Struggle... Defeat ...... Success! 7 Virgins?
Okay Okay, I couldn't wait to post this but I had to. And I apologize right away if I offend anyone who read the title and may be of a religion who relates to it. I don't mean it that way but it was done as a favor to my druid, Germla.
So lets cut to the chase. My first blog spoke of my season 3 experience so far, and had a shining light at the end of the post regarding Germla (he's the druid I speak highly of) coming back to help me make 1 last run at 2k before he goes on his business trip. Well, if you didn't bother to read the comments below that blog, it didn't happen. Our schedules conflicted and we weren't able to get anymore games in, 1854 was the best we got, and although disappointed, I was happy with our results and just figured it was bad luck. Time to move on.
Fast forward a week (this past weekend to be exact), and low and behold, Germla sign's on during the weekend. He brought his laptop with him, and was playing from a hotel room! Connection proved to be stable enough in the evening and it was time to rock and roll.
The Struggle
I'd like to now take a moment to discuss the outright annoyance (not necessarily a flaw) of the new arena rating system. Averaging my personal rating with his personal rating to determine who we played was to say the least very very very annoying. We'd play games, and some were outright simple because we outgeared and outskilled a lot of the teams due to the bracket we were being stuck with. I apologize to any teams that we beat along the way probably screaming "*$*#ing rerolls!" but I assure you that we weren't rerolling, Germla spreads out his love amongst many of his friends and we merely didn't have the personal rating for him. But here comes the annoying part. We'd average about 5-6 points a game. At first it was 1 or 2 points, then as Germla's rating caught up we started getting 3-4 and 5-6. Towards the end of it, nearing the 2k homestretch, we were getting a whopping 9-10. Big ups! What this meant was that we had to play over 50 matches this weekend (61 to be exact) to get from 1854 to 2004. And in the event that one of us lagged, dropped, or just plain made a mistake, we'd lose 20+ points which means 5-10 more matches per loss. It was a very VERY tense situation.
So friday night, we play 16 matches before his sales partner complains about the late night gaming and we do well, 14-2. We break 1900 and call it a night, nothing too eventful, but we're getting into the groove of playing with no mic for him. We were already having our odds stacked against us. Not to mention I'm using swords instead of maces, we knew our work was gonna be a long hard drive.
Saturday we continue the frenzy and we play 40+ matches continuously. We win a ton, and lose rarely until we're nearly at 2k. There were plenty of ups and downs, including 1 very VERY hard fought game between a boomkin/survival hunter who gave us a hard run for our money, and we knew that we couldn't afford to lose due to the negative impact it'd have on our ratings. Well, about 40 minutes after it began, we became triumphant and we won our 5 points from them. -_-' But through time we eventually got to where we sought out to be.
The Defeat
2001 team rating. We had finally reached it but somewhere along the way in our 40-50ish matches that weekend, my personal rating dropped 5 points below the team rating. 1996... It stared me in the face almost taunting me. Goddamnit, "Germla queue again, my rating is off, we need 1 more decent win". So we queue. And although tough fought, I die to a full s3 mace warrior/druid team and we lose 24 points. Holy son of a bitch I say to Germla on vent (who is listening just can't talk). He says meh, minor setback, lets go again. We queue again, double stealth, trouble. We stick close, hoping to pop the rogue out on me and Germla can destealth him and we unload. Instead of the rogue being popped out, the mage manages to sneak up into los with us, frost nova the two of us, rogue opens up on germla, and although I blow cooldowns, fears, disarms, it's not enough, they down germla in about 35 seconds and we lose again. 26 points lossed. We're back down to 1951 team rating and my personal rating is at 1947 (strangely losing 2 brought my personal closer to my team. heh). Man I was screaming obscenities into the night. I was furious, to be so close and have it robbed from us. It REALLY REALLY ticked me off and I was starting to show it when we requeued and I started making mistakes, but luckily not game breaking ones. I calm myself down and start apologizing to Germla for not playing better. He had sworn off playing with warriors due to the time and sweat it took to win in most matches, and me being swords meant I lacked the cc, and instead had burst... something our makeup wasn't built for. And he said probably the nicest thing to me that I'd ever heard from someone I respected as much as him. He told me I was the most underrated warrior on the server. Comparing me to what is considered the pvp warriors of upper echelon, he said I was on par with them, and that I should not apologize for what I did, I tried my best, and there wasn't much we could do against those matches. We just gotta stick it through and play it smart. It was inspiring to say the least, up until now I had played ours 2 simply believing, I was being carried (which I am still believing to be true) entirely by Germla, but his little 2 sentence tell to me just made me feel better about myself as a player. I didn't suck. Not only did I not suck, I was decent? I think this was the turning point for me. We said 2k or bust tonight and we were gonna do it.
