Arcane Surge is the Scryer rep proc effect from the Shattered Sun Offensive's healing necklace. It's an increasingly underwhelming effect that applies additional heals on your target. So if you heal so-and-so for X amount, it has a chance to proc and heal your target for an additional 600-700. This amount is not effected by +heal, if your heal critical'd (though the amount of heal will be higher you've spec'd into crit), or anything else of the nature. It simply has a chance to proc an additional heal between those numbers.
When I got the necklace, I wasn't sure it was working because unlike the Aldor reputation effect, it has no graphic display. Then eventually I started thinking: how does this work with chain heal?
I figured it either proc'd and divided the heal across the three people, or it simply proc'd and healed the first person in the chain. Little did I know, I was horribly wrong and it was even more useless than I thought.
I gathered a warlock in IF and cast chain heal across me, them, and their pet until the neck proc'd. Eventually I realised after three procs that Arcane Surge only effects one person in the chain, and the person it effects in the chain is completely and totally random. And now I am sad and disappointed and wish I had chosen Aldor instead.
At least I have a hott tabard that isn't purple.
Eh, not as comforting as I thought.
I took a lot of screenshots playing my shaman. Mostly to preserve good outfit choices. It's funny how hitting level 70 like a year ago has drained all the fun from WoW. Before I'd troll AH for my next cute outfit piece, then do quests with my friends. Now I wear the same goddamn thing constantly, because 24 other people can't figure out how to do their constructs and we've broken the system of Vashj > Kael > Hyjal. So I'm rockin a badge vendor chest. Impossibly stupid.
When I'm not raiding in WoW, me and my posse (likewise BT-Hyjal geared rogue and MT warrior) enjoying killing this one world dragon that's solo'able. It's one of the few world dragons that can be killed with less than a raid and yields a large amount of money. The three of us can kill Azuregos in less than twenty minutes, earning us each 64g and two pages worth of loot to roll on. Better than doing daily quests, in my opinion.
There was a long period of time I didn't play WoW. After closed beta, I threw in the towel and vowed that the same kind of people who swear by Guilty Gear play WoW. (read: pretentious probably-wapanese geeks who fake good taste) At the time, I was still getting over the painful death of UO and EQ2 was on the horizon. Eventually my hurt subsided, and I had more than enough free time to sink into WoW since stuff like Puzzle Pirates and free Korean/Chinese developed one-dimensional MMOs weren't cutting it.
Mainly what I'm trying to say is that there was a whole period of time in which I didn't play. I missed a lot of in-game events, I completely missed 40 man raids. And when I was playing closed beta, I wasn't really paying attention to lore. Now almost all the villains I know of are dead or dying (Vashj, Kael, Illidan, Kil'jaeden gets tickled back into the nether).
So what I wonder a lot of the time is, why the segue immediately into the Burning Crusade, completely forgetting the Scourge, black dragons and evil bug things? Did everyone just get bored? AQ is a ghost town and I don't think I know enough people who are even attuned for things like BWL or Onyxia's Lair to set up an at least 25 man raid.
Now we're heading back towards the Scourge with the eventual expansion, Naxx is getting re-tuned for level 80. And we're going to kill more dragons and bugs. But unless we meet some great cop-out, once the Lich King is dead, what's left in WoW lore to cull from? More Caverns of Time crap where we travel back to kill people who are already dead?
Hands on table, WoW will dwindle like UO and EQ in the next two years and the torch will be passed along as MMO history has proven. The exodus will be slow and steady, and god I hope we're all playing Warhammer.
I always find myself wanting to start every Vox entry with the line, "I wasn't going to post this but.." because frankly the only time I write here is when I'm distraught, bored, or distraught. And a Twitter entry cannot fully capture how angry I am right now.
Boyfriend wanted to rent Hostel, which I've already seen but he hasn't, so I figured we might as well rent Saw because I hadn't seen it and never watched the sequels because I'm OCD about watching sequels without having watched the first one. We decided to watch Saw first which was a horrible but awesome idea.
