WoW: My baby does the gri-i-i-i-i-ind~ she does the grind~

[yukie]

Running dungeons for the Wyrmrest rep: it's what's for breakfast.

Er...after-dinner snacky food type...meal...thing.

*cough*

*shuffle*

I don't think I'mma be able to do the Nexus again though. Keri aahjgskdfgdfkj wibble.

Azjol-nerub, though--even though Hadronox is NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE-sized, that place is GORGEOUS. I love being able to solo it now but IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN A RAID AAAGHGHGBAHGHAH. Like, much as going head-to-head with Anub'arak and winning makes me feel goddamn mighty...even if I was one of Arthas's l33t tr00pz in Tyr's hand and all that shiz, I should totally not be able to do that. XD;; He shoulda been a raid boss. WHINE WHINE QQ yeah I know but seriously.

[ETA: Got reminded by epic girlfriend that he WAS a raid boss in trial of the Crusader. Whoops. :B Airhead moment, sorry about that.]

Ah well. At least he isn't liable to hold a grudge.

He probably got a kick out of my running in small circles singing the GET OUT OF MY FACE AAAAGHGH song when he did the subterranean spike-pwning shuffle too.

And I'm still convinced the Nerubians think he's a sellout because of SPIDER PRIDE /\8/\--I mean, he states in Road to Damnation that he is not a willing servant of Ner'z. So I'm thinking the living Nerubians are all like, "No way anything coud have kicked his ass! How come he's undead now and OH FFFFUUU-- HE MUST HAVE SOLD OUT TO THE BIPED"

Either way the city is really pretty. Nerubians have STYLE.

And now I want to start yammering on with my cracked out mental canon in re: their culture and stuff but it is late and really hot out so I must do it LATER~

Comments

[mullenkamp]

1) AN was supposed to be an entire underground questing zone, but it was one of the things that was cut by the time the beta rolled around.

2) Anub'arak was hinted to not be a willing servant of the Lich King even in WC3, Road to Damnation just confirmed it. And he was a raid boss, the raid itself was the worst ever designed and his fight was completely unfun. (not helped by the fact that progression wise you were forced to run it 2-4 times a week)

[yukie]

Azjol-Nerub is beautiful. It's a shame they didn't make it a full zone. I can think of any number of reasons why (time constraints, lag, too-much-stuff-in-one-place-equals-crashy-crashy, map-goes-where WTF...), but I still think it's sad that we didn't get to see more of it and explore it.

I have no bloody idea why I thought Anub'arak Redux was not a raid boss and I don't even know what the hell my brain was classing him as instead! I knew he showed up again, but then my neurons all executed a triple-flip and started do to the chooga, i.e. I'll blame the weather sapping my capacity to think properly (like I ever do, doh-hohoho [/statler-and-waldorf]). Disturbing, my-brain. Very disturbing. Not quite as bad as the time I was staring at the word "the" for five minutes straight because it had ceased to look like a word, but that's up there on the list of "where is my mind~ whe~~ere is my mind~~" moments.

At any rate, Anub'arak is really fun to write (if unnerving for the aloof logic, detached-observer attitude, and the occasional blue-and-orange-morality moments), and his "now, we shall indulge in some SUBTERRANEAN MALARKEY" animation is adorable. It's the little round feet, I dunno. And the zen.

[mullenkamp]

In fairness it was a pretty awful raid, lol. And the fight itself was atrocious, especially in hard mode.

Which just made me angrier, because it was such an ignoble end for a great character. But that's par for the course with legacy RTS characters in WoW (Arthas was about the only one they've gotten RIGHT so far). :\

[yukie]

Yeah; I've been reading up on it and the general consensus seems to be WE DO NOT DISCUSS THAT FESTIVAL OF NO. Like, even the LORELOL supercool doodz got mad about Anub'arak getting hit with the fail stick.

BAH. I am so going to enjoy writing his with-permission rezzing and subsequent strategy snark with Nathanos and Koltira.