So what were you using before?
I made myself Blazefury, and a Blazeguard for the off-hand. Took a small bit of grinding (half of 69-70, on Voidspawn of course, back when Mote of/Primal Shadow was actually valuable) to accomplish both that and get my flying mount, although the latter was mostly through AH reselling profits.
We've been on notice of Titan's Grip for close to 5 months now; if you were planning on levelling to 80 as Fury, the only interpretation here is poor planning.
Huh. I only knew since August. Still, I already told you what my plan had been. I won't try to change your opinion of it.
I still have to wonder why
1) playing this game solo means you're doing it completely wrong and thus any criticisms you have of the gear curve are highly suspect on their face, and
2) the weapons you currently claim to be using suggest, knowing nothing else, a fundamental lack of understanding/interest in the established methods of gearing up, which reflects poorly on you in the eyes of the strangers you will ultimately have to rely on if you wish to rectify the problem in (1) and thus have your criticisms be taken seriously
amount to strawman arguments.
I'm going to be a grammar nazi here for a second, bear with me. That is not the proper way to use a numbered list.
Oh yeah also that's not what you were saying in the post which I had previously declined to comment on. Perhaps I had the right idea there, and should've kept ignoring Doom's taunting me about it. Your first bit here:
Yeah, man; where the hell does WoW get off requiring you to be social and work together with people in order to complete your goals? Video games are supposed to encourage you to become someone even your own mother finds insufferable!
That's a strawman argument. It takes something I said- that I played solo most of the time- and misrepresents it as me saying that the game is wrong for wanting me to group. Then you let the reader refute it themselves.
The rest of your post is saying obvious stuff- "Fury warriors aren't a versatile DPS choice" and "make a plan if you want to accomplish something", and blasting me for not having better weapons by now. You failed to consider the possibility that I wasn't actually playing the game that much. Also, you should know that by the time people ask for 'DPS', they already have all the specific classes they need for that instance, and just want a filler. Still, it's easier to get a group if you're a tank.
Your post wasn't all strawman, but by that point I was extremely frustrated that nobody was even bothering to find out
why I didn't have gear, and was instead yelling at me about it, so I dismissed it by lack of content.
You only feel they aren't relevant because you are unwilling to admit that your attitude about the game is your single greatest handicap in succeeding at it. Which is fine, really. Just stop being such a fucking baby about it.
My attitude... I'm assuming you mean that because I'm not the kind of guy that plays the game to upgrade his gear, I'm not going to be able to win even semi-reliably in PvP when I enter the 70 bracket. A reasonable accusation. In fact, I agree completely.
I just don't think it should be that way to begin with! I'll repeat my central argument again, with even more detail this time.
Although there was some gear inflation before the Arena happened, getting the best gear took serious commitment, and skill helped a lot. If you wanted the actual PvP set, you had to grind honor to get the rank you wanted, then continue grinding to keep that rank. Skill helped, since staying alive on a winning team allowed you to be get honor from more kills. If you wanted raid gear, you had to go to dungeons regularly, then have enough clout in your guild so that you'd even be allowed to roll on the gear you wanted. Now, getting the best gear only requires persistence. You simply have to lose a lot, and eventually you'll get it. It doesn't matter if you're doing BGs or Arena. You can lose and still be rewarded. You couldn't do that before. You absolutely HAD to kill the boss, and if you sucked your guild would dock you DKP or whatever.
Of course, now with it requiring no skill or commitment to get the best gear (hell you could get honor in a BG and points in Arena without even trying to win, so long as you didn't really go AFK), you will be flattened initially in BGs upon reaching 70 with all the people running around with that stuff. I don't think losing is fun.
Well, unless you're playing Dwarf Fortress.
Now for some reason, this exchange made me remember grouping up for outdoor quests, and I don't remember disliking it at all. I think maybe when I've been arguing about how I don't like "grouping", I was only remembering how I felt about instances, and my most negative points refer to experiences in TBC. I had tried Ramparts a few times, and hated how all the mob packs were so close together. The patrols came around corners and had short paths, making pulling even more difficult. Add to that the miniboss patrol and it's a giant pain in the ass. The bosses were designed to just make tanking as irritating as possible, with aggro wiping and knockback attacks aplenty. That damned demon actually juggled you in the air. The dragon was, initially, likely to land right next to the healer and 1HKO them before you could even pull off a taunt, though that wouldn't save you anyway if it resisted. I just hated the design and how unpleasant it made my job. I then looked around for info on the other dungeons and found out that apparently they're all (of course) more difficult, and one has patrols that
walk through walls. That put me off of instances entirely for a while, assuming they were all a load of BS and thinking Blizz hated tanks.
Oh, I also got tired of the rampant stupidity in trade chat, and left it off for the longest time. Perhaps that's why I never wound up doing DPS duty. I've only recently started turning it back on again. That happened after realizing the price on epic flying mounts wouldn't go down when WotLK came out, and I decided to make money off the AH. I was trying to use it just to avoid wasting money on deposit fees on certain items. Leftover Adamantite Cleavers from skilling up, to be specific.