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To quote Ghostcrawler: "We just have it in for survival hunters." You heard it here first folks -- he admits it, a total slap in the face! Worst thing we've ever heard. I'm canceling my subscription! Ghostcrawler doesn't care about survival hunters.
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Focus -- We think we're in a much better spot for focus regen now. Our goal has been for focus to be a resource you spend on your higher damage shots, which is regenerated passively at a rate lower than energy regen, but faster than energy if you are using Steady / Cobra (which can only be done while stationary). At the lower regen rates, we found it felt bad if you couldn't Steady / Cobra rather than Steady / Cobra feeling like a bonus. We think we're closer to the sweet spot now, but please let us know (preferably after you've actually tried it rather than prophesizing doom).
Aspects -- We're not happy with the way the Hawk vs. Fox choice is playing out. We think that ultimately either damage or focus regen is going to win out and the other aspect won't get much use. For now, we are going back to Hawk being used for damage and regen. We'll discuss other potential uses for Fox. Changing Aspects will not affect focus regen.
Mobile damage -- This is always a touchy subject. In our testing, we found that it wasn't fun with the current implementation when hunters had to move around a lot, especially in PvP. This is why we are giving up on the current Aspect of the Fox design. We also significantly reduced the focus cost per damage of Arcane Shot, so that it is usable under almost all circumstances. We've also removed the focus costs on several utility abilities (e.g. Concussive Shot, Intimidation, Bestial Wrath, Scatter Shot, etc.) One potential use for Aspect of the Fox is to generate additional focus when you take damage, but we don't want to get back into a world where you are "aspect twisting" when someone comes into melee with you in PvP.
Survival -- We're still iterating a lot on this tree in particular. We agree it's probably the least polished of the hunter trees so far. The reason is that we just have it in for Survival hunters.
Pets -- As I posted in another thread recently, a pet scaling pass is underway. We still plan to do passes on the hunter pet talents and abilities as well. With the design that allows you to swap pets often in the field, we want to make sure that there are some interesting choices in which pet you use for a given situation. Provided they are all crabs.
In case I need to say it, the last two sentences of the last two paragraphs are not meant to be taken seriously. :)
Ferocity (damage) -- 50% of master's AP, 40% health, 50% armor
Tenacity (tanking) -- 35% of master's AP, 50% health, 70% armor
Cunning (utility) -- 40% of master's AP, 40% health, 60% armor
Warlock pets will be getting a similar pass. In general, we want pet dps to be 20-30% of player dps. Note that this is a lot lower than current BM and Demo lock numbers. Pet damage as BM will still be higher than Marks or Survival though, and we want BM to be competitive overall with Marks and Survival. (Ditto for locks.)
Mind Melt -- The timing of the Mind Melt buff interaction with Mind Spike sounds like a bug and will be fixed.
Shadowy Apparition -- It sounds like there are a lot of bugs still with the implementation. The way we intend for it to work is that the Apparitions are shades of your character and will attack the correct target (the one with SW:Pain on it). We have already fixed several bugs relating to Shadowy Apparition interacting with Shadow Orbs and Mind Blast.
Perhaps I'm looking too deep into it, however looking back on it now it seems that GC never really said "We want Paladins to be able to AOE heal." I'm sure that he's always said they want us to be able to heal the raid, but raid healing is something completely different.
We try not to divide classes / specs into such discrete buckets. Our overriding design is to try and have classes feel diverse, such that rerolling or adding a new class to your group feels interesting, but still give you the tools to fill your role. If any healer is too good at one thing, they tend to get stacked, and if a healer is too weak at anything, they risk being unwanted.
Put another way, we used to have this design that say DKs were the magic tank and paladins were the AE tank. The thought was that if you had a paladin in your group you were happy when you had an AE fight but that you'd be fine with anyone else. In reality, this didn't play out so well. Players felt compelled to swap players in and out of their groups, or be reluctant to run a 5-player dungeon with the "wrong" tank. We decided that tanks need to be tanks.
Likewise, our model for healers for a long time has been that everyone has their little niche. We now think healers should just be healers. We just have to make sure that they still feel different enough that you'd prefer to have as many different healers as you can. The big difference is that raids have more healers than tanks, so we have a little bit of room to make the healers more differentiated from each other than the tanks are. But only a little bit, and that space is going to be even smaller in Cataclysm than it was in LK.
Bless you for fighting the good fight Lissanna, however unless there are 15,000 angry posters nothing will change because of "feedback" alone. I think Wrath beta and "The Nourish Incident" proved that - yeah lets give a hot healer a 3rd direct heal....makes perfect sense....if you are HIGH. They could have just revamped Healing Touch so it was actually used for more than 1 gimic fight 3/4 of the way through the expansion.
Uh... no. It only takes one good post to change our minds, if it's a good post. Lissanna's are always worth a read. :)
As far as the history goes here, we thought at the time (and still think!) that the Resto druid wasn't going to be well served as a "I only care about hots and nothing else" healer. It's just too extreme a design. Any time when hots are good (by which I mean both individual encounters and periods in the game as a whole) the druid is going to dominate. Any time when hots are terrible, so will be druids. We probably, in retrospect, didn't push Nourish enough, because we still ended up in a raid healing situation where druids used Rejuv and Wild Growth and were loathe to use any other button.
We are going to push even harder in Cataclysm. Druids will still have exceptional hots, but will need to cast direct heals as well. I usually get a lot of responses after such a post from druids saying "But I only want to cast hots!" I'm not sure how to respond to that, because we just don't think it works. :(
As far as the AE healing goes, it's definitely something to keep an eye on, but we're not worried about it yet. We are trying to cut back (yet again) on the dominance of the smart AE heals. The cooldowns of CoH and WG need to stay high. We do have some room to lower the mana cost on WG, and probably will.
It's also worth mentioning that Efflorescence does some great AE healing, and is probably overpowered at the moment.
One change we are going to make is reintroducing the talent that lowers Rejuv to a 1 sec GCD. Since haste affects Rejuv ticks and since druids will be casting cast-time spells that benefit from haste, we're not as worried about druids turning up their noses at haste. This will let you get Rejuvs up on more people when you want to, though it still should be mana-inefficient to just do so at random. We think hots are going to be enormous in the Cataclysm healing model just because they won't be overhealing nearly as much as they are now.
We like the way Nourish interacts with hots. Yes, it's different from the way priests, paladins and shaman use their heals, but we do want the classes to play differently, as long as those differences aren't so extreme that you can't use a druid on some dungeon or raid fights.
I suspect we won't end up keeping the snare on Tree of Life. We knew that we could try snare and then remove it. We would have a hard time trying no snare and then adding one. Our intent was to make you think about when was the best time to push ToL rather that just hitting it the second it's off cooldown. In practice though we just think it feels crappy so even if it accomplishes our goal, it's probably not worth it.
We're still working on the Resto tree (and druids in general). You were missing the talent to lower the cast time of Nourish and Healing Touch, which is a pretty painful thing to live without. We're also considering changing Furor to provide intellect to caster form too so it is attractive to both caster trees. We agree that too much of the early Resto tree felt like it was there for Feral.
