Resident Evil 7 – An AmazinglyLeet Review
February 8, 2017 | Posted in Video Games | By Anonymous
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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/02/07/science/earth/antarctic-crack.html
And oh yeah earthlings, your planet is Melting. We’re investigative journalists though, we wouldn’t want to ask too many questions. Why, with all these Named Asteroids making news lately and the American Electoral Process under intense Scrutiny, why would we take any time to write about the planet being 1.5 degrees warmer than 19th century averages … for the Americans … we must add the word indicating Celsius … and everyone agreeing this was the threshold for “noticeable” changes. Just your everyday mid January tornadoes in Mississippi and Georgia. Just your everyday early February 60 degree day with Fog. Nothing to see here. Let’s all play video games instead.
Like Resident Evil 7. It’s fun. Very graphic. Creates Anxiety. Solving puzzles, finding secret doors, gathering items like weapons and ammunition, and trying to complete the story line. I’ve made a dozen YouTube Videos regarding gameplay. I look forward to putting in more time and completing the story line.
No one wants to sit around and write about the end of the world. If a giant asteroid the size of Texas were going to crash into the earth in 3 days, do you think anyone would tell you? Amateur astronomers but you’d have to be taking pictures of the night sky over several days and analyze them, eliminating the known moving bodies.
We’re really hoping for a global temperature reduction in 2017. It was a powerful El Nino, one of the most powerful ever recorded, certainly cooler ocean water will prevail. Can I see a temperature projection based 2010-2015 acceleration for the years 2025-2035? What like a FOIA to NOAA? Haven’t I completed my portion of the act? My request is in writing …
We report what we can … what They Let Us. You’re the New York Times … the last bastion of hope in America being told the Story because it Deserves to be Told. The people Deserve to know the facts …
Thank you for your nice article on Antarctica Cracking. Won’t it be like a giant ice cube? Come on La Nina do what you can do … slow this Temperature Acceleration …
CoD Infinite Warfare Master Prestige Grind
January 30, 2017 | Posted in Video Games | By Anonymous
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Want to make levels in CoD Infinite Warfare? Always be working on challenges which require you to change your class and be outside your comfort level. Scavenger and Tac Resist are hardly my first choices for Perk 2. Complete the challenges and never have to use them again is my philosophy.
What game mode offers the best XP? A winning game of Domination worth 33,490 XP. Okay Team Deathmatch lovers, show me Your evidence your preferred Game Mode offers better XP over the course of 10 prestige levels. Factors like winning the match and performance (Score Per Minute) are huge factors … running around with the same gun and the same perks and the same attachments and the same Scorestreaks putting up 35/10 with 4 captures and 6 defends every game and you’re going to make prestige levels quickly.
I’m an average player in performance. Nothing special, currently .92 K/D, 1.0 Win/Loss Ratio, mostly because I’m making these prestige levels solo. Playing match after match after match of Domination, the best XP game mode Regardless of CoD Release. It always has been.
In the video, 33,490 XP in a single game of Domination … I finished Tier 5 of Scavenger with the HVR, maybe the best gun in the game, certainly at the top of the SMG tier although the Erad is far sexier because it’s an energy weapon. You want to make prestige levels … neither one of these guns are going to leave you feeling shorted.
In the second half of the game, I switched to Akimbo Kendall 44s. During this half of the domination game, I’m working on several challenges simultaneously. Career pistol kills … sigh … 750 … a K/D ratio takes a hit completing these challenges, although I was 24/16 in this particular game. I got 2 Nosebreaker Medals, Akimbo and Auto Sear Attachment Kills, to go with Cold Blooded Perk 2 progress and continuing to try and progress on Tac Resist. Not a lot of players using the “stunning” tactical equipment, it’s by far the most difficult challenge of the tier. I need more Death From Above Medals because jumping and sliding AND killing … Let me tell you why it’s difficult … it requires a gaming “rotation” to execute … jumping, aiming, And shooting … it’s difficult to do 3 things at the same time and move your left thumb … improving at jumping and sliding is going to improve your K/D and SPM, you’re going to make prestige levels faster.
I’m just someone who likes to make Master Prestige in CoD games. Why not write about them and make YouTube Videos? I already have the channel with Azeroth Content. I’ll always be a gamer and look forward to seeing how my content Ends Up in Google Page Rankings. GreenGoblin HD, you have sexy hits. You’re sharing Beta a month before the release but you don’t have the “blog” to accompany.
I want to get clicks because the content is relevant and helpful.
My AmazinglyLeet Letter to Paul DePodesta
January 29, 2017 | Posted in Cleveland Browns | By Anonymous
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Paul DePodesta
76 Lou Groza Blvd
Berea, Ohio 44017
Dear Paul,
You’re bringing Metrics to the NFL. Anyone Not Tearing down their team and running it in the same manner as you in 5 years will be watching the Cleveland Browns win the SuperBowl multiple times. I’ve seen the movie.
In a few months, you’ll participate in your second NFL Draft. Your first, magnificent. Everyone agreed. 2017 is when some judgement can be made on the quality of draft picks the organization acquired in 2016. 2017s top priority? More picks in 2018 without sacrificing any of the first 3 picks in 2017.
