Permanently enchant a weapon so your damaging spells and melee weapon hits occasionally inflict an additional 150 Frost damage and reduce the target's melee, ranged, and casting speed by 15% for 8 sec. Requires a level 60 or higher item.

Realmhistory.net is reporting that of the top 5 most popular comps so far in season 4 in 2v2, 88% include a druid. More shocking, there are currently absolutely 0 paladins over 2200 in 2v2 and 3v3 in season 4, making me the only paladin currently over 2200. (Again, the source is realmhistory.net)

http://wowriot.gameriot.com/blogs/ [...] rspective/
 
For anyone that hasn't read this post, they should.  It is bar none the best post posted on this pathetic gaming website since its release, and every kind of player should read it; whether you are a hater, a flamer, a troll, or just a nice guy who likes to read up on the happenings of WoW.  Gameriot is filled with more drama than any Teen Vogue magazine i've ever been forced to read, and this post by Dahis pretty much makes the past year of reading all this arena bull**** and blogging about how much I hate this game sometimes, well worth it.
 
I have never been one to talk about my personal problems.  My best friend however, is the complete opposite, and I never understood how he did what he did.  He was able to walk into any store in the mall, talk to the most attractive girl in there, and within a few minutes have her number, her address, and knew how many guys she had slept with; along with a date planned for later that night.  It always amazed me that people could do stuff like that, because it required drawing so much attention to yourself.  To make conversation you either hope you have a lot of the same interests, and you can talk for a while, or you talk about yourself while they listen, and hope they are interested in you.  For me, I was always the listener, and never could understand how people could walk around running their mouth all the time - and people would actually listen!
 
However, a lot of times you have to do just that.  You have to tell people what is going on, and it isn't bad to talk about your life for a little bit.  Over a thing like an MMO, you have no idea who people really are.  You can take guesses (as i'm sure a lot of people thought Serennia was some fking psycho, built, been to jail 3 times for attempted murder....guy) but then you see their pictures, talk to them in person, and suddenly realize they are just another guy trying to make a name for themselves in whatever way they can.  
 
The problem is, a lot of people don't bother to get to know people.  It is just how it goes with MMO's I guess, because i've noticed that a lot of people at this point in the game aren't looking for "new friends."  Everyone (or at least a lot of people) carry around this elitist persona that enables them to approach people with phrases like "sup terribad" and "haha whatsup phaggot" when the other person hasn't even said a word to them yet.
 
Now i'm not saying I've never done that, I mean, let's face it....some days you just wanna be an asshole.  But the thing is, a lot of people don't really know what is going on behind the screen.  Regardless of how many people post on my blog saying i'm a terrible player, saying I can't write for ****, or even saying I look like **** irl when really, let's just face it, i'm a qtpi and 1/2; I still have people who enjoy what I do.  I have people to like playing with me, I have people who enjoy reading my blog, and I have people who have fun playing against me in arenas - and that really is all that matters.
 
A lot of people say "WoW is just a game" but sadly, to many people, it is an association.  It is a place for kids who do have rough lives, to release.  It is a place where people who always have to try so hard to fit in irl, can be whoever they want to be.  It is a place where you aren't stressed by what you look like, what clothes you wear, what your SAT score was, or what girl your dating -- or at least it wasn't before GameRiot came around and everything revolves around RL pics, how built you are, and your pathetic arena ratings, which could basically equate to "how many friends you have irl" if you wanted to make that kind of connection.
 
A lot of people don't realize why I keep blogging.  I never did this so I could practice for my major next year in college, cuz if I was doing it for practice I would care a lot more about my grammatical errors and punctuation.  I also didn't start doing it so everyone would know who I am.  I did it because I felt like a lot of other people were thinking the same things I was regarding this game and life, and if it was even only a few people, I wanted to connect with them.
 
Every few months I get that random PM from someone who has a problem, either in-game or IRL, and they decide to talk to me about it.  I sit there, as I read their message with talks of suicide, followed by asking me for some advice, and I try to figure out why they would pick me of all people to talk to.  But I realized that, if someone comes to you like that, you obviously have had an impact on their life.  
 