I'm talking PvE in almost all of this, since that was the original thrust of the thread.
This seems really at odds with the increase in Rejuv's mana cost. We're not supposed to pre-HoT the raid, but you're adding in a talent designed to let us do exactly that? I'm very confused by this.
We don't like prehotting (or pre-shielding) as a general strategy. On certain fights where you know that the damage is going to come fast and furious then maybe it's appropriate, but we don't want the current LK style to continue. I've healed a lot as both Resto and Disc, so I know the power of prehealing, though it's not as if you need first-hand experience to understand how useful and powerful it is.
On the other hand, if a lot of people take damage at once, we have no problem with getting a Rejuv out on several of them at once, and a lower GCD will help there. It's still possible to screw that up (by which I mean we want healing to have some player decision-making as part of the gameplay) by using too much mana on Rejuvs or casting too many Rejuvs when the situation called for something else.
I am still concerned about the proc-rate of Efflorescence, however, and hope it isn't underpowered at lower gear levels and then overpowered in higher gear levels.
It's okay -- to a point -- if some talents are more useful at different gear levels than others. It's interesting if you consider changing talent specs rather than having one that serves you well in almost all stages of the game. But we don't want the extremes either, where it never procs as you're leveling and is up 100% of the time so that you fish for it in the endgame. Definitely something to keep an eye on. We also might take the wounded restriction off of Nature's Bounty, so that Regrowth just crits a lot.
I'm going to assume that the lowered GCD is to allow for situations where Players A, B, and C got him by a small AOE and were taken down to 70% health. Nourish is too slow to heal all three, Regrowth is too expensive for that little damage, and Wild Growth costs too much for just three targets. So instead you just toss a Rejuv on each of them and move on. This is much different than the current model where you would just keep as many players Rejuv'd as possible with WG on cooldown.
I think people are mostly pointing at some of the crafted things shown on MMO-Champion. They're all (and by 'all' I mean chestpieces) 341 Str/Agi/Int, 512 Stam, and then 228 in two different ratings. I'm still guessing placeholder numbers.
Yes. We are focusing on getting the tradeskill recipes in place so that we can adjust skill leveling rates and reagent costs and the like. We haven't made an attempt to get the proper stats in place yet.
This is why I wanted specific examples. I'd compare the dungeon gear at this point, and not worry about the crafted gear.
A typical Icecrown Disc priest today might have a healing breakdown that looks something like this:
40% Power Word: Shield
35% Divine Aegis
8% Glyph of PW:S
7% Prayer of Mending
4% Divine Hymn
2% Flash Heal
1% Penance
3% Other
Imagine that instead of 75% shields, you do 50-60% shields and the rest is made up by Flash Heal, Heal, Greater Heal and Penance. So instead of doing most of your healing, shields are down to doing only a majority of your healing. :)
When will ele not have to run into melee to do aoe?
When you're casting Earthquake?
Are resto shaman now the only healer being forced to spec into a hit talent to supplement their active mana recovery ability? Paladins now apparently get the hit that was in enlightened judgements for free?
Our goal was to not have all of the healer talent trees to be mirror images of each other. So a priest might get one thing for free and have to talent into something else. As long as the end result is pretty similar (e.g. the priest can't get everything for free and just be able to spend talent points on candy) then it should be fine.
Personally, I'd like to know the rationale behind the fact that the Elemental Shamans did not recieve any spells that alter their rotation on 'primary' targets. Their level 10 effect was something halfway between a mana restore, an AoE, and a pvp gimmick. Our capstone of the talent tree is an AoE. I can't think of any other dps spec that doesn't get something 'unique' that changes their rotation from the other specs.
That's just part of the shaman design though, namely that Enhancement still cares a lot about spells instead of being a 100% melee weapon class. I'd argue that Enhance and Elemental still play fairly differently (such that you do have to adjust when respeccing). I'm not sure the mage design, where there is virtually no overlap among talent trees, is a superior model. It's just a different model.
Mana - I've heard mana has recently begun to be an issue for Enhancement in the last few beta builds. Will the ultimate solution just be to tweak Primal Wisdom s'more? Oh, and what about all that discussion about moving Primal Wisdom to being part of Enhancement's lvl 10 skillset? It's going to be hellish on new Enhancers not having their primary mana restoration technique until much later. Also on the table here, and I'm sorry it touches on totems again - a full set of totems or an AoE rotation kills Enhancement's mana very very quickly. It'd be nice if the mana cost got reduced on some of these abilities.
It's not the intent that Enhancement has to worry about mana a lot. Generally you should have enough mana to do what you want to do. It's a model we're still adjusting. We haven't quite established a base regen for the casters and healers that we're happy with and every time we tweak that, it affects the Ret paladins and Enhancement shaman, who aren't really supposed to be mana-constrained.
This is the kind of thing I'm talking about. Tier 1 of Enhance is one of the bigger culprits. While tier 2 has one talent that's really attractive (nigh on required for Elemental and Enhance), tier 1 is pretty bland. People would prefer to skip over Imp Shields, and Elemental Weapons is a flat spell power buff that scales with level rather than gear.
The model we're trying to use for all the classes is that you can't just soak up no-brainer talents in the first few tiers. Often there is a dps talent, and then a survival talent and then maybe an efficiency talent. You definitely get the first one, but you often need to get one of the others to progress down. This is what we mean about not being able to cherry pick just throughput-oriented talents and skipping everything else that is utility, etc. It's an evolving process though. I'm not sure I could point to a class yet and say "There. We nailed it."
Also, Enhance has 9 "required" points in Elemental - would be 10 if it weren't for Ancestral Swiftness - on top of their own tree being filled up, which highly limits their utility options (well, to be more specific, limits them to 0). Even if an additional point or two were freed up, they may feel obligated to spend those to grab the third point in Acuity (which I don't like as 3 points to start with - it creates a 'floater' point in Elemental specs rather than getting us stuck around tier 4 needing to pick a full utility talent, which I think is a good thing. But I digress), or Improved Shields, even though all three are fairly marginal DPS gains.
Yup. This is a challenge. As I mentioned above, Enhancement likes spell damage so it's hard to put anything in Elemental that Elemental wants that Enhancement also doesn't want.
Lightning and Water shield do not seem that useful for Elemental in many ways.
Agreed. This is something we're discussing. A new shield doesn't have to be the answer though.
I consider this line pretty insulting.
Blue Long-term forum posters know that busting out the "I'm insulted" is a good way to get me to skip over your posts. If anything about a game insults you, then you're taking it more seriously than I am, and I take it pretty seriously, seeing as how this game pays my yacht slip fees. :)
There are a half-dozen similar threads on totems, and I figured some shaman players felt like their non-totem concerns were getting shouted down.
- Nature's Blessing doesn't feel like a bonus when healing earth shielded targets, it feels like a penalty when healing targets without it. If the intent is to make shamans better tank healers, perhaps make it work in some other way. Perhaps change it to Earthliving or Riptide instead of Earth Shield?