I’m not here to write you a long letter about what to do with with the #1 overall pick. Priority #1 in the NFL. Get to the opposing quarterback. Disrupt him. Sack him. Tackles for Loss.
It’s pick #12 I offer some perhaps wisdom if you will. Cosmic Wisdom.
The metrics, the numbers, the scouting reports, etc., on a Prospect point in the right direction but the NFL is chock full of those numbers not equating to on the field success. This isn’t baseball Paul.
Trade Joe Thomas to Minnesota. The Vikings are all in for 2017 … it’s superbowl or bust for the franchise. Joe would have a legitimate chance for a title. Cleveland owes him this chance, he earned it. You want their first rounder next year and their second rounder this year. It flows brother, it makes sense …. i’m not a salary cap guy, i think everyone in Minnesota is on board on renegotiating so the team can make the necessary acquisitions for a Conference Title Run. There won’t be a Conference Title Run for the Cleveland Browns in 2017.
A large “hole” has been created on the offensive line at the most important position … Rule #2, Protect Your Quarterback. At pick #12, Cam Robinson is extremely realistic. Hue has dealt with “character issues” in the past. It’s a “risk” … do the metrics say Cam Robinson can play a right handed quarterbacks “blind side” and play it well for the next 5 years?
Picks 33, 46 (From Minnesota), 52, 65, 97… Safety help. Let’s hope the other Joe who plays Corner can get past some of those nagging injuries. The NFL is a “young” mans game … Another Corner. Another offensive Lineman. More help in the secondary. Linemen and Defensive Players. They’re “safer” picks.
Terrelle, WR1 money … he earned it … with a hometown discount. Your “franchise” QuarterBack can Never have too many offensive weapons. Isiah/Duke, Abdullah/Riddick in Detroit, the Lions were really special on offense when those two were healthy … the combination backfield is the New NFL standard.
Injury, the unpredictable. How big of a factor was “Injury” in MLB when compared to the NFL and contract negotiation? … it’s a crusher and something a franchise has to react … no way to prepare for “injury”, except at Quarterback where you have to shell out $4MM to the position. One of the beauties of Kessler, he can fill that role at a cheap price. Injury “history”, I’d love to put together a data set with Combine Metrics and Injury … not season ending injury … injuries resulting in a few games missed … is there a correlation? Mmmm. Mineable Data.
One of the points of this Letter is Quarterback and the NFL Draft in 2017 with 6 scheduled picks in the first 97 overall … Not this year. Maybe in 2018 you’re in the right draft position or have the right draft capital in 2018 to make a move for someone you believe can lead the Cleveland Browns to a Superbowl in the next 5 years. Someone you’re going to make very wealthy when their rookie contract expires because they want to lead the Cleveland Browns to multiple SuperBowls over the next 10 years. It’s a rare find and there’s so much pressure to find the “franchise” QB … what does that even mean Paul, a “franchise” QB?
Ask John Elway if he considers Tony Romo a “franchise” QB? Jerry wants a pick and Elway is going to wait until he gets cut because the Cowboys cannot take the salary cap hit with him on the books for 2017. Jay Cutler. Veteran QBs with proven success, however, the injury history makes them less sexy … Like RGIII … Kessler and McCown will work at the position for 2017. I had these visions of RGIII marching the Browns down field scoring TouchDowns in droves, punishing opponents, in Important Divisional Games. Injury. Stay healthy Mr. Griffin.
An NFL franchise should never be “pressured” to get their franchise QB This year with their first round draft pick. There’s too much Risk. Risk Mitigation + Player Personnel Decisions + Championships + 5th/6th round 5000 Carat Diamonds …
Last year, you acquired Capital instead of a “franchise” QB. Jared Goff should have been the starter in Los Angeles from Day 1. It cost Jeff Fisher his job. They traded the farm for him. How can he NOT be the starter from Day 1? How nice would it be if Goff had 15 starts under his belt heading into the 2017 season? Week 2 was the time to make the decision, the Rams got blown out 28-0 against San Francisco, a team that won 2 games all year. Perhaps the last of the old guard from Bill Walsh’s coaching tree. Run the ball, play great defense. It’s the new NFL Paul. The game changed.
Carson Wentz? he’ll be starting for Eagles, barring injury, through his rookie contract. Ryan Tannehill? … he got the “franchise” QB money after his rookie contract and while they made the playoffs this year, he hasn’t taken the next championship level step. QuarterBack, the most important position on the field and the most difficult decision for a NFL Franchise … In Cleveland, let’s Protect the Position with a Stout Offensive Line with Backs who can catch the ball in NonObvious Passing Situations. The middle of the field exploited with a strong option. Receivers who can catch a 4 yard slant and take it 65 yards. A 2 yard screen 73 yards. A big physical receiver when you need 6 yards. The physical back who get you out of 3rd and 2 and keep the opposing defense on the field. The secret in Cleveland … the described desireables are already on the team, there’s not a lot of early Draft Capital to invest at the skill positions.
906 words. And, i’m a terrible proof reader. When I finish this “letter”, I’m going to print it and Fax it. It’s an old “salesman” trick. Don’t send an email … send a fax …. the response rate on them is ridiculously high and I’m not looking for a “response” … I want to know the document arrived at the offices and there won’t be any excuses. The only excuses would be the document didn’t get passed to the right person OR the document was passed and not “read”.
