If you’ve been bumping around the net, you may have seen a few posts regarding a money cap on World of Warcraft. This is something that I’ll NEVER experience because I spend money on everything. A part of me wants to be “that person” who makes the cap, but unless I adopt a few Chinese children to farm gold for me, I’ll never see it.
Here’s the link: GOLD CAP
KK
I love my Battle Ground twink. Sadly it hasn’t seen the light of day lately due to work, puppy and other things. (*cough* Rainbow Six: Vegas *cough*)
But I’m confused on something. If I remember they fixed the pants buff that allowed your player to get +30 stamina. They seem to constantly be working on ways to limit or kill the ability of players to make PVP twinks. So here are my questions:
1) Did they make the change to the enchanting of pants for twinks?
2) So anyone wanting to create a twink from this point on will automatically start with -30 stamina compared to all the old twinks?
3) If that is the case, how is that even remotely fair? As much as it sucks, I would rather them unbuff EVERYONE’S pants instead of making it so that you have this wide gap of haves and have-nots.
I guess my point is, the reason I LOVED twinking out my character and didn’t feel bad about it was because anyone who was willing to put in the effort could do the same thing with their character. Unlike endgame PVP, everyone could get up to the same level if they spent enough time working on it. Yes, I know that everyone could get to the same level at endgame, but it would require HOURS of raiding and time that people just don’t have. Twinking a 19 was at least feasible.
Since they are continuing to make twinking 19s harder and harder, what exactly happens to those of us who have insanely powerful characters? It doesn’t appear that people are backwards nerfing these objects. If I wanted to start a 19 twink rogue now, I would not be able to compete with those who have old school twinks. And if anything, THAT isn’t fair.
I say open the flood gates on twinking in PVP (level 19). They have no put in place a system that divides the twinks from non-twinks so people should be able to play without getting WTFOWND! Am I right or wrong on this one?
KK
DANGIT ALL!
I am not even 70 yet and the new expansion is moving WoW’s level cap to 80. DANGIT! I hate level grinding. H A T E I T !!! I just can’t explain the pain it puts me in. No really.
I guess we all owe the blame to EQ (live). You see, back when Ultima Online was the “big MMO” of the time there was no level cap. Hell, there was no level really. The game based your stats on the “the more you use the better you get” model. (Kinda like StarWarGalaxies was when it first came out.) The game dynamics changed quite a bit while I played, but the game allowed you to master any skills you wanted. It also allowed you to drop the skill in favor of going another direction with the character. There was rarely need for alts. You could just evolve into what you wanted. GREAT SYSTEM MMO MAKERS!
But back to blaming EQ. The game was good. It was fun and immersive. But it was level and class based. So if you started a High Elf Wizard and got to level 30 and then decided you hated it, you had to START OVER with an alt. Ugh. Not only was that a pain in the ass, but once players got to level 50, there wasn’t much else to do but hit the high level zones for phat lewt and hope that it would drop. So, once players got to the ceiling, they started clamoring for more. Verant gave it to them with an expansion and by raising the level to 55. (?) And expansion after expansion they raised it. Most of EQ leveling was all by grinding monsters that gave you the most experience. So annoyingly mind-numbing that people would bash their heads against the wall constantly. (I may have made that part up.)
Sadly, it looks like WoW is doing the same thing. Sure they have a better endgame system (Arenas, PVP, BGs, Raids, Faction Grinding, etc…) but it is the same old same old. WHY CAN’T THEY COME UP WITH SOMETHING NEW?!? I can’t stand the thought of leveling to 70 much less 80. I just can’t bring myself to do it. At least not yet. I don’t care how freaking cool some quests can be, it just isn’t worth the trouble. When you got master “whatever” in UO, you relied on yourself and friends to have fun. The game was created in such a free for all style that you had soooo many choices. You could become the evil Player Killer. You could become the PK hunter and take the fight back to the evil ones. You could raid other player houses if they weren’t careful. You could put a trapped chest in your inventory and pray that a thief would snoop and try to open it. Call the guards and his ass was grass. Then it was looting that moron. You could mine and create your own armor. (One of my favorite things in the WHOLE GAME was) The teleport/recall system was amazing. You could carry around stones that took you ANYWHERE you wanted to be in game. Just mark the stone at the location you wanted to be and you were set. Easy travel. Easy escape from PKers.
