Aborted Blog Topics
Meatloaf Plays a Hunter
And I would do anything for loot, I’d run right into Naxx and back
I would do anything for loot, I’ll ninja from you and that’s a fact
But I’ll never forget the way you healed me now, oh no, no way
And I would do anything for loot, but I won’t sporebat, I won’t sporebat
Anything for loot, oh I would do anything for loot
I would do anything for loot, but I won’t sporebat, oh I won’t sporebat
BRK’s Top Ten Reasons Why the Proposed Ulduar Vehicles Both Suck and Blow.
10. Due to clean-air regulations, all the servers have their own emission standards. A motorcycle on one realm will not have the same performance as a vehicle on another.
9. Likewise, non-standard fuel mixtures across realms means that when you transfer toons to new servers, your vehicles may run poorly and not do the DPS you’re used to seeing.
8. The same vehicles are used over and over, and nobody ever sprays them down with Lysol. Eww.
7. Do you think Al Unser Jr. could hop of out his Indy car and suddenly play a shaman?
6. Military-only guilds will crush Ulduar in a matter of minutes.
5. Hunter-pets get their own tanks, but they’ll clog all the controls with drool, feathers, hair, and poo-doo.<
4. Sheldon can’t drive; Ulduar will never be seen on Big Bang Theory.
3. The Nobles Deck will buy a trinket that grants extra horsepower and rocket launchers, so the Department of Defense will classify the entire Darkmoon Faire as an exporter of military technology.
2. British citizens will run their vehicles on the wrong side of the instance, raising WoW-insurance rates through the roof.
1. They won’t make a siege vehicle big enough for Baby Rhino!
Best WoW-Blog You’re Probably Not Reading
Greedy Goblin. Blunt and caustic, but not incendiary. He will attacks ideas but not the people who have them. Don’t expect sympathy, but you won’t get yelled at, either. You may not want to delve into the social and psychological underpinnings of why people do what they do in WoW, but at least he’ll make you jealous of his gold.
The Letter to Blizz That Should be Written
Dear Blizz,
Please stop making promises you can’t keep. Don’t tell us about dual-specs until you know you can implement them. Please stop telling us you’ve got something fabulous coming, tell us what it is, then fail to deliver. Fix the major outstanding problems in the game, then talk to us about expansions. Work on the expansions, sure, just shut up about them until Cower/Prowl is working properly.
Don’t sneak stealth-nerfs in the game. Nerf if you must, but don’t do it without tell us. Don’t make us have to search for “undocumented patch notes”. We’re paying for this; tell us how our game functions and when that functionality changes.
If you’re going to invite us on the PTR, accept the fact that some of us actually know what the bleepin’ heck we’re talking about. If you give us tools to test the game, don’t then dismiss those tools as inaccurate gauges of game-play.
The number one issue of almost all players is Lag. We’ll put up with a lot, but Lag is unacceptable. Before anything further patch is deployed, ensure Lag is minimalized. If Lag appears, immediately investigate and fix it promptly. Do not wait for patch-days; take action immediately.
Yours in friendship,
BigRedKitty
Biggest Hunter Misconception Of All Time
Legolas was not a hunter; he was an archer. BJ and the Bear was more of a hunter than Legolas. At least he had a pet!
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BRK you alright? it seems your going a little more crazy with each passing min..but anyway great work but why the hate on the siege tanks dont you like blowing *^*( up?
“Fix the major outstanding problems in the game, then talk to us about expansions.”
Amen.
I love the Meatloaf take, then again I like his music. Now onto the letter to Blizzard, you did send that right? If not I will send you the stamp.
So, what zone does hunters go ta fer ta tame a trucker?
***Biggest Hunter Misconception Of All Time
Legolas was not a hunter; he was an archer. BJ and the Bear was more of a hunter than Legolas. At least he had a pet!***
Yes he did. It was Gimli.
“4. Sheldon can’t drive; Ulduar will never be seen on Big Bang Theory.”
Yeah but he’s a ninja who sells loot on eBay. We don’t want him to have access to it.
aw you put a picture of Legolas
LOL! I heard that song and I am not kidding 5 minutes ago!! I like your version much better. Elmer Fudd is more a hunter than LegOLamb.
Legolarr, Legolias, Leglazz, Logelas, Logilas and Liggilas all disagree with you BRK
Lol, nice ratters. Hmmm I would think truckers would be a little hard to tame. The bats they carry for checking tires might hurt a little for the 20 sec till he is tamed.
Click to edit isn’t working for me but I wanted to add that I saw a rogue named Legolas the other day /facepalm
I’d rather have new content than a Cower bug fix.
I can only assume they’re actively pursuing the bug. The fact that they’ve failed to find it is a bit troubling, sure, but talking about Ulduar doesn’t take the Cower bug off their change management.
