On Strike
BigRedKitty is hereby on strike.
We had to miss tonight’s SSC raid due to work, so as we predicted, the Hunter-loot flowed like water. Hydross dropped the Ranger General’s Chestguard, Leo dropped three Hero tokens, and Fathom Lord dropped a Hero token.
Ring of Lethality from Hydross? We’re the only raiding-hunter in AC who doesn’t have it.
Zero drops in The Eye and one drop in SSC that we had to dump all our DKP to get. Heck, we can’t even get a group for MrT; we haven’t run it once!
So until we get some d@mn loot-love, we’re not writing another bloody thing. No blog posts, no emails, nada.
Starting now.
ratshag on 26 Mar 2008 at 11:30 pm #
I got some loot-love tonight - me first Badge of Justice. Happy, happy orc.
Symbiode on 26 Mar 2008 at 11:33 pm #
Transfer over to Scarlet Crusade and I’ll run you through MrT!
Zahana on 26 Mar 2008 at 11:38 pm #
I don’t feel as bad that I didn’t get the Ring of Lethality, either of the two Hero tokens, or the Tailsman from Leo tonight now.
Pike on 26 Mar 2008 at 11:41 pm #
No… BRK posts…?
/sniffle
/puppy dog eyes
(Hey, do you think Sun Eater will finally drop for our poor tank if I go on strike too? It might work… Pana-whatsisface the Calculator seems to have a thing for me, considering he drops trinkets and epic gloves for me all the freakin’ time. I tell him over and over I don’t need ‘em anymore, but he doesn’t listen. =P)
Val on 26 Mar 2008 at 11:45 pm #
And hunters ’round the world died a little inside…
=(
Sephran on 26 Mar 2008 at 11:47 pm #
You can’t leave!! What will i read? Dont make people hop on their gnaked gnomes and spam msg you!!
Anonymized on 27 Mar 2008 at 12:01 am #
Hey BRK - I’m also on strike! After 4 attempts on Shade tonight, we got repops and had to give up. Said failure was largely due to a certain Hunter who showed up to raid with no gear enchants, rolling a Marksmanship build, and proceeded to do less than 10% of the raid’s DPS, less than both our Feral Druid tank and our Protection Warrior tank.
So, in lieu of writing nasty things about people who need to L2Play, I’m taking a break from writing my WoW blog. And maybe taking a break from my guild… a long break, perhaps.
Solidarity!
Fahr & Bacon on 27 Mar 2008 at 12:09 am #
Please BRK, don’t stop. I’ll give you all the loot lovin’ Karma I have to keep you posting. It makes every workday more survivable and evening just that much more fun.
much <3
Fahr & Bacon
Wobin on 27 Mar 2008 at 12:31 am #
That’ll show ‘em!
jumb on 27 Mar 2008 at 1:00 am #
Yeah!
Stick it to the man!
Mastaraga on 27 Mar 2008 at 2:33 am #
I got no loot love or no guildlove!
I left toxic today! /sniffle!
I NEED TO GET A RAIDING GUILD, PST ME WITH YO PRICE
scathatch on 27 Mar 2008 at 4:45 am #
Mr Kitty sir, fear not much loot love can happen for ya in the new instance there’s a chest peace in there equal to if not greater than the one of dragonhawk and to boot i’ll chant for ya:)…..give Big Red Loot, Big Red Loot, Big Red Loot, Big Red Loot, Big Red Loot, Big Red Loot, Big Red Loot, Big Red Loot, Big Red Loot, Big Red Loot, Big Red Loot, Big Red Loot, Big Red Loot, Big Red Loot, Big Red Loot, Big Red Loot, LOOT, LOOT, LOOT, LOOT, LOOT, LOOT, LOOT, LOOT, LOOT, LOOT, LOOT, LOOT, LOOT, LOOT FOR BIG RED KITTY NOW YESTERDAY EVEN.
ps. atleast your guilds lead rogue isn’t always accusing you of being a loot ninja just cause you dual wield mana oil with your spite blade and emerald ripper.
