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Never know what you'll run into waiting to rez...


Most exciting end of an AV I've ever been in. We were actually losing 80 to 160 or so... started fighting over mines... it got down to like 20 to 40... then we slowly pecked them to death F T W.


And I got my new gloves recently! woo! I even enchanted them! (well not at the time of the ss...)


Now if Bendyr would just log on we could get this week's arena out of the way...

Arena musings...

The ROFL went 5-5 again this week, which makes me think we've hit a kind of equilibrium around 1350. This may be about as well as we can expect to do until we get some better gear, or maybe touch up our spec's a bit. That being said, the points from this week should put me at about 2500 something, so I'm definitely going to get my [Merciless Gladiator's Shanker] next week, which should definitely make me a little more dangerous.

However, after reading all these people qqing about warlocks in arenas on the forum, I have to wonder if we're a weird group, or if 2v2 is just that different. I don't really think Warlocks give us that much grief. As we usually single them out as our primary targets, and they're cloth, we usually take them out before they can get a full dot rotation off (not counting those crazy tier 6 epix warlocks we somehow get matched with on occasion). As a rule, I think my "most hated" classes in our 2v2 games are:

1. Paladins


2. Hunters


3. Mages

I wish that the arena would give us some breakdowns of the teams that we've lost against and their class makeups. Maybe I'll start jotting these down myself...

And the award for "most improved" goes to...

Chicken and ROFLs! We got a very respectable 7-3 record this week, pulling our rating up to 1401! That should net us a clean 236 points this week, which will put me with 1000 points of my uber daggerness!

Gentlemen, i think we're getting better at this... or they're getting worse.

Improvements of all kinds

After going 0-10 our first week, we got a 5-5 record for the week! BBQ FTW!


In PVE news, I finally got exalted with the Keepers of time, leading to this epic dagger! I had to drop all my gold to get Mongoose, but it is worth it, non? Don't ask about the glow, though...

Better Living Through Mediocrity

So... First off, Meef and I created a 2v2 Arena team, with the epic name "Chicken and ROFLs"; Cow, Dwight, go see Meef and get added as alternates to the charter. Second off, we suck. We actually went 0-10 yesterday. Of course, we are both heavily PVE spec'd and geared, and we really just wanted to get our 10 games in to get our points. At our ranking of about 1345, we will still get about 250 arena points for this week. Coupled with the crappy 3v3 team i joined (about a 1400 ranking), I will get over 500 arena points for the week.

According to this point calculator here, if I were to join a similarly mediocre 5v5 team, and earn a fairly horrible 1300 rating each week, I would still rake in over 900 arena points a week. By maintaining a 1300 ranking in each bracket, I'll be able to afford the Gladiator's Shanker in just 3 weeks. Even if my teams get even worse and I only get an 1000 rating in each bracket, I still get the dagger in 4 weeks, according to the calculator.

I mean... sure, having a shitty arena ranking in 3 brackets will hurt the e-peen, and will make me more hesitant to link my armory profile in external forums, but hey, epix is epix. Why didn't I discover mediocrity sooner?

UPDATE: J has shattered my dreams. Apparently you can only get points for one bracket at a time, so my numbers are all off. If I was on a 5v5 team that maintained a 1300, I could get the shanker in 7 weeks. If i maintain a 1000, it goes up to 9 weeks. Blech. I'll stick with PVE i guess...

war stories

although i was utterly ineffective in ab, there were some good moments in wsg...

once i actually ran the flag back and got a cap. man, being prot is actually kinda cool for pvp. generally i don't get to kill anything, but i can act as a tank of sorts... rushing in and wasting unsuspecting players' time as they try and whittle me down. improved shield bash is awesome cuz i can silence damn mages running around aoe'ing. 5s stun is also uber. oh and the rogues... i was really mean to one and popped shield wall, and then put up shield block and everything else... he was hitting me for 4-15. ^_^ but yeah, running the flag back and being able to take a beating is pretty awesome.

damn druids and wsg. they get to be uber flag carrying tanks if they want to or virtually snare immune cat rockets. plus heals, their own snares and moonfire. ok, so i threw in moonfire for no reason, but still.

another time we were on our last cap and i noticed no one was at our base, so i went and hid in the little cubby by the flag. sure enough, some pally came by to snatch the flag and my uber tanking skills delayed him for like a minute until finally a hunter showed up and we finished him off ftw. seriously though, staying alive for more than 5 seconds is awesome. my priest gets no such love. -_-

priest: (can_kill_target) ? (victoly : (fearWorked ? dieIn15seconds : dieIn5seconds))
warrior: (can_kill_target) ? ( victoly : (buddiesShowUpInAMinute ? victoly : doh))

yatta!!!

ahh the gulch... i return with one goal... stupid tokens...


i see my skillz have not improved...


but i strive for victory!


at long last, i have saved enuf! i require a new vehicle!


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