“If you’re going to invite us on the PTR, accept the fact that some of us actually know what the bleepin’ heck we’re talking about. If you give us tools to test the game, don’t then dismiss those tools as inaccurate gauges of game-play.”
This. All of the documentated cases of why BM was possibly being nerfed too much prior to 3.0.8 were discounted out-of-hand. Now, grant you, there was a lot of “noise” to wade through to get to those that were giving out valid data that proved as much. However, to just ignore it as more “disgruntled hunter babble”? C’mon….
I appreciate what’s going on here. I’m experiencing something similar. Basically approaching the conclusion that Blizzard is putting out a bad product, particularly with respect to a toon I’ve invested ridiculous amounts of time in.
This isn’t about hunter crying over lost DPS prowess, this is about 3-4 months of paying a subscription for a lackluster product.
Dear Mr. BRK, please send the letter!
Seriously, the whole, “We’re nerfing hunters… test it for us… if it’s too much will change it prior to going live.”
“Uh… it’s too much.”
“No can hear… enjoy your nerf!… Oh we should have listened, you were right after all, here’s a band-aid.”
They should have never asked for our help to begin with.
Oh, and IF they ever get around to fixing cower/prowl, can they please fix the mysterious randomly disappearing pet spell bar too?!
Thanks.
There are times when blunt letters should be and actually -need- to be sent. If you don’t send the letter… who will? And considering what I have seen “suggested” as letters before, that one is polite, direct, and to the point. They won’t listen to the forums, which is actually a minority of players in itself. They might actually listen to those that write and mail them, since that’s an even lesser portion. And how many people are going to take the time to write and mail a letter these days?
4. Sheldon can’t drive; Ulduar will never be seen on Big Bang Theory.
ROFL… I love you BRK. ;-p
PS – PLZ send that letter!
We’ve been watching the LOTR movies lately and my husband and I have come to the agreement that Legolas is possibly a melee hunter! He keeps using his arrows as stabby things and his dual-wielded blades…. and no pet. Unless you count Gimli…
Thanks for the link to the Greedy Goblin, a new blog to read!
I’ve read greedy goblin for a while. Great stuff.
“7. Do you think Al Unser Jr. could hop of out his Indy car and suddenly play a shaman?”
This sums up the problems with ‘vehicular raiding’ perfectly. The thing is, I can’t drive/fly properly OR play my classes properly, so I am well and truly in trouble
4. Sheldon can’t drive; Ulduar will never be seen on Big Bang Theory.
i absolutely laughed out loud at this. i so love that show.
“2. British citizens will run their vehicles on the wrong side of the instance, raising WoW-insurance rates through the roof.”
Hmm, us Brits would be a dominant proportion of a EUR Ulduar raid. We may drive on the left, the side that seems oh so demonic to those across the pond, but we’re the majority in comparison to those from The Lesser Nations across the North Seas & English Channel. Rewrite as:
“2. Continental Europeans will drive their vehicles on the wrong side, just like they do every time they pop across on the Eurostar for the better wine on the Dover side.”
Kind regards,
Dob
“7. Do you think Al Unser Jr. could hop out of his Indy car and suddenly play a shaman?”
Yes. Yes he can. Little Al is just that cool. He could also hop out of his Indy car, perform an appendectomy on an Emu, write the #1 love ballad of all time, discover faster-than-light travel, top the dps meters in Heroic Naxx-25 with a resto Druid, and STILL have time to get back in the car and beat Fittipaldi to the line FTW.
…..if Fittipaldi didn’t put him into the wall first, that is. I guess we’ll never really know…..
ironically, i have a friend called legolas and he is a hunter
“BJ and the Bear was more of a hunter than Legolas.”
Nerf truckers!
Yeah, I gotta disagree, Legolas has that axe swinging yeti pet. He’s a Hunter. BM even, as I believe axe swinging yeti are exotics.
“The number one issue of almost all players is Lag. We’ll put up with a lot, but Lag is unacceptable. Before anything further patch is deployed, ensure Lag is minimalized. If Lag appears, immediately investigate and fix it promptly. Do not wait for patch-days; take action immediately.”
yep…. BRK send the letter, please
I’m seconding Altheaus on the matter on Lag – BRK, send the letter!! Go!! Do eet now!!
I may be dating myself….But Grizzly Adams now there was a Hunter.
P.S. send the letter if I get killed once more due to DC i am gonna log back on and whine again.
I insert Mammoth Cutters into mobs via Boomstick thats all ya need to know.
Grizzly Adams = pure awesomesauce!
“Legolas was not a hunter; he was an archer. BJ and the Bear was more of a hunter than Legolas. At least he had a pet!”
http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Deathwing&n=Leagolas.
