The Butterfly’s and the Bee’s Part 2

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So we had previously left off with my WoW career right as I had gotten hooked.

Mage

My first “main” was a mage, it was really all I played. Leveled him all the way to lvl 62 (back when 70 was the cap). I mean the first and still primary “glass cannon”. Enough CC to almost never be touched, but if enemy’s breach that security there is enough BURST to burn them down. However, if not done quickly enough death will arrive shortly.
Mind you this was my first toon ever, so here I am leveling all my professions (secondary and primary), running EVERY single dungeon that I can (sometimes multiple times), and just wasting tons of time taking forever to level. The whole time I think I am going as fast as I can.
Needless to say I was moving, and incredibly broke. I took my longest break from WoW, approximately 6-7 months.

Warrior

I have always had a minor draw to the warrior class, I mean we operate on rage, possess the ability to withstand massive amounts of damage, while still dishing a fair amount ourselves, and basically the class that can translate to real life the simplest.
Regardless of when I played I have had an alt warrior, mostly protection, I have recently found the greatness that is Arms.

Priest

The healing class that has always drawn my most interest, I mean it is/was the original ultimate healer. Can even heal after death (holy), and it has two healing trees.
I could never level one just because levels 1-20 are super slow if you are soloing, Smite just uses too much mana per damage. I have recently put A LOT of effort into my priest alt, and is now happily lvl 60.

My shadow priest, with my venomhide in Gadgetzan

Shaman

I honestly can not figure out why I decided to level a shaman instead of my mage. Whatever it was I am extremely happy with my decision. I loved the totems when I leveled, I loved the enhancement tree, I loved my instant ghost wolf, and I just happen to on the up and coming when enhancement shamans were nothing.
As stoney has stated, you could not find any information on Enh, Windfury crits was the first blog I had ever found. So I enjoyed joining PuGs, and being able to show up most every other hybrid and even some pure dps.
I have since hitting 80 started to heal (because part of me just enjoys keeping people alive). I will always be a main set enhance. I have always thought ele is too much like other casters, and that enhancement is one of a kind, I am sure every other enhancer out there agrees.

My shaman leveling near Area 52, and some hunters pet bugged out.

Raiding

I never raided until WOTLK, the guild that I was in (led by the guy that got me started in WoW) at this time had no regularly raiding shamans. So not only am I wanted because I am good dps,but my totems are needed as well as my raid buffs (Bloodlust, Unleashed Rage, Windfury Totem (20% melee haste). I specced Imp Wind because we had no DKs, and i specced UR even when it was a 5 point talent with no expertise, because even then it was a great raid buff. I began to heal quite frequently because dead dps=no dps.
This is one of my few (only) screenshots of a proud moment where I had finally beaten a very skilled rogue. (OS 25+0)

Os 25(+0) final dps

My life

I will just do a short synopsis of my life, more than likely I will do a more long winded post eventually.
First child.
My dad originally hated me due to the fact that he had never “loved” my mother, however his parents had divorced when he was young so he vowed to marry her and have all his children with one woman.
Three other siblings.
I would grow to have a brother first, and two sisters later. Ironically we are all 3 years apart.

My 3 other siblings as well as my uncle

Football
This sport was the greatest sport ever created. I love to play it, watch it, and make love with it. Also Brian Dawkins is in my opinion the best Safety to ever play the game, honestly though he is definitely top 5.
High School
I attended West Forsyth High School, grew up in that area as well.
Adulthood
I am married (June 21st 2009), I have a two year old son named Carson, and I am attending college for Information Technology

Me, Carson, and Kathryn (my wife)

Yet again this is really really long, and I feel like I am cutting some things short, it is just so hard for me to talk about myself and not just spew my guts…

If anyone has any questions feel free to ask I will answer

Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee

Catacl-Enhanced

Guess posted on BigHitBox

I know that stoney has already written a summary of Cataclysmic changes, I’m not trying to steal his thunder. As he has stated I am just here to put my spin on things.

Basically what I am trying to say is that stoney is like Dr. Dre, you know he comes in and puts the best possible spin on things, and just does a great job. And I am like … like … Keven Federline (sp?) where I come in and just hack it up for comedic pleasure.

Regardless, I am putting my thoughts on shamanism, enhancement and other small details about the next Xpac

Cataclysm

**Shamans (Elemental) looks like “turrets” in PvP for the moment, the idea is to make totems funnier in the future (“put a totem down and something cool happens”) but not a lot of details for the moment.**

I have heard some ideas that I think would be really neat.
- Throwing totems at a range into the mix of a fight. I like this idea especially for ele, and even resto/enh.
- Targetting a totem and casting something at it to cause some kind of effect. Think like a totem on a cooldown that when targetted with say lightning bolt or chain lightning would actually cause multiple (would really fix some of the aoe issues for enh and even ele). However this would be very difficult and would need some form of tweaking. Also on a resto side note, think along the same lines except possibly say a totem we could place then target with riptide which would in turn place the HoT on a certain amount of targets within a preset range. (I know that I am completely making up random stuff here, just brainstorming.)

**Developers want shaman to be good AE healers and might buff Chain Heal even more.**

I hope they can think of a very shamanisic way to buff it other than just MORE healing and/or MORE range.