The pressure is going be tremendous if the Browns go 2-14 in 2017 while not making a move in the “franchise” QB in the 2017 draft, especially if DeShaun Watson excels. This kid from North Carolina? 11 College Starts? I want to mine data … I want to see a list of names of QBs drafted with less than 25 career “College” starts from 1970-2014. Pass Rusher. Offensive Lineman and if Cam Robinson didn’t work out at 12, safety … Peppers from Michigan …. he fills other positional “needs” and is the new S/LB hybrid … Mark Barron in LA and Deonne Buchannon in Arizona. Does the 3-3-5 defensive formation have an official name? 4-3, 3-4 … old NFL. These decisions on player personnel … above our pay grades … I believe people like you and I only offer “advice”. Would the draft capital obtained from trading Joe Thomas to Minnesota outweigh the “hole” created and options to fill the need? Perhaps you kept Thomas, took Cam Robinson 12th, and let him play right tackle. An instant starter on your offensive line. Protect Our Quarterback. Supposedly the Browns “grade” on Garrett is “astronomical”. The pundits have you staying out of the Quarterback game in the draft this year but I can envision some “pressure” to pick Watson after his performance against Alabama. I saw some fodder Watson would be available at pick #33 but not after the Alabama game, he’s going in the first round.
Best of luck in the upcoming draft and upcoming season. 10-6 and a wildcard for the Cleveland Browns?
I didn’t even bring up Free Agency. Overpay for Trumaine Johnson. For 2017 and 2018. 4 year contracts with 0 cap hit in 2019 and 2020. Can those be accomplished? “Dead” Money. Use free agency as a tool to potentially acquire more draft capital.
What about the franchise tag? Pryor?
The tools available to build your franchise. How they’re used. An insiders perspective. It fascinates me. When does the roster expand and you can sign Undrafted Free Agents? 50,000 carat diamonds.
I don’t know Who Makes the decisions in Cleveland regarding personnel. Final decision. After 1-15 in 2016 and picking Cody Kessler in the third round, a guy you could have signed as an Undrafted Free Agent, and Dak Prescott taken by Dallas a round later? People get fired in this business Paul … a lot … the entire Browns organization should be listening to every opinion. That’s all this is … a 1400 word Opinion on the Cleveland Browns 2017 season.
Pick #1 – Myles Garrett
Pick #12 – Cam Robinson
Pick #33 – Marcus Maye
Pick #52 – Sidney Jones
Pick #65 – Dion Dawkins
Pick #97 – Someone who can play C/G … Like Bitonio … why do I feel like Reno is starting at center next season?
After these 6 scheduled picks … back 7 on the defensive side, linemen on both sides of the ball, a youthful RB who fits the New NFL Mode in Round 5. The last 3 rounds of the NFL Draft? 5,000 carat diamonds. You’d think a 5,000 carat diamond would be easy to find … nah, just the opposite … think of the process required to make a diamond and the process used by the NFL “establishment” to evaluate talent. What makes a succesful NFL player? Performance on the Field is merely a single data point. You can’t make decisions based on a single data point. Data point weight … how important is on the field performance at the collegiate level and … international level … who is scouring Europe for the next Margus Hunt and other international players? The Cleveland Browns should be ahead of the curve on the new International NFL Game when it comes to international players because I wrote you a letter and made suggestions. 36 NFL Teams operating in 2022, 18 games, 70 player roster … there’s going to be a lot more “opportunity” to play professional American Football.
$25 Billion. There’s too much money being made and the market exists in London, Toronto, St. Louis, San Diego, Oakland, Jacksonville … it’s all about the Stadium and there won’t be enough NFL teams to please everyone AND the NFL is giving around $250mm to build the venue. The top hats think they can keep the expansion a secret. There’s no point in announcing until the new players agreement in 2021. Hopefully everyone is of the sensibility to give the players their “fair” share. 7 years ago when the new contract ended a lockout probably seems like yesterday to those involved. Now, it’s only 4 years away. Be fair to the players.
The NFL in 2030 … a $30 billion dollar a year sports league. Cleveland Browns, 5 Time SuperBowl Champion.
CoD Infinite Warfare Best Guns
January 29, 2017 | Posted in Video Games | By Anonymous
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What is the best Gun in Cod Infinite Warfare?
Theories and opinions will always vary greatly.
My opinion … it depends on play style and the game mode of choice. I’m a rusher having played approximaely 1,000 games of Domination reaching Prestige Level 7. I play Domination because there’s an objective and spawns are somewhat controlled. Team Deathmatch, or Team CampMatch as I prefer to call it, doesn’t suit my play style because the games are too short. I want to play for 15 consecutive minutes, rack up 30-40 kills, and have ample opportunity for ScoreStreaks. I end up with around 10,000 XP when I win.
Above is an opinion on the best gun in CoD Infinite Warfare. The Erad. “Rusher” play style favors SMGs and ShotGuns over Assault Rifles because of movement speed.
Above, the SMGs currently available listing the HVR and Erad as the two best. Shotguns?
