Dear Blizzard (even if you’re not listening),

So, you’re releasing a new expansion; that’s wonderful (it’s about time for a new one, honestly). In releasing your new expansion you are changing a lot of things, as we’ve seen from the Beta; that’s wonderful (it’s about time, honestly). These changes you are making are really cool, really, but some of them really are striking people as wrong and I think we should revisit a school of thought you have right now.

Death Knights. (Yes, World of Warcraft community, get your groans out of your goddamned systems before this begins. I’m sick of them by now, so let’s get that out of the way. We good? Good). Yes, the over-powered Death Knight (though have you guys seen paladins this expansion? unless you’re a rogue, then you can bitch about every other class. Carrying on).

In the build you have right now, each class needs to pick one tree and a base skill is applied at level 10 that the spec gets making themselves over-powered at that level. While I understand this is a good thing, I think your change to Death Knights is quite… wrong. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve enjoyed this spec and class so far, but once I saw your biggest change for us in Cataclysm I began to wonder what I should level to 80, gear up for raiding, and replace my Death Knight with.

So let’s rewind and ask an important question:

Q: So, Rapture, what spec do you play?
A: I’m a Blood Death Knight.

Now you’ll see where I’m going with this. Blood is now become the tanking tree in the upcoming expansion because, and I quote, “We actually thought the “tri tank” experiment worked out okay. We suspected there would always be a “best” tanking tree, because that’s the way these things shake out, but we hoped it would be close enough that many players could tank with their favorite tree. When we tried out this design for Wrath of the Lich King, we were using it as a test case to see if we wanted to do similar things with the warrior and paladin talent trees. ” ~Ghostcrawler via this thread.

Not to act like I know everything about Death Knights, how many people play each spec and how they use each spec (DPS vs. Tank), but we liked having the options there. All the other classes are getting revamps, I understand this, but what you’re doing here is forcing (yes, read it, forcing) “those few of you who really liked Blood dps” to pick another spec, an entirely different style of playing from which we’re used to, and roll with it. Now come on, can you expect us to be content with that? Absolutely not. And guess what, Blizzard. We’re not.

The confusion arises from a simple mechanic you implemented; that being presences. You guys goofed it up a lot if you planned to test us out and eventually change us into a single-tank-spec class anyways. For those of you joining us now, let’s revisit.

Blood Presence: Strengthens the Death Knight with the presence of blood, increasing damage by 15% and healing the Death Knight by 4% of damage dealt. Only one Presence may be active at a time.

Frost Presence: The death knight takes on the presence of frost, increasing Stamina by 8%, armor contribution from cloth, leather, mail and plate items by 60%, and reducing damage taken by 8%. Increases threat generated. Only one Presence may be active at a time.

I put the important parts in bold for you. Blood Presence increases damage done, while Frost Presence increases health as well as threat generated. So what you’re telling me right now is that now you’re reworking the entire class from the ground up just because you feel it didn’t work out? I’ll admit, when I started seeing Unholy Death Knights showing up on the scene and I was healing, I was a little mystified and scared, but I accepted my brave (and some strange) brethren. What I’m getting at is you’re kind of messing us up, and I don’t really mean the words kind of. You really are. In the end we expected frost to be the tanking tree with blood to have some form of dual-wield possibilities. What we’re now seeing is blood as tanking, frost as dps’ing with a possibility to dual-wield. It’s backwards, and no, it’s not quite the same.

How about we discuss Hero Classes quick. Unfortunately, the words “Hero Class” only mean a couple things to you guys instead of how we’re all seeing it.

Hero Class: Starts out at 55, has its own starting zone, gains talent points for a couple levels through quests.

The way we saw things as Death Knights came on the scene was that there was a pretty cool looking class that could tank in all three specs, as well as DPS in all three specs, had an awesome starting zone and story to go with the expansion’s plot, and got a pretty pony after almost being mauled by an elite Scarlet Crusade hero-wannabe.

