Gnome Mage

Gnome Mage

Friday 22 March 2013

Late Night PvP Is Baaaad!

Tonight I indulged in some late night PvP with a few beers. Friday night is usually reserved for RF runs with guildie friends but tonight I got called into work because all of my village decided to descend upon the restaurant. By the time I managed to get out and get home and dried off, (serious blizzards in the UK. Which was awesome. I walked into the house looking like a snow gnomie), it was waaay too late to start anything. I didn't manage to log into WoW until 11.45pm by which time most people had gone offline. So, it was just me pottering about looking for something to do. I'm usually super hyper after a busy shift, so there was no chance of sleep and no one to have fun with. I decided I would go retro and put some music on, grab a beer and go BG for a while. This was not a great idea. Post 1am seems to be a bad time for Alliance PvP. It's full of whiney babies!

"Blah blah, F**king losers"
"wah, wah, wah, why can't Ally PvP?"
(I'm paraphrasing in the above statements :D)

This is why (in my opinion). Alliance PvP'ers spend too much time bitching, moaning, crying, telling other players how to play etc. When I was Horde it was nowhere near as bad. I had a discussion with an idiot who shouted in /s, "F**CKING DEEP FREEZE* at me. Kinda hard when you are sapped by one rogue, then by another straight away. But thank you for the advice, random crybaby. Maybe I was slow out of those two saps but I'm pretty sure there's no need for anyone to be a dick about it. We whispered for a little while. It wasn't pleasant. And every BG I went into it was the same. I didn't get any more abuse because I did pretty well in the others. I was fast, crazy on damage, but unfortunately we were playing against better teams. There were quite a few premade groups, which is never good. But there were also a few close games. Which people are so busy whining, that they don't see when we catch up and almost take it for Alliance.

My last game, though it was a loser ended on an epic feat from me. I took Stables in Arathi from a Shaman and a Druid while they were still alive, watching me do it. One cow in a penguin suit and the other in a deep freeze. With a Pet Freeze as they came out of those it gave me just enough time for me to finish capping the flag and then turn round and blast everything I had at them. They died. I think from shock. It was beautiful, it really was. And I did do /giggle at them. We lost by about 200 points (they did have 7 healers on their team though, so we didn't do too badly!) but I enjoyed my little naughty cap!

I really do prefer my arena now. And I think it has improved my play in both PvP and PvE. I am much faster and I'm thinking in advance what the next move will be or which target I need to change to, etc. I'm much more reactive now to things that are happening. I still need a lot of spit and polish, because I still do go running in, arms flailing, screaming sometimes. But I'm getting a little calmer now. And maybe one day I'll stop shouting, "YOU SHALL NOT PASS" when I freeze a ton of horde. Seriously, Frost Mages, stand at the top of the steps of Wildhammer Longhouse in Twin Peaks after your flag carrier has gone inside. Wait for the masses of horde to come your way, shield up, take a deep breath and stare them down. Then when they're in range freeze the crap out of them. Just keep freezing and watch their frustration. You probably will die when the freezes run out. But if you go all Gandalf on them, even for a few minutes, it's really the most fun you can have with your clothes on! Maybe I won't stop doing that... 

Hmmm, 3.40am. Should I go for another?

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