1.6 speed is bad
Whirlwind didn't hit with both weapons when I first made the swords, so weapon-based instant attacks weren't important for a Fury warrior. In fact, fast weapons make Heroic Strike and Cleave more rage-efficient, and Bloodthirst more reliably heal you to its full amount. Now, however, it would be a bad choice even before getting Titan's Grip. Whirlwind is just that good.
It is a rational interpretation of your statements.
How does "I play solo, mostly" translate to "How dare Blizzard require me to group"? It certainly doesn't make any sense to me. You're not even required to do dungeons to get geared for level 70 PvP.
Qualifying your statements as opinion doesn't make them defensible and it certainly doesn't earn you the right to defend them on your own terms. If you are not saying you reject the paradigm of expecting you to group then why are you complaining about the gear curve?
First off, if a statement is an opinion, it can't be defended or attacked without addressing the facts behind that opinion. Second, you're insinuating that the "gear curve" is directly related to grouping, when I've said like 5 times already that gear inflation is directly related to the Arena. It can be both, of course, which means you can't claim I won't get gear without grouping. I'll get it through PvP.
The rest of my post is blasting you for being a whiny bitch.
What? Here's the rest of your post, minus the crap about me having plenty of time to update my twohanders, and also minus quotes for brevity:
It's almost like you rolled a tank class, and that classes that can't spec to do anything other than DPS are going to be better general, all-purpose choices to do so!
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My Warlock had 150 resilience the day he hit 70. I know people who, granted, played obsessively, but got kitted in full honor epics (season 2) after a weekend. You can do it casually in a month, easily. It just needs to be your focus.
Having goals and a plan to achieve them is the first step to success. What the hell have you been doing with yourself? Standing on the Org bank?
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It's almost like Arena gear is really fucking easy to get. Crazy, I know.
Like I said, you tell me that other DPS classes are more versatile, and that I should plan for success. Oh also you tell me that it's easy to get Arena gear. If by "easy" you mean "takes nothing but time" then I agree. Of course, you could also be saying it doesn't take much time. On that point we would disagree on what "easy" means in time terms, or how many hours per week is "casually" playing. That would mean we were arguing about something subjective.
I know you don't play the game that much. That's fine, as I've said repeatedly.
You have never said this. In fact, what you've said could be interpreted in the opposite manner. Instances can take up to two hours to complete in TBC. Or at least, they did two months ago.
However, if you knowingly choose to play the game wrong, it is the height of arrogance and entitlement to think that you should be rewarded in the same way as people who put in the time. We are all on equal footing, and if I may say so, Blizzard has completely eviscerated what was at one point a reasonably challenging game to accommodate you. The least you could do is acknowledge that Arena, the one aspect of the game that actually maintains decent competition and challenge, is probably not designed with players like you in mind.
Did I ever say I wanted to be as powerful as the people wearing Arena gear? No, I did not. I said that there's
too many people wearing it. It is, however, the height of arrogance to keep telling me I'm playing the game wrong, when it's a FUCKING GAME. What goals I decide to accomplish are my business, and you can just keep that elitist attitude to yourself.
Tensard got 500 healing and learned to be a resto champ in two weeks. We already know why you don't have gear.
Okay, now here's where you go ahead and berate me again for not playing enough... in the same post where you say it's fine that I'm not playing enough.
I've had enough of this. There are three possibilities I can see here. You're a hypocrite, an idiot, or our disagreement is based upon subjective terms. I don't want to continue if any of these three things are true.
Oh, and Doom, you misinterpreted me again.
I ran Ramparts more than once, as I said "a few times". Each run we wiped on a double pull before the stairs. At least once it was due to not being able to see the pat coming, or having it aggro in the middle of a fight from around a corner. The casters in the mob groups exacerbated this problem- they would stay where they were and pulling them away from the patrol route was risky without ranged silence effects. I believe at least once someone pulled a second group while trying to get a caster out of the way of the pat, which also joined the beatdown party. LoS pulling works best of course but the corners are in terrible places while the walls are pretty much free of obstacles, and even if you pull a group around a corner the pats can still aggro on the caster. I think the first half of the instance is planned out to restrict information to the player as much as possible, or at least to encourage a tedious pulling frequency. It might be that way because the actual instance is so tiny. They wanted to make sure it took more than half an hour to complete.
It's good to know that Mana Crypts isn't actually as bad as I thought. I do feel kinda bad about missing out on the Burning Crusade dungeons, if they aren't as frustrating as Ramparts. I can't really give an opinion on Blood Furnace since I ran it with an overleveled party. The Creator was pretty entertaining even so.
Oh, also there are dungeons in classic WoW that I did. Fairly often, too. Bad groups could be frustrating, but I didn't object to the design of the instances. I probably should've given "I hated Ramparts and expect I would hate the others in TBC" as my reason for not doing dungeons, instead of the whole not liking grouping that much. The only excuse I can give for such failure to interpret my own feelings is that I stopped thinking about doing dungeons once I got to 70, since the only content I felt I would need better gear for was more dungeons. So it's been a while since my thoughts went past that initial feeling of dread when making that decision. How long has it been... about a year?
Anyway, I ran Gnomer, Uldaman, BFD, ST, RFC, Stockades, Scarlet Cathedral, Scarlet Library, Stratholme, Deadmines, ZF, and Mara multiple times. I also did Scarlet Graveyard, Scholo, WC, and SFK once, and some bits of Dire Maul. Never did a full clear of ST, unfortunately.
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