BlueTiger on 27 Mar 2008 at 5:02 am #
i got to try MrT yesterday - my computer decided that the Princess-boss (with her four companions)-time was the perfect time to go haywire and gave me both the Blue Screen of Death and the Black Screen of Hell, one after another…so I feel ya BRK.
Grimshar on 27 Mar 2008 at 5:12 am #
Well, I’m exalted with the Keepers of Time on my Rogue by only running BM and the Hourglass never dropped. Now is MrT Heroic for the new trinkets.
ailtia on 27 Mar 2008 at 5:25 am #
Bah…I was able to run Kara for the first time last weekend and we got to BBW at Opera. That bastage took us 5 tries to kill. But we got him down. then had to call on account of time. On the good side I did get 5 BoJ and 1 epic neck piece. Love the Worgen Claw Neckless.
All I can say is “Buck-up Buck-a-roo.”
Elvenlight on 27 Mar 2008 at 5:49 am #
BRK,
please, in your desperation think on the Arena items you got just recently.;) Not to mention: you go at least sometimes to SSC. I did even have a Kara key fragment, because my guild walks into Kharazan and shows no mercy the coupl of newcomers: no helping. And even with a beast master I just found too hard to solo Shadow Lab.
(By the way: in your case it is just simple game balance. You are already leading DPS in big raids. It would would not be fair to gear you up more.
)
Hope you will be back soon (wearing the grandmother of every loots)
Elvenlight
Doug on 27 Mar 2008 at 6:43 am #
Go buy something with badges
Zball on 27 Mar 2008 at 6:52 am #
I’ve gotten one failed MrT run.
On the other hand I picked up my first BoJ from those Shattered Sun Supplies.
Also, thanks for spreading the “MrT” love, BRK!
Feyl on 27 Mar 2008 at 6:57 am #
NOOOOOOoooOOOOES
MandadoUSTanaris on 27 Mar 2008 at 7:04 am #
heh, superstition.
well, I hope you get loot anyways. and I’m not worried, because I’m betting you’ll be scribbling some thoughts in a Notepad somewhere that we’ll be able to check out here very soon after Phat Lewt X drops.
I’ll predict that the following phrase appears prominently in the first paragraph of your first post after this strike, if not the title: “We Haz [Phat Lewt X]“. You might even get started writing it now, so you have more time to play catch-up later.
See you after hiatus.
Ironshaft on 27 Mar 2008 at 8:06 am #
Hold tight BRK, we have already called the WAHMBULANCE and they will be arriving shortly. Word has it that they have shaman with them to cast water walking in order to get past your tears.
When they leave, GBTFW slacker!
Shelor007 on 27 Mar 2008 at 8:18 am #
Kwityerbellyakin!
Loot happens when it happens.
Sometimes it flows freely, sometimes it sucks the big one.
Either way, it is all about killing things dead until they die from it.
Loot is just gravy.
Guy on 27 Mar 2008 at 8:26 am #
I wonder if BRK’s guild is doing Mags anytime soon.
I’d like to hear about how that is now from him.
Morquendi on 27 Mar 2008 at 8:39 am #
BRK, I feel your pain… I’m pretty much full T6 geared with the exception of my lovely blue Sonic Spear. Weapons never drop for me.. I carried Bone Slicing Hatchets into Naxx so I’m not surprised !!
We are working on Sunwell Plateau and have to many raiding hunters so I offered to sit out last night.
What drops ? Shivering Felspine (http://www.wowhead.com/?item=34183) … and it gets sharded……
Sonvar on 27 Mar 2008 at 9:06 am #
It won’t last you’ll write something on this site again before you get any hunter loot.
GU on 27 Mar 2008 at 9:27 am #
Lol I remember the first time I seen someone call it Mr. T was on the stonemaul server messing around on an alt and some dwarf BM hunter named Megabro said it and got me laughing.
Bloodarrow on 27 Mar 2008 at 9:27 am #
And I thought my no-loot love was over the top. Wheww! I’m normal.
pelides on 27 Mar 2008 at 9:47 am #
I call it the “Molten Core Syndrome”. I simply could not get loot in that place to save my life. Luckily, with patience, BWL would reward me kindly and give me pretty much all my T2 gear and the ugliest, KoS gun in the game… at level 60 at least.