This is the kind of feedback we struggle with a lot on most classes. As soon as something grants a bonus, it feels like a penalty when it's not up because players are very efficiency-focused. If it was say Riptide, wouldn't it feel like a penalty whenever Riptide wasn't available? Or a penalty because every heal cost that extra GCD for Riptide in order to behave at maximum efficiency?
Honestly GC when our dps is competitive with the other hybrid specs you barely ever see us whine. We just really want to be as good as others. It's when it isn't that we come out in masses to whine about everything. Since our totems are our thing they are what is an easy target for our QQ. I guarantee you that if we do competitive DPS and never fall behind the endless Shaman crying will be puddles instead of rivers.
I agree with that. I think a lot of the complaints about "we're the only class" or "are buffs aren't awesome enough" only come to bear when dps is low. As I said recently, we think Enhancement dps was competitive when there wasn't a lot of movement involved and when you weren't competing with guys using orange weapons. We can fix the movement problem. We don't think we need to fix the legendary "problem" because those Shadowmournes will all be banked at level 85.
I honestly don't see how healing rains AND chain heal are needed. Both are AoE heals fill the same role (heal people grouped together).
They are different spells with different niches. Chain Heal excels when you have a small number of players injured and Healing Rain is more for those big bursts when everyone takes damage. There are enough occasions when you need to heal say more than just the tank that we think healers can stand to have several different strategies to deal with it.
Any chance that the stoneclaw glyph can become baseline or something? I'm mostly fine with the totem utility vs. buff thing, but it seems fairly weird to have this non-scaling bubble as a secondary effect of a totem. If it can't be baseline, is it being compensated for? Hance isn't exactly a survivability powerhouse.
We are changing a lot of glyphs. It's too early to know which ones we are keeping. If this one dies then we might consider putting in the functionality elsewhere.
At this point tho, after getting the current tier hit/spirit cap, I'm pretty much forced to handpick items with no or little crit rating however. Mastery and haste just seem so overwhelmingly better.
That's not the intent. Hit / spirit can be capped, but if you start viewing haste, crit or mastery as junk compared to another stat, then we need to change something. It's fine if one stat is slightly better than another. Remember that crit values overall are going to be far lower than the 70%+ that some players can reach in current content. Lava Burst crits, sure, but you cast a lot of spells besides Lava Burst.
Whether it will continue to attack stuff we are not in combat with (especially if it's range is increased).
This is something we are trying to fix. We already have the totem choosing your target. Next we need to make sure it doesn't "helpfully" grab additional mobs.
We don't want warriors to sit around autoattacking until they proc Inner Rage all of the time. We also don't want them to be bummed when they slip into it. It's there so that if you get 100 rage and can't spend it fast enough that you aren't overly penalized. I realize some of you think that can't ever, ever happen with the new numbers, but we haven't seen enough high-end PvP or raiding to be convinced yet.
The numbers just need to be such that you play normally until you get Inner Rage and continue to play normally if it happens. Changing your behavior to try and hit it ASAP or avoid it isn't what we're going for.
it really pisses me off. i saw something about collision, which i think we need collision of objects, not people. Im sick of my cape cutting my mount in half like im some kind of chris angel wannabe, im sick of my axe slicing my cape and going in an out like it has no physical mass, im sick of equipment crossing into eachother. It's really annoying to watch and really pulls me out of the game. has anybody else noticed this? or do u just ignore it?
We do try to minimize these types of graphical issues as much as possible. When you consider how many more armor sets, weapon types, weapons, etc. are present in World of Warcraft compared to the typical console game, it gets more understandable. It takes an incredible amount of work to animate, say, a cloak to account for every scenario in which that cloak will interact with other objects. We try to consider all race body types and hairstyles, the animations and movements all races and classes are capable of, different mounts, other pieces of gear, weapons, etc.
We want you to be immersed in the game world, and we go to great lengths developing with that in mind as much as is logistically feasible.
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A Doll's House Marriage Quotes
How we cite our quotes:
Quote #1
HELMER: "Well, we will share it, Nora, as man and wife should. That is how it shall be."
Helmer seems to be aware of the concept that marriage is a shared experience, so why doesn't he ever act like it?
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NORA: "Surely you can understand that being with Torvald is a little like being with papa." (2.217)
Is Nora's marriage just a continuation of her childhood? Has she actually progressed into adulthood at all?
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HELMER: "The child [Nora] shall have her way." (2.385)
Helmers' relationship seems to be more like a father and a daughter than a husband and wife.
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Business of the year awarded to credit union
BY: Community Papers of WNY Staff | February 18, 2013
Clarence Community and Schools Federal Credit Union was first chartered on October 13, 1954. The credit union's name was changed to Clarence Community School Federal Credit Union when membership eligibility was expanded from the Clarence School District employees to a community credit union serving anyone who lives, works, worships or goes to school in Clarence and their families.
Clarence Community and Schools Federal Credit Union is a not-for-profit, cooperative financial institution, owned and operated by its members and volunteer board of directors, providing friendly and professional service, returning profits back to the members.
The credit union recently expanded membership to include anyone who lives, works, worships or goes to school in the communities of Amherst and Newstead as well, along with their families.
Marsha Brauer, the current CEO and manager, has been a part of the credit union movement for more than 26 years. Since her start at Clarence Community and Schools Federal Credit Union, Brauer has more than doubled the number of members and asset size of the credit union.
She has also increased the number of staff and size of the building to better accommodate the growing membership. Brauer is responsible for initiating youth savings programs in all the Clarence Schools. This includes the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary and locations at Clarence Middle School and the student run branch at Clarence High School. She is also the co-chair for the Academy of Finance at CHS where business and finance students intern at the CHS branch.
Brauer is on the Clarence Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors as well as a chamber member and treasurer of the Kiwanis Club of Clarence. She is a member of the Buffalo Credit Union Chapter of the Credit Union Association of New York and has received statewide and national recognition for community involvement and financial youth education efforts.
You will also see Brauer and her staff at many community and school events and on committees including the Clarence Chamber of Commerce, the Clarence Hollow Association, Kiwanis, Rock the Barn, Clarence Day in the Park, the Clarence Toastmasters, HOSPICE of Buffalo, Children's Miracle Network, Flight #3407, KKW Orphanage in Kenya, Hunter's Hope, Clarence Food Pantry and many more.
Clarence Community Schools Federal Credit Union has been serving its member for more than 58 years and continues to provide friendly professional service. The credit union will continue to serve its members with personal, professional and efficient financial services. They also strive to be the primary financial institution for its members and continues to provide employment in the community.
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Defense seeks more time in teacher killingLISA RATHKE
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Provided photo ¬ Melissa Jenkins, 33, of St. Johnsbury is seen in this photo provided by Vermont State Police.ST. JOHNSBURY A lawyer for a Vermont man charged with his wife in the killing of a popular St. Johnsbury teacher nearly a year ago said Thursday he will likely ask that the trial be moved out of Caledonia County because of publicity surrounding the case.
In court earlier, defense attorney Dan Maguire asked a judge for more time until October to prepare for trial in the case of Allen Prue, who is charged with his wife, Patricia, in the death of Melissa Jenkins, 33, last March.
