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The Innkeepers Daughter

The Inn Keepers daughter is a Trinket that Hearths you back your home inn, ( or hearth place) , and  it’s an archaeology drop.

The story in Wow is that basically it  is  a wayward innkeepers daughter of ill repute that embarrassed her father so he made a deal with warlock to turn her into a hearthstone so she would always come home.

But why does she appear as a a ghost?

I will tell you the real story… ( or at least a better version)

The Highway Man by Alfred Noyes

Once upon a time a Highwayman loved the Innkeepers daughter

“He whistled a tune to the window, and who should be waiting there
But the landlord’s black-eyed daughter,
Bess, the landlord’s daughter,
Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair. “

The redcoats used her as bait to capture her lover the Highway man

” They had tied her up to attention, with many a sniggering jest;
They had bound a musket beside her, with the barrel beneath her breast! “

for they knew he would come to her

“Watch for me by moonlight,
I’ll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way”

and he kept his word

Down the ribbon of moonlight, over the brow of the hill,
The highwayman came riding,
Riding, riding!

and to save her love  she warned him.

Her musket shattered the moonlight,
Shattered her breast in the moonlight and warned him—with her death.

When he heard of her sacrifice,

How Bess, the landlord’s daughter,
The landlord’s black-eyed daughter,
Had watched for her love in the moonlight, and died in the darkness there.

Back, he spurred like a madman, shrieking a curse to the sky,

But he died too

When they shot him down on the highway,
Down like a dog on the highway,

So I would like to think that the Inn Keepers daughter, is a hearth stone because she will always be waiting for her lover by the moonlight in the Inn. ( except in the poem she is Darkhaired instead of a red headed giggling ghost.

I Love this poem, and when a guildy first spoke of “The innkeepers daughter” I started sprouting poetry in guild chat, and I was disappointed that my impressions of what could have been a romantic backstory of an innkeepers daughters sacrifice in a wow piece,  was actually a father killing his daughter because she shamed him.   ( She appears as a ghost randomly when you use the hearthstone so what happened to her if not death?)

But because I have this poem now on my mind,  on my tongue, on my heart   and in my ears – Loreena Mckennitt does an amazing version of the poem in song  ( of course I sang along)

Flavourtextlore  discovered  that “Your justice point Gear is named after Famous Poetry” as pointed out in a Article by Joystiq

In keeping with the theme of  using poetry for Gear ( and that I love The highway man )  I have almost completed a outfit.

Weapon

torrent of darkness

Helm

French cocked-hat

Pants,

Breeches of Brown Doe Skin

Chest

Coat of Claret Velvet

A Neck

Bunch of lace

A belt

Gypsy’s Ribbon

Maybe a Off-hand

Dark Red Love Knot

Matching Rings with a set bonus

black cascade

black waves

Trinkets

cascade of perfume

stroke of midnight

 

I  am Just missing Boots cloak and bracers

6th – A Meme from Gnomeaggedon

I was challenged by Gnomeaggedon from Armaggedon’s coming! like he did 3 years ago.

  • Go into your image folder
  • Open the sixth sub-folder and choose the sixth image.
  • Publish the image! (and a few words wouldn’t hurt, though I dare say I couldn’t stop a blogger from adding a few words of their own).
  • Challenge six new bloggers.
  • Link to them.

This is not really exciting, and requires an explanation.   Its a shot from Wow Modelveiwer that I was doing for a post

 

The different version of the Pic ended up being  used for a post Trying to explain why there was no second hand clothing

I am Tagging  Chatmay from The Wow Debutante

Riv from A High latency Life

Kiwired from One of these alts  ( because I know your still out there.. )

Klepsacovic from Troll Racials are overpowered

Natarumah from Twisted Faith

and Cass and Lath from Hots & Dots cause maybe your still around, and it looks like I shall by raiding on your server soon.

Please come up with something more exciting then I…..

 

Look at my awesome dps.. hang – on what’s this spellweave?

I am not as awesome as I appear.

