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|Troll Builds (level 35)
I was trying to go for a practical, all-purpose and well-rounded build. Amidoinitright?
Without equipment:
Ego 2855
Douchebaggery 10
Offense 20
Defense 34
Luck 16
Frugality 21
Charisma 1
Upkeep 14
With equipment:
Ego 3423
Douchebaggery 780
Offense 111
Defense 136
Luck 51
Frugality 53
Charisma 51
Upkeep 14
|Posted On: 09/07/2009 12:11AM
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Ego is too high, as well as Frugality. The cap is 51 iirc. Unless you do lots of kyoubai, lower Frugality and put those points in offense.
|Posted On: 09/07/2009 12:15AM
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As a Emo, even I don't need that much ego.
|Posted On: 09/07/2009 12:17AM
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at Level 35, Ego should never have to go over 2000 with equips. Put the ego points into offense so you can take down the level 35 forums before they have a chance to attack.
Ideally you want your Offense to be over 150, but anything over 140 should suffice well for a good run.
|Posted On: 09/07/2009 12:19AM
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Ego 11258
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|Posted On: 09/07/2009 12:21AM
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dobnits Posted:
Does this apply to emo kids as well? I have 2608 Ego, 648 Tears, 159 Offense, and 101 defense with equips. And not even the best .moars.CrinkzPipe edited this message on 09/07/2009 12:32AM
|Posted On: 09/07/2009 12:32AM
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I know in the high level forums you can get hit quite a few times at over 300 damage (even if it just once on each thread) so I figured 2800 range was more or less in a safe ballpark of not having to use consumables…
Also I'm pretty sure it's 53 for Frugality, according to the wiki anyway,
|Posted On: 09/07/2009 12:42AM
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CrinkzPipe Posted:
That's a pretty good build for Emo Kids, tbh.
|Posted On: 09/07/2009 12:48AM
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If you aren't specifically running the level 35 forums all the time (as in job boarding or flezz grinding), why would you center your build around those forums? If you are pistachio looping I believe we are actually at the point with forums where you can completely avoid them.
Unless I am doing the job board/flezz grinding, I put no upgrade points into ego. If you have any .moar files that offer ego, you are fine on a troll. I have a Master Ball, Soggiest Cracker, and I'll swap in Thesis instead of More Random Keystrokes if I'm going for something that hits for over 50.
EDIT: Also, no need for frugality past 10 for selling in the Ppwn Shoppe, that is where pwning caps. It is far more sensible to use those points in offense and pick up what you need from the Kyoubai sellers who sell for a little over what max frugality can get. (I don't put points into Frugality either, I have .moar files I can equip when I want to sell things in Ppwn.)Candy Corn edited this message on 09/07/2009 1:03AM
|Posted On: 09/07/2009 1:00AM
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I would say people should keep in mind that builds that are currently optimal might not be as good on Thursday when the game updates are released.
|Posted On: 09/07/2009 3:35AM
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CrinkzPipe Posted:
I don't see the necessary to go over 1500 for emos. Personally I range between 200 and 1,000.
|Posted On: 09/07/2009 3:40AM
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scully Posted:
Because 1 status effect is going to change the game mbumively. The game won't change much at level 35 imo.
|Posted On: 09/07/2009 4:44AM
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With equipment I am running with:
Ego 3793
Douchebaggery 1870
Offense 122
Defense 156
Luck 24
Frugality 7
Charisma 35
Upkeep 5
Honestly, I don't have any problems with the 35 boards, but I do suspect I need to pull some Ego out and add in more Offense. This was the build I threw together for working on my scoop tactics, but as I am rather new to the Domination scene I am not entirely sure if I am doing it well.
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|Posted On: 09/08/2009 5:03PM
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GroundZero Posted:
Tell haxl to halve that stat, you really don't need it.
|Posted On: 09/08/2009 7:21PM
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As a camwhore:
Without eq:
Offense 48
Defense 5
Luck 1
Frugality 1
Charisma 21
Upkeep 5
With best eqs and .moars in the game(*):
Offense 159
Defense 120
Luck 35
Frugality 22
Charisma 67
Upkeep 5
I suppose that I could take one or two levels out of Egomania (L11), but I kinda need that health.
I have NO idea how an emokid is pulling 159 offense.
(*)Masterball instead of headset. There's only like TWO of those in the game, so they don't count.SimplyTHEBEST edited this message on 09/10/2009 3:58PM
|Posted On: 09/10/2009 3:57PM
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Celerysteve Posted:
I thought it was 57?
Also SimplyTHEBEST: This thread's about trolls, not camwhores.
|Posted On: 09/10/2009 4:19PM
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SimplyTHEBEST Posted:
I don't even have the best .moars.
Sorry to derail a little bit but:
Book: I Almost Had Sex With a Woman: Memoirs of a Hacker Hero: +10 off PruneServ: +50 ego Dogreat timesent: more random keystrokes.dtbs: +7 off, +7 luck Music: Pink Floyd: +30 off/def Picture: Pictures of YOU.leer: +7 off/frug Piercing: Soul Piercing: +291 tears, +11 off, +10 def Tattoo: Auschwitz Identification Number: +6 off/def +247 tears Program File: Deluxe Paperclip bumistant Suite v9.0 [2 CDs].exec: +40 ego, +2 Off/Def/Frug Special Item: Master Ball: +48 Ego, +23 off, +33 def. Surgical Procedures: Serotonin Blocking: +100 tears.
