Giving New Meaning to “Backwards Compatible”

Since everyone else at my office has this mystery flu which only prevents them from showing up to work, but doesn’t interfere with their home life in any way (and thank God for that), I have to do ALL the work around here, including making the coffee and answering my own phone line. It’s brutal.

The slavelike conditions don’t prevent me from posting this screenshot from the weekend, however (and thank God for that!). Lag in Warcraft is degrading, almost by the hour, despite Team Blizzard’s assurances that they are upgrading the hardware and streamlining the software and whatever hell else they *think* the IT people are doing.

Stop upgrading, dammit!

Ironforge is almost impenetrable now when more than 12 people are milling about; the auctioneers are spawning in these goof-ass locations, like in the middle of the room or behind their platforms; and even the chat system grinds to a halt regularly. I don’t want to live if I can’t hear the noobs begging for spare gold.

Really, whatever tinkering is going on over there, stop it. Please, please, stop it.

Scripts I Have Loved

My favorite script, currently, is the Warcraft Scarlet Monastery script in the Cathedral with Mograine and Whitemane. Look …

Mograine

The actions aren’t the big deal, it’s the audio files that play along with it, exactly as the screenshot text appears. For you WoW noobs, the group attacks Mograine, he calls everyone infidels. Whatever. He’ll die just the same, no need to namecall.

The group kills his ass, then his bitch, Whitemane, runs from the back room — the group starts nailing her evil ass until she does an AOE stun/sleep exploit — she rezzes Mograine (Arise, my champion!).

The group starts laying down some smack on Whitemane, Mograine shakes off the heebie-jeebies from being recently rezzed (At your side, milady!) … ahhh, so we have a roleplayer here. This should be cake.

Group kills Whitemane, group turns on Mograine … script over. Loot, stone out of that hellhole, what’s next?

Now hold up a second, because I can just feel the diametric opinions already. Hear me out.

The script’s not complicated — but the accompanying audio, the first startling discovery that the bitch has AOE stunned (mezzed) the group and then rezzes the very target of the instance so the group has to kill both their asses now … it’s well done. The loot isn’t bad either. (Ok, the POTENTIAL loot isn’t bad, because we’ve been rerunning this ass of an instance looking for the, reportedly, common drop until I wanted to put the proverbial bullet in my head.)

Still, it qualifies as A Script I Have Loved.

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