What you’re doing here is taking everything we know to be Death Knight and making a new class altogether (as well as an entirely new game instead of just adding on and fixing previous content with a new expansion, but that’s for another rant I won’t have). Again, I understand some classes are seeing an entirely new outlook as well. Protection Paladins get an entirely new repertoire of skills as well as a new rotation, but they’re still almost as busted as they were before. Anyone else got the ability to bubble-hearth? Didn’t think so.

So how about we not change blood into what you’re doing to it and allow us our tri-tanking. Give us an edge no one else has. I think we deserve it. But you have a ghoul pet!. Right. Thanks for reminding us we’re melee with the ability to possibly have 7-8 more ghouls for a few moments while we lag out everyone else in raid and cause QQ’ing because of it.

You did a wonderful job, except for the dragging out, on this expansion. Don’t get me wrong. Just… let’s try and keep the word ‘hero’ in the term ‘hero class’.

Sincerely yours,
Vynaire (because I’m not scared to use my real toon’s name).

Well, lookie here! I can fuckin’ blog from my iPhone. Who would have thought it? So now there is absolutely no reason for me to not blog more often, right? I’ll find a way to make the excuse, lol.

So I felt absolutely sick all morning and it’s a wonder I didn’t end up throwing up once or twice. I feel better now, though!

This week has actually been great, and for no specific reason in particular. Things have just been going well. I’m not getting irritated with everything around me in an overly-fast manner, life has been handing me roses left and right (no thorns! who’d a thunk it?), and I’ve been more than pleasant without needing to fake it at work. The people around me seem to be in about the same spirits as I’ve been in, which has helped me along immensely.

But lately (and by lately I mean yesterday and today) I have this overwhelming sense of absolute dread. There isn’t any reason for this whatsoever, but whenever I sit back and relax I get tense and I see this dark cloud brewing behind my eyelids. My dream last night kind of freaked me out, but it wasn’t something terrible really. In my honest interpretive opinion, I think the dream was just telling me that I have huge change on the way and it’s something I’m not expecting. There were no negative notions in the dream, just reminders of positives while telling me of change. Where all this dreaded feeling I’m having is coming from, I’ve no clue. It’s rather confusing and I want it to go away, haha.

I’ve spent a lot of time with my mom the past week. It’s been fun, even if the hanging-outs are for no reason. The past month I’ve found a new friend within Matt (which was rather random, came out of left field, but I’m okay with that!) and I’ve been re-getting in touch with an oldie but goodie (lol) who I haven’t been talking to as much as I probably should with as much as Michael knows about me. (xD).

Even just sitting here typing this I’m getting that eerie feeling and even having odd thoughts about one-shot books for young adults and the like. It’s all really morbid and this eerie sense is freaking me the fuck out. I don’t get it and I want it to go away >.<;;!

Someone tell me everything is going to be fine, I’m just worrying over nothing for nothing? Ugh, now if only I could sleep… =/

.// Secondary;;

To the friends I have, I thank you for being there and being my secret keepers. My house of secrets would collapse, as well as myself, were you to give yourselves away. (lolHarryPotterreference). To the friends I used to have, I’m not sure I’d have made it out of everything I’ve been though (well… correction… we’ve been through) without you/one another. And to the friends I’ve yet to meet; I’m looking forwards to you as the future is most interesting.

.// Third;;
Wtf numbers, k?

Writing: Don’t ask me about it. Don’t tell me I should do it. Compliment me if you find something I wrote once that you like. But never attempt to get me to write because you think I should. Sure, I admit I should be… but telling me you want me to write isn’t why I write. It’s because, simply, I want to grace the world with something I find beautiful. Until it’s beautiful in my mind, it doesn’t make it to paper. If it takes eons, then so be it. I’m absolutely okay with that and so should you.

NO FOURTH BECAUSE EVEN NUMBERS ARE NOT AWESOME.

I’ve been putting off writing my two novels for a long time now. Hell, there are roughly 12 different books I want to have written, but they’re still either on pieces of paper strewn across various places in my apartment on notebooks and looseleaf aplenty or they are sitting inside my memory waiting to be used.