Success
Well, it didn't come easy, we fought a lot of tough teams, and continued to work our way with 5-6 point games to get to 1991 personal rating for me (1995 team). Game number 60: queue, join. double stealth on Ruins of Lordaeron. Crap, no where to run or hide, this isn't good. Engage, differen't rogue/mage team than before but trouble nonetheless. I pop sweeping strikes, whirlwind, mortal strike, whatever it takes since I know they aren't targetting me. I get rogue to near death and mage somehow got hit by my whirlwinds enough to be around 65% health, but Germla falls. Goddamnit not again. But something clicked inside, I was poly'd to full health, and I knew I could win this. 2v1 I didn't care. I had to do it, for Germla, for us.
I intercept the rogue, mortal strike, 5% health left, execute! absorb. damn, cheat death, he vanishes, and i get frost nova'd by the mage. Not good, rogue disappears to bandage, and I turn to the mage. I know hurt is coming but he has no pet, he blew both to kill germla. I had a chance. I run around a pillar, and the mage chases foolishly, I catch him with a piercing howl, and although i'm slowed, I walk to him and catch him. I proceed the beat down. he blinks, I have intercept up, he's mine. I intercept, stun, beat down. Ice block. But he already blew his shatter, no 2nd ice block, i just had to wait it out, i bandage. He breaks out, i piercing howl again. he blinks again, i intercept again. white hit, sword proc, crit/crit dead mage. And i'm still at 90% health. Where's that damn rogue. I find him trying to bandage a second time, big mistake. He's out of stealth, I charge him, rend him (no more vanishing buddy!) and hamstring him. I proceed the beatdown, and his cheatdeath is already down. This is mine. he blinds, i trinket, i switch to zerker to intercept, beat down, 5% he gouges, i break with zerker rage. execute, Death. YES!!!!! 8 points... are you serious? 8 f'ing points? 1999 personal rating, 2003 team rating. wth. But after that win, we were unstoppable. We requeue, and by some freak malfunction of the arena system, we get queued against a super low rated team, and we beat them, rogue/druid, tough but nothing we hadn't beaten before. we win. 1 point gained. That's all I wanted. screw it. I'll take it.
2001 Personal rating, 2004 team rating.
The other stuff
We fly to Nagrand Arena to buy my shoulders, and as we're flying, i'm dancing, hyper, joyous about our final accomplishment, I tell Germla I <3 him numerous times on vent, and he replies with, look at the time, and the number of games, I think my <3 for you is apparent. heh, nuff said. And I tell him that I'd probably blog about this and he DEMANDS, that I mention this exact statement:
Germla says: I want 7 virgins.
I'm not sure why he wants them, but if I had the power, I'd give it to him. The bastard made me happier in my WoW career than anyone else. There's no doubt that he's the best pvp druid on our server. I mean he got ME my shoulders. 1 Side vent, non-maces, it was just not ideal by any means, but we pulled it off. This was a huge accomplishment for me, and I hope it's not the last. Season 4 is around the corner, and whenever Germla is at a hotel with a decent connection, you better believe that we're gonna be tearing new assholes into people.
[item]Vengeful Gladiator's Plate Shoulders[/item] are finally mine.. and amazingly huge on orcs btw. Which I love ;D
This blog goes out to Germla. You're the best man. Thanks for giving me a piece of WoW that I couldn't have gotten without you.
So lets cut to the chase. My first blog spoke of my season 3 experience so far, and had a shining light at the end of the post regarding Germla (he's the druid I speak highly of) coming back to help me make 1 last run at 2k before he goes on his business trip. Well, if you didn't bother to read the comments below that blog, it didn't happen. Our schedules conflicted and we weren't able to get anymore games in, 1854 was the best we got, and although disappointed, I was happy with our results and just figured it was bad luck. Time to move on.
Fast forward a week (this past weekend to be exact), and low and behold, Germla sign's on during the weekend. He brought his laptop with him, and was playing from a hotel room! Connection proved to be stable enough in the evening and it was time to rock and roll.
