Posted by Rollins on August 18, 2009 – 2:22 pm
1-shoting new content and scooping up ilvl 245 loot is fun, right? Argent Colosseum - or Naxx 3.0? Show up w/your buddies, walk out with loot. One new boss a week, each falls over and spills loot and badges like the boss before it. We’re already pugging the zone.
Here’s to hoping the hardmodes give us something to chew on and Icecrown lives up to the standards put forth by climactic raid zones of the past.
If the Colosseum wasn’t laughable in and of itself, they’re recycling and bastardizing more classic content. Onyxia is on deck, complete with a refurbished Vis’kag the Bloodletter, Deathbringer, and Quel’serrar. I’m as sentimental as the next guy, but the recycled content in this expansion has grown tiresome.
One nice thing about the casual state of the game is that it takes little to no time to get toons “raid ready”. My rogue has been 80 for exactly 2 weeks and it’s more or less ready for hardmode Ulduar, minus a couple pieces of gear which I expect to have during this week’s raid lockout. All achieved by running 5-man dungeons, pug raid content, 10-mans, and daily quests. Huzzah…
Posted by Rollins on July 31, 2009 – 9:58 am
3-day raid weeks are nice. Every Ulduar hardmode in the game on farm, Algalon on farm, 3.2 is still on the horizon (considering they haven’t announced an end to the current Arena season). You’d think with all this free time I’d be out in the sun, or in bars, or eating out with friends…
Not a chance.
I’m playing DotA with Kurkis and the other WoW guys. I’m playing TF2 with Smashylarry and Ziros and Odd and other choice WoW vets. I’m debating checking out the HoN beta (a DotA clone). I’m leveling a fucking Rogue alt in WoW. I am doing some light reading (which makes me feel mildly productive) - Philip K. Dick novels and some other classic Sci-Fi. I’ve got a copy of "Choke" sitting on my desk that I haven’t watched, next to the copy of "The Wrestler" that I want to watch again. In short: It’s 100 degrees and cloudless outside and I’d never know it if I didn’t look at the window.
And what is it about competitive PvP gaming that brings out the worst in people? I’ve been playing DotA for three days and if the learning curve in that game wasn’t steep enough with the 50+ heroes to select from and the staggering itemization choices, you’ve got some 12-year-old korean on the other team telling you how good your mother was last night while he farms your toon. The icing on the cake is when tells you to just quit and uninstall. Not even Kurkis’ magic dust can save our DotA team…
@Tippo. Come game it up with us.
@Ashy. Let’s play some TF2
Back with more in a few days.
Posted by Rollins on July 14, 2009 – 8:13 am
The 10-man (parse for the kill):
Sorry for the fruity looking achievments, I SSed that off the WoW armory.
And the kill shot, with our smiling e-mugs:
Credits go to: Just, Hexagram, Rollins, Talifey, Arriellwine, Triess, Phoa, Preachers, Rapida, and Asper (lol-app).
To the folks that have jumped ship on us recently without word or warning: May Drow’s hard work and commitment to making our players better, faster, and stronger pay-off for you.
