I am still alive...

Hey CDL, just thought I'd post to let you all know I'm still alive.

Although thanks to Test I have a few more bruises, test please stop giving zousug ideas.

I hope everything is going smoothly, zousug showed me your raid video looks pretty nice. If any of you read the crap on the wow laughing skull realm board then you know vanquish has been in a few battles recently.

Also any of you guys hitting 60 want to run BRD, or BRLS, or maybe try a small stratholme raid give me a yell. Normally on the weekends. Or if planned ahead I can get up early, but only for those special few.

 

Maybe I can come on TS...

Its such a confusing situation, if I lived in america I would never have left

But its nice when I see a few of you on early in the morning or very late at night

I miss the gnome with attitude, I hope you guys are helping her get the big axe from SM!

I don't think anyone will be calling her an ankle biter after that

 

I assume you mean the post made by silent recently.

First off the only real evidence he has are from 2 past members. One of which left because of the point system we implemented to reward those who ran the large 20+ member raids through Stratholme and BRS.

This system does not give you the ability to grab items for auction or sale, only if you are going to use, and it upgrades you.

Its worthwhile, it means those that put the time in get the reward first, and those that have RL just have to wait a little while.

Garthas couldn't take this and left.

I have to say I do dislike silent, after he used a warrior exploit to steal kills from me while we were trying to get the crusader enchantment. He would literally just use a shout/taunt of some sort that would instantly make the kill his even if he did no damage.

But you were probably not even referring to this, and now I have ranted on for a little bit. I feel better, how about you

 

Just to expand the reason behind the point system.

At level 60, instead of getting the best piece for this or that, it comes down to sets. You may have read about them, sets like Lightforge, valor, dreadmist, devout etc.

To give an example, each boss mob in the higher level instances drops either a head or chest for every set. So say the baron in stratholme drops the legs for every set, cloth/plate/mail every set. This means that its a 4% drop on say lightforge leggings.

What the point system does is give first option to those who have saved their points for a particular drop, like lightforge leggings. Lets say they drop 1 every 20 runs, lets say you go there 19 times, someone else comes along once and gets them over you. Now its not set in stone, so a person with more points can pass etc, and you can get them, and if your the only one who can use it, you can grab it.

But at level 60 a main factor is to get your set, its especially needed if you want to take on onyxia (spellcheck!). Everyone wants to improve their character and its the only way it can be done at that level.

I wrote this out, because I do agree its a pointless system for 5 man groups, and when a boss has a higher drop rate. The point system is only active, and points can only be used in raid groups through instances.

Now also, this doesn't take away from the giving. I've had people pass on items so I could get them, it just prevents the greedy from grabbing everything. If you read the posts from garthas on the forums, just so you know he rolled on plate shoulders in zul'farrak when I was the only plate wearer there.

I hope this clears a few things up, I know I would love it if we could all just get along and see that someone needs it before you, but we can't all have the family feeling CDL has.

Sorry if I've ranted, its just fairly hard to describe how this system helps at level 60.