Did I ever mention how much I HATE bad tanks?  I’m not talking about the ones who can’t hold aggro against a DPS that does crit after crit and pulls the mobs off the tank.  I’m talking about the “oh btw, I like to chain pull” and then charges in, pulling a dozen or more elites in a heroic, then blames the healer or the rest of the party when we all wipe.

Last night, Theshat and I were in a random heroic, and wound up in Utgarde Keep .  Right after all the buffs were distributed and we all fed on a lovely [Recipe: Fish Feast],  the tank, who had something like 56,000 HP and a gear score of well over 5800, announced “Fair warning, I like to chain pull this place”, and before we could say anything, he proceded to charge in and pull every single mob in the hallway..ALL OF THEM.  As we’re trying our damnedest to DPS them all down,  of course, we each pull a few off of him and we all end up wiping.  Oh and did I mention he was a Death Knight?  So, after we wipe, he doesn’t apologize, he just said “sigh..I guess normal way then”.  And after we again all buff up, he starts pulling, and before we even finish the current batch of mobs, he runs ahead to the next batch, leaving us all behind, the healer frantically trying to keep us all healed  AND HIM AS WELL, as we’re getting damage because he stopped tanking the group and is working on the next group already, out of the healer’s range.  Then, as we’re trying to DPS things down, he keeps running ahead to pull even more, taking the mobs with him that we’re trying to kill, pulling them out of the range of us casters who have to stand still to cast.  To top things off, he kept on /tapping his foot at us for being “too slow”. Yeah, I couldn’t wait for that one to be done to get away from that clown.

The other kind of tank I really hate is the “hostage” tank.  We’re in ToC heroic 5 man, about to work on The Black Knight, when the tank suddenly announces “Roll greed on the [Frozen Orb] or I let you all die.”  He refuses to pull until some of us say yes. Then of course, once the fight is done, we’re all waiting for the roll to see what he does.  He didn’t roll,waiting for all of us.  So, I figured “hell, I never agreed”, and rolled need.  We all knew he had every intention of rolling need on the orb.   Everyone rolled need too, so he got pissed and left (and of course, he didn’t win the orb).   I’m so glad that 3.3.3 will change that to greed only.

The last kind of tank I can do without, is the ones who when we’re about to go up against a final boss, doesn’t check to make sure everyone is ready.  We were in Azjol-Nerub , about to go up against Anub'arak.  I hadn’t crossed over into the platform yet, as I was about 1 seconds behind everyone else.  The tank charges, and the wall goes up, separating me from the rest of the group.  So, they have to 4 man the boss, and the healer has the balls to call me a noob.  If the fucking tank would have waited one more second, I would have  been on the platform and ready to fight, but no, the tank had to be in a rush and not ask if we’re all set.

Ok, rant over.  Overall though, we ended up running 7 dungeons yesterday and 4 on Saturday, totaling 11 on the weekend.  Not bad overall.

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The new plushies I ordered from Blizzard came in today.  The [Gryphon Hatchling] and [Wind Rider Cub] are just so adorable!

And, here’s my entire WoW plushie collection:

That’s all for now. No news yet today.

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By no means am I an expert audiophile, nor a sound engineer.  I am a gamer and entertainment enthusiast who likes the most realism he can get in sound.   This review is written as such.   If you’re looking for a professional reviewer, look elsewhere.  I will be as objective as possible.

Ever since it was announced last August, I’ve been anticipating the availability of the Creative Labs WoW headset.  Today, I finally received mine.      I ordered mine through Amazon.com on Thursday for a retail of $159.99, and after overnight shipping, it came to $181.95.  Your shipping cost may vary and tax of course, depending on where you live. Continue Reading »

The maker of Raid Eats made another parody of the popular Good Eats.  Give this one a look.

Bullworth is at it again!
In World of Warcraft food is everything. At least it’s a way to be popular. Chef Bullworth slices into the [Recipe: Delicious Chocolate Cake] and its happiness-inducing side effects.

Well, I just left the PTR, and it seems Blizzard couldn’t leave things alone.  Those Commendations of Service that used to give 1850 honor points, now only give 185 honor points.  So much for changing out all of our gear after 3.3.3.  Now, when I turn in all of my battleground marks, I’ll have about 54,000 honor instead of 540,000 honor.  Leave it to Blizzard to tease us and now take it away.

Bah,  makes you want to cry in your [Kungaloosh].

OK well, some new thoughts on the latest in 3.3.3.  First of all, no, I have no idea when 3.3.3 is being released.  I’m hoping it isn’t released too soon, as it does need work. I logged into the PTR again yesterday, and a lot of my addons are still broken. 

Logging in to the PTR, I see they finally implemented trading in marks of honor for Commendation of Service.  I’m a little disappointed, in that you can only hold 10 at once, so you have to trade 10 marks, use the Commendations, get more, use them again, lather, rinse, repeat, up until you hit the honor cap of 75,000.  I’m also disappointed they didn’t raise the honor cap.  Also, while the tooltip says you redeem them for 2000 honor, it only yields 1850 honor.  I don’t know if that is intended, or if it’s a bug.  We’ll see. 

Boomkins are getting a buff in 3.3.3…yay!   I’m not going through all the math and numbers, but in a nutshell, [Starfall] and [Nature's Grasp] are changing.  Starfall will  give about 2.5x more damage per star than before, and Nature’s Grasp will now have 3 charges per cast.  What that means is, after it roots someone, if they break out of the roots, it will root them again, up to 2 more times.  This will definitely help us out in PvP, allowing us more chance to make some distance between us and melee.

That’s all for now, I know I’ve been slacking.  I’ll try to do better.

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