Friday, November 27, 2015

The Return of the Mavri (os)?




INTRO

With the impending new Stars Wars movie, which I am reluctant to get excited about after the “first” three were so sub-par that I can still taste the poo in my mouth when I think about them.  Jar-jar and the awful skywalker casting killed them both for me.  So, perhaps the title of this blog post is a bit of a stretch, but I was motivated by a few things:

1)      The new SW movie (obviously, although the title of my blog DOES refer back to a film that featured Muppets as characters…) 
2)      News from Blizzcon 15
3)      Taki’s wiener sexts to me
4)      Seeing a picture of Ish on FB and furiously masturbated to it
5)      Elements of the new xpac Legion are intriguing
6)      Elements of the new xpac Legion are NOT intriguing
7)      I listened to my raid leading on H Impregnator in whatever raid that was and got a woody
8)      I miss you guys, well, some of you guys

JUST THE 2 OF US

Accidents will and can happen.  Before I dive too deep into a WOW tirade, I had an accident recently that I wanted to share with my loyal readers.  This particular accident happened while I was vacationing in San Diego with who I will refer to as Mistress Mavros.  

DISCLAIMER:  If you are faint of heart please skip to the next section of this blog post.  (Seriously though, you know it has happened to you too, so be real to yourself and everyone around you and read this)

For those unaware, I tore my ACL in early August playing beach volleyball.  I had reconstructive knee surgery in early September and by the time myself and Mistress Mavros went to SD, I was at the point of needing to do some of my own strengthening exercises.  

So, the first morning after having awesome Mexican food for dinner the night before, I decided to goto the little makeshift gym at the resort we were staying at to ride the stationary bike.  Mistress Mav was going to read a book on the balcony while I exercised.  I planned on a 45 minute ride, but at the 20 minute mark, the stool must have worked itself closer to the sphincter than I thought with all the rotating movement.  I guess I loosened it up a little bit.  Being accident free for about 63 days (yes, I got a coin for it too), I was sure this was not an emergency to get my bloomers in a bunch for.  Anyway, a little gas and a little tummy gurgling later and I figured I could finish the ride and be safe.  Well, within the next 5 minutes, the pressure built up and was just too great.   I quickly sat up in astonishment and started fast walking to the room praying I would make it in time.  Whatever the case was, perhaps the sweat that lubed up my sphincter or just the sheer amount of food that needed to evacuate, “it” started to come out, there was no holding it back.  I still had 200 yards or so to go and some of it was in my underwear.  I began sweating even more than I already was and could feel the slushing and smearing happening in my underpants.  (Boxer briefs to be exact)  I see her on the balcony still, phew, and bolt into the bathroom and lock the door.  I sit on the bowl quickly to evacuate the rest of the stool and look down and see nothing short of a crime scene in my underpants.  Even my balls got infected by the splatter.  I do my business and when I get up, I just see poo all over the seat, and some even traversed onto my leg.  It was a truly a mess!  I grab a hand towel and soap it up and quickly clean the toilet seat to ensure no staining occurs.  I soap it up good and clean it off and even do a sniff test to make sure it does not smell.  I then undress and toss away my underpants and shorts in the waste basket which had a bag in it.  I close that bag up and quickly dive in the shower and clean off my rear end.  Yet another gross scene as some “stuff” was still in there and rinsed down the drain as it plopped down from my backside.  I then spayed cologne in the bathroom to cover the horrific smell of digested Mexican food.  I grabbed the evidence bag and shuffled outside to look for an outdoor garbage.  I spot a cart that one of the cleaning people use and there was a garbage receptacle on that. I had no choice and went for it.  The cleaning person must have been in a room cleaning so I stealthed my way to it and dropped the bag in it and dashed out of there.  I then went back to the gym and finished my 20 minutes on the bike.  Mistress Mavros did not discover the true nature of this event, but merely thought I was just using the bathroom.  No more accidents on vacation occurred as I was more careful to go as soon as the sensation was felt rather than risk it all over again.  Morale of the story?  Never play Russian Roulette with your an#s.

Hello, are you still here?

GREAT! 

Now about LEGION!!!!

LEGION

WAHOO!!  Another old boss resurrected to bring back the wow gamers?  I don’t even know and most know I don’t care about lore, but is it so hard to create new stories?  Do we really need to go back in time and re-fight the villains from the past?  I digress, I was SUPER fing excited for Warlords.  I think elements of it I liked and other things I disliked immensely.  Hmm, let’s go through them since we have some time.

Shit I hated:
1)       Leveling.  Same grind, different xpac.  BLIZ, I don’t give a shit HOW beautiful the new world is, I hate it all, just get me to max level with either $$ or with 5 mans or some other way rather than collecting 10 douches and then going back to kill the douche boss for him to drop his vial of vinegar to return to some peon in town that claims the world will end if we do not.
2)      5 mans.  Make them better or more epic or something.
3)      The People’s legendary.  Stop it.  We don’t ALL need legendaries.  The grind for them sucks and forces us to do LFR which would PROMISED we wouldn’t have to do.  You lied!  Also, we cannot change mains because then we are too far behind OR we can do even MORE LFR and grinding…YEAH! 
4)      Mythic.  Stop it already, make it flexible at ALL levels.  Sorry if the top 1% do not like this, they can go fly a fing kite with my poo on it.  Make all raiding flexible AND cross realm.  There, problem fixed, pay me.
5)      The garrison – seriously, worse than old school dailies.  Fun and col for about for 5 minutes.
6)      SPREAD THE FING RAIDS OUT MORE ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU KNOW YOU WILL have a last tier for 1+ year! 
7)      4 piece bonuses.  Enough already change these or make them selectable.  I don’t know, they feel like feast or famine.  Shit like, “My toon will suck until I get 4 piece” is not good.
8)      Too many raid tiers.  Get rid of Normal mode.  It is the old flexible mode, but now that Heroic is flexible why bother with N mode?  Make Mythic flexible and this is perfect.  AND Heroic raiders should never want or need to do LFR.  Doing the same boss on LFR, N, then H and maybe Mythic is nothing short of ridiculous.
9)      Healer disparity.  Fix the damn mitigation healers already.
10)   There is more, but I am not a hater.  ;)

