Tuesday, February 15, 2011

It's not you...wait. It's totally you.

World of Warcraft is starting to get annoying.

Let me rephrase that.

Playing with people is starting to get annoying.

I actually think that Blizzard did a really good job with this expansion. Shortening the talent trees was a great plan. The DK changes feel fine, the mage changes feel fine, and the content is fairly challenging.

People have a ton of complaints. I'm not talking about class-specific complaints (*waves at wife*), I'm talking about sweeping 'THEY BROKE ALL HEALZ" types of complaints.

Raiding is hard! Heroics are hard! I don't like having to worry about mana as a healer!

We've been trying to raid. It isn't the same without the old group, but we found a couple of great replacements that I really like having around.

However, our raid leader and MT...he's not even heroic geared. And after 4 hours of wiping (2 hours last week, 2 this week), he realized that his gear just *might* be causing problems. Healer mana issues, etc.

I know he's been busy lately and stuff, but I don't understand why you wouldn't offer to step down for a week until you can actually take the time to use a meta gem. (And we have 5 spare tanking ones in the guild bank. And with the new Mobile Banking guild perk, he had access to the gems while we were rebuffing. I didn't get it then, and I still don't.)

After much wiping, we finally downed the first boss in Bastion of Twilight. The attempt that finally worked seemed to go flawlessly, but that was immediately after MT and OT switched duties.

I've been playing 3-4 different characters, my DK being my focus. Even so, somehow I've found enough time to play Fallout 3, beat Castlevania, have board game nights (Shadows over Camelot -- play it if you haven't) with my cousin-in-law and friends, AND get TWO full sets of 346 gear (tanking / DPS) -- fully gemmed and enchanted.

Unless our tank has a new girlfriend, I don't see how he couldn't attain one set of 333 gear...

Maybe that's it. I should ask.

Regardless, I think he's aware of the issues now, and as far as I know, he's planning on fixing them.

He's a good tank, in terms of technique and strategy, so I'm hoping he catches up with gear shortly.

In the meantime, I am going to play the Rift beta with the wife.

I logged on over lunch to get our character names saved. Someone took Kaliera, which is really disappointing. I don't even know what it's from, but I stole it for my DK from my paladin friend that I used to play with. I actually really like the name. More than most of my character names. Rowsdower is funny and a great running joke, and Nuke is an old school name that I've carried over. Dyne is always used (thanks to the two other people who played Lunar. Jerks.), so Diyne is my second option in that phonetic family.

But the only name I really *like* is Kaliera. Maybe I should see if "Kevin" is taken. (He was a guard in Dynasty Warriors. You had many asian names, then Kevin.)

I think I figured out that there are 216 character class combinations in Rift. 4 groups of 54 (set of 8, choose 3, order irrelevant).

That's pretty sweet, even if only 10% of them are viable.

The character creation seems to be detailed enough to give my wife something to do all night. I might log on and quest to get a feel for the game while she creates her harem.

Also: I now have a decent laptop. It should run Rift, which makes it good for me. As long as it runs diablo 3 when it comes out, I'll be thrilled. Refurbished, but so far it looks new and acts new.

Anyway, WoW, I think it's time for us to take a short break. We can still be friends. I'll visit and do a heroic occasionally. We can still have our raid nights. But I just don't think I'm going to stay logged on for a couple of hours every night. I just need space. Space from the whining.

(Unfortunately, from what I could tell by being in Rift for 3 minutes, there is still going to be a lot of WoW bashing / praising in general chat. I'll have to disable that.)

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