Idiots of Warcraft

The story here is that Deadlyelite was challenged to a duel by another Death Knight, but declined. His reason? Well, this other DK had a Ghoul minion, and Deathlyelite didn’t want to be stunned by the Ghoul’s Gnaw ability – which of course would allow the other DK to get a few extra hits in, for a whole three seconds.

I’m sorry, but this made me laugh out loud. I thought the whole point of a duel was to see who could do the best damage?

This seems like a really lame excuse to decline a duel, if you ask me (and you did, since you’re reading this blog).

I was on Omgwtfhax, working on my Explorer title (I know, I’ve been really lazy about it). Flying over Halaa, I hear the sounds of battle. Closer inspection reveals a Draenei Death Knight (named Luniel) being attacked by a Blood Elf Death Knight. Luniel is not wearing any armor, so I assume that she was changing armor and got jumped (not everyone knows about the Equipment Manager you know).

So, I swoop in and kill the Blood Elf.

That proved to be a mistake. After I killed him, Luniel calls me a noob – saying that she and this Blood Elf were helping each other farm marks.

To be honest, I didn’t see the point in the Blood Elf farming marks – the Alliance have had a hold of Halaa for a week now, to my knowledge. And they’re not so keen to let the Horde take control. But I didn’t say anything.

Quite frankly, I got rather annoyed at Luniel. How the hell was I to know that they were helping each other? I decide to teach her a lesson – and I fetch Navitas.

I kill Luniel (and her Hunter friend) quite a few times. Hopefully she would put 2+2 together and realise that this Druid was me. After all, the DK she just insulted vanishes, and all of a sudden a Druid conveniently comes across her? If I was her, I’d put 2+2 together.

Granted, this was overkill – but bear in mind that she deserved it for calling me a noob for no reason.

Several asskickings later, I relog my Death Knight. She reclaims her body and notices me on my drake…

Clearly, she didn’t put 2+2 together. Or maybe she did, hence why she suddenly calls me a ‘douchebag’ (and I thought I was the only person on Saurfang who used that term).

Anyway, I decide to give her a logical asswhooping, rather than a physical one. I’m nice like that.

See what I mean? I call her pathetic (because lets face it, she is) – and she replies with that. So yeah, thanks for proving my point.

Yes, she’s also a hypocrite. Think about it. She’s calling me a ‘loser’, yet here she is coming up with a gem like that? Pfft.

So yeah. That’s the last time I help anyone without being asked to. And I did write a ticket, BTW. Think of me what you will, but what she said was totally unprovoked. And last time I checked, helping someone kill an enemy was NOT cause for provocation.

I am reading the patch notes for Patch 3.3.3, and I have to say that it looks rather interesting. In this post, I will pick out a few things from the patch, and give my thoughts on them.

RANDOM BATTLEGROUND SYSTEM

As someone who does PvP, this is something I like the look of. The rewards in particular.:

• Winning a Battleground using the Random Battleground option for the first time in a day will award players with 30 Honorable Kills worth of additional Honor currency and 25 Arena points.
• Winning additional Battlegrounds using the Random Battleground option after the first random win will award players with 15 Honorable Kills worth of additional Honor currency.
• Losing a Battleground using the Random Battleground option will award players with 5 Honorable Kills worth of additional Honor currency.

Information from WoWWiki.com.

If I manage to kill an enemy by myself, I get 62 honor points. Taking this into consideration:

• The first random BG I win each day will reward me with 1,860 Honor Points.
• Each subsquent BG I win each day will reward me with 930 Honor Points.
• Each BG lost will only reward me with 310 Honor Points.

Add to this the fact that Honor Gain is being increased by 100% (for kills), the Random BG system looks to be an easy source of honor (providing you win a lot that is).

REMOVAL OF MARKS OF HONOR

I’ve always hated Marks of Honor. The fact that I always seem to lose in a Battleground makes it hard (not to mention tediously annoying) to farm Marks of Honor.

No matter what character I play on, my team loses. For example: I lose Alterac Valley on my Druid, so I log onto my Death Knight. Then, the Horde start winning, so I log onto my Druid again – only for Alliance to start winning. It’s a never ending circle.

Now that these annoying things are being removed, getting PvP rewards should be easier (I’m only interested in the mounts).

CULLING OF STRATHOLME CHANGE

Finally! We can skip that annoying intro sequence. Provided you’ve heard it at least once, that is. Hopefully, all the times I’ve heard it will mean that I can start skipping it next patch. However, I might have to listen to it one more time.

FROZO THE RENOWNED

For those of you who don’t know, this NPC will be trading Frozen Orbs for various other trade items. As a result, the price of these little things has skyrocketed.

The items that Frozo will be offering are:

Information from WoWWiki.com

My Hunter has 21 Frozen Orbs, so he stands to quite a bit of money!

MONSTERBELLY APPETITE FISHING DAILY

This is probably the most annoying fishing daily, because its so far away. But Blizzard have listened to our pleas and will be changing it so that it takes place outside the Violet Hold instead! Huzzah!

Oh, and it’s also been renamed to ‘Disarmed!’.

TITANSTEEL BAR COOLDOWN REMOVAL

No comment is needed. As a miner, this KICKS ASS. Sure, it means I can’t earn a quick 30g from selling the cooldown anymore. But it also means I can gather mats and smelt the bars like they were going out of fashion.

However, something tells me that the price of Titansteel Bars will plummet, due to the vast numbers that will surely be put onto the Auction House.

But once the price re-stabalises, I can make some easy cash.

DESERTER DEBUFF

The duration of this debuff is being increased to 30 minutes, up from 15. This sucks, because it means that rather than leave a group with an annoying member, I need to put up with this persons crap.

CLOSING

There are several other features I like the look of, such as what they are doing to the Auction House interface. But I feel that I’ve rambled on enough.

In short, I am looking forward to Patch 3.3.3!

I was doing some random Heroics on my Death Knight. We had a good tank and a good healer from the same realm as me (Mapleleaf).

However, the tank got disconnected – which is when the healer turned into a total jackass.

INCOMING SPAM WARNING!

He clearly can’t see that the tank has disconnected, even though he’s no longer in front of us, and his portrait has gone grey.

This player is right. We can’t kick the guy – because the damn Dungeon Finder won’t let us. So he carries on.

He also doesn’t get sarcasm by the look of it.

It was at this point I report him for spam, which stops all his crap scrolling down the screen.

The Warrior DPS becomes the Warrior Tank, as we decide to press on and wait for a replacement.

First he dies, then I do.

Then the other DPS. He made no attempt to heal us, but he did try and run from the large group of mobs that started to bear down on him.

I’m pleased to report that he didn’t make it out of the instance.

So, that’s that.

Tank joins group. Tank leaves group. Healer spams group. Group report healer for spam. Healers spam stops. Group choose new tank. Healer goes on strike. Group wipes. Healer runs. Healer dies. Group falls apart. Everyone curses healer and leaves.

Ahhhh, the old classic tale!

I got some more credit yesterday. So let the fail reports continue!