Shit I liked:

1)      Flexible raiding, see above though
2)      The quality of life changes with bag space was all good stuff and the other things I am forgetting.
3)      Overall the raid bosses I did on Heroic felt ok to me.  Hellfire Citadel had a few in the beginning which were straight dumb.  The assault and reaver garbage.  Overall though, not too bad. 
4)      The gear sharing between specs is a good change.  Do not need to build completely different gear sets for alternate specs, just a few pieces. 
5)      I am sure there is more, but I forget which is probably not a good thing.

Legion.  Right.  Sorry for the tangent.  

Legion Raiding

So, Mythic will STILL not be flexible and STILL not be cross realm.  (only cross realm mythic UNTIL legion).  Ugh. 

Talents

I hear about these all new talent systems or talents, which sounds exciting, time will tell. 

Artifact Weapons

New artifact weapons.  Great, THE new version of people’s legendaries.  So, again, swapping alts, not really an option once you get into the thick of things.  New class. Demon Hunter, early reports say, best class ever.  Uhh great, why not fix the ones we have now??  Also, why not add a 3rd spec to be ranged if there is insistence on the DH class??   

More than just 2 specs

One good thing I heard/read, multiple specs, not just 2 anymore.  3 or maybe even 4 for druids since they can have 4 specs.  So, you can have all saved and swap between them if necessary.  The bad?  Fights might be SO theroycrafted now that you need to change DPS specs between each boss.  That ruins the “fun” aspect blizz was going for when they removed reforging, etc.

5 Mans

This sounds cool so far.  Can keep ramping up the difficulty ala Diablo to make 5 mans harder and harder and get some ilevel gear as raiding.  Sounds good, but not sure it’s the best approach.  Also, will tier and trink pieces be available?  I am guessing no.  I guess pre-raid gear will be attained in the highest 5 man possible and then you go into raid to get trinks and tier gear.  This is my guess.  I am ok after further thought.  It DOES allow a new main to get geared at same ilevel sans trinks and tier pieces and maybe get into a raid sooner than later if your first main was not fun for you or sucked.

Leveling

Start leveling in any zone and it will scale to your current level.  I guess that is fine, but it is still going to be a QUEST grind to get there.  I guess two different level toons could level in a new area and then whatever math/algorithm can make the xp split.  Again, not even sure this will work or even matters much.  For those that still claim they love to level, I fart in your general direction…  I seriously would rather PVP for 20 hours then level for 20 hours.

Healer Changes

As a healer, I like what I read about the healer changes specifically the disco priest.  We shall see how the synergy with some of the stuff I am reading plays out.

That it? 

I think there is plenty more to discuss about Legion, but it is all I can recall for now.

WOW IPs

Blizzard has greatly expanded its brand and now the multitude of IPs is crazy.  I have played them all to an extent, but none as much as WOW and Diablo. (Unless you include old school Warcraft, I would LOVE a Warcraft 4 RTS!!)  Even still, I feel WOW is and always will be my favorite game within the IP list.  Yeah, I am sure OW will be good, but I hate FPS and most 10 year olds are better than all of us.  Hearthstone, I just can’t get into it, I just do not care enough.  Heroes of the Storm, fun for a match or two, then boring again.  Starcraft I love until the campaign is over, then that is it for me.  Diablo changes were good in S4, but too easy to gear and then the lag/monk OPness made it less fun.  2.4 may get me back a little. I just hate the current best Wizard spec (Vyrs) and I am a Wizard at heart.

MY RETURN?

Do you even care?  Do people reading this even know me?  The guy that always touted being around since Vanilla and would probably always be around, but has not played in 8+ months?  I stopped playing for a number of reasons one being I was dating and work, but now I have a mistress. (Although work is still a bit messy, long story…) I told her about my gaming, but I also told her I quit.  It has not come up in a while though, but there were a few times when she called me and I was playing SC and she knew I was not paying attention to her.  No, she doesn’t play WOW or any game and she would probably suck at it.  She is pretty good at scissoring though.  

Maybe some of you miss my stories of poo, sex, dating, beer, wine, liquor, the feel of Blood’s taint on my cheek, etc.  Maybe some hated those stories and antics.  Whatever it was, I am just not sure.  I am not seeing enough changes to MAKE me want to plunge back in, but Legion may not be out until July/August.  I am guessing a few weeks after the movie comes out.  Oh, yeah, speaking of that, the movie trailer is NOT epic.  It is sort of weird with a lot of catch phrases like, “we must kill the ORCS, ARGH!”, then a fight scene then, an orc saying, “We must decimate the HUMANS, ARGH!”  Will I see it?  Of course, but do not tell me it was epic or whatever the new hipster word for epic is.  Remember when the word for epic was “word”?  Or “dope”.  We are a moronic society, aren’t we? 
I would say you will have a Mavros sighting in Legion, but in raid?  Still TBD.  Anyway, I miss you all.

/touchballs

-Mav