Loose Ends Redux

As of last night, GameOver will no longer be the same 4DPS team it has been all season. While it is premature to talk about the future of the team, I can say that we'll be back in playing condition by the weekend and intend to remain competitive at the top of the battlegroup. It is always amazing to me the sacrifices that players make for each other, their guilds, and their teams -- farming consumables for raids, rolling a new character or new race just to improve their arena team, sacrificing lots of RL commitments to makes raids or arena times, or just sticking through lots of drama. This is somewhat relevant just for the fact that many of the players I know choose classes or specs they dislike just to satisfy their team's objectives. (BUT I DON'T)

It will definitely be a while till we're back to top level play, but expect to see mostly familiar names. I can't really speak to what matrix we'll exactly be running but it probably will be closer to a 2.5healer team than a 4DPS team. I'll very much miss playing on our 4DPS team; I think that it was by far the best team we'd ever had -- I would have been very comfortable playing that team on the private server. That being said, I like having diverse experience and welcome the chance to try and learn additional team formats. It's probably about time to trade in some of these +dmg gems though. ^^

Moving forward I have a few articles that I've been wanting to write in varying stages of completeness. Aesthyr is at Leipzig for the gaming show and promises he will give me at least a few paragraphs on his thoughts on SC2. I've had lots of time to read various fantasy WLK talent setups and analysis threads, and would like to do at least a little discussion of what I hope to see...and what I think we'll see.

Despite blue posts and rumors to the contrary, my spies have told me that the Beta pass from Blizzcon is indeed for SC2 and not WLK; supposedly, beta passes for WLK will be awarded to guild with significant PvE progression, to participants in the previous TBC beta, and to high ranking arena players. Again, this isn't "reliable" info, but I trust it more than the other sources I've seen. =p

I'm sure to mention this many more times before WSVG this weekend, but best of luck to the Yeah We Lift and Trounce guys. Just remember that you wouldn't be rated 1400 on BG 9. (Not Even 1400 on BG9 is a sick team name btw)

In response to being asked in comments and on IRC what I do, how I shouldn't mix WoW and RL, and other weird things: I don't really talk about that stuff on this blog. It isn't relevant. The end. ^^ (1. Who really cares 2. No reason to give haters ammo) Even comments like "I BET YOU JUMP A LOT IRL" leave me shivering, cold and naked, listening to death cab, praying for sweet death's gentle embrace. The district sleep alone tonight ~~

Actually sort of on that topic, I'm flattered to have been approached and offered the opportunity to write for many of the PvP related blogs out there. I'm still undecided exactly what I'll do, but I do like having my own site even if it remains small relative to the leading brands. It's nice having a site I can update from my phone, where I know a large number of those who leave comments (I don't get 100+ anonymous "YOU GAY SUCK SUCKY" everyday), where people can read it from work and the RSS feed actually works, where I can write at my own pace on my own topics without "dragging down the team", and where there is absolutely zero drama or conflict of interest. That said, I'm still open-minded.

I started using Proximo after watching the Rag Dolled vid; I had heard that it was the best arena mod previously, but I was way too lazy to check it out. After just a week of use, it is AWESOME. Even though I use Nurfed with party targets, I really like the built in targeting bars. They're not useful for assisting, but are quick and intuitive for telling who's targeting who. It's a bit hard to describe how it's better than Gladiator or Nurfed Arena, so just go check it out. =p

Since I'm really skipping around like crazy from topic to topic, I'll add a farewell to ArenaBlogger, which not only was among the few WoW PvP blogs with a working RSS feed (UNLIKE THE BLOG FORMERLY KNOWN AS SHADOW GAMING), but also was a fun blog for keeping track of teams across the different battlegroups. I tend to keep in touch with at least a few BG9 players (who remind me how I'm bad and would never make it on BG9, duh, that's why I stay on Scrubstrike), and I know what's happening on our BG, but Cyclone, Reckoning? Who knows! Who cares? Nobody good plays there anyways. It was always kind of fun reading about random teams I'd otherwise never would have known existed. (And will possibly face at the end of the season)