107 Facts You Probably Didnt know WoW
#1-10 - Members of the Shado-Pan faction will sometimes say: "We are the watchers on the walls." or "We are the sword in the shadows." These are very similar to some of the vows taken by members of the Night's Watch in the A Game of Thrones. Also the Shado-Pan themselves have many similarities with the Night's Watch, and the seies. The gloves
[Syrio's Gloves of Tutelage] and their flavor text are a reference to the character Syrio Forel from the show and books.
#2-106 - You can find the a permanint corpse of a "clumsy advenutre" at the botton of a cliff in nagrand https://i.imgur.com/AViklDY.png
#3-73 - Some giant sea turtles native to the Southern seas were captured by the Stormreaver clan in the Second War, and were subsequently used by goblin mercenaries as submarines.
#4-66 - After the Scourge invasion of Quel'thalas, which killed about 90% of the elven population, the survivors retreated to Sunstrider Island, the blood elf starting zone. Sunstrider Island is the only elven territory that has never fallen to the Scourge.
#5-64 - A handful of Leper Gnomes work with the Forsaken in Lordaeron. They usually work for the Royal Apothecary Society as assistants and apprentices
#6-3 - The toads at the Pools of Purity in Pandaria (Rash, Zitz, and Pimple) are references to the old arcade game Battletoads.
#7-20 - The quest "Magnets, How Do They Work?" is a reference to the song "Miracles" by Insane Clown Posse. A line from the song goes as follows, (eh-hum) "Fuckin' magnets, how do they work?" which became an internet meme.
The item [Psychopathic Hatchet] might be a reference to the group's label which is named "Psychopathic Records" featuring a man with a hatchet as their logo.
#8-25 - The Scourge archers seen early on in the Death Knight quest chain are called Sky Darkeners, referring to this exchange from 300: "Our arrows will blot out the sun!" "Then we will fight in the shade."
#9-101 - most, if not all of the old gods are based on creatures created by HP love craft.
Cthun; Cthulhu.
Yogg-Saron; Yog-Sothoth. Also from Yogg-Saron: 'The fiend of a thousand maws' is a reference to H.P. Lovecraft 'Shrub-Niggurath, 'the Black Goat with a Thousand Young'.
Y'shaarj; 'the black goat with seven heads' which is whispered from Yogg-Saron is also from H.P. LoveCraft; Shub-Niggurath. The Black goat in Lovecraft is Shub-Niggurath.
N'zoth; Zoth-ommog.
The emerald dream; the dream state or cycle of C'thulhu and Dungeons and Dragons.
Also, Azeroth; Azathoth, from H.P. Lovecraft.
#10-96 - There was a clan on draenor that never made it to Azeroth called "the lightning blade clan" who have a ritual where they try to get hit by lightning. Theres a reason they're not around anymore. http://redd.it/3be3l8 theres even a server named after them.
#11-108 - if you look on the map in a horde level 3 garrison table, you can see the ilsand of faralon off the coast of Gorgrond, which was planned to be in Warlords but was cut from the game And another island right below nagrand. As for the island below Nagrand, my bess guess would be that it was suppose to be the Thundering Isle. https://i.imgur.com/EV4Iv8I.png
#12-62 - All of the forsaken ships are actually just old lordorn ships dredged up from the bottom of the ocean.
#13-57 - C'Thun, the final boss of AQ40, will whisper the words "You... are... already... dead..." and "Your... heart... will... explode...". Kenshiro, the lead character from the anime Fist of the North Star, is extremely famous for the initial line, and often through his fighting style would cause massive internal damage to his opponents, including making their heart explode in an extremely violent fashion.
#14-45 - In Uldaman there are three dwarves, Olaf, Eric "The Swift", and Baelog, who are the three Lost Vikings from Blizzard's Super nintendo sidescrolling game and a playable character in Heroes of the storm. Alliance players can get two quests involving them, and Horde players are required to kill them to fully complete the instance. Their combat abilities from the original game have been translated faithfully to the Warcraft universe. When killed, Baelog drops the sword [Nordic Longshank], and [Baelog's Shortbow]; Olaf drops a shield, [Olaf's All Purpose Shield], which allows the user to float for 10 seconds; and Eric "The Swift" drops [Worn Running Boots], and a [Horned Viking Helmet] with the ability to charge the enemy, stunning it for 30 seconds and stunning you for a shorter period of time—these abilities are references to the characters' unique abilities in The Lost Vikings. There are also two items that Alliance players must retrieve in conjunction with the quest The Hidden Chamber: [The Shaft of Tsol] and the [Gni'kiv Medallion]. These two items contain the words "Lost Viking" spelled backwards.http://www.wowhead.com/quest=37153/time-lost-vikings
#15-43 - A death knight starter quest "How To Win Friends And Influence Enemies" is a play on the title of Dale Carnegie's book How To Win Friends and Influence People. A popular book for leaning how to manipulate people.
#16-80 - In vanilla, warriors recklessness ability had a 30 minute cooldown. It also increased the damage you took while givging you 100% crit chance. Can you imagine a major dps cooldown with a 30 minute cooldown today?
#17-78 - with over 14 million copies sold, wow is the second best selling computer game of all time, right behind minecraft.
#18-82 - Many companion pets have special emotes for when they are out in the world. Creepy crate will death grip nearby critters randomly, the sunreaver sentry will randomly send out a shock wave to kill all nearyby critters, The fiendish imp will sometimes summon a different imp when summoned, and many, many more, most of which involve killing critters.
#19-84 - In Gorgron, there is the secret little island with 4 chairs and a camp fire. If you click the campfire it takes you to a a cave with the same set up, only in the timeless isle.
#20-90 - In the entrance to the mana tombs, there is an npc named "Slim" the shady dealer, who isnt very happy about what his name is a reference too.
#21-91 - Before mailboxes had 12 slots for items, you use to only be able to mail 1 thing at a time.
#22-1 - wild hammer fact checker right next to falstad is red shirt guy.
#23-9-In Dread Wastes , the Buffs that the Klakki give have names referring to some heavy metal song.
