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by Exitec
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PrintWell i'm sure everyone here has checked out worldofming.com this morning, and seen the new information Jasi has posted regarded the 2 new arena layouts for WotLK (if not it can be found here - http://wowriot.gameriot.com/blogs/World-of-Ming/The-Future-of-Arenas-and-WotLK-TR-Round-2-Update/)
and personally i've never been more disappointed. I feel like I'm watching WoW turn into Unreal Tournament, and the devs have no idea what to do with their own game.
How many times a day do you hear the RNG excuse? Well, I shouldn't call it an excuse when it is a serious problem, but the amount of times it is referenced (a hell of a lot more than it was pre-BC I'll tell you that) is borderline insane. The thing nobody is understanding is, these new "oh my god a huge pillar just came out of nowhere and blasted me into the sky!" ideas for the new arenas, are new forms of RNG! Am I the only one who has seen this? Dear god, we have people complaining about resists, mace stuns, stun resists, line of sight, lag, crit, not critting, and everything in between - but nobody complains about the fact that randomly throughout the match mother nature might stick a giant water hazard up your butthole? Mmmhmmmm, this game is getting more and more fun by the minute!
Honestly, I can't even see those 2 arenas being fun in the least bit. The only reason I somewhat like the Nagrand arena is because when the other team isn't one big jewbagel, and decide to fight in the middle and use pillars sparingly (not "oh my god I know how to run around a pillar so you will never hit me and let my dots eventually kill you" skill) it resembles a real pvp fight. You know, like those that require skill?
I know i've said this before, but it only proves my point. Go outside and duel, go do a bg, hell go TALK ABOUT PVP with any old kid who enjoys the PvP aspect of WoW right now, and chances are they are either going to tell you to use a pillar, or explain to you how they are a very skillful part of this game. It is honestly borderline pathetic how many people have literally no idea how to play their class to its FULLEST EXTENT anymore, because everyone off-hands a pillar.
Let me give you an example...
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Here is a little event from last night. I'm leveling my rogue in Nagrand, and Cachexic comes out to help me knock out some of the harder quests. A bunch of 65-68's ended up killing me, and right after I died Cache flew on in and killed them all. No big deal, right? Eventually however they kept rezzing and Cache kept killing them, thus leading to each of them eventually logging on their mains.
Within 5 minutes we had an SSC/TK geared fire mage, BT/Sunwell geared warlock, full s3/BT geared ret pally, and a 64 shaman running around chasing Cachexic with me on my rogue. We ended up getting separated and when I realized what had happened, I logged on my mage (who was sitting in Nagrand for anyone who decided to gank my rogue during the leveling process) and engaged in some PvP combat. Cache, during this 30 second logout/login process, continued to kite these 4 players across Africa, with a stampede of animals on him.
Log on the mage, literally right as they all catch up to him and begin owning his ****, I swoop in like fking Obi Wan from Star Wars, and within 20 seconds everyone was dead, with both of us still over 80% hp.
They rez, get on their flying mounts cuz you know, that was another great idea you had for this game blizzard (/facepalm) and hovered above us waiting for us to start leveling again so they could gank us. (Apparently a 4v2 + african wildlife isn't enough to kill 2 mages) So we just wait, talk, and eventually we see them all hovered above us.
Set-up fight, rogue lands the sap on me, and you see them all charge in like an army on a mission. The fight now looks like this.
T6 warlock
S3/BT ret pally
t5/possible t6 fire mage
Warglaive/t6 rogue
vs
2 full s3 frost mages
Ok now, personally, i'd like everyone here to sit back and just imagine this fight in an arena. We have a ret pally who can literally take off 30-40% of our hp in one huge jihad of a swing, a warglaive rogue who can pretty much take any of us down in a matter of a few hemo's, a warlock whose shadowbolts hit for what our frostbolts crit for, and a fire mage who can do nothing but spam fireblast/blastwave/DB on top of us and watch us get destroyed by damage. Theres really no heals on either team here, so this is just a matter of who can control the dps better.
No pillars, open environment, GY literally 5 steps from where we are fighting, with a 2v4.
Sap on me
Everyone opens on Cache, he invuln belts
Mages aoe breaks sap
Sheep on rogue
I cs lock, cache cs's mage
Both turn on the casters, I shatter combo the lock he shatter combo's the mage
He's kiting the pally, re-sheep the rogue
Lock isn't SL (raid spec shadowbolt spam, but still can do a TON of dmg) so he gets literally 1 shot, mage gets to around 40% hp, use instants and kill him.
Rank1 fb on the rogue, continue kiting pally
Cache starts casting on pally, I ally-oop him with a nova, and he does the same to me, pally bubbles, and we sit back and do it all over again.