Can I just tell you that I in no way, shape, or form understand why anyone in this world likes Saw, or why it bothered spinning off (contracts have been signed) FIVE movies? The first movie is one big cock tease with less structure than the original Ju-on movies (Grudge movies). Let's write a whole bunch of flashbacks with maybe only one or two killing scenes that are edited in spinning camera, fast motion that gives Grace a headache/nausea. Then let's string together a whole bunch of useless shit and long dialogue. Maybe I'm angry because I was expecting more foot-cutting-off'ing, or more gorey traps, or more length spent covering those gorey traps. Maybe you'll tell me, "Grace, you're such a plebeian because it's all about the idea of what you would do if you were in that situation." If I wanted that sort of rubbish, I would watch Fear Factor or some other crap, because when I watch a movie, I want satisfaction. And when I watch a horror movie, I want a body count, I want gore, I want to feel uncomfortable but mostly I want to laugh.
The minute I turned on the DVD, I started fast-forwarding through the lengths and lengths of monologues. The minute I saw Danny Glover, maybe I should have realised that the movie was going to be horrible and not what I wanted. Maybe when I realised that the guy from Princess Bride lost his chin cleft and got deliciously fat, I should have stopped watching. And maybe after the rubbish part about the drug addict girl fixing her life because she had to kill a man to get a key should have been the time I just threw my arms up and switched to Hostel.
Either way, I lost forty-five minutes (thanks fast-forward button) of my life to that rubbish. Yes, Princess Bride guy cuts his foot off, but it's like, five minutes til the end and it's not even that interesting. And the effects are so lousy, you can tell he still has his foot under his long, fake blood saturated trouser leg. I hated the two characters trapped in the room, and I don't want to hate the guy from Princess Bride. Thanks for ruining that for me you stupid Australians. The idiotic Adam character doesn't even die on screen. He gets locked in a room to rot, how boring. I was not scared or thrilled or intrigued. I don't even care who Jig-saw is, because he has colon cancer and a brain tumor, that's not even the most interesting cancer you can have.
I can't even compare Hostel to Saw, because it's like really delicious oranges compared to rotten apples, but no maggots coming out because that would be too satisfying. The first time I saw Hostel in the theater, my face hurt from laughing so much. It's such a good time. And upon further viewings, it's still good and hilarious. If anything, you appreciate it more because some movies just lose their enjoyment after you know what's going to happen. I know that guy is going to get his tendons cut, but it's still funny when he gets up to try and leave and his ankle rips open. I know that other guy is going to get his fingers cut off, but I still think it's funny when he goes back to get them. And while I hate Takashi Miike's movies (rofl Great Yokai War), I think his cameo is so horrible and cute. "Be careful. You could spend all your money... in there."
Anyway, my rage has subsided and I'm distracted so whatever. Go watch Hostel and laugh your head off. Sure, Danny Glover doesn't get shot and that Asian guy from LOST who can talk to ghosts doesn't get his head blown off by a rifle (which you're not shown in the movie, which angered me deeply), but a British Chinese girl playing a Japanese girl loses an eye and there are tons of fake boobs and the ending will please you.
I always raided just to raid. I wanted pretty much to have every boss on farm and kill them as often as humanly possible. I was never in a go-go race to get to Black Temple. I wanted to follow the linear progression list, kill Vashj then Kael, THEN go to Mount Hyjal. But my guild doesn't think that's a clever idea anymore, now that attunement is out of the way. Our progression is currently Mt. Hyjal 3/5, TK 3/4, BT 2/9. Instead of doing Kael attempts last night, we were killing BT bosses. I'm not excited. I want to kill Vashj some more, I want to kill Kael. I want people to get their tier 5, I'd like to get my healing mace and be a real resto shaman for once. But from what I hear, we're only killing Kael and Vashj two or three times then we're forgetting them entirely.
Suck it. Seriously. Get your act together. With 2.4, blessings occurred (sups shorter totem CD, ghost wolf, etc) but also unbearable lag (to everyone else but me, apparently), broken servers, and bugged boss encounters. Thanks, for every time I want to actually do something that doesn't involve raiding, I'm shot down by your inability to do things right.
If this continues, I'm going to play like.. I don't know, the revamped version of UO or something. Or take back my schedule and just wait for Warhammer to come out. You might not think I'm serious but oooooh, am I.
