Though this is a subject I have hit on previously, I thought it might be important to round out the petition for strength improvements series by re-examining holy paladins.
Both Brains from Brawn and Light Infused Armor will fix this holy paladin trash clogging up the loot tables.
Brains from Brawn would be a talent in the holy tree to boost a paladin’s intellect. It would ncrease your intellect by 33/66/100% of your str. The only foreseeable problem here is that intellect gear like cloaks could be less attractive to a paladin because they might want the one with equal str if they get bonus from divine str. The spellpower and MP5 on caster cloaks and rings will keep most holies honest though in my opinion. Few are going to pass up a cloak that has intellect and spellpower only for in the intellect bonus they get from strength.
Light Infused Armor would Increases spellpower by 4/8/12% of your armor. A pally with 20K armor would then have 2400 spellpower. Last I checked Degenerus, a holy paladin in my guild, had about 20K armor and 1800 spellpower. That number may need to be tuned down to 3/7/10% of your armor, but it allows a paladin to scale as their gear improves and, in the same vein as punishing the warriors in leather, discourages them from using mail caster gear. Mail will now make paladins feel even more dirty that cloth does on my resto druid. Similar stat itemization or not, a paladin isn’t going to roll on a marginal upgrade that happens to be mail if they are going to lose a significant amount of spellpower due to the drop in armor.
Allowing holy paladins to use dps hear as healing gear will give them same privilege as any other healer. There will still be drops that are obviously useless to a healer. Hit rating is not a healer stat, and any good raid leader is going to know that before they distribute hit gear.
Spellpower plate for tanking and ret paladins is a long lost memory from TBC, and maybe the last remnants of spellpower healing plate should be left in Icecrown once Artha’s is dealt with.
-Rhab
Thursday, July 16, 2009
The Elvis of Blues
No, not those kind of blues, the kind we all think of when we hear the phrase “Blizzard Forums.”
In the world of WoW sites, no other man’s appearance on the forums can spark quite a response as Ghostcrawler. He is the Elvis Presley of blues and the Warcraft community swoons like little girls who just saw him shaking his hips on the Ed Sullivan Show. What I don’t necessarily get is why?
It is here that I liken the Ghostcrawler phenomenon to that of Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo. For so long Cowboys quarterbacks have held a mystique. Roger and Troy are the Cher and Madonna of the NFL. Merely uttering their first name is enough. It doesn’t take a Cowboy fan to appreciate the greatness of either of them, but I will admit it does help.
Enter Tony Romo. Cowboy’s fans, like the WoW players, want to cheer for someone. They want to feel after years of mediocre quarterbacks, the answer (no not that answer, geez people work with me) has arrived. Cowboy’s fans have, for better or worse and with the help of Jerry’s money, latched onto Tony Romo because he is the last hope after an entire generation of boys who went from kindergarten to 12th grade and NEVER witnessed a playoff win, much less a Superbowl.
Ghostcrawler, like Romo, is a gunslinger who if I had my guess loves Brett Favre as much as he loves his gin. The problem with gunslingers though is for every great pass zooming pass defensive backs into the hands of your target, there are interceptions that leave your fans in tears, and no matter how much you hope you can’t have both.
You can’t cheer the cerebral Tom Brady and the fly by the seat of your pants Tony Romo. You can’t applaud Kaplan’s work and then worship the great crab. You have to choose your sides. Ghostcrawler is loved by so much of the WoW community for all the reasons teenagers in the 50’s loved Elvis. My question is long after Ghostcrawler has moved on, will we remember the fresh new face that changed our realms forever or will we remember the one whose mystique had cooled into a smoldering pile of bat guano? We will all have to decide just like the USPS made us choose once before.
-Rhab
In the world of WoW sites, no other man’s appearance on the forums can spark quite a response as Ghostcrawler. He is the Elvis Presley of blues and the Warcraft community swoons like little girls who just saw him shaking his hips on the Ed Sullivan Show. What I don’t necessarily get is why?
