Enough is Enough

I’ve always made an effort not to name and shame people for their retardedness in a videogame. Lately, though, I have reached the boiling point. I have no interest in embarrassing people because of poor gameplay, but I no longer see any reason to apply that same protection to sheer asshattery.

 

So, beginning the wall of shame is Unibrau – Rexxar, a retard hunter who felt that pulling 24K dps in 388 gear is something worth bragging about: so much so that he’s willing to call out people he is “carrying” by his very presence and then ninja-need on strength gear as his (and I quote) “fee.” Granted, my 10K isn’t fantastic, but it’s decent enough for a regular heroic in my greens and blues. So, fuck you very much Mr. Huntard.

Not to be outdone are Devotion – Drak-Thul, a tank with a terminal case of awareness issues, and Amberlyne – Tichondrius, who along with some third party member I didn’t get a chance to get the name of, vote-kicked me before I ever got a chance to enter the instance. When the queue popped, it wouldn’t let me port in, saying the instance was full. This was almost certainly the result of kicking someone who has disconnected. When you kick a DCed player, they log back in to find themselves in the zone, but not in the party, making the newly appointed group member unable to enter the instance. Anyway, the tank throws up a ready check and I say no, explaining the instance full error message. The tank then pulls anyway. The hunter points out that I wasn’t in the instance for the ensuing failfest, and I get kicked from the party. So after waiting over 10 minutes to get into the damn queue, I then have to wait another 12 minutes to wait out the dungeon finder cooldown, because Captain ADD can’t comprehend party chat. So again, fuck you very much Amberlyne, Devotion, and unknown third voter, for punishing me for your own damn impatience and incompetence.

There, having vented that I feel better. Besides, I had nothing better to do with my 12 minutes of waiting time.

Reconnecting with Old Toons

I’ve been spending some time on the old server lately, and I’ve really gotten back into the swing of things on the priest and paladin. I’ve also spent some more time on DKs lately, both with starting to gear up my big one and starting a new one back on TB to spend more time with the Tigers. It’s always fun to dust off an old alt. Feels a bit like going home again. Not only is it fun to try to stay current on all my alts, but I really think it makes me a better player, overall, by having so much cross-class experience to draw on. Seeing where similar abilities could be applied, or thinking of unusual ways to use your abilities to mimic another class’s ability is a useful tool to play creatively and pull off amazing spectacles of epic win. For example, not many people think of Disengage (hunter) and Blink (mage) as similar abilities, but the biggest difference is the direction you’re facing when you use it.

That Didn’t Take Long

Unsurprisingly, the disconnects continue. Time to start the “customer service” rollercoaster again.

Cross Your Fingers

Finally got the ISP to come out and try to fix their equipment. They claim to have fixed it, but I’ll remain skeptical until it proves to be stable. Been burned too man y times to take them at face value. While we’re at it, I find it odd that they left a note saying that they worked on the equipment but they never stopped to talk to anyone at the premises to let us know they were here. I know, I know, I’m a big old curmudgeon, but I think it would have been polite to explain yourself before climbing all over my roof.

Good News and Bad News

So I finally got my beta invite a few days ago, but I still haven’t managed to download the 19.3GB(!!!) file. This will take a while.

Some Guys Have All the (Bad) Luck

Imagine my surprise to see a blue post proclaiming the following.

We’ve sent the remaining 400,000 Annual Pass beta invites last night, which concludes the entirety of those who have signed up for the offer thus far.

I didn’t recall getting an e-mail from Blizz saying I’d been flagged for the beta, but I went ahead and logged into my BNet account, anyway. No surprise, I’m still not flagged. So I read on to discover…

Due to the large number of invites sent there are some that bounced back for various reasons, and we’ll be working to apply those invites over the next few days. If you haven’t received your invite yet it’s likely you’re one of the few affected by such an issue, and rest assured we’re working to get you into the beta as soon as possible.

Ah, of course. I am but one of a “few” people being screwed over. *sigh* Just… *sigh*

Having Fun with PUGs

So I was running a Well of Eternity in a PUG and the tank, for some reason, was tanking the adds way out in the boonies instead of next to the portal. I mean, like, way out there, past where you stop to fight the giant fire elemental. The result of this odd placement was that I could not be in range of both the tank and the party at the same time. Well, naturally Manoroth summoned the Infernals as he does, and the rogue died. So I rebirth him and we finish the fight. Normally, that would be the end of it and not much of a story, but the dude decides to get all whiny with me. He posts recount of his death, showing that he didn’t get any heals as he was meeting his death to the Infernals and then asks “WTF is that?” So I fire back, “looks to me like somebody was both OOR and doesn’t know how to Tricks or Vanish” and naturally his only defense is “Fuck you.” I literally LOLed. I don’t know what response he was hoping to get out of his vulgarity, but I’m thinking that probably wasn’t it. What I do know is that if you legitimately want information you need to ask in a less aggressive way, and if you’re going to attack the healer for your death you’d better hope that he doesn’t know your class better than you do.

My First Look at LFR and Loot Guilt

So I’ve been running the LFR and the more I go, the more I learn. For example, today I noticed for the first time that the queues are separated into wings (I had previously though the wing was selected randomly when you queue). Meaning I could have run more of them on my pally and priest on ThoBro. Oops.

Anyway, I’ve been having some pretty good luck with loot rolls, and I got my hands on a staff. The problem is, it’s not quite the upgrade I thought it was by my quick-and-dirty assessment before I had to choose whether to roll.  I’m wondering if there’s even any way to track down another roller and trade it to them at this point (now that we’ve both left the raid). Can we go back manually to the raid using the lockout ID and meet that way? Is it even possible though any method?

I can get the names from chat logs and I can roll a toon on their server to let them know to meet me, if it’s possible to meet somewhere. Is it even worth it? (I’m sure they’d think so.) Should I just write it off as a learning experience and let it go?

Dear PUG: A Love Note

To the PUG who kicked me last night after we wiped on Tyrande. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!! After you booted me for being unable to carry you and your combined 4-person total of 36K dps (a third of which was the tank), I found a group with not one, but two dpsers who each were pulling more dps than the entire group you kicked me from. Not only were the mage and paladin in that group pulling 43K and 40K, respectively, but they were also polite, didn’t stand in the bad, and knew how to use interrupts. The fact that the mage made me food and gave me a leftover Flask of Battle from his raid was just a pleasant bonus. We finished two dungeons in just under 40 minutes, which I must assume is slightly faster than you finished your combat with Tyrande. I appreciate you saving me so much time and repair money.

Love and kisses,

Sal

Two Steps Back

The ISP technicians stopped by today, apparently for the sole purpose of giving us the brushoff in person instead of over the phone. While here, they changed nothing, tested nothing, and generally did nothing, while concluding that it’s wireless interference that is causing the problem, not a line of sight issue.  I find this strange since they insisted on the last phone call that the antenna wasn’t picking up any interference or other wireless traffic mere moments before the disconnect.