The Struggle
I'd like to now take a moment to discuss the outright annoyance (not necessarily a flaw) of the new arena rating system. Averaging my personal rating with his personal rating to determine who we played was to say the least very very very annoying. We'd play games, and some were outright simple because we outgeared and outskilled a lot of the teams due to the bracket we were being stuck with. I apologize to any teams that we beat along the way probably screaming "*$*#ing rerolls!" but I assure you that we weren't rerolling, Germla spreads out his love amongst many of his friends and we merely didn't have the personal rating for him. But here comes the annoying part. We'd average about 5-6 points a game. At first it was 1 or 2 points, then as Germla's rating caught up we started getting 3-4 and 5-6. Towards the end of it, nearing the 2k homestretch, we were getting a whopping 9-10. Big ups! What this meant was that we had to play over 50 matches this weekend (61 to be exact) to get from 1854 to 2004. And in the event that one of us lagged, dropped, or just plain made a mistake, we'd lose 20+ points which means 5-10 more matches per loss. It was a very VERY tense situation.
So friday night, we play 16 matches before his sales partner complains about the late night gaming and we do well, 14-2. We break 1900 and call it a night, nothing too eventful, but we're getting into the groove of playing with no mic for him. We were already having our odds stacked against us. Not to mention I'm using swords instead of maces, we knew our work was gonna be a long hard drive.
Saturday we continue the frenzy and we play 40+ matches continuously. We win a ton, and lose rarely until we're nearly at 2k. There were plenty of ups and downs, including 1 very VERY hard fought game between a boomkin/survival hunter who gave us a hard run for our money, and we knew that we couldn't afford to lose due to the negative impact it'd have on our ratings. Well, about 40 minutes after it began, we became triumphant and we won our 5 points from them. -_-' But through time we eventually got to where we sought out to be.
The Defeat
2001 team rating. We had finally reached it but somewhere along the way in our 40-50ish matches that weekend, my personal rating dropped 5 points below the team rating. 1996... It stared me in the face almost taunting me. Goddamnit, "Germla queue again, my rating is off, we need 1 more decent win". So we queue. And although tough fought, I die to a full s3 mace warrior/druid team and we lose 24 points. Holy son of a bitch I say to Germla on vent (who is listening just can't talk). He says meh, minor setback, lets go again. We queue again, double stealth, trouble. We stick close, hoping to pop the rogue out on me and Germla can destealth him and we unload. Instead of the rogue being popped out, the mage manages to sneak up into los with us, frost nova the two of us, rogue opens up on germla, and although I blow cooldowns, fears, disarms, it's not enough, they down germla in about 35 seconds and we lose again. 26 points lossed. We're back down to 1951 team rating and my personal rating is at 1947 (strangely losing 2 brought my personal closer to my team. heh). Man I was screaming obscenities into the night. I was furious, to be so close and have it robbed from us. It REALLY REALLY ticked me off and I was starting to show it when we requeued and I started making mistakes, but luckily not game breaking ones. I calm myself down and start apologizing to Germla for not playing better. He had sworn off playing with warriors due to the time and sweat it took to win in most matches, and me being swords meant I lacked the cc, and instead had burst... something our makeup wasn't built for. And he said probably the nicest thing to me that I'd ever heard from someone I respected as much as him. He told me I was the most underrated warrior on the server. Comparing me to what is considered the pvp warriors of upper echelon, he said I was on par with them, and that I should not apologize for what I did, I tried my best, and there wasn't much we could do against those matches. We just gotta stick it through and play it smart. It was inspiring to say the least, up until now I had played ours 2 simply believing, I was being carried (which I am still believing to be true) entirely by Germla, but his little 2 sentence tell to me just made me feel better about myself as a player. I didn't suck. Not only did I not suck, I was decent? I think this was the turning point for me. We said 2k or bust tonight and we were gonna do it.
Success
Well, it didn't come easy, we fought a lot of tough teams, and continued to work our way with 5-6 point games to get to 1991 personal rating for me (1995 team). Game number 60: queue, join. double stealth on Ruins of Lordaeron. Crap, no where to run or hide, this isn't good. Engage, differen't rogue/mage team than before but trouble nonetheless. I pop sweeping strikes, whirlwind, mortal strike, whatever it takes since I know they aren't targetting me. I get rogue to near death and mage somehow got hit by my whirlwinds enough to be around 65% health, but Germla falls. Goddamnit not again. But something clicked inside, I was poly'd to full health, and I knew I could win this. 2v1 I didn't care. I had to do it, for Germla, for us.
