I'm in love... with the frost tree!

That's right folks, I respecced last night to 51 frost. To give you an idea of the awesomeness that is the Frost Mage, let me run your through my first PvP encounter as my new cold spec, brrrr.

I hit an AB match right away to look for the first horde I could find. I quickly spotted an Orc Hunter and proceeded to intercept him; I blink into the Hunter and Frost Nova, he quickly Scatter Shots me.

I happen to come out of Scatter Shot before the Frost Nova wears off, I then Cone of Cold > Fireblast > Summon Water Ele > Ice Block...

My Water Elemental is pounding this Hunter for 500 damage Frostbolts while I'm Ice Blocked and waiting for my CoC & Fireblast cooldowns to expire. I imediately have the Water Elemental freeze the hunter right as I come out of Ice Block and I cast Cone of Cold > Fireblast.

...dead

I solo'd the Marksmen Orc Hunter and had 90% health & 80% mana left, crazy... huh?

Anyone out there have some other strategies for a Frost Mage?

Alliance Leveling Guide

Here's the link to that "Alliance Leveling Guide" that I told you about...

http://wow-pro.com/node/601 < Alliance

http://wow-pro.com/node/880 < Horde

**note** This is not my guide in any way, shape, or form; this is only a link to the guide.
**edit** Added the link to the Horde guide.

No Death Penalty = No QQ?

I flew to Felwood to help a level 57 Night Elf Druid friend. I went on my 60 Mage to help him kill quest mobs for faster quest completion. While I was there I wondered away from him for a bit and found two horde on the road.

These two consisted of a level 52 Orc Hunter & 50 Undead Warlock. I figured it would be a good fight since both of their classes have the upper hand on a Mage, so it wasn't a total gank. I proceeded to score a lucky crit on the hunter and practically one-shotted him, then I dance with the Warlock a bit and end up killing him / her.

I /bowed to them both and mounted up and went on my merry way (I don't corpse camp, it's not my thing). Then, about 5 mins later, I receive a /tell from a level 19 Human Paladin, obviously the Warlock, complaining to me about how I'm a horrible PvP'er for letting the two of them get me to 50% health.

Now I could have gone into explicit detail about how I'm arcane specced and I have half ass gear with low stamina, but I thought it wasn't worth it. So I just told the lock "good fight" and left it at that. Well this Warlock must have been on the rag, because he / she would not let it drop and continued on and on about the ordeal.

I was fed up and told her that it *IS* a PvP server and that there is *NO* death penalty except for the 30 second corpse run, and of course I added the ever controversial, "Less QQ, more Pew Pew". ^^

To bring this post to a close, and a point, do you think some people overreact to death in this game, and do you think some of these people have never experienced a game with much harsher death penalties? I come from UO, so I don't worry about death in WoW...

Warlock: Fun Fun Fun!

I was attacked by a level 37 Orc Hunter last night in Duskwood. Good times.

So let me set the scene... It's me, a 29 Human Warlock, and my IRL friend on his 28 Night Elf Druid. As we're running down the road we suddenly see a level 37 Orc Hunter approaching us fast from behind. My buddy ask if we should coninue to run since we're almost to town, but I know how fast Aspect of the Cheetah is, and how much faster it is if Beast Specced.

I make the decesion to make a stand and instructed my buddy to "just heal me". The Orc Hunter starts to attack me first since I'm the deadly DPS clothie class (makes sense), but he failed to lay a trap before I feared him and waisted his scatter shot on my Druid friend.

After he was feared I casted Immolate > Curse of Agony > Corruption > Siphon Life > Fear > Drain Life > Instant Cast Shadow Bolt > Dead...

Oh, and his pet was Hybernated the whole time.

I did see my buddy snag one or two Moonfires, but most DPS came from me and my Succubus. I hadn't really noticed the 1337 powah of Warlocks until now. When I saw how fast I took out that Hunter, I knew Warlock was the class for me (secondary to Mage, of course)

I'm looking forward to playing my Warlock tonight, but only after I snag 1,000 honor in BG's to get my Epic Shoulders.