Black Sabbath - Iron Man(tid) and Children of the Grave (enchantment)
Slayer - Angel of Death and Raining Blood (enchantment)
Queensrÿche - Silent Lucidity (enchantment)
Deep Purple - Speed King (augmentation)
Metallica - Seek and Destroy and Master of Puppets (augmentation)
Manowar - Battle Hymn (augmentation)
Judas Priest - Painkiller (augmentation)
#24-104 - the 2014 blizzcon cosplay contest winner had a very well done Grand Empress Shek’zeer costume, but it broke apart before she could accept her prize. In game there is a fairy dragon named after her who will tranform into the costume if you talk to it. http://imgur.com/a/SYeq2
#25-103 - "Ulduar is possibly a reference to the god Uldar/Ulthar from H.P. Lovecraft's Cthuhlu mythos. Uldar was an "Elder God" (much like the Titans) sent to Earth to keep vigil over the "Great Old Ones" (which the Old Gods are based on), much like how Ulduar is a prison for an Old God."
The keepers in Ulduar are direct references from Norse.
Freya: Freyja
Mimiron: míri
Hodir: höor or hod
Thorim: Thor. This could also be a reference to the element Thorium.
Auriaya: Auriaya having cats can also be attributed towards Lovecraft mythos, in which cats are known to be denizens of the dream-city Ulthar. They exact retribution on those who slay felines within the city's walls.
Loken: Loki
Algalon "The name Algalon appears to be a combination of Algol, a bright three-star system in the constellation Perseus colloquially known as the "Demon Star", and mentioned in H.P. Lovecraft's Beyond the Wall of Sleep; and Eidolon, which is an Astral Double of a living being."
97 - There is a very subtle How to train your dragon reference in the Horde frosthall tavern https://i.imgur.com/8muaO4g.jpg
13 - The achievement Do a Barrel Roll! is a reference to Star Fox 64. The line, which was delivered by Peppy Hare as advice to the player, became an internet meme.
31 - While not quite making it into The Burning Crusade (as it was renamed [Gladiator's Slicer]), the [The Sword of a Thousand Truths] was introduced as a drop in the new Naxxramas, and renamed [Slayer of the Lifeless], complete with the flavor text, "Foretold by Salzman," both obvious nods to the "Make Love, Not Warcraft" episode.
32 - One of the phases of Mimiron is named "V-07-TR-0N", a reference to the anime robot Voltron. Additionally, the achievement title "And I'll Form the Head!" gained when looting Mimiron's Head is a quote from the show.
36 - Algalon the Observer is likely named after the star Algol, also known as the "Demon Star" and traditionally considered an ill omen due to its unusual trait of inconsistent brightness.
40 -Next up, I'll talk about a few Simpsons References for this 1 fact.
There is a quest NPC in Eversong Woods named Groundskeeper Wyllithen, a reference to Groundskeeper Willie.
The skinning trainer in Shattrath City is called Seymour <Grand Master Skinner>, a reference to Seymour Skinner the principal of Springfield Elementary School.
The [Mr. Pinchy] item is a direct reference to the lobster that Homer raises and is forced to eat by himself when he accidentally cooks it.
Millhouse Manastorm, a gnome mage, appears and assists your party during the final boss fight in Arcatraz. This is lickely a reference to Millhouse Van Houten, Bart Simpson's best friend.
Occasionally, one of the children fishing off the docks in Stormwind will yell out that he has caught a big, three-eyed fish just like Blinky the radioactive 3 eyed fish from the series.
60 - In the orc Internment camps, in the Caverns of Time dungeon Escape from Durnholde, The occasional guard will yell "I was just taking orders!", a reference to the common excuse used by Nazi labor camp guards, during the Nuremberg Trials.
17- The Jewelcrafting Cataclysm dailies in Orgrimmar/Stormwind reference characters and events from the series heavily:
B [100 Daily] A Present for Lila - Lila has purple hair, is a ship captain and apparently only has one eye (left) but is still attractive, which are attributes of Turanga Leela as well. Bonder (Curver in the Alliance version) is apparently a thief, which his friends are oblivious about, and likes drinking, which describes Bender. "Bonder" was also how a fraud psychic called him in a séance.
B [100 Daily] Elemental Goo and B [100 Daily] The Latest Fashion! mention (A) Professor Barnsworth and (H) Dr. Vernstrom, which stand for Professor Farnsworth and Dr. Wernstrom, rival scientists and mortal enemies. While The Latest Fashion! mentions disregard for the dangers of science/magic, as well as finding "other" uses for inventions that have proven to be dangerous, a trait of Farnsworth, the "hand stuck in jar" joke in Elemental Goo's completion text might refer to the series' "heads in jars".
B [100 Daily] Nibbler! No! - Nibbler is a direct reference to Leela's pet of the same name, which can (and will) devour and digest anything, while its droppings are too heavy to lift.
49 - In reference to The never ending story - The region "Swamp of Sorrows" is likely a reference to the Swamp of Sadness, where Atreyu loses his horse, Artax.
54 - The Legend of Stalvan quest chain, of which I have a pretty good video of on this channel, are partially about a man infatuated with an adolescent girl named Tilloa, an anagram of Lolita, the titular character of the famous novel "Lolita."
63 - During the First War, the Orcish Horde used their own variation of necromancers, the necrolytes. Bishop Natalie Seline of Lordaeron began delving into the workings of their magic in order to provide the kingdom of Azeroth with assistance. However, over time, she became increasingly obsessed with finding out why such dark energies existed at all. Eventually, she began preaching about the necessity of a balance between the Light and the Shadow, but, after her death, her books were locked away by the Kirin Tor. Some Forsaken priests eventually rediscovered her teachings, thus explaining why undead can become priests, and the existence of Shadow priests.
65 - According to Brann Bronzebeard, the gorlocs of Northrend originate from an unknown frog ancient. The murlocs then evolved from the gorlocs, infesting Azeroth's waters to this day.
