Bash My Face In

With the new cross-realm looking for dungeon feature that has been released with the latest patch (3.3 Fall of the Lich King) I have been running heroic dungeons quite often on my warrior, instant queues are amazing. However, this post is about something that happened while I was playing my shaman.

The other day I was running maraudon orange crystals and I was grouped with a human warrior that was to be our tank. Now, it was quite obvious that he didn’t know much about the game, and admitted that this was one of his first dungeons. I don’t know what came over me, but instead of being nice and trying to teach him how to play properly, I started to flame him made some comments about him in party chat. While it wasn’t the WORST group I’ve ever been in, I did say that it was… multiple times.

After a few of my comments about how horrible this player was, another party member stood up for him and told me to leave him alone, it’s not his fault that he’s new and that it’s much better he makes the mistakes now instead of while he’s tanking for me in Icecrown Citidel. After hearing this, I realized what a total douche I had been and offered my advice to the warrior (for example: equip a shield, change to defensive stance, use sunder armor to gain threat, taunt when the mob stops attacking you and starts attacking me).

I won’t ever be like that in a party again, it doesn’t accomplish anything positive and may have made that tank think twice before queuing for another dungeon, pushing my queue time out another 10 minutes.

So, I hope to make up for my ways in that party and help out any new players that I come across. I’m sure I don’t have to tell anyone reading this, but I hope everyone also does the same.

I ran across a post today that mentions that, “For a few people I know personally, the game just isn’t interesting anymore, and they say that Warcraft has started its crash-and-burn, the downward spiral into oblivion.”  Now, there’s a lot more to the post (it’s huge) and you should go read it when you have some time, but I don’t agree with this at all.

Back when I started playing World of Warcraft, there was so much to do, the world is massive and there are a ton of quests, so many instances; I couldn’t imagine this game ever having an end, ever coming to a close.  Then when the first expansion came out, it confirmed my belief that this game could never end, it would never end.

I missed the beginning of Wrath of the Lich King, I definitely joined the party late for that expansion.  However, when I did join, there was still so much to do, so much to explore, so much lore (that I actually felt a part of, unlike any other expansion), and so many achievements to get, I was pumped and still am.  I haven’t even started raiding!

From what I’ve seen in the past, when a new expansion is planned to be released, people get apathetic and they don’t want to run instances/raids anymore.  When burning crusade was going to be released, all I heard was, “What? Why would I raid, all my gear’s going to be outdated in three weeks, anyway” and I think this is going on now.  Players have caught wind of the new expansion, the next big thing, and they’re starting to see what they’re doing now as, pointless and possibly even obsolete.  Like Pixelated Executioner says, they released information about Cataclysm way to early from it’s release date.

World of Warcraft has been apart of my life since mid 2005.  That’s over four years of the time of this post.  I’ve put so much of my time into this game, that it’s very difficult for me to believe that the game will ever finish.  I just added up the time played on my characters and I have 200+ days played amongst my characters.  This might be a small number to some people, but it’s a pretty big number for me.  I’m attached to my characters.  I don’t want them to fade into history and not get any attention.

Now, I’m not arguing that World of Warcraft will be supported by Blizzard forever.  I’m not niave enough to think that people will always want to play, no matter what, or that Blizzard will even want to keep World of Warcraft alive, they’re developing a new MMO as we speak.  We’ve seen several “WoW Killers” come and go (Warhammer, Aion, Dungeons & Dragons Online, Lord of the Rings Online),  if something’s going to kill WoW, I think it will (and should) come from Blizzard.  But, I do think that as long as Blizzard keeps pumping out good content for World of Warcraft, people will keep playing and the game will live on.

Hello everyone and welcome to Bash My Face In.  I set this up to document things I experience in the game World of Warcraft.  I make no garuntee, but I will attempt to keep this site updated at least once a week.  I want to post screenshots and videos of things I encounter in game and keep a log of my activites.

Since the release of Cataclysm will destroy Azeroth as we know it, I’m going to be taking many screenshots to try and document what the world looks like so I can have something to look back on, later. 

I’m going to try to give any tips I can on raiding, making gold, having fun, and playing in general.  If I can find the time, words, and thoughts to come up with some good backstory for my characters, I may even do some role playing.  Since I play a Protection Warrior, most of the posts will likely be about tanking, hence the name, “Bash My Face In”.