Rogue attemps to run, and we blizzard him out of 2 vanishes and eventually at 10% he lagged out. (Or router pulled to avoid embarrassment)
So here is where I literally sit here and brain fk myself, asking how you lose a 2v4? I mean, the fact that we won, ok that is great, but we didn't even drop below 90% hp. And the GY was right there, so while we were finishing off people from the first round, we had them rezzing and we killed them again. I mean, it doesn't even really matter if you say they are flat out terrible or not - arena isn't hard either. In arena rogue with glaives needs to sit on a target and spam hemo. With 3 other people helping him he couldn't even touch us out here. Lock just needed to dot us up and spam drains and that is his role in arenas - he got served a new butthole out here in the wilderness. The fire mage ended up doing the most damage simply because he got 2 crit fireblasts that took away our ice barriers, but when you kite to perfection like that they just can't touch you.
But you know what I think helped the most with this entire situation...? I never saw this...
TARGET NOT IN LINE OF SIGHT
Who knew that without pillars you could still play this game to its fullest potential. Learn2fking play phaggots. 2 Kewns > 4 Players
EDIT: p.s - If you come here and your argument is "well duh that warlock died cuz he didn't have a pillar to mitigate the damage with, how else would he stay alive!" or something regarding their lack of ability to play their class, I will be sure to comment and tell you exactly what he could have done to destroy us. It is just that literally nobody remembers how to play without pillars anymore, so nobody knows how to play their class.
and personally i've never been more disappointed. I feel like I'm watching WoW turn into Unreal Tournament, and the devs have no idea what to do with their own game.
How many times a day do you hear the RNG excuse? Well, I shouldn't call it an excuse when it is a serious problem, but the amount of times it is referenced (a hell of a lot more than it was pre-BC I'll tell you that) is borderline insane. The thing nobody is understanding is, these new "oh my god a huge pillar just came out of nowhere and blasted me into the sky!" ideas for the new arenas, are new forms of RNG! Am I the only one who has seen this? Dear god, we have people complaining about resists, mace stuns, stun resists, line of sight, lag, crit, not critting, and everything in between - but nobody complains about the fact that randomly throughout the match mother nature might stick a giant water hazard up your butthole? Mmmhmmmm, this game is getting more and more fun by the minute!
Honestly, I can't even see those 2 arenas being fun in the least bit. The only reason I somewhat like the Nagrand arena is because when the other team isn't one big jewbagel, and decide to fight in the middle and use pillars sparingly (not "oh my god I know how to run around a pillar so you will never hit me and let my dots eventually kill you" skill) it resembles a real pvp fight. You know, like those that require skill?
I know i've said this before, but it only proves my point. Go outside and duel, go do a bg, hell go TALK ABOUT PVP with any old kid who enjoys the PvP aspect of WoW right now, and chances are they are either going to tell you to use a pillar, or explain to you how they are a very skillful part of this game. It is honestly borderline pathetic how many people have literally no idea how to play their class to its FULLEST EXTENT anymore, because everyone off-hands a pillar.
Let me give you an example...
--
Here is a little event from last night. I'm leveling my rogue in Nagrand, and Cachexic comes out to help me knock out some of the harder quests. A bunch of 65-68's ended up killing me, and right after I died Cache flew on in and killed them all. No big deal, right? Eventually however they kept rezzing and Cache kept killing them, thus leading to each of them eventually logging on their mains.
Within 5 minutes we had an SSC/TK geared fire mage, BT/Sunwell geared warlock, full s3/BT geared ret pally, and a 64 shaman running around chasing Cachexic with me on my rogue. We ended up getting separated and when I realized what had happened, I logged on my mage (who was sitting in Nagrand for anyone who decided to gank my rogue during the leveling process) and engaged in some PvP combat. Cache, during this 30 second logout/login process, continued to kite these 4 players across Africa, with a stampede of animals on him.
Log on the mage, literally right as they all catch up to him and begin owning his ****, I swoop in like fking Obi Wan from Star Wars, and within 20 seconds everyone was dead, with both of us still over 80% hp.
They rez, get on their flying mounts cuz you know, that was another great idea you had for this game blizzard (/facepalm) and hovered above us waiting for us to start leveling again so they could gank us. (Apparently a 4v2 + african wildlife isn't enough to kill 2 mages) So we just wait, talk, and eventually we see them all hovered above us.
Set-up fight, rogue lands the sap on me, and you see them all charge in like an army on a mission. The fight now looks like this.