It is here that I liken the Ghostcrawler phenomenon to that of Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo. For so long Cowboys quarterbacks have held a mystique. Roger and Troy are the Cher and Madonna of the NFL. Merely uttering their first name is enough. It doesn’t take a Cowboy fan to appreciate the greatness of either of them, but I will admit it does help.
Enter Tony Romo. Cowboy’s fans, like the WoW players, want to cheer for someone. They want to feel after years of mediocre quarterbacks, the answer (no not that answer, geez people work with me) has arrived. Cowboy’s fans have, for better or worse and with the help of Jerry’s money, latched onto Tony Romo because he is the last hope after an entire generation of boys who went from kindergarten to 12th grade and NEVER witnessed a playoff win, much less a Superbowl.
Ghostcrawler, like Romo, is a gunslinger who if I had my guess loves Brett Favre as much as he loves his gin. The problem with gunslingers though is for every great pass zooming pass defensive backs into the hands of your target, there are interceptions that leave your fans in tears, and no matter how much you hope you can’t have both.
You can’t cheer the cerebral Tom Brady and the fly by the seat of your pants Tony Romo. You can’t applaud Kaplan’s work and then worship the great crab. You have to choose your sides. Ghostcrawler is loved by so much of the WoW community for all the reasons teenagers in the 50’s loved Elvis. My question is long after Ghostcrawler has moved on, will we remember the fresh new face that changed our realms forever or will we remember the one whose mystique had cooled into a smoldering pile of bat guano? We will all have to decide just like the USPS made us choose once before.
-Rhab
Thursday, July 9, 2009
It’s a Bullshit Encounter
One of my favorite movie scenes of all time is from My Cousin Vinny when Ms. Vito (Marisa Tomei) puts the prosecutor in his place for asking an unanswerable question. I couldn’t find a youtube, but below is the transcript. Believe me it’s a great scene, and reading it doesn’t do it justice.
D.A. Jim Trotter: Now, Ms. Vito, being an expert on general automotive knowledge, can you tell me... what would the correct ignition timing be on a 1955 Bel Air Chevrolet, with a 327 cubic-inch engine and a four-barrel carburetor?
Mona Lisa Vito: That's a bullshit question.
D.A. Jim Trotter: Does that mean that you can't answer it?
Mona Lisa Vito: It's a bullshit question, it's impossible to answer.
D.A. Jim Trotter: Impossible because you don't know the answer!
Mona Lisa Vito: Nobody could answer that question!
D.A. Jim Trotter: Your Honor, I move to disqualify Ms. Vito as an expert witness!
Judge Chamberlain Haller: Can you answer the question?
Mona Lisa Vito: No, it is a trick question!
Judge Chamberlain Haller: Why is it a trick question?
Mona Lisa Vito: 'Cause Chevy didn't make a 327 in '55, the 327 didn't come out till '63. And it wasn't offered in the Bel Air with a four-barrel carb till '64. However, in 1964, the correct ignition timing would be four degrees before top-dead-center.
D.A. Jim Trotter: Well... uh... she's acceptable, Your Honor.
As of a couple days ago, Stars, a Chinese guild who rerolled on Taiwanese servers so they could play WotLK, took down Yoggy with 0 watchers.
What’s most interesting about the encounter is when last we heard Exodus had been punished for using a bug to exploit the encounter. Ensidia had insisted they used a bug because by all accounts, the encounter was mathematically impossible. Ensidia has long snagged world firsts, and according to even Michael Sacco over at wow.com, who used to be a blue, they have a close relationship with some developers at Blizz. He made some pretty vague comments recently on their podcast, but the gist of it is pretty basic. Yes, Ensidia uses bugs in the programming, and yes, Blizzard listens to them. This makes the Exodus 72 hour ban even more disgusting when the developers are playing favorites, but it has allowed an even greater irony.
See up until now, Ensidia has been the Marisa Tomei of WoW guilds. Blizzard puts them on the stand, and they cry out, “that’s a bullshit encounter.” Somewhere along the way Blizzard made a fatal error and instead of cross examining them they decided to make them their very own expert witness. It’s great for Ensidia, but bad for WoW. Now when they cry out that an encounter is mathematically impossible, everyone, including the devs, all tend to agree. Blizzard isn’t morally against making guilds bang their head against an encounter that’s impossible. If you listened to Sacco on the podcast, you even get the feeling that they revel in it, and I think it’s commendable.
