Quick Question

If you could just log in to WoW, pick your char/class when you login and have default PvP gear and items available for all players exclusive to Arena, would you still play WoW? Take away everything MMO and just make it an arena game, would it be a game we'd want to play?

I'm not really sure. I'd like to be able to log in and play any class I want without going through the pain in the ass process of gearing up multiple characters to be arena ready. Want to try that stupid War/War/War/Dru/Dru team? No problem. But I still like the sense of having a 'main' that ties you to the community more strongly, can the two co-exist? I get that WoW is an MMO and it's not that type of game blah blah.

I know a lot of people will say WoW lacks the depth to be fun if played this way; I'm not really sure if it does or not. However the TTR experience has to at least make you think WoW could be fun, at least a little bit, if played this way. Being able to play a few games as a different character without investing hundreds of hours isn't so unreasonable, is it?

(I'm not asking for any game changes just talking GOD)

Has Laddy Turned Into a Ming?

See, my blog posts are like the box of chocolates the chubby girl in 3rd grade who had a crush on you tried to give you. She was really sweet but still, you know, kind of chubby. Sure you felt bad accepting a gift from her when you weren't interested, but you know what, chocolate is fucking delicious. So when your learned the box was empty and she broke down crying "Don't blame me, blame the chocolates -- they were too delicious, " you were conflicted. Next thing you know, one thing leads to another and you're now a man; you smacked the box out her hands and told the whole class what she'd done. (3rd grade you sickos)

So my posts lack content as of late. I should be talking about Arena PvP and why this matrix counters that matrix and who really gives a fuck -- all that can wait. How the hell can we possibly play WoW when its future as a possible eSport hangs so precariously in the balance? And didn't I mention that Owen Wilson thing? It wasn't heroin people, he was kicked off his WSVG LA team. Apparently, he played priest, but could only play shadow.

Okay, serious raddy here. It's my belief that much of the WoW burnout is a product of players limiting their WoW interest to Arena PvP. I think this is generally unfulfilling for the majority of players for many reasons: lack of competition, team scheduling issues, repetition, and the rock/paper/scissors nature of some of the arena brackets. With dueling relegated to mostly a PTR thing and World PvP dead, this leaves BGs as the primary source for PvP. I love BGs, but many players don't. On that same train of thought, the nature of my blogging is going to change with my changing perspective on how best to take advantage of PvP within WoW. I'm not going casual or anything, if anything the opposite (I think arena is generally lower skill than other forms of PvP), but I'm not going to be updating my blog with countless "We went 18-1 last night and gained 30 rating blah blah" because such content is fucking boring and I want to drink a smoothie of my genitals every time I read one of those updates. Okay, now excuse me while I go back to being an asshat.

No WSVG? I Don't Even Want to Breathe Anymore

I don't want air in my lungs. I don't want fucking air. Don't even talk about WoW to me. That game is fucking dead. I'm going to go listen to music and masturbate to my Ben Gibbard poster. After that, who knows, with WSVG gone, who fucking knows. I think I'll clean out my closet, tell my mom I'm sorry (that I won't be bringing home those WSVG winnings), and maybe clean out my closet one more time.

Yeah, I'm a fucking douchebag, but everyone is so fucking Owen Wilson about this whole thing, and while I'm extremely disappointed, was this shocking? The WSVG events looked incredible to attend, and I was hugely jealous that I couldn't go because they seemed fun to be at -- not so much with the watching. And, yeah, I'm not eulogizing WSVG as the "best thing to happen to WoW" because while the twenty minutes of arena and 7 minutes of heaven that were Freddy Wong were great to watch, hours of dead time and those stupid IBM loser dancing commericals can kiss my ass goodbye. (the same teeth and tongues rules apply as previously discussed)

The demise of the WSVG is essentially the exact same as Marissa's death -- are you really going to blame Ryan (WoW), or can you just accept that the responsibility lies on Kevin alone? Sure, WoW wasn't there for WSVG -- there were some hard times for WSVG and WoW was off doing other things, but that doesn't make WoW responsible. He was just there and it happened too fast and there was nothing he could fucking do.

