Rogue IS Hard.

You might have noticed that I have a bit of a split personality when it comes to rogues. One half of me hates them, and the other half is sympathetic towards them and still thinks they are the most fun class to play. The latter of those personalities is responsible for this post.

If you are a rogue, I'm sure you've had this kind of thing happen to you numerous times and it kind of captures the true essence of playing a rogue. I'm low health from just killing someone when a warrior charges me from behind, then...


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... some retard breaks my blind halfway through it's cycle while I'm bandagin and feeds the warrior a shit-ton of rage. But, hey... you don't need to display teamwork or intelligence when you can put out that kind of damage. Amirite?

Rogue is hard.

The PvP trinket. Don't leave home when it's on cooldown.







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Just kidding. They require the most skill of any class!

My gear sucks. I suck. This is my second day on PvPing with a class that I haven't even PLAYED for more than than hour in over 3 months. Close your eyes and just imagine what a great rogue with great gear could do. And now contemplate why rogues are the whiniest and most self-absorbed class in WoW.

Now, to compare and contrast let's see how Iwl does against this slightly better geared warlock.






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OUCH... my trinket and WoTF was down and Spotter had berserker, but it wouldn't have mattered. What kicked my ass here was the total control I was under due to well-coordinated use of spell lock, howl, deathcoil, and snare to keep me from closing to fear.

Rematch, except this time its me with berserker buff. RAWR!


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Damn. :(

I choked at the end, I should have dropped shadowform and renewed and PoMd. It would have been enough to win. Good players force mistakes. I've always said this and it really pisses me off to see people applaud someone in topgear flawlessly killing people they outgear. Well, no shit. I mean, bad players put no pressure on your whatsoever. Who wouldn't look l33t beating the crap out of people they outgear?

It's the people who you know that can kick your ass that get you second-guessing yourself because you know one mistake or slipup means a loss. That's pressure. Ganking people who are no threat to you, no matter how elegantly you do it, is pointless to me.

Oh yes, back to the original point: Rogue > Shadowpriest

This Just In...

I still suck.


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I'm in the process of building a new UI. I decided to knock the dust off of Oozo and play him for the first time in over three months just to see how the UI was working for a rogue. Things went pretty well, except for the 3.5K mortal strike from a warrior with berserker buff. I killed a couple of mid-teir warriors with Ming's brand new Ultimate Rushdown Garrotte Strategy (MURGS). I mean, it seems like the same exact thing I was doing towards the beginning of the year but I guess it's different somehow. It's kind of funny, a lot of warriors just react very badly to that opener. They still aren't used to seeing it I guess. Well, maybe now that Ming has finally revealed MURGS other rogues will start picking it up. Ming beat Dahis up pretty badly with it supposedly. Echelons has just released a movie featuring duels using MURGS with a combat twist. Man, I wish I could have thought of this months ago when I was still playing a rogue.

The Best Shadowpriest Movie Ever!

Seksi 2

I gave this movie 4.8/5 as I thought it was very entertaining. The opening sequence was well done. The music is pretty safe and nonabrasive. The editting and effects are nice and not overdone. Much of this movie has the gladiator-rated Seksi doing 1v2s and 1v3s. Some of the opponents are poorly geared relative to Seksi, but there are some rival-rated opponents in there to spice things up. Once again, overall... this is a solid movie well worth watching.

But, you know me. I don't post about anything unless I'm bitching about something... and sure enough, here it comes. The people (and people, in general) at WCM are morons who can't see what is even clearly placed square in front of them to see. Here are some quotes from the reviews and my reply to those quotes:

"This is definet the best priest movie ever." - hellmaker

It's definitely the best priest movie made where the belt of nigh invulnerability is used over 12 times in the same movie.

"I feel that you truly understand the defensive powerhouse nature of the Shadow Priest class" - Gankt

Yes, the shadowpriest class becomes a defensive POWERHOUSE when utilizing the class ability "belt of nigh invulnerability." Wait.. is that a priest ability? Ah, well... Seksi truly understands the belt of nigh invulnerability, that's for sure.

"the spriest class has become crazy powerful in TBC" - brassmonkey1622

Crazy powerful when using the belt of nigh invulnerability, the battle standard, and healing/mana pots all in the same fight against outgeared opponents. Hell yah, shadowpriests totally rock in that situation. Clearly this calls for a shadowpriest nerf!

And here it comes...

"priests should be nerfed HARD for being able to take so much focus fire without dieing. i cant survive 1/2 of that as a destrolock. imba video and tell us your survival secrets" - nobite

Well moron, if you had bothered to look at the combat log you would see that one of the secrets is using the belt of nigh invulnerability in over 80% of the scenes in your movie.


I swear to God, if I even used that thing in ONE fight I'd get flamed for it. Gee, I wonder if a 4K damage shield would make it easier to pull off 1v2s and 1v3s. Hrm... Potions? Maybe I should start using those too. I guess I always got my overpowered 3 second nets that break immediately on damage.

Secrets of the Death Knight Revealed!

I believe that this trailer for the upcoming expansion holds clues on how to unlock the new Death Knight class. First, you must be a paladin who does not heal or rez their companions and runs at the slightest hint of true danger. Second, you must be so bad at playing a paladin that a handful of midlevel undead can kill you.





God...





... there's going to be a whole lot of Death Knights.