That's my equips.
My upgrades are:
First Cut is the Deepest™ Starter Pack Level 1-4 +4 charisma +16 off +12 def Whine-o Level 8 Egomania level 17 Offense level 39
Again, sorry for derailing the thread a little.
EDIT: I guess I should post without equips
Ego 2300 Tears 10 Offense 56 Defense 13 Luck 2 Frugality 1 Charisma 5 Upkeep 1CrinkzPipe edited this message on 09/10/2009 4:39PM
|Posted On: 09/10/2009 4:37PM
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How about this:
No equips:
Ego 5
Douchebaggery 10
Offense 53
Defense 33
Luck 1
Frugality 1
Charisma 1
Upkeep 3
With equips:
Ego 377
Douchebaggery 846
Offense 150
Defense 154
Luck 17
Frugality 12
Charisma 39
Upkeep 3
Edit: Except for forums over level 30, I don't need to use my offense boost skills to pwn most threads in one hit. Basically I dumped all my points into offense except the remaining two which went into upkeep.Magnusian Prime edited this message on 09/10/2009 4:58PM
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Jane C. Bebble Lecker, 96, of 318 John St., St. Marys, where she made her home with her daughter, and formerly of Elk Towers, died on Sunday, May 27, 2012.She was born April 21, 1916 in St. Marys, a daughter of the late Charles and Mildred Tierney Bebble.On Nov. 8, 1941 in Sacred Heart Church, she married the late Leo F. Lecker, who preceded her in death on July 2, 1968.Mrs. Lecker was a lifelong resident of the area. She attended Sacred Heart grade school and was a graduate of Central High School, Class of 1935. She was a member of Sacred Heart Church for 96 years. She had been a homemaker and had also worked at Sugar Hill Dairy Farm. Throughout her life she enjoyed baking, knitting and scrapbooking. She was also a promoter of the Miraculous Medal Association. She was the last member of her immediate family. Mrs. Lecker is survived by one son, Michael E. Lecker and his wife Kathleen of St. Marys; two daughters, Mildred A. "Millie" Kraus of St. Marys and Genevieve L. "Jenny" Richards and her husband Harry of Ridgway; seven grandchildren, Cynthia M. Chirillo, Kathleen A. Kunes, Gary L. Kraus Jr., Laura A. Smith, Renee L. Keune, Jason L. Richards and Ryan M. Lecker; nine great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by a son, Donald C. Lecker, in 1973; five brothers, William, Thomas, John, Edward and Fr. Blaine Bebble, O.S.B. (Vincent); and three sisters, Mary Bednarek, Charlotte Bebble and Patricia in infancy.A Mass of Christian Burial for Jane C. Bebble Lecker will be celebrated at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 325 Center St., St. Marys, on Thursday, May 31, 2012 at 10 a.m., with the Rev. Eric Vogt, O.S.B., as celebrant. Burial will follow in the St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery.Visitation will be held at Lynch-Green Funeral Home, Inc., St. Marys, on Wednesday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Memorial contributions may be made to Community Nurses Inc., 757 Johnsonburg Rd., Suite 200, St. Marys, PA 15857; or to Sacred Heart Church Building Fund, 325 Center St., St. Marys, PA 15857.Online condolences may be placed at www.LynchGreen.com.
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A man who threw himself off a bridge onto a Doncaster motorway had just been told he would have to undergo an intimate examination by police as part of a historic sex abuse inquiry.
Garry Parnell, aged 51, had vehemently denied the allegations by a woman dating back to her childhood - and his family told a Doncaster inquest she had demanded a large sum of money to drop the case.
The former salesman had suffered depression for many years, since the suicide of his mother and the amputation of his right leg following complications from a motorcycle accident.
And the woman, who cannot be identified, was aware he was hoping to win a substantial compensation payment from Doncaster Council as the result of an accident in which his electric wheelchair fell down an uncovered manhole.
Mr Parnell, of Priestley Close, Balby, died instantly from a severe head injury when he climbed over the barrier on the Broomhouse Lane bridge over the A1(M) on March 31 and plunged onto the hard shoulder.
Less than an hour earlier he had received a call from Det Con Becky Braithwell telling him he would need to attend the police station later that week for another interview and an examination for evidential reasons.
Mr Parnell immediately phoned his brother, Mark, and told him: "I ain't doing that, they've destroyed my life enough already."
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Mrs Parnell said the woman had told Mark she would 'stop the allegation' - if she received £50,000.
DC Braithwell said it was not abnormal for a case of this type to take several months and Mr Parnell didn't seem 'unduly distressed' when she spoke to him on the afternoon of his death.
The Crown Prosecution Service had asked for the intimate examination.
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Assistant Coroner Mark Beresford said Mr Parnell had vehemently denied the allegations. He recorded a suicide verdict.


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Wednesday, November 3, 2010
A Look Back at Wrath of the Lich King
Not only am I in a holding pattern in the game, but the blog is in a bit of a holding pattern as well. There just isn't much to talk about at the moment, and looking at the other moonkin bloggers they seem to feel the same way. I took a look back at what I wrote before WotLK came out to try and get some ideas, and the only one that popped out was my expansion in review post. So, lets take a look back at WotLK.
