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Lufitoom And Barexx Do Firelands, Conquest Vanguard Gank Style!

So after all the drama about when it is appropriate to gank in the questing area and should there be camping/no camping, I was annoyed enough just to say “fuck it” and go balls to the wall (or tits to the glass in my case) and just start spending my [...]

So after all the drama about when it is appropriate to gank in the questing area and should there be camping/no camping, I was annoyed enough just to say “fuck it” and go balls to the wall (or tits to the glass in my case) and just start spending my time making Horde lives miserable.  I do not care at this point if they have 8 children and only have 5 minutes to do their dailies.  I am going to do everything in my power to prevent my enemy from being successful.

I am very glad my friend Barexx (Rogue) shares my passion for WPvP.  We are usually found together, although we do gank apart as well.  We decided early on Saturday that we would spend the day ganking with absolutely no mercy.  This was after I was privvy to some comments in Horde general chat the night before as you see below:

Plea for Help

Broken English but yeah...

Please note the name “Icyvenom” because he makes another appearance later!

More Rage!

Gotta love it!

Nothing like some raging to motivate us!  Anyway, we started our day early and found a Shaman named Grommie that was a glutton for punishment.  After the fourth or fifth gank, he decided that messaging Barexx using a level 1 Alliance would be the way to plead his case.  His anger was apparent.

Hate Tell

Anger and tears feed us!

This was a win!  Yes!  To get this reaction means we’re “doinitrite”.  I guess he felt that this game, on a PvP server was serious business so he followed up with this… an actual death threat!  SCORE!

Death Threat

Pixels on a Screen is SRS folks!

After this, Grommie logged out, without reclaiming his body and was not seen again.

Now we decided to make our home “The Furnace”.  It is a large hole in Firelands where you go down after a “boss” fight during a daily and then when you are done with the dailies down there, you catch a hot air vent back up to the top.  The hole is always there.

The Furnace

The Furnace as seen after you have done the dailies.

It is quite menacing!  Once you have done the dailies, if you jump in the hole (without the benefit of a parachute/levitate/slow fall etc.) you will die and take durability damage.  There is a rappelling rope on the side tho that allows you to descend safely (see below).

Edge of The Furnace

See the rope?

Can you see where I’m going with this?  Do you know the temptation that a Moonkin feels when there is a ledge or a cliff around?  Not only that, but when the questers come back up from the depths of The Furnace, they are placed on the edge where a nice, refreshing Typhoon is waiting courtesy of yours truly, Lufitoom, the Bloodthirsty.

Game on!  Victim after victim plummet to their deaths, not once but multiple times.  Barexx was on hand for the rare times that the Typhoon did not work or was on CD.  It was more satisfying than you could imagine.  Please enjoy some screenshots of the fun that was had at the expense of the dirty Horde!

Mcsteve!

Tauren Mcsteve gets naked to avoid any more durability damage after the 6th fall back in the hole!

Arriana the Paladin

Arianna enjoys her trip back south.

Arriana Tries Again!

But with no better results! GG!

Oh boy!  Here comes another customer….

Handel

Well dressed Druid tries his luck!Still failed...

After 5 Attempts, Handel Goes Bear!

Still failed...

This continued on and off all day.  Some made it out, most ended up doing what this Warrior below did… Hearth!

Hearth!

The only way out?

Now before anyone goes ragey on me, remember… I too have been on the receiving end of this.  You have outs.  Someone can summon outside the area in Hyjal, you can use many abilities to get out (Mages blink for instance).  People were smart and took advantage of my 20 second cooldown on Typhoon.  This is not a situation where you just can’t get out.  I have been held hostage by a rival guild before (mind controlled and healed back to health and then chain cc’d for over an hour).  It’s a game.  Be clever and cunning and you can get out of anything!

We didn’t just stay there though.  We caused murder and mayhem all over the area.  While Barexx was taking his lunch break, I found my friend Icyvenom once again (remember him complaining in Horde General Chat?).  I took the opportunity to teach him a lesson about whining.

So, leaving the original screenshot name so you can see the times:  Poor Icyvenom gets mad!

 

The rage continued during the evening hours and into the morning.

I know that many of you don’t approve of ganking but this is how I view it.  I am Alliance (Night Elf at that) and I hate EVERYONE.  I am going to fight against those dastardly Horde and prevent them from being successful.  I will utilize every tree, rock, hole, spell, ability, pie, frog or rubber band that will help me.  Case closed.

At the end of our ganking day, we had gotten over 300 honorable kills by ganking in the Firelands alone.  No battlegrounds. This brought my lifetime total to over 329,000.  I am proudest of the screenshot below.  Before we arrived, this path was clear and clean.  It is now littered with the bones left behind.  Oh, and HI NER’ZHUL!  Barexx and Lufitoom love your moxie and thanks for all the good times and good fights tonight.

Barexx and Lufitoom Were Here!

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Lufitoom’s Recommended Add-on’s and UI Mod

People often ask me if I use any addons or UI mods and the answer is most definitely yes. I am not a fan of the Blizzard stock UI and it took me a long time to find something I did like.  This is my UI.  I use ElvUI and I [...]

People often ask me if I use any addons or UI mods and the answer is most definitely yes. I am not a fan of the Blizzard stock UI and it took me a long time to find something I did like.  This is my UI.  I use ElvUI and I love it.  It is fully configurable and it comes with some fantastic features like the actionbars, tooltips, unit frames, nameplates, chat and oh so much more.  I actually love the nameplates that come with it, but I use an addon in PvP (which I will talk about later) that isn’t friendly with the ElvUI nameplates so I use Tidy Plates instead.  Out of all the custom UI packages that I have tried, this one is the easiest and lightest to use.  Highly recommended!

