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The Pally Pal

Posted in MMORPG with tags , on October 30, 2012 by theerivs

Many moons ago in Dark Ages of Camelot there was a couple of Paladins who dyed their armor pink, and called themselves the Pally Pals. I sometimes just think of those guys, at least I assume they were guys, but I just laugh. When you’re a Prot Pally, you’re everyones Pally Pal

Last night I log on, and one of our guildie tanks got DC’d due to that bitch Sandy. I was ninja’d invited to finish the heroic. Though I never been to this heroic, my guild were really awesome in explaining the fight….”Stand here, and stop shit from touching us”, or “Stuff on the ground, don’t stand in it, that’s about it. Ready?”  Which gets me laughing because that’s about it too.

Now when I’m tanking, I turn into serious Riv. I don’t joke that much, or even talk. It’s all business, especially new heroics I haven’t been to yet. I’m sure once I get geared out with Purple Awesome Epics, I’ll be able to breathe a little more…not yet though. I picked up some nice shoulders last night, which now allows me to join LFR.  Which will be awesome to learn tanking in there, and hopefully get some awesome tanking gear.

In other news, that Horseman is a son of a biotch. No mount yet, and I’ve run it tons of times. I’m crying horseshit!

 

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I Was Slimed

Posted in MMORPG with tags , , on June 14, 2012 by theerivs

So I’m back at WoW, and one of my favorite things to do is solo stuff on my Prot Paladin, plus rep and gold are pretty decent. I would like to hit exalted  with the undercity, I want an undead mount.

I did a quick Shattered Halls run, and I decided let’s really put things to a test.

Yesterday I tried my hand at Tempest Keep Raid. The packs took me a bit of time to get down due to fricking healers, other then that it wasn’t to difficult. It was  time consuming, and I wasn’t getting any rep, but one gold per mob was pretty decent. First boss I tried was Void Walker. Now I haven’t stepped foot into TK in years, so alot of mechanics I forgot. The mechanic I forgot was the orb, that silences. No casting, means no fricking healing. So even though I got him to a quarter health….he finally wore me down. Well I tried.

Next stop later that night to help a guildie was AQ 20. Everything was going great there, I was burning my way through. Again no rep, and not really a hell of a lot of gold. Then out of no where this Slime comes out, called a Flesh Hunter….Swallows me, and I’m stuck in him until I fricking die.  

If anyone else digs soloing old content for fun, and rewards I would love to hear of good places to go.

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My Love/Hate for Alterac Valley

Posted in MMORPG with tags , , , on June 5, 2012 by theerivs

First off I did so many Alterac Valleys (or AV for short)  this past weekend, I’ve had enough for a bit. It was AV weekend, and last night I hit it for 6 hours straight. Let me share with you my pain.

Reasons I love AV.

1. When things go right.-  It’s alot of honor, especially during the weekend it’s a Call to Arms in a relative short period of time. It’s just an awesome feeling when an AV goes good.

2. Alot more people in it.- I like the huge battle aspect of it. It’s an awesome sight seeing a bunch of my fellow hordling on the move in the beginning.  

3.   The Chat Channel – Sometimes it just cracks me up when someone says something stupid, like screams…”Icelord!’

4. The mini battles – Sometimes the little fights at the bunkers are pretty epic.

5. Healing - A little PvE mixed into the PvP makes a healing a much needed part of this BG, and it’s nice to be needed.

What I hate about AV

1. When things go wrong – The infighting is bad, things break down fast, and it makes the whole BG seem longer, sometimes it is longer when the Alliance sucks too.

2. Open Field Battles – Though fun once in awhile, they are counter productive in the most part, and I die alot which makes me mad.

3. Asshats- The spammers who in all caps yell tactics, and such. I hate the ones that yell the wrong tactics, like lets help Galv. I just want to scream over chat…”Shut The F$%k UP!”