It has been a way of pushing players to theorycraft and then implement ideas that have never been used before. There, according to Blizzard’s recent action, has always been a difference between exploiting a bug compared to exploiting a failed game mechanic. Mob evading vs spellstealing is a good example, and though none of us really understand Blizzards rationale, I’d hope they have enough internal protocols that whether I agree with the Exodus punishment or not, Blizzard’s big men are able to sleep at night not because of their pillows made of real world gold but because they treat their player base fairly.
Top end guilds are the checks and balances for the developers. Just like any system with a similar mechanic, whether it is a government or a financial hierarchy, the system will fail if those that monitor another are compromised. Ensidia has become that compromise. When your developers’ greatest adversary then becomes their lapdog, it hardly suggests a system where one is trying to expose the other. When did Ensidia stop being Marisa Tomei (if they ever really were) and start becoming the star expert witness?
Well, it doesn’t really matter anymore now does it? While Blizzard was busy making a star, there was another star for the players being made in Asia. Who would have thought that a guild of Chinese players would defect to Taiwanese servers level all the way to 80, organize their guild to get the 2nd Mimiron hard mode achievement and then devise an ZOMFG plan to take down Yogg?
If you read their strategy, you can’t help but be in awe. That is some serious scheming and they didn’t do it with some of the questionable techniques that Sacco suggests of Kungen in the podcast.
My only remaining question is what becomes of Stars now? Everyone who saw the summer games in Beijing knows there is an enormous amount of national pride among the Chinese. Everyone who sees the hero that Yao Ming is to his people also understands this. I can’t help but wonder if and when the Chinese government learns and understands the scope of Stars kill and just how is has put Ensidia in their place as a Chihuahua to the Paris Hilton that is Blizzard if they might work to get their people WotLK and subsequent expansions sooner. The Chinese government, despite what anyone may think of them, aren’t likely to pass up on an opportunity for such national pride long term, especially when their biggest rivals are a euro guild adored by the prince of Dubai and Americans.
-Rhab
D.A. Jim Trotter: Now, Ms. Vito, being an expert on general automotive knowledge, can you tell me... what would the correct ignition timing be on a 1955 Bel Air Chevrolet, with a 327 cubic-inch engine and a four-barrel carburetor?
Mona Lisa Vito: That's a bullshit question.
D.A. Jim Trotter: Does that mean that you can't answer it?
Mona Lisa Vito: It's a bullshit question, it's impossible to answer.
D.A. Jim Trotter: Impossible because you don't know the answer!
Mona Lisa Vito: Nobody could answer that question!
D.A. Jim Trotter: Your Honor, I move to disqualify Ms. Vito as an expert witness!
Judge Chamberlain Haller: Can you answer the question?
Mona Lisa Vito: No, it is a trick question!
Judge Chamberlain Haller: Why is it a trick question?
Mona Lisa Vito: 'Cause Chevy didn't make a 327 in '55, the 327 didn't come out till '63. And it wasn't offered in the Bel Air with a four-barrel carb till '64. However, in 1964, the correct ignition timing would be four degrees before top-dead-center.
D.A. Jim Trotter: Well... uh... she's acceptable, Your Honor.
As of a couple days ago, Stars, a Chinese guild who rerolled on Taiwanese servers so they could play WotLK, took down Yoggy with 0 watchers.
What’s most interesting about the encounter is when last we heard Exodus had been punished for using a bug to exploit the encounter. Ensidia had insisted they used a bug because by all accounts, the encounter was mathematically impossible. Ensidia has long snagged world firsts, and according to even Michael Sacco over at wow.com, who used to be a blue, they have a close relationship with some developers at Blizz. He made some pretty vague comments recently on their podcast, but the gist of it is pretty basic. Yes, Ensidia uses bugs in the programming, and yes, Blizzard listens to them. This makes the Exodus 72 hour ban even more disgusting when the developers are playing favorites, but it has allowed an even greater irony.