Spellweave seems to have given me an awesome dps boost.

Spellweave on a hunter?

Yes Spellweaving

This Shadow priest  ( not me) got an even bigger kick out of it.

and the funny thing,


Beaten by a hunter.

( and I was keeping VT up on everything as much as possible)

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I now have 5 toons I’m running through LFR,  My hunters and Priest are always great in comparison usually near the top, or chasing the tops coat tails – ( unless there are three holy priests and then it will vary by who  gets their Sanct down first. ( 4 piece for priests and Sanctuary is awesome.  It’s pretty much set and forget until cooldown comes up) .  Shammy is now healing, and doing better at that then when she was Dpsing,  she was never baaaadddd..  just never good, and my Mage is running it sporadically.  Because x10 wings a week is a little bit of  a time sink, I don’t get them all done,  and sometimes I am waiting 21 min for a dps Queue,  and I am killing the same bosses, I’m getting pretty bored.

I have never had 5 toons at this level of gear ever.  Zahraah now has both her dps and heals 4 set,  the rest are working on getting more then a 2 set, most of them have at least one DW weapon, and both my hunters now have the Bow and the polearm.  This is all great,  but to what end. being awesome in LFR?

I’ve been doing the LFR wings alternating dps/heals – adds variety, and it’s quite easy to get complacent, and think that maybe being on the top of the meters in LFR  is a good thing,  and then you get bought back to reality when you do a firelands or a BH and you really are just average when being pitted against real raiders in real raid gear.  This kind of shatters any illusions of grandeur you  have.

Maybe it’s time for a bigger fishbowl

Being a Jerk & the administration of Justice

League of legends  a free to play MMO has introduced a tribunal as covered in  Kotaku – and most of the basics are covered in  League of Legends FAQ

In short, sick of thousands of complaints in a growing player base,  they are giving these player reported cases back to the players to decide what they should do. Cases are reviewed by players who qualify and agree to this.  They then get random cases to review, access to the complaint, and potentially a copy of the chat logs of the incident.  If found guilty by a majority the punishment is suspension,  but if a player keeps getting suspended their suspension period goes up, and eventually may get banned.

I bring this up, because its a novel idea, and one that could be applicable to Wow. I’ve not played League of Legends, but I have reported players to Blizzard for misbehaving, or providing ‘a negative experience’ , it doesn’t happen as often as you would think, and I’m pretty sure I have written about most of the times in someway in this blog. That I felt so deeply affected by the behavior of one player that I needed to raise it with Blizzard.  Yes I have been deeply enough affected by a player to vent here, to make a comment to them, in raid, or in chat, but actually bring it up the line to a formal complaint, I haven’t done it that often.

Why don’t I do it more?

Well I have to be deeply affected first.  That your pixel text, or character needs to raise in me such righteous indignation that flames beyond a short burst.

And secondly – There  is no real transparency in Blizzards punishment system as we don’t know how they get punished, and I can think of one example of  a player who ninja’d a significant pot of gold from a GDKP. The players had entered into an agreement, a contract of service, and at the very least of expectation that certain rules would be followed. He broke that agreement ran off with all the gold,   he was reported, and in all appearances,  none of the people who were scammed got their gold back,  and he was back on server within a week.

and guess what, he did it again.

Yes I get frustrated at Jerks, yes I have been insulted, yes I read in sadness the state of trade chat. Yes when people who do jerky things proclaim ” I’ve been reported heaps of times and nothings happened” I feel the current process is ineffective.

“A jury of your peers” is one component of most western world justice systems that I have heard of, but can it work in a game, and is it necessary?