“But this is an age of technology! Why the fuck are you bothering with handwritten things on paper?!”

The last time I wrote something down and saved it onto a Word document and then put it on my flash drive, I ended up breaking the goddamned thing. I lost roughly 40 documents that were saved and had a ton of information regarding all of my novels on it. I absolutely refuse to risk that again. Sure, I could have a house fire and lose my notebooks and papers, but in the same house fire I could lose the computer too. I feel like I’m taking fewer risks by writing it down on paper.

And then happens the epic battle of wit. The pen versus the pencil. Which tool to use?

Unfortunately, I’m not perfect. Were I perfect, well, there’d be a lot of things different in my life right now. Aside from that, I’m not a fan of writing in pen. I’m weird, I know. I prefer mechanical pencils so much more than pens. 0.5 lead and a million erasers for the win. Putting even that aside, when I pick up a pen, I can’t write. I feel absolutely blank, empty, and boring. Within a pencil I feel like I can do something, even though as I’ve previously pointed out I’m an awesome procrastinator and just simply dont. Idk, I’m awesome like that?

So as of today, I’ve decided I want to get down to business and write. Veremiel shall find his home in the pages of a book and finally roam in his own world instead of taking up extra space in my memory where there’s not so much room in the first place. Hopefully I can get the beginning right because that’s where I’ve always been stuck. There are SO many places for me to begin, but only one can be perfect. Poor Ver, such a traumatic story.

After I get Ver’s storyline done (hopefully with an outline, like a really good friend and mentor suggested to me) I can write about Caleb and Ryan. I’m all for tragic love stories it seems. Slash sigh.

Oh, look. It’s time for work and I’m late getting ready. Ranting does that, eh?

Alright, so I said I do a blog-a-day and, well, didn’t. This has been my first post in over FIVE MONTHS. I totally kept up to my own promises. Wonderful.

I’m actually about to head out to WalMart with my boyfriend (and in the rain, woo) and I will be back tonight to write out something much longer and yay-filled.

I swearz upon the Holy God of Bloolaggo!

*Cough*

Well, it’s been a couple days since I last wrote something. This “blog a day” isn’t going so well. I thought about cheating and changing the blog date, but I can make it up somehow by doing 3 or something a day.

Past couple days… hm… Nothing really, actually. I was stressed about a couple of things, but with hard-headed and determined friends I guess anything is possible.

Actually got to talk to my boyfriend this weekend. Honestly, it’s comforting for once since he hasn’t been on much (I’m not liking his mother -.-).  Some things just get frustrating when someone you care so much about can’t be around like you’d like them to be. Oh well, hopefully it’ll ease up when school is out.

Speaking of school, more frustration. I wasn’t gunna go back. I was DEAD-SET on not going back. And then I thought more about it and I wanted to, won’t have to pay on loans yet, and I won’t have to get a job just yet. (Job hunting in my area right now is laughable). So I go to look and see if I can talk to Financial Aid about granting me the aid and, well, I could have the DAY I re-looked at my letter. Couldn’t get there and I didn’t have a letter written up. So no school for me and I have to do the terrible job hunt. I’m honestly frustrated, I culd have done something this semester, even if it was basic classes towards some whatever degree I wanted to go for… which… I dont’ even know.

I wish that I could write a novel and be set for life.

This aren’t that easy. ~w~;;

That is all.

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This is my January 9th entry.

1) I hate that date for my own reasons

2) I haven’t slept, so it’s till the 9th mentally. >_>

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Anyways, backstory on the title. XD

My boyfriend and I were talking about things IRL that bug us or whatever and I mentioned how I like being able to rest my head on someone’s shoulder and be held by them is, say, we were at a park or something.

