Author Archives: Donny Rokk
The Fury Warrior in Patch 5.2
Anyone seen my chill pills?
I’ve always been a fan of the Fury warrior. Not so much for the play style, but more for what it represents as an ideal. A Protection warrior is a guy who uses a sword and shield to defend himself, and those around him in a party and raid setting. You’ve got the Arms warrior who can take a two handed weapon and kill with his superior weapon proficiency. Nobody uses a weapon as effectively as it is in the hands an Arms warrior.
Then you’ve got the Fury warrior. This is a dude who will grab two very large, very heavy things and beat the life out of you with them. He doesn’t even care what is is he’s using as a weapon – swords, clubs, circus midgets, ponies. Even the torsos from the last two things he killed. A Fury warrior is a nuclear reactor of anger and rage, and the only way he can keep it from burning him alive is by venting his anger on the head and shoulders of anything stupid enough to get in front of him.
That’s a mindset I can embrace. My therapist would disagree, but I offered to pull his tongue out for him if he kept flapping it.
MMO Melting Pot gave a quick and dirty breakdown on the Fury warrior in Patch 5.2 (HERE). Noxxic and Icy Veins also weighed in on the changes to the Fury Warrior in Patch 5.2 (HERE and HERE). Torage, the quintessential Fury warrior released a video on the Fury warrior in the 5.2 era. It is naturally worth a look. Do so NAOW!
Brawler’s Guild and Pet Battles
Damn you Pet Battles. Damn you to Hell.
The very idea of Pet Battles should be in violation of some kind of legislation. I mean, you’re taking these cute little vanity pets and you make them fight each other to the death. These little Butterflies and Pugs have spent entire expansions as eye candy, and now they’re expected to throw down like some kind of arena gladiator. It’s like putting two kittens in a cage and making them duke it out.
I will end you!
… okay, maybe I don’t really want this outlawed. I guess I just need to be saved from myself. I mean, Pet Battles might not break any kind of real legal laws, but they do seem to oppose the very laws of time and space. Specifically, time. I’ve seen this phenomenon with my own eyes – you sit down to fire off “just a couple of Pet Battles”, and suddenly three hours have disappeared faster than Lindsay Lohan’s jail time. What the what? Where the good goddamn did that time go?
I managed to kick the vanity violence habit once. But last week I just happened to come across a few websites (like this and this and this and this) that discussed Pet Battle teams. One of them involved my favorite pet, the Clockwork Gnome (I call him Jeeves, naturally). Reading the posts reminded me how much fun he was to use. So much fun, in fact, that I decided to use him to powerlevel a couple of low level pets. No biggie, right? I’ll only use him for a little bit. Just a couple of lousy pets. Nothing excessive.
Sure. Right. The “Just the tip” mentality. It NEVER works.