61 -
Thinking with Portals - A Memorandum on Proper Portal Usage: One of the funny books that can spawn instead of the real books needed for Higher Learning shares a name with the game's catchphrase.
The Cake Is Not A Lie: Reference to the popular line The Cake Is A Lie.
59 - Hatfield-McCoy feud
In Elwynn Forest are farms owned by two feuding families, the Stonefields and Maclures. This is a reference to the Hatfield/McCoy feud from American history.
58 - There is an NPC on the docks of Southshore named Farmer Kent, a reference to either 'Clark Kent' or his adopted father, a farmer who found and raised Superman.
68 - The Gilgoblins, goblins who live underwater looting sunken ships, were actually an accidental invention of Hobart Grapplehammer, one of the NPCs in the Goblin starting zone. He's not entirely sure whether it's an accomplishment or a failure.Hobart Grapplehammer also invented Subject Nine. Originally a baby raptor from the Barrens, she obtained a very large intelect, made a few babies, built a rocket (with the assistance of the player), and left Azeroth in a small quest chain.
74 - Following the death of Medivh, his staff, Atiesh, was brought to Dalaran. After several members of the Kirin Tor atempted to wield it and died soon afterwards, the staff was locked up and a special position was created to watch it. Following the destruction of Dalaran at the hands of Archimonde, the staff was shattered, and its pieces were scattered all over Azeroth. Through a complicated chain of events, the staff was eventually reforged by Medivh's son, Med'an, and is currently in the possession of Archmage Khadgar.
75 - Since launch, Wow has been played collectively for over 6 million years
4 - The achievements granted for killing rares, [A Worthy Opponent], [Could We Find More Like That?] and [Glorious!] are all famous quotes from the Templar companion in Diablo 3.
5 - The achievment "Alone in the Darkness" is a reference to "Alone in the Dark" which is an action-adventure horror video game with many references to Cthulhu, similar to the Yogg-Saron encounter it's an achievement for.
7- In the cockpit of the [Sky Golem] there is a picture of the Queen of Blades
67 - According to Ask CDev, both Ner'zhul and Arthas were holding back from unleashing their full forces during their respective reigns as the Lich King. If they hadnt, world of warcraft would be called "World of mindless zombie craft".
69 - Goblins served Deathwing 10.000 years ago, back in the War of the Ancients. They were the ones who made Deathwing's original Adamantine armor. Some also served him during his atempt to take over Alterac.
70 - The Dreadlords are the first known to experiment with necromancy in Warcraft lore. During the War of the Ancients, a handful of Dreadlords were seen reanimating corpses in the ruins of Suramar. This shocked and disgusted the observing night elves, with the exception of Illidan Stormrage, who thought it was totally neeto.
72 - The largest animal on Azeroth happens to be a turtle: Shen-zin Su. Several thousand years ago, the pandaren Liu Lang started a journey to explore the world atop Shen-zin Su. He returned to Pandaria every 5 years, and, as the turtle grew bigger, more and more pandaren joined him. After Liu Lang's death, the turtle never returned to Pandaria again, however, it has continued to grow.
6 - The White Tiger Xuen seems to be a fan of Mortal Kombat. Along with his achievement [Finish Them!], he also says "Test. Your. Might!" when you accept his quests.
8 -The female Pandaren's /dance is based off of the internet meme derived from the song Caramelldansen, a very weeabo dance almost as bad as the Haruhi dance, but not as difficult to learn.
53 - In Deeprun Tram, there is a Leper Gnome by the name of Haggle who walks around and says, "Forty-two... forty-two what? It could be anything..." This is a reference to the Douglas Adams classic where the answer to "The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything" is "'Forty-two'". Two popular Questions to the Answer of Forty-Two are "At what number on a certain street in New York City is the club known as Stavro Mueller Beta located at?" and "What do you get if you multiply six by seven?", as well as "How many roads must a man walk down?".
55 - There is a wolf pup named "Lady", a reference to Sansa Stark's pet wolf, running around the Blacksmith in Arathi Basin.
56 - Mount Blackrock appears to be based on Mount Doom they both overshadow the areas surrounding them, Mordor, and Searing Gorge and Burning Steppes. They both contain giant magma chambers where certain items can only be forged e.g. In Mount Doom it would be ring whilst in BRD it would be Dark Iron.The Burning Steppes and the Searing Gorge are very similar to Mordor, for starters Mordor, just like the two zones, is a burning hellhole overshadowed by a gigantic volcano. There is also evil orcs in both Mordor and Burning Steppes, who simply want to take things for themselves. Mordor is ruled by Sauron, whilst Burning Steppes and Searing Gorge are ruled in practice by Ragnaros, an elemental lord hellbent on destruction.
87 - In shadowmoon valley, there is a rare mob called gorum, who looks very simular to gollum from lord of the rings, and even drops "the precious ring"
27 - In the quest H [80] It's All Fun and Games, you're asked to destroy the The Ocular, which floats above Shadow Vault's spires. The Ocular bears a strong resemblance to the eye of Sauron atop the tower of Barad-dûr from Lord of the Rings: Return of the King film.
16 -http://wow.gamepedia.com/The_1_Ring
The 1 Ring is a direct reference to the 1 ring to rule them all from Lord of the rings.
Like Smeagol you find it while fishing.
89 - The top of the firelands raid looks very simular to the eye of sauron, and even pulsates if you get close.
83 - https://youtu.be/uYsu_af_0eQ in spires of araak there are 3 orges sitting around a campfire who are obvious references to the Hobbit, each with a name slightly different from their hobbit names, and drop items related to the book.
85 - In new nagrand, you can find the perminant corpse of the time lost proto drake https://youtu.be/uYsu_af_0eQ
Friday, July 31, 2015
Friday, May 8, 2015
Daries of a raider - Episode 1, Firelands
Daries of a raider
****Episode 1, firelands****
(make in a documentary style video)
Raid - Firelands. Our group has been going strong. We lost quite a few players over the past couple of months, but recently we finally replaced out toxic healer shaman and got a brand new priest healer in his place.
