Bunnies taking over Skullcrusher

Small update after some more arenamatches.

Brutal Bunnies (2v2)
Szwok and Nimra quickly climb the ladder and currently are the highest ranked 2v2team on skullcrusher while participating in the top of the battlegroup as well. Szwok told me they met the #1 warrior/druid team and managed to beat them due to losing 3 in a row to another warrior/druid team and finding a good strategy. Being in top 5 in de battlegroup at a certain date in july will get you invites for a european finals, so that would be some awesome exposure for Ravens!

Cruel Bunnies (3v3)
A nice session put us on 20-7, but we could not manage more games. The 1700 rating is good for 7th position on Skull, but we should be able to up that in the coming week as we're still putting in positive sessions.

Big Bad Bunnies (5v5)
We had a very good 11-2 session last night with the 4dps/1healer combo, losing twice to a 2warrior/3healer setup (we took them once as well, that was kinda a surprise) with several games where we were all still standing. It was very enjoyable to play to say the least. After our 9-8 last time which had us still on 1500, we now speeded to 1600+. The ranking is not updated yet, so no idea where it puts us.

Bunnies doing well! I love it.

-- Zhero (close to lvl 66 atm)

First week in season II

2v2 (brutal bunnies)
So, the first week is almost done and we got the first games under our belt and with good succes I would say. But let me first give you the result of Nimra and Szwok who arena-ed themselves to the 2nd place on Skullcrusher with a 1782 rating (first had 1785) and a top 20 in the battlegroup. Now ofcourse it is way too early in the season to make anything out of it, but still with their 20-2 record they made a very nice start! Keep up the good work! Szwok even told me he has people whispering him and asking if they could join their team.

3v3 (cruel bunnies)
Szwok, Nimra and myself started the 3v3 as well and booked a 12-6 score on Thursday which put us on 1600 rating and added a 8-1 score yesterday which put us a little over 1700. We faced some hard teams but had good tactics. I had a real good feeling about those matches. I played well, but still feel I (and we) can do more (for example better coordination from my side about using blind. Blind/sheep on the same target still happens). We took 22 points from a warrior/priest/mage team which heavily outgeared us by just playing better and that felt good. Our gear can still get a lot better with all the new stuff out, but we’re closing that gap. I am real anxious to see where we can end.

5v5 (big bad bunnies)
A struggling start with 9-8. We got owned a couple of times and won easily other times. There’s a little discussion going on as we would like a 4 dps setup. 3 dps + 2 healers is ofcourse good as well, but that requires a whole different approach (a more controlled one), while we feel we have the upperhand in rushdown strategies. If Krexxor is willing to go elemental, it might be interesting to see how it will work out. He, on the other hand, feels we will be off worse and does not want to respec. So we will continue here with the warrior (karma), rogue, lock, shammie, paladin (3dps, 2 heal) AND the mage, rogue, lock, mage, paladin setup (4dps, 1 heal). Hopefully we can up that rating a bit in the coming weeks.

Yesterday there were more people busy in arena. It’s good to see a lot of people wanna try and go there. I believe 2 more 5v5 ravensteams met in arena as well. Must have been a tense match :D It would be nice if we got some Ravens-exposure from the pvp-side as well.


Zhero
I dunno why exactly, but saturdaymorning I decided to log in Zhero. This lvl 62.9 warlock had been standing in Thrallmar for a long time and I remember I did most quests in Hellfire, but lost interest along the way. You know the feeling: you log in an alt, walk outside, walk back and log out again. Happens to me with most alts.
Now I logged him in and did some quests. And here comes the ‘bad’ part: I enjoyed it. I found all the buttons without looking and the fluent moves were still there. It was as if he was never away. So to make a long story short: Nimra asked me if I needed help and we ended up playing a lot together and I did a lot of quests in Nagrind which saw Zhero on lvl 65 on sundayevening, while ganking every single alliance we saw (kinda easy with a lvl 70 lock walking behind you :D).

And I liked it… (a lot)

I decided to join a PUG for underbog as well (they asked me) and here is where the fun starts. I saw some familiar guildnames so assumed they were alts and knew how to play this game. The mage and paladin were good players, the warrior was constantly 10 seconds behind the group with his actions (“I thought I first kill that healer before getting on to the other mobs”…I forgot to screen this one, but yes he actually said that), but the enhancementshaman was the best.

While I am walking away from the group to pick a herb (I was the only herbalist), I see this:

I lol-led behind my pc and walked towards him.

Hahaha, I love pugs.
Then he asked the paladin for a buff and a seal.

I hardly saw totems and had to ask several times for poison cleansing totem with mobs which shoot manadrain arrows. And let’s not forget the “Does anyone have damagemeters?”. Well, I think you recognize the type :D
Ah…it could have been worse. Experience = experience.

Let’s just end the day with some true Ravens-leadership I was able to witness in Arathi Basin. It is impossible not to like this guy.


-- Zhero (yes, Zhero will be back…and faster than you think).

Season I recap

So, arena season 1 is over. We entered halfway and tried to get our gear updated, which came out ok. I personally went from 7500 HP to 9884 now unbuffed. I started in all brackets but soon left the 2v2 behind me as szwok and nimra did so well there (didnt want to take down their score). They ended the season with a little over 2100 rating which gave 800 points, a nice title and an armored netherdrake. The last thing was a big surprise. (i heard Artanias had one in the mailbox as well, but can't use it yet because he did not pay the 5k gold yet. Gzzz Art anyway! Knowing how much he like farming, it could take a while :D. 2v2 is in my opinion a bracket where casters rule. On top you see all kinds of combo's priest/lock/mage with little melee mixed in it.

