User blog:Nathira/Copy-Paste I

Purr! Today's topic is Midsummer Fire Festival! ^^ It brought some good, and it brought some bad...

Good? It was excellent levelling for your lower level characters and alts.


 * Poledancing? The more you danced the longer the buff, up to an hour...


 * →Ribbon Dance: +10% exp bonus from kills, not bad at all. ^^


 * While the Bonfire is burning in the zone... (you can light it if it isn't)


 * → Bonfire's Blessing: 30% Chance to hit for [YourLevel x 10] Fire Damage... (Lvl 5-20ish, about half the health from the mobs you'd be killing!)


 * If you threw a Burning Blossom to the Bonfire... (if it was out, this would light it up again!)


 * →Fire Festival Fury: 3% Critical for spells AND melee, and dealing fire damage to attackers... ^^ (one hour)


 * If you were inside the capital when someone returned a flame there, stolen from any of the opposing faction's capitals...


 * → Fire Festival Fortitude: +30 Stamina for one hour ^^

...That's what, THREE buffs all making you do more damage → killing faster → more exp!

(and one giving you more stamina for fun and giggles)

Whee! ^^ And in addition to that, you also got extra exp for visiting ("honoring") a Bonfire... (And there was one outside every settlement of your faction, basically!) ...and also for putting out ("desecrating") the bonfires of the opposing faction! (See, their factions had the bonfires outside their settlements as well!) :3


 * → Even moar exp!

And the Bad? Well, that just brings us to it... When you'd desecrate a bonfire, it would toggle up your PVP... (with the usual 5 minute timer before it would go off again, sure...) Well, there you'd be, with your PVP on, doing the Seasonal Quests and enjoying your game... Level 12, level 18, or level 24-28... ...And along comes the brave hero of the opposing faction. And hits you once. Or maybe just looks at you scarily. BOOM you die. >_< It's not the death really... I mean, you don't even lose durability/money from deaths due to another player... But it's the corpse ruuuuuun, sometimes being longer than others and always more or less annoying... >_< (doesn't help that my hormones were acting up at the time) :3

But Srsly. This is an ode to all of the Heroes of Alliance. Wether you killed me/us in the world, or in your capitals. You're a bunch of cowards who should learn to play the game. :3

...and you say "lol didn't notice level"... then yes, you need to learn the game better. :3 Or uh I dunno, maybe use a different hud / add on / mod, that shows the levels? :P Meh. DumbFs! ^^ That's just... unnecessary. Unnecessary griefing. You don't play the game to grief others, do you? Then why not think about your actions a little? :3 When your guys, regardless of the level, came to our capitals... and if I happened to be there tossing the torches or what ever... I /cheered.
 * If you seriously think that the 16 level 75 guards need help killing one Level 61 player, you need to learn the game better. They don't. The corpse run is already a long and annoying one. When I clearly was just trying to survive to run as long as possible before the next corpserun, trust me: No help needed to make my life-time even shorter between the corpse runs.
 * If you at level 80 oneshot my level 40 or my 61 in Stormwind... THREE TIMES in a row... and when I ask you why... (because it's just a seasonal, and this isn't a PVP realm we're talking about?)
 * If you can't hack it in the BGs, and need to boost your self esteem by killing some level 25ish people with your level 80 Gnome Mage, then yes you need to learn the game better. ^^ It's better to pwn where it matters, where there's some challenge...

Because they were JUST doing the seasonal quest, not saying PLS FIGHT ME LOL.

Or in the cases when they were level 40-50, I'm pretty sure they weren't screaming PLS MS SCARY ORC DEATH KNIGHT KEEL ME NAO!

I don't know. Maybe I'm just more considerate than most :3 (Some tell me I'm too considerate... because sometimes I put others before myself... but I'm trying to learn to stick it for myself too!)

Ok ok: Yes Horde players did that too. Horde has the ERPrs, the lolboys, the noobs and the idiots. Just like Alliance. ^^

But just because some act like that doesn't mean the rest of us should? >_<

(or maybe I just ran into the wrong bunch, but when talked to they seemed smarter than their actions would have let assumed...)

Meh meh. In general it seems that Seasonals do bring out the worst in people... Noticed this during the Noblegarden as well, when people were getting the eggs! Egg hunting is srs bsnss! Srsly! I mean... the eggs will spawn. It's just a seasonal. And it's not like I'm saying you shouldn't collect all the eggs you can and need for the achievements... But have a little common courtesy, will you? If you see someone heading for the egg, unspokenly agree it's theirs? No reason to contest them. Really. A new egg will spawn. Honestly. Even if you are a mage and can Blink, or Sprint with your rogue, or have the basket with the speed buff... Meh. They are just doing their seasonal. No reason to grief by ninjaing? ^^

Especially rude it's when you already see them kneel to pick it up... and still you try to come! :o Yes that happened! Like what's wrong with these people! :o Sure... Sometimes, sometimes it's plausible that you didn't see me... (But you can't use that excuse more than a few times,mind you!) And it's not like I'm personally offended either. ^^ Pssh, you silly ninjas... I'm just vaguely astonished, shocked and disappointed in how we people can behave towards one another... >_<

Yes I collected the eggs too. Nathira is a Noble. But if I ever saw someone going for an egg, I sought another egg instead. And on few occasions if they were going around the same building as me, and I was going faster... (basket speed buff) ...I'd skip the first egg I'd come accross, leaving it for them. :P Yes, I'm that nice! ^^ ...And considerate... ...but to be completely honest I must add a bit of self criticism... "not every time". :3 No, I didn't always skip it. But sometimes! ^^ That still counts... right? :3

Anyways, Midsummer Fire Festival is long gone now. ^^ I hope many of you danced around the pole and tossed in a Fire Blossom very late before logging out, if you did you'd still have the buffs when you log back in :3 Only for the first hour or so... But if you're fast it counts for some. ^^

Hmm, already discussed my summer plans ... [elsewhere], I'm just... Copy-Pasting here basically ;)

Shortly for your pleasure. ^^

The jail Dorm I'm forced to live in kind of closes and kicks kicked me out at the end of June! Oh they'll take me back when school starts again sure... but in the mean time, my parents are forced to live with me... (something that I wanted for most of my summer) &hearts;

I don't know which of this is the good news and the bad news, but there's definitely two sides to everything here.. :P See, while I'm living with them... A computer and internet, LiveJournal, sure... in moderate doses. ^^ But something as sinful as killing critters, people, orcs or gnomes, gods and other odd creatures while being a voodoo-worshipper or an undead... Ehh? → completely out of the picture. >.> No WOW! ...And yet I'd like to spend more time there and with them. ^^ ♥

Buuuttt... Thanks to the disaster that is ICELAND, they had to compromise some of their travelling... (some of it is work related too! :o) So they're doing it now during the summer. >_< Greeeaat...

So they leave on the 12th of July... → some day before that: ...I'll move again.

And start my summer job! Some of yous already know I've been baby sitting... ^^ ...so I'll be doing more of that, for a relative. I love the two kids, so I'm kind of looking forward to that... But I also wanted to spend more time with my parents :-7 Anyway! They're not so frantic about computer games and sin and all that... and they sure have a computer... ^^ I think I might install WOW and use my free time to play more again :P Yay yay! Happy nanny maek happy kids!

So good things in bad things and bad things in good things and... Well duh, that's my life. :P Why should my summer be any different?

--Chipper Nathira (talk, blog, Copy-Paste)