Dread - Yah, praystation was a poorly geared healer, but anyone was better than our shaman healer. He would get mad at every single wipe and yell at people in vent. I'm so glad hes gone
- The team was never the most competitive group in the world, but they at least wanted to catch up to the other raid team in the same guild called the early crew, as they raided late at night, and were called "late crew"
Dread - I can only raid at night because I actually live in southeast asia but I play on a US server, so its the only time that isnt too too early but usually everyone's asleep when I play.
- Progressing through firelands was going well even with an undergeared healer. The team was finally ready to start baelroc on normal, but gear just wasnt quite there yet.
Hiru - Our ret pally isnt the best when it comes to dps. I mean his gear is fine and all, but theres no reason to be barely above the tank every pull
Dread - Brasher is a nice guy and all, but I just wish he would pull little higher numbers.
Hiru - well its not like brasher is the only one with low dps. I also raid in the early crew and the numbers are just higher overall with roughly the same gear. The only reason I play as BM right now is because its the worst dps for hunters, and allows me to be closer to the rest of the dps, as they're pretty bad. AS BM, I'm only number 1 dps by a small margin, but if I go to any of the other specs I feel bad pulling 25% more dps than number 2
Cow - The healing has always been kind of a struggle. Its hard having to get use to a new healer every couple off weeks since we keep losing one for one reason or another
- over the corse of cataclysm, the late crew has lost 5 other healers. For a while, the original guild leader was one of the healers for late crew, but with the massive changes to healing from wrath spam, to mana conserve cata, she couldnt handle it and eventually just quit the game
hiru - Losing mojo was kind of a big deal. With her gone, we also lost a tank since her husband was our DK off tank. But man were their replacements better. Our brand new priest whos never healed before does better than mojo. But thats probably because I taught her everything she knows about healing since I heal with the early crew on my priest.
Cow - I miss mojo, she was a great healing partner. But she did have a tendency to go omm very early in the fight, and that was a big problem when we worked on chogall in the last teir. I pretty much had to single heal it most of the time.
Bloody - grim wasnt the best tank in the world either. I just couldnt understand how a deathknight could take so much damage. They're suppose to be one of the best tanks. Then one day, in the middle of a raid, I decided to take a look at his talents and he didnt have improved blood presence!
- For those of you who dont know, Back in cataclysm, defense was removed as a stat, and all tanks need at least 6% reduction in crit from bosses to never be crit. It use to be with enough defense, you'd be fine. but with the stat gone, all tank specs have a talent that would just give them crit immunity, and improved blood presence was this crit immunity for death knights
Dread - grim was a nice guy and all, but I'm sad to say we started doing better with him and mojo gone.
hiru - so our raid team was in a goodish place. The new healer was undergeared, but was actually good at the game so it wasnt a big deal. Our biggest problem was dps. I even went marks for Baleroc just so we could stop hitting the enrage timer.
- Now a little back story on Baleroc. While not the last or even second to last boss of the raid, He was the gear check boss you needed to down in order to get to the last 2 bosses. If you could down Baleroc with its tight dps check, then you had the numbers for the next two bosses.
Dread - we were hitting the enrage timer pretty frequently, but he was getting lower and lower each time so we just had to tighten things up a little more.
Cow - healing the fight wasnt a problem either, as if you did the mechanics right, you had major heals to easily keep the tanks up, as well as many classes to cheese the crystals.
Bloody - tanking the boss was pretty damn easy if I remember correctly. All you had to was taunt for like 1 ability and you would get super big and do more damage from a debuff he gave.
hiru - all was going well, and we were on track, but we knew what was keeping us behind. everyone knew, but no one would say anything, until the little incident happened.
- after another really close attempt, a wipe at around 5% health, someone mentioned in vent that maybe we just needed a little more gear, when the low dps pally finally had enough
bloody - to be honest, I was totally shocked. He's always easy going and laughing in vent.
Cow - He was the last person I would have expected to blow a fuse.
hiru - I thought it was kind of funny
- After the failed Baleroc attempt, brasher, very clearly upset, yelled in vent. "lets not beat around the bush. the elephant in the room is me. I know my dps is low but I dont know how to do better. I'm just bringing you all down. You'll do a lot better if you just find a pug to replace me" he then logged off and wasn't heard from until a week later
hiru - you know, that wasnt the first time I've heard someone go off in vent after wiping a bunch, and it sure as hell wasnt the last. But it was kind of the saddest. I mean yah his dps sucked, and we downed the boss pretty quickly right after bringing a random person from the guild in who did middle of the pack dps. but you know. well, actually I dont know what to say. He did eventually switch to play a rogue for the next tier to get the legendary daggers. And when he got those, he did finally beat me in dps sometimes.
Cow - he came on like a week later and apologized. By then we were working on the next boss and he decided to raid on his rogue and did a lot better. Buuuut he was still the lowest dps.
Bloody - there was this one time, where he couldnt make it to raid one night in Dragon soul, but he needed the shards from the bosses so his girlfiend played his rouge for him. And you know what, she did better dps than he ever did despite learning how to play the class that day.
hiru - omg that was so funny. Ok so, his girlfiend was our healer praystation, but we were able to get a fill in while she played his rogue. I taught her the basics of the class before the raid and she was keeping up with my hunter on most of the fights. there was like a universal agreement to not talk about the numbers when he came on the next day. Poor guy, I dont think I've ever seen someone that bad who tried so hard.
- the guild would eventually go on to defeating Ragnaros in firelands and work on some heroic bosses before dragon soul came out. But that was the start of the end of the raid team. In the next episode of the dairies of a raider, we'll go back in time and talk about the start of the raid team, before going forward in time to the end.
****Episode 1, firelands****
(make in a documentary style video)
Raid - Firelands. Our group has been going strong. We lost quite a few players over the past couple of months, but recently we finally replaced out toxic healer shaman and got a brand new priest healer in his place.
