I’m not including any pictures- if you want those you know where to find them. So above is a picture of the Lich King. The short and sweet about this is that Deus Vox Encounters (ewww Curse) is the best boss mod out there right now, bar none. You’ll find why after the jump.
SEAL OF WISDOM IS NOT A TANKING SEAL.
Seal of Wisdom is for leveling, solo grinding mobs (MAYBE) and for healers with the glyph.
When you ‘tank’ heroics with Seal of Wisdom active you kill kittens and proclaim yourself as terrible at a class/spec even so easy as a paladin tank.
I cannot stress this enough. You absolutely must never tank heroics with this seal, ever. When you do, you are doing it wrong.
Continued rant after the jump.
I don’t know exactly what the infinity loop has to do with this post, or anything for that matter. It felt ‘right’ though.
I’ve actually begun to believe that I may live forever. It’s quite possibly the most absurd thought a person could have, and simultaneously the most self-absorbed, egoistic thing a person could actually believe. I don’t think I’m actually insane enough to believe that’s the case- I realize that biologically speaking, my body will fail and I will cease to breathe. It’s a matter of time. And yet, as someone that believes so little in ‘fate’ and ‘predestination’ and even worse, ‘divine’ anything; I find myself literally believing that my successes this far in life are the result of, not my own effort and work, but a grand scheme.
The insanity continues after the jump.
Was pretty bored today while waiting for my testing (99th percentile, bitches) so I did some writing. And kept writing. And it turned out pretty terrible but I need to post something so why not this.
The song of the day is ‘Twilight’ by Vanessa Carlton; which has no relation to the terribad book series. You’ll find the video and a short story after the jump.
The song is allegedly about Vanessa’s personal battle with depression, and from my own work with the illness I can see that influence. It’s a really beautiful song and the youtube version doesn’t do it justice (as always). It’s best heard at very good quality. She has a beautiful voice and it’s a fantastic piano piece. Nothing more needs to be said.
Go ahead and click it. If you spec like this, I’ll beat you back to Burning Crusade.
I realized lately that I’ve run with a lot of pretty bad Prot Paladins. Moreso on my alts than on my main. Usually the paladins I do 5-mans with or even on rare occasions, raids- have specs like the one above. Go ahead and click the wowhead link and know now that that’s precisely how you should not spec. Ever. I can’t think of a single spec of a single class that it’s okay to go 71 points into. Just don’t do it. That goes out to all the 0/0/71 frost mages too. Please don’t.
Opposed to playing the ‘elitist jerk’ card and showing you examples of bad specs, I’m going to do the alternative and expose, in today’s portion (part one) how2protpally?!?, lawl. Along with some history on the spec and some in-depth explanations of each talent (as though I have to justify my reasoning to anyone). So jump on past the break and we’ll get rolling.
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A recent interview with Tom Chilton, lead designer for WoW these days revealed his feelings about Patch 3.1 and Ulduar in general- a few things that stuck out was his feeling that… well, I’ll let you decipher the direct quote for yourself.
More than anything else with Ulduar, I think it was just bigger than it needed to be and more hardcore than it needed to be. Those were the biggest lessons for us along with making the connection to the main story arc clearer if there’s going to be one.
While it’s a well-crafted interview piece the main issue I have lies in the quoted material. As a general rule hardcore and casual raiders alike can agree Ulduar is a well crafted instance. On release day, Ulduar was extremely challenging content, especially coming from Naxxramas v2 where fights were the epitome of recycled. It challenged raiders to be better than they were accustomed to being with fight mechanics that were genuinely interesting and not the ’same old, same old’. The fact that Tom (and we can only assume his entire team feels similarly) believes it was larger than it needed to be and more hardcore than it should’ve been is disturbing.
If we can take a moment to delve into WotLK raiding after the break, we’ll realize that Ulduar was the only true innovative and challenging raid we got this entire expansion. I even go so far as to (in jest) say that Ulduar was the only raid in Wrath of the Lich King.
Above is Ludacris’ ‘How Low’ which people remotely fond of this poor excuse for a genre of music will recall as oddly familiar (only in name) to the early 2000s club favourite ‘Get Low’ by Lil’ Jon and his people.
This song required a mention since it’s… well it’s hilarious. But I can’t stop listening to it. From the very beginning you can hear the Alvin and the Chipmunks intro which is- it’s just awesome. Such is the marketing that these songs base their entire future on though, as nobody in their right frame of mind listens to it. I actually picked it up by accident when I was out clubbing with some clientele last week (purely by accident, I promise. I didn’t enjoy a minute of it), alongside a whole host of what passes for popular music; including a song called – I shit you not- ‘BedRock’, one word- and the topic of which can be inferred from the name. This song has a hilarious verse by a popular female rap ‘artist’ named Nicki Minaj in which she rhymes the word ‘bestest’ with… ‘bestest’. I’m 95% sure she relies on her sex appeal to keep her in business. At least Britney doesn’t actually think she’s a singer.
I speak waffles. Just sayin’. In general.
The last few weeks have been interesting to say the least. Now that work is fluctuating proper I can take time to write a little bit more. I hate to say ‘Hey guys I’m gonna write like everyday’ since that just feels like lying and I don’t wanna lie to you guys because I love you guys you know!? Anyway.
Things that are great:
Waffles.
The Lich King – NPC – World of Warcraft.
The Lich King encounter drops are up on WoWHead, and most everything is very impressive. Some items of note are pretty much everything so go ahead and drop in there if you’ve not read about them already.
I hijacked the above image and today’s post from WoW.com. The TL;DR of it all here is that Blizzard said outright that skipping to the end boss in instances is a no-no, whereas the feelings of practically everyone with half a brain disagree.
As a tank, and more specifically a main tank- I sit at 43k hp unbuffed, and around 55-60 in a raid situation. It’s pretty ridiculous. When I’m in a heroic- I’m there for the frost badges. Nothing else. The triumph gear is now being used to build gear for my SECOND off-spec, and gems for my THIRD alt. There’s nothing for me there.
The argument that skipping bosses in heroic OK and Halls of Stone is fundamentally ‘bad’ is rather laughable. Actually- I just realized a commenter on this same post at WoW.com said it best. You can find his statement after the break.