Favorite 5man:
The Nexus - To be honest I had a hard time picking my favorite 5man instance because none of hem really stuck out, but I always thought The Nexus was pretty well done. It had a decent length, and a nice variety of bosses with interesting mechanics. I wouldn't say I absolutely loved the instance, but if all the Cataclysm instance turned out like The Nexus I would be happy.
Least Favorite 5man: It's a Tie.
Ahn'kahet: The Old Kingdom - This one is a little funny because I actually listed Herald Volazj as a fun fight in my WotLK first impressions post two years ago. However, I have to include it as one of my least favorite instances, because every time it popped up on the LFD tool, I was disappointed. I could handle Oculus and Halls of Stone without a problem, but Old Kingdom was always a pain in the neck. I think it's because everyone seemed to do it a little differently. I never knew what bosses or trash we were doing, plus I suffered through some truly horrible tanks in this instance.
Trial of the Champion - Overall it was a horribly designed instance. I am not someone who is against vehicle fights, but the jousting mechanic sucked. It was a basic free-for-all that didn't really require any control or skill. When you finally got off the horses, the three mobs you had to kill were basic tank and spanks. Eadric the Pure and Confessor Paletress were only a slight improvement. The Black night did have a little flavor and complexity to him, but in my opinion it was too little too late. Combine this with massively long RP and this instance became incredibly boring.
Favorite Raid:
Ulduar - I didn't like everything about Ulduar, but it was easily the best designed Raid Instance in WotLK. Most of the bosses where well designed and there was great variety. The hard modes in most cases actually changed the way the fight worked. The fights were tuned really well. My biggest complaint about Ulduar is that ToC was released to early and pushed it to the back burner before a lot of good guilds had a chance to complete it.
Least Favorite Raid:
Naxxramus - Just so you get a better sense of where I'm coming from, I never raided Naxx before WotLK. My first experience with it was in early December 2008, but Naxx's two big problems became apparent very quickly.
First, Naxx was way to easy. I understand that it is a first tier raid, but other then a couple of bosses like Thadius it provided almost no challenge. This was before the addition of Hard Modes as a rule, so there is no way that so many guilds should have been able and clear the instance in it's first week of real attempts.
The second problem Naxxramus had was that it was a relic of an earlier time. Have you ever had a friend or parent tell you how great this old movie is and then not see what all the fuss is about when you actually watch it? That is how I feel about Naxxramus. I understand why they brought it back, I understand why it was great back in the day, but it clearly didn't live up to more current design standards. Most of the Naxx bosses had only one or two mechanics that you really had to pay attention to. If you take a look at Karazhan, Gruul and Mag, you can see that the fights were much more complicated. Naxx was great in its day, but on fortunately it's day had passed.
Favorite Fight:
Mimiron - Mimiron is probably going to top almost everyone's list, but I am having a hard time identifying a better fight. On normal mode it was a complicated four phase fight that required a lot of coordination. On hard mode, the addition of the fire made it insane. Having limited and unpredictable space forced the raid to think on the fly and adapt the strategy on an attempt by attempt basis. I was very frustrated at times with this fight, but it was also very satisfying.
Runner Up: Malygos - I know some of you will disagree with me on this but I thought Malygos was a great fight. Phase one was fun and interesting trying to manage the sparks for additional DPS. Phase 2 was a nice balancing act of keeping your self safe, but trying to kill the disks as fast as possible. Phase three was a great example of a vehicle fight done right in my opinion. It was a little difficult operating in a 3D environment but there were clear ways to succeed and clear ways to fail. Overall, a very well designed encounter in my opinion.
Least Favorite Fight:
Hodir - It's a little funny that my least favorite fight comes from my favorite raid instances, but the Hodir fight annoys me to no end. My problem with it was that there was no difference between normal mode and Hard mode. It really should have been called lazy mode and normal mode, because if you couldn't be bothered to figure out how the buffs worked and try and use them to your advantage then you were lazy. The other big problem was that it was easy to fail the hard mode but kill the boss on accident. There nothing like ruining a raid night because your DoTs kill a boss a couple of seconds to late.
Most Disappointing Fight:
Gunship - I could easily call Gunship my least favorite fight, but it fails so much that it deserves its own category. I think what's most disappointing about this fight is that it sounded awesome when they mentioned it at Blizzcon, but it turned out to be completely face roll. I think they were trying to make another fight like Karazhan's Chess encounter, but Gunship had several problems Chess didn't. First, a large number of players spent a lot of time sitting around waiting for adds to spawn. I was so bored on one of my kills I spent the entire time trying to see how high I could get on the horde boat as an Alliance Player. The second problem was that all of the mechanics lacked teeth. While the boss and some of the adds could hit hard there was much to worry about for the raid as a whole. Heck, you could stand in void zones and no one would care. Finally there was no reasonable way to fail the encounter other then a mistake by a key player like a tank.
Best Moment:
Getting Immortal - Wrath of the Lich King is littered with horror stories about the Immortal achievement. I can probably only look back on it fondly because I eventually completed it while it was still relevant, but it was a monumental effort. We spent weeks on it, and had countless near misses with single deaths KT or some other stupid boss. We finally got it on April 1st just a couple of weeks before Ulduar was released and earned the T7 Meta mounts. It was an awesome feeling to complete that achievement, and clearly showed LoE was an awesome guild despite raiding half the time that most other guilds did.
