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About Nothing and Everything

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… and we’re back.

While ye olde blogge was in reruns, I took a stealth vacation, retooled my work schedule (NOT for the better), abused alcohol, visited the brink of death a few times, resolved not to do THAT again anytime soon, did, and kept up with the gaming news in a minimalist kind of way — which was easy because there was no news. If there’s nothing to say, there’s nothing to say.

Umm. Let’s see. General news: EA bought Mythic (won’t affect my life in any way). And that’s kinda it.

Warcraft news: Patch 1.11 went live, and 1.11.1 went live during primetime raids … that was fun, if one thinks raiding at 2 in the morning is fun and none of us did.

The scourge invasion was in full swing, which was fun for about a day until we all did the math on how much bag space was consumed with scourge and Argent Dawn (the hosting faction) crap. /delete crap.

The new keyrings were introduced — very popular with the non-rogue types.

The new global LFG channel is not popular with anyone except the emo Myspace crowd.

The new solution to instance stacking/chaining/exploiting is that players are now “Saved to this instance” any time they pass within 20 feet of a raid instance. Ok, I exaggerate, still annoying as fuck to be spammed with “saved to this instance” on every trash kill.

Some more of CT-RaidAssist’s functionality was integrated into the basic WoW User Interface — again, without thanks or credit to the CTmod team. I’ll allow that some of CTRA’s abilities are basic raiding needs that aren’t particularly innovative or, ahem, legally protected intellectual property; still, it’s long past due that Blizzard thank CTmod for all the … let’s say, inspiration.

Paid character transfers became a reality, so did the heartache. Witness: someone’s guildbank taking a powder to another server. (You had to see that one coming.)

My server is scheduled for paid transfer availability sometime this week and we’ve already made some friendly wagers about stealth transfers (i.e they do not warn the guild that they’re transferring):

Our raid leader predicted 10 stealth transfers which we won’t care about, plus 2 more that make us OMG. My prediction is 3 stealth transfers we won’t care about (and I named the players, I’m that good) and maybe 1 that will make us OMG. And I added, that OMG transfer better not fucking be the guildbank or I will hunt him down like the dog he is.

Other guild news from my guild, because that’s really why you’re here, you gossip whore: One of our married players has hooked up, officially (that’s IRL, noobs), with one of our single players. After telling all of us that they had sex over the weekend (we needed to know?), she announced that she’s getting divorced, officially (that’s IRL, noobs).

This will not end well … for any of us.

Another real life couple in the guild has been having an ongoing, rather public argument. One raid she can’t stand to be near him and will leave midraid. The next raid she can tolerate his virtual presence but will bitch about him the entire time. (“Heals. He calls those heals??”)

All told, these two mini-dramas involve a druid, a hunter, a paladin and a priest — all raiders with high attendance. !!! Please, everyone who can read my plea, please stop fucking around with the guild healers. Fuck the rogues all you like, but leave the healers alone.

Heaven forbid two priests in my guild start fucking, then we’ll really be fucked.

UPDATE — More nothings: World of Warcraft Patch 1.11.2 is live today. Find a mirror, they still can’t bittorrent worth a damn.

July’s Carnival of Gamers is (has been) available at the Grumpy Gamer. I haven’t read it just yet, so don’t spoil the ending for me.

Warcraft Player Seeking Work

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I wouldn’t call it an “epic thread” as some responders did, *cough*, but it is different. The now freshly-created player of the Arthas realm, Mojojuju, was seeking work about a week ago as a guild … I’m going to use the word lackey, but you might choose the word bitch … in “offering my services to any server for G”:

it’s simple I am offering myself as an experianced player to any guild on any server who needs one just tell me the server and guild name plus who to contact and add your offer in G and items. the winning bid will win my services. I will role on your server and join your guild then just help me level to 60 and I’ll serve you well.
if your guild is lacking in a particular class build let me know and I will role that.

a bit about me: i’m realy male and I’m 27(not just some kid), I have many characters, a few of which are 60 or near it.
I play mainly on a pvp server.
been playing since release.
I have an open calender and can play just about any day/time.
I’ve run mc and ZG alot but thats the extent of my endgame raiding, however I have studied the others.

someone requested a bit more about my classes played, I have played all classes and have a hunter, mage, and warrior at or near 60. most others are 25-45. I carfully study my role for each character class I play.

the bidding will start at 10G and 4 “12” slot bags(3 if you need a hunter).

