Soon…

So, admittedly some of our plans didn’t go… according to plan. In fact, they didn’t go even slightly right, but I am here to try to make that up to you, loyal Facerollers. I can’t make any promises about the future of the podcast right now, but it is something I want to get back to. Life is busy and tough. I haven’t been in the best of places the last couple months, so my desire to play WoW, let alone talk about it, as been rather light. But, all things get better(or they don’t, but for this occasion we are going to assume they always get better. Deal with it).

So, what I am here today to tell you is this. First, I am becoming active on my own site finally. You can check it out here: www.treevineproductions.com

Second, I have a WoW related video project getting planned right now. It will be my final project for my Audio/Video class in fact. It should be fantastical, and I don’t want to spoil anything, but it involves dancing.

Thirdly, Kevin is a scrub, forever and always.

Trevin

First off, I wanted to let you guys know that I have updated the feed so that you can hear all episodes of The Faceroll Show in iTunes. It hasn’t been going past 10 episodes for some time now.

Second, I’m aware that the forums are down. You certainly must have noticed that Faceroll hasn’t seen action for a long time now. While I don’t feel it wise to call it dead by any stretch, I can call my interest in WoW dead, personally. Trevin’s, however, is quite strong. And so there’s potential that Faceroll could see its longevity embodied in other ways beyond my myopic little personality.

It will take some time to see what happens in regard to all of this, but don’t throw us aside just yet. Did you know that I am still plenty busy, plenty successful in the podcasting ring? Yup. It’s just not about WoW. It’s about an upcoming MMO called Guild Wars 2. Relics of Orr is the podcast name and I’ve almost matched the number of episodes Faceroll had. Smiffy makes occasional appearances with us there, so you can even get your fix.

I’m also running a blog at Cyan Studios and Trevin is running one at TreeVine Productions where I wouldn’t be surprised to see projects start sprouting up sooner or later. Possibly a podcast? Trevin? No? Yes. Donuts?

I hope Mark is still game to go snowboarding with us this year more where we can snap some more photos that I never posted and hang out, maybe kick around brainstorms again?

Anyway, whilst the face of our little ring of fun has definitely changed a lot, saying it’s “dead” would be the farthest thing from the truth. I would sum it up thusly:

For now, some of us are finding a strong voice in other communities, others of us are finding our place as ringleaders instead of assistants to some numbskull ringleader.

So, no new shows in a while, nor posts. I know, we’ve been bad. Truth though is that everyone has been keeping busy this summer, and WoW news(until very recently) was a little sparse. We plan to be back in action with a new show a week after the 4th of July at the latest hopefully. Might get something together earlier, or maybe just get some more lame ass blog posts. Who can say?

Anyway, keep the faith. Also, if you don’t regularly follow WoW news, a metric ton of news got dropped last week, check out your favorite WoW news site for the scoop, or go to mmo-champion, WorldofRaids, or Wowhead.

I have been thinking of a topic for my inaugural blog for quite some time. I have decided against ‘Breaking News: Englishman Diagnosed With 3rd Leg’ as I felt it was just plain boastful. Some things are best kept private. So I have decided to discuss something very dear to me. Hunters.

Hunters receive more shit in game than any other class. It’s a good job you can’t roll a Gnome Hunter because the Blizzard Bully Detector (fictional) would go crazy! I like Hunters and I am here to tell you why.

The best class in game is a Hunter. That is not my opinion. As far as I am concerned it is fact. However that is largely due to it being a game and therefore my opinion lies heavily on how I play the game and ultimately what I enjoy about the game. But regardless, Hunters are the best class. Just take a moment to let that sink in…

Hunters can do crazy DPS. Hunters can tank. Hunters can heal their own personal tank. Hunters can solo content that shouldn’t be solo able. Hunters never solo; we always have our trusty life partner (pet) with us. A hunter soloing is simply a Hunter not being bothered my other people. Hunters can use all weapons, even if the text is red I bet we could still use it. Hunters make WoW look easy. Hunters are always charismatic and handsome.

I am a Hunter. The class is more similar to me than any other. I chose a Hunter simply for the pet. I love animals. Not in that Southern States sexual way, but in a plutonic way. Animal welfare is a big part of my moral compass. I have several pets in real life and I am also a Vegan. The care and wellbeing of animals is very important to me. This is why I am a Hunter. It’s the class that best reflects who I am in real life. But even if I wasn’t an animal loving hippy I’d still be a Hunter. The symbiotic life, the cool weapons, and the spirit beasts, the reasons are endless.

