Monday, October 12, 2009

Utgarde Keep:Why you should say no to level 80's

I just don't know what to do anymore.  The higher my level gets, the more Horde on my realm suck.  I'm not really sure how or why it's like that.  It's like the values of your class slowly diminish as they become stronger. (Note:  I don't mean that all Horde on my realm suck.  I just notice that there are a lot more players that suck at higher levels, then at lower levels.  Again.  I'm not talking about everyone.)

For instance.  I was running Utgarde Keep with an Orc Protection Warrior, a Troll Hunter (with an exotic tank pet I guess.  It was a Cleft Hide.), a level 80 Orc Hunter (He had full epic gear almost, and had a wolf pet.  I don't know his spec), and finally myself (Level 70 Druid.  I was healing this time.)

Now, I'm not really one to take higher levels into instances with me.  I made an exception this time however, because I figured it would be an easy, fast run with an 80 Hunter.  Oh boy was I wrong....

First off the protection warrior decided he didn't want to pull.  That's fine I guess.  That means that he needs to know how to built a lot of aggro, on a lot of targets quickly enough to keep everyone alive. For the record: He didn't know how to do that.  I was constantly getting aggro just after one or two heals.  I was always having to run away, or heal myself.  Which of course led to other people dieing.  Even with this happening, no one died very often.  That is until we got to the first boss.....

I guess the Troll Hunter and the Warrior didn't know the fight.  I was almost done typing the explanation (I try to explain every fight before hand just in case), when I see the level 80 hunter charge in!  With out thinking, I sent what I had typed, and jumped in healing.

For those of you that don't know.  The first boss you fight in UK, summons 4 skeletons, and freezes a random person every few seconds.  So you need to have someone fighting the skeletons to keep them off the healer, and someone to break the ice blocks that your party will be froze in.

None of the above happened.  The skeletons started beating my face in, and no one helped me.  By some unjust act of god I kept the tank and myself alive......  Until I was frozen.  Then I just laughed, took my hands off the key board and mouse, and watched everyone die.  There was nothing I could do at that point.

So back to my original point.  At what point does a Hunter think he can solo a boss?  When does he think he can take damage like a tank?  Why wouldn't a tank want to pull aggro first, so he could keep control of fights later?  I just don't understand.

It should be stated that I ran a group with 3 Shaman, and one Rogue right before the incident with the 80 Hunter.  Not only did my group of level 68-70 Shammans and Rogue make it all the way through UK.  We did it with only the Rogue dieing on the last boss.

So how could 5 of us that were barely high enough to run the instance, pull together and do what a level 80 hunter with a 4 man group could not?  I have no idea....  If you figure that out, let me know though.

Monday, October 5, 2009

Too Much Pink

I was recently on a website that keeps track of all the active characters in World of Warcraft...  What I found was more disturbing than anything I've seen before.  The Blood elves make up more than 1/4 of our total Horde population.  I was shocked.  I knew that there were a lot of them...  I didn't know there were THAT many though.  Every time I turn around, I'm tripping over Blood Elves.  They are probably my least favorite class.  I hope that when the Worgen come out in the new expansion, that balances out some.

I know that some of the people that play Blood Elves are good people...  I just don't like their characters though.  
The male Belfs are metro sexual pink men.  They laugh like they're the most evil, powerful force in the entire universe.  And their jokes poke fun at the fact that they're metro sexual magic addicts....  I just don't care for them.

The female Belfs aren't quite as bad as the male ones...  They're still bad though.  First off, they're the new "pretty class" They're even more popular than Night Elves...  And Night elves were pretty friggin popular.  The female Belfs dance is the Brittney Spears dance, from her video Toxic...  I think.  I'm not really a fan, so I  don't know, nor do I care.  The Belfs attitude is snobby, self centered, and overall annoying.  If you knew a person that acted like that in real life....  Well....  It'd be Paris Hilton.  And that's just not something I would like to have around....  It's all over in World of Warcraft though!!!

I'm tripping over snobby anorexic pink things every time I turn around!  My only hope lies within the expansion.  When the Goblins come to the Horde, and the Worgen go to the Alliance.  I can only assume some of the people playing Belfs, will go over and play Werewolves (i.e. Worgen).  "ZOH MAI GAWD!  IT'S A WEREWOLF!!!  JUST LIKE IN THAT TWILIGHT BOOK!!!!"  *rerolls alliance.*

That's what I hope happens anyways...  What do you think will happen?