Dread - Yah, praystation was a poorly geared healer, but anyone was better than our shaman healer. He would get mad at every single wipe and yell at people in vent. I'm so glad hes gone
- The team was never the most competitive group in the world, but they at least wanted to catch up to the other raid team in the same guild called the early crew, as they raided late at night, and were called "late crew"
Dread - I can only raid at night because I actually live in southeast asia but I play on a US server, so its the only time that isnt too too early but usually everyone's asleep when I play.
- Progressing through firelands was going well even with an undergeared healer. The team was finally ready to start baelroc on normal, but gear just wasnt quite there yet.
Hiru - Our ret pally isnt the best when it comes to dps. I mean his gear is fine and all, but theres no reason to be barely above the tank every pull
Dread - Brasher is a nice guy and all, but I just wish he would pull little higher numbers.
Hiru - well its not like brasher is the only one with low dps. I also raid in the early crew and the numbers are just higher overall with roughly the same gear. The only reason I play as BM right now is because its the worst dps for hunters, and allows me to be closer to the rest of the dps, as they're pretty bad. AS BM, I'm only number 1 dps by a small margin, but if I go to any of the other specs I feel bad pulling 25% more dps than number 2
Cow - The healing has always been kind of a struggle. Its hard having to get use to a new healer every couple off weeks since we keep losing one for one reason or another
- over the corse of cataclysm, the late crew has lost 5 other healers. For a while, the original guild leader was one of the healers for late crew, but with the massive changes to healing from wrath spam, to mana conserve cata, she couldnt handle it and eventually just quit the game
hiru - Losing mojo was kind of a big deal. With her gone, we also lost a tank since her husband was our DK off tank. But man were their replacements better. Our brand new priest whos never healed before does better than mojo. But thats probably because I taught her everything she knows about healing since I heal with the early crew on my priest.
Cow - I miss mojo, she was a great healing partner. But she did have a tendency to go omm very early in the fight, and that was a big problem when we worked on chogall in the last teir. I pretty much had to single heal it most of the time.
Bloody - grim wasnt the best tank in the world either. I just couldnt understand how a deathknight could take so much damage. They're suppose to be one of the best tanks. Then one day, in the middle of a raid, I decided to take a look at his talents and he didnt have improved blood presence!
- For those of you who dont know, Back in cataclysm, defense was removed as a stat, and all tanks need at least 6% reduction in crit from bosses to never be crit. It use to be with enough defense, you'd be fine. but with the stat gone, all tank specs have a talent that would just give them crit immunity, and improved blood presence was this crit immunity for death knights
Dread - grim was a nice guy and all, but I'm sad to say we started doing better with him and mojo gone.
hiru - so our raid team was in a goodish place. The new healer was undergeared, but was actually good at the game so it wasnt a big deal. Our biggest problem was dps. I even went marks for Baleroc just so we could stop hitting the enrage timer.
- Now a little back story on Baleroc. While not the last or even second to last boss of the raid, He was the gear check boss you needed to down in order to get to the last 2 bosses. If you could down Baleroc with its tight dps check, then you had the numbers for the next two bosses.
Dread - we were hitting the enrage timer pretty frequently, but he was getting lower and lower each time so we just had to tighten things up a little more.
Cow - healing the fight wasnt a problem either, as if you did the mechanics right, you had major heals to easily keep the tanks up, as well as many classes to cheese the crystals.
Bloody - tanking the boss was pretty damn easy if I remember correctly. All you had to was taunt for like 1 ability and you would get super big and do more damage from a debuff he gave.
hiru - all was going well, and we were on track, but we knew what was keeping us behind. everyone knew, but no one would say anything, until the little incident happened.
- after another really close attempt, a wipe at around 5% health, someone mentioned in vent that maybe we just needed a little more gear, when the low dps pally finally had enough
bloody - to be honest, I was totally shocked. He's always easy going and laughing in vent.
Cow - He was the last person I would have expected to blow a fuse.
hiru - I thought it was kind of funny
- After the failed Baleroc attempt, brasher, very clearly upset, yelled in vent. "lets not beat around the bush. the elephant in the room is me. I know my dps is low but I dont know how to do better. I'm just bringing you all down. You'll do a lot better if you just find a pug to replace me" he then logged off and wasn't heard from until a week later
hiru - you know, that wasnt the first time I've heard someone go off in vent after wiping a bunch, and it sure as hell wasnt the last. But it was kind of the saddest. I mean yah his dps sucked, and we downed the boss pretty quickly right after bringing a random person from the guild in who did middle of the pack dps. but you know. well, actually I dont know what to say. He did eventually switch to play a rogue for the next tier to get the legendary daggers. And when he got those, he did finally beat me in dps sometimes.
Cow - he came on like a week later and apologized. By then we were working on the next boss and he decided to raid on his rogue and did a lot better. Buuuut he was still the lowest dps.
Bloody - there was this one time, where he couldnt make it to raid one night in Dragon soul, but he needed the shards from the bosses so his girlfiend played his rouge for him. And you know what, she did better dps than he ever did despite learning how to play the class that day.
hiru - omg that was so funny. Ok so, his girlfiend was our healer praystation, but we were able to get a fill in while she played his rogue. I taught her the basics of the class before the raid and she was keeping up with my hunter on most of the fights. there was like a universal agreement to not talk about the numbers when he came on the next day. Poor guy, I dont think I've ever seen someone that bad who tried so hard.
- the guild would eventually go on to defeating Ragnaros in firelands and work on some heroic bosses before dragon soul came out. But that was the start of the end of the raid team. In the next episode of the dairies of a raider, we'll go back in time and talk about the start of the raid team, before going forward in time to the end.
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
Dave and devbot 4 - The Big Game!
Dave and devbot 4 - The Big Game!
I hope coach puts me in early this game, I've been really practicing my knuckle ball and I think it will throw our opponents for a loop.
-What Game? What are you even talking about? I thought you were still on that whole Stevenson thing?
Well unlike you dev, I have to worry about my spot on the team. Not all of us can be homerun clean up batters like you.
-Are you talking about baseball? what does baseball have to do with anything?
BASEBALL IS EVERYTHING TO ME! HOW CAN YOU EVEN ASK SOMETHING LIKE THAT?