“I don’t care if we’re surrounded by Christians with flaming crossbows or surrounded by my family” and as I said that I wasn’t even sure where the hell the analogy came from, but I burst out laughing and am wiping tears from my eyes as I type this (sweet, I can multi-task). You won’t fully get this unless you’re he or I, but it’s still nice to confuse people.

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But yes, that’s my today’s news.

Really nothing spectacular happened.

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Disclaimer: I have nothing against the Christian faith, it just came from my overtired mouth unexpectedly.

Yes, this is a total filler post because I’VE RUN OUT OF THINGS TO BLOG ABOUT (for the moment).

So I look over and notice I have Christmas Cards sitting there… doing… nothing! xD

I haven’t sent them at all, and I know I should have, but goddamn I need stamps. I can’t believe I’m out of stamps! XD

Nothing… exciting today. Just stress. It’ll warm over as always.

Funny of today;;

“Leo says:
but life’s a beach
TehDarkling says:
I feel like the whale. Where’s greenpeace? xD”

I’m sick of writing about how sick I am so here goes on something else for once. x3

Over 3 (or so) years ago I started writing a novel. When I looked into it I relized that the specific one I was writing needed something, it needed more. That book was tossed aside and left to gather dust (I don’t have a clue where it is right now except for ‘somewhere in my room’). From there I started what I once thought to be the first book, again, in that series and was once again shown that it didn’t have enough backbone to hold itself up as a starter. This book, as well, was set aside to gather dust until it was needed on its own.

At the tail end of last year I started a trilogy of books which would start off the set of seven books that would follow shortly after the three. I set it aside after writing down some core ideas for the races that would be present within this book.

Recently I’ve been thinking that one of my dreams as a child was to have one of my own books sitting up on a shelf, seeing people buying the book, hearing them being interested in it. I still dream about it. I have dreams constantly where I’m sitting in a chair at Barnes & Nobles and I glance over at the “New Releases” shelf and someone, usually a teenager or young adult, goes over and picks up a book, saying my name and noting I’m a new author, they hear my stuff is awesome, and they ponder buying it before they actually do, walking off with a smile.

I want to be that writer.

So, in my thinking, I should start small. All in all, the previously mentioned series would start with 3 book, middle set of 7, and finish with either 3 or 7 more. It’s an insane amount, but I figure it can happen. But I figure for it to happen I should start small and write something else. A one-shot book and from there look into publishing, even if I have to self-publish (shoot me down if it gets to that point, please).

I’m just not sure what to write. Maybe a one-shot about some fantasy story melded into now’s time period. Who knows. For you who poast regularly and know something of fantasy, feel free to toss me ideas. I’d be glad to hear some.

Last night I couldn’t sleep (neither could my mother and sister who both fell asleep sometime around 2am). I tossed and turned and gave the hell up on trying to sleep. When did I finally get tired? Haha, 5am. Honestly, I’ve had later nights and such, but with me being sick I think I need all the rest I can get. Grabbed a hot pack, found a comfortable position to sleep in, and somehow passed out from then up until about 2:50pm. By then everyone is home except my sister, so I laid in bed doing nothing until I felt coherent enough to think. xD

So, in my previous entry, I mentioned something about being sick and being in need of insurance so I can get the proper medicine. Well, mom got the mail earlier and as she looked through it there was nothing from the insurance company.

Wonderful.

So she called them and said that it’s something that cannot wait and she needs to be called back as soon as possible (I need medicine! Dx). So that’s that. Just need them to call back and let me know what is going on. I should, in all honesty, have insurance. I mean, if I’d been denied and everything, they would have called and let me know (or so I really hope they would have).

Mom mentioned wanting to go shopping and everything, so I jumped up and grabbed a shower and got dressed (I actually for once thought I looked good, shocking I know).

We went to the ever awesome Wal*Mart [/sarcasm] and did more shopping than we really ever do (yay for soup for dinner!).

As for being sick, I can chew noodles now. Which I know sounds silly to be happy about, but I was sick of soups and puddings and yogurts. Even though I’m having chicken soup right now and loving on it completely, but I can chew the noodles~ *_____*