It doesn’t get any better than the Rack 9 Smoothbore, phenomenal range, usually one shot, one kill. I wouldn’t recommend missing and I prefer to call this Gun the Rage Quitter.
So there you go, an opinion on the best guns in CoD Infinite Warfare. Now google, page rank me. Watch my videos. Maybe you can “like” them.
Zombies in Spaceland
January 13, 2017 | Posted in Publishing | By Anonymous
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Zombies in Spaceland, Infinity Ward’s offering to the genre, is by far the most in depth Zombies ever. Here’s some help with the early rounds where the top priority is making money. Zombies in Spaceland requires ten times as much money as any previous edition.
You can watch the video.
Early Round Priorities
- Get to main street by turning on the power in the starting location, find the robot’s head, attach the head, trying to coordinate the activation of N3IL with the start of a new round.
- Make Money. The M1, when combined with the Fortune Cards Scoped Dollars and Head Shots, will net you the money you need to get the first door open.
Journey into Space
- Your priority is to get this part of the park set up … it’s where Juggernog is located and there’s no debate. Turn on the power before second dog round and get Juggernog. The principles of the game have not changed since Kino Der Toten.
- Turn on the power, by Juggernog, and go through the portal.
Kepler System
- The next priority. There is a good perk here (slappy taffy) and the best wall gun (HVR).
- Turn on the power and go through the portal.
Polar Peak
- Sleight of Hand is located here. It’s called Quickies.
- Turn on the power and go through the portal.
Arcade
- Second best wall gun (NV4)
- Turn on the power and go through the portal.
Once these actions have been accomplished in these 4 areas, pack a punch will be available through the portal in the Center of the Map … it’s called the Projection Room and you enter by holding X.
N3IL the Robot Challenges
- Once the head is attached to the robot, a series of 5 challenges will begin to cycle.
- Melee kill 10 zombies. Best to accomplish in early rounds and extremely easy with Slappy Taffy Perk until Round 15.
- Kill 10 Zombies from a Distance. The Zombies will be outlined in White when they are at the appropriate distance.
- Get 5 MultiKills. One of the harder challenges. Made easier with M1 and the Fortune Card Eagle Eyed. Also easily accomplished by Upgrading the Kendall 44 (starting pistol) in the Projection Room.
- Kill 10 Zombies while Jumping. Pushing 3 buttons AND moving your thumb, all at the same time, is difficult. It’s called a Rotation. Console gamers have a monumentally more Difficult time with this Rotation than a CPU gamer, for example, someone who plays world of warcraft. Keep practicing.
- Don’t go into Last Stand.
The challenges cycle. If you fail too many in a row, the robot will pause. After completing these 5 challenges, you enter the KITT mode and Michael Knight assists you for 2 rounds. Once the robot takes him away, a battery will spawn in Kepler or Polar Peak (a total of 6 locations). Find the battery, insert into N3IL, and 5 new challenges will apppear.
Mythic Kilrogg – Visions Phase
December 21, 2015 | Posted in World of WarCraft | By Anonymous
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Make the videos. Write some posts. Write some posts with videos included. For Mythic Kilrogg to die, the Vision Phases 1 and 2 have to be executed. Now, what’s the goal inside Visions? I kill the adds until I die and come out with the buff.
Orange parsing. World class? it isn’t for me to judge … I haven’t been involved in the opportunity to progress on Mythic Kilrogg. Yet. I know the encounter. I’m not going to make the mistakes on deadly throes and heartseeker and the group I join … you’ll already have your Visions Group set. I know how to do them.
This video is of me killing Mythic Kilrogg and getting out of Deadly Throes … something I’ve been practicing since my first kill on Heroic in September 2015 when I did 35k as iLvl 700. I started later than the groups who are on Gorefiend. Mythic Gorefiend is a progression halter … 4 raid weeks, 100 pulls … maybe more … then the first 3 upper bosses die in the next 3 raid weeks and Gorefiend gets skipped.
It’s that group I’d like to join … We’ll start on Mythic Gorefiend where Frost Mage is going be plenty good enough to progress on the encounter.
The logs tell a story. 95th percentile Frost Mage damage = 109k on Heroic Kilrogg. 98th percentile shadow priest damage 166k and I love the healers putting out orange and purple damage … the effort those healers put into to parsing orange on holy paladin DPS. Now here’s your problem MM hunter 75th percentile class damage is 85k on heroic Kilrogg … both hunters played extremely well as indicated by their bracket percentage yet were crushed on their ego measure …. by a frost mage who’s suppose to be playing arcane for the encounter because 90th percentile arcane mage damage on the encounter is 260k.
It’s mythic … I parsed green on the encounter … my first attempt getting “carried” by a 10/13 (m) guild who progressed to 12/13 (m) while I was on the bench. Our relationship didn’t work out. I had a lot of fun … got to see Mythic Kilrogg and Mythic Council for the first time and got the kill achieves. And some gear. I had 100% attendance rate for 5 weeks.
90th percentile arcane mage damage, 260k, 95th percentile frost mage damage, Heroic Kilrogg, 109k. You can’t have that kind of imbalance between class specs. IMHO, this kind of class spec imbalance has a name … flavor of the month (fotm). Fire Mage, you were FOTM in BRF, and Arcane Mage you’re FOTM (for a long time … this will be WoW’s longest tier in history) for Hellfire Citadel.
