So to celebrate this great event, tonight I shall reinstall the game, since the updater refuses to work (something about not finding wow.exe and I cba to google it). After the reinstall, depending whether it will take me a few hours or my whole life, I shall reactivate my subscription and play the game once more.

Why quit in the first place? Well, I’ve been playing a Prot Pala for a very long time and I was tanking before it was cool (credits go here). I liked how being able to do a good job at tanking with a Paladin in TBC times was a challenge and not everyone and their mother could do it. But then came Wrath and all the bullshit changes made to the classes and I was like “meh, F-it, I want to be special and not like everyone else”. So I quit my Pala and started a few Priests (2 to be more exact, for PvP and the shizzle). Then that didn’t work out as I started a full time job and had to finish my studies and well, it all came down to me quitting the game. I had a post planned to explain the reasons on a much larger scale, but then I started reading Jong and was mesmerized so I forgot.

Long story short, if everything goes as planned, I’m back in the game and back into blogging about the game we all love.

Toodles!

PS: what really made me want to play the game again was the short movie introduced in the patch which you can see here.

PPS: when I first saw the following picture (click for full resolution), I read “Fail of the Lich King”. Anyone else in the same situation?

Fail of the Lich King

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Fail of the Lich King. I’m also back

• Welcome to Patch 3.0.2
• My evolution as a World of Warcraft player
• How I started tanking
• A new beginning!
• Patch 3.1 Protection Paladin Specs and Glyphs

I remember playing my first game on an old HC Spectrum, which needed a cassette player to load it’s games from tapes. Computers being a subject which started to interest me, I later started to get some courses on Informatics. I discovered the 286 and 386, on which I played Prince of Persia, Aladdin and some Formula 1 game. Then in 1994 I got my first personal computer, a 386 with 33 MHz processor and 1 MB of RAM. It was the moment that got my hooked to any gaming related activities.

Fast forward 15 years, I discovered MMOs. It started with EVE, continued with Word of Warcraft and with FML in-between. But lately I’ve been looking to widen my horizons and after reading Tobol’s review (and several others), I’m really thinking of giving Aion a shot.

If you’re like me, maybe you would like to take a look at Killer Guides little contest. They are giving away 20 beta weekend passes for Aion. All you have to do is describe in a sentence why should you receive one of the passes. All winners will also get a copy of their Aion Strategy Guide.

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Other MMOs – EVE, WoW, FML and Aion?

• Fail of the Lich King. I’m also back
• A new beginning!
• Here we go!
• We’re back and we’re fresh
• Paladins, Stop Sucking

First I was Shadow with him and tried some PvP, saw that there’s no way I could do good in the current state of Shadow Priests in PvP and went Discipline. I sucked at it (call it “lack of gear” but it was really lack of skill) and went Shadow again, but only to do PvE. Did that for a while and loved it. But I went back to Discipline once i got more PvP gear and now I love it even more.

Why am I telling you this? Because two days ago this happened:

For a long time I was missing only Oculus heroic to get the Champion of the Frozen Wastes title, but never really got to do it, especially since I was Disc and not geared enough to heal it.

But that night I got lucky. The guild was looking to do a heroic, I specced Shadow and the results are as you see above. Yes, I spent 100g only for that.

I got 5 Achievements once that last boss was dead, including the title one. Which I’m missing on Tepisor.

You see the irony? The Priest is an Alt, I play him for fun and kicks and still I finished 10-man content earlier than on my main.

Lady Luck just loves me.

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WoW Bitch Slaps Me. Again

• Rage Winterchill down!
• So we went on a little trip
• A little bit of sharing
• Biggest “Oh, shit!” moments
• Bored of PvE. Or am I?

But my Paladin is my favorite character to play. That’s why it hurts me when I see another Paladin playing bad and giving us a bad name.

I don’t play my Horde characters very much. But when I play them (well, the Hunter mostly) I try and PuG 25-man stuff. Keep in mind that my Horde characters are on the Karazhan server, where I originally started playing as Alliance.

(small note that might turn to be really big: you have no idea how bad is being Alliance on Karazhan. It was bad when I transferred off and I only imagine now is even worst. The ratio is about 4:1 to Horde. According to wowjutsu.com, there is only 1 Alliance guild in the top10, at place 7. Next one is on 14. That’s bad. Really bad. WG on Horde side has constantly 2 full raids while Alliance is running with 10–15 Tenacity buffs. I guess it’s fun up to a point for them, 1-shoting most players.)

So I was playing my Hunter and found a 25-man PuG for Sartharion. We clear the drakes and prepare to face him. That’s when I noticed no one had any Paladin buffs yet. So I politely ask for buffs. I get a Bok and I think to myself “BoK is good, gid moar cuz I suck at huntering and need all the help I can get!”. 10–15 seconds pass, I only had BoK with 3 Paladins in the raid. So I ask again. Nothing. I whisper one of the Paladins and I finally get a BoM. We wait 30 seconds more, hoping the other Paladin notices that he should like buff and stuff, but alas, he didn’t and we started the encounter.

(another small note: even tho I’m really bad at playing a Hunter and I’m also specced MM, I was able to keep 3k DPS by only spamming Steady Shot and hitting Wyvern Sting every CD. Mana was an issues, but thank Blizzard for Aspect of the Viper.)

This whole situation left me with a bitter taste in my mouth. I hear many people complain about Paladins and buffing, but I never had any problems before. I don’t use a buffing addon (like PallyPower) but I never miss any buffs. Even if I buff greater blessings and someone needs something else, I’m fast on correcting it.

How hard can it be people? It’s a simple thing to do, that only requires at most 10 seconds of your time, then you can forget about it for 30 minutes. So stop giving Paladins a bad name and buff up already!

What’s your experience with Paladins and buffing?

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Paladins, Stop Sucking

• Here we go!
• My evolution as a World of Warcraft player
• Highlight: Altism and you!
• The Complete idiot’s guide to Karazhan for Protection Paladins
• Tip: Making money with cooking