Several joke bids later, and the winning bidder is revealed:

**Just an update it’s over and the winner is below, I rolled a troll priest named Mojojuju and will be posting with him.**

I hope this goes well..

Winner:
Agarwean

Level 60 Undead Rogue

Guild: Collision Force
Realm: Arthas

10g 4 14 slot bags on rolling a troll priest (berserking gheals yummy)
100g on level 20
level 40 mount purchased
150g on level 60 and 4 16 slot bags
100g, onxyia cloak, flarecore shoulers, various other needed for raiding things. once all attunements complete with minimal guild spam for help getting them done (we’ve got a raiding schedule to keep)

will gear you appropriately at 60 very quickly.

www.collision-force.com for contact

(What a shock. They needed another priest.)

Hell, that’s not a bad offer for an unknown player. Frankly, my guild spends a lot more for (largely untested) new guildmembers — this could be the way of the future.

Transfers, The Hated Dreamfoil and Guild Hoppers

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Warcraft forum threads that haven’t (yet) disintegrated into O RLYs, L2Ps and STFUs for your reading and thinking pleasure during weekly maintenance:

More on the upcoming paid character transfers in a stickied thread with links to the authorized media outlets with further details: GameSpot and Atomic with the real meat of the deal — $25, can take up to 10 days to complete (wtf), cooldown of six months (the anti-churn barrier).

UPDATE: Paid transfers open for business late Tuesday for the following realms only, at this time: Altar of Storms, Argent Dawn, Demon Soul, Illidan and Warsong. More info available in the Paid Transfer FAQ.

“I hate dreamfoil”, a player-created rant about the difficulties in harvesting the WoW craft component dreamfoil, which is used in the lion’s share of the high-end game potions (read: overfarmed, especially on the high-pop servers). Eyonix, Blizzard whelp, explains it all in reply #21:

We don’t really see this as a problem. Certainly Dreamfoil is a valuable commodity but thats a good thing. So are many of the other herbs (however we will agree that Sansam seems in less demand than the other high end herbs), but we expect there to be some variance in demand for herbs.

And again, that’s positive.

In general the Auction House prices for Mountain Silversage and Icecap are comparable to Dreamfoil. Of course this will vary from realm to realm.

A couple of players challenge his herbal knowledge (e.g. Do you guys even play WOW anymore?), and his defense in reply #24: “Yes, and I have two 300 alchemists, and four 300 herbalists.”

Ya, man. So do the rest of us. We have at least two herbalists (usually three, four or more) to support the alchemist because all the big resist pots use dreamfoil, as do the big mana/rejuv pots, which some healers suck down like mother’s milk. Ya, I know — they need to conserve and to gear up and blah blah. Am I gonna tell them that? Hell no. They’re healers, I keep my mouth shut.

Some good ideas by the players in the thread, which will be largely ignored, because PharmingIsPhun. Just like managing bag space — it’s a mini game within the game!

Jesus, just say you’re going to look at dreamfoil and forget it. We’ll assume you’re still looking at it months from now and the alchemists remain blissfully ignorant. Public outcry averted.

Finally, a discussion about the bane of every raiding guild that ever was: The Guild Hopper, the loot and scooter. “How to Deal with People that …”

The original post, by Volume (of an unknown realm because it’s maintenance time and we know how logins work on the forums when the game login servers are down):

How are you supposed to deal with people that join your guild, get geared up, and leave to join a guild that has further end-game progression.

We had a player who did jsut that. Right after he got his 5/8 tier 1, the next day he made up some excuse about our raid schedule being bad and left and joined another guild that is deep in BWL.

Please help. How can we prevent this or deal with this kind of BS.

We’ve all had those types in our guilds, for certain, but what is with the players in this particular game (or is it this particular generation of MMOG?) who play the “raid schedule conflict” card once they’re full MC/BWL/Beyond gear? It’s the catchall excuse for a New Generation of “I’m not a loot whore” loot whores, although I must say I preferred the fake “I need a cancer operation and/or heart surgery” announcement of yore. At least that had some panache.

There’s lots of suggestions from the player base, but know this to be true: the best suggestions for protecting the guild from guild hoppers and other whores are the proactive ones (read: fucking them before they can fuck you). Once they’ve /guildremoved, your options to screw with them are somewhat limited, although not impossible.

Oh no, it’s not impossible. Not by a long shot.

Furl-archived threads: Paid character transfers
I hate dreamfoil
How to Deal with People that …