It’s unclear how many people will review a case in League of Legends but I have one major concern

“The gamer judges will be rewarded with “influence points,” one of the game’s currencies with which they can buy new characters and gear in the game. But the judges will only get those points if they vote in the majority, the majority verdict being the one Riot will assume is the right verdict. Those who consistently vote in the minority will lose their tribunal privileges”

I’m not sure I like the idea of being rewarded for administrating  justice ( but what else would be incentive enough) , or punished for not agreeing with the majority.  I can’t imagine that everyone would be paying spectacular attention to all the issues ( even with a compulsory page view time before you can give a verdict) and make snap decisions as they churn their way through case after case. They have the wrong incentive to do that,  a reward. Justice is supposed to be blind, and impartial.  When you add the reward  for majority decision  Your first purpose  – to clean up the community can be forgotten.

We have been taught to grind by the nature of the games we play.  We grind Rep, gear, quests, badges.  It would be very easy for any of us to slip into a Justice administration grind when there is reward to be had.

I think they should have tried to do their tribunal with no reward or public recognition.

I also think you would get enough of the right kind of volunteers that still have an interest in cleaning up the community, and I think that interest  – to be completely fair and impartial needs to be first.  If something of that sort was introduced into Wow consider the people in our greater community who already contribute things of value to the player base for free. I believe it would be relatively easy to get those people involved.

My Hunters Transmogs

I have taken some care as to how I dress my hunters, and have tried to keep to a color coordinated theme each.

Yes they could be considered dressed risque and completely impractical,  but I like the look, and that’s what’s important right, pure atheistics as apposed to practicality.

But it is like playing dress ups on my barbies again. ( Yes I had barbies, and I even used to make clothes for them ) All these were straight off the AH.  I stood there in the dressing room on the AH and tried on all the gear until I found a look I like at a price I can afford. ( All skimpy mail leggings are going for a small fortune )

Zippina  ( now on Barth )

For some reason these pants on Dwarves create an un- natural attachment, so  I don’t wear these.

The alternative is what has to be the most multicoloured mix you could get, and I shall dub this my Pvp rainbow frump look. ( fashion 101  – do not wear turtle necks when you have big boobs)

And Desdemonia my horde hunter on Jubei”Thos who even got a cloak to match!

What I notice more so on my Horde hunter wearing her bright green,  is how colourful she is compared to most people.  If you look around a city most people are dressed in very dull greys and browns. I think the green is refreshing.

How to get that #1 dps spot in LFR – Boss by Boss.

Yes another LFR  post

Why would I join a raiding guild ( and actually raid in said raiding guild ) when I can do LFR on 4 toons a week and have endless excitement.

So some general advice

Don’t forget to food and flask, make sure you have all the buffs you can get.  Ask the locks to give you their haste buff, or rogues to give you tricks, don’t be afraid to ask, and ask often.  Being demanding may encourage them to give it to you to shut you up.

No clicking on Lightwells,  and grouping to stand on the healers AOE, why should you move or make any effort to keep yourself alive it’s your job to dps and carry the rest of the scrub add killing guild members raid members.  Your Uber dps is what wins all the fights.

If you do die don’t forget that you are important, even if  you managed to pull agro before the tank could. Tell them to Battle rez you.  Tell them again and again, until you get one.  If you die on Deathwing  because you ‘fell’ demand a healer comes back to get you.

Don’t forget to link your Recount after every boss to reinforce in everyone’s mind how awesome you are.

Now for the Boss fights

 Boss 1 Morchock  (Aka Moar Rock  – he is a big rock)

Ignore the resonating crystal  – if you get targeted, even if your line is red. Do not move. It’s only LFR and the healers can heal you through it.

After he casts You have about 2-3 global cool downs before the blood of the earth ( that black stuff )  chases after you. Don’t run to the spines as quickly as possible,  if you get hit there will be a healer in range to heal you up.

Boss 2 Warlord Zon’ozz ( elephant on Steroids)

Pick a spot and don’t move.  Don’t group up so that it makes it easier for the healers to heal or dispel you.  They won’t let you die anyway.

