I’m happy to say that the primary Lock in Streakers has a healthy relationship with the 150,000,000 Mages in the guild… ie. we can enjoy a bit of Lock v. Mage banter without anyone’s Gnome getting hurt.

Warriors on the other hand…

My poly addon makes a pig’s (boar’s) squeal when broken… tell me I am not polymorphing the primary target constantly just for that sound… go on tell me…

Ofc PvP is another matter entirely and the squeal of a dying Gnome (sorry Gnomer but I do like killing gnomes) as they get hit up by a beautiful shatter combo is comparable to Verde’s Requiem.

In fact I haven’t bothered with PvP much throughout Wrath but in Cataclysm I’m having a blast. Have I mentioned how much I’m enjoying Frost lately?

thanks for that clarification!

If we assume that you can win 1 in 4, or worse, then I think the honor fits… still not entirely happy with it being such a large amount of honor in an environment that you can easily get away with doing sweet fa.

We are finding the same in the BGs… 3 weeks where there was no bonus honor for Alliance in Call to Arms weekends (it was bugged so it was removed from Alliance tabs), yet the bonus honor was available for Horde (as I have been told anyway) has unbalanced that side as well.

Just for your info: that may be a nice approximation, but as far as I know the actual rule is even simpler: TB (just like WG) starts every 2.5 hours. That is: exactly 2.5 hours from the *start* of the previous battle. The only time that rule is broken is when there is server maintenance.

I guess the reason for that somewhat weird time interval is that it makes the start times shift by an hour every day (there are 10 battles in 25 hours), so everyone gets a fair chance at joining, no matter what their daily rhytm is …

I think the honor for winning now (360) is decent enough and well balanced but unfortunately it’s too late to fix the damage from the 1,800 honor exploit fiasco. Almost everyone has a full set of PvP gear now making it very hard to compete in BGs if you don’t!

Overall, I’d give it a 8/10.

- Excellent quest lines (not that you would ever do them…).
- Couple of new BGs that are a lot of fun (both 10 man.. kinda WSG & EotS)
- Instances… really good, especially 1st time around (something I didn’t experience so much in WoLK)
- Raids.. well only stuck my head in two… and we had to work for the kill in one and gave up for the time being in the other.
- The class mechanics (speaking from the Mage perspective at least) are great. For the 1st time ever I feel I need to kite and love every minute of it. Squidly on the other hand can stand shot & heal… Gnome has more fun.

That said, I think Cataclysm has reintroduced the grind… big time.

- grind for gear x multiple levels
- grind your professions
- grind the new profession (Archeology)
- grind the rep
- grind the guild rep
- grind
- grind
- grind

So long term… maybe only 5/10 (but then, who knows in 6 months)

For you, that only plays for the 1st 6 months of an expansion anyway… it would be as fun as any short life game… it’s worth if for that at least.

Still on Aman’Thul.. I was invited over to Sen’jin by Staylaughing, but long time real life friends on Aman’Thul and Streakers are a great guild, more specifically great group of people.

Ohh the shame…

looks like the win trading has fallen through on Aman’Thul too.. had some hard fought losses (/sigh) over the last couple of days.

In a way I’m not fussed about the win trading… it sucks…

What I am pissed off about is that Blizzard would allow such a system to go live… and stay live for so long.

I understand they are trying to simplify the honor system, and that they want to encourage people into PvP (thus the honor for the gear)… but to what end?

My “friend” that was soaking the honor didn’t want it for PvP, he wanted it for… PvE at a guess… easier than Instance grinds and more consistent than quest items.

But.. as shown in the post, if someone is prepared to do 300 odd BGs (actual pvp), surely they should be wearing better gear than someone that isn’t even AFKing.. just running on a bridge outside a locked PvP area.

How do you rate the expansion and what server are you on these days?

- Zupa