Despite not playing WoW in, well, 7 months, I randomly decided to see what's up with everyone, but well yeah, my US mage is perma'd and my EU rogue is perma'd. COOLIO. I assume this problem will be resolved by the fat virgins at Blizzard if I call them and remind them who the fuck I am, but these pretty fingers weren't meant for dialing long distance. (So kryoh, how about you give me that mage since you're awful)
The class previews looked pretty sweet not going to lie. Arena looks like it's going YUGIOH style - YOU TRIGGERED MY TRAP CARD WALL OF FOG. OH SHIT THIS BOOMKIN IS SHROOMING ME. FUCK I CANT HIT HIM THE ROGUE SMOKE BOMBED. WAIT NVM THE OOMKIN IS JUST HURRICANING.
It's way too soon to react to specifics of the mage changes (YES I WILL BE PLAYING MAGE AGAIN FINALLY), but shit like logic has never stopped before, so without further ado, than this right here, ado, here's my initial feelings: (not thoughts, FEELINGS)
Flame Orb - This sounds nerdy and dumb but maybe hilarious depending on how stupid and big the orb is and if it matters if it hits you. Will it break CC? (Please god no) Is kiting along your orb path viable? It's a little hard for me to imagine how this could be amazing in PvP (and as for PvE, I think it's slightly cooler than just spamming LB), but it sounds like there's probably some small handed potential.
Time Warp - "Grants a passive Haste effect ..[]" Passive? WTF does that mean? It's unclear to me if this is actually heroism even though nerds everywhere are like OMG MAGE BUDLUST. If it is heroism, it's cool but retarded as I'm not looking forward to getting exhaustion from nerds who sprint out the gate in WSG to steal my zerking. My guess would be that this doesn't give exhaustion but is somewhat less powerful (15% maybe?) and simply doesn't stack. I would rather this me location based and not party/raid based as that seems like the direction things are going. (POSITIONING > MINDLESSNESS) It would be particularly badass if it was just like a 15 yd AoE granting friendlies 15% movement + haste and hostiles - 15% etc, but I best shut up before the vultures scream OH PENIS.
Wall of Fag - WHY YOU CLEAVERS BREAK DOWN MY SHITTY WALL. This sounds fucking awesome.
AM Change - A little confusing but I can see no downside to greater spell variety if the balance is solid. I assume this goes along with removing MBAM and reworking the spell to be generally a similar dps burst mechanic.
No Frost Haste Mastery - NOESSS I NEED SICK DF COMBOS FML
Scorch Change - Probably cool but it still doesn't really solve the fire pvp issue that there's no good way to actually deal damage unless it interacts differently with different fire spells. (Increases next fireball by say 5%, next BW/DB/fireblast by 25%)
Mirror Image - Can we get a redesign for these dumb nerds?
Junk Buffs - HOW WILL I PROTECT MYSELF FROM DEVOURDOGS?
Playing With Fire - Cool idea maybe? I don't really like the RNG disarm crap in fire so hopefully there will be a more predictable/controllable punish for melee training fire mages. (BETTER NOT LEAVE HIM ALONE OR HE MIGHT START SCORCHING US GUYS)
Burnout Change - YAY I WONT LOSE DUELS BECAUSE I OOMED MYSELF WITH MANA SHIELD. I need to lay off the caps. I love this shit though. LOOK AT ME MOM IM A BIG WARLOCK NOW.
Arcane Adept - DOUBLE MAGE 2S TRINKET AP IV GEM ABABABAB DID WE WIN? FUCK IM AT 60% WERE FUCKED. Actually...this is retarded. I think innervate needs to go if this stays as I can't imagine the nerdrage that's going to result from the DPS swings that not getting a vate is going to cause. Maybe some spells aren't affected by the penalty/bonus such as barrage? So you have one high mana rotation, one med, and one low? Sounds complicated and not really that cool tbh.
New Ignite - It sounds like this is per spell which is potentially cool as it might reward mixing in a few more spells to max your running ignite. (ffb, fb, and fblast even maybe?) Could be cool in PvP depending on relative strength of dot as you could maybe get decent single target dps with BW+instant FS+fireblast and all 3 dots.