A lot of people like to say Immortal was all about RNG. I agree that there is a decent chunk of RNG involved, but to say that it's all about RNG is just an excuse. When we failed one week, we figured out how not to fail like that again next week. If we couldn't trust some one to do what was needed they got sat. Overall, this achievement taught me to think about my own survival. I probably wouldn't be the raider I am today without it.
What Blizzard did right in WotLK:
Adding hard modes - The balance and design of Hard Modes hasn't always been right, but the concept is a home run in my opinion. I am not one of those people who thinks you have to be hardcore to see content, and with hard modes it's possible to provide difficult content for those interested in the progression race and regular content for those that just want to see content without being hardcore.
Balancing on the fly - Before WotLK the philosophy seemed to be that balancing should primarily happen when you release a new expansion. As a moonkin I would look at every patch hoping for a little buff here or a little buff their, but they rarely came. In WotLK the philosophy clearly changed, and it was for the better in my opinion. I love that, Blizzard was willing to make adjustment through out the expansion when they were needed. Now that we are on the door step to Cataclysm, I'm not worried that not all of the issues have been fixed. I'm now confident that Blizzard will continue to look at the problems and make adjustments when necessary.
What Blizzard did wrong in WotLK:
Wimping out on Hard modes - As I said above I think hard modes are a great addition to the game, but towards the end of the expansion Blizzard seemed to get lazy in their design. In Ulduar, doing a hard mode actually changed the fight. In most cases the bosses gained new abilities or a mechanic was added that changed the way the fight worked. After Ulduar most of the hard modes could be summed up in one statement: "The boss hits harder and more adds spawn." With a couple of exceptions the ICC strats didn't change much from normal mode to hard mode. So, all hard modes meant was that you were wiping to the thing you killed last week for 13 more ilevel points.
No sense of progression in WotLK raids - I'm having a hard time describing what I mean. In TBC, guilds progressed from Kara, Mag, and Gruul to SSC and TK, and then to Hyjal and BT. A guild could progress at its own pace and there was a purpose for completing content before moving on to the next one. In WotLK, once Ulduar was released Naxxramus was dead. As much as ToC sucked, it pretty much halted relevant Ulduar progression, and so one. Once a new patch comes out there is little incentive to go back and see the old content in anyway that is challenging.
Now, I'm not suggesting that Blizzard should go back to the big TBC style attunement quests, but I would like to see something that forces guilds and/or players to progress rather then start again as if the 3 month break they just took didn't happen. I think it would be possible to create a reasonable system with guild wide attunements and possibly restricting them to hard modes, but I think it's a little to easy to get into the highest level of progression currently.
Future Plans:
I do have a couple posts planned for the time between now and the release of Cataclysm. I hope to have a new gear guide up before the release of Cataclysm. My raid guide should also be fairly easy to update for level 85 and patch 4.0.3. I also have a post on Leveling guides written that I will post once I know a little bit more about the various 80-85 being sold. I'm also thinking about a couple of other pieces like "Blizzard's unfinished Moonkin business" and a "Cata preview" from my experiences on the Beta.
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I agree with virtually everything in this post.
I think a good way to keep old content relevant would be to do away with the idea that every new raid= a FULL new set of gear. Each new major raid would add a few new BiS pieces for each class. Now, I guess guilds could still jump into the "highest" raid strait off, but they would experience the entire expansion's content throughout the life of the expansion, rather than grinding heroics and skipping almost every raid. Later raids could still be harder, but they would be harder more because of higher skill requirement than higher gear requirement.
- November 3, 2010 at 6:21 PM
- Tsuki said...
Getting Immortal was the pinnacle of WotLK for me. I hadn't heard such nerdscreaming since a guild-first Rag kill years ago, and I'm yet to hear it again... My group didn't even cheer after finally getting Tribute to Insanity, it felt more like the end of a nightmare.
And I definitely agree about Mimiron, what a damn fun fight. Keeps you on your toes for 10min straight, no matter what role you are or how good you gear is. Too bad no one in my (old) guild would share this sentiment :(
- November 3, 2010 at 7:03 PM
- Mike said...
I have an alt Ret Pally that has never set foot in a raid decked out in 264 gear. As much as collecting the emblems has become the prime motivation to doing the heroics I kind of miss the days when it felt like I truly earned the gear. This is my only real disappointment in WoTLK.
- November 3, 2010 at 7:57 PM
- voz said...
Most people would agree with you on why you liked and disliked some of the content in WotLK. Mimiron will always hold a special place in everyone's heart as the really unique encounter.
Some of the topics you touched on were complete failures and some were very good, here is a quick view on what some of those are:
Success's in wrath:
Hard Modes - Hard modes basically doubled the content, and gave hard core guilds some challenges to work at.
Unique Encounters - Unlike classic, and TBC, Wrath has had very complex and interesting mechanics added to fights.
While I understand MMO's dont have a set path, and blizzard was testing new features, a huge chunk of Wraths failures were in part due to the high gear jumps and overall game flow designed for 'casual players'
Wraths Failures:
No sense of progression - I can not put it into better words, Wrath had no progression, every guild and every pug was able to do new content with in a week of its release. I figure the reason is the huge gear jumps between content. While the Trial of the Crusader flowed with the theme of Wrath and seemed very good on paper, the design in the end product was a decline from Ulduar, which was the greatest instance (IMO) in Wrath. The energy and time it took to make a legendary such as val'anyr was a down grade from ToC25 items is evident of the gear gap between content. This made older raids pointless to run.