Yes, I loved UO. They have a new expansion coming out that actually looks interesting. Seems the guys at Mythic (DAoC fame) helped them polish the game up a bit giving it an updated look and UI system. It is very nice looking. The game had some serious flaws, but overall it is what an MMO should be. I guess that is why I am so dismayed by the recent announcement of “The Wraith of the Lich King” expansion. “Yawn” I say. Give me something NEW damnit.
KK
I just found Guild Cafe. It seems like a pretty cool interface for keeping in touch with guild info and such. Check it out, let me know your member name and I will add you to our guild page at thepirate.guildcafe.com.
Yarrrr!
KK
If you hang around me long enough, you’ll learn I can be pretty petty. It’s the little things that annoy me most of the time. But every once in a while, my pettiness shines through. Now is one of those times.
Is it just me or does it annoy you when you’re playing an online game and people insta-log. Don’t get me wrong, logging off without saying anything is completely cool with me. No biggie. But when you say “Goodbye all!” and then it instantly says “Burin has gone offline”, that just gets annoying. (muhahaha, you’re just an example man… I promise. muhahahaha) Maybe it wouldn’t annoy me so much if I was an asshole and didn’t care if you were online or offline. But I do care. Kinda. At least enough to be annoyed. That means something right?
Because of this insta-log thing, I no longer type a meaningful “Sail Ho mate! Be safe and may you find good booty!”. I usually try to fling out a “k” or “bye” before I see the dreaded “Rela has gone offline”. I usually miss it by a few miliseconds and curse repeatedly at my lack of speed typing and your lack of manners!
Please, for the love of Thrall, just give me a 10 second notice before logging off. Is that too much to ask?
KK
Dear Seadogs,
We at Foam Pirates / < the Pirate > have decided to start a twink group for the 10-19 BGs. This group will be devoted to putting beat downs on Alliance foozles like what happens to a crippled old man at the front of the Walmart Line the day of Black Friday. OUT OF THE WAY GRAMPS! *crackle snap pop crunch*
Since many of us are doing this for the first time, I figured it would be a good thing to share all the information we can. A “BG Twink” page will soon be created where you can find all sorts of information. If you have some kick ass guide or information that you’d like to share with your other foozle slayers please post a comment or email them to kitten.killer@foampirates.com. I’ll be sure to add it as soon as I can. Let’s see how kick ass we can be!
KK
Ladies,
< the Pirate > guild is currently taking applications for a new Guild position - Cruise Director. This position will be given to ladies only.
This person will be super uber, revered and smell of elderberries. We are looking for someone who likes the idea of throwing guild parties, coming up with guild events, and just creating new and fun things to do. There is no “RULES” or anything for the job, I’d just like to have someone who likes keeping the place lively. Thinking at least a once in a month kinda thing. The guild is more than willing to help with expenses and ideas. Just need some lady to be in charge. Who knows, if it really works out, there may be a weekly salary!
In the application, please include this important information:
Favorite Color
Last time you changed your socks
Pirate or Ninja
Chocolate or Vanilla shake
Favorite zone in old content areas
And any other information that you think will help land you that awesome job.
Please send all applications to kitten.killer@foampirates.com. I will pass it around and let you know who the lucky person is as soon as we get a few.
KK
Yar Pirates!
We have had an influx of new players to our Lightninghoof guild and I wanted to take this time to welcome them. We are regularly having around 14 people on a night which is great. The more the merrier. Because many of you are new, I thought it’d be a good idea to go over some of our guild rules.
1) No cross-gender male characters. If you are female you can play a male or female character. We’re cool with that. If you are male, you can only play a male character. No one wants to see a large bulge in your tight Blood Elf lady’s pants. This is just a precautionary measure put in place so there will be no awkward experiences when talking to someone for the first time on Teamspeak. Why the double standard for women? Because I think we can all agree that lesbianism is HOT! And please ladies, if you do take it to Teamspeak shoot me an email first.
2) Do not ask for free stuff. Every time you ask for something from another guildmate, you will be fined 3 pretzels. As you can see, we take this rule very seriously. And don’t think we’ll only go for your regular pretze