My point is; love your class. Whoever your main is, be proud of their class. Enjoy your class even when it has been gimped. But most of all when some other class haters rear their basement breathing, mirror hating, fist kissing faces, just tell them; Hunter = Awesome

Sorry for the postponed show, guys. We originally intended to record this weekend, but with the busy holiday for some, it didn’t work out. However, we do intend to do a new show this weekend. Please send us your calls, your emails, and your tweets saying how inconvenienced you were by this hiatus so that we don’t do it again.

Or we just might.

Lates.

So you know how I said my brother was involved in that kill of Ysondre? Turns out I was wrong. Must have been a dream screwing with my memory. Hate it when a dream blurs into reality. Here is the actual post-kill screenshot.

Also, hunters are f*cking useless.

Unrelated: This post was brought to you by Photoshop CS5′s Content-Aware awesomeness.

This happened a month or so ago, but finals and the like kept me from ever getting around to posting it. Now, I bring you a treat. For those of you who have been playing for a good long while, you may know about the Dragons of Nightmare. If not, in short, there are four corrupted green dragons, twisted and/or driven mad by the Emerald Nightmare. They appear at the four portals in Great Trees in Azeroth(one in each Duskwood, Ashenvale, Feralas, and the Hinterlands). They are old school, raid bosses.

In short, these dragons are hard to find these days. Kevin has looked for them for a while and if I recall only ever found one before that was being fought by some other people. I have checked myself before, but not often, they are frankly kind of out of the way. However, on one fun day, Kevin managed to find one of the dragons spawned in Ashenvale, so I hopped on my death knight and we set off to kill it, without fire.

Mistake. Without knowing anything about the dragon, Kevin(a rogue, if you don’t know) and I with my blood tank DK attacked. Turns out, these dragons with only 832,000 hp have a few tricks that make the fights tricky. There is a fog that creeps around putting you to sleep. A stacking debuff from the breath attack that adds a 10 cooldown to any ability you use(stacks up to 6 times, so you do the math for how long that is total). And beyond that the standard dragon things, a breath, tail sweep, etc. Ysondre specifically has a lightning wave, and apparently summons druids to help her, but I don’t recall ever seeing any of those.

In short, without planning ahead, Kevin and I died. Then had to wait fifteen minutes to try again for this aura to wear off, the clever way of ensuring people that died during the fight way back when didn’t try to rez mid-fight. While we were waiting, my huntard brother logged on, so we brought him in to help. It was kind of nice, cause the dragons are immune to nature damage, so Kevin’s poison damage was absent. The second time was the charm, we killed it, and got some really lame loot. I encourage you all to hunt these guys, or any other old world raid bosses. Why? Because they are cash pinata’s if you can solo them or bring a couple friends.

As a final note, and the best note to end on. When we were waiting around to pull, a low level Alliance Paladin came wandering over and was watching us. He climbed up on the ramp for a better look and just kind of stood there. I bet some of you can see where I am going with this. When I pulled, I made sure to stand on him so he took a breath right to the face. He died, we laughed.

We’re awesome. Except Sheldon, cause hunters are dumb.

Thanks to Randy from “The Instance” for this little tidbit of Cataclysm content. See the jump for more pics. I had a post earlier about leaked models and content on the female worgen, but we wanted to respect Blizzard’s new initiatives on leaked Alpha content. Blizzard has now released some official goodies on what they will look like. It’s not entirely complete, but close.

Harbinger of the end of blood elf ubiquity

As you can see, these furry ladies don’t have hairstyles yet. From the sound of it, they will. Remember that this is not the final package.

I do have to disagree with Mister Deluxe that they oust the coolness of female space goats. Then again, bah, I’m not sure. Though I hear a lot of grumblings about how these new characters are just catering to the “Weirdos in Second Life and Deviant Art that love furries“. Question. How does one go about making a female of a race that is either canine or feline humanoid, and not fall into this trap? We wanted Worgen, now we’re getting them. Of course that entails that there be females of that race too. I do see how these will be a favorite to furry fans, but I really don’t buy into the idea that this was the intent.

In fact, I may go so far as to make one. Screw you guys. I’m gonna make one, and I’m gonna wear a Snuggie while I do it. Oh by the way, this is Trevin, I’m just logged into Ryan’s account. No really.

Edit: This is actually Trevin. Ryan is a scone.