Luckily TBC was much kinder to me in terms of loot, except for that damn robot in Kara.
Patience. Patience. Patience.
Mersedes on 27 Mar 2008 at 10:01 am #
/facepalm
suckers he wants you to plead for him to stick around.
BRK I know what its like to miss loot. But this game is about more than just loot. The loot definately makes up for all the heart aches and what not. Right now you sound like a loot whore and I for one thought you was above that.
Messyah on 27 Mar 2008 at 10:03 am #
Dude, it always happens that way, I swear. I ran Kara 15 times before I got the Terrestrian’s Stranglestaff for my druid. And the few weeks in that time I didn’t go, it dropped EVERY TIME.
I swear Blizzard does it on purpose. LOL
Xanthelei on 27 Mar 2008 at 10:35 am #
Nooo! I look forward to your posts. It’s the first site I check!
I didn’t get any loot out of it, but I finally got to see a Kara farm first hand. Only got to Moroes before the server restart but… dang! Downed in about 3.5 minutes! Never seen that…
Can we keep farming plz?
Annie on 27 Mar 2008 at 10:55 am #
We were standing in front of the last boss on MrT and the dang thing bugged. When we logged back in, the whole instance had been reset. *pulls hair out* It took over an hour to find a tank for that stupid instance. u.u I didn’t get to finish it.*tears*
I think we should all arrive en masse and zerg ssc just for you, brk. ^_^ Who’s with me?
Paulpwns on 27 Mar 2008 at 11:07 am #
This is a catastrophe in the most epic of terms! Muffins the world over could all go bad at the same time and that would be a lesser disturbance of the force then this!
Ok. Step 1. Roll a hunter on BRK server.
Step 2. Grind to 70 in 2-3 days
Step 3. Solo Heroics dungeons for loots/money
Step 4. Send an EPIC care package to BRK.
Step 5. Repeat steps 3-5 until BRK writes a post
Step 6. Spam whisper BRK with praises of love and devotion for removing slight amounts of boredom from my average work day and for continuing to give insight on my favorite class.
Step 8. Defeat the Burning legion and Go home..
Step 9. Eat muffins.
Blakmagik on 27 Mar 2008 at 11:10 am #
hey i feel yah almost evrytime i run a dungeon for something to use on my hunter, i dont even come close to getting it…i have absoluetly no luck, the only thing ive won recently is my T4 gloves in kara against 2 mages and a lock, but dont fret wat goes around comes around!!! at elast i hope
For the Pie on 27 Mar 2008 at 11:15 am #
@Guy,
First time in Mags last night, apparently the reduced the HP on the summoners, we were able to bring them down just as Mags escaped. Only one team of clickers needed, maybe reduced the number of infernals too, from what the more experienced raiders have said. 2 shotted him, because the raid leader didn’t make the click call.
Gruul is now on farm and High King dropped his helm, which I got for just a stam set I am building, no one else wanted. I got T4 pants from Gruul.
Capitalism on 27 Mar 2008 at 11:22 am #
@Anonymized
Don’t be hard on the hunter. Autoshot is bugged. Our usual DPS topping BM hunter was last @ 10% as well. He had to go get his rogue for ZA.
@BRK
See above. Don’t punish us. Ban BLizz till they fix it.
Kestrel on 27 Mar 2008 at 11:48 am #
I have one thing to say, Kitty: Less QQ, and moar PewPew!!
Rob on 27 Mar 2008 at 12:07 pm #
Totally feel your pain BRK. I just did my 5th full clear of Kara (and countless other half-clears), I have no WSR, no sunfury. Twice guildies mistakenly took my loot (only hunter there). Once a guildie just outright ninjaed a nice ring for rogue/hunter. I finally got the chest piece to drop from nightbane, but aside from that I haven’t had a real upgrade in months. I finally broke down and get the Bloodlust trinket a few days ago. Then i saw today the last card I needed for Blessings deck in AH.
