PVP in wow has changed a lot over the years. I first got into pvp after watching a mage named Voidim. At teh time i did not even know how he was spec'ed and i did not know about some of the things in the acrane tree like POM and things like that. I was truly a noob when i started watching these videos.

Voidim was the first mage i started watching his videos were cool becouse when i started looking for videos of mages pvping i only saw undead mages and basicly thought "well that sucks every mage that dose good in pvp is undead and i am a human :/"

Voidim was the first i saw that was good at pvp and a human mage.

I think the bigest change from the old days of pvp, from the 60's to the 70's for the most part mages were a class like a rouge. we could solo almost anything ... well not healers so much but that was never a fun fight on either end :P but still you had the tool to control the world and take on as many people as you could handle.

I remember the good old days of controling 3 or even 5 people while you fight em all. Mages were always very killable all you had to do was catch them. we took alot of dmg did not have alot of health, but we had control ... and ways of proventing damage.

http://www.warcraftmovies.com/pv.php?t=3&l=voidim
Voidim's videos were at lvl 60 were he played with some of the best gear a pvp mage could have. he made use of bombs and things like that. witch was one of the things that always made me want to go to engineering. He played all the different specs and was good at them all. the one that suprised me the most was arcane frost, the damage he did as that spec was unreal i loved it i just did not know how to spec it >< lol

http://www.warcraftmovies.com/pv.php?t=3&l=Vurtne
Vurtne was one of the best mages i ever saw. i ran into his videos at the start of BC. he used alot of enginearing and in funny ways while fighting people. before his videos i never new engineering had half the things it did. after seeing thes videos i knew i wanted to get engineering.. and it was not soon after that i rerolled to LB horde.


Voidim played into BC but stoped about halfway through S3 from what i remember and since then has not come back.

Vurtne Played till mist lvl66, He released a video that basicly showed he had quit. But came back under the name warbarbie on a new server. The first new news i saw of him was his Vurtne 5 Teaser. You have to understand that Vurtne has a following of almost every mage that exists.. so people studdied that video and started tryign to figure out were he was, what server, what was his name......... and how the hell is he shooting pyroblasts while he is cycloned.....???????


Vurtne was a master at this game he he found some amazing glitchs one of witch was know as Vurtne Steam Tonk Abuse. not going into detail becouse you cant do it any more it gave you 2 cast bars one hidden 1 active so you can cast 2 things at any time... the hidden cast bar could not be stoped even if you were CC'd or in an ice block.  I never had more fun in my life then playign with this exploit ... i think i was the only person on the server to use it witch made it all that much better. You should really watch the video becouse he outlined everything you could do with the glitch... and it was amazing ... it lasted about 2 weeks after people begged him enough to make it public how to do it.

sadly the Vurtne 5 video was derailed by the RL and i dont think he ended up ever leveling to 80.


i dont think we will ever see the days of old pvp any more (not that thats a bad thing either)  ... every class has been given so many ablities to do just about any thing that a 1v1 fight is no longer a balence between control, planing and damage.. its just pure do as much damage as you can before the green bar gose away.

     So i was messing around on the PTR and i got to play with the new bear and cat forms. so farm i like the cat form i think its a grate change, i think they should have allowed the color to be independent of your caster form looks but what ever cant win em all.

    What i am not to happy about is bear. i think the color changes are grate and they do look alot smoother .... but i still feel like i am looking at a big butt that then goes down to a point. the bear seems like a cone almost and i just think the upper body needs more .. mussels ... idk should help with threat :P



idk i am sure we will get used to it .... just feel liek when i tilt the cam up i keep going thinking "weres the head?"

I finally got my main hand fist weapon from ZG.  Thekal's Grasp that with Arlokk's Grasp has a 1% chance on hit to turn you into tony the tiger that also gives you 300ap. You really duno how fun they are >< i think that one problem with BC and Wrath is they dont have many weapons that have cool procs or equips. these have both, the offhand can proc a shadow bolt and you get the chance to turn into a really cool monster and /rawr at people.