All I’m saying is every heroic I’ve done since hitting 80 I’ve been top.
Not sayin’. Just sayin’.
(Yes I hate the name but playing on game cards makes it hard for a name change.)
I rolled a NE hunter named “Lolegas,” just for you BRK! His pet’s an owl named “Gadanelf.” But I had to roll BE to really get the Orlando Bloom thing going on
… and if anyone knows about BJ and the Bear, it’s you, baby!!
/snort
Mrs BRK wrote:
… and if anyone knows about BJ and the Bear, it’s you, baby!!
PWN’D
/snerk
BJ and the Bear, Grizzly Adams…dang dudes, you guys are old!
Next thing you know somebody’s gonna bring up the Herculoids, Thundarr and Space Ghost…
HAR! A good laugh is never a bad thing, even about such sour topics as hunter nerfs. Keep em coming, BRK! Looking forward to podcast no. 14 =D
Legolas had a dwarf for a pet.. It looked a bit like you actually : )
Can you toss your pet BRK?
*dreamy sigh* I’ll admit, it took me forever to get to reading the post….Thank you TJ and BRK for using a picture of Legolas…*goes back to day dreaming*
“He will attacks ideas but not the people who have them”
My sarcasm-sense is tingeling but I’m not really sure. How much ingame-gold you got for that add?
“He will attacks ideas but not the people who have them”
Assuming you weren’t actually being sarcastic, I’m pretty sure Matticus, Wynthea, Lum the Mad and Amava for instance would beg to differ.
Grizzly Adams = pure awesomesauce!
Heck Yeah!
“10. Due to clean-air regulations, all the servers have their own emission standards. A motorcycle on one realm will not have the same performance as a vehicle on another.”
Does this mean my Tundra Mammoth will require a caralytic converter for methane emissions?
I talked to a GM about the Cower bug, and he said that it’s probably a problem with VIsta not saving preferences correctly. I’ve started right clicking and choosing “Run as Admin” and I haven’t had a problem since
@ Burnnate
Your comment makes me want to through on my XP drive and see if that fixes it. It is possible that is the case, after all Vista is “Teh Sux”.
I have Vista and no issues… But then again, i spent some time enhancing it for better performance.
“It is possible that is the case, after all Vista is “Teh Sux”.”
QFT. If it weren’t for an OEM install it would have been replaced long ago with XP or Linux on my system. I can’t wait to try Burninate’s suggestion.
“I have Vista and no issues…”
Well mate, then you are truely blessed. It is the worst implementation of an OS I’ve ever experienced in my life (and I harken back to the old DOS days of the mid to late 80’s
)
The cower bug can’t be a Vista issue becauses I’ve experienced it on my Mac.
“I talked to a GM about the Cower bug, and he said that it’s probably a problem with VIsta not saving preferences correctly. I’ve started right clicking and choosing “Run as Admin” and I haven’t had a problem since”
I run on XP and have the cower bug. So it is not that simple.
Yeah, the Cower bug is not unique to Vista. I’m on XP and my Hunter friends all also on XP have the bug as well.
If the GMs are saying it is a Vista issue that doesn’t bode well for a fix coming as it suggests Blizz are writing it off as being related to the user’s system and not a game issue.
Sorry Dobmeister, but why would British citizens be the majority of an EU Ulduar raid? All continental countries drive on the right. And if you’re talking about the WoW population, I’m not sure there are more British players than all other countries combined. After all, the game is also played in French, German, Russian and Spanish. And you should not mistake the number of English servers with the number of British players: lots of people whose mother tongue is not one of the supported ones play on English servers…
On the subject at hand:
I agree with most points made, apart from the fact that squashing bugs is higher priority than new content. First, it’s not the same people at Blizzard at work for both, and they need to keep their artists and content designers busy while their programmers look at the bugs. As far as talking to us about it, I don’t agree either: first, I prefer to know about new features early to prepare. Sure, in the case of dual-spec, there’s not a lot of preparing to do, but in general I’m pretty happy with the way they’re handling it. And don’t forget that people who are not affected by bugs would feel rather left out if all Blizzard was talking about was bug solving…
Greedy Goblin doesn’t attack ideas not in consonance with his own; he simply dismisses them (with prejudice). The proponents of those ideas, however (as Gwaendar points out), are definitely (un)fair game.
While our blogs are somewhat of a bully pulpit, some take the “bully” part a bit farther than is necessary in polite society (which is the part of society of which I prefer to be a part).
No more Blogs for WoW Insider?? Wow….
BRK’s column was prolly the only reason I browsed that place.
