Comments on: [WoW] The mastery curve, holidays, and it came from the PUG

By: spinks

spinks — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 07:48:07 +0000

This is the same sort of thing that I have been seeing. I’ve really seen far more examples of nice or polite behaviour in PUGs recently than idiots. It’s quite … surreal.

Also when you have the gear for it, don’t be afraid to try LFR as a healer. It’s really laid back, and no one really pays attention to what you are doing unless you die or the tanks die.

By: spinks

spinks — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 07:46:30 +0000

I find that people only really notice the healing when they either died or had a close shave (or did something dumb but didn’t die.)

By: Cygnia

Cygnia — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 19:39:09 +0000

I’ve just barely dipped my toe into healing MoP heroics. Fortunately, the two times DPS died on me was due to them standing in The Bad Stuff — and them APOLOGIZING for it afterwards.

Now if I could just get some decent healbot gear to finally drop…

By: spinks

spinks — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 11:48:43 +0000

It’s been fairly common to take the excuse of Guy Fawkes to burn effigies of current politicians who are unpopular. That’s why I say that there’s an anti-government theme, which also got picked up by Alan Moore and Anonymous. You’re right of course that the original was all about the defeat of an anti government plot.

By: Dà Chéng

Dà Chéng — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 11:32:04 +0000

” Guy Fawkes Day with its fireworks, anti government themes and politically incorrect history “

Ant-government themes? This is wholly pro-government celebration. The anti-government Guy Fawkes is burned at the stake every year. It’s a “kill a Catholic” celebration.

Shongaqu, Hallowe’en has long been celebrated in Ireland, but not in England. The version of Hallowe’en that the English are now adopting is the version they see in American TV programmes.

By: shongaqu

shongaqu — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 23:21:26 +0000

I have always enjoyed the Halloween content in wow and while I am not playing currently I’m glad to see it still going full bore! My personal favorite festival with in game lore was the guild wars dragon festival that celebrated the founding of the Canthan empire. It was tied to in game events when a series of demons invaded one year and had to be driven off by players. Now every year NPCs in game dress up in costumes and act out the events that players experienced during the first in game festival. It is brilliantly done and allows players to experience an event without making the first time it happened less special.

I’m also somewhat confused by how many Europeans I’ve heard state this year that Halloween is a north American holiday when every tradition can be traced back to Ireland and Scotland. If you could enlighten me that would be most appreciated.

By: Anton_S (@Anton_S1)

Anton_S (@Anton_S1) — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:47:04 +0000

Favourite holiday: The September 19th Pirate day in WoW, precisely because it’s not a “proper” real world holiday (yet). It’s geek culture taking place in geek culture.

And as a real-world craft beer fan, the Brewfest is a close second. Given the prevalence of brewing-related stuff in this expansion, based, it seems, solely on a single NPC from WC3 being a brewer, I’m wondering just who in Blizzard is the huge craft beer fan.

By: Kess

Kess — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 13:35:40 +0000

Recount death logs are perfect for this. Someone complains about not getting enough heals, you just whisper the log showing how they took 100% of their health in avoidable damage in under three seconds. Tends to shut people up quickly when they realize just how much incoming damage you were up against because they weren’t paying attention.

By: Shintar

Shintar — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 12:28:48 +0000

Sounds like healing as a newly dinged healer in MoP is similar to how it was in Cata.

I like that your “positive” pug examples both are stories where people moaned about your healing.