T6 warlock
S3/BT ret pally
t5/possible t6 fire mage
Warglaive/t6 rogue
vs
2 full s3 frost mages
Ok now, personally, i'd like everyone here to sit back and just imagine this fight in an arena. We have a ret pally who can literally take off 30-40% of our hp in one huge jihad of a swing, a warglaive rogue who can pretty much take any of us down in a matter of a few hemo's, a warlock whose shadowbolts hit for what our frostbolts crit for, and a fire mage who can do nothing but spam fireblast/blastwave/DB on top of us and watch us get destroyed by damage. Theres really no heals on either team here, so this is just a matter of who can control the dps better.
No pillars, open environment, GY literally 5 steps from where we are fighting, with a 2v4.
Sap on me
Everyone opens on Cache, he invuln belts
Mages aoe breaks sap
Sheep on rogue
I cs lock, cache cs's mage
Both turn on the casters, I shatter combo the lock he shatter combo's the mage
He's kiting the pally, re-sheep the rogue
Lock isn't SL (raid spec shadowbolt spam, but still can do a TON of dmg) so he gets literally 1 shot, mage gets to around 40% hp, use instants and kill him.
Rank1 fb on the rogue, continue kiting pally
Cache starts casting on pally, I ally-oop him with a nova, and he does the same to me, pally bubbles, and we sit back and do it all over again.
Rogue attemps to run, and we blizzard him out of 2 vanishes and eventually at 10% he lagged out. (Or router pulled to avoid embarrassment)
So here is where I literally sit here and brain fk myself, asking how you lose a 2v4? I mean, the fact that we won, ok that is great, but we didn't even drop below 90% hp. And the GY was right there, so while we were finishing off people from the first round, we had them rezzing and we killed them again. I mean, it doesn't even really matter if you say they are flat out terrible or not - arena isn't hard either. In arena rogue with glaives needs to sit on a target and spam hemo. With 3 other people helping him he couldn't even touch us out here. Lock just needed to dot us up and spam drains and that is his role in arenas - he got served a new butthole out here in the wilderness. The fire mage ended up doing the most damage simply because he got 2 crit fireblasts that took away our ice barriers, but when you kite to perfection like that they just can't touch you.
But you know what I think helped the most with this entire situation...? I never saw this...
TARGET NOT IN LINE OF SIGHT
Who knew that without pillars you could still play this game to its fullest potential. Learn2fking play phaggots. 2 Kewns > 4 Players
EDIT: p.s - If you come here and your argument is "well duh that warlock died cuz he didn't have a pillar to mitigate the damage with, how else would he stay alive!" or something regarding their lack of ability to play their class, I will be sure to comment and tell you exactly what he could have done to destroy us. It is just that literally nobody remembers how to play without pillars anymore, so nobody knows how to play their class.
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by Exitec
Blog Admin |
http://www.gotfrag.com/wow/story/42561/?spage=2#playerbox
Want a reality check? Watch this video posted by Ming in one of his previous blogs. (Sorry for the late response, i've been out of town socializing with southern bell's for the past 3 days) When I returned, I decided to of course check out what I missed in terms of drama the past few days, and when Ming said (and I quote) "The player who fits the bill is Inactive-chan, the Allen Iverson of WOW players. Coming from a traumatic childhood and growing up in one of the toughest neighborhoods in America, Inactive has seen it all. The demeanor he carried at MLG San Diego was straight out of And 1 mix tape. I would love to see him show these Koreans that they know nothing about American gamers."
First of all, is it just me or is Ming like the guy who decided to go Jewish just so he could have access to Jewish jokes. (Seinfeld anyone?) He is azn as can be, yet half the time he refers to himself as part of the Americans (when we win) and the other half he prides himself on his heritage and claims himself to be one of the many Chinese phaggots with a nice chakra. I'm not really sure, but he might want to pick a side before everyone realizes what a flaky SOB he is and decides to not listen to anything he says period. People who pick one side and argue it well are who win; those who cater to what they think society wants, will always be looked at as just a fair-weather fan.
As many of you who (or those of you who have for whatever reason decided to continue to read my blog over the course of this past year) may know that I will be attending Mizzou (University if Missouri) in the Fall as a Journalism major (which was where I was at the past few days) but one thing I decided to look into was studying abroad. A friend of mine (who actually plays a rogue with me on BDF atm) recently got back from South Africa on a foreign exchange program, and a few nights ago I got to just sit down and really talk to him about the experience, because it was something I had thought about pursuing sometime in the next 4 years.
I'm not really sure what made America do this all of a sudden but, I hate to say this - we aren't a bunch of badasses. Hearing Ming refer to Inactive, this scrawny white boy with an oversized t-shirt and the ability to scream at his "teammates" when he got pissed over a video game, as a "leader" and "icon" just because he survived some tough neighborhood is one of the most pathetic things in the world.
