Jan 31, 2007

RANT: Yet another Warlock-triggered rage

I figured out why my 200-person guild on Laughing Skull had no warlocks. It took me leveling one to 30 to get it, but oh, oh. Now I do. Blizzard is beyond sadistic. Blizzard is a bastion of pure evil.

Most people give up. It's bad enough that the class takes a certain amount of skill to play properly (which is enough to piss off most any person who plays WoW, apparently). Any caster class can be a pain in the ass to solo, and if you're not any good with using your pets, you're basically screwed.

But that's not why these people are giving up. They're giving up because of the (Alliance) Warlock quests.

It goes like this:
1) Oh, a "minion"? Imp? Cool, I have to go kill this dude five feet away in the Vineyards and get a book. Okay, Imp is kind of useless. Good thing that wasn't a pain in the ass or anything.

2) Voidwalker. I've been so traumatized by the rest of the quests that I can't even remember what I DID for this one.

3) Okay, cool. Succubus. 'Bout time I got some decent crowd control. Wait, where is the Barrens? Why do I have to go into Horde territory for this? I'm a fucking level 20 and you want me to run through THERAMORE? Or I can swim? Oh, that's just great.

...*die* *die*die*die*

... I am so fucking SICK OF MURLOCS.

Oh, wow, the Barrens is kind of pretty! *sap* *sap* *sap* *gank* Okay. I have no shards now-- I am a useless 'lock. Also, how the FUCK am I supposed to find one specific tent in the middle of all this? This zone is the size of the Wetlands!

...Whose bright idea was it to stick these two Alliance NPCs in the middle of Horde territory? They're dead. I can't very well turn in a quest to this corpse, now can I? So I get to stand here and wait for them to come back from the dead, visible to every damn Horde in the Zone.

Fuck it. I'm dancing.

...Four flight paths later, and it's time to go to elf territory? (As if the Barrens wasn't bad enough.)

Please don't tell me she doesn't learn seduce for another four levels. Did my eye just start twitching?

4) Felhound time! I've seen these things. They eat mages.

...Ratchet. You want me to go to Ratchet. You do realise there are no Bruisers there, right? At least I have the fucking flight path after the Succubus quest. *take boat, land*

*gank, gank, gank, gank*

...All I have to do is run up a hill. Why can I not just get up the fucking hill? I have spent almost an hour attempting to run up a hill.

*hours pass* I've gone from Stormwind--> Ironforge -->Menethil --> Southshore -->Ironforge -->Ratchet -->Menethil -->Ratchet. This had better be the hungriest fucking Felpuppy EVER.


And those are just the quests to get minions. Don't even get me started on the quest that wants me to go to SFK and BFD. Or the one where I get stuff from two zones on two different continents to kill a guy and make 50s for it.

And to rub it in, now they've made the minions TALK, so we don't even want them once we get them! I used to dismiss my imp because I was so sick of listening to him bitch. The voidwalker is adorable, but the succubus is an icon of cliche "sexy." If the felpuppy uses words now, I am probably going to gnaw someone's face off.

Blizzard clearly hates Alliance 'locks. And people wonder why everyone rolls Pally or Rogue? To get your Pally mount you speak to TWO people. I am sure that when I attempt to get my mount I will burst a blood vessel from frustration and rage.

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