**Enhancement Shamans do not use INT anymore and will be given talents to not need it just like Retribution Paladins.**

I think a lot of Enhance are really missing the point here which is…

**Hunters Mana is GONE**

With hunters mana being gone I had wondered what would happen with our gear, considering we are a class that only shares gear with 1 other class, this is really just a way for Blizzard to keep itemization simple.

**Enhancement Shamans having to run in and out of melee ranges to redrop totem and sacrifice DPS is a legitimate problem, they don’t want enhancement to have to run out like that. **

I am not really sure what Enh totems we are having to run out to redrop. The range on all totems have been equalized, and on very few fights are we spaced out enough that this is an issue. I’m on the fence with this post, tell me what you guys think, maybe something I am missing.

Goblins can be shamans

A picture from Blizzards gallery of a goblin shaman

I am not going to list all the racials here just ones that actually affect the playstyle in specific.

**Rocket Barrage – Launches your belt rockets an an enemy, dealing fire damage. 2 min cooldown.
Rocket Jump – Activates your rocket belt to jump forward. 2 min cooldown.**

FYI shared cooldown, so you have to choose between the two every two minutes. Obviously this is nice either way, we can choose to move (say on XT’s light bomb, or out of any big black/blue circles) or to do additional damage (the first ever racial to do DIRECT damage (other than racials that increase damage output or various stats). Think of it like a free burger (sorry I just find that picture to be hilarious for some reason)

**Racial – Time is Money – 1% increased attack and casting speed.**

Great for enhancement, elemental, and restoration (regardless of how you view it). O plus stoney is a haste junky.

Stoneybaby as he melee's mobs

PTR changes

**Totem of Quaking Earth now gives 400 attack power for 18 sec each time you use your Lava Lash ability. (Up from 200 Attack Power)**

I know PTR changes are not current yet, but more than likely this would not be nerfed back, and if so I will let you guys know in a future post.
Otherwise, this is obviously a good buff, I have absolutely no information in front of me but I think this may be near BiS now. Because now you have a constant 400 AP (even considering that lava lash is nearly our last priority, it should be used before the 18 second buff drops.)

The butterfly’s and the bee’s. Part 1

Guess posted on Big Hit Box as well.

See how I did a play on the old birds and the bees, with my name. (That’s probably a little aggressive for my first post *shrugs*). O I must be very humorous

I am going to try very hard not to turn this into a wall of text.

I will try my best to sum up myself, my gaming career and just let everyone into my mind and soul (please wear a gas mask …)

Gaming

Goodness this could go back; forever and always to be honest. To be quite frank I have told myself and many others, I am addicted to games. I love, adore, admire, envy and hate (yes all at the same time) the competition that comes with games.

My gaming history I would say is very very broad. I can appreciate almost any game, generally though I despise luck and/or RNG, preferring to leave the outcome more to skill (Im looking at you UNO). The first games I can remember would be Need for Speed, and the entire Nascar series. My dad is a huge racing fan, he grew up around cars. I still remember the first time I was able to beat him in Need for Speed Hot Pursuit

The Madden series was the first game I ever had to teach my dad how to play, it then became his passion to beat me (I would wake, and prepare for school only to find my dad still playing Madden). FYI Madden 98 (Playstation) was the first series I ever owned.

At this point I probably was not addicted.

It all began when (prepare for a really long sentence) a girl that I had a crush on came over to visit and her moms boyfriend that came to pick her up said to my dad (as he saw my dads PS2 nascar setup) “This is little kid stuff you need to see mine at home”.

I’ll be honest if I had to say that in real life, without taking a breath, I would probably have had a seizure.

Nevertheless, to make this story as short as possible. My dad saw how much better the game was on the PC (Sierra/Papyrus made the Nascar on the PC at the time). He then bought two PCs, and I then began to play the Nascar with him, while on the side I started my very own gaming “career”.

Total Annihilation

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I could sing a song, light candles, fill up a warm bubble bath, and rub baby oil; all in the name of this game. I began late into the TA “phenomenon” (obviously this game was great, with all of its rewards, however never really THAT famous). Regardless, I was very skilled in the game, built a “clan” called After Life. Went by the name of Smack/Smackddy/Smack89.

Needless to say this game, for me, was the best RTS game ever created.

Other games

I spent time here and there on

Shattered Galaxy

Combat Arms

Tons of random console games

World of Warcraft

I had always thought WoW was comical and never really comprehended HOW it could be fun. (no thanks to south park and other shows). A guy I knew fairly well talked me into trying out the trial period. The entire time I hated it, by the last day I felt like I had confirmed what I had already thought.

The game was boring, and monotonous etc.

THEN…
*pause for epicness!*
I had just acquired a high enough level to do RFC, after doing RFC I was basically hooked from there.

I am fully aware that this really turned into a bigger wall of text than I wanted it to. My next edition will hopefully be much shorter, and I will base it more on myself and how I grew up, outside of games.
I would enjoy feedback on everyone’s thoughts and/or improvements.

Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee.

Hello Cataclysm!

Welcome to (what for now is being called BB blog) BB blog! This blog will continuously be a work in progress. Especially for the first week or two. Check the About  section to see where this blog will be headed. A biography (of my gaming career) will be incoming.