When you hear about kids getting into gangs and drugs in America, after actually knowing what goes on in other countries you literally laugh at them. A kid here who goes out and kills someone in the city does it for ****s and giggles, maybe to prove a point, or to get some extra money. A kid in South Africa who is in a gang, is forced to kill someone or they don't get to eat that day. Now you may say "yeah but a lot of kids are in that same position in places like N.Y and Chicago" and i'l say "actually your just fking retarded." We have food stamps, homeless shelters, and a very very small percentage of families are actually 100% homeless. When a kid says "I was hungry, and this ***** had some food on him so I killed him" that kid is really saying "man my mom's chicken kiev tonight wasn't all that good, and I was kinda pissed off, so I killed him."
Go to Southeast Asia, go to South Africa, go deep into Europe, and you will get a reality check. America has more opportunity than any other country out there, and to see a kid like Inactive, who has had a mom to bring him his fruit loops every morning for 17 years, be referred to as a "hardcore individual who has survived a tough life" literally makes me want to go throw up. Go do some research Ming, because obviously you have no idea what goes on outside your cubicle at work.
Oh, and news flash Inactive...
"Your not a B.A and nobody thinks your cool."
---
On another topic, Cachexic and I decided to re-roll rogue and warlock, and already the difference is amazing. My rogue is 64 with his lock being 68, and it is so clear how big of a difference it is going from a very underpowered class to 2 very overpowered classes. Yes, I know, mages can do well in RMP and this is where everyone calls me bad - I got it. But even when enemies fight you back it is completely different. On my mage I feel like in their head all they are saying is "rofl a mage, EASY KILL LETS GO" but on my rogue (and on cache's lock) it is like they know they are at a significant disadvantage. For the first time ever Cachexic and I will both have access to good classes for the 2v2 bracket, with a high amount of synergy together, and I can guarantee you that once we get some gear you will see us at the top of every latter. (Quote that one Inactive so I can shove it in your face when we farm your team later on please)
Got a lot going on these days in terms of summer vaca's and gettin ready for college, but I assume we should both be 70 and decently geared in the next 2 weeks or so. I'm really looking forward to playing a very viable class in arenas, as opposed to just flopping around like a dead fish on a ship's deck on my mage.
Want a reality check? Watch this video posted by Ming in one of his previous blogs. (Sorry for the late response, i've been out of town socializing with southern bell's for the past 3 days) When I returned, I decided to of course check out what I missed in terms of drama the past few days, and when Ming said (and I quote) "The player who fits the bill is Inactive-chan, the Allen Iverson of WOW players. Coming from a traumatic childhood and growing up in one of the toughest neighborhoods in America, Inactive has seen it all. The demeanor he carried at MLG San Diego was straight out of And 1 mix tape. I would love to see him show these Koreans that they know nothing about American gamers."
First of all, is it just me or is Ming like the guy who decided to go Jewish just so he could have access to Jewish jokes. (Seinfeld anyone?) He is azn as can be, yet half the time he refers to himself as part of the Americans (when we win) and the other half he prides himself on his heritage and claims himself to be one of the many Chinese phaggots with a nice chakra. I'm not really sure, but he might want to pick a side before everyone realizes what a flaky SOB he is and decides to not listen to anything he says period. People who pick one side and argue it well are who win; those who cater to what they think society wants, will always be looked at as just a fair-weather fan.
As many of you who (or those of you who have for whatever reason decided to continue to read my blog over the course of this past year) may know that I will be attending Mizzou (University if Missouri) in the Fall as a Journalism major (which was where I was at the past few days) but one thing I decided to look into was studying abroad. A friend of mine (who actually plays a rogue with me on BDF atm) recently got back from South Africa on a foreign exchange program, and a few nights ago I got to just sit down and really talk to him about the experience, because it was something I had thought about pursuing sometime in the next 4 years.
I'm not really sure what made America do this all of a sudden but, I hate to say this - we aren't a bunch of badasses. Hearing Ming refer to Inactive, this scrawny white boy with an oversized t-shirt and the ability to scream at his "teammates" when he got pissed over a video game, as a "leader" and "icon" just because he survived some tough neighborhood is one of the most pathetic things in the world.
When you hear about kids getting into gangs and drugs in America, after actually knowing what goes on in other countries you literally laugh at them. A kid here who goes out and kills someone in the city does it for ****s and giggles, maybe to prove a point, or to get some extra money. A kid in South Africa who is in a gang, is forced to kill someone or they don't get to eat that day. Now you may say "yeah but a lot of kids are in that same position in places like N.Y and Chicago" and i'l say "actually your just fking retarded." We have food stamps, homeless shelters, and a very very small percentage of families are actually 100% homeless. When a kid says "I was hungry, and this ***** had some food on him so I killed him" that kid is really saying "man my mom's chicken kiev tonight wasn't all that good, and I was kinda pissed off, so I killed him."