-You've probably never even played baseball. Also you better keep it down, otherwise the warlocks will find us sooner.
---I've never seen you two around here before. Whats brings you to this nook of the woods?
Oh we're here for the game against moonbrook. Can you point me to the baseball field?
---Baseball? I dont think I've ever heard of that
-We're actually here to find the dreadlord in the area and take him out
---Holy crap, did that robot just talk to me?
Yah thats just dev. Hes actually the result of me ripping the soul out of a humans body and placing it inside a robot I built
-Thats not true, you just built me with a few pre-rendered replies to auditory ques. And since most people just remark about my ability to speak it was easy to program my responses to those questions.
(the human turns around slowly and runs)
Dev, you scared the guy off talking about how jet fuel can't melt steel beams. You know people dont like to hear the truth about our government.
-I said no such thing. Although it is a fact. Steel melts at 3000 degrees F and jet fuel can only burn up to a maximum of 2000 degrees F, but besides that fact theres a high chance that human went to notify the warlocks and dreadlord. I hope your prepared to fight a small army.
I've tried that dev, but coach thinks Chris is just a better pitcher and starts him over me. Not that I can blame him though, He has the quickest fast ball I've ever seen. I can't compete with that kind of power.
-You know, if your delusion was real, you'd probably be able to throw a ball faster than the speed of sound.
---Ahh, so you guys are the travelers in the area looking for the baseball field correct?
Yes thats us! Are you from the moonbrook team?
---Yes yes.. of course. The field is right over here, just follow me.
-I know you and frank were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid thats something I cannot allow to happen.
Oh hush up dev, no one cares about your opinions on the reptilian elite.
(warlock takes them to a warlock portal)
---Its right through this little door
-Dave this is obviously a trap, lets just kill her and go find the dreadlord
I'll never be able to start over Chris if I run now!
-Fine, since talking to you is not working, I'll do it myself
(robot fills up with blue power supply, glows larger and kills warlock while dave pretends to practice his pitch in the background)
I think I finally got my nuckleball down. I was thinking of trying a switch up this game to really show the coach what I'm capable of. You ready to go in this portal to the field dev?
-Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye
(dreadlord breaks into the place and throws dave and dev into the portal)
-Continued in part 5
I hope coach puts me in early this game, I've been really practicing my knuckle ball and I think it will throw our opponents for a loop.
-What Game? What are you even talking about? I thought you were still on that whole Stevenson thing?
Well unlike you dev, I have to worry about my spot on the team. Not all of us can be homerun clean up batters like you.
-Are you talking about baseball? what does baseball have to do with anything?
BASEBALL IS EVERYTHING TO ME! HOW CAN YOU EVEN ASK SOMETHING LIKE THAT?
-You've probably never even played baseball. Also you better keep it down, otherwise the warlocks will find us sooner.
---I've never seen you two around here before. Whats brings you to this nook of the woods?
Oh we're here for the game against moonbrook. Can you point me to the baseball field?
---Baseball? I dont think I've ever heard of that
-We're actually here to find the dreadlord in the area and take him out
---Holy crap, did that robot just talk to me?
Yah thats just dev. Hes actually the result of me ripping the soul out of a humans body and placing it inside a robot I built
-Thats not true, you just built me with a few pre-rendered replies to auditory ques. And since most people just remark about my ability to speak it was easy to program my responses to those questions.
(the human turns around slowly and runs)
Dev, you scared the guy off talking about how jet fuel can't melt steel beams. You know people dont like to hear the truth about our government.
-I said no such thing. Although it is a fact. Steel melts at 3000 degrees F and jet fuel can only burn up to a maximum of 2000 degrees F, but besides that fact theres a high chance that human went to notify the warlocks and dreadlord. I hope your prepared to fight a small army.
I've tried that dev, but coach thinks Chris is just a better pitcher and starts him over me. Not that I can blame him though, He has the quickest fast ball I've ever seen. I can't compete with that kind of power.
-You know, if your delusion was real, you'd probably be able to throw a ball faster than the speed of sound.
---Ahh, so you guys are the travelers in the area looking for the baseball field correct?
Yes thats us! Are you from the moonbrook team?
---Yes yes.. of course. The field is right over here, just follow me.
-I know you and frank were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid thats something I cannot allow to happen.
Oh hush up dev, no one cares about your opinions on the reptilian elite.
(warlock takes them to a warlock portal)
---Its right through this little door
-Dave this is obviously a trap, lets just kill her and go find the dreadlord
I'll never be able to start over Chris if I run now!
-Fine, since talking to you is not working, I'll do it myself
(robot fills up with blue power supply, glows larger and kills warlock while dave pretends to practice his pitch in the background)
I think I finally got my nuckleball down. I was thinking of trying a switch up this game to really show the coach what I'm capable of. You ready to go in this portal to the field dev?
-Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye
(dreadlord breaks into the place and throws dave and dev into the portal)
-Continued in part 5
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Dave and Devbot 3 - The Stevensons Presentation!
Dave and Devbot 3 - The Stevensons Presentation!
-setting(sitting in an office talking to wrathion)
(while walking to the office, talking to devbot)
I wonder what the boss has to say about my presentation. I hope we get the stevensons account
-What presentation? what account? we're headed to talk to wrathion about our next mission
Yah it will be ok. I did spend all night working on that presentation afterall
-Since you dont listen to what I say anyway, I'm switching my language function
--Walk into room and sit down with wrathion--
---(wrathion speaking) Good evening dave, my best co vert ops specialist. It seems you brought your little robot with you
-Konichi wa sensie. Den wa bango wa?
---I was under the impression that your little friend spoke the common tongue dave.
He does, he's just mad at me right now because I made him stay up late with me to work on the stevensons presentation
---The stevensons presentation? My you sure are the eccentric fellow. It seems the best workers usually are
-Eccentric is an understatement, Dave just has a few screws loose
---Ah, so you can speak the common tongue, and you even understand what I'm saying. That is most impressive
-I can't actually speak. I only give pre recorded replies to specific auditory ques. Plus this replay explaining how I function in the case that someone refers to my ability to seemingly talk
---Even if it is a trick it is most impressive. Now then, onto why I brought you two in here. It seems the dread lord that got away from the camp you took out a few weeks back has been spotted in (place) and is raising an army and has recruited a few warlocks. I've sent scouts into the area already but none have come back or gotten into contact with me. Its most strange that my rouges where found out so easily, this dreadlord must be especially intelligent.
