| Item | Honor Required |
| Vindicators Ring | 15300 |
| Veterans Ring | 11934 |
| Vindicators Neck | 15300 |
| PVP Trinket | 16983 |
| Heavy Cloak | 7548 |
| Vindicators Bindings | 11794 |
| Vindicators Belt | 17850 |
| Vindicators Boots | 17850 |
| Gladiator Gloves | 16500 |
| Gladiator Shoulders | 11250 |
| Gladiator Pants | 14500 |
| Gladiator Helm | 14500 |
| Gladiator Chest | 14500 |
| Total (No weapon/2nd trinket) | 185809 |
| Currently que times for Alterac Valley on BG9 are at an average wait time for 1hour and 15mins so only Warsong Gulch, Arathi Basin and Eye of the Storm are concidered. | |
| Pugging these BG the average game time for these is approximatley 15 - 20mins long, for further calculations I will assume each game lasts only 15mins and for a win you would get about 167 honor. | |
| If we assume that we will win every game we play and that they last only 15mins each then these are the results we would get. | |
| Number of Winning Games | 1112.628743 |
| Total BG Time | |
| Mins | 16689.43114 |
| Hours | 278.1571856 |
| Days | 11.58988273 |
| So if you didn’t eat or sleep and there was zero time in between que's then it will only take you 11 and a half days to get all the honor you need, well that’s not actualy true.. Because you will still need to grind up and extra 27,000 more honor for a Season 1 arena weapon and if you want a trinket in your 2nd trinket slot you will still need another 30,000 more honor for the battlemasters trinket. Further more your still only going to be running around in SEASON 1 gear so after all this you will be able to compete in the arenas but still at an unequal level to everyone else. It would seem the only way to play at an even level would be to save your points up this season and maybe you can compete on even ground next season... So enjoy your grinding or go and delete WoW. | |
Showing posts with label Warcraft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Warcraft. Show all posts
Saturday, December 15, 2007
The Grind
Saturday, December 1, 2007
Racism In WoW
One thing i've noticed while adventuring through wow is the lack of people playing darker skinned human characters. I have played wow for about 2.5 years now and on a number of different servers for an extended amount of time. The only "black" character i can remember seeing is a bald paladin that was leveling in STV. I was unable to find any statistics that show the number of black human characters, but according to the wow census its found that the most played race is actually human.
This information might suggest that of the number of people that play the game, there must be a large number of these that play human characters, and of these players there always seems to be very few players that choose the darker skinned character skin. Being a minority in a predominantly white country i would like to believe that racial equality exists all around the world (of warcraft) and not just in Australia. However, the evidence suggest that this isn't true! Why don't people like playing black characters as much as they like to play white characters? Whats even worse?! Of the number of African Americans that play wow, surely the statistics suggest that most of you prefer playing a white character too!!
Another truth i would like to present is that in the character creation screen of wow its very difficult to try and make an asian human. Yes, you can fiddle around with the skin color tabs and think "yeh thats kinda like asian skin" but when you try and choose the right face you can never get the right one. I myself am asian and most of my friends are too, my friend ovaltiney attempted to roll an asian paladin. He did his best on character selection but we were never really satisfied with the overall asian representation that was available. What the real problem here is... WHERE ARE MY SQUINTY EYES!! If you saw me in real life you might say that one of my defining features are my very asian, very squinty eyes and i have to say, im very proud of my squinty eyes, but if i tried to represent myself and my people in wow? well... its just not possible.
So.. What does this all mean? is racial equality only in existence to keep up appearances when we are out and about? but when we go to our private homes, on our personal computers the real truth comes out.... NONE OF YOU WANT TO ROLL A BLACK CHARACTER and even if u wanted to YOU CANT ROLL AN ASIAN CHARACTER EITHER! your all racist on the inside but if you want to keep up appearances in wow too, just roll undead, they dun have much skin!
P.S why cant i roll a black gnome?!
This information might suggest that of the number of people that play the game, there must be a large number of these that play human characters, and of these players there always seems to be very few players that choose the darker skinned character skin. Being a minority in a predominantly white country i would like to believe that racial equality exists all around the world (of warcraft) and not just in Australia. However, the evidence suggest that this isn't true! Why don't people like playing black characters as much as they like to play white characters? Whats even worse?! Of the number of African Americans that play wow, surely the statistics suggest that most of you prefer playing a white character too!!
Another truth i would like to present is that in the character creation screen of wow its very difficult to try and make an asian human. Yes, you can fiddle around with the skin color tabs and think "yeh thats kinda like asian skin" but when you try and choose the right face you can never get the right one. I myself am asian and most of my friends are too, my friend ovaltiney attempted to roll an asian paladin. He did his best on character selection but we were never really satisfied with the overall asian representation that was available. What the real problem here is... WHERE ARE MY SQUINTY EYES!! If you saw me in real life you might say that one of my defining features are my very asian, very squinty eyes and i have to say, im very proud of my squinty eyes, but if i tried to represent myself and my people in wow? well... its just not possible.
So.. What does this all mean? is racial equality only in existence to keep up appearances when we are out and about? but when we go to our private homes, on our personal computers the real truth comes out.... NONE OF YOU WANT TO ROLL A BLACK CHARACTER and even if u wanted to YOU CANT ROLL AN ASIAN CHARACTER EITHER! your all racist on the inside but if you want to keep up appearances in wow too, just roll undead, they dun have much skin!