Go to Southeast Asia, go to South Africa, go deep into Europe, and you will get a reality check. America has more opportunity than any other country out there, and to see a kid like Inactive, who has had a mom to bring him his fruit loops every morning for 17 years, be referred to as a "hardcore individual who has survived a tough life" literally makes me want to go throw up. Go do some research Ming, because obviously you have no idea what goes on outside your cubicle at work.
Oh, and news flash Inactive...
"Your not a B.A and nobody thinks your cool."
---
On another topic, Cachexic and I decided to re-roll rogue and warlock, and already the difference is amazing. My rogue is 64 with his lock being 68, and it is so clear how big of a difference it is going from a very underpowered class to 2 very overpowered classes. Yes, I know, mages can do well in RMP and this is where everyone calls me bad - I got it. But even when enemies fight you back it is completely different. On my mage I feel like in their head all they are saying is "rofl a mage, EASY KILL LETS GO" but on my rogue (and on cache's lock) it is like they know they are at a significant disadvantage. For the first time ever Cachexic and I will both have access to good classes for the 2v2 bracket, with a high amount of synergy together, and I can guarantee you that once we get some gear you will see us at the top of every latter. (Quote that one Inactive so I can shove it in your face when we farm your team later on please)
Got a lot going on these days in terms of summer vaca's and gettin ready for college, but I assume we should both be 70 and decently geared in the next 2 weeks or so. I'm really looking forward to playing a very viable class in arenas, as opposed to just flopping around like a dead fish on a ship's deck on my mage.
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by Exitec
Blog Admin |
Alright so, the other day at work, as I was roaming around mindlessly realizing i'm making d1ck for money this summer; I had a bit of a realization as I was watching one of my new co-workers mosey about the store. Whenever you work with someone new, it isn't uncommon to spend a lot of time just watching them, trying to figure out whether you like them or not, what about them pisses you off, things of the sort. But as I was just amusing myself watching him move about the store in a very organized fashion, I made a WoW to RL connection.
Yup, I did - and I did it without an NBA analogy.
I'm not really sure when this trend hit, but it seems like ever since BC came out, and every nig nog out there could hit top 10 in the battlegroup and suddenly be known as a "phenominal pvp'er" just by playing something ridiculously stupid like druid/warlock or druid/rogue, or druid/warrior.....basically anything with a druid healer; that suddenly everyone found every reason in the book to call that person bad. It seems like no matter what you have accomplished, people will always find a reason to bash you in any attempt to shed the oh so bright light unto them, instead of you.
I can honestly sit here and say I can't think of one player in all of WoW that every single person i've talked to has at least respected. Yes, sure, everyone can say they prefer playing with one person over another, can say this player is faster than the other; but I can't think of one player that every single person has at least credited in terms of skill. It is almost as if no matter how good they are, what they have accomplished, or what tournaments they have won - as soon as you see that fraps clip of them losing one match out of 900 because of a missed kick, or a bad cyclone, they are suddenly terrible.
A great example of this would be right after one of the previous tournaments when Ohnoes fell off the bridge, causing the game to be over much earlier than it should have been. A very popular mage, one that had a great deal of respect in the BG9 community, was now all of a sudden looked down upon. Mages like papashlapapapapa release video clips of their games, and every single person I know of will find a reason to call him bad because of something he did. Whether it be a bad counterspell or breaking a blind, as soon as something as small as one of those things happens, it doesn't matter what you have accomplished before - you are now terrible. Grats.
Another great example would be Ming's pride and joy - Xecks, The Golden Child - is now washed up because he didn't perform in one tournament. Yup, that's right. One bad tournament (or a few, I wouldn't know, I don't follow him as closely as Ming does) and he's suddenly a god awful rogue where every green geared "chestplate of the green owlbearing wallabee-toad" player can outperform him.
I'm not really sure what sparked all this hatred, because pre-BC there was a difference. It was pretty laid out, and people were a lot more forgiving. It was either "he's pretty bad" or "he's pretty good" and then those in-between. And then occasionally you would find a player or 2 who people would argue who was better, but both were acknowledged for their supreme skill. But now? It seems like no matter how many teams you have over 2300, if you miss a kick or a counterspell, suddenly your terrible and arena is just "easy." But, as I repeat - if arena is so easy, why aren't all your teams just as high?
Maybe i'm off base here, maybe i'm not. But all I know is it has never been harder trying to find good teammates because you can't talk about their skill with anyone else anymore. People who are jealous say they are terrible when their really good. People who are bad say their phenomenal when they really aren't, and only say that cuz they don't know a good player when they see one. And everyone else just kinda roams around getting 4/5 arena gear, missing the shoulders of course cuz finding teammates who are actually "good" now a days is a struggle apparently.
So I guess this is where I ask....