So now i get to figure out what I need to take to raids (after i get the trinket), since I have the alchemy trinket too (plus fel mana = 5000 mana guaranteed)
It sucks when you start getting new epics and realize they are sidegrades at best.
Akutagawa on 27 Mar 2008 at 12:12 pm #
Your comments disappoint me BRK.
Like many others before and many to follow, you’ve fallen victim to whining about precious loot you’ve lost out on and by no fault other than you’re own.
Be happy your guild is easily downing these bosses.
Be happy for your fellow guildies who were able to raid and win something.
Tsk, tsk BRK, poor form on your part.
Guy on 27 Mar 2008 at 12:29 pm #
@FTP, NICE!
Drops?
Determined on 27 Mar 2008 at 1:35 pm #
Awww the kitty needs cuddles. *cuddles BRK*.
Everything will be alright.
Just spam the raid/guild chat: FEROCIOUS INSPIRATION 3% EXTRA DAMAGE CONSTANTLY SPONSORED BY ME. GIVE MEH TEH PHAT LOOT!
100% chance on succes
Devildog on 27 Mar 2008 at 1:59 pm #
-BRK
PLEASE!!!!!! Do NOT stop blogging. Your blogs are the best read I have at work and thanks to the lovely network contract we have I can’t see the community site forums or a lot of other sites. You are freakin awesome man…please keep on blogging for us.
-DD-
(70 NElf MM Hunter - Eitrigg - )
Determined on 27 Mar 2008 at 2:30 pm #
No more posts?
*shrugs* oh well.
Atleast I dont have to hear about another person complaining about loot.
Ahoni on 27 Mar 2008 at 2:40 pm #
Duz I know how you feel? Yes I duz!
2T5 warlock is the main, but decided to take my feral druid to Gruul on Monday, hoping for some T4 loving for him. We had too many newbs with us this week, and we were having trouble getting the pulls on High King right, plus one of the warlocks was slacking and not enslaving a wild fel puppy. Raid leader asks me to bring the pain, so I park the drood outside and bring the lock. Naturally High King and Gruul BOTH drop druid tokens, both of which went to people for their off-sets. Bastages!
Chris on 27 Mar 2008 at 2:51 pm #
Um, we didn’t have anything to do with you getting loot. Shouldn’t you be striking at your job for making you work, or fire-bombing guildies for going without you? Your readers want you to get all the loot, yet you punish us. Is that fair?
For the Pie on 27 Mar 2008 at 3:01 pm #
@ Guy.
Maggy Drops:
Badges…oh yes badges from both bosses in Gruul’s Lair as well..woot.
20 slot bag
Head (used for tanking ring)
T4 tokens x 3 (2 for rogue, pally, uh..priest?- 1 for lock, mage, hunter, lost roll with mage)
Sword of some sort
Belt-mail, not an upgrade for me (sad that Pvp Belt is so tasty)
25 man share of gold was 19 gold a piece. 10 gold from High King, don’t remember the amount on Gruul though. Basically enough for the repairs. (poor timing on first HKM pull, second bad pull was someone body pulled them doh but didn’t die on that one 3rd bad one was healers were confused on who they were healing…or maybe that was the 3rd pull)
Guy on 27 Mar 2008 at 3:12 pm #
grats!
Anonymous on 27 Mar 2008 at 3:14 pm #
Unfortunately, I can’t sympathize. I would like to go on ANY Raid to get ANY Gear, but have a schedule that completely prohibits playing WoW for more than 1 hour at a stretch (and the hour occurs at random times). So I would like to whine about the fact that no gear worth a d@mn drops through quests and that BG gear is way behind current Arena or Raid gear. Blizzard has turned WoW into a non-friendly game for folks forced to solo, and that is a problem.
Drotara on 27 Mar 2008 at 3:20 pm #
Did Kestrel say my name? I think he did.
Dragonfirex on 27 Mar 2008 at 3:38 pm #
So let me get this straight:
You’re uber pissed and punishing your fans because a random computer somewhere ran a calculation that just so happened to determine that an eletronic file..killed by other eletronic files..using and wearing even more eletronic files..dropped a particular electronic file that your electronic file wanted really bad…so it could be a better electronic file?