See up until now, Ensidia has been the Marisa Tomei of WoW guilds. Blizzard puts them on the stand, and they cry out, “that’s a bullshit encounter.” Somewhere along the way Blizzard made a fatal error and instead of cross examining them they decided to make them their very own expert witness. It’s great for Ensidia, but bad for WoW. Now when they cry out that an encounter is mathematically impossible, everyone, including the devs, all tend to agree. Blizzard isn’t morally against making guilds bang their head against an encounter that’s impossible. If you listened to Sacco on the podcast, you even get the feeling that they revel in it, and I think it’s commendable.
It has been a way of pushing players to theorycraft and then implement ideas that have never been used before. There, according to Blizzard’s recent action, has always been a difference between exploiting a bug compared to exploiting a failed game mechanic. Mob evading vs spellstealing is a good example, and though none of us really understand Blizzards rationale, I’d hope they have enough internal protocols that whether I agree with the Exodus punishment or not, Blizzard’s big men are able to sleep at night not because of their pillows made of real world gold but because they treat their player base fairly.
Top end guilds are the checks and balances for the developers. Just like any system with a similar mechanic, whether it is a government or a financial hierarchy, the system will fail if those that monitor another are compromised. Ensidia has become that compromise. When your developers’ greatest adversary then becomes their lapdog, it hardly suggests a system where one is trying to expose the other. When did Ensidia stop being Marisa Tomei (if they ever really were) and start becoming the star expert witness?
Well, it doesn’t really matter anymore now does it? While Blizzard was busy making a star, there was another star for the players being made in Asia. Who would have thought that a guild of Chinese players would defect to Taiwanese servers level all the way to 80, organize their guild to get the 2nd Mimiron hard mode achievement and then devise an ZOMFG plan to take down Yogg?
If you read their strategy, you can’t help but be in awe. That is some serious scheming and they didn’t do it with some of the questionable techniques that Sacco suggests of Kungen in the podcast.
My only remaining question is what becomes of Stars now? Everyone who saw the summer games in Beijing knows there is an enormous amount of national pride among the Chinese. Everyone who sees the hero that Yao Ming is to his people also understands this. I can’t help but wonder if and when the Chinese government learns and understands the scope of Stars kill and just how is has put Ensidia in their place as a Chihuahua to the Paris Hilton that is Blizzard if they might work to get their people WotLK and subsequent expansions sooner. The Chinese government, despite what anyone may think of them, aren’t likely to pass up on an opportunity for such national pride long term, especially when their biggest rivals are a euro guild adored by the prince of Dubai and Americans.
-Rhab
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
A Serious Talk about Faction Changing
So after some serious thought, I have decided that faction changing sounds absolutely amazing. I do get the picture of the Sneetches in my head, but I have been playing the same toons for about 2 years now, and the only reason I rolled a gnome lock over a troll mage was the intel bonus and the free mount.
I love the trolls, and have always thought they had the most kick ass mounts. After that decision, the choices seemed obvious since I had a high level toon that could bankroll all of the alts. Once you have more than one 80 (70 at the time) it becomes increasingly more difficult to roll a Hordie, since you have to start with nothing.
The choices would be easy if I did faction transfers…
Gnome Lock -> Undead
NE Druid ->Tauren
NE DK -> Tauren
Draenei Shaman -> Orc
Dorf Hunter ->Troll
Gnome Mage -> Troll
Draenei Priest -> Undead
NE Rogue ->Orc
And the one that would break my heart…
Dorf Pally -> BE
As you can tell from all of my toons, there is a race missing from my Alliance toons. Humans…I can’t stand them. I hated them before Variann returned and now have an even greater disdain for them than I did previously.
The only problem is that the race I hate more than the humans is the Blood Elves. The crack addicts of Azeroth who stole the power of the light and twisted it to learn to harness the powers of a paladin.
If the time ever came and I was faced with seriously considering changing factions, I really think that the BE I would have to make the paladin would break my heart. She would be the reason I couldn’t change factions. The thought of taking my dorf and turning her into some bulimic whore willing to slob a knob in Undercity for a taste of arcane goodness is just too much to bear.