That does sound bad boss, I dont think even my presentation will be able to convince stevenson, but I'll give it my best shot.
-Oh my god, shut up dave. He's not done talking
---Yes yes, anyway, I need you two to go into the area and find out whats going on, and if possible, kill the dreadlord. I was thinking about using some of my contacts from the alliance or horde to send in a small platoon but I'd rather not get them involved if I can avoid it.
You can count on me boss! Me and dev will get you that account or die trying!
-There is no account dave. The boss is sending us on a mission that should require a small army to handle. We might not make it out of this.
Oh dev, your such a negative nancy. Dont worry boss, even if dev doesn't think we can get the account you can count on me
---Good, I'm going to assume you understand your assignment since I hear this is how you've responded to all your other tasks and yet carried them out without a hitch. I'll need you to only fly to the borders of the town and walk in like normal. No need causing a huge commotion flying in in your dragon form right in the middle of things.
Sounds good boss, I'll make sure not to crash the company car.
-Why would we take a car when you can turn into a dragon? Plus most of the rodes on this planet arent even suitable for those goblin death traps.
Fine devbot! we can listen to your mix tape on the way there
... they walk out, pan to wrathion ....
(wrathions guard) are you sure you should send 'those two' on that mission?
(wrathion) Why of course. I could send those two into the heart of stormwind to kill the alliances king and they'd come back with souvenirs by the end of the day. I just hope they dont cause too much of a ruckus.
(wrathions gaurd) oh...
-setting(sitting in an office talking to wrathion)
(while walking to the office, talking to devbot)
I wonder what the boss has to say about my presentation. I hope we get the stevensons account
-What presentation? what account? we're headed to talk to wrathion about our next mission
Yah it will be ok. I did spend all night working on that presentation afterall
-Since you dont listen to what I say anyway, I'm switching my language function
--Walk into room and sit down with wrathion--
---(wrathion speaking) Good evening dave, my best co vert ops specialist. It seems you brought your little robot with you
-Konichi wa sensie. Den wa bango wa?
---I was under the impression that your little friend spoke the common tongue dave.
He does, he's just mad at me right now because I made him stay up late with me to work on the stevensons presentation
---The stevensons presentation? My you sure are the eccentric fellow. It seems the best workers usually are
-Eccentric is an understatement, Dave just has a few screws loose
---Ah, so you can speak the common tongue, and you even understand what I'm saying. That is most impressive
-I can't actually speak. I only give pre recorded replies to specific auditory ques. Plus this replay explaining how I function in the case that someone refers to my ability to seemingly talk
---Even if it is a trick it is most impressive. Now then, onto why I brought you two in here. It seems the dread lord that got away from the camp you took out a few weeks back has been spotted in (place) and is raising an army and has recruited a few warlocks. I've sent scouts into the area already but none have come back or gotten into contact with me. Its most strange that my rouges where found out so easily, this dreadlord must be especially intelligent.
That does sound bad boss, I dont think even my presentation will be able to convince stevenson, but I'll give it my best shot.
-Oh my god, shut up dave. He's not done talking
---Yes yes, anyway, I need you two to go into the area and find out whats going on, and if possible, kill the dreadlord. I was thinking about using some of my contacts from the alliance or horde to send in a small platoon but I'd rather not get them involved if I can avoid it.
You can count on me boss! Me and dev will get you that account or die trying!
-There is no account dave. The boss is sending us on a mission that should require a small army to handle. We might not make it out of this.
Oh dev, your such a negative nancy. Dont worry boss, even if dev doesn't think we can get the account you can count on me
---Good, I'm going to assume you understand your assignment since I hear this is how you've responded to all your other tasks and yet carried them out without a hitch. I'll need you to only fly to the borders of the town and walk in like normal. No need causing a huge commotion flying in in your dragon form right in the middle of things.
Sounds good boss, I'll make sure not to crash the company car.
-Why would we take a car when you can turn into a dragon? Plus most of the rodes on this planet arent even suitable for those goblin death traps.
Fine devbot! we can listen to your mix tape on the way there
... they walk out, pan to wrathion ....
(wrathions guard) are you sure you should send 'those two' on that mission?
(wrathion) Why of course. I could send those two into the heart of stormwind to kill the alliances king and they'd come back with souvenirs by the end of the day. I just hope they dont cause too much of a ruckus.
(wrathions gaurd) oh...
Dave and devbot 2, The big baking competition!
Dave and devbot 2, The big baking competition!
-(Setting: they're on a mission to take out a group of humans/scarlet crusade members.)
They're right over this hill devbot. Boy I sure am nervous about this baking competition.
-Its not a baking competition. Wrathion sent us to take out this camp quietly.
I know, but I've practice how to make the cake come out with just the right amount of puffyness. All you need to do is sift the flower before hand. Who'd have thought it was so simple!
-You've never made a meal in your life. How would you know how to bake?
quiet dev, one of the judges are here to welcome us
---Hey you two, who are you and why are you here?
We're here for the baking competition of course!
-There is no baking competition dave, You made that up.
---Omg, a talking robot and a taurren, Crap wrathions on to us...
*slash*(dave kills him quickly with his sword)
He seemed to be one of my competitors. Lets go see if everyone else has arrived yet.
:::Upon entering the camp they are surrounded:::
---So it seems wrathion found out about our little encampment. Your too late though, the dread lord is no longer here. Not that it matters, as you will be dead pretty soon anyway. Remember Men! theses two are extremely dangerous, but we have them outnumbered, so be careful as you take their heads
I dont know what your talking about dude, I'm just here for a baking contest, you have the wrong guy.
-Dave is right. Its not like Wrathion sent us here to take out this small camp and find information on the burning legions influence in this area.
