Death of a Fire Mage

So, hi. I haven’t updated in a while because I’ve been playing. And not just the warlock or the death knight. I love my mage, so I started at least doing dailies again. Daily battlegrounds, that is.

I had a pair of blood elves in WSG yesterday who directly insulted me. I don’t have pvp gear. As far as I know, you have to pvp to get honour to get pvp gear. I could be mistaken. Seems a little bit backwards, but what can you do. I am the fodder that you hate and I will be for quite some time now. Apparently people take great offense to this.

I’m noticing that it’s not the alliance that gets me mad. Yes, they camp the graveyards and they do 15 to 1. You have to expect this. It’s a pretty good strategy not to go into battle alone and it’s pretty good as well to sit on a spawn to prevent annoyances from coming back. It’s not good strategy to insult your teammates.

What these blood elves might not have realized is the battleground where I was with them was the first in 4 that I took a loss. I was on 3 winning teams and got a new ‘not in my house’ achievement for killing 2 flag carriers before they left the flag room. That’s not too shabby. Earlier on in AV I took down a paladin. It was wonderful. So, was I really the problem? I’m looking at you, Heartless. (If I knew how to do the accents, I’d spell your name right.)

So, no, I’m not geared up. I’m not the best. I can’t take a fraction of health off a death knight. These are facts. But can I do well with what I have? Yes I can. If you shut up and help, that is.

Today I have enough marks to get my first mount. Four more to go.

Also, this is the best thing in the universe:
http://criticalqq.wordpress.com/2009/07/29/now-with-35-more-coc/

So, I haven’t posted in a bit. This isn’t because I’m not playing. It’s just that I’ve been playing my warlock.

I have one of everything. Every class. I’ve had one of every race. I still keep up my hatred for Night Elves, but that’s about it throughout the personas.

It’s not that I like playing my warlock so much. I spec’d demonologist because I’m lazy. For no other reason. I have a voidwalker, Sarmoth, and he does all the work for me. I don’t have to really be there except to shoot off a dot or two. I like being lazy so this works for me. I don’t like playing it because it feels to inefficient. Yes, I used to die a lot more as a mage, but it was mostly due to inexperience. Now that I know the game and all the areas well enough to only warrent a thottbot search when I’m unmotivated or exceedingly lazy, I mostly die when I’m trying to see how far I can push things.

In Stranglethorn, I tried quests that were 3-4 levels higher than I was. I took on creatures 3-4 at a time. I did it to see if it could be done, because I wanted to know. And it was okay, but I’d be lying if I said that I did it all and it kept my interest. I had a webpage open and was reading something else the whole time. For those of you that don’t tab out while playing, I can’t understand. Do you play warriors or rogues ?

So it’s not that I’m enjoying my warlock, I’m just playing him. Why would I do this ? Engineering. I want the toys. The easiest way for me to get these things is make them. I could buy them on the auction house, but why bother. I hate supporting people’s insane hobbies of auction house reselling.

The only thing that’s keeping him down recently is his level. He’s just hitting 50 and moving on to Thorium. I need to get into some 50 zones instead of trying to finish up Arathi and Badlands. It’s too bad I like Arathi and Badlands so much. Well, much better than I liked Ashenvale. Stupid Night Elves.