On to the addons.  I use a couple that are what I call “epeen” addons.  They serve no other purpose than to stroke my epeen and that makes me happy.  Might as well get them out of the way before we get into the meat of PvP addons.

  • Honor Kill Tab  This is exactly what it says.  As you all know, I am obsessed with Honorable Kills, and Blizzard made it so annoying to try and check your totals.  Instead of having to go to your achievements, then statistics, then kills, etc… you can simply hit H (pulling up the same panel as your battlegrounds/arenas) and there will be a tab at the bottom, just like all the other tabs.  This one will show your kills for the day, total, battleground, world and more.
  • Female Announcer  This woman will make you feel like a true stud.  With every killing blow, she moans out the Unreal Tournament killing spree sayings, getting more excited up to 10 in a row where she reaches the climax with “Holy shit!”.  If you don’t die, she screams “Holy shit!” over and over.  Very motivating and mucho epeen stroking.

Now on to arena.  I am more of a WPvP/Battleground nerd but I have been known to dabble a bit in arena.

  • Arena Unit Frames  Most people use Gladius, but I really prefer Arena Unit Frames.  It does pretty much the same thing, with one major bonus… it talks!  You can set it to use sounds or speech to alert you along with text when something important is happening.  I just love the fact that it will say audibly things like  ”Shaman is drinking!” and “Warlock, trinket used!”.  It really helps in arena when things can get very intense and where text can be missed.

For general PvP, including Rated Battleground, I like the following:

  • Healers Have to Die  Although I usually have no problem with picking out healers from a crowd, this is an exceptional addon.  This is also the one that doesn’t work with the ElvUI Nameplates as I mentioned before but it works superbly with Tidy Plates.  The addon will place a cross above the nameplate of an enemy healer in red, and they seem to glow.  Also, it will identify your friendly healers and announce when they are being attacked and what is attacking them.  They also get crosses above their nameplates as well.  Also, there are two sounds.  One when you happen to mouseover an enemy healer and then another when you actually target them.  This is a must-have for larger battles, not as needed in arena but it can be used and works well there too.
  • Battle Herald  Just replaces the normal text in battlegrounds with a little more information, as well as audible alerts and announcements.  Mouseover in CTF games to see the EFC.  Lighter than Deadly Boss Mods in BGs.
  • MikScrollingBattleText  Seeing those numbers of hits, heals and damage (and more!) scrolling around you is not only fun, but helpful.  One of my personal favorites.
  • SaySapped Let the folks around you know when you have been sapped by a pesky rogue.
  • Stealth Alerter Just what it says.  Lets you know who and what stealths near you.  Very handy!
  • Spy This also shows when someone stealths, but it gives you a clickable list of all enemies near you.  This is by far one of my favorites but I worry it is a little heavy on resources.  I am still testing it now that it works well with 4.2.

Druid Specific Addons:

  • PowerShifter  I have my forms bound but there are times I find that this right clicking of my bar gets me out of some sticky situations.  Try it out… and if you are a clicker (gasp) this is a must have.

I am currently testing BGGlad which is supposed to be like a Gladius for Rated Battlegrounds.  I haven’t had a chance to really give it a go but it sounds promising.  I will certainly let you know when I check it out.

As a Moonkin in PvP, I need all the help I can get thanks to Blizzard and their Moonkin nerfing.  These addons help a lot, and in many cases just make life a lot more fun.

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Premature Emote-ation

Have you ever happened upon a member of the opposite faction and just known that you were going to be able to roll them?  You get the opener, things are looking fantastic and then it goes horribly, horrible wrong?  That’s just what happened to Wastedbeef of Emerald Dream [...]

Have you ever happened upon a member of the opposite faction and just known that you were going to be able to roll them? You get the opener, things are looking fantastic and then it goes horribly, horrible wrong? That’s just what happened to Wastedbeef of Emerald Dream today. I am not sure if it was all the nifty blues he was wearing, or those sparkling greens he still had equipped, but he felt the need to spam emotes at me, confident in his ability to win this confrontation in Tol Barad.

Sadly, this was a case of “Premature Emote-ation”, a terribly malady that seems to be showing its ugly face more and more during WPvP fights.

This, my friends, is the result of his emote frenzy:

Here is the full screenshot of me riding away, keeping it a 10, and you can see the text in all its glory.

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Garrosh Lives! (But We’ll Be Back)

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)

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

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.
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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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Sometimes There is a Win in a Loss

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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Changing the Helm

Lufitoom slowly takes of the Bloodthirsty Gladiator’s Wyrmhide Helm and her long braid falls down to it’s normal place over her right shoulder.  She smiles, remembering all the bloodshed of the Horde it had seen.  Her long elven fingers trace the scratches and scuffs on the hard leather.
“It’s silly to [...]

Lufitoom slowly takes of the Bloodthirsty Gladiator’s Wyrmhide Helm and her long braid falls down to it’s normal place over her right shoulder.  She smiles, remembering all the bloodshed of the Horde it had seen.  Her long elven fingers trace the scratches and scuffs on the hard leather.

“It’s silly to be attached to an object.”, she sighs and laughs to herself.  She is attached to the small collection of possessions she has left.  Most everything she had was destroyed in her room at the Southshore Inn.  She reaches up, just to make sure that the most important thing, The Key, is still firmly locked in her braid.

Setting the Bloodthirsty Gladiator’s Wyrmhide Helm down by her side, she slowly pulls the Camouflage Bio-Optic Killshades out of her bag.  She grins as she examines her handywork.

“Ah yes, my new friend, we will have much fun together.”