Deathfrost - Yay no more fbolt turreting and BF procs might actually matter.
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Lolla + Pitchfork 2010
So, most of the lineups are announced, and after my initial excitement over pitchfork getting Raekwon, LCD, and Modest Mouse, the rest of pitchfork has descended into shitty folk/indie hell whilst Lolla has once again managed to shit all over the pitchfork nerds recruiting Arcade Fire, Phoenix, MGMT, The XX, The Stars, and The Walkmen + a bunch of other sort of cool live acts + some truly fucking awful headliners. Chris Cornell is alive? GREEN DAY LOL. I'm having trouble trying to sleep. I'm counting sheep but running low. As times ticks by. Yeahhhhhh kill yourselves.
Crystal Castles at Lolla last year was the best show I've ever attended and while Lolla is full of the "wrong kind of white people" (jean shorts), the Pitchfork hipster crowd is equally disgusting in their skinny jeans + cardigans considering they're all 15 lbs overweight and there's significant muffin leakage. I really don't get the folk vibe these past two years.
It's kind of like Chicago's obsession with snobby hamburgers. In the past six months, an another dozen or so trendy burgher places have opened and yelpers and 4sqs of the world unite to fluff, finish, and gargle burger joints that are all but identical to either what you'd find at any random bar in the city, or on the grease-burgher side, In and Out. (But probably shittier because no animal style)
I actually ended up at one of the better chicago hamburger obsessions last night after failing to close this cutie because her madcow "friend" leap of faithed me when I just about to get her to do another round of soco and limes. Which is perhaps fine because I got to have ground up cow instead of spelunking a girl who, based on her dress and sluttiness towards me, was probably more Sarlacc than doorway to Narnia. Speaking of tentacle vagina toys:
Okay, so there's no way a little kid wants that shit. WHICH OF YOU SICKO VIRGINS IS BUYING STAR WARS VAGINA MONSTERS.
Crystal Castles at Lolla last year was the best show I've ever attended and while Lolla is full of the "wrong kind of white people" (jean shorts), the Pitchfork hipster crowd is equally disgusting in their skinny jeans + cardigans considering they're all 15 lbs overweight and there's significant muffin leakage. I really don't get the folk vibe these past two years.
It's kind of like Chicago's obsession with snobby hamburgers. In the past six months, an another dozen or so trendy burgher places have opened and yelpers and 4sqs of the world unite to fluff, finish, and gargle burger joints that are all but identical to either what you'd find at any random bar in the city, or on the grease-burgher side, In and Out. (But probably shittier because no animal style)
I actually ended up at one of the better chicago hamburger obsessions last night after failing to close this cutie because her madcow "friend" leap of faithed me when I just about to get her to do another round of soco and limes. Which is perhaps fine because I got to have ground up cow instead of spelunking a girl who, based on her dress and sluttiness towards me, was probably more Sarlacc than doorway to Narnia. Speaking of tentacle vagina toys:
Okay, so there's no way a little kid wants that shit. WHICH OF YOU SICKO VIRGINS IS BUYING STAR WARS VAGINA MONSTERS.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Why Is There No Llamas with Hats Three?
It's an early gray morning and as I sit here, whilst watching Jack Bauer thug out and catching up on WoW news, I can't help but think, a la Danny Glover, "I'm too old for this shit."
But then I remember that I'm not an old black man and feeling old is but one step towards becoming a Ganondorf and losing your princess to a gay elf. Speaking of old, and well black men, I'm apparently supposed to care about the Master's because Tigger rhymes with bigger is back. I even caught some of his press conference where apparently he regurgitated the well known dark side manta about death leading to prescription drugs, and then to sexting, and then hookers, and so forth. I noticed the wife was conspicuously absent so if Tiger starts moving erratically, we can assume that voodoo doll shit works. Oh, and the goatee? ONLY BAD GUYS WEAR THAT SHIT, TIGER!