Roughly a year 1/2 ago, one of the people I used to play with, stopped answering his phone, didn't log on, was never on AIM - basically all contact with him was lost.  Eventually he logged back on, and I immediately messaged him asking him where he had been for a month, and he told me that he had been in the hospital for attempted suicide.  I sat there, not really knowing what to say, and eventually I asked him what happened.  He said he got pretty close, cut a major nerve in his hand impairing movement for the rest of his life, but he stopped cutting after a few minutes because he couldn't take the thought of hurting other people through his actions.  He lost a lot of blood, and was in the hospital to make sure he was ok mentally, but when he said "I didn't care about a lot of people, but I knew that you would be upset and I didn't want that to happen just because I was unhappy at the time."  
 
When someone says something like that to you, basically saying you were one of the few reasons they wanted to keep living, you are really forced to sit back and think about what an impact you have had on their life.  This friend of mine had no parents, lived with his grandparents who beat him, lived in the middle of nowhere, was forced to move from his school with all his friends, and WoW was literally the only thing keeping him sane.  I played with him every day for almost 2 years, and I still talk to him occasionally.  WoW is a game, and shouldn't be taken to any extreme.  But remembering how many times this game has kept you from bashing your head through a window pane cuz your GF just blew you off to "hang out" with your best friend, alone, and his house....all night....is also a good thing to do.  It is fine to take breaks from the game, maybe even quit; but don't disregard how many times you saw this game as the most fun thing in the world to do, whether it be for an hour, a day, or the past 4 years.
 
Dahis gave me a nice reality check, and hopefully it did the same for others.  So Faction, when you want to "bring people back down to earth," I understand how much that means to you....but let's not forget that a reality check of how good or bad you are at this game, is pretty pathetic compared to life.  But I guess that is the mindset some people are forced to take on when WoW is no longer a game....
 
But a lifestyle.

That's how I'm supposed to start a whiny blog like this, right? ^
 
Woot.
 
1. Rogues who don't use kick on 1.5 second heals because the energy is best rather used on a damage, which will outdamage any 1.5 second heal under wound poison anyway. This is balanced.
 
2. Deep Thunder dominating everyone during all of season 1. This was balanced.
 
3. Stormherald dominating everyone during all of season 2. This was balanced.
 
4. Warriors gaining 252 armor penetration on their set in s3, while cloth armor sets gained 92 armor. s4 cloth sets still have negative armor gains compared to total armor penetration gains. This is balanced.
 
5. Caster staff s3>s4 gains:  19 spell damage and 4 spell crit rating. The mace gains 26 damage and 4 crit rating. This is balanced (lol spell coefficients).
 
6. Being burned down by 2 players in less than 5 second while being unable to use a single ability. This is balanced just like it was at level 60.
 
7. Cleave teams being effective while 2 or 3 of the players on the team depending on the bracket don't have to make any decisions, just have to be told to tunnel vision a certain target all match, can probably be played by 5 year olds and still achieve victory vs any team with a cloth wearer. This is balanced.
 
9. 37 of the current 40 top 2v2 teams having a certain class with mobility in all of them. This is balanced.
 
8. Mages, warlocks, and priests having the same mobility as druids once every 5 minutes and being able to possibly escape the ridiculous physical dps scaling blender of death in this game = nope, not balanced.
 
9. Shadowpriests being able to play this game to any successful degree= nope, not balanced.
 
Rocket boots were overpowered. The actual mechanics needed to be slightly tweaked, specifically the damage at the end needed to be removed as not to break sheeps and blinds. The 20% backfire rate would have been completely fine along with the removal of the damage and **** it, even a speed reduction. That would have been balanced. But they were completely removed along with any feeling I had that wow was starting to have a glimmer of actual balance.
 
Completely removed. This is just all too symbolic.
 
Guess we'll be spending a lot more time together, my physical dps friends. You bring the drinks, I'll bring the 0 armor. If we're feeling up for a good laugh, I'll trinket a stun and you can immediately slow me again and we can just have a laugh at how silly I was to do that. Later on if we're drunk enough, I'm up for taking off each other's pants and seeing where things go from there.