Idea: Class Respecs

This idea probably wouldn't sit well with Blizzard since it has the potential to reduce the life expectancy of the game for a player. If a player could change classes for a fee instead of rerolling, then they could experience all the classes faster, thus ending rerolls, and maybe even subscriptions.

The idea is to allow someone to respec the class of one of their characters for some sort of fee. The price would have to be high to prevent constant class changes throughout the community. I would suggest the price even be something like 29.99 usd.

I would like this idea since I have a level 60 paladin that could gag a maggot with the dust he's collected from not being played. I know I can just as easily reroll to any class I want, but I hate to see the 60 levels I put into him go to waist...

Anyways, that's just a random idea that I had, and as for the paladin, he has been replaced with a human warlock.

Mage: Update

I have obtained the Field Marshal's robe for Keystone, and I'm only 3k honor away from the shoulders. I'm going to stop the PvP grind after those two items and concentrate on leveling.

I'm torn between specs thou. I'm pretty much tired of "Slow" and the Arcane tree in general. I was thinking about going Frost since I've never really tried it, but I saw a PvP video from Chopstik (Kalecgos server) and it made fire look pretty nifty, although he has engineering to make up for the lack of Improved Counterspell and the Zanelorian Hero Charm to make up for the lack of Arcane Power.

I am a damage monger and I have no problem surviving with a non-frost spec, since I am the world's best kite'r. I will turn and run at the sign of a loss or the sign of being outnumbered, and I usually live to eat / drink. I see a lot of mages just standing there while they get beat on and they complain about survival...? Duh!

I'm 99.8% positive that I'll be respeccing to a 51 point fire build tonight.
When I get home from work I'll post a link to the PvP and my soon-to-be fire spec.

Idea: Player Killing in WoW

The thing I miss the most from Ultima Online is the Player Killing. For those of you that did not play UO, this did not mean attacking your sworn enemy in a very consensual, no-death penalty setting. In Ultima Online you could attack your fellow players whenever, save the UO:R instant guard kills.

This game feature actually made for a friendlier environment, at least on the Siege Perilous server where you could only have ONE character, and that was your ONLY persona; to become an outcast dickhead without friends was horrid because you couldn't just log on an alt to make new ones.

All this brings me to my idea for World of Warcraft, a feature that allows for players to attack their own faction members within a murderer system. The system could be, numbers subject to change, three kills would turn a player into a murderer, which at that point they would be unable to communicate with their own faction, but would be able to communicate with 'other' murderers... even opposite faction murderers. A vision of Gnomes and Taurens holding hands over a corpse comes to mind...

This would, in a sense, add a third faction to the game. These murderers would be able to communicate with each other only, and would have their own outpost and towns.

The murder counts you gain from killing your own faction would deteriorate over time. This way, you could squeeze in a kill on that jackass that ninja'd the item you've been waiting for without becoming a murderer.

This is just something I thought of to improve the world PvP, since murderers would be out in the world looking for people.

What about you, do you have any ideas to improve PvP, or some other element in World of Warcraft?

Happy New Year

The new year is upon us, and it's only a short time till the expansion.

I've been reading a lot about avoiding the PvP equipment upgrades since they'll be replaced when the expansion comes out. My thoughts on that would be, if it's an upgrade, then why pass it up at all? At level 20 did you not upgrade your level 5 equipment because you'll be level 30 eventually? My point is, gearing out your character is a journey, not a destination.

Play the game, have fun, and upgrade as you play. On that same note, I wouldn't recommend grinding your life away to PvP to achieve the entire set, because it is true, that it will be replaced shortly after the expansion. The word on the street is that the PvP weps will last you the longest.

I myself am only upgrading two pieces of equipment with PvP gear and that's the Chest & Shoulders. I picked these two for upgrades because, A) I have horrid equipment in those slots right now, and B) The Robe & Shoulders are the most visible equipment, so while I may not technically 'be' geared out, I'll at least look like I am ^^

Any thoughts on PvP gear? Has anyone heard about, or has seen the level 70 PvP rewards?