Umm ok.
Anon on 27 Mar 2008 at 3:39 pm #
Less qq, more doodoo
Chesko on 27 Mar 2008 at 3:56 pm #
If it makes you feel any better, I’ve done a full clear of kara 14 times and have never had the ranged weps from Attumen/Big Bad Wolf/Prince drop…my first time ever in Kara I randomly got pugged into the fight for just Prince…the Sunfury drops…the MT outrolled me saying he wanted to use it for his dps gear. They all said, “don’t worry, it drops all the time!”
Lucky for me I’ve had pretty good luck with the drops gear wise…just not my primary source of damage. Still managing to pump out about 1200 dps though.
Determined on 27 Mar 2008 at 4:02 pm #
quote
Determined on 27 Mar 2008 at 2:30 pm #
No more posts?
*shrugs* oh well.
Atleast I dont have to hear about another person complaining about loot.
/quote
NAMEFAKER ?: (
Narian on 27 Mar 2008 at 4:20 pm #
WHAT!?!?!?
NOOOOO!!!!!!!!
Arides on 27 Mar 2008 at 4:58 pm #
*cough* Boys, as far as ZOMG NO MORE POSTS go one suspects “exaggeration for comedic effect” here. Just a little.
But yes, raid drops especially are mean like that. Our raid group has SSC on farm and yet to date Leo has never dropped a single Hero token, not once. And when (if) he ever does there are five casters ahead of me on DKP who will be after it. Guys in dresses, fighting to the death–oh, it’s not a pretty sight, I assure you. But that’s the kind of thing that happens when the loot gods start messing with your collective heads.
Yardbo on 27 Mar 2008 at 5:00 pm #
PVE gear is for carebears!! Go get some PVP gear and some blood on it!!
tego on 27 Mar 2008 at 5:21 pm #
tactic 1:
:::blinding flury of jedi hand waves::: You will write posts…… you will get loot…. these are not the droids you are looking for….. credits will be fine……
you are not Guiedo (or however you spell that fat little flappin thing) so this will work =)
tactic 2:
PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DONT STRIKE…… I DONT EVEN PLAY A HUNTER AND I LOVES THIS SITE PPPPPPPLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEE
tactic 3:
considering I’ve been a tad lax in my hacking lately and cant just hack the server to give ya what you want, whats the cost to over come this????
tactic 4:
Suck it up ya big bawlin baby I don’t flamin care what name you are givin huntards but ya a damn dwarf and we are better than this
finally @ dragonfirex
thats great being a computer nerd i love that… though technically most of those are probably database entries in the same database so not individual files, but then again im just a dumb dwarf (and oracle dba =)…. so what do i know
Xanthelei on 27 Mar 2008 at 11:18 pm #
BRK:
Two things. First, I finally killed Kael in MgT (or MrT as you call it) and got the hunter chest. But secondly and most importantly:
When he dies you CAN NOT be a ghost!!
If you are, you will not get credit for the kill, cannot loot his head, and will not be able to roll on the gear. Thankfully I was the only hunter and it was a mostly guild run, so they passed and let me pick it up. But if you’re finishing the quest, remember to NOT release under 3-5% HP! Only do so if all DPS is releasing or only two people are alive so they will stop DPS.
I have a ticket open about this now, hoping they’ll give me the head so I can finish the quest. That mofo is very much OP and needs a nerf.
Heffer on 28 Mar 2008 at 6:13 am #
Selfish
wtf do I read at work now?
Kestrel on 28 Mar 2008 at 10:54 am #
@ Drotara: I sure did. That has become my mantra in BGs, especially AV. Unfortunately, about 2 minutes later, it’s followed by “Will all you kids just STFU and KILL HORDE!”
Moonsniper on 01 Apr 2008 at 5:17 pm #
I feel for you BRK.
As much as a 2 piece T5 Hunter with Hydross Chest and Ring (plus BT crafted bracers ^_^) can without cackling insanely and soloing elites with that nifty 2 set bonus =D.