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First heroic on this character. First Northrend instance on this character. First PUG on this character.

Heroic AN.

Got the wand.

That's right.

Gratz.

I just bought the triumph badge wand after 10 runs of AN/OK and no wands

You shouldn't PuG the heroic daily, PuG ToC10/Ony10/VoA10 :D

You talking about the Rod of the Fallen Monarch?

I got that the one and only time I did heroic AN (with a pug), may have been my first heroic.

The luck rolls on. Approximately 4,753,922 stacks of herbs later, I finally have it.



edited for link idiocy


Edited, Oct 26th 2009 7:28pm by teacake

I agree that Ony takes very little time. I've never done TOC. But it's not just that I don't have time to raid; they've done a great job removing that barrier. What they refuse to budge on is that if you think raiding is just not fun, that's just too damn bad, because they spent a lot of time working on this content, dammit, and you will go run it, even if what you need the gear that drops there for has nothing to do with raiding (see: weapons for PVPers, not an issue for me personally but infuriating nonetheless).

Dear Blizz: I don't like raiding. I don't find it fun. At all. This doesn't make me the devil. I still like your game. Don't be so freaking insecure, 'k?

I don't disagree with you that that stuff is a big part of the game. I don't disagree that people who don't like what this game offers should find another game.

But.

I do disagree with the idea that I need to raid to do non-raiding stuff. You should be able to gear up for PVP through PVP. You should be able to gear up for battlegrounds through battlegrounds. You should be able to gear up for fishing in the Dalaran fountain through... oh wait.

Right now I see too much of, "You need x weapon" or "Go run y for z trinket and then come back." Heck, it's hard for a lot of people to even run heroics without raiding gear anymore.

And yes, you can argue that you can gear up for PVP through PVP, but the gap between the iLevel 200 weapon available directly at 80 (Titansteel or Argent Tournament) and the iLevel 245 weapon you get for an 1800 arena rating is pretty darned big. Most people can't make that jump without a middle tier. And I get that you're Superman and you can get to 1800 in all greens, with a weapon from Kara, in the snow, uphill, both ways, with no shoes, but let's talk about mortals for a second. It's very hard for melee players who skill-wise are good enough for 1800 to get to 1800 anymore, fighting against people with PVE weapons, unless they have a PVE weapon themselves. Adding Deadly weapons, say, for honor or a minimal arena rating, would be trivial at this point compared to what else is out there. The only reason they aren't is to say "**** off, we said go raid." Just from a customer service perspective, that annoys the crap out of me.

That's just an example. All I'm saying is, these other activities are part of the game. They were developed as part of the game, they are offered as part of the game, and they are enjoyed by a large portion of the people who play the game. You should be able to progress through those things by doing those things, not by raiding to get gear so you can do those things.



Edited a sentence that made no sense so it makes slightly less no sense.

Edited, Oct 27th 2009 9:39am by teacake

Yet they still play arena.

I hate the concept of hardmodes, yet I still raid because I love raiding.
I love the concept of arena but I can also see it's flawed in many ways right now.

In short, there's a difference between hating it and ******** about it.

It's a preference thing.
I enjoy world PvP, I hate BG's and WG with a passion, I love arena.
World PvP is usually just 1v1 with terrain where you can pull some crazy tricks to use the terrain to your advantage.
BG's are a cesspool of dribbling morons, nerd raging 13 year olds and afkers.
Arena is small scaled competitive and organized, with comps, tactics and counter comps.

Arena is just too quick and Blizz needs to fix 3v3, because RMP is so dominant it's stupid.

Sigg'd.

Yeah, I've seen my rogue in 3's obliterated in a GCD by failbots in raidgear one too many times.
And it sure ain't because he can't play because he has a couple characters at high ratings, it's just that his crap gear can't keep him up though bad players high PvE gear damage.

It's frustrating to see that you don't lose because of skill or mistakes on your part but pure brute force from a bladestorming warrior in PvE gear.





Then again, my hunter has the aforementioned PvE gear and I abuse it by blowing bad geared people up in 3 seconds, but at least I can still play a little bit instead of just charge > Spamstring > MS > Lolstorm.

I'm glad to hear you've got the same problem on your rogue as I do, Aethien. You should do what I did; roll a prot character and go into the arenas with a paladin healer. That much survivability removes all burst from any match you'll play and while it makes your games last LONG (I've had a 32-minute match [which is funny, I thought you were supposed to get a draw after 30 minutes] and my average match that isn't against double DPS teams lasts between 10 and 20 minutes), it makes sure the matches become a lot more about CC, swapping targets at the right moment and peeling.

Nice! Grats on your fun loot! :)