I'm going to go now.
But then I remember that I'm not an old black man and feeling old is but one step towards becoming a Ganondorf and losing your princess to a gay elf. Speaking of old, and well black men, I'm apparently supposed to care about the Master's because Tigger rhymes with bigger is back. I even caught some of his press conference where apparently he regurgitated the well known dark side manta about death leading to prescription drugs, and then to sexting, and then hookers, and so forth. I noticed the wife was conspicuously absent so if Tiger starts moving erratically, we can assume that voodoo doll shit works. Oh, and the goatee? ONLY BAD GUYS WEAR THAT SHIT, TIGER!
I'm going to go now.
Monday, April 5, 2010
Bieber or Die
Why are we rallying?
I think there's a significant probability that we end up in a long slow equity grind for the next 18 months with a few minor, by which I mean, sub 5% corrections, but this is all contingent on there being no news/events that can't be discounted -- wars, European political craziness, aliens, etc. The driving force for this rally has zero to do with any changes in the domestic or international economic situation, because there's been no reform, housing has yet to recover at all, there's increasing unrest in Easter Europe (Sup Hungary, plz don't elect a nazi), attempts to stabilize the Middle East (and the horn of Africa) have been generally a failure and Israel is still trigger happy, and yeah the world is still the world and more than all of that nonsense, there's still this underlying dread that we can't meaningfully employ the masses. (Which is a vague thing to say but in the 21st post-mechanical post-industrial economy, what is the use of hundreds of millions of workers?)
BUT, despite all of that BS, there's still a lot of money that needs to find a home, and although treasury yields are pretty steep in the US and Europe relative to the short end of the curve, so much of that is a product of sovereign CDS fears (notice that J&J Corp debt is cheaper than US debt cool bro), that basically, the only option is to dump $$ into equities. This is magnified by an unattractive housing market, which is made unattractive through not only still-high prices, but also extremely punitive mortgage rates.
This is all not terribly interesting and the sort of bullshit you could read on yahoo, but I think what IS pretty interesting in this equity rally is the annihilation of volatility in both Asia and the US. If the world is truly "reluctantly" going along with the equity rally because of simply a lack of options, wouldn't one expect vol to remain bid? Is the world synthetically hedging against repeat catastrophic equity failure in other ways? (Which I guess would be something like long crude, short Euros, long Yen) Is this a super crowded trade and what happens on the unwind?
I think there's a significant probability that we end up in a long slow equity grind for the next 18 months with a few minor, by which I mean, sub 5% corrections, but this is all contingent on there being no news/events that can't be discounted -- wars, European political craziness, aliens, etc. The driving force for this rally has zero to do with any changes in the domestic or international economic situation, because there's been no reform, housing has yet to recover at all, there's increasing unrest in Easter Europe (Sup Hungary, plz don't elect a nazi), attempts to stabilize the Middle East (and the horn of Africa) have been generally a failure and Israel is still trigger happy, and yeah the world is still the world and more than all of that nonsense, there's still this underlying dread that we can't meaningfully employ the masses. (Which is a vague thing to say but in the 21st post-mechanical post-industrial economy, what is the use of hundreds of millions of workers?)
BUT, despite all of that BS, there's still a lot of money that needs to find a home, and although treasury yields are pretty steep in the US and Europe relative to the short end of the curve, so much of that is a product of sovereign CDS fears (notice that J&J Corp debt is cheaper than US debt cool bro), that basically, the only option is to dump $$ into equities. This is magnified by an unattractive housing market, which is made unattractive through not only still-high prices, but also extremely punitive mortgage rates.
This is all not terribly interesting and the sort of bullshit you could read on yahoo, but I think what IS pretty interesting in this equity rally is the annihilation of volatility in both Asia and the US. If the world is truly "reluctantly" going along with the equity rally because of simply a lack of options, wouldn't one expect vol to remain bid? Is the world synthetically hedging against repeat catastrophic equity failure in other ways? (Which I guess would be something like long crude, short Euros, long Yen) Is this a super crowded trade and what happens on the unwind?
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