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The day I've been waiting for ever since the World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade hit the shelves has finally arrived.
This is going to make no sense if you don't play WoW, but for those of us playing battlegrounds for the last year and a half on the Hordeside... this is a sweet, sweet day.
This was recently posted on the WoW:Burning Crusade forums:
* My god. . . . . . I hate us | 02/14/2007 07:44:27 AM PST
Now that I have hit 70 I have started running BG's again, and recently had my first encounter with a BE paladin.
Not having to deal with paladins is so ingrained in my brain that I didn't even realize I was fighting one for the first 3 or 4 seconds of the fight.
I was in AV, and the horde had contested the North Bunker. I run in and see a battle in progress. I see a BE with what looked like PW shield running around so I'm like. . . lets end this. He is nearly dead so I throw down HoJ and Divine Favor, Holy Shock. *Immune* *Immune* I was like wtf so I JoR *Immune*. It was all pretty automatic. Then it hit me and I was like "that ASS!!! " So there I was an OOM Holy Paladin with a low level druid and a long contested bunker. I think you can see where this is going.
So I go to work on him with my two hander and SoR and this jerk off throws up Blessing of Light and starts spamming FoL. Needless to say we couldn't kill him in time. More Horde show up, the bunker catches on fire and I am depressed. We finally struck him down, but he had done his duty as a Pally. I'm sure he didn't release so he could loler coaster watch us be cut down by maurading Horde in the flames of our once glorious bunker .
For me this was a 3 Prong insult:
1.) It infuriated me that I couldn't kill him despite my best efforts (although he sure as hell wasn't going to kill me)
2.) I can't tell you how often I pull crap like this. Having it done to me was just. . . unbearable.
3.) My Roomate, an avid horde player, heard my rather loud cursing of paladins, came in to see what was up and then promptly start patronizing me when he realized what was going on.
That was my first encounter with a hostile paladin. I'm curious to hear about other alliance players first memorable encounter with BE paladins. Did you feel as shocked, horrified, and betrayed?
Oh man... I have been waiting for that ever since my very first battleground about a year and a half ago. All this time Alliance has been screaming about overpowered shammies, and now they realize how obscenely frustrating and annoying paladins are and how underpowered the shammies they just re rolled with are. I can't wait until they play WSG and have a warrior running the flag with two paladin healers. They’re not even experiencing the full frustration of a paladin, because now their bubbles can be dispelled. We had to deal with those assholes when there was nothing you could do once they bubbled up.
Honestly, this is why I always laughed when Alliance bitched about how annoying warlocks are - because obviously they never pvped against a freaking paladin. I actually hope that this will take heat off of warlocks – who kind of got the shaft in the last nerf.
And the screaming has just started. Just wait until they realize how gimped shammies are when it comes to raiding or when the general horde population realize how freaking useful Paladins when it comes to raids and what we've been missing out on for the last two years.
God… this is like Christmas come early. I might actually admit that there is a God because of this.
This is going to make no sense if you don't play WoW, but for those of us playing battlegrounds for the last year and a half on the Hordeside... this is a sweet, sweet day.
This was recently posted on the WoW:Burning Crusade forums:
* My god. . . . . . I hate us | 02/14/2007 07:44:27 AM PST
Now that I have hit 70 I have started running BG's again, and recently had my first encounter with a BE paladin.
Not having to deal with paladins is so ingrained in my brain that I didn't even realize I was fighting one for the first 3 or 4 seconds of the fight.
I was in AV, and the horde had contested the North Bunker. I run in and see a battle in progress. I see a BE with what looked like PW shield running around so I'm like. . . lets end this. He is nearly dead so I throw down HoJ and Divine Favor, Holy Shock. *Immune* *Immune* I was like wtf so I JoR *Immune*. It was all pretty automatic. Then it hit me and I was like "that ASS!!! " So there I was an OOM Holy Paladin with a low level druid and a long contested bunker. I think you can see where this is going.
So I go to work on him with my two hander and SoR and this jerk off throws up Blessing of Light and starts spamming FoL. Needless to say we couldn't kill him in time. More Horde show up, the bunker catches on fire and I am depressed. We finally struck him down, but he had done his duty as a Pally. I'm sure he didn't release so he could loler coaster watch us be cut down by maurading Horde in the flames of our once glorious bunker .
