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New Videos, Future Videos
It’s been a while since I’ve done anything video-wise, mostly because I am a boring gamer and lame video editor.
I did manage to put together a Canthan New year vid, which is terrible but it was mostly me practicing Vegas 8.
As far as stuff I wanna eventually get done… my dance video, PT2, which is about 2 1/2 years late. And it sucks cause I was shooting to get it out on the 2 year anniversary of PT1, but that never happened.
I also wanna get together some GW pvp footage of PvP action, specifically Spirit Spamming in competitive missions, and beast mastery experimentation.
I’ve got a ton of footage wasting space on my harddrive of sooo much random crap. 55 monking, speed clears, and Zaishen elite ridiculousness in Guild Wars, and random bullshit from WoW.
Too bad I hardly have time to breath anymore.
Lasty, I leave you all with this hilarious IM convo from my friend Ben:
Ben: I was reading your blog, and i found something hilariously ironic.
Izzie: orly?
Izzie: was it a bad spelling error?
Ben: yeah, the way you harp on Varian all the time, makes me think you’re JUST LIKE HIM.
Ben: your posts are riddled with spelling errors
Izzie: uuuuuhhh what?
Izzie: ARE YOU CALLING ME RETARDED?
Ben: no no
Ben: according to you he’s anti-orc because he secretly loves them. i think you’re anti-varian because you have a crush on him.
Izzie: …WTF??
Ben: Don’t deny it! you pick on him like a 12-year-old schoolgirl in love!!!!
Izzie: YOU. ARE SO FULL OF POOP.
Izzie: I hate you forever.
WoW Videos / Babble
So wow, it’s been a month (uh oh!), and a crazy one at that. Sorry for the lack of updates.
Beta is over (boo!) and sadly, I didn’t get a chance to see what new changes to Strand (if any) came with the last handful of patches before PTR and Beta were taken down.
I really wanted to have a fleshed out version of my strat guide ready for when people started playing, but it’s not that big of a deal.
I imagine not much has changed, other than the much needed upgrade from 10v10 to 15v15. This may seem like a small detail, but depending on how people play, it could mean a huge shift when it comes to the way players pull off the offense / defense.
We’ll see how it goes come live.
In other news, I plan on attending the NYC Lich King launch party next weds night, with a bunch of my nerdy wow friends, maybe a face or two from Andorhal as well. I’m gonna try to get my hands on a camera to document the “festivities”.
And to leave this update with less than boring-ness, I’ll post a few good finds from Youtube that’ll be sure to cause laughs or good times.
WoW in the Real World Pick: Judge Judy vs Deadbeat WoW Boyfriend
WoW Fanworks Pick: Rogue vs Warrior
WoW Crossover Pick: Sylvannas in “Out Tonight” (who’ve thought rent + warcraft = good times? Epic ending is epic, btw.)
WoW Pop Culture Spoof Pick: LEAVE SYLVANNAS ALONE (it’s easy to pick out my favorite npc from warcraft lore)
PvP Videos / Thoughts on Strand of the Ancients / Wintergrasp
I made two short PvP videos from Strand. The first is of Holy Priest, build can be found in this entry. THe quality of that video is extremely terrible. I had to use my mac’s in-game movie capture, and the lag was… well you can see what it was. I’m probably going to take it down as soon as I can make a better one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZV7JfwnSn4
only a link cause it’s not worth embedding XD
Second is deep Affliction lock. Quality is way better, Frap’ed from my PC (which i didn’t want to do cause of the lack of ground textures) and I uploaded a big file so there’s the “high quality” option on youtube as well.
People are freaking angry on the internet, btw. Comments so far have been “you suck” or “You suck, and the fact that you killed people means they suck more.”
Wow, can’t win. XD Especially since I think it’s pretty obvious the video was for fun.
Cest’la’vie!
Link for high quality : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8d_JIiitM0
Ah, Strand of the Ancients. Where to start….
After doing some thinking to write out my in-depth strategies for the BG, I noticed that this is strinkingly similiar to a certain competetive pvp match in Guild Wars (coughFORTASPENWOODcough), which is my favorite.
Two sides, one with siege weapons, and two sets of gates to break through, plus a final one.
Hmmmmmm….
The battleground itself is fairly fun to play. Obviously the new weapons (siege tanks and defense cannons) bring a whole new level of experience and a welcome relife form “capture the flag / node” monotony of previous battlegrounds.
There are still a lot of downsides, though. The set up is way too forumlated. You start as either defense or offense (from my experience, horde seems to always start defense in round 1), and fight to either capture or defend the keep. You have a set ammount of time to do this, and then it’s on to round two in which sides are switched. Very repetetive and this gets dull after a while.
Outcomes are either:
-Both sides defend and it’s a draw, which is the most common outcome from what’ I’ve seen.
-One team defends as well as captures the enemy keep which is a full victory.
-Both sides capture the keep (I’ve yet to see this happen).
I’m not sure if it’s a glitch or not, but I only have 2 Strand marks on my lock, out of all the games I’ve played. Either this is a bug or you only get a mark for a complete loss or three for a complete win, and none for draws (that doesn’t quite add up to me).
I don’t mind it overall, it’s definitely fun. Just needs to be fleshed out a little more.
Rise Up: Music Video
self plug:
a guildwars/wow video i made. Trying to break my ass back into the groove of video editing. so rusty. @_@ but alas, it recieved positive review so I’m happy.
Back from vacation, itching to do some guildwarsssing, since it’s been like. A week. As soon as JB gets his ass on. Woot woot.