4. The Geography – It seems with the tactics involved into todays AV it is Alliance biased. In terms of Towers, and Spacing.

 

I can’t complain all in all I got 7 pieces of epic gear in one weekends time, and though when we use to have 3 hour queues for AV, and they lasted 12+hours sometimes. Today’s AV with all it’s problems still is a fricking  joy.

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They Pulled Me Back In

Posted in MMORPG with tags , , , on May 30, 2012 by theerivs

I’m heading back to Azeroth. Like the Godfather, when I thought I was out. They pulled me back in. Some Old Guildies decided to head back to WoW for a bit. I decided to give it a go. So a friend sent me a scroll of rez, ya know free transfer, 7 days of play, and free toon to instant 80. Wow what a great deal. Unfortunately I didn’t take advantage of the instant 80, cause I decided to move the Paladin.  It’s more bang for my buck, he’s geared out to tank, for the betterment of the guild, and plus he can heal if needed.

Though I have much mage love, I’m going to try to do something outside the box. I’m going to level a warlock. That’s right. Mr. Mage love himself is going to level a ‘lock. I make fun of them all the time, and I decided it’s time to walk a level or 85 in there shoes.

I’m kind of geeked up about my return to the World of Warcraft, it’s been awhile so it’s going to be little fresh for a bit, and somethings will be nice and familar, welp got to go and start reading what’s new in the world of Pally Tanking, and Healing. We’re on Thrall server, Horde side if anyone wants to come by and say hi. The Pally’s name is Rivz. Got any Pally Tips Feel Free to Post’Em Here.

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Let the Healing Begin

Posted in MMORPG with tags , on August 31, 2011 by theerivs

So I decided lets do this Holy Pally thing. I healed in Dark Ages of Camelot for years, so how bad can I be, my only limitation is gear, mine really sucks. So I fixed my mess up, got right spec, action bars, glyphs, I also got Vuhdu mod.

I decided to hit the Battlegrounds first, figure get a little better gear via honor points. I really had fun healing in the battlegrounds, standing back,  healing my team mates, and have them protect me like the princess..err. I mean helluva guy that I am.

I have my Vuhdu set to divine light on left click, and cleanse right. I followed the ABC rule, Always Be Casting. If I didn’t have anyone to heal, I would holy shock an enemy.  I didn’t too bad, I was always top 5, usually 3rd or 4th best healer.  I know I have ALOT to learn, and I need to step in do some PvE as well.  Overall I think it will be fun.

Problems I have right now in the Battlegrounds …

1. Situational Awareness – I have to keep my head on a swivel. 

2. Cooldowns – When to use what, and where.

3. Healing Priorities – Who should get the heals first.

4. The Oh Shit Buttons – When crap hits the fans what to do.

5. Gear – I always hunger for more.

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Strive for Goals

Posted in MMORPG with tags , , on July 5, 2011 by theerivs

Back in the day when my niece was just a baby, my brother who lived with us at the time to find my father on the floor holding a bottle with the baby some distance away from him saying, “Strive for goal Kelsey, come on get the bottle strive”  My brother told him just to feed the baby, but since then it’s become kind of a joke within our family. We utter to each other, “Come on strive for goals.”

I set out to become 85 on my Paladin this weekend, and I did it while tanking the Vortex Pinnacle, which the nice thing was I am becoming better at tanking that dungeon, and really can’t wait to hit it on Heroic.  Speaking of which, I kind of looking forward to this gear grind, I’m sure I won’t be saying that a couple weeks from now, but I’m already bought a couple pieces cheap. I’m really nervous about diving into Heroics, but I’ll get it done.

Some things I’m doing to tweak my tanking is looking into Macros, I really need to use these more in all my games. Also keybindings to make things more simple, any tanking advice is always welcomed here.

Also I made it to 40 on my mage in RIFT too, looking forward to the final 10 level out of the way there.