For me this was a 3 Prong insult:
1.) It infuriated me that I couldn't kill him despite my best efforts (although he sure as hell wasn't going to kill me)
2.) I can't tell you how often I pull crap like this. Having it done to me was just. . . unbearable.
3.) My Roomate, an avid horde player, heard my rather loud cursing of paladins, came in to see what was up and then promptly start patronizing me when he realized what was going on.
That was my first encounter with a hostile paladin. I'm curious to hear about other alliance players first memorable encounter with BE paladins. Did you feel as shocked, horrified, and betrayed?
Oh man... I have been waiting for that ever since my very first battleground about a year and a half ago. All this time Alliance has been screaming about overpowered shammies, and now they realize how obscenely frustrating and annoying paladins are and how underpowered the shammies they just re rolled with are. I can't wait until they play WSG and have a warrior running the flag with two paladin healers. They’re not even experiencing the full frustration of a paladin, because now their bubbles can be dispelled. We had to deal with those assholes when there was nothing you could do once they bubbled up.
Honestly, this is why I always laughed when Alliance bitched about how annoying warlocks are - because obviously they never pvped against a freaking paladin. I actually hope that this will take heat off of warlocks – who kind of got the shaft in the last nerf.
And the screaming has just started. Just wait until they realize how gimped shammies are when it comes to raiding or when the general horde population realize how freaking useful Paladins when it comes to raids and what we've been missing out on for the last two years.
God… this is like Christmas come early. I might actually admit that there is a God because of this.
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The icing on the cake would be if the Alliance faced an all-pally Horde group. I may just roll a pally just to do that.'
I can't wait until the guild gets a PvP group together and I dispel pally bubbles! *mwahahaha*
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On a related note, leveling a pallie is...not very interesting.
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Which is why I'm tempted to say "screw that" to raiding and pvp instead.
But since I don't know how long it's going to be before I can level an alt up to 19, I don't want to make you wait lol. I hear you about pallies being boring. I leveled an alliance one up to 10 once and was so bored, I just deleted it cause I couldn't stand playing it.
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It's true that leveling a pally is boring, but so is every other class until level 20, which is when you start getting the good spells and abilities. It's a bitch playing a lowbie when you've experienced the uberness of playing a level 70 character.
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I dunno about other classes being boring until 20. Some of them are, but some of them are really fun at that level (mages for instance are tons of fun at that level). Really it all probably comes down to personal taste. I just don't particularly enjoy playing one - at least as far as I can tell.
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So I've heard. Husband Unit has tried it twice and given up in boredom both times. And my burning, searing annoyance at all forms of paladins precludes me from ever even trying.
Even if they're Blood Elves.
Especially if they're Blood Elves.
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I admit that I kind of hate elves on general principle - except for the keebler ones, because they make cookies.
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I have a human mage who's currently at 61, because after getting two Hordies to 60, I wanted to see the other side of the fence. And really? I'm not that impressed. They get more content love from Blizzard, but I get bored with the Alliance setting because it's so...well, D&D Lite. Versatile&diplomatic humans, aloof&tragic elves, gruff dwarves and Cute Race of Hyper Little People. I much prefer the Horde. (Though I'm having a HELL of a lot of fun with my little Draenei huntard...I'm on an RP server and have been buttonholing mages to ask for Arcane Intellect for my pet. "Is good kitty, but doesn't pay attention!")
And with you on the elf-hate. Such an overdone race in general. Makes me want to go read Pratchett's "Lords and Ladies" again.
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Really, I'd rather play a giant cow or undead or an orc or troll any day than play a human. I mean, damn, I am a human so when I go pretend to be an asskicker, I want something that looks like one. Once I found out how cool the Horde races were, I never even considered rolling Alliance.
Horde are dirty and crusty and tougher looking, and I really love that about them. Which is why I don't like playing Alliance, everything is so sanitized and pretty. After being horde for so long, it's like going to disneyland or something.
I'm with you on the dwarf love. I really wish they'd given us Dwarves (or Draenai - they look neat too) instead of elves. I know I'm in the big minorty - but I think the Dwarf chicks are cool looking.
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Which is possibly why I'm enjoying my draenei - their starting zone is highly influenced by the fact that the Exodar kind of went Chernyobl all over the place. :-) For some reason I canNOT play an undead, but orcs rule. My main's a Tauren, and I've got an orc hunter and a human mage that I'm cruising through BC whenever I get sick of grinding Mag'har reputation (because I WANT a talbuk to ride, dammit!)