I’m going to play frost mage. On your BRF mythic team, the 60k I busted on Thogar playing frost mage would have been good enough to progress. 50k playing frost mage on mythic beastlord … would have been good enough to progress. Blast Furnace … another story. I have the secondary spec and if team progression is dependent on me playing my off spec … then fine. I’ll come in there and play it well enough for us to progress. Rasta had to come play 45th percentile arcane mage so we could progress? You don’t want to be that group.
There’s a 48th percentile arcane mage doing 57k on Heroic Kilrogg. I played frost, played it 90th percentile, and beat the arcane mage by 40k. It’s called evidence me playing arcane mage at 50th percentile … the time I’d have to take to learn the rotation … it’s not worth it at this point in the game. In this point of progression … mythic Gorefiend …. where are you 5/13 (m) group raiding 9pmish to 1amish EST???
I’m going to be real quiet. There’s people sleeping in the house. I’m going to show up and I’m going to put some solid Ranged DPS on whatever encounter … Progression Ranged DPS. Try to beat me on the damage taken meter.
Damage Taken Mythic Reaver kill … 4 people dead … 15 Dec 2015. 58k dps. I was alive, second week in a row, we progressed.
Damage Taken Mythic Kormok – 3 dead – 72k. I was alive. We progressed.
Damage Taken Mythic Kilrogg … 5 dead … Not me, I was alive and did 66k. We progressed. Who’s carrying who here Dub?
Thanks for the inspiration … I can make all these new posts and get rid of all the headlines about this community’s fucked up water system.
Frost Mage Parses Continued
December 19, 2015 | Posted in World of WarCraft | By Anonymous
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No orange there. It will be more fun when more logs with people iLvl 727 are parsed because of the valor upgrade 10 iLvls. The bracket percentages tell a story. Like the badass 90th percentile elemental shaman who got out dps’d by a frost mage because 95th percentile frost mage damage … roughly, we’ll call it 87k … so you’re going to have to do at least 87k to beat me. Dub, what happens when I’m another 10 iLvls higher because I was actually able to find a team … you were looking for talented ranged but not too talented … we don’t want anyone, especially the girls, to get their egos hurt …. and more iLvl 727s are parsed?
You discredited by BRF data because, according to you, it didn’t count because “no one was playing the spec”. There were just as many frost mage parses on heroic beastlord as there are currently on Mythic Hellfire Assault. Your argument is completely null and void.
But I don’t want to switch to the Crushing Hand that has you boss, I’d have to build up four new arcane charges on the add.
I didn’t see the crushing hand because I don’t have enemy nameplates turned on. I can’t switch to the add with less health because I can’t tell. I can’t switch the skull target because it’s hard for me to target him. This is the reason add phases in encounters are crushers. Wait until blizzard adds a mechanic where the add has to be crowd controlled and if you break the crowd control, it’s a wipe.
The fact it didn’t say “enemy nameplates in the ON position” as the first requirement of your group was strike 1. Wiping on Mythic Assault was strike 4. I should have gquit right then, saved us all the trouble …
Putting DPS in the right place at the right time … progression. DPS Meter measures egos. Warcraft Logs … useful data. Data you can’t debate. Or Discredit homie. Such inspiration your question has given me … what makes you think you’re an orange parsing world class raider?
I don’t know boss … what’s the predominant color in the above photos?
Frost DK – 83rd percentile, 65k. Whatever kind of warlock that is … 82nd percentile 61k. 80th percentile Frost mage on Heroic Council? 78k …. 9th percentile in the bracket because the parses have so many legit 727s opposed to 717s taking advantage of the new valor system. Give it time. You’re going to have bust 80k to beat me on heroic council and how many people, friends, get carried through heroics when someone’s putting up 80k? It almost counts for 2 dps. Even if someone did 10k on heroic, it would average enough across the group and we move on and everyone gets the gear and everyone has fun. While I log parses. And see ….
And Weak Auras 2? Lets watch some YouTube video together of me killing bosses … where I can actually see the fight … and I’ll show you where Everything Weak Auras 2 does is already on my screen. Weak Auras 2 would make me better? I like it.
Thing is … I don’t know how to use it. And I like my interface where it’s at … just a little more notice when enchant procs, help managing Incanter’s Flow … I play frost mage, I’ve dedicated World Wide Web Resources to the class. And yes, I play it well … the data is arrogant. And my capability to memorize a memorizeable Artificial Intelligence and play frost mage within the confines … problem is I need 19 others who I can play at a high level.
When I came back to WoW, brand new account in February 2011 … I went to Dalaran because I had a couple RL friends there and I got onto a raiding team. 25 man Dragon Soul … killed all 8 of those bosses. When MoP came out, 10 man in Mogushan Vaults we got the achieve … Dude Throne of Thunder came out and we wiped 105 times on Horridon. Over weeks. Plus, the group was running 2 10 mans which got combined into a single 10 man and the combination of people left out and dying 105 times to the second boss …
A group of us joined Ouroboros-Dalaran. We finished ToT 25 man – normal. Never got into Heroic because SooG came out. 25 man finished it on normal and we got the first boss on heroic, Immerseus. I had to quit … I couldn’t handle what I knew was coming for Ourboros-Dalaran on SooG Heroic – you know how long it was out and for 9 months that group banged it out in heroic SooG finishing 10/13 (h). I got back in with them at the beginning of WoD. The first night of Highmaul, there were 45 people for 30 slots … they had to keep a separate piece of paper to make sure everyone got DKP. Dalaran had two other 20 man teams when BRF started. Their whole server, which is small to begin with, had 3 horde teams trying to progress through end game content. I server transferred to Thrall .. a huge horde PvE server with 50 such teams … got a team near the end of BRF who quit after 52 attempts on Mythic BeastLord.