Game mechanics - The boss mechanics were better the in both classic and TBC, however, the ability tanks have unlimited agro & rage, and healers with unlimited mana made the game mechanics work not as well as they could have. Blizzard even realized the problem with massive gear gaps between content as they had to apply a 20% dodge debuff in ICC. (I am aware that Blizzard is fixing this in Cata, doesn't change the fact it was a problem in wrath)
Hard Modes- Hard modes should be HARD. Chances are if you are a casual player, you know that you are a casual player, and should not expect to be downing the hard core content a month after it comes out.
ICC - Personally, I did not find ICC enjoyable, at all. The layout was too much like Naxx, which was a failure (as graylo stated) and the features were only a test to see how players would react to them, such as the lock out system (40 trys and your screwed for the week, and the zone buff) ICC was suppose to be the conclusion to the dramatic rise of the arthas into lich king after personally watching him kill his father and destroy his kingdom. The start of everything was in WC3 the frozen throne, released july 1, 2003 ... that was 7 years ago. The conclusion to the main thread that held much of the warcraft universe together should not be a place to have experimental mechanics, and week hardmodes for 'casual players'. ICC would have been a good raid if it was not the ending of an epic storyline. In short, ICC feel a mile below its own lore.
TL:DR. ICC sucked, Hard modes should be hard, Gear was too strong in new content making lots of problems and taking away the sense of progression.
p.s. sorry for my spelling.
- November 4, 2010 at 12:04 AM
- Sarge @ the.movies said...
I agree with most things you stated.
In retrospect Ulduar was the best raid and it's a real shame, that ToC was released to early.
My casual guild never finished Ulduar properly, because most people are just interested in BiS purples.
Yeah Mimiron:
Painful experience learning the fight, but one of the greatest feelings of joy on the first kill.
We returned a few months later with a twink raid and one shoot him, which was totally unexpected.
As to atunement: I don't think there's much Blizz can improve about it without shutting casuals out.
Overall I'm very happy with WotLK.
Something I really hope to improve is the timing for the raids.
Early raids where rushed out and ICC was on for 12 months - that's just not right.
- November 4, 2010 at 5:37 AM
Again I agree with on most of your points, Ulduar and Mimiron (still love the fight) being top of my list too and the use of hard modes to differentiate between hard core guilds and the rest, so the rest of us can actually see content.
What I would disagree with you is with progression. With too much progression (ie forcing people to gear up using old raids) once an expansion is underway a fair few guilds would not be able to progress through content .. but players would by leaving one guild to join another.
I was in such a feeder guild in vanilla, ever time we got close to moving up to the next raid several key (and well geared) people whould leave and we would have to start gearing up new people. I was soul destroying.
- November 4, 2010 at 7:43 AM
I definitely agree that the WotLK model worked to make all but the current raid obsolete, and that this was a shame (especially where Ulduar was concerned). I'm not sure how to fix it though.
In BC, you definitely felt like you advanced from raid to raid, in part because of the attunements, and in part because you needed the gear from raid x-1 in order to have a chance in raid x. This model was great in that it made players and guilds feel like they were accomplishing something, and in that it really encouraged all raiders to see all raid content (as opposed to skipping Naxx and Ulduar, which is the norm these days).
However, it also resulted in a system where very few people (compared to WotLK) raided, and where it was quite difficult to get an alt geared to the point of raiding current content. Every time, you had to start from square one all over again.
I guess I'd be in favor of a mixed system of guild attunements. I think that some basic attunement quests are actually pretty neat. It just when they get to be as long and tricky as the Onyxia line that it starts to act as a real barrier. If each raid was linked to a friendly NPC faction, perhaps guilds could do some basic quest lines (perhaps culminating in one of the new semi-difficult, rapidly respawning outdoor bosses) to get access to the raid. Then, in order to get access to the next raid, the guild would either need to down the final boss of the current raid, or else run it a sufficient number of times to do something like get exalted rep with the linked npc faction. This would allow skilled guilds or alt guilds to move up the chain more quickly, while still providing a way for more casual guilds to advance even if they never finish off the final boss.
The problem, of course, is that any sort of attunement has the potential to wreak havoc with PUGs. The system could work in a couple of ways. First, each player could get account-wide attunement whenever any of their characters had either completed an individual attunement chain, or was in a guild that was attuned. Second, PUGs could enter any raid that the raid leader had access to. Or third, there could be some special way to designate PUG raids (like choosing between normal/heroic) so that they would not require attunement, but so that the final boss was not available (or something like that).
Just my two cents. I'm guessing Blizzard will simply continue making each raid completely eclipse the prior ones. This takes away from the feeling of advancement and accomplishment, but does allow more people to, at least in theory, see the content.
- November 4, 2010 at 12:55 PM
- Bolink said...
Just ran a Nexus tonight...it is a fun 5 man. There is enough danger to keep you on your toes without having to be too overly concerned. The bosses are different enough to keep it interesting. I like the final boss as well...it's a bit odd that everyone runs around jumping like fools but what the heck? Nice summery of WOTLK.
- November 4, 2010 at 10:48 PM
Excellent post, Graylo. Although we as a guild never 'finished' Ulduar while it was still progression, we had several weeks of stalled attempts during summer and exam time and most of our guild didn't seem interested in finishing it. But it was by far my favorite raid, too.