In all honesty BRK, you’re the only one over there that even knew what the heck he was talking about…
Everyone else on there took like 3 months to get to 80, has no idea about raiding or being efficient and knowledgeable about DPS numbers…
Grizzly Adams is cool…
But I am looking for a blue ox to tame myself, Paul Bunyan ftw
Nick S: “I’d rather have new content than a Cower bug fix.
I can only assume they’re actively pursuing the bug. The fact that they’ve failed to find it is a bit troubling, sure, but talking about Ulduar doesn’t take the Cower bug off their change management.”
New content that doesn’t work is crap. They wasted a huge amount of time on those stupid achievements instead of fixing REAL problems that have been around for years, like that druids can’t start a fight with swipe. You have to be already autoattacking. The now four year old druid range bug. My hunter randomly loses her targeting while autoshooting. My warlock’s pet gets stuck on things if a fight starts when he’s not perfectly perpendicular to the ground, and doesn’t unstick until the fight is over. This is intensely annoying somewhere where half the landscape is vertical… but at least they finally fixed my outrunning my pets, both hunter and warlock, while just walking normally.
It doesn’t matter how pretty it is if you can’t do anything with it.
BRK, send the letter.
Kikidas, love the icon.
Wtiger: “Click to edit isn’t working for me but I wanted to add that I saw a rogue named Legolas the other day /facepalm”
The first day of the BC expansion, I saw six belf hunters named some variation of legolas, and two sephiroths. A dark day when they added belfs, akin to the September that Never Ended. All the kiddies who didn’t want to play Horde because they weren’t pretty swarmed over….and made huntards.
BTW, if you rightclick the edit link and choose ‘open in new window’, it works. For me, at least. Now, getting Post-Free to quit eating my posts… (crosses fingers) (And /fail.) (And /fail again) (And again.) (And again.) (More /fail.)
(A fleet of failboats.) (And half of them sinking.) (And on fire.) (With termites.) (That have gonorhea.) (And cavities.) (And spell ‘exalted’ with an H.) (And ‘lose’ with two Os.) (sigh. Every one of those parens is a failure to submit. Can we PLEASE get a working version of post-free or something?)
“*dreamy sigh* I’ll admit, it took me forever to get to reading the post….Thank you TJ and BRK for using a picture of Legolas…*goes back to day dreaming*”
You know, I’m not sure if Legolas swings that way. But maybe she’s a open minded kind of girl.
Hi BRK !
You should put Greedy Goblin in your blog wigdet. I use it as a favorites sites list…
Keep up the good laugh !
Nef & Noé
“Legolas was not a hunter; he was an archer.”
I have always wished hunters had a petless archer or ranger tree. Where you got a boost for not using your pet.
Continued.. (it wouldn’t let me edit from work)
Something like this:
dmg: pet/hunter
—————————————-
BM: 50%/50%
Tree2: 25%/75%
Tree3: 0/100%
That’d defeat the purpose of rolling a hunter imo. But then again….isnt that was SV is?
and to Stupid Mage.
I would assume that Legolas would be open minded about it, I mean think about it, if you cant tell the differance between a male and female…
“I have always wished hunters had a petless archer or ranger tree. Where you got a boost for not using your pet.”
Would you spend Talent Point(s) in the MM tree that gave a bonus for not having a pet out?
@Lau
Hey I dunno, I’m Stupid by nature, I can’t tell them Blood Elves apart until they take their gloves off.
Legolas is a Hunter in the rules of Lord of the Rings Online.
/duck
* Legolas uses Tame Pet on Gimli.
* Gimli is too low level.
BRK are you still gonna make appearances on the WoWInsider podcast?
I thought the classes on Lotr Online were Ranger Guardian Lorekeeper (or master) and thief
#4: cant he just get Howard or Leonard to drive him in the Chopper while he sits in the side seat?
BTW BRK… Gratz on 25 Man Malygos and Champion of the Frozen Wastes =D
If you thought hunters called legolas, logoland or whatever combo of keys the effeminate fanboys use to get their idol into the game, what do you make of a dwarven hunter called baalin. Bumped into this little aberation last night, and he didnt even have a red hood on.
In reference to BRK’s Top Ten Reasons Why the Proposed Ulduar Vehicles Both Suck and Blow. I will agree with all of this unless they add the new engineering recipe to compliment the choppers :- Gnomish mammoth fur random number generators (ie Fluffy dice). Then Uldar vehicles would rock.
Hello guys, it’s been way too long since I’ve popped my head in to say hello to everyone. I’ve been around looking at all the comments and replies to everyone, but I haven’t signed up until now http://demya.com/images/smile.gif ! This forum is very informative and I’m hoping to learn more.
Looking forward to sharing ideas with everybody! And everyone is so nice (even though you dont even know me yet). It’s a lot of fun reading about where everyone is at. I hope everyone has a great weekend and we’ll talk soon.
I’m pretty happy to be here!
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