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nice. anyways i got my computer back up and running. grinding has become severely painful at level 47. and i officially hate ZF now after failing 3 times in a row at the executioner troll zerg. i think that whole encounter is bugged, because there is literally an endless supply of those damn trolls. we can hold em off for 10 minutes or so, but eventually all the NPCs will die and the trolls will break through and begin slaughtering us. no matter how many you kill, more spawn to take their place. we even killed one of the bosses (Nekrum Gutchewer or something he's called) and HE respawned seconds after. we also killed the shadowpriest and his corpse disappeared immediately afterwards so we couldn't loot it. bugged all to hell.

From what I understand, L2 raids to a lot of strategy, especially castle sieges. My friends played it for quite sometime before they switched to WoW. At which point they did because the guild they were in created an alliance, overthrough the guild that was basically running the server, and after they had done that there really just wasn't much else to do. That, and the grind to the max level took an incredibly ridiculous ammount of time... ..and one of them got banned for saying "eBay". gimme your names on Archimonde and Illidan so i can find you faghat.

it's funny because it's true. anyways, archimonde and illidan? which do you play on more often, and which faction?

you get 40 people on a single raid channel, decide what you're gonna do ahead of time, and do it. the largest group i've participated in thus far (im only level 44) was a 25 man raid on the alliance capitols of stormwind and ironforge. the key is communication. you designate 2 or 3 guys who know what they're doing as leaders, and they tell everyone else what to do. and it also helps that the raid is broken up into smaller groups of 5. those 5 guys form their own seperate group inside the main group. if the raid leader is smart, he'll put at least 1 tank and 1 healer into each group. then each group is responsible for itself, and helps out the other groups as a whole.

oh you whore. should have started on Smolderthorn.

one was a rogue, the other a pally. the rogue was surprisingly easy.. just wing clipped him, backed off while my pet harassed him, and pumped him full of lead. the pally was a bit tougher, but i caught him definitely by surprise. i got a few good hits on him before he got his wits about him and got me with hammer of justice. while i was stunned, he tried to bandage himself but my pet was eating away at his attempt. so he starts whacking on me a bit when i get out of the stun. i war stomp, wing clip, then get just into gun range and hit him with viper sting and start draining his mana. see right here he could have had me, but he panicked and used that whatever healing spell pallies have that heals them fully but drains their mana. so i put another viper sting on him right away and he couldn't do shit. didn't even have enough mana for basic attack skills. so i clipped him again and got out of range, used rapid fire, and shot the holy hell out of him until he died. took a while though, but since he was too busy panicking trying to run away than trying to fight, i was able to easily control the fight.

that's freaking awesome. also: i feel much better now. i have had my vengeance. i went on the killing spree of a lifetime, starting with the lower level alliance running around outside grom'gul like they own the place. after i cleaned that mess up, i managed to track down two of the level ??'s that killed me, and got them both, one at time. the last thing they expected was a hunter 10 levels below them to come running up in the most furious rage and kill the shit out of them. damn that felt good.

i officially hate this game now. since the last patch, my server has become so incredibly inbalanced. all the horde are sitting at AB, waiting for the next BG to start. and what are the alliance doing? killing everything. i go to STV to try to level, i can't kill 2 fucking mobs for every 1 time i get ganked by a lvl 60 alliance. i check /who to see who else is in STV, and i'm the highest level fucking horde there (lvl 43). questing/grinding is now impossible thanks to all the chicken shit lvl 60 alliance who take out their frustration at getting owned by horde in AB on all the lowbies trying to level. i quit.

i like all the holidays and random world events and shit in WoW. like right now it's harvest season for the horde, so outside of orgrimmar there's tables set up with craploads of free food, fireworks and stuff being sold for cheap, and a quest to honor a fallen hero that yields pretty nice XP. edit: except for one problem... Smolderthorn is down yet again. 6th time this month. edit 2: the WoW forum login server is down too. bastards.

the joys of MSpaint

here, out of boredom, i came up with some guild tabard ideas...

I started a human pally on twisting nether.. as if there weren't enough. anyways if you wanna meet up, just look for 'Mason'. We should start a guild or something.

