World of Warcraft Blog? No wai!
As usual, it's WoW maintenance night this tuesday. It used to be worst - every tuesday was the maintenance. It was a much needed break for people who simply need the downtime to convince themselves to take a break and do something else.
I'd be the last person to admit being good at time-management. I would never spend these kinda free time working on tasks that I've probably been procrastinating months for. If I have my mind on something, it frustrates me having to deal with something else before I've had my fun with it. Same goes with anything I guess.
Yeah. I've played WoW for probably two years? Started in Feb 2005. Including the 6-month period in which I quit (but am still paying for the subscription), it's actually slightly more than two years. The longest MMO I've played, and it sure is worth the fun, although it pretty much consumed an entire chunk of my life.
I'm not intending to move on to any other MMO in the near future. What attracts me most in playing an MMO is it's background. Moving on to waste another part of my life on a new MMO in a universe I don't already know is pretty much a waste of time. That's precisely why I'm not showing too much interested in Warhammer.
So, nowadays my focus is on WoW arenas - the only aspect of the game keeping me going. It's competitive nature and level of depth has exceeded what I ever imagined an MMO could achieve. Balance issues are still a problem, despite a very welcome next patch that would solve a bunch.
To provide everyone with some extra information on gladiator titles and rewards by the end of the season based on the battlegroup for EACH ladder:
top 0.5% will receive the armored netherdrake mount (310% spd) in mail and the "Gladiator" ranking.
0.5~3% will receive the "Duelist" ranking.
3~10% will receive the "Rival" ranking.
10~35% will receive the "Challenger" ranking.
Above information confirmed by blue post.
Also, in order to receive award/titles, a player needs to have played at least 20% of the team's total games for the entire season.
Based on the above percentiles and armory information, bg9 (Bloodlust) has 4994 2v2 teams, 4997 3v3 teams, and 2767 5v5 teams to date (16/5). If I'm not wrong, it means you have to either be in a top 24 2v2/3v3 or top 13 arena team. I like how this distributes - the netherdrake should be an absolutely rare reward only made available to the most competitive. However, since it's based on battlegroup, many realms especially the PvE ones will be left out and probably never get to see it.
And as the title answers: Should I convert this blog into a WoW blog? Should I literally convert an account of my life, tainting this source of reminiscence into a bunch of nerdy theorycraft, guild drama and arena techniques? No I don't think. Despite the possible fame, hits and shit. I'd much rather keep it more personal for the time being. But then on the irony, everything here's about the MMO. Guess I'll leave these posts far and few in between.
Ciao :)
I'd be the last person to admit being good at time-management. I would never spend these kinda free time working on tasks that I've probably been procrastinating months for. If I have my mind on something, it frustrates me having to deal with something else before I've had my fun with it. Same goes with anything I guess.
Yeah. I've played WoW for probably two years? Started in Feb 2005. Including the 6-month period in which I quit (but am still paying for the subscription), it's actually slightly more than two years. The longest MMO I've played, and it sure is worth the fun, although it pretty much consumed an entire chunk of my life.
I'm not intending to move on to any other MMO in the near future. What attracts me most in playing an MMO is it's background. Moving on to waste another part of my life on a new MMO in a universe I don't already know is pretty much a waste of time. That's precisely why I'm not showing too much interested in Warhammer.
So, nowadays my focus is on WoW arenas - the only aspect of the game keeping me going. It's competitive nature and level of depth has exceeded what I ever imagined an MMO could achieve. Balance issues are still a problem, despite a very welcome next patch that would solve a bunch.
To provide everyone with some extra information on gladiator titles and rewards by the end of the season based on the battlegroup for EACH ladder:
top 0.5% will receive the armored netherdrake mount (310% spd) in mail and the "Gladiator" ranking.
0.5~3% will receive the "Duelist" ranking.
3~10% will receive the "Rival" ranking.
10~35% will receive the "Challenger" ranking.
Above information confirmed by blue post.
Also, in order to receive award/titles, a player needs to have played at least 20% of the team's total games for the entire season.
Based on the above percentiles and armory information, bg9 (Bloodlust) has 4994 2v2 teams, 4997 3v3 teams, and 2767 5v5 teams to date (16/5). If I'm not wrong, it means you have to either be in a top 24 2v2/3v3 or top 13 arena team. I like how this distributes - the netherdrake should be an absolutely rare reward only made available to the most competitive. However, since it's based on battlegroup, many realms especially the PvE ones will be left out and probably never get to see it.
And as the title answers: Should I convert this blog into a WoW blog? Should I literally convert an account of my life, tainting this source of reminiscence into a bunch of nerdy theorycraft, guild drama and arena techniques? No I don't think. Despite the possible fame, hits and shit. I'd much rather keep it more personal for the time being. But then on the irony, everything here's about the MMO. Guess I'll leave these posts far and few in between.
Ciao :)
Labels: arena titles, armored netherdrake, world of warcraft
posted by YT at
11:23 PM