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I was hoping for Jacqueline, chicky, though some of the others do look tempting too. Think I will have to keep my eyes out for a discount offer somewhere, or plump for a cheaper variety!
I do want one which is winter-flowering and fairly hardy - and of course a good scent is vital!
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I have a small area of semi-woodland at the back of the garden and I'm planting it with shrubs and climbers so there is a good spread of colour and scent throughout the year.At the moment, I am looking for a good Daphne - preferably winter-flowering and hardy, but the Daphne Bohula varieties seem very difficult to obtain and extremely expensive. Can anyone recommend a good hardy winter-flowering one which would thrive in dappled shade, and where is the best place to order one online?
Secondly - anyone recommend a good fragrant compact Viburnum - deciduous, preferably with good autumn leaf colour?
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I haven't been well so the bracken has taken a back seat, so to speak. Nothing more has happened about it and of course now it's hard to see where it's been as I did pull up each frond as soon as I saw it.
It's not an option to move lawn or borders but next spring I will try the idea of the plastic bottle - provided there aren't too many coming through! I don't like the idea of glyphosate but I think that next season I will definitely have to do that, or it's just going to spread and I can't dig up the whole garden - it's too big as it is! I will start saving plastic bottles ready for action. Not sure how you get rid of rye grass - that isn' t the same as couch grass, is it?
OMG blairs - what a story! Where was your parents' house then? It sounds amazing!
No, not married to anyone's ex as far as I know, Dovefromabove!
Your pots were on the front porch, you say... but were they inside saucers or straight on the ground?
Patsy: Its Latin name is:
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and I've seen it in many National Trust gardens in the summer and autumn - it seems to seed itself readily in the least likely places and looks beautiful.
Thanks for all the replies. Verdun - you suggest using them like any other container and putting crocks or gravel at the bottom, but would you put the whole thing in a border first or in a saucer? Otherwise the contents would spill out of the bottom if you move it.
I also like the temporary/seasonal planting ideas from Dovefromabove - I wish I was that organised though!
One of the pots isnt straight at the bottom too - bits seem to have broken off leaving a jagged irregular bottom to it so I will have to bury it a few inches into the soil in a border as it wouldn't support itself otherwise. Can't see a way of levelling the bottom edge easily.
Thanks, Patsy. So are the chimney pots on soil or concrete, and are you filling them with compost or just using a potted plant in them? I guess that if bulbs are planted we'd have to fill them with compost so we could plant the bulbs deeply enough?
I have one of those Mexican daisy plants which looks very pretty and frothy and I think that might work well planted into it.
So I have a couple of old terracotta type chimney pots - one over a couple of feet tall, the other 6 inches or so shorter. I'm not sure how to plant them up. Someone said to put a planted flower pot in the top, but surely that would dry out too soon? I want something a bit more permanent. Should I fill them with compost all the way up, in situ in a border, or inside a terracotta saucer on the patio? I like the idea of growing bulbs in them, and/or maybe a clematis. Any ideas?
Emma - cotton buds??? Really? That would take me well into the next century....and I'm 60 in August
Thanks, Jennifer. I deam of torching Neighbour's garden in the dead of night so the bracken problem might be solved at a stroke. Plus we might get some nice new neighbours afterwards.....
In case anyone from Special Branch is reading this, that was a JOKE. The torching is in my imagination ONLY. *sigh* but I fear they are not to be reasoned with.It's taken over 10 years for them to get round to having a horrible conifer removed which was draining our garden of light and moisture, and theirs too. A monster of a tree. They still have another they won't remove because it hides a hideous mess of invasive perennial weeds and detritus. Makes our garden look like Sissinghurst.....and I am no Vita Sackville-West!
I will try the tickling of the bracken with glyphosate, but it might well take me a while to pluck up courage to make a start. I don't want to affect any wildlife so that will take a lot of thinking about. Points taken about the rubber gloves - will take appropriate Elfin Safety precautions. Thank you!


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RALEIGH, July 19, 2012 - North Carolina's Inner Banks region typically serves as part of the passage for tourists looking to catch the overshadowing prime beach front properties famously known as the Outer Banks. For a long time I couldn't figure out just what that sticker every SUV, Jeep and van had that so proudly spelled "OBX" meant.
I could have just gotten closer to any of the cars to clear up any ambiguity, but perhaps it just wasn't that pertinent. The area gets enough acknowledgment as it is anyway.
But what about "IBX"? While it doesn't seem any drivers will adorn the back of their vehicles with the letters anytime soon, I find it to be a surprise. Between the plentiful refuges that host untouched wildlife, plus historian after archeologist flocking to towns like Edenton and Columbia to bask in the rich past, it comes as a surprise that the wide area is seldom discussed.
The reasons for wonder do not end there. The Inner Banks also hosts a small city of about 22,000 individuals (as of 2010) called Kinston. Among those individuals are Trent Mooring and Stephen Hill, the founders and owners of Mother Earth Brewery.
Founded only in 2008, the brewery has gone on to be one of the defining staples of Kinston pride, and one of the leading breweries of the North Carolina craft movement.
I must admit that I did not hear of Mother Earth, even being a craft beer geek for the past several years, until I moved to North Carolina just this past February from New York. My attention and curiosity towards their beers didn't take very long to develop, maybe because they are often in plain sight in any establishment that sells craft here in NC, or it could be because of their one-of-a-kind artwork, as you will see later on.
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A craft brewery as young as Mother Earth's would often lead one to assume that the people behind it have a lot to develop in their business and product before breaking into the market – even one that is intrastate. But learning about Mooring and Hill's devotion and passion for their Mother Earth, both their brewery and their natural surrounding, showed me that there is nothing left to be wondered about their lightning-fast growth.
In an email exchange that Mr. Mooring was kind enough to participate in with me, he told me that the brewery's quick success was a mixture of varying factors.
"I think a lot of things came together at the right time for us. Stephen and I are both extremely passionate about what we do and I think you see that in our brand."
Mooring goes on to bring up the "Tripod", which is made up of himself, Hill and Mother Earth's brewmaster Josh Brewer. It is between the three of them and the distinctive perspective that each provide that Mooring says allows the brand and the beer to be so connected to their consumer.
Of those consumers, the residents of Kinston were the first to be introduced to the efforts of the infant Mother Earth Brewing. The community – small in size but not in camaraderie – were quick to respond. When asked if Mooring was at all worried about trying to get started in such a small town, it doesn't seem to have ever crossed his mind.
"We were never worried about starting in Kinston. We both love the area and wanted to do something for our hometown. Our business plan has always been to be a production brewery so it never really mattered to us where the location was. But with a lot of creative effort and community support we are happy to be where we are just shy of 3 years in."
Beyond Kinston, Mother Earth beers can be found all around North Carolina and Atlanta, Georgia. The DC area is the next point of contact once some new kegs arrive within the same time frame. Be patient DC readers – these things take time.
The beers that Mother Earth brew year-round satisfy varying styles, including their Endless River, a Kölsch beer, a style that was once only brewed in Köln, Germany. Their Second Wind Pale Ale, one of their two canned beers (the other being Sunny Haze, a fine hefeweizen), comes with a refreshing character of citrus and pine hoppiness that I find myself rushing to more and more for.
