So, I’ve been going through my bank and my bags lately, and getting rid of some of my BC raid gear that I’ve replaced, and it got me thinking about PVP gear. I only have 1 piece - the Merciless shoulders - for the only slot that I couldn’t fill with PVE gear before Kara.

Why hasn’t Blizzard implemented a trade-up system for PVP gear? It seems kind of stupid that someone should have to go grind honor for a piece and then grind even more for the next tier in the same slot. Why can’t I turn in the piece I already have for a reduced honor/token cost?

Why should I keep tailoring (or enchanting for that matter)? There is nothing there that I can’t get with gold. The tailor-only leg enchants are cheaper than the regular leg enchants, but no stronger. The cloak enchants are so far laughable and proc based (DPS based on RNG, gotta love it).

The flying carpet is sweet.

Everything else is BOE and buyable. Not to mention Tailoring is requiring three time the mats that BC Tailoring required. Even with cloth scavenging, I don’t feel like I have loads of cloth. I blew through 400+ pieces of cloth to reach 394 the other day.

What the hell is the point? Why not go BS and JC: extra sockets of BOP gem goodness. What about the leatherworking wrist enchants that blow naything else out of the water? I’m having my doubts about enchanting as well. As a DPS caster, +24sp per ring is the benefit of enchanting, or +48sp total. Leatherworking gets +67sp on their wrists.

Then there’s the PVP side: Alchemist only arena potions. Letting professions play into arenas is a shitty idea, but why not take alchemy then? They already have awesome trinkets.

So back to tailoring, why should I keep it? I’m 99% sure that I will, for a couple of reasons: I’ve had it for so long and I have a few rare patterns (which are now out of date :P). I don’t want those to be wasted really. The other reason is that there might be more down the line. Blizzard has said that they don’t like the idea of people taking professions solely to have the ‘best in slot’ items (sunwell robe/gloves, FSW starter set, etc.) and that they would rather people take professions that they enjoy.

Dear Blizzard, Not a lot of people enjoy the ‘work’ of the profession. Grinding out useless crap until capped (or just about capped) and able to bang out a few epic patterns for yourself is hardly fun. There are some people and some things that are not so bad, like JC - It’s a fun profession - everyone needs gems, and everything you make will be useful to someone. For the most part, professions are a pretty shitty necessity. I like working for good stuff, but I don’t want the work to be miserable.

So anyway again, why should I keep tailoring?

Alrighty then I finally got around to doing this.  I used what footage I had but in all honesty I missed frapsing many of the really good fights.  In any case I hope everyone like the musics n stuff =)

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A couple things to say tonight: New Kara boss, and AV glory.

New Karazhan Boss

While the Halloween event is happening, the Lich King sent a wave of scourge through Azeroth in the form of Zombies. Part of this event was a new boss added to the servant’s quarters above Attunmen in Karazahn. We cleared Kara a few days ago, but luckily Blizz did the Smart Thing ® and spawned the boss despite how you were saved to the instance. We mustered up a group, picked up Alidar (our favorite pickup tank mind you, he’s very good, doesn’t mess around and is very fun to play with) and headed in. The fight was pretty typical, except that it had the advantage of being unknown to most of us (some people had read a bit about it before going in, but we don’t count that :P). It was the most fun I’ve had in a long time in a raid environment (although the other week’s 4/6 run in ZA where we downed the fire boss with less than a minute on the timer and only a couple standing was pretty intense). We had to wipe a few times and experience the fight before we licked it. Once we got it, it was cake. I’m confident next week we’ll go in there and one-shot the bastard.

It’s somewhat of a bummer that he only drops an ax and a pet. Where’s the magic-user’s gimmick Blizz? However, this made it totally worth it:

Yup, that’s Nightshara, a resident hunter, using the ax. Apparently her kids got a total kick out of it and she stood around playing it in Shattrath for a while I believe. I’m glad she got it and that her kids enjoyed it so much! I’m sure no one enjoyed it more than she did with her family

Alterac Valley

I was in BGs earlier this evening, just grinding away hours until Wrath comes out- we had done the Headless Horseman summons 9 times already, and both of my trick-or-treats turned me into a bat and a skelleton. I entered AV because it’s the quickest honor grind, and let’s be honost, I don’t really play BGs for fun or the PVP aspect of it (getting trained isn’t my thing). Anyway, after 39 minutes, check out the score:

Click the image to see my entire screen shot. As a side note. I got the achievement for Everything Counts, and surely without those mines, we would have lost. The match started typically enough, everyone rushing Galv, then everyone rushing RH. We ended up in something like a double turtle. There was a complete stalemate at both the northern Alliance Bridge, and the the southern Horde…. hill thing between the towers. I distinctly remember the resources being 452 and 461 (Horde) when the turtle started. After I capped the tower next to Galv, I checked Tower Point, and continued south. When I got to Frost Wolf Graveyard, someone had capped it and I groaned to myself.