If only there was an alternative for my little fat girl that tanks.
-Rhab
I love the trolls, and have always thought they had the most kick ass mounts. After that decision, the choices seemed obvious since I had a high level toon that could bankroll all of the alts. Once you have more than one 80 (70 at the time) it becomes increasingly more difficult to roll a Hordie, since you have to start with nothing.
The choices would be easy if I did faction transfers…
Gnome Lock -> Undead
NE Druid ->Tauren
NE DK -> Tauren
Draenei Shaman -> Orc
Dorf Hunter ->Troll
Gnome Mage -> Troll
Draenei Priest -> Undead
NE Rogue ->Orc
And the one that would break my heart…
Dorf Pally -> BE
As you can tell from all of my toons, there is a race missing from my Alliance toons. Humans…I can’t stand them. I hated them before Variann returned and now have an even greater disdain for them than I did previously.
The only problem is that the race I hate more than the humans is the Blood Elves. The crack addicts of Azeroth who stole the power of the light and twisted it to learn to harness the powers of a paladin.
If the time ever came and I was faced with seriously considering changing factions, I really think that the BE I would have to make the paladin would break my heart. She would be the reason I couldn’t change factions. The thought of taking my dorf and turning her into some bulimic whore willing to slob a knob in Undercity for a taste of arcane goodness is just too much to bear.
If only there was an alternative for my little fat girl that tanks.
-Rhab
Thursday, July 2, 2009
“We think talents probably account for too much of a character's power already.”
At the end of a shadow priest Q&A, GC closes with those words. It appears as though Blizzard is weary about raising the talent tree bar every time they release an expansion. It’s a fair concern. How many times do we feel we need the 51 point talent to do our job? Can someone say Hammer of the Righteous, Riptide, Haunt? The problem arises when the general philosophy of the community is they do need the 51 point talent and then Blizzard doesn’t deliver. Leveling a frost mage, I have completely ignored the 51 point talent (Deep Freeze) only because I have enough control over encounters. I will admit than when you look over at the other trees, frost mages have to feel cheated when they see Living Bomb and Arcane Barrage. When you enjoy playing frost, but know that you are cheating your groups at level 80 if you stay frost, it only adds insult to injury when your 51 point talent doesn’t do ANY damage.
I would have personally been happy with a 51 point talent that provider a better spell coefficient (over the 14.29%) of Ice Lance, or to allow ice lance to proc a deep freeze than even an entirely new spell. If the flat multiplier increase and a chance to stun, say 20%, ice lance becomes a lot more appealing, and doesn’t feel that OP since you aren’t using it all the time, and you aren’t getting the stun all the time either. Not a sexy solution, but at least it could boost damage for a frost mage.
I’m digressing now, but ultimately what does Blizzard expect? They set the general rule that each talent point should be worth 1% dps. They are the ones facing more levels and probably 10% more damage from talent points alone with every expansion. Sometimes I wonder if with all the changes to make leveling easier, if Blizz wishes they had maybe released vanilla WoW with 30-40 levels and then applied 5 with every expansion instead of the 60+10 format they are using now.
Numbers wouldn’t be so inflated and the old world wouldn’t be quite as abandon as it is now.
-Rhab
I would have personally been happy with a 51 point talent that provider a better spell coefficient (over the 14.29%) of Ice Lance, or to allow ice lance to proc a deep freeze than even an entirely new spell. If the flat multiplier increase and a chance to stun, say 20%, ice lance becomes a lot more appealing, and doesn’t feel that OP since you aren’t using it all the time, and you aren’t getting the stun all the time either. Not a sexy solution, but at least it could boost damage for a frost mage.
I’m digressing now, but ultimately what does Blizzard expect? They set the general rule that each talent point should be worth 1% dps. They are the ones facing more levels and probably 10% more damage from talent points alone with every expansion. Sometimes I wonder if with all the changes to make leveling easier, if Blizz wishes they had maybe released vanilla WoW with 30-40 levels and then applied 5 with every expansion instead of the 60+10 format they are using now.