Maybe it's because of the awesome can artwork, too,
For part two next week, I will be looking to the environmental efforts of Mother Earth that are turning plenty of heads, as well as the various experimentations that they have been doing from aging beer in pinot noir, chardonnay and brandy barrels, to fermenting with North Carolina fruits.
Mike Lamardo is a blogger and beer geek based out of Raleigh, North Carolina. He writes for various blogs covering subjects like tech, entertainment, critiques of society and music, science, and of course beer. His writing appears in Tech Wire News, DX 3, Indie Media Mag and others. You can get in touch with Mike at email@example.com. If you're in Raleigh, meet him for a pint.
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We asked child experts in Queens for their best advice on how to instill and cultivate self confidence in children.
Experts agree that self-confidence is one of the most important contributors to good mental health for any individual, and the earlier you instill this trait in your child, the better his chance of success in many areas of life.
In addition to setting a good example for your child, one of the keys to fostering self-confidence is to genuinely support your child's efforts-even if the outcome of those efforts is less than perfect. "If a child has worked hard, that should be acknowledged. That is what motivates children to keep trying," says Siobhan Powers Streams, director of Landmark of Ridgefield Academy in Westport, CT. It's important to keep in mind, though, that encouragement and flattery are two different things, and the latter can actually harm your child's self-confidence in the long run.
"I believe that encouragement, rather than praise, is most helpful in developing healthy self-esteem in children," Powers Streams says. "Praise is evaluative and teaches the child to seek the approval of others, while encouragement teaches the child to value herself and the efforts that she makes. As a parent, your goal is to help your child develop the confidence and sense of competence that will allow her to make good decisions and not need the approval of others."
Read on for more advice from local experts on how to instill and cultivate self-confidence in your child.
What is your best advice for raising self-confident children?
"One of the best ways to build a child's self-confidence is to give him real opportunities in which to succeed. Every single thing he does need not be identified as 'excellent,' 'the best,' or the same superlatives over and over again, but you should identify and compliment the task or skill at hand. Brushing teeth, washing hands, putting away a toy, being a good listener, jumping, eating, sharing, waiting, splashing, and singing are all examples of specific things that will build a child's self-confidence when pointed out to them as a job well done. Use different phrases; for example: 'Well done,' 'Good for you,' 'I'm so proud of you,' or 'Super.' You can also compliment your child through a positive gesture like a high-five, kiss, hug, or thumbs up.
Having your child participate with you in a class can also provide opportunities to build self-confidence in a space that's a little larger than his immediate world at home."
-Wendy DeAngelis, center director, Mommy, Music, & Me, Inc., with locations in Astoria, Bayside, Forest Hills, Middle Village, and Howard Beach
"'You can do it' are four simple words that can instill confidence in any child. Whenever a child doubts himself, always remind him that, whatever it is, he can do it. It might mean that he has to put in more effort, but he has the ability to accomplish the task with time and perseverance.
Also, don't think that your child can only do what you (the parent) can do, as your child may have a different set of skills or talents than you. If you were never able to write a poem but your child wants to write, don't discourage him. If you were never good in science, that doesn't mean your child will not do well in that subject. Don't assume. Listen to your child closely and respond accordingly. Remind your children that, with time and effort, they can do it, and they will."
-Vera Borukhov, director, Veracity Learning, Fresh Meadows
"Self-image is the single most important factor in the development of mentally healthy children. It also plays a large role in their achievements and interpersonal relationships. When they're very young, children's self-esteem depends on their perceptions-on how they are being judged and valued by the important adults in their lives. Young children are unlikely to have their self-esteem grow stronger from excessive praise or flattery; on the contrary, it may raise some doubts in children and subsequently cause them to mistrust that person. Young children are more likely to benefit from tasks and activities that offer a real challenge, and earn them real appreciation, rather than fun activities that are rewarded with superficial praise.
To help them establish healthy self-esteem, treat children with respect, ask their views and opinions, and give them meaningful and realistic feedback. You can also help your child develop and maintain healthy self-esteem by helping him cope with defeats rather than emphasizing constant successes.
As they grow older, children become increasingly sensitive to feedback from their peers. You can help your child maintain self-confidence during this difficult time by being supportive of her values, accepting her when others may not, and encouraging her to keep an open mind about experiences outside the home."
-Marina Doulova, MD, child & adolescent psychiatrist, director of ABC Psychiatric Services, Forest Hills
"Healthy self-confidence springs from our inner strength and physical/mental balance. A parent with a healthy self-confidence can coach a child to become aware of his strengths and talents as well as his weaknesses.
As parents, we can teach and transfer to our children only what we know and have accomplished. If we are preaching one thing while our lifestyle contradicts our words, our children will receive a confused message. Therefore, parents need to achieve a healthy lifestyle themselves, and teach their children by example how to be self-confident individuals."
-Denis Licul, president, Yoga in Daily Life-New York, Whitestone
"I am a firm believer that a child is a product of his or her environment. It is important to teach children to keep their heads held high while also being humble and respectful to themselves and others. Encourage them to be self-confident without being negative or condescending to others. We teach children from the very beginning, before ever throwing a kick or a punch, that respect, discipline, focus, and above all, self-confidence, are the reasons why they are here.
Positive reinforcement from parents is very important, but there are limits. While children should be encouraged to attain any and all goals they dream of, they should also be taught that these goals must be earned. Once accomplishing the task at hand, a child will feel better about themselves. This approach also ensures, for the parents, that their child has followed the rules and has earned his achievement without being 'spoiled.' At a young age a child learns the value of hard work and dedication. They will gain the self-confidence that they can do anything they put their mind, body, and spirit to.
These are essential values that we encourage parents to instill at home. A value such as self-confidence lasts with a child forever. Proper self-confidence will turn a child into a model citizen in a society that could sure use individuals of this nature."
-Master Joseph Lupo, Jr., owner, New York Black Belt Center, Whitestone
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Lots of Norwegian rolls recipes all over the web, they seem to be very popular which kind of made me curious so I grabbed the first one I found and I went baking. Surprisingly they did look and taste a bit like my Nutella Rolls but the ingredients are a bit different. To make a long story relatively short, they are amazing and the milk from the recipe really adds to the great texture and taste… and maybe this is why I made them two days in a row, to get it out of my system. It didn't work! Second time I made these little things I ran out of milk but I still wanted my rolls so I replaced it with… sour cream, about same quantity. You should definitely try them both, trust me.
Now the recipe; add yeast and sugar to a bowl of water (quantities in the recipe below) and give it 10-15 minutes to activate. In the meantime add flour, baking powder, salt, oil and milk to the bowl of your mixer. When yeast is frothy, pour it over the flour mixture and give it a serious swirl; dough should not stick to the bowl so adjust flour/water if needed. When everything looks well incorporated do a little bit of kneading then rub some oil and let it rise until doubled in size, 1-2 hours.