---Holy crap, the robot really can talk. The rumors where true
-I cannot talk. I can only give pre-rendered replies to auditory ques. Including this reply to that statement.
---Dont let the robot confuse you, lets take them out!
*dave turns into a black dragon and burns all the soldiers to death*
Darn, its looks like we just missed the competition. I knew we shouldnt have stopped to recharge your batteries.
-We didnt stop dave, we flew strait here from the hideout.
Haha dev, you and your racist jokes
-I didnt tell a joke, you just ignore me and say random things.
Your right, I probably would have won the competition anyway. My cakes are the best. WE just gave all the other competitors a chance by missing it.
-(Setting: they're on a mission to take out a group of humans/scarlet crusade members.)
They're right over this hill devbot. Boy I sure am nervous about this baking competition.
-Its not a baking competition. Wrathion sent us to take out this camp quietly.
I know, but I've practice how to make the cake come out with just the right amount of puffyness. All you need to do is sift the flower before hand. Who'd have thought it was so simple!
-You've never made a meal in your life. How would you know how to bake?
quiet dev, one of the judges are here to welcome us
---Hey you two, who are you and why are you here?
We're here for the baking competition of course!
-There is no baking competition dave, You made that up.
---Omg, a talking robot and a taurren, Crap wrathions on to us...
*slash*(dave kills him quickly with his sword)
He seemed to be one of my competitors. Lets go see if everyone else has arrived yet.
:::Upon entering the camp they are surrounded:::
---So it seems wrathion found out about our little encampment. Your too late though, the dread lord is no longer here. Not that it matters, as you will be dead pretty soon anyway. Remember Men! theses two are extremely dangerous, but we have them outnumbered, so be careful as you take their heads
I dont know what your talking about dude, I'm just here for a baking contest, you have the wrong guy.
-Dave is right. Its not like Wrathion sent us here to take out this small camp and find information on the burning legions influence in this area.
---Holy crap, the robot really can talk. The rumors where true
-I cannot talk. I can only give pre-rendered replies to auditory ques. Including this reply to that statement.
---Dont let the robot confuse you, lets take them out!
*dave turns into a black dragon and burns all the soldiers to death*
Darn, its looks like we just missed the competition. I knew we shouldnt have stopped to recharge your batteries.
-We didnt stop dave, we flew strait here from the hideout.
Haha dev, you and your racist jokes
-I didnt tell a joke, you just ignore me and say random things.
Your right, I probably would have won the competition anyway. My cakes are the best. WE just gave all the other competitors a chance by missing it.
Thursday, February 19, 2015
A very Mysterious Mystery in WoW (machinama)
A very Mysterious Mystery in WoW (machinama)
So then I said, "Thats nacho cheese!" and you should have seen the look on his face.
-I do not get why being being rude to people is humorous
Of course you dont dev, thats because your a robot. Why do you always have be such a downer?
-I only say things that you have programed me to say, including this response to that question.
Hahaha classic devbot, you silly robot.
(hears noise)
Did you hear that?
-I do not have sensory functions to distinguish noises from one another, besides the pre-programed auditory ques you've supplied me with.
Thats right devbot, sounds like someone is in trouble. Lets go check it out!
-I wouldnt do that if I where you dave
(they run over to the house)
I think the screams came from this old house, but the door is locked. What should we do devbot?
-why are you asking me? We both know you have super strength. just break it down.
Thats right devbot, I sometimes forget I'm a warrior. Although I havent really seen any action since the 3rd war.
##breaks down door##
Oh my, it looks like we have a dead body, with a stab wound to the back. Quick devbot, scan the room and tell me what you can make of this situation!
-Working. Working. (after a delay) It turns out The only programing I have is to respond to your auditory ques. And the knowlege that the government is actually run by lizard people.
Yes I was thinking the same thing devbot, it seems who ever killed her, did so with a stab to the back and either escaped through the window or door. But considering we got here almost immediately, it seems odd that both the door was closed and lock, and the window doesnt seem to have been opened. And to make matters even more confusing, it seems the weapon is no where in sight.
-Maybe we should ask the people nearby if they saw anything.
Good idea devbot, I was just about to suggest that myself
(upon walking outside they run into someone)
-A guy- I heard a scream, is everything ok?
It appears we have a mystery on our hands. This woman inside was stabbed in the back and the perpetrator seems to have escaped!
-guy- omg, you have blood on your sword. I'm.. I'm going to go contact the stormwind guard!
(slash)
oops, looks like I forgot to wipe that off
-why did you kill that girl dave?
Haha, crazy devbot, you and your silly jokes. We should probably see if there are any more witnesses. You go off in that direction, and I'll go check in the opposite direction. I'm still not quite use to being an agent of the black prince. I guess there's a reason most of them are rogues.
-Jet fuel can't melt steel beams dave.
(they run off)
---Notes---
Dave can be a taurren warrior
Devot can be one of my battlepets, like lil'bling or clockworkgnome.
This will be part 1 of a series of "Mysteries" where dave and his robot go out on assassination missions while pretending that they are solving different cases. At first I wanted them to work for the SI:7 agents since they are probably the most well known from hearthstone rouge decks, but After reading up what they actually do, they're more like the CIA and not really a group of assasins. Not to say the Real CIA doesn't actually do assignations, but I thought it would easier to go with Wrathion instead, as that guy's story is 1: pretty well known and 2: he is also a shady character who would totally be up for assignations. Which would allow me a ton of freedom on where the stories can take place since wrathion has a very global view of the story since hes trying to protect the earth from a burning legion invasion and went into a total "Littlefinger" character during mists.
As for the characters themselves. Dave the warrior assassin, will be like a marry sue at first and able to pull off all kinds of things a warrior shouldn't be able to do. All while pretending to be a mystery solver with his sidekick robot. Now for the robot, I want him to seem to understand whats actually going on in the story, while at the same time putting in nonsese lines to remind the viewers that he is indeed just an advance version of siri. I also dont have plans to make the robot do anything special but who knows, things might change down the line.
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