We spanked every Heroic fight in there …. here was that group’s issue … they didn’t practice the mythic formation. I want to be killing Heroic Gruul in the mythic formation … to practice. You know how good I was on Thogar??? … yeah it’s hard to see on my screen when the door opens and NOT to be standing on the track … and it was hard to memorize the pattern at heroic difficulty … I never got to see the fight. My group quit after 50 attempts on the first boss and broke up … no HFC.
I took a break man. Putting up all them orange numbers on those heroic bosses? Giving up and playing fire mage on mythic beastlord because they made me? Fire Mage RastaJay got pinned all the time and without Weak Auras 2 telling me when to combust … the spec wasn’t my flow man but I played it and parsed purple on heroic beastlord.
They had to make Frost better in HFC because of the parse disparity between fire spec and frost spec. You can’t have 99th percentile frost mage damage equal to 40th percentile fire mage damage … its called imbalance. Fire Mage was fotm. Yet it the spec puts up top numbers in the world for all the class specs on Iskar and Xhul. The nerf to Inferno Blast … ouch.
Now you have the same imbalance with arcane single target damage. Do you think RastaJay scorch weaved in Mogushan Vaults? I play Frost Mage bro. And I’ve gotten a lot better since MoP came out … changed the way I move … changed the way I target … using the keyboard to move … sad you have to tell someone you need to be doing it … and unbind you s key … there’s no moving backwards in Azeroth. It’s illegal.
I’m going to play Frost Mage and I’m going to play it a level that’s plenty good enough for mythic progression. Just gotta find a team.
5/13 M putting in that work on Gorefiend.
Frost Mage Parses
December 18, 2015 | Posted in World of WarCraft | By Anonymous
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You know how many times I had to switch to the dogs in melee because melee didn’t single target them? Remember when the dogs would switch? How many times you wipe on mythic Flamebender because the dogs didn’t die at the same time??
Progression to orange parses. First I have to learn the encounter. then I have to get the gear …
Then I have to practice. first 2 kills on Iron Reaver, I was dead. We progressed. Then on my third kill I lived and we progressed because guess who practiced and became really good at dodging barrage? Attacking the right bomb? Putting artillery where it needs to go during Air Phase?
Just like everybody else … I’m not immune to mistakes. I have to learn the encounter. I need the 25 pulls in a single night. The 100 pulls to kill mythic gorefiend. the 125 pulls to kill mythic mannoroth. The 200 pulls on Mythic Archimonde.
At some point … I’m going to have memorized the encounter and if I make the mistake .. it’s what a battlerez is for. We don’t save them just in case … we use them because someone made a mistake early, a mistake they know they can’t make, and it simply puts the pressure on others not to make mistakes down because the battlerez is gone because Rasta died on first barrage.
Look how terrible I am on mythic hellfire assault. Green parses. I have many of them. Many gray parses as well.
Progression. You think the mechanics of Hellfire Assault promotes an orange parse? Nobody is playing frost mage on mythic assault, there’s only 11,991 parses.
I’m so terribad look at the gray and green parsing. I completely skipped blue parsing on this encounter. Since nobody=11,000 … 22,000 … double nobodies. What color is after purple in these logs?
So many gray parses. What’s the minimum dps for a heroic kill on Tyrant? one two and move … one two and move …. stack except when you get debuff … move away, to other side, get knocked into the wall not into the middle of the room don’t stand in the corrupted ground. Wait, and I have to push 5 buttons????
So many gray parses. Gray median percentile. Even at a 33rd percentile, I did over 45k which is the number in heroics.
Progression. What color comes after blue? Or am I simply going to skip that color on Mannoroth?
It’s only heroic. anyone can parse orange on heroic.
That’s a hardly a carry the first and only time I’ve seen the encounter on mythic difficulty.
It’s hardly a carry when it’s the first time I’ve seen the fight on mythic difficulty and there were 5 people dead on the kill.
It certainly becomes problematic not playing arcane mage on this encounter. I’ll sit. What’s the minimum dps per person to kill Mythic Kilrogg? You need me to play arcane to carry you? Are you going to make the arcane mages play fire on Xhul and Shadow Lord? You going to make the DKs play unholy?
The second me playing frost mage isn’t good enough to progress, I’ll sit. I’ll have the appropriate secondary spec and if we progressed only because I played arcane mage, then I’m finding a different team.
Meh attitude? The 50 temporal crystals, 50 sorcerous fire, 50 sorcerous water, and 50 sorcerous air plus 23,500 goldz I placed in your guild chest is hardly a meh attitude. The meh attitude comes in when the green parsing arcane mage gets beat in damage by the blue parsing frost mage who’s 10 iLvls lower and the same frost mage beating hunters and rogues. 90th percentile frost mage damage has a way of making people jealous.
