Another WTF Blizz moment

Updated!!1 A few couple days after 4.2 dropped.

Your new honored status with the Avengers of Hyjal grant you access to their vendor to purchase... what.... ? ? ?

That's right, a brand new cloak!!! To replace that one you just got yesterday from saving Thrall which replaced that one you got last week from killing Ahune!!!!

Really wish I read patch notes, I would have flooded the AH with chants and mats for engineering chutes.

Original post...

Yay, 4.2 is here and with it the new epic questline to save Thrall from damnation. It's epic because it's a great story with love and action and you get to take part in helping Thrall, the coolest cat in Azeroth.  It's even more epic because it's not very long. Two thumbs up!

My gripe comes with the final reward, your choice of ilevel 365 cloak. Hot damn, everyone gets a new piece of leetness from the get go. So why the frak did I bother putting up with long queues and ninjas for Ahune to get a cloak that would just be replaced this easily even before the seasonal event was finished? Oh, I didn't, not on any of my toons, but I know a shit ton of y'all did. Well at least that Ahune fight was fun and memorable...

Drunk NPC's

Edna Mullby wished me a happy Brewfest today. I guess when you're a drunk everyday is Brewfest.

Happy Midsummer Fire Festival! (aka *S.S.D.D.)

*Same Seasonal, Different Day, er year I guess.
So yes, Midsummer Fire Fest is here again! Whoopie-freakin-doo! I used to love the world seasonal events. I was chasing after them on alts for more than a year after my main had the What Long Strange Trip it's Been. Most recently I earned 'the Noble' title on my lvl 40 pally. At first I didn't care, then I realized this is one of the few titles obtainable at pretty much any level, with the help of some 85 guildies. I'd have that violet proto-drake on my main alt shaman as well, but I lagged on the dailys during last year's Brewfest and didn't have enough tokens to buy the Beer-of-the-Month subscription. Eh, who cares.

So this year everyone is all up in arms (again, btw) about the crappy stats on the Frostscythe of Lor Ahune. Hey noobs! Guess what!? It's been like that every flippin year since the damn thing came out! Last year everyone, including myself who got it on my priest was QQ'n about the lack of crit/haste secondary stats in comparison to other 5-man/older raider 232 ilevel caster staves. It was a bit under-budget, yet still a viable option for the ilevel.


What irks me more so about it this year is that instead of just being grossly under-budget for it's item level is the obvious auto-stat-update to level 85 treatment that Blizz gave it and their completely dismissive response to why it is the way it is: "Making it ideal (stat-wise) now and it would stomp all over ZA/ZG weapons. It's fairly trivial to obtain so we're just not really willing to do that."


It's a trivial item because you made it trivial, but nothing about getting one is trivial. It's such a rare drop and it's so freakin' cool looking what's the harrm in making it useful? I say make it a 359 with stats on par with equivalent current raid drops. Oh, but wait! THERE IS NO CURRENT CASTER STAFF ANYWHERE IN THE GAME! Well, if they couldn't bother to actually create a staff for their brand new expansion, then what the hell are we doing bitching about the lack of attention given to this recycled piece of eye-candy?

My biggest bitch is that my level 22 hunter couldn't get a flippin BG queue to pop all afteroon. Those brackets take no more than 10 minutes even at 4 in the morning server time. I was in queue for 15 minutes, dropped requeued for another 15, dropped again and waited almost 40 mintues in that last queue before giving up. Didn't do a random on any 85 today (actually haven't done hardly any randoms in months, on any toon) but from what the WoW websphere says it's been f'n up dungeon finder and arenas as well.

Those are several bitches thus far, but I haven't even gotten into my main complaint regarding Midsummer. This like most other seasonals have gone mostly untouched for years. I'm not asking for a full overhaul or new multi-questline chain, but how about you just throw something new in that vendors inventory to at least try and motivate the vets to go out and wrangle up more Burning Blossoms. A reskinned/recycled vanity pet would do the trick, always does... "But this one's green.