Before You Quit…

Before you quit, take a breath.

Before you quit, take a look around.

Before you quit, know that you are liked by people on your server.

Before you quit, remember that the puggers aren’t your guildies.

Before you quit, remember that you’ll never see that particular pug group again.

Before you quit, take a breath.

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I read BBB’s post about his latest and greatest healing experience.  You can read about it here.  Personally, I’ve seen our healers go through a lot of pain with the changes in Cata.  I’m not a healer, I can only comment on what I see the PhR healers going through.

My heart goes out to our healers.  All I can say is, “I’ve got your back.  I won’t complain if I die. I know you are doing your best.”

Now, a word to some of you other WoW players.  The poem at the beginning of this post is for you.  I would like to add one little thing:

Before you quit, make a toon on Sentinel’s Server, and look me (or one of my guildies) up.  Come, hang out with a nice group of people.  Remember why you began to play this game to begin with.

Also, if you think that people being “nice” is a let down.  I’m afraid that you’ve got other problems.

Z

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Good Experience

I don’t PuG very much anymore.  I know some people that hate, absolutely abhor it! And yes, it can be painful. You’re thrown together with people of differing experience in their class. Some are on alts, some are on mains.  Everyone had a different gear skill level, or at least it seems.

But, that isn’t why I don’t PuG very much anymore. I used to do it all the time. Just now though, I have limited play time.  I’ll be on at night for about 2-3 hours.  I only have enough time to run one instance, period.  So, I wait for most of my guildies to get on, and we make a group. Most of the time we don’t need to fill a spot. But, every now and then we do.

This is what happened a couple of nights ago.  We had to pug a healer, and we ended up getting a resto-druid named “Refresh…” something or other. I should have written down his name.  He was a great guy.  It was his first time in HVP, while the rest of us had been through it a couple of times.  He didn’t complain when we wiped (twice), and kept a great spirit throughout the whole situation.

Refresh, if you’re out there.  Thanks! Thanks for being a pleasant companion, in what can be a difficult instance.

Thank you.

Z

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The Shaking!

He didn’t know what was happening.  There hasn’t been any ground instability in this region, ever!

All he knew was that he had to get to Auberdine.

If it shook Terldrassil this hard, he could only surmise that Auberdine had taken a horrible hit.

He. Had. To. Get. To. The. Portal…

The sooner he got to Ruth’theran Village, the sooner he could get to his childhood home.

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Thoughts on Cataclysm…

First, let me say that I’m not the type of guy to post two times in one day. But, since I’m dusting off the blog…

Secondly, not everything I write will be in RP(ish) kind of way. I wish I could be Ratshag, but I can’t.

So, I won’t.

And with that… I was reading over at Shy at WoW, and she pointed over to Pink Pigtail Inn; concerning the impression Cataclysm has had thus far.  These weren’t the most recent posts, but they got me thinking.

You see, I took a little time off from WoW before Cataclysm took off.  I missed the whole ramp up to it.  Granted, I missed for a good reason. We had another Baby Z show up.  I took some time off when the first hit, and also with the second.  It was well worth it.  But, I digress…

So, I came back on the day that Cataclysm hit.  The first thing I did was make a Worgen Druid, and go through every quest, until Astranaar.  Going through a ruined Auberdine made me yearn to play my main, so I blew the dust off of Zwingli, and began the leveling process.

Thus far, I’ve taken my three level 80s, and now have them to level 85.  And, my baby worgieporgie drood, is at level 41.

Here are my thoughts about Cata…

It is freakin’ beautiful.  Seriously, stunningly amazing.  I need a better computer so that I won’t have to have my graphics turned down so low all of the time.  But, at times I turn the graphic interface up as high as it can go, sit on my Cenarion War Hippogryph high up above, and enjoy the view.  Again, the designers did a stand up job.

I’ve enjoyed the questlines…mostly.  A few other bloggers noticed the lack of choice.  I’ve felt the same thing. It seems that quests don’t open up unless you do practically all of the quests in an area.  It isn’t totally true.  You don’t have to do the “kill all the baby eels” quests, per se; but you get the point.  Overall, I still give the developers an A+.  You guys did a great job.

I’ve totally enjoyed the storyline!  Being able to meet so many epic characters, especially in Hyjal, has been a blast!

Ok, Crafting has got me depressed!  Seriously, those stupid orbs at the end of heroics do not need to be BoP!  At least, give us a way to purchase them…say for 5000 justice points or something?!  Also, it was depressing to learn a new crafting piece, just to see it gray out as soon as I learned it!  That happened multiple times to me (Zwing is a leather worker).  I feel that if it takes a skill level of 500 to learn it, it should be good for at least 10 points or so before it grays out.

I like the harder version of Instances. I like the need to CC in Instances. I’m liking everything about them.  This past nerf to Vortex has made me a little sad.  I expected the dragon to be hard…and it wasn’t.

My last negative comment is actually about something that happened back in Wrath.  It was the Auto-Random LFG.  Look, as a DPS I appreciate an application that can put me with a bunch of other puggers from accross servers.  At the most, I wait about 20-30 minutes in LFG.  Back in BC, I was waiting literally hours at times.  It was really bad if I wanted to run just one particular Instance, like looking for the coveted Sonic Spear.

But, it has made pugging somewhat impersonal.  If not for the old style pugging, I never would have met anyone from Phoenix Rising.  This led to my eventual introduction to raiding.  This led further to the introduction of my Imperial Guard guildmates to PHR folks; which led to some great relationships!  We are all stronger for that.  But now, you just can’t find that.  Building relationships on the server seems to have become harder, imo.

What do you think?  What are your thoughts on Cataclysm thus far?

Z

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Dusting it off…

Zwingli had lived outside of Darnasus for quite some time. After the rise and defeat of the Lich King, he was ready to put up his rifle, and let Fade grow fat and lazy.

But, then it happened.  They showed back up.  The Highborn were back, and bringing news of coming desecration.

He picked up his rifle, dusting it off.  He whistled into the night, then turning around to finish packing his meager belongings.

He heard, more than saw Fade approach.  Still, he smiled as Fade seem to materialize out of thin air.  He was a ghost saber, not quite spirit and not quite corporeal.  Zwingli found the spirit enslaved by a Naga mystic.  After dispatching the mystic, the spirit never left his side; becoming a constant companion.  A quite formidable companion at that!

So, pack in hand and Fade at his side he sets out.  He thinks to go to Stormwind; they always seem to know what is going on in Stormwind.  Yet, he may stop at Ironforge first.

Then it happens…

It starts with a great rumbling…

The whole tree is shaking, all of Darnasus is writhing in the great bowles.

A ravaging earthquake hits, knocking everyone to their knees.

The Cataclysm has come.

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