I intercept the rogue, mortal strike, 5% health left, execute! absorb. damn, cheat death, he vanishes, and i get frost nova'd by the mage. Not good, rogue disappears to bandage, and I turn to the mage. I know hurt is coming but he has no pet, he blew both to kill germla. I had a chance. I run around a pillar, and the mage chases foolishly, I catch him with a piercing howl, and although i'm slowed, I walk to him and catch him. I proceed the beat down. he blinks, I have intercept up, he's mine. I intercept, stun, beat down. Ice block. But he already blew his shatter, no 2nd ice block, i just had to wait it out, i bandage. He breaks out, i piercing howl again. he blinks again, i intercept again. white hit, sword proc, crit/crit dead mage. And i'm still at 90% health. Where's that damn rogue. I find him trying to bandage a second time, big mistake. He's out of stealth, I charge him, rend him (no more vanishing buddy!) and hamstring him. I proceed the beatdown, and his cheatdeath is already down. This is mine. he blinds, i trinket, i switch to zerker to intercept, beat down, 5% he gouges, i break with zerker rage. execute, Death. YES!!!!! 8 points... are you serious? 8 f'ing points? 1999 personal rating, 2003 team rating. wth. But after that win, we were unstoppable. We requeue, and by some freak malfunction of the arena system, we get queued against a super low rated team, and we beat them, rogue/druid, tough but nothing we hadn't beaten before. we win. 1 point gained. That's all I wanted. screw it. I'll take it.
2001 Personal rating, 2004 team rating.
The other stuff
We fly to Nagrand Arena to buy my shoulders, and as we're flying, i'm dancing, hyper, joyous about our final accomplishment, I tell Germla I <3 him numerous times on vent, and he replies with, look at the time, and the number of games, I think my <3 for you is apparent. heh, nuff said. And I tell him that I'd probably blog about this and he DEMANDS, that I mention this exact statement:
Germla says: I want 7 virgins.
I'm not sure why he wants them, but if I had the power, I'd give it to him. The bastard made me happier in my WoW career than anyone else. There's no doubt that he's the best pvp druid on our server. I mean he got ME my shoulders. 1 Side vent, non-maces, it was just not ideal by any means, but we pulled it off. This was a huge accomplishment for me, and I hope it's not the last. Season 4 is around the corner, and whenever Germla is at a hotel with a decent connection, you better believe that we're gonna be tearing new assholes into people.
[item]Vengeful Gladiator's Plate Shoulders[/item] are finally mine.. and amazingly huge on orcs btw. Which I love ;D
This blog goes out to Germla. You're the best man. Thanks for giving me a piece of WoW that I couldn't have gotten without you.
Total Comments 9
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Grats dude. Sounds like you had a lot of fun.
Also: Gogo Epic gems, imo.
Posted 06-02-2008 at 02:02 PM by Klimpen 
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lol, i just got my badge ring, i have like. 2 badges, as soon as I can get more badges, I'll start outfitting the shoulders with epic gems of course =PPosted 06-02-2008 at 02:30 PM by Kazeyonoma -
Gratz Kazey! update your avatar to show off your new shoulders!Posted 06-02-2008 at 04:08 PM by Alent -
Sounds like you were fury? You keep refering to Maces?Posted 06-03-2008 at 01:49 PM by MasterWolf - I think he's just arms + swords, rather than arms + maces.
Regardless, I enjoyed these 2 posts immensely. Thanks, and congrats!Posted 06-03-2008 at 03:57 PM by Davi - Grats man, you deserve them ^^
Posted 06-03-2008 at 07:40 PM by Ukyo - I keep forgetting to upload my photos of the new shoulders! i'll do it tonight for sure. and yes i was MS Arms + Swords, that's what I meant by not being maces. For 2v2s the control of maces makes it a nearly clear cut winner over swords, but there were plenty of times where my sword procs just splooged over a cat form druid trying to escape. =P
And thanks for the feedback guys, <3 it's encouraging! ;D s4 rawr!Posted 06-04-2008 at 11:43 AM by Kazeyonoma - there we go, uploaded =P
Posted 06-05-2008 at 10:39 AM by Kazeyonoma - i wuvs you, kazey! lets make a 3's team!
Posted 06-07-2008 at 11:08 AM by Germla
