Sludgy Mischief (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} childfoot) wrote,@ 2009-05-03 11:13:00 |
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NEWS: Blizzard announces there's an "I" in Team !!!
School of Hard Knocks PVP Achievement:
After ten straight games of Alterac Valley (all losses, but who's counting?), I had almost given up on my Orphan quest, which actually would disable me from getting my Purple Proto-Drake in a few months. The Purple Proto Drake is like the Holy Grail of Nerd-Dom (and it would completely match my precious purple skeleton warhorse!). What Blizzard has asked you to do, in order to accomplish these achievements, was to assault a tower with your orphan out as a witness to your very righteous cause. Not a bad idea in principle, the only problem is there are forty other people, with forty straggling orphans behind them, trying to do exactly that and a very limited number of four towers. It doesn't work like other quests that ask the same thing where anyone could cap the tower and you just have to be in the vicinity as having accomplished it yourself. Game after game of wishing I could kill my own faction, I found myself no where near closer to the achievement.
Got kind of annoying.
Stonehearth and Icewing were impossible -- even if I were the first one in the stone towers, which I almost always was, I would not be able to get the achievement because as you're trying to cap the flag, the NPCs are hitting you with their arrows. And dont even think of killing the NPCs, cuz then you'll aggro, and someone else will cap the flag because of you're actually doing them a favour and taking the hits instead of them. You see what a blahy situation this has become?
I gave up with Icewing and SH and went for North and South Bunker, which are closer to the alliance headquarters. As you're reaching these towers, you're more exposed and my beautiful Death Knight would find herself at half life when reaching the tower, the npcs mercilessly sharpshooting. The alliance, eager to prey on an already weakened enemy, took advantage of my poor health and would usually oneshot me to death (usually a paladin). ... But then what happened? I'm right beside the flag, dead as a doornail and instead of being automatically transported to the nearest graveyard, my body lay limp, a message popped up on my screen, "do you want to resurrect" .. what the? I had no soul stone on me! "do you want to resurrect" .. I looked around in my ghostly form; no pallies, having secured themselves in the knowledge they had raped me senseless. I pressed the red button and came back to life, half life, and blew the whistle to get my awkwardly-chipper orc orphan out and I capped the flag, the last of my school of hard knocks.
Bless the angel who took pity on me. And shame on Blizzard for creating battleground achievements that promote selfishness and greed.
School of Hard Knocks PVP Achievement:
After ten straight games of Alterac Valley (all losses, but who's counting?), I had almost given up on my Orphan quest, which actually would disable me from getting my Purple Proto-Drake in a few months. The Purple Proto Drake is like the Holy Grail of Nerd-Dom (and it would completely match my precious purple skeleton warhorse!). What Blizzard has asked you to do, in order to accomplish these achievements, was to assault a tower with your orphan out as a witness to your very righteous cause. Not a bad idea in principle, the only problem is there are forty other people, with forty straggling orphans behind them, trying to do exactly that and a very limited number of four towers. It doesn't work like other quests that ask the same thing where anyone could cap the tower and you just have to be in the vicinity as having accomplished it yourself. Game after game of wishing I could kill my own faction, I found myself no where near closer to the achievement.
Got kind of annoying.
Stonehearth and Icewing were impossible -- even if I were the first one in the stone towers, which I almost always was, I would not be able to get the achievement because as you're trying to cap the flag, the NPCs are hitting you with their arrows. And dont even think of killing the NPCs, cuz then you'll aggro, and someone else will cap the flag because of you're actually doing them a favour and taking the hits instead of them. You see what a blahy situation this has become?
I gave up with Icewing and SH and went for North and South Bunker, which are closer to the alliance headquarters. As you're reaching these towers, you're more exposed and my beautiful Death Knight would find herself at half life when reaching the tower, the npcs mercilessly sharpshooting. The alliance, eager to prey on an already weakened enemy, took advantage of my poor health and would usually oneshot me to death (usually a paladin). ... But then what happened? I'm right beside the flag, dead as a doornail and instead of being automatically transported to the nearest graveyard, my body lay limp, a message popped up on my screen, "do you want to resurrect" .. what the? I had no soul stone on me! "do you want to resurrect" .. I looked around in my ghostly form; no pallies, having secured themselves in the knowledge they had raped me senseless. I pressed the red button and came back to life, half life, and blew the whistle to get my awkwardly-chipper orc orphan out and I capped the flag, the last of my school of hard knocks.
Bless the angel who took pity on me. And shame on Blizzard for creating battleground achievements that promote selfishness and greed.