Numbers wouldn’t be so inflated and the old world wouldn’t be quite as abandon as it is now.
-Rhab
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
The Sneetches, WoW style!
With the news of incoming faction changes, the only thing that I could think of was Dr. Seuss.
One of the earliest stories I remember reading is that of the Sneetches. The gist, for those of you that don’t know, is there are 2 kinds of Sneetches, those with stars on their stomachs and those without. The ones with stars look down on the ones without to create a separatist culture. A machine that adds stars becomes available and the story takes off from there. If you have never read or seen it, please take the time to do so. Seuss was a genius and much of his work will live forever.
I am still in awe at how Dr. Seuss was able to hit on timeless social issues and do so without children knowing they are being subjected to commentary.
At the end of the story, the Sneetches are all confused as to whether they started with stars of not, and learn a valuable lesson about judging those that are not like you.
Anyone else think that after changing factions, learning you may have liked your old faction more, then changing back, the only thing we will be left with is an empty wallet from the charge of faction changing and maybe the knowledge that there are elitist pigs that play for the Alliance, and some immature jack asses that play for the Horde?
Seriously, how different can the factions possibly at this stage in the game?
-Rhab
One of the earliest stories I remember reading is that of the Sneetches. The gist, for those of you that don’t know, is there are 2 kinds of Sneetches, those with stars on their stomachs and those without. The ones with stars look down on the ones without to create a separatist culture. A machine that adds stars becomes available and the story takes off from there. If you have never read or seen it, please take the time to do so. Seuss was a genius and much of his work will live forever.
I am still in awe at how Dr. Seuss was able to hit on timeless social issues and do so without children knowing they are being subjected to commentary.
At the end of the story, the Sneetches are all confused as to whether they started with stars of not, and learn a valuable lesson about judging those that are not like you.
Anyone else think that after changing factions, learning you may have liked your old faction more, then changing back, the only thing we will be left with is an empty wallet from the charge of faction changing and maybe the knowledge that there are elitist pigs that play for the Alliance, and some immature jack asses that play for the Horde?
Seriously, how different can the factions possibly at this stage in the game?
-Rhab
Bernie Madoff, Exodus, and their respective Fjucked up Justice Systems
First off, Bernie Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison, and all I can say is who the hell cares. It is hardly a fitting punishment for a guy that stole billions of dollars. If I had my way, and I was forced to recognize the eighth amendment, I would have happily sentenced him to spending the rest of his days in nursing home with his less affluent peers and working as a door greeter at Wal-Mart. Even that right wing GW pawn whack job John Roberts would have little say on the punishment. It would be tough to convince anyone that such a sentence could be cruel or unusual when we subject many of our seniors to such a lifestyle everyday. Instead, Madoff will serve a 150 year sentence like he’s going to live as long as Abraham in the Old Testament, and his wife is working on keeping enough money to maintain her current lifestyle.
Oh ya, this is definitely justice.
In WoW related news, Exodus has been given a 72 hour ban for what Blizzard has deemed a cheat. Exodus has released an official statement on their site. Now, there have been several reports that Exodus remained silent about the bug, but the official statement say that a ticket was in fact submitted. If Exodus is to be believed, and there is little evidence to suggest otherwise, then the accusations of “bad form” are completely unfounded. Let’s assume for a second that they bug report never happened, then yes, Exodus is indeed guilty of bad form. The problem is that bad form doesn’t violate the ToS. If it did, every jack ass in trade spamming Obamanation, hitting people with their STFU truck, or begging for runs through DM would receive 72 hour bans.
So what did Exodus do wrong? Well they exploited an in game bug. To some people, like the Ensidia fanboys, this is different than exploiting a game mechanic. Freya trash for Hodir is ok because, well, that was a coding error that allowed mages to spellsteal a buff and pump out nasty DPS that wasn’t intended to happen. Using an evade mechanic, well that’s not ok because it wasn’t intended to happen. HUH? It becomes even more confusing if you believe that Exodus did in fact report the bug to Blizzard.
