A lot has changed in WoW and I now get xp for BGs and the BG daily quest. I like BGs much more than questing so it’s safe to say I’ll be doing some of this as I take my priest from 70-80.

Now my priest, Bakayoko, is funny. I’m a shadowweave tailor and was shadow in TBC when we were the awesome mana batteries everyone loved. So I’m pretty much all purple with the frozen shadoweave and spellstrike tailoring stuff.

My gloves, wrists, back, and belt (plus my staff) were blue though. The back I replaced with a 70 pvp epic Volanthius shroud.

Now I have to buy more pvp gear as I level up because I don’t want to hit the 75K honor cap. The question is when do I stop buying 70 pvp epics and start stocking up on items for level 80?

I don’t plan on hitting 80 all that soon so there may be upgrades in the gear I buy. I might buy something for honor points now only to find when I’m higher level that there’s a better one available.

I’ll also be able to craft the frostsavage pvp starter set (can’t wait to wear that in the 70-79 bracket at level 78 and kick some ass) – maybe I should be a 78-79 twink without the xp cap since it will take forever to level up doing a couple bgs a day anyway.

So my plan is to buy a few more 70 pvp items – belt might be next. But eventually I’ll do the 108 resilience medallion of the horde, another trinket, necklaces, and rings. And save up for level 80.

Very interesting tourney with RMP being the most common comp but not the winning comp. PHD looked pretty sick but incoming nerfs to hunter and death knight ought to change that.

Anyway, at this link you can see video of every single match and it’s quality too. The guys doing the play by play are only OK – they tell you where the focus is but the only individual moves they mention tend to be CC. But it’s still awesome (and addicting).

Scroll down to the bottom of the page I link to for links to the other 2 pages (finals on the third page). Finals were plate cleave (warrior, Death Knight, holy pally) vs. Enhancement shaman, hunter, pally. Pretty interesting comps. Then we saw a mirror with the shammy, hunter, pally comp.

Does this look more or less fun that a weekend of WoW?

Weekend Warriors – Live Action Role-Playing from Ryan Pelham on Vimeo.

I have nothing against wow, bat a weekend in front of my computer vs. a weekend running around swinging foam swords… This video is a LARP in Connecticut by the way.

Almost a year ago now I complained about BGs and uneven teams. It seems like it would be pretty simple to let the same number of players join from each faction, but here we are 1 year later with the same complaint popping up daily.

Blizzard we know you’re making enough money to fix this. Now do you care about your game or not?

I really find myself agreeing with a lot of what this guy has to say.

Arenas are a way for blizzard to avoid spending time and money programming for pvp.

Arenas run on class imbalances.

The WOW PVP community to unite and demand from Blizzard that they shift their focus away from arenas where they will never be able to properly balance small matches fairly amongst all classes. Rather their focus should be on large battlegrounds where the sheer number people and diversity of classes will take the spotlight off of glaring class imbalances that prevent skilled players for being successful in PVP because they are playing a class that happens to be weak against certain other classes.

We should be fighting the other faction, always.

Anyway go post on that thread!