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Tanking Anxiety

Posted in MMORPG with tags , on June 28, 2011 by theerivs

So tonight I take my Protadin into some dungeons to get some major xp, and to get my pally to 85 finally. Darraxus wrote about being anxious about heading back to PvE.  As a mage I never really worried about it, hell I toss up a fire shield, and stand in the fire a bit just to be an asshole, alas as a Tank it’s different. You are the leader supposedly. Now I been in a one or two of the new dungeons and my performance was pretty good. No wipes, except I didn’t know you were suppose to hop into the whirlwinds in Vortex Pinnacle, and looked like a HUGE NEWB.

I haven’t Tanked since Burning Crusade, so stepping back into that role has me worried, especially since the Paladin has changed, and is constantly changing *cough* Holy Shield *cough*  I’ve been reading a gross amount of stuff on blogs, and forums to get me up to speed on gear, specs, and other fun stuff. It’s just the fact that no matter how much you read, you really have to get in there and just do it.

Sad thing is I’m kind of excited about the 85 gear grind on my pally when I finally do hit 85. So tonight is the night I put my big boy pants, and get my tanking on. I would love to hear any suggestions or idea you might have, like what rep would be the best to get first, stuff like that.

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Popping my Tanking Cherry in 4.01

Posted in MMORPG with tags , , , on November 1, 2010 by theerivs

I was hesitant to try tanking in Patch 4.01. I heard so many horror stories about threat, or lack there of. It had to be done though. I had to break the Pally in. So Queue’d up for Random, and let’s see where, we end up.

I was just so not hoping for Forge of Souls, let’s just say not my luckiest dungeon to date.  Ahh I got the Utgarde Keep…..Easy…Breazy.

Oh dear the DPS I had too was phenom, a Geared Out Rogue who could probably tank the place himself, a DK, and a Lock. The Healer a Shaman had his game so tight, I don’t think he even flinched once when I loss threat.

There are real threat issues though, I wasn’t keeping it like I once was, and I see that in a lesser group this would be a real issue, and needs to be addressed with Blizz.  Other then that it wasn’t that bad, and I didn’t do all that bad. I was using taunt to no end though.

The New Rotation needed to get used too as well and was a bit chaotic. I was kind of all over the board with that.

Now that I broke my cherry…. I’m ready to go get some more….and become the tanking slut I was mean to be.

GOLD MAKING TIP:  I just wanted to toss this in here cause I know Markco’s Blogging Carnival is tomorrow. BTW I love the new layout of his.

Well Mongoose Enchant is quite the big seller, one of the ingredients is Large Prismatic Shards. I get them lowest for around 12g each. Well there’s an enchant that you can take 3 Small Prismatic Shards, and turn them into a Large Prismaitc Shard.  I can get Small Prismatic Shards for 2g a piece, so that makes them 6g for 1 Large Prismatic Shard.  So be on the lookout for cheep small shards, and if you don’t have that enchant….GET IT!

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Rules for Duels.

Posted in Gaming, MMORPG with tags , , , , , on July 15, 2010 by Bee

Showing a little Pugnacious Priest love.

Riv linked the post below, and stole my buns of thunder here… but anyways….

That is my Paladin.  And she loves her pink panties and chaps.

+19 strength never looked so good.

A few days ago I am jumping around on the Orgrimmar roof on my Paladin alt, waiting for my battleground queue to pop.  I see another 39 Paladin pass by me and whisper to see if he would like to duel.  He obliges and it’s off to Durator with us.  This Paladin had quite a bit more stamina then me (as I have made a point to stack strength as I had been rolling with a guild priest who is a mighty fine healer). It was a pretty intense battle; we were both down pretty far in our HP pools. He stuns me; I pop my bubble, stun him, swing my axe and win.  I was then regaled with “Bubble is cheating!” “BOA gear is for losers!!” “Enchanted gear noob!” 