Time to create our rolls, divide the dough in two and roll each piece into a circle as thin as possible but don't over do it. Cut your circle in eight triangular pieces, like you do with a pizza and starting from the long side, roll the dough into a crescent shape. Place your crescents on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper with the tip of the crescent beneath the whole thing because it tends to go up and burn, giving you a weird roll shape… same thing happened to me because I'm a nub though second batch was perfect. Let them rise for another 30 minutes then brush with egg wash and sprinkle some poppy seeds. Bake for 15-20 or until golden brown; I like mine a bit more crusty.
What can I say at this point, delicious and this recipe is definitely something that I will keep baking. Enjoy!
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- 2¼ tsp dry yeast (or 50g fresh as I read on some recipes)
- 6.7oz (200ml) lukewarm water
- 6.7oz (200ml) milk or sour cream
- 4 tbsp vegetable oil
- 2 tsp sugar
- 6½ cups (600g) flour, all purpose
- 1½ tsp salt
- ¼ tsp baking powder
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BOSTON — The All-Star break presents a convenient opportunity to look back on the first half of the season and evaluate.
We know that past behavior — especially immediate past behavior within a small sample — isn't always indicative of future results. The Red Sox sure hope that's the case in 2012, as they're counting on several players to reverse course from the first half.
So let's look forward, with an eye on whose seasons have been, to this point, a little misleading, and what to expect from them in the second half.
Jon Lester will be better.
Saying this about several Red Sox is apt to elicit a snarky, "Well sure; he can't get any worse" response. (A reasonable rebuttal to this would be: "See Tim Lincecum.") But of all the Red Sox starters this season, Lester's performance has been the most out-of-line with his track record. Clay Buchholz has had bad stretches and Josh Beckett bad seasons, but Lester has been as consistent a starter in the American League as imaginable over the past several years — his ERA residing within a slim range of a quarter of a run.
Lester admitted in spring that in 2011 his stuff didn't feel as crisp as it had in prior years. He was often able to, in the pitcher's parlance, grind through it to deliver strong — though not Cy Young — numbers. The stuff is similar this year; Lester's just not grinding through it as well.
How do we quantify that? The key statistic is strand rate, or left-on-base percentage, which essentially measures a pitcher's ability to prevent baserunners from scoring. The league average strand rate is typically around 72 percent, and until this season Lester had been well above that mark. Last year his strand rate was 78.1 percent — seventh-best among A.L. starters. This year, though, it's plummeted to 66.9 percent — in a neat reciprocation, that's seventh-worst among A.L. starters.
This means Lester isn't doing as well when pitching out of the stretch. Coming into the year opponents hit .243 off Lester while he was working out of the stretch; this season that number is .271, with a slugging percentage 100 points higher than his career mark.
Improvement in the second half comes down to Lester recording those three or four crucial outs that have kept him from being the pitcher Red Sox fans had come to rely upon. While his strikeout rate is down, that's offset by a marked improvement in his walk rate. Lester has been saying for six weeks that he feels close to returning to form. He's right.
Incidentally, Beckett has suffered a similar decline in strand rate from last year to this one. However, he hasn't had the same consistent track record in that area as Lester has, so improvement from him doesn't come across as inevitable.
Matt Albers will be worse.
It's tempting to view the entire Red Sox bullpen as relying on one-half smoke and the other half mirrors, having received standout seasons from the likes of Vicente Padilla, Andrew Miller and Scott Atchison. But it's the man who struggled after the break last season who appears most in line for a regression.
Albers' ERA at the break this season is even better than it was last year (2.38 v. 2.55). It hasn't seemed that way, largely because the right-hander hasn't been used in as many high-leverage spots in 2012 and he's tended to give up home runs whenever he has.
But whereas Albers' statistics through the end of last July subtly hinted at a potential decline, the numbers this year elbow you sharply in the ribs while yelling, "Watch out!"
One of the keys behind Albers' 2011 was a jump in the right-hander's strikeout rate, from a career average of 5.84 per nine innings all the way up to 9.46. This season he's striking out only 5.29 batters per nine innings. How's he getting by? An unsustainably low opposing batting average on balls in play. The league average (and Albers' career mark) on balls in play sits around .300; for Albers thus far this season it's only .219. That number is bound to go up, and therefore so will Albers' ERA.
David Ortiz will be just as good.
There's nothing about Ortiz's sensational first half that implies overreach. His batting average on balls in play is a reasonable .306. Just under 20 percent of his fly balls are home runs — a number pretty much in line with his career average. (Ortiz has more home runs this year than last year mainly because he's hitting more fly balls and fewer grounders.)
Perhaps the best news about Ortiz's first half is the continued diminishment of his strikeout rate. In 2010 Ortiz struck out 23.9 percent of the time. He dropped that number to 13.7 percent last year, and it's down again, to 13.0, in 2012. He has more walks than strikeouts at the break — something he hasn't done in a full season since 2007.
In 2009 Ortiz was dropped to seventh in the order for two games. Through half of 2012, he's been Boston's third-place hitter more than anyone else, and rightfully so.
Will Middlebrooks will be worked away.
During his two-plus months in the majors, Middlebrooks has made one thing abundantly clear to American League pitchers: He owns the inside part of the plate. According to Baseball Prospectus, the third baseman is slugging over 1.000 on pitches on the inner third of the plate. The outer third? Not so much, as he's slugging .548 there.
Additionally, down and away is where Middlebrooks has gotten himself out. He's started to see a whole lot of two-strike sliders away, and he hasn't been able to lay off them consistently. Middlebrooks has swung and missed 51 times this season — just over half of them (26) have been on pitches down and away. Only one of his home runs — the most recent one, on Hector Noesi's hanging slider on June 29 — has come on a pitch down and away. Until he makes the adjustment, that's where he'll be worked.
Don't count on the fill-ins much longer.
The Red Sox have gotten to the All-Star break at .500 in spite of an ugly spate of injuries because of the contributions from unexpected sources. Daniel Nava and Scott Podsednik — the former wasn't in big-league camp, the latter was barely hitting .200 in the minors when Boston traded for him — combined to hit .305 with a .393 on-base percentage in 71 games.
But Nava and Podsednik benefitted from some luck, revealed in their high batting averages on balls in play. Podsednik hit .434 on balls in play during his limited time with the Sox in the first half. Even with his speed, his lifetime average on balls in play is .324; it doesn't take a genius to expect Podsednik to come back to earth when he returns to Boston.
Nava has already felt that regression. On June 24, he was batting .339 with a .404 average on balls in play. Since then, he's hitting .132 with a .143 average on balls in play. He is neither as good as he was for the first six weeks or as bad as he's been in the last two, and his patient plate approach may continue to make Nava a valuable part of the lineup if injuries keep haunting the Boston outfield. Just don't expect him to be the player he was in May and June.
Teams will try to steal more bases.
The first month of the season is typically anomalous regarding stolen bases. Players who don't typically steal bases get the urge to add that element to their game. Pitchers out of spring training are more apt to focus on preventing the stolen base. This April the Red Sox allowed only eight stolen bases. Opponents have swiped 55 bags since, and they've been caught only 13 times by Boston's catchers all year.
In the last month, there have been six games in which Red Sox opponents have stolen at least three bases.