You know how many fire mages I destroyed on the DPS meter on heroic thogar? You think on mythic thogar it would have been any different? Dodging the trains like a pro plus spell stealing the cauterize before it even ticked once when the interrupt was missed on the cast. It’s called picking up the slack that allows players more challenged by the jump to mythic to make mistakes.
meh, 87k on heroic gorefiend. The adds get pwnd inside his stomach, I blink to the person rooted, I put doom far away And overlap it, how pro, I catch an interrupt on the big add, stack during feast, get out of the swirly purple circles forming a ring on the ground, and I make sure the adds are dead before the feast stack … the new mechanic and changes in mythic … well, after we down Kilrogg, let’s see the encounter … let’s see the encounter for 4 raid weeks because that’s about the average for a kill on Mythic Gorefiend, (100 pulls), not to mention a boss you can skip and head onto Upper Floor Progression after the first victory.
Boss, your group has what it takes to finish the tier in Top 1,000 world time. You’re amazinglyleet … pro … all of you because you stuck it out mostly together. Those tough nights on Gorefiend, your WoW Progress tells a story I wasn’t part of .. I didn’t participate, I came in at the end when you’re at the final push to actually finish the tier. On Mythic. Bro so many of the guilds can’t kill Archmonde on Normal.
I don’t know what your group went through to get where you’re at … the learning phase of Mythic Archimonde. People are tired, it’s the holidays … World 126th took 229 pulls on Mythic Archimonde, server first on Thrall. Your group, Amicitia, you’re going to smoke that number, under 150 pulls?
Dub, you should be online writing about what it takes, the time … of everyone involved … the commitment to be at 12/13 (M), World 844. The changes players have to make to be at that level … Weak Auras 2 is the difference between me parsing first in all the world … and where I parse now. Plus when I get the trinket off Iskar and I run frost bomb on Iskar, Xhul, Hellfire Assault .. maybe Council and make Icy Veins rewrite their PvE page regarding Frost Mage Talents.
And come on boss, you can’t give me a strike if I didn’t know. If I did something after I was told then it would be a strike. And you didn’t have to act all in charge … we know you’re the boss … and the wipe on Mythic Assault was Needed. Humbling … the way mythic humbles 17 man heroic spank squads who don’t spend any of their time in Heroic Farm Week practicing the mythic formation … the way you did … so pro dude … you know the disasters I see in Group Finder on Heroic Iskar & Soc …. it’s how I was able to live on Council and do encounter appropriate DPS … you taught me the formation and I’ve always been good at Reap, getting it to a good spot, it’s the first thing I had to learn to do well when I learned the encounter at Heroic Difficulty.
Kilrogg, it’s a different formation …. same principles … and come on, you know it was sexy when I caught that interrupt on the Hulking Berserker. It’s been a long time since Deadly Throes were an issue or I’ve put HeartSeeker in a bad place …. Sure, I could be arcane mage and do 250k damage … or I can play frost mage, do 70k, catch an interrupt on the big add, put heartseeker in the right place, slow and kill the fixated adds then other adds … do some dps on the run during Deadly Throes and we progress.
We should have talked before I server transferred … I didn’t feel entitled. I was there to earn a spot, give a tired player a break and help finish the tier spending the rest of the time on my main helping people on their alts. Running parses. And oh yeah, making YouTube Videos. It doesn’t matter, nobody watches …. I don’t get any hits.
Congratulations on finishing the tier. You picked up some good people from open raid … you’ll have a lot of fun farming those mythic bosses the next 10 months. Practicing.
LoL … nobody ever reads this far down anything I write so now it’s pretty much like talking to myself. I an eternal sort of way. This thing called the internet, it’s probably here to stay. If it’s on the internet it’s true. Bro, I have 2 such of these sites. The YouTube channel.
Nice try discrediting my data to support my claim as a world class orange parsing raider. People no likey when data does the story telling. Jealous arguments, crushed by reality. The reality of data.
Meh, 78k. 95th percentile. 61st percentile in bracket. Far from my best of 757 or so ….
Meh, purple parse … 72k. Can we go in and 1 phase heroic reaver for Parse purposes? Funzzzz
Oh, most of the people running parses are trying …. whatever excuses you can try to come up with to discredit data. Anyone can parse purple on heroic. On Reaver, one phasing Reaver results in an orange parse.
Took that parse while I was on Stormreaver doing what I thought we were suppose to be doing .. server transferring, joining the Guild, then being available during raid times, whether needed or not. 5 weeks I was with you. Why did it become so problematic in the past 5 days?
Because last week I parsed blue on Reaver and was one of the 13 who lived and progressed. This week, same on Kilrogg … although my parse was green. One of the 14 who lived and we progressed. Whats so hurtful to people’s feelings about getting out dps’d by a frost mage?
Damage Taken tab kills bosses. DPS Tab measures ego.
Venruki doesn’t have a single AoTC and blizzard gives him the gear for their tournaments he doesn’t win anymore.
Did you extend me the same courtesy as expected? You read Everything I had to write? All 1600 easily flowing words about playing World of Warcraft Frost Mage.