Our 3v3 was 1854 highest and went a little down after that, it was more something we played in between while we tried to get the 5v5 running.

our 5v5 ended a little over 1700 (good for 640 points a week) and there is more coming there. We are experimenting with a 4 dps setup and a setup with 2 healers and a warrior. Hopefully we can get more games in instead of trying to play the games on tuesday and running in a team that farms you for 5-6 games in a row. (the more you play, the more that factor is irrelevant).

I saved points the last week to get a fresh start for season II and decided that maces would be the way to go, so i got myself the season II main hand mace.

We did some 3v3 yesterday and goddamn this thing hits hard. 2-3 weeks to get the matching mainhand and then i can finally start getting some armor. We ended 9-4 yesterday in 3v3 while szwok and nimp had a 12-0 session. gogo guys! (and had an awesome match against daymare(zekro) and senbon.

They upgraded the honoritems as well, so all can start grinding those bg's again.

I finally paid of Nimpie as well, so that is over with. But i bought new shoulders, needed gems for that and needed to respec, so now i need to pay back 100+ gold to szwok. Well, sh!t happens :D

Women....can't live with them....can't shoot them.


I entered AB and saw this guildname. Made me smile.


We all love Artanias!



-- Zhero (is thinking about levelling his lock as well)

Back from the dead

I’m back! At work they made me IT-projectleader of some big project for a couple of weeks which took almost all my time during the day. You know: that time you need for browsing forums, making specs on wowhead and reading the latest news. At home I only play, play and play some more. So there is my excuse for not updating. That and the fact I am lazy by nature. Tnx for forgiving me :D

Rogue?/Paladin?/some other class?
No, I am still with my rogue. I did not even bother to grind some experience on my other classes besides one or two rampartsruns with alts. As I am still paying back Nimpie for that epic mount (I even lend gold for respeccing daggers and buying 2 blue daggers in AH. A 400g experience which lasted 2 days) I did some tailoringlevelling on my mage to be able to make primal mooncloth every 4 days with the sole purpose of making some gold and parked my 61 druid outside Scarlet Monastery (library) to farm the fadeleaf in the first field. I do believe it is quicker than pickpocketing. I make 9-11 fadeleaf in 5 minutes and can do that every hour. So every once in a while I log my druid, pick some fadeleaf and when I am out of blinding powders I send 80-100 fadeleaf to my rogue. Blindingpowderproblem solved. The good part is that I am so used to using blind that I do not ‘save’ it for a rainy day, but spam it when it is up like every rogue should.

Spec
I am combat sword specced with all the pvp-goodies (nerves of steel/imp. Sprint etc.) and plan on staying it. They fixed swordspec last patch (no more resetting of main hand swingtimer, but a yellow attack that can proc all your specials) and nerfed it again by making it a white attack (suffering all the bad stuff from DW-attacks. Glancing blows and missrate). Well ofcourse this is a PvE nerf, so who cares anyway! and it is still a lot better than it was. I saved my arenapoints for some weeks now and plan on getting the ‘new’ arena-MH-sword immediately when season II will start (I believe half of june). I got the mongoose enchant (almost) ready in my bank as well.

Engineering
I dropped skinning and levelled engineering to 350 for the imba Goggles! I have them now, made the earthstormdiamond which was converted to a powerfull earthstormdiamond and am done for a long time with my headitem now. A shitload of AP is on it and I think it is what you need as a PvP combatsword rogue. Crit is nerfed with all the resilience people are wearing, so constant high whitedamage is your friend as the game is leaning towards less burstdamage anyway with each patch. At least in PvP this is true.

Except stupid warriors. They somehow crit me for bazillions all the time while having me mace-stunlocked for 12 straight seconds. Since every warrior has that mace, it’s getting harder and harder to avoid them. (haha, you didn’t really think I was actually fighting them at free will?)

I remember now I run around with grenades as well. I should l2use them…have them keybinded, but never throw them.

Raiding
I am not doing it. PvP is so much more fun for me. We went with some pvp-ing guildies to Karazhan and killed 3 bosses. I even got the dagger from Moroes which sits in my bank, doing nothing. It was ok, but killing alliance is more fun :D

PvP
3v3: We're ok at 1850 or something like that and i feel we can go even higher.
5v5: Just started that and are around 1700 trying different setups.
2v2: My paladin and nimpie's rogue are making sure we get 10 games to make sure no points are lost in between without a clue on what to go for.

Screenies
Still found some screenies. (I am never paying attention to screenshots. I noticed I was dead in most screenshots, but then it came to me. While I am waiting for the timer to rez in BG, ofcourse on 2 seconds we lose the node I was respawning and I am ported to the next GY we control with a fresh 30 seconds to wait, I read the guildchat and take my screenies). Well: enjoy what I found:

Eleutherios (aka ‘Veritha’ aka ‘the Gadzetstan Slut’) with a confession (and Milker? wtf? got experience with that as well?):

aha, and this nice reaction from Kauft. Motivation is in words! Tnx bro! (btw, I now start seeing the profit of staying with 1 char. I still learn! And get better with it! And my gear is starting to look decent as well!). Hang on in there.


Trade-, General- and BGchannel are sometimes nice as well.


Guildtalk
Mudaseki stating the obvious

Nimpie is confused

and we see how difficult it is playing his ‘wanna duel?’-warlock when he accidently whispers me.

Then this story where crapslock (holyvirgin) gets to know the joys of being an officer. Someone is whispering him because he has a complaint about one of our members. The term ninjabird was never so true for Ljung.


Then in the “Artanias gets owned”-category. I might make it a special section from now on


Quote of the Week (also from the Art-gets-owned category)


-- Zhero (having major problems with hunters who know what to do btw)