Predictably, Beckett and Daisuke Matsuzaka have been the culprits on the mound, allowing 12 and six stolen bases, respectively — without a caught stealing between them. Expect teams to continue to exploit this weakness.


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What can possibly stop this "mistress of all evil"? What might even have the power to redeem her? Could it be ... love?
As entertaining and well-performed as Maleficent is, it remains a story about good and evil. Filled with ornately gothic, often-nightmarish imagery, it's the sort of stuff that could scare younger children long after the credits roll. But for those who aren't quite as impressionable, Maleficent manages to inject new life into a familiar tale.
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Taekwondo champion Jade Jones hopes for Rio double
Welsh taekwondo gold medallist Jade Jones says she definitely wants to compete at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, where she hopes to triumph again.
Jones, 19, made history at the ExCeL on Thursday by becoming Britain's first Olympic taekwondo champion.
Jade Jones Olympic gold medal winner"Going into the last round I thought, 'two minutes and I'm Olympic champion'."
"It's amazing to only be 19 and be an Olympic champion already in my first Olympics," Jones told BBC Wales Today.
"So I'm definitely going for Rio and hopefully I can make it a double."
Jones had earlier described winning gold as "bonkers" and praised the role of her grandfather - who helped in her success.
The Flint fighter beat world champion Yuzhuo Hou 6-4 to take the title.
"It's just bonkers and singing that anthem standing there with everyone clapping and cheering, it's just amazing," said Jones.
"It was just the best feeling, you can't describe that feeling."
Jones becomes her country's youngest gold medallist and the youngest Great Britain gold medallist at the 2012 Olympics.
After a cagey opening round of the -57kg final, Jones took control in the second before easing to victory and securing Team GB's 25th gold medal at London 2012.
She earlier beat Serbia's Dragana Gladovic on her Olympic debut before overcoming Japan's Mayu Hamada in the quarter-finals and Chinese Taipei top seed Li-Cheng Tseng in the semi-finals.
Her win in the final means she also avenged the 2011 World Championship defeat to Yuzhuo Hou.
"I've had fights before where the last second you can get a head shot, so I just had to stay focused the whole round," said Jones.
"Going into the last round, I thought, 'two minutes and I'm Olympic champion'. I knew that she could get me back so I had to stay focused."
Wales have now equalled their 2008 Beijing success of three gold medals, with rower Tom James and cyclist Geraint Thomas also tasting success.
Jones has become only the third Welsh woman to win Olympic gold, following Nicole Cooke in Beijing in 2008 and Irene Steer in 1912.
Jones was quick to pay tribute to her grandfather Martin Foulkes, who helped her development into an Olympic champion.
"My grandad's amazing," said Jones, who first became interested in taekwondo when she was just eight-years-old.
"He took me to training in Manchester four times a week, drove me all over the country.
"Obviously he was tired because he came straight from work and then drove me all the way there. So without him, I would not be here today."
Meanwhile, messages of congratulation have poured in for Jones following her stunning victory on day 13 of the Games.
Royal Mail has printed a stamp with her on it and will paint a post box gold in Flint, where hundreds of friends and family gathered in the town social club to cheer her victory.
Her father, Gary, said: "I am so happy. I was so scared and so nervous."
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10th August 2012 - 22:09congratulations to Jade. A remarkable young woman.
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10th August 2012 - 19:59I was lucky enough to have tickets to see Jade fight in the 1/4s and semis. She was brilliant and I look forward to cheering her on in 2016. She was a lot younger than her opponents and will just get better!
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10th August 2012 - 16:52Well done Jade!! I have family in Sychdyn. The whole area will be so proud of you!!
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10th August 2012 - 14:43Delighted for Jade and because she is so young and wants to go on to Rio she will have the thrill of being introduced as Olympic champion before every fight over the next 4 years and that should bolster her confidence. Go for it Jade
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NBC NATIONAL NEWS — With New Hampshire's primary just days away, frontrunner Mitt Romney is splitting his time between there and South Carolina, and getting slammed for it by his opponents.
All the candidates realize South Carolina's a huge prize for conservatives, but New Hampshire is first, and the frontrunner are taking heat for courting both.
Mitt Romney starts the day in South Carolina after picking up endorsements from the state's governor and senator john McCain.
On a campaign stop, Romney slammed President Obama for making appointments without Senate confirmation. "Instead of free enterprise choosing the winners and losers, instead the government, and particularly the people in power, will choose the people they want to give special favors to," said Mitt Romney, (R) Presidential Candidate.
The Boston Globe endorsed Jon Huntsman, calling him "best prepared."
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Breakfast Topic: PvP in Patch 1.12
However, what about the rest of you - are the changes to the system encouraging you to spend more time in the battlegrounds, or driving you away?
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I and many like me are hoping for a cumulative honor system. On my server, there are ZERO alli PvP guilds, but we have two dominating Horde Guilds. The problem is it's impossible to get past rank 11 or 12, unless you do it "their way." The next one up for HW sets the weekly cap, and if you break it, they make life and rank gain impossible for you, and everyone else. My wife got 150k honor and lost 40% of rank 7 one week. They say their systsem allows for more High Warlords, yet their's is the only guild who ever gets it anymore.
The rewards are cool, but the drama when one guild has it locked down is unbearable. The threats and server wide fallout is not too fun either. I hope this opens some possibilities. I just wish I'd been able to get exalted with AB way back. Noone plays AB:(
Well I quit not too long ago. But it might make me give them a try again when i come back after the expansion launches.
I never actually got into a battleground in the past, as on my server every time i tried to join I had to log off before the battleground ever actually started.
Maybe this change will add more players and games will actually begin before you have to log off.
Honestly I welcome the new changes. There have been so many times I've gotten into a BG, after waiting hours and hours, and some of the high ranked a-hole's have decided that they don't want to group up in order to share the HK and honor. It'll be nice to be auto-grouped and even nicer to not have to wait forever.
I can't wait.
As a healer, I'm looking forward to the auto raid. I cannot recall how many times the small private party of Rank 11+ characters would ask for healing when we got to Drek in AV. This will simply make the overall run a bit more fair in the honor department for everyone who contributes to the run.
However, the changes to AV in 1.11 (or the influx of summertime players) has driven me away from it for the time being. I used to enjoy grand battles, not whatever the current state of AV is called.
I habve read comments about a serious imbalance in the BGs Horde way overpowering Alliance and all. but until yesterday had not seen it.
I have characters from both Alliance and Horde (on different servers) and yesterday I went into Warsong for the first time on a PVP server.
I was partied with a friend of mine that I had finally convinced to try the BG and OMG the wait. 45 minutes!!
I had never experienced anything like it. then when we got it... it was a massacre. there were 5 Alliance lvl 20-23 and 12 Horde the only ones I saw were lvl 27 and higher. One Horde Mage (lvl 29) camped the graveyard and it was all over in about 10 minutes.
I really hope that the cross server BG (not to mention class adjustments coming) will help to balance the power.
I have played both sides of the "Horde/Alliance" fence in Battlegrounds that were balanced. They were long fights that were often give and take over who was leading the day. AND very fun!