I'd be hyprocritical in agreeing on the progression thing even if I agreed with it in principle, since the factor of not needing to do every raid was probably the only reason we progressed as far as we did. I'd like to think a balance between BC's hardcore manifesto and WoTLK's facepalm type easy is needed.
- November 5, 2010 at 12:58 AM
The BC progression system was quite hellish for a lot of guilds trying to recruit. You often had to put up with weeks of gearing up recruits just to see if they would work at all. I think you are forgetting what an insane guild killer that system was in the very endgame :)
Nostalgia can do tricky things!
- November 5, 2010 at 7:23 AM
I think one of the reasons it felt like progression was because they had multiple instances out for each tier.
T4-Kara, Gruuls, Mag
Random Instance-ZA
BT was clearably in a couple of days one you had it on farm. SWP was clearable in 1 night. Guilds are clearing 12/12 HM ICC in 1 night now.
Having multiple instances of the same tier gave guilds more to do while still gearing up. Also having an instance with fewer bosses, but making them harder, gives more sense of accomplishment, like SWP. BT was good because it had some challenging (but not overly) encounters, and it also had a couple "gimmie" fights. ICC has a lot of "gimmie" fights, and only 1 real challenge. I'm hoping they design Cata raids more like they did TBC..
- November 5, 2010 at 10:11 AM
I initially agreed with what you said about progression, but then I read Silinix's comment and had a revelation: if it weren't for the current model, my guild would be dead in the water. Our guild schedule is very similar to yours; we only raid 25's twice a week for 3 hours and do marginally well (10/12 HMs at time of 4.0.1). We had a long lull right in the middle of 3.3 where people started falling off of the enthusiasm bus. We were stuck on LK with a solid core of capable players, but just not enough to fill a raid. As we belong to a low population faction, we did not have a big pool to gather from; and very few out there would have been nearly as well progressed as we were. We had a big recruitment drive that ended up netting us a fair number of good players in only slightly less than ideal gear. These are the kind of players that would not have been recruitable in significant numbers until the beginning of a new expansion in the old model. We were thus able to get right back on our feet and take off into heroic modes instead of having to give up and wait until Cataclysm to recruit effectively.
- November 5, 2010 at 3:18 PM
- --G! said...
I respectfully disagree that Naxx was too easy. My guild of casuals took weeks to get Heigan & zombie puppy at gear appropriate. Maybe it was too easy for experienced raiders - but it was tuned just right for people who never raided in their lives.
- November 7, 2010 at 12:05 AM
To be honest, I think TOC was really the worst raid ever done in WoW.
Naxx was bad because everyone was expecting a mix between old Naxx and Kara, but what was really there was a lolNaxx. It was poorly thought out and poorly implemented. ToC was just a joke. And a bad one.
Still, a lot of guilds couldnt clear it for a while and some achievements there are still hard to get.
- November 9, 2010 at 9:28 AM
- Tsuds said...
I leveled my main and first alt a little behind the rest of my guild feeling almost constantly like the little sister scrambling to catch up with the older brothers while they did Kara and so on. By the time I started raiding we dove straight into Naxx, emblem collecting and hit ICC. I feel like I've missed out on something by not having to be attuned and by not needing really to progress from one raid to the next (although in retrospect it would have been a darn good idea as I suspect I'd be a better raider).
- November 10, 2010 at 2:45 AM


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If I remember correctly, when Supa showed up on an Epic thread, it was for the specific purpose of pimping the Core kites he is an ambassador for, in his area.
The Core dealer, on the other hand, was smart and humble and stayed off threads for other brands.
Over time, it has become an ongoing debate about guessing wind speeds, and accuracy of video, and guessing wind direction and conditions, and laminar flow, and who has better stories about their Glory Days, and weight of wives, and how many sessions ridden per week, and how close to the beach we live, and who knows wind better by looking at video, and what we were doing in 1977, and who jumps higher at over 50, and who won what contests 35 years ago, and who is the lightwind king guru, and a whole bunch of other ego driven nonsense.
As another old man who used to feel ten feet tall and bulletproof, it is embarrassing to witness.
I do not know why the Epic threads, on occasion, attract a few who cannot help themselves but to comment on gear they have not flown and who get so pissed because the Epic threads are long and full of accolades by people who have flown and like the gear...not sure why this should be so bothersome.
It is a big forum with lots of room for thousands of threads, not sure why anybody would feel the place is crowded, if you don't like what you see, it is so goddamn simple to not participate in a thread.
But if you come here and mouth off, for months at a time, sooner or later somebody is gonna call you out and maybe give you a spankin.
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My blog used to be called Nappy Valley. But now I've moved to the dizzy heights of Crystal Palace (via a spell as an expat on Long Island, New York). And my Littleboys are long out of nappies.
Thursday, 27 October 2011
Craving British fiction - an expat phenomenon?
When I first moved to New York, I was keen to read anything set in my new milieu. I devoured modern novels set in Brooklyn (I loved Amy Sohn's Prospect Park West), Manhattan (Zoe Heller's The Believers), and re-read New York chick lit like The Devil Wears Prada, suddenly delighted that I recognized the locations and local references. I was also desperate to watch movies set in the city, checking multiple Woody Allen DVDs out of the library. I have made a point of reading many American novels over the past two years. Jonathan Franzen's Freedom, an epic saga of the American family through the 60s to present day, was probably one of the best but I also adored The Help, and loved another book club pick, Girl in Translation, about a Chinese-American immigrant to New York in the 70s.