Boss 3 Yor’shaj the Unsleeping ( the ooze dude)

Pick a spot and don’t move, don’t chase after blobs.  Make sure you AOE when the multiple adds come,  and do not kill the Mana ball

Boss 4 Hagara the Unbinding ( lightening emo chick) /swagger

Stand in anything you feel like, frost circles, whirlwinds, lots of Aoeing opportunities on the trash never mind about agro, the tanks have you covered.   Your still going to need to watch out for the spines  or you will die,  and dead dps does no dps.  If you’re a pet class be careful of the spines, and of the lightening phase you may lose your pet – and lose dps..

Boss 5 Ultraxion ( Big dragon staring contest)

Don’t click that purple swirly thing,  the healers will just heal you up,  and no one will remember when you miss it every single time.  You don’t have to do much besides stand there and dps and use your cool downs.

Boss 6 Warmaster Blackhorn ( I’m on a boat.. again.. )

Range is supposed to target the drakes – don’t.  That will involve changing targets. So just focus on the two dude in the center.  When a large purple swirling thing hits the deck, ignore it, you don’t need to move.  You still will need to pay attention to the dark purple circles. Don’t stand in them,  if you do it can be difficult for a healer to heal you through it.

Boss 7 Spine of Deathwing ( I’m on the back of a big mutha of a dragon ripping it’s armour off ( hey its kinda cool )

It doesn’t matter if you kill more stuff  then your supposed to,  dps freely. Just close your ears to the “STOP DPS YOU NOOBS,”STOP ” “OMG Stop!!!” if its red shoot it, and since more tendrils killed means more corrupted blood to dps.  If there is nothing up to kill dps the Amalgamation (s) as you feel like.

Boss 8 – Deathwing ( BIGGEST scary dragon and the dude that this whole expansion is supposed to be about )

Don’t swap to the corrupted tentacle, or the bolt when it spawns.  Stay on the Wing for as long as possible, until the tank screams at you ” SWAP” If your melee and you hide behind the back you might be able to escape detection. Aoe where possible.  Don’t single target anything, the healers can heal through everything.  When you reach the last phase ignore all sets of adds, just focus on deathwing.

In Cahoots

One of the new features coming out is to allow people to form a raid group with people through real ID cross servers for Battlegrounds, classic dungeons and raids, as well as LFR. You can join x-server 5 mans in LFR  through real ID now,  but the change will let you bring more people along,

It’s natural to have some form of favoritism to people you know,  like, want to impress, want them to like you. Even when trying to be fair on the 5 man dungeon levels when there are people from the same guild  running it they might look out for each other more, heal more often, be more forgiving of stupid stuff, encourage silly stuff – eg I’ve been instances where I have had to heal 2 tanks because the two people who knew each other thought it would be funny to try to compete with each other over who the tank was going to be.  When I asked who was tanking I was told it was my job to heal. When crap goes down, and people are dying you may heal your friends a little more than the random.  You might be more attentive of the healers mana if the healer is your friend, defend your friend when the group wants to kick him because he has dc’d. You also might give your friend that piece of loot that they need/want .

I understand wanting to help someone more than wanting to ‘hurt’ them

Why should I give a crap about  the Mage that told the Tank to suck his appendage because he pulled before the tank and got called on it,   Not only was he rude, he wasn’t playing by the ‘rules’.  He could iceblock, and then it becomes the tanks job to fix his mistake,  Then an  offtank who convince the raid to kick *such and such* because of low dps  ( when it was the main tank he wanted kicked)   I can only imagine that his motivations where to get the main tank position and possibly roll on the loot the tank would have ( main tank had been a DK too)  Or maybe he just didn’t like him.

You get a lot more power as a group then you do as an individual.

When it’s 3 rogues and 2 druids from the same guild and server, trying to kick half the raid in a LFR  you can see that there might some under-tow of interest, and that they at least know each other because they are all in the same guild. They were found out, and people started clicking no to the raid kicks.

Its gets a little difficult when it’s  people on the same realm, but different guilds,  and you need to look closer at interactions to determine if they know each other.

But when you add different server, and different guild, and they aren’t shouting greetings in raid chat ” Oh Hai, fancy meeting you here”  then you have no idea who is in cahoots with each other.

