Kopi

And by review we mean: "Hey, so it's been 2 weeks since Erlin joined." "Yeah?" "Yeah. So...umm...has he made an ass of himself?" "No, I don't think so." "Recommended by at least 3 other officers: check...looks good to me." /promote

erlin, did you perhaps ever play an FPS called Elite Force by the name of Benoit?

There's also a run speed enchant for boots. FYI Believe it's called minor haste.

That is one strategy I'd like to investigate more...have a strike group of rogues, essentially, stealth into their base and sap all the defenders, then make a break for it. The rogues not carrying the flag can be using crippling poison to break off pursuers, and the usual stun lock techniques. Maybe have a druid accompany them for healing and possibly throw them the flag once sprint wears off or you guys get back to base.

So here's the deal with mages on CTF: Frost mages are made for this game. Specifically improved blizzard. Shamans may get their earthbind totem, but mages can counter with improved blizzard (read 25% movement speed for all people caught in the area, reapplied every second and lasting 1.5-4.5 seconds depending on talents). In defense stay on the high ground and just spam blizzard in the area of the flag bearer. It works beautifully, and you can usually slow the whole offensive group down enough to allow reinforcements to arrive. If they get out of LoS, jump down and frost nova + CoC for a 8-11 seconds snare (depending on talents, again). In offense, trail the druid carrying the flag and throw down blizzards to basically prevent pursuit. Most people are concentrating on the flag bearer, so you'll usually have a few seconds to get in your damage worth and apply that snare real good. Once they notice you, nova + CoC before you drop, and if you're not dead by then, nothing grabs peoples' attention more than IAE. Remember, your job in this case is, if the druid carrying teh flag has the attention of all the horde, then you need to be making them pay attention to you with imp. blizzard. If they do see you, then that means you need to be as distracting as possible by going full AE DPS throttle. Apply chills as often as possible, and also bear in mind that frostbite is deadly. Personal rant: the speed boost from that item right in front of the flag is waaaay too overpowered. A person running faster than a regular mount for 10 seconds? you can cross half the map in the time it takes for someone to pull out their mount. As far as warlocks are concerned...we had one summon an infernal on us (horde side)...note that these things don't despawn when the lock dies. That means we *had* to take out this demon. Also, the succubus' charm is a bitch and a half. You can effectively take someone out of the game for a long time. Felhunters are iffy...paranoia helps a little, but if your defense is on top of things, it's not a problem. One lock had a habit of running in with a voidwalker and then sacrificing it. It was a bitch and a half to punch through that shield. Be sure to fear people often. Oh, and everyone who plans on doing CTF needs a Nifty Stopwatch. It's a 30 minute cooldown trinket that gives you a 15 second 40% movement speed bonus. Grab the flag, put that on, you should make it to the buff item in the tunnel and you're pretty much home free, espcially if you also have a sprint stored up. It's ridiculous. To get this gem of an item, go to the badlands and complete that whole earth elemental chain (4-5 steps). It's entirely worth it. I have 3 trinkets I use on rotation and they're all infinitely useful. I have perma eye of the beast equipped, and I swap out stopwatch, insignia, and biarwood reed (for that extra punch when the insignia and stopwatch are both on cooldown). Hell, imagine a sprint + stopwatch + buff item = 310% run speed...which is 150%+ an epic mount...all this lasting for 10 seconds and you might as well be teleported to the flag return.

scifi419 although I'm on maybe once a week at best...

I'm not so much refering to people in that statement who can't fit it into their schedules due to more important things like work/school, family, whatever. I'm mostly directing this toward the people who are "hey, give me another hour, I just joined this Baron Run" when we're trying to head off.

It's more a matter of doing it more often. When people start to notice that we're coming back from these things with epic gear, and that their spot isn't necessarily guranteed if they can't keep a date, they'll make time.

I've just very happy that for all intents and purposes we took down a boss in MC with essentially a pickup group. It's one thing to take down an MC boss with a single guild and massive coordination, another for it to be a collaboration between multiple guilds and an individual or two. We need to do this and Onyxia more often. Guild presence is up after each of these raids.

We should search for MC boss fight videos

I actually thought the plant and the butterfly were pretty cool...heh. But yeah, that's the first time I've seen the drum one and it's pretty cool.

I smell a goon...heh

In truth I average 3-4 years between upgrades, which is easily outpaced by consoles if you own more than 1... For example, I bought this laptop of mine when I moved to college...in 2003. I don't have the funds to upgrade anything for at least another year..maybe 2.

I remember the first time I saw that animation I couldn't stop thinking "wow, that animator is really good at what he does!" Next time you watch it, look at the detail on the "brush strokes"

I'm so glad I gave up console gaming years ago. Keyboard and mouse FTW. Not to mention there's not a forced hardware upgrade every year.

I'm sort of interested in seeing how frost mages perform...