Warlords of Draenor Gold Farming
November 21, 2015 | Posted in World of WarCraft | By Anonymous
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Want to make gold in Warlords of Draenor?
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Player crafted gear … the iLvl is 685 and on my server, heavily populated Thrall, the gear sells for 11k to 13k gold. People are purchasing iLvl when they ding 100 for their alts, craft your gear in sets of 3, the maximum allowable player crafted gear a toon can equip.
Patch 6.2 allows player craftable gear up to iLvl 715, however, I’m not farming Fel Blight. I’m going to operate five level 3 barns for the Savage Blood, 1o professions for sorcerous earth (purchase the rest, it doesn’t eat into profit too bad, I’m paying 300g for a stack of 20).
Blacksmith – craft iLvl 675 weapons. Craft one handers two at a time … crafted daggers on thrall are selling for 25k – 28k for the pair … people are inpatient and there’s a lot of people with a lot of gold in this game.
You don’t want to be crafting items that are trash drops in the current raid tier, for example, belts and boots. Attempt to craft pieces available on later bosses, for example, plate pants because for plate wearers, the last boss of Highmaul drops the loot you want.
Inscrpition – the crafted staff sells for 13k – 14k on Thrall.
Reroll properties with your extra materials … no one likes versatility. Research the class, hunters for mail armor (shaman’s as well), and learn the stat priority and try to make the gear you’re trying to sell match.
Keep your Level 3 barns as full as possible. Farm those savage bloods.
And do your follower missions.
Iron Reaver Air Phase
November 18, 2015 | Posted in World of WarCraft | By Anonymous
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Barrage always targets a healer meaning your Formation can control the direction of barrage. Adjust accordingly. You can learn and share things on this wonderful thing known as the internet. Mythic Cross Realm is teaching 17-19 person heroic spank teams the difficulty of mythic progression. They’re able to find the 1-2 PuGs through group finder. Oh so many of you going to learn how far you have to elevate your personal game to down mythic bosses.
YouTube makes writing easier. The video is worth so many words. I desire Mythic Progression, all the way to Archimonde, this tier. It’s so difficult. Requires so much excellence. Ranged DPS. I’m filling a role. Visions, Flamethrower, Orbs, Maiden Boat Phase … I’m mobile ranged dps, every bit as good as your beloved hunters and useful for mythic progression. I want to progress with you, I have to learn the encounters through dying. My past group downed Mythic Assault within 30 pulls …. Mythic Reaver, we took the expected 50 pulls to win the encounter. I left that group because mythic cross realm is here and I have the necessary skill set playing Frost Mage in Mythic Hellfire Citadel for the group to progress. Mythic Kormok showed the weeknesses of a team I joined 8 weeks ago when I personally started this tier. Mythic Cross Realm is finally here. There are some talented people, melee dps, healers, tanks, ranged dps, using the Group Finder tab because there aren’t enough teams of 20 to join on their server or the few teams they have with Heroic Progression are full. We’re looking to be absorbed into mythic progression teams and we don’t have to be on the same server. Warlords of Draenor has been a true game changer
Mythic Reaver is difficult, you can’t get by barrage, it’s a death. And the bombs have a priority. Enemy nameplates in the ON position for mythic progression. Watch the video. watch the video I have for mythic assault … add priority in mythic progression is all the more important.
Below is a screenshot for the wonderful website Warcraft Logs that collects boss encounter Data. Love you. NPC Damage Done for Heroic Iron Reaver during Air Phase … bomb damage … that’s me RastaJay fourth on the list in total damage done. It’s a measure beyond total DPS. I’m here to down bosses, not win a DPS contest … you win arcane mage, you’re better than me because 91st percentile arcane damage is virtually triple 91st percentile frost mage on Heroic Kilrogg. Come on blizzard … spec inbalance. I saw an arcane mage with glyphs other than mastery. Come on. Arcane Mages glyphing Multistrike and Haste?
I digress. Reaver Air Phase is about positioning, each group takes a quadrant of the room and handles the bombs in their assigned area on mythic difficulty. You get away with a lot on Heroic and the mythic fights requiring a formation change, splitting the raid combined with Add Priority … you need the 25 wipes to learn the changes on mythic versus heroic regarding Mythic Hellfire Assault. You can’t get hit by barrage, ever. You have to be alive going into the Air Phase. Battle rez is there, people make mistakes, I haven’t been alive during my two mythic reaver kills … I lived long enough and we progressed both weeks.
You should understand the mechanics of Artillery … it takes a long time for it to actually explode even if you get caught in the brown slow you down swirls. 30 yard range …. don’t panic, just make sure there isn’t a lot of people around you and be in the assigned area for the mechanic.
I learned Barrage always targets a healer. So position your healers accordingly in your Mythic Reaver Formation and you can control the direction of barrage. Stunning information on the encounter.
Ranged DPS trying out with a 9/13 (m) group through the benefits of Open Raid. Thank you for those great boss kills on the lower level and look forward to being part of the group for the Upper Bosses tonight at 9pm EST.
I can commit and I wantz the gearz. Multstrike yummy. 6 BIS pieces iLvl 717 … purple parsing frost mage all over HFC.