The Cranky Old Gnome

(Update: Now that I have run 10-man ToC, the tournament makes even less sense without some specific instructions from Tirion.  Also, now I know why everyone has been railing against Tirion, Varian, and Garrosh lately.)

I was doing the Argent Tournament dailies today and I was thinking about how stupid the AT is in general.  I mean, here we are, practially on the Lich King’s doorstep and what have we spent our time doing?  Jousting.  Not just jousting each other, but jousting the Lich Kings commanders.  Oh, and fighting gladiators and beasts Roman Coliseum style.  I know I’m not the first to post about this quasi renaissance fair spectacle, but we’ll pretend because I need to talk about the sillyness of the AT before I can make my point make sense.

By the way, even though these events have been in the game for almost a year now, they are technically ‘spoilerific’ if you haven’t ever done the Wrathgate questline.  So if you haven’t, and don’t want to be spoiled, stop reading here.

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I think daylight savings time broke WoW's brain.

On Quel’dorei, daylight savings time only goes back a half hour!

Ok I’m a little late to the party on this, but I can never resist a good survey.  Jessabelle at Miss Medicina created this questionaire-definitly-not-a-meme-survey-thing that I think is really interesting.

For those visiting my site for the first time and got directed to this post, my main in a lvl 80 gnome tank, but my second main is lvl 80 resto shaman.  So I feel like this is a good thing for me to post for my healing side.

More info on the questionaire-definitely-not-a-meme-survey-thing can be found here.

Survey Says

There’s a Tom Petty song I’d like to quote from if I may;

It’s time to move on
It’s time to get goin’
What lies ahead I have no way of knowin’
But under my feet baby, grass is growin’
Yeah, it’s time to move on
It’s time to get goin’

I have decided to step down as the guild leader of Higher Education.  I don’t want to make a big thing of it or go into long winded details.  But I wanted to state on the record that I’m turning over the reigns to Wizzbang.

The rest of this post is meant for the members of Higher Education.  I won’t stop people from reading it, but from here on I’m talking directly to them.

Time to move on

Alright time for a quick rant.  You know what absolutely drives me crazy?  People who do not release after a wipe, and people who wait for summons to instances.

Ok so first people who don’t release after a wipe–what the hell?  If everyone is dead, there is no-one to rez you.  That means while you and your lazy self are lying there waiting for a healer to show up, everyone else is running back through the instance.  And some instances are not short.  It’s just rude.  It says that your time and energy is somehow more valuable then everyone else.  Now, if it happens occasionally, like there’s a wipe on a really frustrating boss and you just need to step away you can say, “I need to go afk a sec, could someone please rez me?”  And when I’m the healer, if we wipe and one person doesn’t release and run and doesn’t say anything other than ‘rez plz’ I will ignore them.  And even if they ask nicely the first time, the second time they are on their own.

Your virtual legs work just as well as mine do you lazy jerk!  Release and run back.  Stop being an ass.

Then there’s the other people–who as soon as they get into a group, before the say anything else they chime in with, “summons pls.”  They are apparently so busy with whatever they are doing that not only can they cannot take the time to make their way towards an instance, but they can’t even be bothered to fully type out ‘please’.  You know when it really stood out to me that there was a summoning problem was right after Wrath came out and people started running the Violet Hold.  Most of you know this, but for those that don’t, the Violet Hold is in Dalaran and there is no summoning stone.*  So right after Wrath was release people would ask for summons to Dalaran all the time, and some of them were very very adamant that there was a summoning stone and the rest of us were just being jerks.  Now, there are some understandable exceptions to this as well.  If we are going to Halls of Lightning or something and 4 of the 5 people are in Northrend and the 5th person is in the Shimmering Flats, it may make more sense to summon that last person.  But I would still prefer that they make a token effort or at least type a full sentence with complete words.  Something like, “hey since I’m stuck aaaaaaall the way down in Shimmering Flats and my hearthstone is on cooldown, would you mind summoning me?”  The group might chuckle a bit, but really they aren’t laughing at you.  They are laughing because they are surprised by your etiquette and all the times in the past all they’ve gotten is “summons pls”.

“[Insert clever sign off phrase here]”

~Fizz

*Can you imagine the abuse if there were a summoning stone in Dalaran?  Oh, your hearth’s on cooldown? No problem, just group up with a few people and get summoned to Dalaran.  You think the lag is bad now? Hoo-boy I don’t even want to think about what it would be like if there was a stone in Dalaran.