I'm not PvPing in the battlegrounds until there's a stock-gear BG. I'm so goddamned tired of talentless twinks in every level of the BG system, seeing level 19s dual-wielding crusader-enchanted blues and such. If it's really about skill, add a battleground where everyone's in similar, uniform gear.
obo, I don't expect to see you in BGs ever.
Yeah, equipment is important. Yes, people abuse this fact. Unfortunately, equipment is one of the main points of customization for a character. If you're playing with someone else's pre-selected equipment, why not pre-rendered characters? I can just pick up a lvl 19 undead rogue, assign a few talent points and go to town. Would a game like that be fair and fun? Surely. Would it give you a chance to show off all items, potions, etc. you've collected in your hundreds of hours of gameplay? Nope...and that's really what MMOs are all about. What you're asking for is more likely to be released as a twist on an FPS rather than a feature in an MMORPG.
I dont join raids in AV cause im not sharing my HK's. You cry about it but what the F**k did you do to earn that kill? Nothing most likely.
Im a rogue. I dont like to share my HK's because #1 im in the back of the enemy clusters...out of range of any support from healers or ranged people to assist. #2 I earned that kill I snuck in...I took him out NOT YOU.
Go buy some skill and earn your own Nub.
People like Cava need to stick to Diablo...It's an MMO for a reason, there's PEOPLE in the game and it's supposed to be a social environment. If you don't play as a team, you ALL die as a team, not just the guy who allegedly gets the most HKs. I look forward to the battleground changes b/c I hope it'll tone the queue time down a little and autogrouping is nice idea for healers and dps players who want to keep track of their teammates.
It's just a game. If someone "steals" your HKs, so what?
@Cava ... lovely ;)
I think you didn't really understand the point in the game didn't you?
As playing a Rogue myself, I know what you can do and what not. And killing Priests of the Main Zerg is simply not possible if there is no Suppport from your Zerg to keep them busy. If you go out all alone, the only thing you'll find are some lonely ppl who are of no importance to the battle. They may join their fellow comrades in battle, but killing them just took you 20 seconds of precious time you should better have spent in the back of the enemy, supporting your group by taking out / immobilizing healers so they can achieve an objective, not one damn single HK you got when you killed that one lonely guy who was running around.
Ever thought about the contribution of the BG win-honor bonus? You can't win a BG alone, others do that for you while you are running around thinking of how great a rogue you are while you simply don't contribute to anything cause you are going after ppl far away from zergs (If it is like you said, that nobody from the Zerg ever contributes to your kill) .. Would love to see you take down the flag bearer while 9 other ppl beat the shit out of you, FN, HS, FF, HM .. you're damn done as a rogue as long as there is no group that contributes to your kills by distracting the enemy!
greetings Tig
Cava is exactly the type of BG player that absolutely pisses off most BG players. You know those types, the one who just goes out and do things on and not help the team to the what the goal is of the BG: TO WIN!!!
I absolutely hate folks like that who just go into the BG to farm HK. I guess these n00bs don't know that you get a lot more honor points when your team actually wins.
cheers Tig! as a frontline holy specced priest trudging forward with the rest of the melee troops it's totally refreshing to see that the support soldiers are appreciated, albeit implied. i don't kill, i preserve the ranks. currently, i play bg's to maintain and build on my healing skills but realize that i'm only helping others gain honor and rank. with this new patch, at least i know i'll be rewarded for helping a comrade move up the ladder and hopefully winning a bg.
as for post #9, your welcome. i'm more than glad to know that by helping to prolong the zerg, i was helping you get your precious HKs. after patch 1.12 goes live, i'll thank you for the honor in return.
@ obo -
I think that's a great idea. My friends and I have talked about it before, and once cross-server battlegrounds are implemented it could work. Actually, it might be cool for one or two of the expansion BGs based on "historic" battles.. Southshore vs. Tarren Mill, with stylized sets for each side to pick from.
I'd be surprised if we ever saw a stock gear BG where every class had a few predetermined outfits, but the matching system in 1.12 will hopefully limit the number of times a normal player will come across the twink losers on a given weekend anyway. Not to mention the improvements we'll see from Blizz limiting Join as Group.
Yep your pissed off cause im getting 200 hk to 250 hk a kill. If done by myself ofcourse.
Ive ran raid and ran without and went as far as looking at my averages with raid and 1 hour in av and without raid another day and 1 hour of av.
I came out with MORE hk being outside the raid. Ofcourse I have to bust my ass to get it. WHich means crawling to the back line and to be totally on my own stabing healers and mages.
Hate it all you want. I dont believe I should have to share a damn thing you DIDNT help me with.
Stop putting words in my mouth first of all. Im not sitting here boasting im the greatest rogue in the world. So stuff it.
I dont go after straglers far from the main zerg (as you ASSume) I do very well thank you in the pack of alliance. Ill get in dead center and drop a priest. Before the others figure out wtf is going on ..priests dead but so am I...but I gotem.
And this patter I do Very often. Im in the thick of it...or in the back of the zerg pack vs front line.
Back of zerg pack isnt fricking 2 miles away going after afkers at GY or flags. Stop being so foolish.
There are exceptions out there and Im absolutely sure im one of them who do farm Hk much better without sharing it with 39 other folks.
I contribute as much as the next guy grouped or not. Im doing my Job as a rogue...assasination of squishys in the zergs. Killing a healer shuts down the MS spec arcanite reaper boy on the front line mowing down our boys.
Tell me exactly how the raid helps me when im nowhere near getting a heal or support 99% of the time? You cant heal me im behind the pack or in the center of it....how are you gona support nuke ...moving in any further makes you a target for 20 hunters (exageration more like 6).
You guys are great at being smart asses but sure cant see that Grouping doesnt work for every person.
And dont give me that teamwork crap...AV is mostly follow the herd like stupid sheep and kill whats red...this isnt WSG or AB where you teamwork is critical and can turn the tides in seconds.
Fyi im not the best rogue. But I always rank in top 5 killers in AV for horde. SO I am doing something right. And doing my damn job as a rogue. Nubs
@nubs in here
Maybe you need to consider there is other BG's ...you guys are bitching about WSG soloers ....Im not supporting them at all.
Maybe if you take your own smart ass advise you keep giving me and read thoroughly im talking about "Raid" which means 40 man bg's not this 10 man crap.
I fully completely and etirely agree things like WSG and AB must have grouping period...teamwork there is more likely plausible and possible and is critical to the win. Where is our disagreement?
My fricking problem is with the blanket change that forces me to be in the stupid ALTERAC party....There is a huge difference in AV vs WSG. In AV im bitching about being forced to share HK's with 39 mindless sheep.
That is my issue. Being forced to take 30hk that I did all the work on vs getting the full 200-250hk for the kill in ALTERAC ...the arguement im having is about ALTERAC...NOT WSG ....is that clear yet? or do i need to spam this column with preschool terminology so you can comprehend?
If you wanted to be taken seriously Cava, i'd stop calling people nubs. It was an insult getting old 10 years ago... only children and losers still use it.
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