Well it looks like there is something else now that you can do to get your email out there so that you can get spam and sign up at sites you will never use all because you love wow and you want one of those little robot pets!

imo click my banner sign up and get me more points!!! lol

still trying to figure out how this whole thing works and what points do what,

Last night we downed Mimiron.  Its a really fun fight that consists of 4 phases.  I got to tank the first phase which consisted of "Ow plasma beem on me. Ow heal for the love of god heal me."  Then "Oh god he is sparkly, run!"  Oh and "LOOK OUT FOR MINES!"  Lol, he throws out mines in a circle around him leaving like 3 random paths out approximately 20 seconds after the sparkly nova of death.

The pic above is of phase 2 that has no tank.  He just randomly targets someone to shoot his lazers at; every now and then firing a rocket that lands on some on in the raid.  One shotting them if they don't move.  And every 45 seconds to a minute, he will spin 1/3 ish of the raid doing a laser attack that will insta kill you.  Good thing is that there are no more mines !!!


3rd phase you have him in the air.  One tank gets agro on him.  Range stays on him in the air while Melee attacks assult bots that spawn out of beams that come out of the floor. Orange beam = assult bot, Green beam = small bot tanked by ranged boss tank.  Every assult bot drops a magnet that must be placed under the flying boss, forcing him to the ground making him attackable by melee.  BUT, he should not be forced down 'till after he drops a bomb bot...  It looks like a bomb and explodes like one too.  Can't be tanked and should be slowed by someone while range kills it.

in the picture above you see me dead under the boss, this was a whipe so I got time to take pics.  In the pic you see the boss flying at the top.  He is dropping a bomb below him and his mouth is closing after he shot the purple beam-ish attack at the tank.  The tank is standing by the green beam coming up from the floor to pick up the small add, and off to the right is an assult bot that I would be tanking for the melee if I was up.  Adds spawn from any of the circles on the floor, a beam should show up 5 to 10 sec befor they come out.


Phase 4 is a combination of all 3 pervious phases.  The 3 sections of the boss have 3 separate health bars.  The top should be attacked by range while the bottom and middle should be hit by melee.  These 3 sections need to die within about 15 sec of each other.  The hard part of this fight is dealing with the Mines on the ground (seen bottom left) the bottom bosses lightning nova that you must run out for , avoiding the mines.  Finaly the scariest part is the middle were you must avoid getting blasted by his 1 shot laser's that will rotate 1/3 of the raid.

People are saying that this is one of the hardest bosses in here, and in some ways yea it is ... lots of tank damage ,heavy heals and parts where if you do one thing wrong you're dead.  But it is a fun fight.

On to learning General Vezax..... /sigh



 

Ulduar has really turned out to be what i thought it should be. Naxx was a place that for a lot of reasons was not a challenge. Ulduar feels more like raiding and less like farming. So far from what i have seen the fights are some what new with some things recycled but over all they are fun and provide alot of thos molments were everyone is yelling in vent when you down the boss for the first time. so over all i am loving the new content patch.....

But it has led to another problem. You start to see who sucks. i am starting to see alot of people who are decked out in gear and cant seem to survive or do good dps on alot of the fights. Naxx gave us alot of well geared baddies. These are the people who if content is not puggable they will never see it, if not being carried. /sigh o well not much you can do.

Other then all that uldar just is really fun, i think atm i am loveing 10man a lot more then 25 just becouse its alot easyer for 9 people not to mess up then 24. The only problem atm is having your 10 man group have 10 people on at the same time on a night were we dont do 25 man attempts.

O yea... ugh and i am guessing that after uldar 10 is at a point were naxx 10 was and i am not running it as hard i am goign to have to foccus on naxx 25 again ... becouse yey atm i still have alot of best in slot gear for my chars in there :/

 /ramble on

duno what the over all point of this post was but i needed to put something up lol.