Chyna? Dude... seriously... that's just fucking gross.

i guess i'll roll an alliance on twisting nether.. zircon: what's wrong with PvP-RP? it's leaps and bounds better than that carebear plain jane RP shit. i can't stand 'Normal' servers now. on a PvP server you come across a member of the opposing faction, you kill the shit out of them. on a normal server, you play hopskotch and pantomime the latest episode of queer eye for the straight guy using emotes. it makes me want to stab people in the face through the internet.

i'm liking this 1.7 patch, but i'm probably going to have to respec again, despite the free respec i got from the update. i went with BM again like i had before, not quite realizing how terribly nerfed Spirit Bond is now. i think i'm gonna respec and go for a mixture of survival (the new survival tree is freaking awesome) and marks. though i didn't get a lot of time to play yesterday, first thing i did was go catch a cat with the new Prowl ability... sweet jesus it's awesome. that with the new tweaks on pet AI (they won't attack sheep, sapped, or frozen guys anymore) means hunter pets become 100x more viable in dungeons. also: there's a PvP-RP server now? hook a brotha up! SO LIKE... all us OCR folks should get a guild going on one of the PvP-RP servers or something. which one are you guys on?

Smolderthorn is where it's at. It's probably just about the most even server out there. It's like 1 alliance to 1.2 horde, and alliance is generally slightly more organized (especially since they combined all their top guilds into one). We can get some really good fights going. Like yesterday a few alliance 60s were wreaking havoc in STV so all the horde lowbies in the area banded together to hunt them down.

Rogues are also essential for crowd control, and a good one will be able to stop a potential wipe in progress 75% of the time. Also, I don't know about your server, but on Smolderthorn, hunters are pretty rare endgame.. everyone and their mother is either shaman, paladin, warrior or rogue. Raenok: Orcs don't make the greatest rogues. Not that you CAN'T use them, but you're wasting your racial axe mastery and pet mastery by being a rogue. Trolls or Undead make better rogues. Trolls even get throwing weapon mastery, which is handy for rogues. Plus I don't know what the hell zircon is going off about, but the health regeneration is also pretty sweet. And then you go berserk and kill the fuck out of things. Orcs are better off as Warriors (Axes FTW), Hunters or Warlocks. Or even Shamans (but then again Trolls and Taurens probably make just as good Shamans). I'm not saying you can't do it, but you'll be doing yourself a disservice. Though I really shouldn't be talking, considering I'm a Tauren with Engineering... Yeah..I've decided I will stick with an Orc Shaman for my mainstay, despite the warnings of them not being good in PvP combat. That's what trial-and-error is for. NOT GOOD IN PVP COMBAT? ...who tells you such bold LIES? the NUMBER ONE, HIGHEST RANKED player on my server is a Tauren Shaman.

Rogues are also essential for crowd control, and a good one will be able to stop a potential wipe in progress 75% of the time. Also, I don't know about your server, but on Smolderthorn, hunters are pretty rare endgame.. everyone and their mother is either shaman, paladin, warrior or rogue. Raenok: Orcs don't make the greatest rogues. Not that you CAN'T use them, but you're wasting your racial axe mastery and pet mastery by being a rogue. Trolls or Undead make better rogues. Trolls even get throwing weapon mastery, which is handy for rogues. Plus I don't know what the hell zircon is going off about, but the health regeneration is also pretty sweet. And then you go berserk and kill the fuck out of things. Orcs are better off as Warriors (Axes FTW), Hunters or Warlocks. Or even Shamans (but then again Trolls and Taurens probably make just as good Shamans). I'm not saying you can't do it, but you'll be doing yourself a disservice. Though I really shouldn't be talking, considering I'm a Tauren with Engineering...

ding 32. i used to think hunters sucked for PvP... but now that i've had some more experience, i realize that a good hunter can easily sway the battle one way or the other. hunters can control the actual FLOW of the battle through snares and traps, as well as marking prime targets and tracking the enemies. you get a hunter together with a good shaman, and you're unstoppable. the two of you alone could defend the flag in WSG against anything but a full on zerg.

i KNOW there's a graphical DB plugin. but it's HUGE. and 64 of them on my screen at the same time so i can monitor levels is absolutely fucking ridiculous.