Turns out, it’s a good thing they did. I didn’t get much into that fenced in area and saw the fighting. The Alliance forces had been stopped dead in their tracks on that hill between the towers. I kept running around the tower and capping it (note my 3 caps), but then getting eaten by a Paladin and a feral Druid (surprise). I ran them around a good bit seeing as how I don’t have to kill them, I just have to keep them from undoing my tower cap. Anyway, we lost ground back to the gated area near the FWGY node, then we pushed back to the hill, then fell back again, and pushed to the hill again. Around 200, someone called out that this was a battle of attrition and that it wouldn’t be won with tower caps and such, so everyone should play it safe, don’t pursue, and don’t be an idiot trying to get HKs. Amazingly it worked. We deliberately didn’t push past the fence area after that and we ended up wearing them down.

Another side-note: I just re-spec’d deep destruction for PVP. It’s not the wisest choice, but I managed fairly well. In the screen shot you can see my bars are still visible and I still have my frames set up for raiding (don’t ask why recount was up, I didn’t even notice it), but once I get more comfortable in this pvp-destro skin I’ll be back to my streamlined UI and using my fingers a lot more.

P.S. - Tiburon, I want to know what it’s like with your uber-demo-spec. Sukiko says you rock hard in Arenas.

My first post.  Woot.  I love to read the tabloids/forums, I am not sure why, kinda like a train wreck most of the time.  But a while ago I found one of the funniest posts I have seen in a while.  We might not all agree on it, but it is funny IMO. I’ll put one of the best parts on as a teaser and the link if you want to read the rest.   The post isn’t long, but too long for here I think.

What if the UFC was like the WOW Arena . . .
Bob: “And here comes The Iceman himself, stepping into the cage. He looks ready for a fight.”
Jon: “Now his opponent steps in, Mr. Quinton “Rampage” Jackson himself, and . . . wait, is . . . is he holding a crowbar?”
Bob: “You got that right, Jon. Looks like his weapon of choice for this match is the crowbar. I think it’s fair to say we are gonna see some bloodshed tonight.”
Jon: “Uh, did I miss something? Why does he get to use a crowbar?”
Bob: “He won the last fight, Jon.”
Jon: ” . . . and?”
Bob: “And the winner gets rewarded with a upgraded gear. Rampage obviously choose the crowbar . . . not a bad decision if you ask me.”

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=7116542000&sid=1&pageNo=1

Mizzle and I got ready for our weekly raid on Thursdays just like we always do, but a lot of people were out of town, getting married, or in other ways unable to make the raid, so we ended up calling it before it started and queued up for some battlegrounds.

After earning something like 60 EOTS tokens in only a couple of hours, I get this lovely whisper:

Naturally, as you can clearly see by my double-question-mark inquiry, this raised huge WTFs over my head. Recently I’ve been moving a lot of gold between accounts to level my jewelcrafting and I have bought a few patterns. I was concerned that I got flagged or something for that, but I didn’t. I immediately alt-tabbed and checked my account’s email and saw nothing. I fired up a ticket in-game to ask about this and finished out the round in EOTS. Blizzard’s awesome ticketing system provided the very unhelpful ‘Wait time unknown’ message and I went to the bank to drop off my BG tokens. I checked my mail, expecting some auction returns and got a notice about the same thing, but this time from ‘Customer Support’ which pretty much sealed the deal and led me to believe that no one was trying to trick me or anything like that. I checked my account email again and the message had finally showed up. I present in all it’s glory, my first ever World Of Warcraft warning:

If you can’t make it out, I was basically reported for saying this: ‘thortok your dick is on too tight’ (as the BG Leader, no less! :D).

Thortok was some clown in one of the EOTS matches that was whining about who-knows-what and basically being of no help to the team. he started giving everyone shit and I started lashing out again (in true Alliance fashion, as I understand it). Anyway, I embarassed him or something and he reported me for harassment. We’re playing  fantasy game where we KILL other beings repeatedly for HONOR, but me telling him that his dick was on too tight just finally crossed that line into inappropriate territory in this ‘Teen’ rated game.

Can you imagine being the GM that has to read reports like this? How absolutely stupid.

I closed out the night with 95 EOTS tokens and earned ~6500 honor from EOTS. Not bad considering AV is the one to grind for honor.

What would make your resto-spec’d shaman say this in arena? (click for full size)

That’s right. A 5-box arena team. If you can’t tell, it’s a paladin and four enhancement spec’d shamans. Each with windfury and grounding totems. AWESOME.

The match started and we were at a stalemate for probably 15 minutes or so, neither side moving. We ended up realizing that our best bet was to split up and play the assumed weakness of one person being able to look in five different places at once. It worked. We pulled out a win and did pretty well for ourselves the rest of the night.

Also, our Kara run was REALLY good. Screenies below.

Our shadow priest accidentally pulled maiden and was down in three seconds. We ended up 9-manning her though. It was so much fun!