dyslexia and shakes made going to a PVE server a no brainer. In a game like this a double key tap or mouse click can mean death and a NPC has a pattern I can figure out while another player does not.
As a much hated gnome many have tried to throw a duel flag up at me and for the 2 months I have been playing this game I declined them.
Yesterday during the quest chain for - Rains Cleansing - I was getting frustrated trying to find a path to a shrine to charge the thingy I had gotten. After 10 minutes of wandering around , I went to a web site for some clues and found a good description of the path , soon after finding the shrine.
Now if that was not frustrating enough, I tested the thing , turned into a dog bear and spun around to follow the path back. Well I held the turn right key a little to long and walked forward right into a gully between a tree and 2 hills, with no escape. My little gnome was fully stuck and my hearth stone had 21 minutes left of cool down. Arghhh
22 minutes later - I was a little ticked off as I started my way to the moonwell for the next part of the quest. Stopping right outside of the town for a minute to reread the quest.
Before I could blink - a level 29 blood elf frost mage says something about stupid gnomes as she/he throws up a duel flag. Now this is a game and you really don’t die , so even though I have no idea how to duel , my anger gets the best of me and I accept. DOH
First I had no idea there was a countdown nor when it starts, I got the clue by reading the chat/battle log... 3 ..2...1....Opps!. I got off a COA and she hit me and voidy with ice block, i hit my escape racial and she, caught off guard, ran away and as i turned to face her... all i saw were leaves in my face and i was dead.
So what did i learn,
1. In PVP duels you only have 3 seconds to get ready.
2. It helps to have a potion or health stone ready - my bag was closed and i have not set up all my macros yet - so no health stone hot key.
3. Never use the smart camera feature in a duel. :P
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
PWND in less then 60 seconds
Friday, March 16, 2007
Sorry Mr. Warlock
I the dummy, over-excited about doing the Doing the Deadmines instance , forget all that i read about groups and just used the in game group tool. This put me into a group that i guess knew the layout of the mimes cause they were all running trough while my little gnome legs and body kept getting lost on the way.
Then i get killed and click the wrong button sending me to the graveyard instead of using my soulstone! Running back got me lost in the mine, taking several minutes to find my body. When i did find it , i could not find my group - this led to me in a big room with a bunch of Elites and no way i could see thru or run thru.
Just then another warlock seemed to try to come over and help , when he got attacked i tabbed to what i thought was the mob he was fighting ( Hey watch the top of the screen dude ) and placed 2 spells on the guys pet instead of the monster.
man i think he was mad cause before i could type im sorry i was being spammed by shadow bolts and the other warlocks title had turned to red. Well i ran to a corner as fast as i could and used my hearthstone to exit the mines.
It cost me six soulshards to not even get to the entrance of the instance.
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
My first PUG
So after a few hours of game play over 3 days, a nice human warlock helped me clear the area around the heartwood tree for my level 20 pet quest, i got the succubus.
A new pet for the warlock class in WorldOfWarcraft means new strategy's and tactics have to be learned. I decided to see what she could do while returning to Loch Modan to finish a quest tree. The quest had to do with saving the Stonewrought dam from exploding , next to the dam is the Mo-Gorsh stronghold with mobs (in game monsters ) that killed me easy at level 18. At level 20 i might be able to kill a few now i thought if i can use my pet to draw the monsters out of the cave opening.
Slowly we crept to the entrance and when in range, i shot a COA (Curse Of agony) at a mob and run back about 20 yards to pull the monster away from the others in the cave. Then i killed the monster and went for annother one.
Seems that a group was after Chok-suls head quest which starts at the MoGorsh cave and they were behind me watching my pulls. One asked me to join and not even knowing what quest they were on, i jumped in at a chance to work with a 6 man group in a dungeon.
Pick Up Group- This was a very loose group so i took the position of Off Tank -Priest guard. Letting the priest stand behind me and also picking up any added monsters that attack the MainTank, all the while spamming Spells every where. At one point the druid tank got carried away and had 4 mobs on him and i hit all 4 with searing pain spells which switched them off the druid and onto me. The others came to my rescue just in time.
At the end i had the head of Chok-Sul quest 4 levels earlier the i imagined.
WOW can be fun.
