As you may have noticed my blogging has become rather lax of late. This is due to a distinct lack of free time. I'm back at work and so finding the time to write this blog is becoming testing. I have to maintain my exercising because I don't wish to be fat. I have to play WoW enough to generate a profit in some way otherwise there is no point in playing. I have to spend 7 hours a day at work with no forcible benefit. It's become a case of as and when, which is regretful but unavoidable. I also find myself drilling for ideas. I'll have one and then in a flash it will disappear to be replaced by a lonely though that dies pretty quickly. I don't know why this is.

Once again I am back on the Blizzards Blunders. These guys seem to be on the receiving end of more rubbish than my next door neighbours bin man, and they have 6 kids. I don't understand it but I have done it I will admit. The highlight of my day used to be providing Blizzard with enough rubbish that they could fill a rubbish tip with only my words. Ah...those were the days. Now however, I find myself asking why I did this? There was no point to it and it didn't gain me anything. It just increased my cynical nature ten fold and made me more bitter about a game that I generally enjoy playing.

Still, the show must go on.

Reputation Grinding

Reputation grinding has been around since day 1. It is something that has both pleased and angered players on an outrageous level. Generally, reputation grinding rewards you with some of the best items that WoW has to offer and in the end it is worth it but this doesn't stop the whine police from engulfing it in a ball of whine.

Apparently, these people feel they should be allowed into heroics instantly. They feel that they should be aloud the epics ring from the Violet Eye instantly. They shouldn't have to mess around with dirty reputation, which gives them something to do in between those global cooldowns and lack of raids. It's these people who think that anyone who so much as flinches in PvP should be a Conqueror. Why? Probably because it's something else to whine about and because they lack the motivation and the effort to grind such a mammoth thing as reputation.

I've ground rep with several factions and frankly, it isn't as hard as it sounds. In fact, the single most hard task in the game is levelling reputation with the Warsong Outriders closely followed by levelling Tailoring. It's going to cost me 1100g to level tailoring to 375 and it is going to cost me a further few weeks in time to get exalted with Warsong Outriders. I'll do it willingly just so I have a funky new rank to display but I'll wave my fists at Blizzard in rebellion after I have done so. Without whining of course.

So I'm honoured with the scryers and I need exalted to get Runic Spellthread. I want Runic spellthread. My legs need Runic Spellthread and frankly it would be 20 times easier to get Runic Spellthread and make it myself that it would making rash deals with dodgy tailors who fell 300g is a fair price when I provide the mats. It isn't. Anyone with half a brain knows that. So eventually, I'll have to not only grin reputation with the scryers but also reputation with one of the many instances factions so that I can get some Nethers. Doesn't sound like a joyous task but it gives me something to do, doesn't it?

Inevitably, people whine because reputation grinding takes a lot of time. However there are no diminishing returns. I can think of how much I would wind if reputation diminished but it doesn't. Once you have it, you have it and it doesn't go away so the time it takes you to get exalted is merely effected by the time you play but eventually, you will get there and you will have shiny items to smile about.

Battlegrounds

Now here's a topic I love and hate. This one makes me go all tingly inside. People genuinely whine that BGs are unfair, unrewarding and silly whereas they are not and they know it. Battlegrounds provide players with a way of killing other players and getting rewarded for it. You get epics and sets and weapons for your efforts and as if that isn't enough you can even get a shiny rank for being Exalted with all three major BG factions.

Whiners however find it in contempt. They want arena grade items from none-arena grade battlegrounds just because they can't be bothered to put the effort into grinding a fairly good rating in arena. I'm in a team that has 1650+ rating most of the time and for a team in PvE gear that isn't bad. Me and a warrior are the only two fully decked in PvP gear whereas our team mates are decked in PvE gear and we are still up there with the top teams in the battlegroup.

Another thing that people are whining about is the implementation of a rating cap on the Season 3 weapons. I personally don't have a problem with this and as long as they allow me to get the set at any rating, I'll continue to smile about arena. I admit that if this rating cap applied to all items from arena, I'd be a little annoyed but seeing as it is designed to stop PvEers from stealing PvP weapons without a second thought, there is no problem with it.

Again, people whine because of the time involved and also because the more skilled players are getting better items in arena and they don't like this one bit. After all, why should a player with more skill be aloud to have better items? Blasphemy!

There is far more whine topics to come in Blizzards Blunders and even more entertainment. Next time I will only be covering one topic and I'll let you know what that is as and when I finish it.