Earlier this week, I got a mail from Avl, a moonkin blogger on the Russian WoW fansite noob-club.ru, who asked if I would be willing to do a… short… interview for his Russian community. It seemed like fun, so I obviously jumped right in.
If your Russian is strong, you can read the original article here. What, you can’t read Russian? Well, you could try and see if this Google translate makes it easier for you. It doesn’t, I know, but it lets you somewhat see the comments people are posting.
I’ve gone ahead and posted the original transcript of the interview here. A few bits and pieces was cut out of the article posted on noob-club.ru, but this seemed like the easiest way to do it.
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I want to touch upon a subject that has spiked many debates over the years. You might remember my Blizzard hates druids post nearly a year ago, and this post is much like it.
If you recall, there were too camps to the story back then. The “Blizzard hates druids!” group, or as I like to call them, the self centred ignorants that think everybody are out to get them, and the “Well done, Blizzard!” group – we are often referred to as fanboys.
Now, I don’t want to say “I told you so”, but I did, and as it turns out, we are actually pretty alright today. Our biggest issues in Wrath had been taken care of, and when Cataclysm came out, we were in a really good spot – and we still are.
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Back in Wrath of the Lich King, moonkins were the unmentioned kings of AOE. On fights where it really mattered (think Anub’Arak and the like), we could pull out some serious deeps with a well timed starfall and chain casting hurricane inside Nature’s Grace. These days, however, I feel that–
Wait. Sorry. I have to say this. I fall asleep at night dreaming about the day when I can stop making references back to Wrath of the Lich King. I don’t quite feel that we do Cataclysm justice by continuously comparing it to WOTLK. We need to look ahead. Work with what we’ve got. I’ll stop living in nostalgia now!
Cataclysm has changed the way we handle AOE, for better and for worse. I think its time we take a good, long look at our AOE abilities.
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There is a lot of talk about Wild Mushrooms these days, and a lot of it shows negativity towards our portable partystarter. I’ve touched on the subject before, but since we are just idly waiting for tuesday, I thought I’d like to brainstorm a bit.
At first glance, Wild Mushrooms are are bit annoying. I dread the time to come where we have to manually place three mushrooms within 3 yards of the boss, and detonate them with another button. But their damage seems to be pretty good on a single target fight, and they seem overly potent on AOE fights, provided they can hit the targets.
But I hold firm to my belief that this is all just a matter of creativity. There has been numerous spells that seemed worthless or silly, only to shine when we realise their full potential. So, lacking any ideas for how Wild Mushroom can be used in the future, I thought it would be a good idea to see how useful they could have been if we had them in the past.
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I didn’t have time to blog about this earlier this week because, well, it was a busy week and there was lots of other stuff to write about. But Wednesday brought not only The Shattering, but a new chapter in the Story of Qieth.
While Orgrimmar and the rest of the world was devoured by a dragon who had been hibernating for years, Qieth slept soundly in a hut in Moonglade. Don’t ask me why I logged out there, it just seemed fitting. When he woke up, he was a troll!
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In the recent developer chat Blizzard had with Best Buy, people asked about the moonkin forms for trolls and worgens. Are the versions on the PTR the final version, or are they just placeholders? The answer was prompt, they are “Final!”.
This caused quite a lot of uproar. It didn’t take more than a few hours on MMO-Champion before a good measure of threads were created, filled with people expressing their… distress, all of them in a clear, calm and productive way. Well, maybe not everybody. Let’s just say that some people didn’t take it too well.
Now, the way that people react to this, I suppose, depends on how they read the answer, or how they assume that Blizzard responds to it. Some people saw this as a dark omen that we will forever be stuck in our age-old moonkin forms, and that Blizzard has no intention of ever updating them.
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Posted Nov.03, 2010 under
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Today is a very special day. To me, at least, not necessarily to you. Today is the 1 year anniversary of Qieth’s Quips! Before I go any further – yes, this is totally going to be a sob post where I talk about the blog.
I started Qieth’s Quips on November 3rd last year. If you ever read the introduction post, you’ll remember how I started the blog to sort of have an archive of the past, a place where I could put my thoughts without forgetting them and where they wouldn’t sink away and be forgotten on the internet.
365 days later, and Qieth’s Quips is so much more to me. As it turns out, it has been an awesome way for me to express myself, get rid of some of all that creativity bottled up inside me. It is more than a hobby to do whenever I have spare time, it is the giant basin of words that I fill with.. nah, I can’t really finish that metaphor. I’m loving what the blog does for me, and oddly enough, I always sleep really well after finishing a good post.
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