See ya

In case you haven't noticed, I've stopped blogging, and now I'm making it official, see you all around Azeroth!

:()

Once again, sorry

Geez, I can't seem to fit in time to blog, school, homework, KARA, too much stuff going on.

Anywho, here's a post about rogue goodness-- You can, why? and how?

You can do anything.  You can, you're a friggin rogue for gods sake, thats why.  No, you can't kite, mabye you can't stay alive for over 30 minutes, but you can stealth, and thats gotta count for something.

Stealth is our ultimate tool, dagger rogues use it for ambush, rogues in general use it for cheap shot and garrote, and most of all, we use it to get around.  Say there's a lvl 72 elite blocking the gate into somewhere you need to go, what is your first impulse? STEALTH AROUND IT.  Exactly, thats right, thats what you do.  Warriors or Pallies would have to get a group and kill it, but not us melee dps, because we have stealth, say it with me, s-t-e-a-l-t-h.  There ya go.  Stealth can also be missused however, for instance, say you're grinding, and you don't want to take more than 3 guys at once, but the whole area is 4 packs, so you just stealth around for an hour looking for a doable fight.  NO, don't do this, if you need to, get help, or try fighting 4 at once, never use stealth to get yourself out of something that will get you valuable experience or money, and is DOABLE.  If it's impossible, like soloing a 72 elite as a rogue, don't try to, please, you're just making a bad name for the rogue class.  Yes, you, stop, right now.  There ya go.  Now, if you're a hunter, kite those evil mobs, but as a rogue, you either try it, don't try it, or GET HELP, sometimes without trying it first :P.

So there, you CAN.

Off The Face of the Earth

Holy $#!@, its been a long time since I posted.  sorry...

Anyway, I've got alot to talk about in upcoming posts, but first: DING 70! BAM Kara keyed!

More later

Long Time No... Write: Welfare Epics Ahoy

So, first, long time no blog... School got the better of me for a while. /apology.

Down to business.  Welfare epics? One thing.  These babies will be my personal salvation from a living hell of blues and greens and nothing more.  See, life hits ya like that, I thought I was gonna raid like a living maniac.  But then the whole guild thing fell out from under me, and now my best chance of ever seeing an epic is non-premade bgs and 2v2 arena.  Sad story, huh?

Anywho, these babies really will be my only salvation.  A rogue+rogue arena 2v2 and a rogue+rogue+pally 3v3 are gonna probably be my only way of getting some purple to spice up my day.

Lets get into the nitty gritty: I resent these being called welfare epics, and I resent raiders saying that these are mad easy to get.  THEY AREN'T.  The time it takes to get anything out of a bg, and the skill involved for arena is maddening to someone on such a tight schedule and with as little skill as me.  Anyway, someone posted a truly genious song about Welfare epics, and this was basically what made me do this post, so here it is! :

Thank you Megen

Oh yeah, and this is where I got the link, hilarious blog:

Shoutout to Ratshag

Das all folks, hope ta see ya around again soon!

Guild Drama and Amazingly Crappy Luck

So, I am aware that this post has been done before by every WoW blogger ever to exist, and thats why I'm doing it.  Haven't you heard? Conformity in blogging content is the new... Not?.... Conformity.

OK, here we go:

Small or Big?

Now, Silly me, I thought that small guilds would have less drama, I still do by the way.  Well, I was wrong.  The first guild I was ever in that meant anything to me was The Almighty, who still exist, but under different leadership. Now, the whole guild broke up basically because of 2 Incidents.  1: A quarter of the guild left because there was an arguement between an officer and the GM about cursing in guild chat, and the officer left, and took alot of people with him. Then another officer sent hate-mail ish stuff to the GM about how she handled it badly.  So then the GM and second in command both left the game on the same day, and all the other officers did too, so I was left in charge of a 40 man guild of lvl 30s.  Lemme tell ya, it wasn't easy.  Anywho, there was no major guild drama during this period, but then school started again and I couldn't handle managing the guild at the same time (too much pressure and all that crap), so I handed lead to a great friend of mine, who then left the game (no one's heard from him since, and the current GM won't give me his email), and he handed the lead to the current GM.  Whom, as you can kinda tell, seems to want to have nothing to do with me.  So while the current GM and I are both there, someone comes back saying that they are the officer who left, who was my really good friend. And so, I ask him some questions that he couldn't possibly answer unless he was really my friend, and he logs off.  So, now, about 4 months later me an him got back together, and sorted it all out, with multiple apologies on both sides.  Anywho, I'm not in this guild anymore, so I don't know all the stuff about it, but as it seems they are getting ready for heroics and the like.  So, whats my shtick about this? Small guilds, close friends, and set rules make all the difference. Know everyone's name and traits, know their spec, professions, class, and be friends with them.  Have set rules so no one can screw anything up.  Small rules, but good ones.

Guild Recruitment is a B#!@

Yes, it is, I've been the GM of my own guild, , and in all that time, we only managed to have a hight of 9 members, and a current population of 4.  I can't recruit for it, so I'm seeing if I can merge with another guild, a good merger, not an unfair one.

If you haven't noticed already, this has basically been a post for me to vent.  Thanks,

Good

Well, Probably Not

The ptr is down, and we'll be getting new premades after it comes up again, so the mage posts prolly won't happen, sorry!

Coming Soon: Arcane Lore

Arcane Lore, will be coming soon to this blog, it will be a short series about a mage I made on the ptr.  Hopefully there will be a lil insightful crap in it, and alot of junk.  The rogue posts will still continue!

Are rogues OP?