Who is actually GOOD?
Yup, I did - and I did it without an NBA analogy.
I'm not really sure when this trend hit, but it seems like ever since BC came out, and every nig nog out there could hit top 10 in the battlegroup and suddenly be known as a "phenominal pvp'er" just by playing something ridiculously stupid like druid/warlock or druid/rogue, or druid/warrior.....basically anything with a druid healer; that suddenly everyone found every reason in the book to call that person bad. It seems like no matter what you have accomplished, people will always find a reason to bash you in any attempt to shed the oh so bright light unto them, instead of you.
I can honestly sit here and say I can't think of one player in all of WoW that every single person i've talked to has at least respected. Yes, sure, everyone can say they prefer playing with one person over another, can say this player is faster than the other; but I can't think of one player that every single person has at least credited in terms of skill. It is almost as if no matter how good they are, what they have accomplished, or what tournaments they have won - as soon as you see that fraps clip of them losing one match out of 900 because of a missed kick, or a bad cyclone, they are suddenly terrible.
A great example of this would be right after one of the previous tournaments when Ohnoes fell off the bridge, causing the game to be over much earlier than it should have been. A very popular mage, one that had a great deal of respect in the BG9 community, was now all of a sudden looked down upon. Mages like papashlapapapapa release video clips of their games, and every single person I know of will find a reason to call him bad because of something he did. Whether it be a bad counterspell or breaking a blind, as soon as something as small as one of those things happens, it doesn't matter what you have accomplished before - you are now terrible. Grats.
Another great example would be Ming's pride and joy - Xecks, The Golden Child - is now washed up because he didn't perform in one tournament. Yup, that's right. One bad tournament (or a few, I wouldn't know, I don't follow him as closely as Ming does) and he's suddenly a god awful rogue where every green geared "chestplate of the green owlbearing wallabee-toad" player can outperform him.
I'm not really sure what sparked all this hatred, because pre-BC there was a difference. It was pretty laid out, and people were a lot more forgiving. It was either "he's pretty bad" or "he's pretty good" and then those in-between. And then occasionally you would find a player or 2 who people would argue who was better, but both were acknowledged for their supreme skill. But now? It seems like no matter how many teams you have over 2300, if you miss a kick or a counterspell, suddenly your terrible and arena is just "easy." But, as I repeat - if arena is so easy, why aren't all your teams just as high?
Maybe i'm off base here, maybe i'm not. But all I know is it has never been harder trying to find good teammates because you can't talk about their skill with anyone else anymore. People who are jealous say they are terrible when their really good. People who are bad say their phenomenal when they really aren't, and only say that cuz they don't know a good player when they see one. And everyone else just kinda roams around getting 4/5 arena gear, missing the shoulders of course cuz finding teammates who are actually "good" now a days is a struggle apparently.
So I guess this is where I ask....
Who is actually GOOD?
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by Exitec
Blog Admin |
http://www.wowarmory.com/team-info.xml?r=Blackrock&ts=3&t=Exitec+is+Awful&select=Exitec+is+Awful&fl=1
As I logged on WoW today, eager to do begin my 4-5 hour shift of 3s in any attempt to push for a last minute Gladiator title with people I have never played with before, on a comp i've never played on before; I was alerted of what I have linked to you above.
Yup, that is right. The Silver Child Exi-chan, shunned from BG9 society, has finally had a team named after him. Currently sitting at #2 on the Legendary BG9, i'd say these players have made me proud to wear my "Exitec is Awful" tag that can be found on every street corner billboard. It comes as no surprise to me that they would chose such a flattering name to represent my e-stardom (I figured if anyone would name a team after me it would be called something like EXITEC YOUR NOT FUNNY IN YOUR BLOG JUST GIVE UP ALREADY or something along those lines) seeing as I believe I know every player on that roster...
Yes, that is what makes all of this even better...
If those names serve me correctly (and i'm assuming the different names are still people that I knew) every player on that roster i've played with/against at one point or another. The funny part is, off and on I am respected, and then called awful, and then asked to play with them, and then talked about behind my back, and then before I know it they have all banded together and made a team after me! Gotta say, the oh so notorious "we all stick together!" World of Warcraft community sure can be a ***** sometimes - and by ***** I mean reminds me of a ****ty magazine like Teen Vogue.
So, other than that, I won't lie I haven't really had any time to blog, and there has been nothing to talk about regarding WoW because the season is finally coming to a close, and the drama won't really begin until monday night and tuesday morning, when some team who win traded for 8 hours realizes that blizzard was watching them the whole time, thus getting their accounts banned. Just wanted to comment on how special I feel cuz a team was named after me.
<---Finally a true e-star like Hafu.
