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sparkindarknessWow Rambling follows.
Father Tol eyed the drake nervously. He couldn’t imagine riding the Emerald creature but he knew it was the key to defeating ley Guardian Eregos, master of the Occulus. He exchanged nervous looks with Imrah, the Night Elf’s eyes the only thing visible behind his thick, plate helmet.
“No, we can‘t be having with any of that.”
Father Tol blinked at the master strategist, General Achievement’s words.
“The Green Drake will help heal us, General.” Tol ventured.
“No, no, take another Bronze Drake, there‘s a good fellow. We won’t be needing Green Drake.” The General scoffed.
“We’re doing this without any kind of healer? Even though there’s one here? Provided?” Imrah yelped
“Yes. We’re going this the ACHIEVEMENT WAY! Tally ho!” Sang the General.
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Nicken raised his hands, arcane magic flaring around his fists - a barrage of arcane missle flew towards the undead Nerubian.
“NONE OF THAT!” Roared General Achievement, knocking the mage’s hand away.
“But it’s a Guardian! It is protecting them with a shield!” Nicken pointed desperately at Ozone the Rogue, his daggers harmlessly glancing off the shield around Elder Nadox. Imrah was desperately trying to hold a swarm of invulnerable insects off Brother Blod before the Paladin was overwhelmed.
“Bah boy, you know nothing of tactics, my plan is to ignore the only enemy we can actually hurt and wait longer until we can hit the rest!”
“But...”
“We’re doing this the ACHIEVEMENT WAY!”
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Brother Blod stared with determination at the fallen pile of bones just waiting to leap up into unholy animation. The Frost Dragon, Sapphiron, the last guardian before Kel’Thuzad himself.
“Sapphiron dies today.” The Paladin muttered, eyes alight with fervour.
“Yes he will, Borther. Especially with your holy aid.” General Achievement boomed.
“Indeed, my Sister Lola and I have the power of the light within us. We can protect you against frost.” with a prayer a shimmering blue aura settled on the raid, shielding them from the icy cold.
“None of that! I meant you’d be healing a lot. This cold hurts don’tcha know!”
“But General,” Sister Lola protested, “He is a frost dragon. All of his attacks are cold attacks, why not use our protection?”
“Because we are doing this the ACHIEVEMENT WAY!” Roared the General
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They were there, Kel’Thuzad in their sight. The most powerful Arch Liche on all of Azeroth, master of Frost and Undeath... Eagerly the raiders gathered around their leader... General Achievement as he explained their master plan.
“Now see here you people, I want you all to gather up in a tight group - all of us must be within 10 yards of the tank. He will call shadow auras on the ground, it’s vital - VITAL - at that moment that you all use the /dance emote. Now, has everyone got their 12lb catfish to hold in their offhand?”
“Sir, this is insane.” Imrah growled.
“Of course it’s insane, boy. This is the ACHIEVEMENT WAY!”
I’m not against the achievement system per se. I actually like it. I like a recording of what we’ve managed. And an achievement to show you managed it with SKILL like Make Short Werk of Him (kill Patchwerk in 3 minutes) or Intense Cold (avoid Keristraszas’ frost aura stacking) or the Safety Dance (everyone surviving Heigan), no-one crossing the streams on Thaddeus? Definitely. I am all for it. An achievement that is actually an achievement? That shows you’re skillful and pro and good - definitely.
But an achievement that shows you’re very very stupid but maybe have great gear? Not having a frost resistance aura on Sapphiron? Not taking a Green Drake against Eregos? Not stopping Grand Widow Faerlina’s Enrages? Not killing the Guardians on Elder Nadox? That’s not an achievement - ignoring basic tactics isn’t an achievement, it’s blithering stupidity. Yay you got an achievement because you didn’t bother to cleanse poisons, shatter frost blocks or use your basic abilities? Yeah, we slap guildies for slacking like that!
It vexes. Yes, I know the content is limited at the moment, but expanding the content by convincing us to do raids we’ve cleared - but with extra stupidity? No thanks. I don’t want to spend half the night fighting a raid boss using a deliberately stupid tactic just so I can get the Suicidal Fish Slapper achievement.
Father Tol eyed the drake nervously. He couldn’t imagine riding the Emerald creature but he knew it was the key to defeating ley Guardian Eregos, master of the Occulus. He exchanged nervous looks with Imrah, the Night Elf’s eyes the only thing visible behind his thick, plate helmet.
“No, we can‘t be having with any of that.”
Father Tol blinked at the master strategist, General Achievement’s words.
“The Green Drake will help heal us, General.” Tol ventured.
“No, no, take another Bronze Drake, there‘s a good fellow. We won’t be needing Green Drake.” The General scoffed.
“We’re doing this without any kind of healer? Even though there’s one here? Provided?” Imrah yelped
“Yes. We’re going this the ACHIEVEMENT WAY! Tally ho!” Sang the General.
