=2#32 and after many a day stewing over this, I decided I needed to put in my 2 cents.  Sadly, it seems that when you disagree with “the blues” you tend to get banned for harassment or spam, and since I have no problem in getting banned for much more fun things, I figured here would be a good place to put it.

Here is Bashiok’s quote:

Hrm, I reckon it’s rewards that ruined world PvP. Everyone harkens back to TM/SS as the holy grail of world PvP, and that was before and maybe slightly after the honor system was implemented (but before real rewards existed from it). I think you can encourage world PvP all you want, and if there aren’t rewards behind it you’ll keep people interested for about as long as it takes them to realize there are other things to do that give real power increases. Why would anyone spend any amount of time just pushing back and forth for no reason when you can spend your time toward actual rewards and character improvement? Maybe there are some of you, but I guarantee it’d be short lived.I mean shoot, you have Isle of Quel’Danas or even quest hubs in Cataclysm where people are literally forced together, and there’s complaints that they just want people to stop PvPing so they can get their stuff done so they can get their rewards. That’s kind of unfair because I know many did enjoy those situations, but somehow it never meets the awesomeness of TM/SS, and I reckon it just never could again.The best I can think that you could do is create a specific world PvP zone where you don’t allow flying mounts, give some objective to tug-o-war over, and so you can justify giving some semi-meaningful rewards and keep people interested you’d need to find some way to even up the sides (because world PvP is inherently going to be unfair). I think you do all that and you probably have the best working solution for bringing back world PvP.

Seriously?  Have you visited Emerald Dream-US in the past two expansions?  This has to be the most pants-on-head retarded post I have seen in a while from a blue.  Does Blizzard have a stash of pre-1978 vintage lead paint chips that they are offering as snacks to their employees?

Those of us who live for World PvP do it not for “rewards” but for bragging rights and for the fact that WE ARE AT FUCKING WAR WITH EACH OTHER NOT JUST NIFTY DRAGONS.  We eat, sleep and breathe WPvP on Emerald Dream.  If you think that people don’t keep an interest in WPvP, Bashiok, you really need to climb out of your hole and do some research.

Has flying hurt WPvP?  Immensely.  Sure, we can get into a city easier flying in, but then it’s more about PvE than PvP.  The sad thing is now we see our enemies just mount and fly away and even I find less of a reason to attempt to stay and fight.  So, yes, flying in the old world has been fun but I would gladly give it back for just the WPvP that it gives us.

When we do find some good WPvP, it is more PvE against NPCs than anything else.  We don’t have a problem downing the hard-as-a-truck hitting NPCs, but the insanely quick respawn timers take the fun out of it.  This is why many of us are enjoying another game (Cough. Rift. Cough).  There the NPCs in towns are killed by other NPCs if you don’t defend, not to mention the opposing faction.  It makes sense and promotes defending them if you want to get/turn in quests or just interact with them.  Please, make a note of this Blizzard.

It’s sad that World PvP and the PvPers that love it seem to be so far down on the priority list for Blizzard.  There are some really easy and fun ways that would fix this such as no-fly zones that have reasons for people to be there, guards that have reasonable HP and reasonable respawn timers, and just stopping catering to the people who want an easy game!


If players want an easy time questing, there are things out there called “PvE servers”.  Go there.  If you join a PvP server, don’t bitch.  Your difficulties will build character and when you hit 85, you can LOL at the carebears and know that you really worked for what you have.  I realize that instance and bg leveling make it less of an issue, but many people still quest a lot.

Max level WPvP is still important to many of us.  We do get the rewards from arena and RBGs to gear up just for the WPvP.  As for it being unfair, it’s a war, war isn’t always fair and we like it that way.  Sometimes you get rolled, sometimes you roll.  That’s the beauty of it

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300,000

By
Lufitoom
– February 16, 2011Posted in: Battlegrounds, Moonkin, Out of Character, PvP, Screenshots
Yep, that’s right folks.  Little Lufitoom has finally reached 300,000 Honorable Kills.  Not that I get anything for it.  (Other than a growing e-peen.) That is all. Tweet

Yep, that’s right folks.  Little Lufitoom has finally reached 300,000 Honorable Kills.  Not that I get anything for it.  (Other than a growing e-peen.)

That is all.300,000 Honorable Kills

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You’re Not The Boss Of Me!

By
Lufitoom
– February 9, 2011Posted in: Battlegrounds, Gear, Moonkin, Out of Character, PvP, Spec

There I was, wandering around the streets of Stormwind last night, when I received a message from Vayren, a level 81 Mage whom I have never seen before.  The message?

“Stack HASTE not mastery!”

I know that I have gone through this ad nauseam on Twitter and in many a bg conversation, but I figured last night, “What the Hell!” and I regemmed and re-enchanted it all to haste.

To be honest, I had a blast.  The PEW PEW PEW of my LAZERZZZZ was amazing.  I speed at which the magic was flying was incredible!  There was only one small little problem.  I was only about doing 3/4 of the damage I normally do.  I gave it a chance, did several more battlegrounds but the outcome was the same.  Sure I was still top in damage, but I was no where near the numbers I am used to.  In PvP, I rely mostly on my instant cast spells (say what you want but moonfire/sunfire spam is where it’s at) and I only cast to drop a bomb or get closer to that eclipse.

Most of the PvP Moonkins think I’m nuts for stacking mastery but it works for me.  With the four piece PvP set bonus that has been increased to 20 Solar Energy and 13 Lunar Energy, up from 5 and 13, I stay in Eclipse without even trying.  Yes, I get hit that much.  I am a large target after all.

I tried to explain this to the all-knowing mage that messaged me, but as usual, he just logged.  I get that a lot, but usually they are rage tells from a Level 1 Warrior that likes to call me an “old hag”.  Ah well, just gonna go and kill some more Horde in his honor.

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Sometimes There is a Win in a Loss

By
Lufitoom
– February 6, 2011Posted in: Battlegrounds, Out of Character, Screenshots
Not often though.  I have never enjoyed Alterac Valley.  Never.  When I first started playing World of Warcraft, my little computer would nearly have a coronary each time I ventured there.  Now, it’s an annoying place with a bunch of kids who still think they can zerg it and win [...]

Not often though.  I have never enjoyed Alterac Valley.  Never.  When I first started playing World of Warcraft, my little computer would nearly have a coronary each time I ventured there.  Now, it’s an annoying place with a bunch of kids who still think they can zerg it and win with nothing down.

That being said, I got myself into a losing turtle the other day and had a blast.  Even I couldn’t carry this team… but I tried.

My first 1o million damage battleground.  /roar

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