This was not a new phenomenon; as a child, I loved American fiction. Among my favourite books were Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books, Anne of Green Gables, Little Women and What Katy Did. American writers from that era seemed to specialize in headstrong female heroines that were particularly appealing.
But recently I have begun to crave English fiction. It's a bit like craving comfort food - at the moment I want to read English novels, set in London, or even better in the English countryside. William Nicholson's two novels The Secret Intensity of Everyday Life and I Could Love You were recent examples. His style is so very understated and British, in a 'Brief Encounter' type way. I've also got a sudden appetite for Alexander McCall Smith's Scottish novels - his characters are somehow so typically British and unlike anyone you would meet here. When I go to the library, I dive upon any book by a British author, and for my summer holiday reading I chose books set in England by British authors I love: Esther Freud's Lucky Break, Amanda Craig's Hearts and Minds and Barbara Trapido's Sex and Stravinsky (downloading them to Kindle as you can't buy them here).
As for films, I recently watched Stephen Frears' Tamara Drewe, a fabulous modern-day riff on Far From The Madding Crowd based on the hilarious graphic novels of Posy Simmonds. Compare it to Bridesmaids, which I also watched recently - this was a laugh out loud American comedy, and I enjoyed it- but Tamara was so much more to my current taste. After a girls' movie night, when I persuaded my American friends to see the recent adaptation of Jane Eyre- amazingly, none of them had ever read it - I did begin to wonder if I was turning into the sort of English person who only really likes costume drama and novels about middle class people living in the Costwolds.
But I wonder if this longing to immerse yourself in the world of home is typical for an expat? Do you always want to read about home when you're away? Perhaps I'm mentally preparing myself for the move back (which is now definitely going to happen in summer 2013, by the way). Or perhaps it's just a form of escape - after all, one of the joys of reading is to escape into a novel, and why not escape to somewhere you're not?
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- Sherilyn -Dominee Huisvrouw said...
I am also an avid reader, & I spent a year in London. Since I moved to Canada, I have found that I really enjoy reading books set in England as well, especially those set in London, as I kind of know the areas a bit. I also recently read a book set in my hometown & really enjoyed that as well. I do find that because of the books I now gravitate towards, the books I am reading are a lot different than those that my friends are. You're not alone in this!
- 27 October 2011 at 12:17
- Bush Mummy said...
You can take the girl out of Blighty, but you can't take Blighty out of the girl..
Great news that you are heading back to the REAL Nappy Valley!
BM x
- 27 October 2011 at 12:48
- Kit said...
I go through phases of Englishness in my reading - sometimes a wave of nostalgic retro reading, Josephine Tey, Georgette Heyer other times escapist contemporary romance like Katie Fforde. It's like comfort food, I agree.
- 27 October 2011 at 14:39
- About Last Weekend said...
Agree totally. Wish I hadn't seen Tamara because I want to enjoy that first time viewing again. Just saw The Trip with Steve Coogan, excellent but I'll bet it bombed here. The cynical and subtle and subversive does not fly here usually
- 27 October 2011 at 15:57
- PantsWithNames said...
Looking forward to the boyfest in Summer 2013!
I always loved English books when we were abroad, just adored them. But then again I loved any book that was in English that I hadn't already read so I'm probably not the person to ask.
- 27 October 2011 at 18:57
- Anonymous said...
Thanks for the recommendation - have just downloaded a pair to the Kindle. Am veering between reading very locally relevant, but rather harrowing books and feeling the need to indulge my very English side. The latter is winning this evening!
- 28 October 2011 at 07:40
- Iota said...
I really enjoyed Downton Abbey recently (watching not reading). Over the summer, I visited my aunt, who lives in the village where much of it was filmed. She walked me round and showed me the locations. This, of course, helped in the process of turning me into the sort of English person who actually believes that living in England is like living in the Cotswolds in the early 20th century.
You've revamped your blog background.
Re your penultimate sentence, I am wary of the word "definitely"!
- 28 October 2011 at 11:48
- nappy valley girl said...
Sherilyn - I'll definitely have a soft spot for New York books and films from now on - fortunately, there are a lot of them.
BM - well, it maybe not be Nappy Valley, but it will be London!
Kit - haven't read Georgette Heyer for years but loved them as a teen - maybe I'll have to revisit that section of the library....
ALW - Love Steve Coogan so The Trip is on my list....
Pants - yes, boyfest indeed (and we'll be back next Easter too for a few weeks, so let's make a plan!)
Mud - where you are, might be time for some light relief?
Iota - yes, I enjoyed Downton Abbey too - that really is comfort TV. Re 'definitely', well, it is more definite that it was even a few weeks ago but I suppose it's still a dangerous word to use....
- 29 October 2011 at 08:19
- Applepip said...
I completely identify with this post! I moved to Brooklyn a year ago with my two little boys and husband, and ever since then I have been immersing myself in American fiction like Colm Toibin's Brooklyn, Jonathan Dee's The Privileges and Amy Sohn's Prospect Park West. It's great to be able to know where they're talking about when they mention landmarks or street names. But I have definitely become rather nostalgic for British fiction too, probably because part of me is also nostalgic for the British language and turns of phrase. (By the way, I came to your blog via the Circles in The Sand blog, and we too are from South London and plan to return in 2013!) Good luck with life in the US of A. Applepip x
- 29 October 2011 at 08:28
- Circles in the Sand said...
