As I sit here eating the remaining sushi that the partners purchased for the office earlier today, I'm thinking two things. First, lunch was nearly 12 hours ago at this point and I'll probably be dead before the morning to food poisoning. Second, it's time for a sick blog entry. (that was a play on sick, wow that's bad)
Yes, I'm still playing 38/23, and I haven't changed my mind about its potential yet. I'm hoping to line up some duels with a few people in the next few days to try out some ideas, but I do plan on sticking elemental for at least a little while. (That includes arenas!) See, playing a bad spec is like when you and another dude are practicing your "sweet kino" moves on each other and one thing leads to another and, well, you really just don't know who you are anymore. All you know is that you've changed and you can't go back.
Whenever I get around to starting this next vid, the majority of it will be 38/23 with some older clips from back when I played WE on our 4DPS team. Albis4 was 37/24 which is pretty similar, and is largely my inspiration for doing this vid -- think Arathi Basin instead of World PvP though. LOL. Worse editing, worse UI, but more grenades is the goal.
His 37/24 spec is interesting and was what I played when I first wanted to try level 70 elemental variants -- basically, you take full Imp CoC and spam it whenever its up. Obviously you get a good deal more damage out of having fully talented CoC, but you give up arctic reach (not a huge deal) and you end up spending a LOT more mana. Inevitably, I find using CoC above rank 1 prohibitive the majority of the time. For world PvP where you know you're taking on 1-2 people probably, it's a better spec but when you're going from fight to fight as you would inside a BG or when you're in a long arena match, you really can't afford the extra 500 mana each cast. Sure you can pick up MoE at the cost of some fire damage, but considering the mediocrity of elemental's damage output, I think you need all the damage you can get.
Apparently a few more of the Stormstrike teams have died over the last couple days. Hopefully the remnants can fill the missing pieces and have new rosters for next season; the termination of WSVG has really felt like the "end" of season two. The remaining weeks till titles are awarded (I assume the tournament is not happening at this point) are very much an afterthought, at least on my mind. I'm generally clueless as to what's going on these recent weeks, and logging in to learn that so-and-so has quit basically leaves you feeling like when your girlfriend drunk dials you, "Hey I just won $20 on a bet with some idiot -- he didn't think I could suck the cream filling out of a Twinkie without damaging the sponge cake." Proud. I mean, frustrated.
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First. Too serious. =(
raddy admit it your are into the game! hence all your ballerness
im so good now i can pick up chicks in a club saying "Hey did You know rogues do it from behind?!" Im mad kino its like no cooldown, not even clobal - just instant bamm! - 50 health!!! from there its just a grind they may try to interrupt my spells but fuckit i can just like blink and get right in their face again. Shittest you say? Nay Nay i got iceblox! so its just like they are immune. And by that time i have pulled so much aggro that even a vanish wont work like cuz im so sick!
I have no idea what you just said, but I'm pretty sure it was awesome.
Whoah, where did this come from
Give me some insider secrets rad. I'm good for it!
Once your insider, it's pretty straightforward
ROFL
Your a pervert. I grow tired of the same jokes again and again.
You're never on irc anymore raddy
'Baller' is getting around rad. Read new World of Ming.
I'll be back to being on a lot after this weekend. Been using laptop for work crap during the day and haven't really been home enough to bother.
Browsing YouPorn all day looking for half asian girls doesn't exactly qualify as work
i knew raddy was a cute blond after all
38/23 is a blast to play... I'm just looking for 2 more points in improved fireblast and a way to kill a warlock without engineering :-(
- Ben
How can you "spam" something with a cool down?
"Spam it whenever it's up" God, I hate the abuse of the word spam.
Radikal, Ming is writing a book. Get to it. I want someone to laugh at this with. Also, search for my name on the WoW (General Discussion) forums if you care at all about Hunter stuffs. Which I doubt you do. Did I mention, Ming is writing a book about WoW?
I want to see a ming/raddy/dahis/noktyn compilation book. It'll be like some international summit of cyberathlete e-personalities.
Think Jerry Springer of MMO's, it would be glorious.
That is the most horrible thought I've ever heard.
yea that was pretty terrible when ming said baller. but i think its funny that you think raddy made it popular.
Baller post, as you would say. Good mix of fun and interesting content.
p.s. i'm english, can anyone explain to me 'baller'? obviously i get that it means 'great' or 'awesome' etc, but in a bit more detail? (perhaps i can even introduce it into england haha)
http://www.univision.com/content/content.jhtml;jsessionid=25MYFAAY4VYB2CWIAAOSFFQKZAAB2IWC?cid=1276944
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=baller
I not only coined the term "baller" but I also created sex with women and pretty much everything round.
You should write a book raddy, you like to follow after ming
"Once your insider, it's pretty straightforward"
Now THAT is fucking EPIC
way to be scrub way to be
"You should write a book raddy, you like to follow after ming"
Whereas you like to cum before Ming?
I see we're classing it up, LOL.
Name the BG and time, I want to walk around in stealth in case of situations where you won't be able to 1vN. Tear some kids up - a normal afternoon at the elementary school basketball court, basically.
I wish people would think about those who suffer from COBS when they go around saying "baller this" and "baller that."
I've suffered from Chronic Over Ballage Syndrome (aka Balleritis) for just about my entire life. It is virtually impossible for me to not ball out when doing any activity anywhere. I've been injured in a number of "over-balling" accidents that have seriously effected my ability to not ball out in the real world.
Balling seems like fun...until it's all your life consists of.
Please, I implore you, think twice about your use of the word baller if you are not a sufferer of COBS.
It is quite obvious that many of you are living happily without this awful disease as your comments on this site are almost completely absent of balliciousness.
I thank you for your time.
-Ballexial
i fucking love you alex
What uses do you find for shatter in your 38/23 build? During my short stint as elemental, I almost fell like I'd at times rather not have it and be able to send over 3-4 Ice lances (non-crit so it didn't break nova) and pump out a pretty significant amount of damage while being mobile and for very little mana.
In a build with Imp. CoC, its an obvious choice, but not in 38/23 IMO.
Not having shatter also allows you the move to 40/21. Just brainstorming.
I <3 you lex LOL
The change to nova where lances break it more quickly was rescinded, I'm not sure why this was never made a bigger deal of, but I frequently get multiple 1600+ lance crits on a single nova again.
I'd be very hesitant to not go with shatter as I don't really feel like ice lance is that critical to doing damage off of novas in a lot of situations.
There are a lot of variants to elemental specs which is partially why I think they keep you entertained so long. I can think of tons of slightly different tweaks that I'd like to try -- fortunately, prohibitive respect costs and never having more than 100 gold due to grenades being retarded expensive keep me from wasting too much time trying to "optimize."
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