Of Photos and Guild Funk

Just got my photo taken with the rest of the Chinese Newspaper team in a cramped studio where we were told to cramp even closer for a tight shot. Hate taking pictures haha, coz I ALWAYS don't look good in pictures. I also seriously suspect this is chiefly due to reason that I don't look good in real life.

LOL!

After 15 - 20 minutes the ordeal is over and I am back in my comfy seat typing drivel that you are now reading.

Glad I was not some star.

Okay, maybe give me those dough they are earning but not the attention and...and...these tiresome studio shoots.

Crap.

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Spoke to an old colleague of mine who used to play WoW (World of Warcraft), the guy has seen it all and played it to death. On top of it, he's a bloody guild leader. Anyhow, he quitted 3 months ago and was telling me that Azeroth is slowing going to the dogs.

Grafikki u started playing WoW?

J450N: Black Morass is a pain yea since last year

Grafikki hahah which server?

J450N: Black Morass is a pain Kargath

J450N: Black Morass is a pain u?

Grafikki i quit liao. i completed all the heoric mode instances

Grafikki and i got bored

Grafikki my toon is on Kirin Tor

Grafikki all decked with the epics from xpac BUT some blues are equal to the epics which is farking stoopid

Grafikki so i quit the game

J450N: Black Morass is a pain lol

J450N: Black Morass is a pain i am just abt started on the xpac

J450N: Black Morass is a pain i heard attunemnt is getting more difficult in the future which i think is stupid

J450N: Black Morass is a pain so i may quit it soon, i dunno, but i kinda love my druid

Grafikki attunement is easy... just need guildies who know their shit

Grafikki if you're not hardcore or in a hardcore guild- fuck it liao

Grafikki casual gamers will be left behind in the game

Grafikki when i started heroic mode... if u didnt have Karazhan or Gruul epics.. u better be the freaking good at your toon

Grafikki my warrior was taking 15k damage on 12k health on some mobs in heroic Acatraz

Grafikki fucked up game

J450N: Black Morass is a pain i think its power creep

J450N: Black Morass is a pain happens in every game just the dgree

J450N: Black Morass is a pain *degree

J450N: Black Morass is a pain i m more or less casual la so yea haha

Grafikki last time not so much

Grafikki xpac makes it a very- u suxxor, i pwn joo game

Grafikki which i hated...

J450N: Black Morass is a pain wat i mean is attunement nxt time may require us to visit every damn heroic instance whch is dumb

Grafikki bcos the guild i ran was built on Arthurian codes of the round table

Grafikki i completed the Black Temple attunement liao

J450N: Black Morass is a pain wat tht mena?

J450N: Black Morass is a pain *mean

Grafikki but i'm finding hard to help the weaker players

J450N: Black Morass is a pain wow

J450N: Black Morass is a pain y?

Grafikki ifu dunno how to heal/dps/manage aggro.

Grafikki a little mistake means wipe in Heroic mode

Grafikki and the mobs repop farking fast

J450N: Black Morass is a pain YES!! i feel the same way

Grafikki and i'm one of 5 elite tanks in guild due to raid setup

J450N: Black Morass is a pain one moment they are dead, the next they are back

J450N: Black Morass is a pain wat ur class? warrior?

Grafikki can't recruit more cos else- no raid slots

Grafikki yep

J450N: Black Morass is a pain u are the guildmaster right?

Grafikki so if i have to find the core team to drag shit players through attunement

Grafikki i'd rather get my teeth pulled out

J450N: Black Morass is a pain u mean new players these days are lousy?

Grafikki ok- WoW original was 40 man raiding = 40 people pushing buttons = u only needed 15 people to know their shit. the other 25 can cruise along

Grafikki down a boss, get epic gear which made subsequent encounters easier

Grafikki Xpac = 100% folks have to know their shit

Grafikki The tank had to be Farking good to hold multi aggro

Grafikki i was holding 6 mobs without Thunderfury

J450N: Black Morass is a pain woah

Grafikki the average non-raid tank in my guild cld hold only 2

J450N: Black Morass is a pain i guess with practice they can be better la

Grafikki I just stack High Shield Block rating and value items

Grafikki my shield slam was doing 1.5k damage onto of high threat

Grafikki this was before Thunderclap was buffed

J450N: Black Morass is a pain thts incredible to me already

J450N: Black Morass is a pain although i dun know much abt the warrior class

Grafikki with practice- it also takes a particular mindset to learn everything about aggro management and threat

J450N: Black Morass is a pain wat kinda mindset?

Grafikki well... WoW in Xpac basically becomes like school of life

Grafikki u have to learn about ALL possibilities

Grafikki for instance- Healing- flash heal, big heal= how much threat

Grafikki Focus fire DPS on single mobs

Grafikki which mobs are attacked first

Grafikki which mobs, heal, mind control, dps

Grafikki so critical mobs are handled first

Grafikki crowd control

J450N: Black Morass is a pain i mean these things after a while will get the hang of it

Grafikki using fear, watching the terrain maping so that mobs dont run around and aggro the whole dungeon

Grafikki erm no

J450N: Black Morass is a pain i hate fear, it bad most of the time

Grafikki i noticed a lot of american players think very short term

J450N: Black Morass is a pain aiyo

Grafikki Fear is a very necessary form of crowd control in Xpac

Grafikki Black Morass is easy for me

J450N: Black Morass is a pain yea necessary but has to see when to use

Grafikki Know why? I got a good healer

J450N: Black Morass is a pain yea i know

Grafikki First wave comes- I intimidating shout

Grafikki so that means they run, and auto aggro on me

Grafikki my DPSers dont have to worry about getting hit

J450N: Black Morass is a pain i did till the 14th wave on the back of a great healer until a lag spike and everything went to ashes

Grafikki and extra mobs not dead gets a thunderclap from me, so that i hold initial aggro

Grafikki i've gotten to the point where the shield doesnt even get damaged

Grafikki or at most 98%

J450N: Black Morass is a pain sigh

Grafikki and 98% is when instance bugged and two portals opened at the same time

J450N: Black Morass is a pain i just cant seem to complete it

(Conversation is abridged here)

Grafikki well... my best advice- give up the game and go get real life epics.. i've yet to find a properly tuned MMO.. i thought WoW original was it

Grafikki but Blizzard hired the imbeciles from Everquest to do the Xpac

Grafikki which is why things are the way they are

J450N: Black Morass is a pain not yet for me, i just wanna complete my dungeon set and then its bye

J450N: Black Morass is a pain oh cheebye no wonder

Grafikki Bill Roper, the brains behind all the WoW storylines etc quit to do Hellgate

J450N: Black Morass is a pain its a pride thing

Grafikki cos he hated the direction of where WoW was going

J450N: Black Morass is a pain i may play Hellgate

Grafikki farking all the xpac weapons look damn gay lor

J450N: Black Morass is a pain i was in US last year to look at it

Grafikki so colorful and so anime

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So, yea, Azeroth IS going Mardi Gras, will I stick around and watch my characters all wear rainbow-colored armor?

Stay tuned.