P.S why cant i roll a black gnome?!
Friday, November 30, 2007
WoW Addiction?
According to blizzard, the company responsible for the globally life consuming game that is World of Warcraft, there are currently over 9 million active subscribers to the game world wide (including myself) and its affects on the people that play the game are widely know. The majority of people belonging to the older generation will consider the act of playing computer games like wow for hours on end every day to be abit abnormal and probably unhealthy. The concept of wow addiction has come into the medias eye a number of times. I live in Australia where a prominent current affairs program aired on national television a case study of an individual that was apparently addicted world of warcraft. Being on television they made this guy look like a real loser, when he tried to tell the reporter that he had met real people online through the game and made friends with a few of them, many of us avid wow players will understand what he means. He probably met these people through a guild in the game and had run raids and spoke to many of them on third party communication software like ventrillo or teamspeak. However, to many older viewers it may look like this kid is making friends with small animated characters created by the game developer. Obviously if this were true the kid probably does need some help, but to the people that know whats really going on, this doesn't seem abnormal at all. Offcourse there are also a number of other reported cases of more extreme cases related to wow. this extract taken from www.theinquirer.net
"GAMES COMPANY Blizzard is facing a lawsuit from Chinese parents who claim that its fantasy game World of Warcraft killed their son.
According to the Chinese news agency Xinhua, the 13 year old boy jumped to his death while reenacting a scene from the game.
The parents are backed by the anti-Internet addiction advocate Zhang Chunliang who has got 63 parents whose children have also allegedly suffered from online gaming addiction and plans to file a class-action suit.
Many Chinese parents contend that their children spend hours gaming in Internet cafes at the risk of their health, work, and school."
Incidents like these can be worrying to many people, but what about the people that play wow? we may simply brush these alagations off thinking "its not blizzards fault if some kids happen to be morons and kill themselves" or we might take these issues a little more seriously and question our own ability to stay away from the game, are we really addicted??
If you really look at the game and maybe compare it to other games available, wow is really a very simple game completing questing and gaining XP for them involves very repetitive and menial tasks like "kill this many murlocs" or "gather X number of seeds". Throughout ones wow career from lvl1 to lvl 70 hundreds of these quests are repeated over and over again, thinking about the game this way questions why so many people around the world enjoying spending their free time doing such boring repetitive things over and over again. If in real life we were made to do similar tasks im sure the majority of us would not enjoy it. What i think wow does to make people come back and grind xp this way over and over again, is that it taps into human natures need to progress, to become better and stronger. Alot of the time a player will not even enjoy the time they spend in wow, i for one know the pains of honor grinding, repeating the same thing in Alterac Valley over and over again. I hate this and yet i spend hours of my life grinding away at it so that i eventually can get a few pieces of imaginary clothing that will make my wowself that much better. But even though i hate grinding honor it still feels great to have achieved something even if it is only in a game. It is normal for humans to want to progress in their life but it is also much harder to fill this need in real life, it takes much more time and much more effort, but in wow these needs can be fulfilled with less time and less effort. Maybe having wow to fulfill our needs in this way has satisfied us enough to not bother with progressing in real life? Maybe thats why we have cases of people that have taken the game to the extreme where they really don't have any life outside wow. Has wow consumed me? i would like to think it hasn't, but addicts never admit they have a problem...
"GAMES COMPANY Blizzard is facing a lawsuit from Chinese parents who claim that its fantasy game World of Warcraft killed their son.
According to the Chinese news agency Xinhua, the 13 year old boy jumped to his death while reenacting a scene from the game.
The parents are backed by the anti-Internet addiction advocate Zhang Chunliang who has got 63 parents whose children have also allegedly suffered from online gaming addiction and plans to file a class-action suit.
Many Chinese parents contend that their children spend hours gaming in Internet cafes at the risk of their health, work, and school."
Incidents like these can be worrying to many people, but what about the people that play wow? we may simply brush these alagations off thinking "its not blizzards fault if some kids happen to be morons and kill themselves" or we might take these issues a little more seriously and question our own ability to stay away from the game, are we really addicted??
If you really look at the game and maybe compare it to other games available, wow is really a very simple game completing questing and gaining XP for them involves very repetitive and menial tasks like "kill this many murlocs" or "gather X number of seeds". Throughout ones wow career from lvl1 to lvl 70 hundreds of these quests are repeated over and over again, thinking about the game this way questions why so many people around the world enjoying spending their free time doing such boring repetitive things over and over again. If in real life we were made to do similar tasks im sure the majority of us would not enjoy it. What i think wow does to make people come back and grind xp this way over and over again, is that it taps into human natures need to progress, to become better and stronger. Alot of the time a player will not even enjoy the time they spend in wow, i for one know the pains of honor grinding, repeating the same thing in Alterac Valley over and over again. I hate this and yet i spend hours of my life grinding away at it so that i eventually can get a few pieces of imaginary clothing that will make my wowself that much better. But even though i hate grinding honor it still feels great to have achieved something even if it is only in a game. It is normal for humans to want to progress in their life but it is also much harder to fill this need in real life, it takes much more time and much more effort, but in wow these needs can be fulfilled with less time and less effort. Maybe having wow to fulfill our needs in this way has satisfied us enough to not bother with progressing in real life? Maybe thats why we have cases of people that have taken the game to the extreme where they really don't have any life outside wow. Has wow consumed me? i would like to think it hasn't, but addicts never admit they have a problem...
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