Though I have yet to see how Ensidia knew about the bug and was able to call out Exodus on it when Exodus had not released any information about the kill, one of the most basic conspiracies is that someone at Blizzard tipped off Ensidia. This, of course, then reinforces the idea that Exodus has the integrity to report the bug. I know, I know, they had the integrity after they “exploited” the bug, but that is not uncommon in the World of Warcraft firsts, so get off my ass because that is as much integrity that is ever expected from the world’s top guilds. Can anyone else hear Ice-T? “Don’t hate the playa, hate the game.”
Ensidia has become my little sister. She constantly annoys you, and does things you know that you know if you were caught doing, you would have the shit knocked outta you, but you don’t go whining to mom and dad because snitches are even more annoying. When you finally do something of a similar nature, she goes running to mom and dad and you get in trouble. I, for one, am completely elated that Blizzard has decided to treat Ensidia like a 7 y/o little girl who gets upset and cries and whines. They have, essentially, knocked the shit out of Exodus, then turned around, put on their happy face and patted Ensidia on the head and said, “there, there, you will get the world firsts, don’t you worry.” I can only imagine how they plan to handle Ensidia when they are old enough to start menstruating. Let’s hope Blizzard knows what PMS on an overly spoiled 14 y/o is like, and if they don’t, well all the better.
Oh ya, this definitely justice too.
I can’t wait until daddies little girl Ensidia breaks papa Blizzards heart when she decides to start dating boys. Anyone else think she has her eye on a certain maturing Old Republic?
-Rhab
Oh ya, this is definitely justice.
In WoW related news, Exodus has been given a 72 hour ban for what Blizzard has deemed a cheat. Exodus has released an official statement on their site. Now, there have been several reports that Exodus remained silent about the bug, but the official statement say that a ticket was in fact submitted. If Exodus is to be believed, and there is little evidence to suggest otherwise, then the accusations of “bad form” are completely unfounded. Let’s assume for a second that they bug report never happened, then yes, Exodus is indeed guilty of bad form. The problem is that bad form doesn’t violate the ToS. If it did, every jack ass in trade spamming Obamanation, hitting people with their STFU truck, or begging for runs through DM would receive 72 hour bans.
So what did Exodus do wrong? Well they exploited an in game bug. To some people, like the Ensidia fanboys, this is different than exploiting a game mechanic. Freya trash for Hodir is ok because, well, that was a coding error that allowed mages to spellsteal a buff and pump out nasty DPS that wasn’t intended to happen. Using an evade mechanic, well that’s not ok because it wasn’t intended to happen. HUH? It becomes even more confusing if you believe that Exodus did in fact report the bug to Blizzard.
Though I have yet to see how Ensidia knew about the bug and was able to call out Exodus on it when Exodus had not released any information about the kill, one of the most basic conspiracies is that someone at Blizzard tipped off Ensidia. This, of course, then reinforces the idea that Exodus has the integrity to report the bug. I know, I know, they had the integrity after they “exploited” the bug, but that is not uncommon in the World of Warcraft firsts, so get off my ass because that is as much integrity that is ever expected from the world’s top guilds. Can anyone else hear Ice-T? “Don’t hate the playa, hate the game.”
Ensidia has become my little sister. She constantly annoys you, and does things you know that you know if you were caught doing, you would have the shit knocked outta you, but you don’t go whining to mom and dad because snitches are even more annoying. When you finally do something of a similar nature, she goes running to mom and dad and you get in trouble. I, for one, am completely elated that Blizzard has decided to treat Ensidia like a 7 y/o little girl who gets upset and cries and whines. They have, essentially, knocked the shit out of Exodus, then turned around, put on their happy face and patted Ensidia on the head and said, “there, there, you will get the world firsts, don’t you worry.” I can only imagine how they plan to handle Ensidia when they are old enough to start menstruating. Let’s hope Blizzard knows what PMS on an overly spoiled 14 y/o is like, and if they don’t, well all the better.
Oh ya, this definitely justice too.
I can’t wait until daddies little girl Ensidia breaks papa Blizzards heart when she decides to start dating boys. Anyone else think she has her eye on a certain maturing Old Republic?
-Rhab
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