As I logged on WoW today, eager to do begin my 4-5 hour shift of 3s in any attempt to push for a last minute Gladiator title with people I have never played with before, on a comp i've never played on before; I was alerted of what I have linked to you above.
Yup, that is right. The Silver Child Exi-chan, shunned from BG9 society, has finally had a team named after him. Currently sitting at #2 on the Legendary BG9, i'd say these players have made me proud to wear my "Exitec is Awful" tag that can be found on every street corner billboard. It comes as no surprise to me that they would chose such a flattering name to represent my e-stardom (I figured if anyone would name a team after me it would be called something like EXITEC YOUR NOT FUNNY IN YOUR BLOG JUST GIVE UP ALREADY or something along those lines) seeing as I believe I know every player on that roster...
Yes, that is what makes all of this even better...
If those names serve me correctly (and i'm assuming the different names are still people that I knew) every player on that roster i've played with/against at one point or another. The funny part is, off and on I am respected, and then called awful, and then asked to play with them, and then talked about behind my back, and then before I know it they have all banded together and made a team after me! Gotta say, the oh so notorious "we all stick together!" World of Warcraft community sure can be a ***** sometimes - and by ***** I mean reminds me of a ****ty magazine like Teen Vogue.
So, other than that, I won't lie I haven't really had any time to blog, and there has been nothing to talk about regarding WoW because the season is finally coming to a close, and the drama won't really begin until monday night and tuesday morning, when some team who win traded for 8 hours realizes that blizzard was watching them the whole time, thus getting their accounts banned. Just wanted to comment on how special I feel cuz a team was named after me.
<---Finally a true e-star like Hafu.
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Over my gaming career (which has only been about 4-5 years since I didn't really start gaming till right before WoW came out) I constantly heard people bragging about playing while they were drink/high/on a coke trip; some of them even considered their downsyndrome brain state to be a "high." Personally, I never really thought about the effects it would have on ones gameplay, but the more and more I started to rely on other players for my success, the more I cared about whether they even knew who they were or what they were doing while they were high as a kite at a Sunday picnic.
It is the talk of sports every day. Steroid use is prohibited in every major league sport because it enhances your body to a point that you would normally not be able to obtain. (Or, could obtain just don't want to work that hard) Every sport you hear of guys pounding human growth hormones and other substances to enhance their bodies performance in every way. My question is, why don't people do the same for other activities? I'd consider altering your brain state to be just as much of an enhancement on your body as say, steroids - wouldn't you? Although it isn't common, you don't really hear of Chess players being prohibited to playing while they are high/trippin' cuz a lot of people just don't care enough. It isn't that it shouldn't be allowed, it is that the industry that the sport is in doesn't 1) Attract as many viewers, and 2) Make as much money.
All this talk about MLG and e-sports and players being "washed up" (which I think is pathetic tbh, everyone has off days, doesn't mean they are washed up - players get washed up irl because of physical ailments for the most part, so it isn't like Xecks lost brain cells over time and can no longer play his rogue) I started thinking about what made certain players good. All everyone seems to talk about is Hafu getting hammered
(don't let papi-chan find out!) and Glickz being an anti-social phaggot (wow another one, who knew!) when a lot of people don't even really realize that there was actually a tournament going on.
Personally, I am very undecided on this issue. I mean, does this mean now they are going to start drug testing players? Are they going to make sure that their team isn't coked out before the tournament ensues? Every drug alters your state of mind in some way, and for a game that is basically based on the players mind and reaction time (which ultimately is connected to the synapses in your brain) and doesn't require much of any physical activity - would drugs like alcohol, weed, coke, shrooms, and acid be a required test for all competitors?
The only reason I really thought of this (because many of you i'm sure have teammates/friends who smoke/drink and then go do arenas) is because I remember my rogue in S2 coming out and telling me he did more than smoke weed. Weed I was cool with, we would drink during a kara run, but when he came out and said he did **** like coke and heroine, I was kinda shocked.
But this is real life, we have all seen a Denzel Washington movie before, and we obviously know what kind of drugs are out there. What shocked me the most was the night before S2 ended and we got screwed out of our Merc Glad 3s team we held at #1 for 4 months, and we needed to get gladiator from 2s together, so we re-made the team with a little added bonus. He said, we were going to go straight from 1500 to 2400 to get gladiator, and every 150ish points, he would do a line of coke. My first impression of course was "yeah man whatever it takes" and as the night went on, I realized how crazy everything was.
Many of you probably don't know, but coke enhances your senses like none other. Anyone who has ever smoked weed knows that when you are outside you hear the birds a lot louder, you can feel every little thing, and nothing can really bother you. On coke though, imagine that same bird literally in your face having a full on conversation with you while you listen to a bird 20 miles away chirp. Brain altering? I'd say so.
