Monthly Archives: March 2006

Farm-a-licious Armor Quests

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Miscellaneous discussions on the new World of Warcraft Tier 0.5 armor sets to be introduced in Patch 1.10, aka non-raider armor sets:

The new colors for the armor sets. Did I say new graphics? No, I did not.

The additional material requirements to complete the armor quests. This is in addition to (re)collecting each Tier 0 piece of the set. So you have some idea on which mats to gouge on save for later, the author’s sample mat list for one of the quests: 10 Stonescale Oil, 1 Delicate Arcanite Converter, 4 Greater Eternal Essences, 8 Large Brilliant Shards, 4 Dark Runes, 3 Mooncloth, 3 Dark Iron Bars, 20 Enchanted Leather, 4 Cured Rugged Hide and 1 Flask of Supreme Power.

A player reminds the non-raiders that it’s a crap shoot on whether they’ll score an armor piece and wants Blizzard to consider adding a non-raider DKP-esque system. He has a few ideas that aren’t as kooky as that sounds.

Now, when I first read this post, I had all the knee-jerk reactions you might expect — the fuck? join a damn guild then! jeezus, does Blizzard have to do EVERYTHING for people? — but after thinking about this for a while, maybe some game in the future will have a built-in pseudo-DKP system. Not this game, obviously — some other game, some other time.

Instead of a kook, that guy could be a visionary.

Anyways. I can sum up my opinion of the Tier 0.5 armor quests in two words: Start raiding. Less time, less bother (and I did not think that was possible), better gear in a raiding guild. We’re talkin’ by a HUGE margin here.

There’s other alternatives, of course: Learn2BuyGold. Wait around for them to design Dire Maul version 2 with epic armor. Preorder the expansion because I bet level 70s could kick the shit out of Molten Core. And the ole standby, quit.

Cmon, how bad could a few consecutive hours in an enclosed space with 39 relative strangers be? It’s not as bad as 10 Stonescale Oil, 1 Delicate Arcanite Converter, 4 Greater Eternal Essences, 8 Large Brilliant Shards, 4 Dark Runes, 3 Mooncloth, 3 Dark Iron Bars, 20 Enchanted Leather, 4 Cured Rugged Hide and 1 Flask of Supreme Power. I guarantee it.

Archived links:
Furl archive of new colors for the armor sets
Furl archive of the additional material requirements to complete the armor quests
Furl archive of ideas for a non-raider DKP-esque system

Things I Hate

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Things I Hate — March 2006 edition:

1. Podcasts. What the fuck. I can’t think of anything less desirable to have on my iPod than a podcast, no matter the subject. I’d rather listen to Hall & Oates Greatest Hits than some guy talking about how he killed a raptor last night in MMOG_08, plus he really likes Pulp Fiction.

2. My guild’s rogues. DKP-hoarding bastards, spend some of that DKP on the rotting rogue endgame armor instead of saving up for some Weapon of the Gods that drops .0001 percent of the time, according to Thottbot, which means it NEVER DROPS.

3. Any of my guildmates’ main characters that random on Ahn’Qiraj 20 or Zul Gurub equipment, icing out somebody else’s alt that isn’t allowed into Blackwing Lair. Jeezus, check the stats. It’s CRAP.

4. World of Warcraft name changes. Unless it’s some moronic name, knock off the name changes. Players are asking for name changes to ESCAPE their poor reputations and history (duh?) and Blizzard is HELPING THEM. Gold farmers, douchebags, ninjas, the cancer operation fakers are all getting name changes which makes it difficult to vote “HELL NO” when they re-app to our guild for the 6th time.

5. Voicechat Censors. Ya, I get that you don’t want your schoolage children hearing “F this”, “F that” and “F those c’suckers” blasting from your computer’s surround sound speakers. I don’t want them to hear that either. Headphones? Ever hear of those? Extra bonus points for everyone: no more annoying-ass echo on your end of the voicechat. It’s an adult guild in an adult game using adult exclamations; I can’t play Ventrilo policeman because you’re too damn cheap to buy headphones.

6. That bitchass Warcraft priest we finally forced out of the guild. She (and it was a she, hi Ventrilo) was only in the guild two weeks, but in that short period of time, she managed to stir up no less than 20 arguments OVER NOTHING, at least one per day. Example: on about her third day in the guild, she was upset that someone had jokingly asked for a recount on her husband’s guild app. Yawn? Example 2: she was upset that another guildmate had offered to buy the AQ20 spell upgrade she had won. “Is this how the guild operates?? Trying to buy spells off a guildmate that WON IT FAIR AND SQUARE??” Err, so? Maybe he offered because he noticed that you didn’t memorize (i.e. use) the spell right away, you stupid twat, which by the way, is DEFINITELY a guild violation. P.S. Enjoy the name change. (F’ing Blizzard)

7. The DKP Haters. WTF, how can you hate math? You show up, you eventually get loot, it’s that simple. DKP is merely a tool to keep track of who’s in line and their position in the line. My experience, the only players that hate DKP are those players that rarely show up for raids and want the Gods of /Random to save them from their shit-ass equipment. Please do not think I am fooled by your rant about how corrupt DKP systems are — math is not corrupt.

Also not fooling me: the “I want, I want, I want, but loot isn’t important to me” people, the DKP Cashouts (enjoy your new guild, and btw, you’ll be leaving sooner than you think with a rather large DKP balance), and the “I have all day to PvP and I have all I want from Molten Core, but I don’t have time to help clear MC anymore” people.

8. Oh ya, I also hate Molten Core. But I still show up to help clear.