Well, the age old question has been answered.  No, rogues are not OP, but I am.  Yes, I'm full of myself, and it'll all blow over by tomorrow, but I just (in my mind) soloed a boss in Slave Pens.  The second boss, wassisname the giant crab.  This is what happened:

I was helping a group of random people do SP for the rep, and the group wiped on the second boss for a second time, but I was still alive, amazingly the boss jumped to a mage (prolly because of all the feints I was using) and I got a little time to beat on the boss as the little gnome mage ran for his life, sadly the mage died, but in the 3 seconds after he died, I killed the boss.  It still had aprox. 4% health left, which one health pot, evasion, Blade Flurry, and Eviscerate coupled with hemo soon rid the world of.  So yes I'm proud, and yes I'm being arrogant, but I was just so amazed at my own luck that I did a dance of joy.

Maces, that which were a dying breed

So when I first start out as a rogue, my cousin, not the one I play with, that ones brother (you'll probably hear a lot about my cousin Goolash, who I play with), anyway, he tells me rogue = daggers, because this is the way it was when he was raiding pre-bc.  So now I'm lvl 66, and everyone says "go swords" or "go maces" because maces are for pvp and swords are for raiding and pvp.  So I does it, and since I'm in a guild of 5 people, raiding doesn't look like an option, so I go maces, and start to plan an arena team with a buddy of mine.

Just a side note: Goolash, that cousin I was talkin about, is not included in our 2v2 and 3v3 plans together because he left the guild, and I hold a grudge for a while.

Back to the topic at hand, maces, I love em.  I was honing my *cough* skillz*cough* for pvp *cough*, and the proc stuns were awsome.  amazing awsome.  me and Blood, I'll call my friend who is pvp inclined that, were dueling outside Telaar in Nagrand, I got pwned once, he got pwned once, I won another time, and he won 2 other times, all closer games.

So I'm proud that I used my abilities correctly to defeat him, purely because he calls himself "beastly".

Agh, I'm getting off topic.  So, maces, pve, right, I remember.  Why is it that maces are not used for pve?  I've got a few reasons why I love them in pve, and a few why they probably aren't used.

Why I love maces in pve:

1. The stun proc keep caster mobs to a minimum often
2. They don't do great burst damage, but on my character they hit consistently for over 200
3. They match the dwarven race, which I am proud to say that I am one of
4. The look hot in stealth
5. I love doing a hemo spam in groups, it might not be the smartest thing, but it works, and its fun

Why people don't like them for pve:

1. They aren't a great source of dps, sustained or burst
2. to get them to be really good in pve, or pvp, you have to stack hit, crit, and AP, so you hit every time, and hit hard
3. Daggers/swords are better sustained dps for pve, they also have a non-pvp inclined specialization talent
4. There is stuff thats just plain better for pve

But why do we always have to conform to the easiest way of life.  It used to be (early bc) that no one played survival hunters, because people thought they were dreaded "melee" hunters, and shunned the very thought.

When I first started rogue everyone said "Don't go sub for lvling", but I did, and I lvled fine.

So why can't we do what other people say is bad?  I realize that I'm conforming to the standard mace pvp spec and all, but I basically went maces because dwarves go along with maces better than daggers or swords, or even, to a degree, fist weps.  Anywho, its because we're afraid of people saying: "You don't work as hard as us because you don't do as much dps as us" and then kick you from the group in the middle of fighting Illy or something, and then from the guild too.

We don't want to be criticized, we don't want to be taken apart and examined, we want to be with the in-crowd, we want to conform.

For instance, Blood, "beastly" as he is, has a wierd spec.  By wierd I mean, who woulda thoutta that? wierd.  Its a hybrid spec that has prep, but no hemo, and ghostly strike (I never understood why people didn't take the talent) and also Cold Blood, and imp Gouge in the combat tree.  So yes, its odd, but it works, it works well.

What does this have to do with the evolution of the maces spec in WoW? Nothing, I just wanted to touch on this topic.  

So, has blizz buffed maces, or did some people realize that it was a good spec?  Who knows, I'm no internet surfer or number cruncher, so I'll probably never know.

The one thing I can say: I love maces, alot

Post-wise

Don't expect a consistent stream of meaningful posts from this blog, there will probably be several ideas, several questions, several tips/helpful crap, and a few hundred thousand words of absolute bull.

Aha! Ow

Well, its almost possible that someone will remember me from my old blog: Peashooter's Rant, and then later the title changed to... somethin.  This blog will be entirely dedicated to random, meaningless, stupid coments on rogue-ish-ness.  Sounds great doesn't it?!

So, I like to start things of with a bang... Well... A DING, I just hit lvl 66 on my new maces/hemo/BF/prep spec.  Its great, no burst damage, no crits, but consistent hits for over 200, and in groups a hemo spam works like magic, it doesn't give you the most possible dps, but it increases your groups considerably.

On a pvp note, I suck, I really, really suck, so I'm getting a friend of mine to show me the ropes as it were.  We are hoping to start a 3v3 arena team, me, him, pally buddy of his, when we all hit lvl 70, several names I've come up with:

Hammered

Hell in a Handbasket

Sapped (:o)

The Vaudvillians

Pastry Chefs from Hell

UFO Sighted

Gnome Punt

Duel Wield

Beastly

God-ish

Almost invincible

BAD

We'll see which one we pick.

Oh, a final note, I love to kill ogres, and yetis, they is my favorite to kill, ogres because they're squishey, and yetis because I can sap AND skin them.

-Goodie

ps: and about the title, It's supposed to be the sound of an ogre being sapped.