PvP and the lock

So I tried PvPing with the under-powered warlock in my quest greens and blues and... I only died once. I played AB and helped take and then defend the blacksmith. There's something very satisfying about cursing 4 different players, fear bombing and the sucking the life out of them until they're dead, dead, dead.

Want to hurry that toon to level 70. I want Vengeful Gladiator's Dreadweave Hood.

Yes. For the wings. /sigh.

5 months? Wow...

It has been just over five months since I posted last. Wow. I did take a couple months off (sort of, I leveled a couple toons and then played Age of Conan for a month (the game was way too buggy). But I'm back now. But man have I changed things up!

1. Claz is now Marksman/Survival for PvP


2. I dropped leatherworking and skinning for Engineering (Goblin) and mining (for PvP)


3. I PvP a lot.

I'm doing the PvP for a couple of reasons. First, we're all just waiting around for the expansion and Limited Warranty is busy leveling alts, gathering mats and stuff like that. Basically, we're treading water just waiting around for something to do. Second, if the opening of Wrath is going to be anything like the opening of BC, there's going to be a lot of ganking after a week. The BC opening was weird, there was a strange truce between Alliance and Horde and everyone was concentrating only on seeing the new content and leveling (or maybe it was like the old west- all those players working around you and you didn't want to step out of line or you'd get killed in about 5.5 seconds. Maybe Heinlein was right- a well-armed society is a polite society...). I want to have some sort of survivability. Third, with the MM/SV build, I get a huge kick out of seeing those giant crits.

I'll post some screenshots of Claz being in the top three on the charts for some of the battlegrounds. No, I didn't take screenies of when I messed up. I should, though.

Arenas week 2

So, as you can see my 2v2 partner and I cleaned up this week. We were 11-0! Sure, there were two teams who just sat there while we killed them and another team that kept leaving the arena when they saw that it was us (or, you know, they just got disconnected...). But, those matches where the other team tried, we still killed them.

I then joined a guildie 3v3 team and, well, we didn't do so hot. One amusing match, though: our warrior was feared out of the arena and couldn't get back in. We sat there watching that team run around trying to find him, laughing our asses off.

Ah well, it's all points, right?

Arenas are kind of fun

So, today I saw a request in city chat while dropping off my latest load of ores for a partner to just farm arena points. I thought, "Hey, I want the Merciless Gladiator's Decapitator, and I don't care if I win or not."

I pst'd the mage and joined up and we did eleven arena matches. As you can see, we did much better than we expected. Of course, we were matched up with other lower-rated teams and one team didn't seem to try the first time we went up against them. But a mage/BM hunter is badass against clothies. Sheep the other mage, burn down the 'lock, switch to the mage. Done. Whiskers was picking out 'lock gristle from his teeth after each match. Unlike BRK I don't have the memory or note-taking abilities that he has, so I won't even try to do a recap.

All in all, not a bad night. I have no idea how long I need to do this to get my axe, though.

So much to do... not sure I want to, though

So, I did some quick calculations on what I would need to do to get purpled out in PvP gear. I would need:

• 185,816 Honor points


• 41 WSG tokens


• 36 AB tokens


• 164 AV tokens


• -23 EotS tokens (I've done too many)

Is it worth the annoyance of BGs for this gear? I don't know. I do know that this is pretty daunting.

If you can't beat them...

...join them, right?

I respecced to a MM/BM build and I'm sure its a noob build (15/44/2), but I think its already better for PvP than the BM build I had before. I'm already enjoying shutting down casters with Silencing Shot and Scatter Shotting rogues and warriors is pure joy. I do miss Intimidation, though, but I think I was using it as a crutch in trying to get away from mobs and Alliance, I need to remember that I have wing Clip.

I ran about 10 BGs today, and I have to say I like Eye of the Storm the best and Alteric Valley the least. I'm about 3k honor away from upgrading the boots to Vetern's Linked Sabatons.

I've given into the darkside.