i wonder what they did with the mixer. the current mixer is the only thing i hate about FLS5, and so i usually end up doing all the end mastering in cubase. if they came up with a more intuitive mixer interface, i'd probably bypass cubase entirely. what they need to do is make it more dynamic. not this 64 set channels of effects bullshit (hah i remember when there was only 16). you should be able to add new channels when you need them. and the mixer interface NEEDS A FREAKING GRAPHIC DB METER. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. I DONT WANT 64 GOD DAMN DB PLUGINS CLUTTERING UP MY SCREEN SO I CAN LEVEL PROPERLY. and a better routing system would be nice too.

i finally got a new guild. Gankstas. we got 140 or so active members, with 30-40 online at any given time. and everyone is level 30+ which is nice. as a result of my new guild, i got 43 hks last night in a period of about 30 minutes. 6 of us got together in Grom'Gul (all of us at right around lvl 31-32 except for a 51 shaman) and we headed to Redridge. along the way to Redridge we ganked a few lvl 27-33 guys in Duskwood while bypassing Darkshire. So we get to Redridge and head for Lakeshire. We killed the shit out the alliance there until all the gaurds started spawning like mad and the 51 shammy started freaking out because he got a few dks. We didn't get much honor there either since almost everyone was 5-10 levels lower than us. So head back to Duskwood. We go around Darkshire again, and this time we group on the main road. Just as we get together, a band of about 9 alliance ranging from around 27-33 showed up. We killed them all in about 4 seconds flat. Then they brought more friends. And we killed all of them too. Then they brought a 56 rogue, a 49 pally, and a 51 priest. We managed to kill all 3 of them, before we finally got mobbed by the rest of the lowbies. So we skirmish with the higher level guys for a little bit before a few of their 60's show up and we decide to move out. So we head for the river, and along the way we end up in Westfall, which is Alliance territory. We just kind of wandered through Westfall for a while, splitting up to explore the area. So I head for this place called Sentinel Hill. I pass through, with all the lowbies looking at me dumbfounded (I'm a skull to them) until a level 38 night elf hunter comes from nowhere and jumps me. I tore her to pieces. She was 7 levels higher than me, and I beat her 1 on 1 and still had half my life left. So then a few of their mounts show up, and our raid party regroups, and here's where the REAL fun begins. They had a 38 hunter, a 51 priest, a 55 warlock, 50 mage, and a 41 paladin. We had a 31 hunter, 30 mage, 27 warrior, 33 warrior, 32 shaman, 51 shaman, and a 41 priest we picked up along the way. We started fighting pretty much right at the foot of a graveyard, so it never ceased. And we just pounded the hell out of each other for about 20 minutes. Every once in a while another Ally would show up, but we somehow came across a 60 undead rogue and a 55 undead mage who also happened to be in the area, so the fight would just continue. It went on like this for quite a bit. We probably killed each of them 12 times. I probably died 7 or 8 times. Eventually the respawn times were getting so long that it wasn't realistic to continue anymore. And they finally called in their reserves (about 5 more mounts) and that basically ended it. But it was super awesome freaky fun. I could tell they were having a good time too. It's not very often we have straight on fights outside of BG anymore. Usually I just get ganked by some lvl 60 asshole while mining or killing mobs or whatever. I was getting 50+ honor per kill when fighting those guys. That seems like a lot at level 31. If I continue like that all week, I'll probably gain a rank.

there's got to be better ways to level... it feels like i've been level 30 for a week now. sometimes it seems like all the horde lowbie areas are also higher level areas for alliance. like hillsbrad for example. there's like level 20-25 horde leveling around tarren mill, but 30-35 alliance around southshore area. i mean, there's even an alliance instance (BG entrance i think) right in the middle of a level 25 area that's always got level 55-60 alliance hanging around. and right now i'm in shimmering flats, which is like 30-35, and there's constantly lvl 50+ alliance coming through from gadgetzan and killing all the lowbies. it's all in good fun of course, but it sure makes questing/grinding a huge pain in the ass.

is BWL 40-man? also, i wonder what kind of sick ass drops you can get.. like.. LEGENDARY items... of which i've only seen one, ever, in my life, on a warlord on smolderthorn.

i think i feel most sorry for warlocks though.. they're mostly based around their summons, but against a priest or another warlock, they're screwed in no-time flat. and debuffs are pretty much useless anymore. also: what the hell do people mean when they "roll" a character.. as far as i know you make your character yourself.