And the conspiracy to hoard and swap gear, or kick people they don’t want in the guild  is less transparent.

The upside is you will never know.

The downside is you don’t then have the choice to leave,  take the 30 min debuff  and chance it with another group.

There is nothing fair in a loot roll

I got told to give a spirit cloak in a Twilight 5 man to the healer.  ( Admit ably this was after I had asked did the healer mind if I needed, and had no response until after the roll – and was already in the process of trading it when I was TOLD to give it to them) I had a 378 but I ‘need’ a healing set. I was more upset at the being told to hand it over.

So I handed over this healing cloak, and didn’t bat an eyelid when the healer rolled on the dps staff.

On my horde hunter I paid a DK from my server 500 gold to give me the Agility trinket he needed on after he said ” damn blizz shouldn’t have let me roll need on that” and left group.  He was on my server so I had a second chance – I made the offer – he made some gold on a piece of loot he ‘should not’  have rolled on

In LFR I am passing on the Tier pieces I already have on my priest’s healing spec even though I should be ‘needing’ for my shadow spec

Also in LFR I don’t bother when arguing with people who win two pieces of tier for the same slot,  even though they might be a warrior that doesn’t have a heals and dps set they could use it on. Sometimes this works out ok for me,  On my Shammy the other Shammy who won two leg tokens realised and gave me one, on my priest,  I got a spirit non tier chest that another priest had received two of. It’s about 50/50  in LFR when someone who receives two of something  hands it over.  I won two non tier hands and had 3 people whisper me demanding I give it to them.  I then had to whisper two of them back and say no,  ‘such and such’ was the 2nd highest roll – and I gave it to them.

My heart broke a little on my horde hunter when a hunter seemed to have kept two of the polearms from DW.  He looted two and then left raid quickly after, not sure if he gave it to someone else,  but I was 2nd highest roll and he left a little quickly to trade.

We know that guilds are running LFR wearing gear that is better and  rolling on tier to pass to guildies – and that there are ‘underhanded’ deals being made in regards to the power of a class to roll on an item that they may or may not need.  I had some random offering to roll on a piece of tier for me on one boss, I said no thank you initially  – but then I won the trinket and considered that the piece of teir might be as good  – or at least one step closer to a 4 set, and therefore worth a trade. So I said,  ok,  if you win a token I will trade you.  ( and he didn’t win – so the deal never happened)

We can argue till we are blue in the face with people about what we think is fair or not,  and not only are we battling with lady luck and RNG,  but also the whims of random people.  Sometimes someones idea of fairness aligns with the general sence of fairness in the raid, or amongst a class or role set and they will pass so its not an issue, or they will re-distribute the winnings. Sometimes they will roll just because they can, and blame blizzard for letting them.

We are creatures of free will, and I really don’t want to roll on everything I can, or on something I know I won’t use, as tempting as thinking ” screw you all” is.

It’s only pixels – repeat that to yourself.

but somestimes I feel like singing

“What about me, it isn’t fair
I’ve had enough now i want my share
Can’t you see i wanna live
But you just take more than you give”

and so I leave you with some classic Australian rock from the 1980′s and a band called Moving Pictures ” What about me”

Or if you prefer the Shannon Noll  version

Playing Dress up’s

Where are all the Tarts – opps uh scantily dressed women in Mogged gear?
Can I say that? I think I have just put feminism in MMO’s back a few years.

I shall qualify this first by reminding you I am female, and yes I wore these pants and I liked them. **

For those under a Rock the newest patch 4.3 bought about the  ability to transmogrify via  Transmogrification, pieces of armor to look like other pieces of amour in-game that you have in your possession. AKA Mogging!

The first set of gear I mogged into on my Priest Main was the easiest one I could find, and involved a nice little red crimson cloth set. Feeling ‘sexy’ with plenty of cleavage.  I wore it around a little because I could, and felt rather silly.

I got my tier shoulders and changed into something more respectable.