The funny thing is though, as the night went on, i've never seen the rogue classes played more to perfection. His awareness was unlike any other (something most rogues don't have) and it got to the point of ridiculous. Teams that would otherwise farm us, we would smash time and time again because he played literally above perfection every match. Clos'ing full shatter combo's from a mage sitting behind a pillar 40 yards away, vanishing point blank deathcoils, pulling off LoS tricks to constantly get re-stealths; everything was perfect. All I had to do was land a simple cs on a heal and a few thousand damage on a target and it was over.
Note: I do not condone the use of coke to achieve gladiator, because after the season ended I never heard from him again, and there is a good chance that after a night like that he went and fell asleep on some train tracks because that much coke will make you go out of your mind.
So, while it might not be a big deal to some, how would you feel if an average player came into the next WoW tournament coked out and played like a true e-star? I have seen it happen first hand, and I honestly don't know how to go about the situation. All I know is, with all the references people make between WoW professional gaming and the sports world today, I see this as just one more connection that might want to be addressed.
It is the talk of sports every day. Steroid use is prohibited in every major league sport because it enhances your body to a point that you would normally not be able to obtain. (Or, could obtain just don't want to work that hard) Every sport you hear of guys pounding human growth hormones and other substances to enhance their bodies performance in every way. My question is, why don't people do the same for other activities? I'd consider altering your brain state to be just as much of an enhancement on your body as say, steroids - wouldn't you? Although it isn't common, you don't really hear of Chess players being prohibited to playing while they are high/trippin' cuz a lot of people just don't care enough. It isn't that it shouldn't be allowed, it is that the industry that the sport is in doesn't 1) Attract as many viewers, and 2) Make as much money.
All this talk about MLG and e-sports and players being "washed up" (which I think is pathetic tbh, everyone has off days, doesn't mean they are washed up - players get washed up irl because of physical ailments for the most part, so it isn't like Xecks lost brain cells over time and can no longer play his rogue) I started thinking about what made certain players good. All everyone seems to talk about is Hafu getting hammered
(don't let papi-chan find out!) and Glickz being an anti-social phaggot (wow another one, who knew!) when a lot of people don't even really realize that there was actually a tournament going on.
Personally, I am very undecided on this issue. I mean, does this mean now they are going to start drug testing players? Are they going to make sure that their team isn't coked out before the tournament ensues? Every drug alters your state of mind in some way, and for a game that is basically based on the players mind and reaction time (which ultimately is connected to the synapses in your brain) and doesn't require much of any physical activity - would drugs like alcohol, weed, coke, shrooms, and acid be a required test for all competitors?
The only reason I really thought of this (because many of you i'm sure have teammates/friends who smoke/drink and then go do arenas) is because I remember my rogue in S2 coming out and telling me he did more than smoke weed. Weed I was cool with, we would drink during a kara run, but when he came out and said he did **** like coke and heroine, I was kinda shocked.
But this is real life, we have all seen a Denzel Washington movie before, and we obviously know what kind of drugs are out there. What shocked me the most was the night before S2 ended and we got screwed out of our Merc Glad 3s team we held at #1 for 4 months, and we needed to get gladiator from 2s together, so we re-made the team with a little added bonus. He said, we were going to go straight from 1500 to 2400 to get gladiator, and every 150ish points, he would do a line of coke. My first impression of course was "yeah man whatever it takes" and as the night went on, I realized how crazy everything was.
Many of you probably don't know, but coke enhances your senses like none other. Anyone who has ever smoked weed knows that when you are outside you hear the birds a lot louder, you can feel every little thing, and nothing can really bother you. On coke though, imagine that same bird literally in your face having a full on conversation with you while you listen to a bird 20 miles away chirp. Brain altering? I'd say so.
The funny thing is though, as the night went on, i've never seen the rogue classes played more to perfection. His awareness was unlike any other (something most rogues don't have) and it got to the point of ridiculous. Teams that would otherwise farm us, we would smash time and time again because he played literally above perfection every match. Clos'ing full shatter combo's from a mage sitting behind a pillar 40 yards away, vanishing point blank deathcoils, pulling off LoS tricks to constantly get re-stealths; everything was perfect. All I had to do was land a simple cs on a heal and a few thousand damage on a target and it was over.
Note: I do not condone the use of coke to achieve gladiator, because after the season ended I never heard from him again, and there is a good chance that after a night like that he went and fell asleep on some train tracks because that much coke will make you go out of your mind.
So, while it might not be a big deal to some, how would you feel if an average player came into the next WoW tournament coked out and played like a true e-star? I have seen it happen first hand, and I honestly don't know how to go about the situation. All I know is, with all the references people make between WoW professional gaming and the sports world today, I see this as just one more connection that might want to be addressed.
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