*******************************
Nicken raised his hands, arcane magic flaring around his fists - a barrage of arcane missle flew towards the undead Nerubian.
“NONE OF THAT!” Roared General Achievement, knocking the mage’s hand away.
“But it’s a Guardian! It is protecting them with a shield!” Nicken pointed desperately at Ozone the Rogue, his daggers harmlessly glancing off the shield around Elder Nadox. Imrah was desperately trying to hold a swarm of invulnerable insects off Brother Blod before the Paladin was overwhelmed.
“Bah boy, you know nothing of tactics, my plan is to ignore the only enemy we can actually hurt and wait longer until we can hit the rest!”
“But...”
“We’re doing this the ACHIEVEMENT WAY!”
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Brother Blod stared with determination at the fallen pile of bones just waiting to leap up into unholy animation. The Frost Dragon, Sapphiron, the last guardian before Kel’Thuzad himself.
“Sapphiron dies today.” The Paladin muttered, eyes alight with fervour.
“Yes he will, Borther. Especially with your holy aid.” General Achievement boomed.
“Indeed, my Sister Lola and I have the power of the light within us. We can protect you against frost.” with a prayer a shimmering blue aura settled on the raid, shielding them from the icy cold.
“None of that! I meant you’d be healing a lot. This cold hurts don’tcha know!”
“But General,” Sister Lola protested, “He is a frost dragon. All of his attacks are cold attacks, why not use our protection?”
“Because we are doing this the ACHIEVEMENT WAY!” Roared the General
**************************************
They were there, Kel’Thuzad in their sight. The most powerful Arch Liche on all of Azeroth, master of Frost and Undeath... Eagerly the raiders gathered around their leader... General Achievement as he explained their master plan.
“Now see here you people, I want you all to gather up in a tight group - all of us must be within 10 yards of the tank. He will call shadow auras on the ground, it’s vital - VITAL - at that moment that you all use the /dance emote. Now, has everyone got their 12lb catfish to hold in their offhand?”
“Sir, this is insane.” Imrah growled.
“Of course it’s insane, boy. This is the ACHIEVEMENT WAY!”
I’m not against the achievement system per se. I actually like it. I like a recording of what we’ve managed. And an achievement to show you managed it with SKILL like Make Short Werk of Him (kill Patchwerk in 3 minutes) or Intense Cold (avoid Keristraszas’ frost aura stacking) or the Safety Dance (everyone surviving Heigan), no-one crossing the streams on Thaddeus? Definitely. I am all for it. An achievement that is actually an achievement? That shows you’re skillful and pro and good - definitely.
But an achievement that shows you’re very very stupid but maybe have great gear? Not having a frost resistance aura on Sapphiron? Not taking a Green Drake against Eregos? Not stopping Grand Widow Faerlina’s Enrages? Not killing the Guardians on Elder Nadox? That’s not an achievement - ignoring basic tactics isn’t an achievement, it’s blithering stupidity. Yay you got an achievement because you didn’t bother to cleanse poisons, shatter frost blocks or use your basic abilities? Yeah, we slap guildies for slacking like that!
It vexes. Yes, I know the content is limited at the moment, but expanding the content by convincing us to do raids we’ve cleared - but with extra stupidity? No thanks. I don’t want to spend half the night fighting a raid boss using a deliberately stupid tactic just so I can get the Suicidal Fish Slapper achievement.
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Date: 2009-02-04 07:34 pm (UTC)"Wait, wait, I have one. How about we make them all dance during the raid? And--get this--we're going to make them hold fish while they do it."
"They'll never go for it."
"Hey, they went for the drake thing..."
"You're right. It's brilliant! Another round of margaritas for everyone!"
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Date: 2009-02-06 03:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-02-04 08:20 pm (UTC)It's worse when some moron who's got better gear and more skill than anyone else in guild gets bored and tries to convince the undergeared n00bs to try to kill Sartharion with all three drakes up just because he's so tired of gearing up everybody else. We wiped on 10-man Sapphiron the other night because this guy really wanted the achievement, even though he was in a run full of alts and people without gear. We put our frost resist on and suddenly the fight was cake. (We wiped our way through 10-man Naxx trying to get this man his achievements.)
It's also annoying to have to be dependent on other people (who are, often, idiots) to get those achievements. Even if we hadn't wiped on Sapphiron that time, we still would not have gotten the achievement, because one idiot DPSer had put his FR gear on anyway.
Sometimes, they're fun. When they're impossible, or just silly, or when you're not ready for them yet, they're atrociously annoying. "Hey, let's do Malygos without gear, and using only one spell or attack! There's an achievement called [What the Hell Were You Thinking?]!!!"
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Date: 2009-02-06 03:54 pm (UTC)