Yes I think you definitely crave Brit flicks/books after a while. An example, the other night Bridget Jones was on TV and I was loving the scenery! Just watching the news and seeing you have snow on the way - my goodness, that's early, isn't it? I hope it doesn't mean trick-or-treating is snowed off. Stay warm and hope the boys have fun! I always remember how in Minneapolis people would tell me about a legendary Halloween snow storm a few years earlier...Michael's just saying he misses snow! Hey, how do you feel about leaving? Xxx
- 29 October 2011 at 14:25
- Nota Bene said...
Is this a case of absence makes the heart grow fonder?
- 31 October 2011 at 09:44
- Michelloui said...
I worked in a bookshop when I first moved to the UK and so I was suddenly very influenced by what was popular in Britain--I had never heard of Daphne du Maurier, for example, but read several of her novels. And I didn't stop there. But then a few years ago I read something American. I can't remember at all what it was now, I just remember the turning point. And suddenly I was struck by how different the two styles could be.
But I'm not sure if I would turn to one or the other out of feelings for comfort or homesickness.
I have decided I need to just embrace my wistful love of the costume drama, by the way. They're just so... I don't know. Satisfying!
And I read Jane Eyre before I lived in the UK, but I was an English Lit student.
Good post!
- 1 November 2011 at 16:23
- MsCaroline said...
I've mentioned before that I was brought up by an (Anglophile) Canadian mother, so my reading list is probably far from typical for most Americans of my age. As a teenager in the late 70s/80s, I loved P.G. Wodehouse, for example, as well as everything by any Bronte, and anything by Evelyn Waugh; I read Daphne du Maurier's 'The House on the Strand' when I was in high school and loved it. About reading all the 'New York' themed things when you moved here: I've been doing the same with 'Korea' things since we moved to Seoul. Maybe it's part of the acclimatization process?
- 3 November 2011 at 00:05
- nappy valley girl said...
Applepip - thanks for visiting! I'm off to visit your blog....we stayed in Park Slope when we first arrived, so I am very interested to see what you make of it.
Circles - luckily we missed the snow! As for leaving, I'm just glad I don't have to do it next year..
NB -probably...
Michelloui - I love Daphne du Maurier. Haven't re-read her books for years but I did read a book about her recently - trying to remember the name of it...will email you if I do.
MsCaroline - thoroughly approve of your reading choices. I can well imagine you would explore books on Korea - although impressed that there are so many....
- 3 November 2011 at 17:46
- awindram said...
Haven't noticed my reading habits have changed at all other than I've read more American history than I would have otherwise.
More likely to find an old British sitcom on youtube if I want to indulge in a bit of home comfort.
- 5 November 2011 at 03:22
- A Confused Take That Fan said...
Ooh you have a date for moving back?! How do you feel about that? Maybe your love of English literature is a sign that you are missing home a little. Unfortunately the real life England doesn't quite live up to the reality. Mind you we enjoyed a lovely night in the Cotswolds recently, which was very English, log fires and lovely. I am going to read some of those American books you recommended. I too loved The Help, and devoured American Literature when I was a younger and a teenager (Little Women being one of my favourite books, also To Kill A Mocking Bird, The Colour Purple, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings) etc. I rented Tamara Drew recently whilst the husband was away. Nice scenery, wasn't sure about the film. Perfect fluff?
- 8 November 2011 at 07:40
- Anonymous said...
Rather late in the game, don't know if you'll ever see this, but Anne of Green Gables was written by a Canadian.
I'm Canadian, living in America, wish I'd found your blog sooner. We've been here for 10 years, and sadly have not found life to be as good.
My husband left me after 28 years of marriage, so I'm heading home to Canada asap.
Best of luck!
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I read Stop running tests on install! and Perl marketing and CPAN module install tests with some horror. We should stop running tests by default! My initial thoughts were arguments against it.
Personally I find it rare for modules to fail tests but I'd still rather know something is possibly wrong than have it ignored (it is easier to deal with it at that point).
I've read the reasons for not running the tests and on top of some mentioned in the above posts I have some additional reasons for not changing the default to --notest (mainly from the author/maintainer perspective):
Disabling testing by default would make my life as a module maintainer harder.
On the other hand:
How many times have I hit a test failure when installing dependencies from the CPAN shell? Not many to be honest.
Just how many people really install individual modules these days? i.e., untar the distribution and build and run the tests themselves. For DBD modules it is highly unlikely that someone using cpanm or the CPAN
shell will have set their DBI_DSN, DBI_USER and DBI_PASS environment variables before they attempted to install module X which they may not even know depends on DBD::whatever at the time of installation.
Would it really be that harmful to disable testing of all dependent modules and only run the test suite of the module at the top of the chain the person wants to install. Well, obviously it would to a degree if the top module then fails its tests as it would be harder to see which dependent module was at fault (if at all). If a module has a list of dependents but is confident their test suite is good enough to verify their module works could they set something in the metafile saying tests of dependent modules don't have to succeed?
So, my gut reaction was the idea of defaulting to --notest is horrifying and likely to cause me extra work maintaining my modules but now I think of it very few people actually run my test suites for DBDs in a meaningful way (to a real database) anyway.
Which leads to a few things which have long frustrated me:
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