It should be an interesting few days. Lots of eFamous people will quit the game for other eSports to pursue their eCareers and despite the fact that I'm being a huge faggot about this, it is pretty brutal to the people who were in position to get paid a fair chunk of money or who were instrumental in running the events. Weirdly, this is my way of saying that I'm sorry for everyone hurt by the failure of WSVG...and that's about all the seriousness I have left in me.

I'll really miss that girl who announced the Louisville event where Freddy Wong cocked out with his rock out. I loved listening to her mental math, "An 8, a 7, and another 8. That's great. That puts you at 19, sorry I mean 22 for the round and in third place." I could listen to her add numbers for hours -- that is what WSVG should do instead. I'll be your VC if you ever want to do a "Cute Girls Trying to Add" show.

Just remember if you're feeling sad or lonely about this WSVG thing, I'll be there for you. Blogging. Defending. There.

Hey kid, need any help?

Where Have All the WoW Blogs Gone?

Where is my World of Drifting? Where is my Yea We Lift? Where is my Shadow Gaming? Where have all the WoW Blogs gone~

People are burning out. During times like these, it used to be Warhammer. But, we all knew that nobody was really quitting WoW for Warhammer. Those little toy figure things? Good luck with that brosephs, don't let the door hit you in the NEVER GETTING LAID on the way out.

And NO, I'm not going to rant anymore about Fury because I'll fucking "regret it." I will say that Fury will leave you all like Eva Green after witnessing Bond murder those men in the stairwell, scared and shivering, crying and alone in your shower trying to wash the filth off your bodies, but it just won't come out, it won't fucking come out. YOU WILL BE THE ONES WHO "REGRET IT."

So...what happened? I'm feeling it too and I don't do the whole black lipstick emo thing. Yeah sure, I might have used a girl's gloss once, but it was to moisturize and I didn't know it had glitter in it. Anyways, I spent a long time thinking about what's making everyone lose interest in the game, and I'm pretty sure that it is warlocks. They're really fucking gay. Nobody likes them.

It has gotten so bad I've taken to watching "Exploration" vids. And no, we're not talking DP or fisting, they're videos of people like jumping off cliffs with Slowfall and just...like walking around. Fuck Neilyo7, I can't wait to see what this guy jumps off next! Apparently, even the "explorers" are pretty emo as, at the end of Nerf Slowfall2, there's a long segment dedicated to how flying mounts ruined "hardcore exploration." (I previously blamed my sense of decency)

Perhaps part of it is people not actually trying to have any fun with arena. Logging in to obsess about your rating and act cocky while never actually playing any good teams somehow does get mildly tiresome -- yet makes great PvP blog material. Of course, this just leaves you in a position to be horribly humiliated and humbled inevitably, and nobody wants that. Yeah, it's like that. If only my blogging was as good as my... oh fuck subtlety.

And seriously where are the boomkin and enhancement shaman PvP blogs? Must we all play the exact same matrices with the exact same strategies and then complain about counters and resists and crits? Let's see you counter my enhancement shaman, 30/0/31 druid, rogue/lock 3s team. People have prioritized winning over balling and that's why nobody is having fun. Why spec Slow? BECAUSE ITS BALLER.

I'm not advocating becoming one of The Sucks. (You know who you are) I just miss when people were trying out new shit. I don't agree at all with the notion that 4DPS was made possible by season 2 gear scaling -- it was made possible by people seeing that other teams were making it work, so they adapted and made it work. The same will hold true for the next big thing -- that's just how it is in this game. (And it is exactly true in PvE too. Oh Nihilum killed this boss? Well I guess he's killable then blah blah blah)

The whole situation isn't improved by being in permanent limbo on this stupid 2.2 patch. Thank you for giving The Sucks who are too antisocial to use Vent the ability to shriek into their mics at us. I can't wait to hear the voice of that female NE hunter who takes zerking from me in every WSG. Somehow I doubt its a hottie with a slight HK accent, a broken air conditioner, and a webcam.

Ultimately, WoW doesn't depend at all on competitive arena tournament-style PvP. I was always content with the guild vs guild BG matches, test server duels, and world PvP against the big names on the server. I always thought WoW PvP was pretty solid well before arenas, tournaments, and sponsored "professional" gamers -- I love these things too, but the notion that the "hardcore" "elite" of WoW are going to move on to some other MMO and destroy WoW PvP with their exodus is retarded. I think SC2 cannibalizing WoW's PvP "space" is a much greater concern.