I came across one of the few players I have seen who have gone out of their way to expose every bit of flesh possible in the AH.  It was more of a crotch-ful – eyeful.  Be careful where you pan your camera when they are standing next to the Auctioneer.

There doesn’t seem to be many people who have mogged their gear into the most extreme cases of  ‘lets show all the flesh I can on my Toon . ‘ The Santa baby Human commoners in their little red santa suit are dressed more scandalously then even a small fraction of players toons are.

” Where are all the Tarts?” is sensationalistic, and it’s a backwards mentality that women are judged by what we wear – more so then a man ever will.  It is a very clear judgement of the choices you make in the clothes you wear as to how you are perceived.  I’m not restarting the armor design and every mans fantasy argument either, but I will observe that given the choice ( within your armor class)  all players have the ability to Mogg their gear into what ever they please, and the vast majority do not seem to have gone down the path of the scantily clad.

Have we been shamed into not dressing like that?  Can we just not be bothered? Have we chosen to dress more respectable,  or is the value we place on matching tiers from the past,  and style more important then dressing like a Tart? ( sic)

I changed out of my Red Crimson set because it ‘felt’ inappropriate – it’s not how I wanted my character to be perceived, but lastly it didn’t match my new tier shoulders and I wanted to show them off more than I wanted my NE boobs cleavage flashed.

Wear/Mogg what you want. Sometimes we have a choice, Sometimes we don’t.  I remember playing my first pally that I attempted and put a  quest reward on in Westfall on to find it wasn’t much more than a bikini bottom with some side flaps and another toon chasing me around telling me to put some clothes on.

But for the same reason I will probably make my toon wear the santa suit at least once,  why occasionally I dress up in a ‘lovely dress’ I like my toon looking cute, feminine, sexy, lovely, adorable, pretty and that’s ok, but I guess I can only liken it to playing dress ups I only want to do it occasionally.

( PS – I love seeing the careful effort people have put into the collection their favorite tier pieces to mogg into)

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On a serious note for when it comes to female armor read  Fantasy Armor and Lady Bits  The problem with Womens armor in games by a man who makes armor ( via Kotaku )

Metal boob shaped plates basically shout ” My heart is in between these – stab me here”

Do you play?

I have two 85′s doing their thing in Raid finder

My main changed her offspec from Disc to Holy so she would do better on metres in raid finder in case I ever wanted to impress someone enough to go into a normal DS  considering whats the point of this existence if I am not even considering to try to get the best gear available I can,   even if I am not raiding, but  this means I can’t PVP as disc,  so I have been Pvping as Shadow only  ( I would get laughed at if I went in as holy)

I miss playing in bg’s and arena as Disc. ( and yes this is a good argument for 3 specs!)

I miss playing.

I was pvping long past the need for points,  I would remember I was honor capped on occasion after getting geared up and spend it on enchanting mats.  Sure I had no real purpose bar the pure pleasure of playing,  but I would log in less, or late take more frequent breaks, do more creative things

My Horde hunter went from DING 85! to Raid finder in just over a week.  I just gquit the random guild that invited me when I was a lobie because well they were never going to do anything organized, and I am hungering for purpose.  I should be getting better gear, I should be raiding, I should..

I have a shammy too that also hit 85 recently that I leveled like a demon – her aim is to suffer  through enough heroic dungeons so she can get that ever important Ilevel through gear or JP points for Raid finder so I can run her through as heals as well.

Does anyone play anymore?  Or is everyone grinding? Jp Points honor, gear.

We run the daily for the points,  we run whatever till we get to cap.  I like bringing my main Zahraah to stuff because well she is really the only toon I care about. I don’t care if she is JP capped, Honor capped, I want to play her.

I  have people close to me, and I do it to some extent -  on what ever alts have my fancy at the time,  that when there is a holiday boss/loot they grind all the toons through it to make sure that they all have a trinket, or the ring, or whatever.

I like playing to play. I shouldn’t need a purpose, or a cap,  or a goal,  I just want to play.

 

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