Now, I worked hard to grind out those triumph badges for my BOA gear, so I take no offense to his opinion there.  But his comment that a Paladin bubbling during a duel is “cheating” made me start to think.  Is this something that is a no-no in a duel?  Sometimes when I duel a Paladin on my Priest, they will bubble (which of course gets dispelled post-haste) … and sometimes I see no bubble.  I always just figured the reason I didn’t get the bubble was either that it was on cool-down or that the Paladin was smart enough to know it’s fairly useless versus a Disc Priest’s Mass Dispel and would opt to use Divine Protection instead.  

So my first question to the readers – is it inappropriate for me to use Divine Shield in a duel? 

I then want to take this a step further.  What other talents for other classes are unacceptable to use in a duel?  It’s a weird concept for me to think about – not being able to use all spells at my disposal to help me defeat an enemy.  On my Priest I use any and everything.  If I’m out of mana I won’t hesitate to throw out my Shadowfiend or try to get off a Hymn of Hope.  Hell, I may even try to do both at the same time.   

 First, obvious dueling faux pas: 

  • Popping health/mana potions during combat.
  • Retaining non-class buffs.

Second, abilities/buffs generally believed to be inappropriate for use in duels:

  • Preparation
  • Readiness
  • Lay on Hands
  • Flasks (which I believe are appropriate if, and only if, you are an alchemist – if you chose that as your profession, you should never be without the extra it provides – saying you couldn’t use it would be like telling a herbalist they can’t use LifeBlood)

Now, I open up the discussion.  What else do you see to be faux-pas in a duel?  Should any of these things be inappropriate?  Should we look to arena rules to know what is fair and what is not fair?   

Also, on a side note: 1.) Yes, I got a little hyperlink-happy in this post – You wanna fight about it? 2.) I will be out-of-town next week, so no posting for me. Hope everyone has a great week! 

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My Holy Warrior

Posted in MMORPG with tags , on June 16, 2010 by theerivs

So I have a paladin, yeah he’s a human, what can I say I don’t want to invade Jong, poofy hair, emo, pally domain….though I do poof my real hair when I do play him. Actually I kind of like the way he looks, I leave his helm off. He looks like this old grisled warrior, who’s seen too much of the world fighting evil.

Anyway he’s level 76, and still grinding, He’s dual specced, Tank/Holy. Though I did some healing in early 5 man instances, I thought I would just concentrate on tanking, because that is why I made him. I miss tanking. I had a warrior back in the Vanilla/BC days, and I missed it.  I missed being everyone’s favorite guy if I do well, and well taken care off.

Gear…

My biggest worry right now is gear, when I hit 80 I want to be ready to hit the 5 man heroics with a passion, I try to the daily every day, and get the badges, and I am a blacksmith so i can get some decent starter gear, but where do I get some good fresh 80 gear, anything I should be working towards now. Well I got some help from Kurn, Ferraro, and Epic Advice.  But I need more advice, like trinkets I should shoot for? Librams and such for tanking, and healing?  What heroics I should alot for tanking gear to get me up to snuff for raiding?  Is there anything I should be careful with?

Where to go?

Right now my Pallie is on Feathermoon, and no one really likes me there. I don’t know why, I’m just on a holy crusade to destroy RP…ok not that holy…or crusade like. Well I was thinking of moving servers, I was thinking of heading back to Azgalor, and the Brotherhood of Oblivion, but after talking to them, I don’t know maybe it was my perception but it seemed luke warm, I could go to Horde Azgalor, but to be a poofy haired emo elf….I dunno if I could handle the alternative lifestyle, or I can find a new home, wanna play with the Rivs, suggest a US server, and why I should come there, horde, or alliance it doesn’t matter.

Any other bright ideas…

As for the rest of it, sure I got a little ways to go, but I think the mark of a good player is to invest in their toon, and learn to play them the best of his/her ability. So any tips you want to hit me up with go ahead…

Tomorrow Bee will be here to spread her charm on us, like peanut butter on someone’s privates, so I’ll seeya when I seeya….

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