WoW Naman - Holy Paladin-ing Revisited

Out of morbid curiosity, I tried out my holy paladin spec, the healing paladin specialization, just to see how much more complicated it is now than it was before. I did not want to make random people suffer by getting into a random dungeon, so I tried my luck in PVP using the random battlegrounds where dying is more the rule rather than an exception.

Holy. Paladin. Skulls. I swear, there's a healer there somewhere

I fell in love. I used to think that Alliance PVP sucks, but since I entered as a Holy Paladin, around 8 or so groups so far, the winning rate is a smidgen above 50%. That's more than I ever experienced PVPing with my other specs/characters. It is also a joy imagining the frustration of players trying to kill me, unless ganged up on by two or more, in futility.

I would like to think I made a difference. Di naman mayabang no?

WoW Naman - Zul'Aman (hee!)

I'm not sure what I ate last night that made me queue up my paladin for a random Zul-something dungeon. My only 5-man memories of Zul'Aman for me so far has been dying countless of times to that bird boss and quitting the group afterwards, either due to healer incompetence, or my PC spazzing out.

Hello!

I was hoping for Zul'Gurub since I at least have seen that to completion. But no.

DOOOOOOOOOOOM!

To my surprise, though, it was the most unbelievably great random group I have ever joined. I was probably the most incompetent player in that group, which was made even more evident when I was the only one who received the achievement after killing the final boss.

We only wiped once, to that group of trash leading to the bear boss, so not even to a boss. I didn't know the tactics for the bosses after the bear one, but I managed to stay mostly alive. We even decided to just burn down the dragonhawk boss because we were gunning for a timed run, and we were successful. Done in just a bit over an hour.

To top that, I got a sweet new pair of boots, a 24-slot bag, and got myself exalted to the Hyjal peeps and scored the plate DPS belt.

Reforging my gear for perfect hit and expertise was more troublesome than the run, imagine.

WoW Naman - Patch 4.1

So, Hi!

After 4 months of staying away from videogame crack, my MMO itch just became too unbearable during the Holy Week. While I always wanted to try out Rift, the patcher was just too unfriendly. So, it's back to World of Warcraft for me, and what great timing too: Patch 4.1 came out a few days after to hopefully alleviate the boredom I experienced the last few days of my previous subscription.

So what's in Patch 4.1? Nothing much, actually. The only "new" content added were the conversion of the two old troll raids, Zul'Gurub and Zul'Aman, to heroic 5-man level 85 dungeons. I think it's Blizzard's way of apologizing for the lack of troll content in the previous expansion.

Relive the frustration of taking 9/19 guildmates to a night of wipes! This time, with 4 total strangers, all with dubious playing abilities!

Did you miss me?

The new dungeons are DIFFICULT, and it's no wonder that you need an average item level of 346, basically fully-decked out with gear from the old heroic dungeons. Despite my attempts of trying to gear my retribution paladin, I was one level shy from entering the dungeon with my guildies. Fortunately, due to Blizzard's "insightfulness", I was able to eke a point by buying a high item level tanking cloak and just let it sit there in my inventory. I didn't even have to wear it!

My ticket to Zul-whatever

I was having fun again. Running difficult dungeons with guildies is a whole lot better than trusting your luck to a random group. Curse you restoration druid without the talent to make your Cleanse-like spell remove magic! *shakes fist*

Around the Web - April 28, 2011 Edition

First, some bad news: the Playstation Network has been down for more than a week now. Apparently, they've been hacked, and personal information of all account holders may now be in the wild, including, possibly, credit card information. Click here for the FAQs page they set up.

I guess my purchase of the PSOne classics I've been drooling for that would finally wake up my sleeping PSP would have to be put on hold for now. Sleep tighter, my PSP.

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After more than 3 months in the burner, after numerous declarations of more frequent patch releases, World of Warcraft 4.1 has finally arrived.

Nothing substantially new. Carry on. Yeah, I'm trolling.

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The Wii's successor has finally been officially announced. As usual, Nintendo is tight-lipped on what we could expect from their new console, but they did mention that demo units and more specs will be available come E3 this June. Expect the out-of-nowhere name to be dropped a week before that, ala Wii.

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Megaman Legends 3 has been announced for the Nintendo 3DS even before the console was launched. While it is quite some time before the game is actually finished, Japanese 3DS owners will be able to play a demo-ish version in time with the 3DS's eShop launch, reportedly this May.

I'm not well-versed with the series, having only played a few minutes of the PSOne original, but I'm still boggled why a Megaman game doesn't prominently feature the blue bomber.

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Back to WoW. My warrior is 1.5 levels away from cap, finally. No trolls please.

Free World of Warcraft?

According to this thread in NeoGAF, Blizzard has given some Battle.NET accounts with a free base World of Warcraft copy. Yep, that includes a whole month of going around Azeroth minus Outlands minus Northrend minus the Cataclysm maps.

So for those who have Battle.NET accounts, who don't have World of Warcraft accounts yet, login and check your account statuses now. And see you after a month. :p