ZOMG, everyone’s favorite gaming grandma spends some time with an MTV Overdrive crew for their “Obsessed” show. My own grandma was more of the cookies and beer variety, not being hardcore and all, but apparently cookies and Absolut are just as good! Old Grandma Hardcore: Grandma’s Two Days With MTV: The Partial Story No word yet on the air date.
There’s these books, y’see, that drop in the higher level Warcraft instances. They’re spell books for group buffs: Arcane Brilliance (mage intelligence buff), Gift of the Wild II (the fancy druid all-stat buff) and Prayer of Fortitude II (the priest HP buff).
The guild has about a billion of these in the guildbank for any up-and-coming alts reaching max level 60, plus each and every guildmate has several duplicates themselves that ya CAN’T GIVE AWAY. This is good, in theory, because I really hate games that hide away essential class spells in the tougher instances or dungeons on rare ass drops, so the poor sap has to either pay a king’s ransom to complete his spellbook or rely on the kindness of strangers.
Nevertheless, whenever another of these books drops, everyone in the raid will groan and there’s a minor argument over who has to loot the damn thing.
Not me. I like to loot them. I even keep a complete set on my person at all times, and I’ll tell you why.
Every time I’m grouped with one of those stingy buffers … you know the type, you have to CONSTANTLY remind them to redo their buffs on the group and they moan and grudgingly rebuff and I always think, wtf, I’m so sorry to ask you to DO YOUR JOB … every time I’m grouped with one of those, I like to give them a parting gift of their class buff book.
“Here ya go. This should come in handy for your next group.” (with someone else)
I mean, it couldn’t hurt to relearn it, since its usefulness was so obviously lost on them the first time they got the spell.
A reblog of Aggro Me’s interview of Gaige, one of FoH’s new school raiders in EQ2. I give the target subject props for being forthright about his weekly raid time (“I routinely play anywhere from 40 to 80 hours a week.”), and props to Aggro for remaining the consummate nice guy and not freaking out. What a pro! Not that I ever played an MMOG with that ferocity. At the most, I played 20 hours, 30 max, the one time I didn’t have a heavy work load, it was maybe 40 hours, 50. Ok, I should just shutup now. Good interview, go read it.