Now that they are open to a new story, a third faction would be pretty cool. A peaceful one that was looking to fight the true dangers of the land. Not the Alliance or Horde but instead the things like demons, and titans, and the broken world that has seen far too much fighting. This would mean that even if you were on a PvP server you wouldn't be able to fight the Horde or Alliance though, but it could also mean that you could go to Stormwind and Origimmar for example. You would simply be neutral in all senses and maybe even have a new story line for this?
On the other side of this was my boyfriends idea. I was telling him about the idea that you could be in a third faction and he instantly went to that meaning you could kill everyone (I sighed at him). On this side of the coin you would not be safe in a major city, ever and I think that there should be a "blood thirsty" debuff where if you kill too many people that the guards in a city would instantly attack you, but you could kill either faction. I personally like my idea better but I'm pretty peaceful when it comes to PvE. It could be neat to add in more factions like these instead of having it only be the Horde verses the Alliance to give the game a new flavor. With that being said you would still be able to play with these people but if you helped someone who was blood thirsty you could still get the debuff too or on the other side of that when grouped with someone neutral you wouldn't be able to kill anyone. I'm not sure how you would balance all of that but it could definitely be cool and interesting!
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After so much waiting and anticipation I was finally called back to Andorhal, the air seems tense, as the haze sets in. Something about the village seems abuzz but at the same time, the air is full of an eerie silence. It wasn't even Koltira who really called me back, or it wasn't even his plan at least. He thought they would wait longer, that they had a deal, but Thassarian made the first move. I wonder where his loyalties will really lie. In a way I feel bad for Koltira, he has nothing. The only thing he has now is a sense of duty and it doesn't even seem like he wants that. In a way it actually seems like he would have rather died with everyone he knew than be here with nothing, fighting the one he considers a brother. I still do not trust him, that love could be deadly for the Horde and our hold on Andorhal, but I do pity him. I have no idea where I would be if that burden was placed on me. I wish I could control the gargoyles all the time, they are rather stealthy for how large they are, the farmers were so busy with the behemoths they didn't even notice the gargoyles coming for them. The humans do make an unfortunate crunch squish noise when they are dropped, I'm not sure why they thought it was a good idea idea to try and attack us with no armor, no training, and no real weapons. I wonder if Thassarian is using this as a distraction or if the farmers were just too foolish to realize this would only lead to death. As I went to find Thassarian, I noticed something about this land, it is scorched by fire, and the plague, smells of death, and toxic chemicals and seems beyond repair. The Argent Crusade maybe on a fools errand trying to heal the Plaguelands, but if anyone can do it, it would be them. Their pureness is far beyond my own, it is like they don't even see the Alliance as the villains, they only seem to see the damage being done to Azeroth. At least for their sake I haven't been asked to release more plague... yet... Oh my! I met Lady Sylvanas, and oh my I feel bad for Koltira... The Dark Lady does not seem to be kidding about his punishment or his weakness... The Banshee Queen is one intimidating person, I will have be very careful not to get on her bad side... I would not want whatever fare awaits Koltira. Never ever do I want to be on the Banshee Queens bad side. I do not know where he is going but he seemed to and he seemed very scared of that place. Some of the rumors I had heard about Lady Sylvanas but never believed may be true... She is ruthless in the defense of her people. I cannot blame her after she has died more than once, but I also fear her. She may have forgotten all of her Blood Elf roots in that darkness... I wonder what she is willing to do in the name of her people?
6/15/2017 4 Comments Animal Face Gamer GlovesPoro's count as animals right?? I think they do, after making the panda faced gamer gloves I thought, hey I could make poro ones too, and the poros are just too cute to be left out. They are such adorable balls of fluff that are happy to see you, so I couldn't think of a reason someone wouldn't want that little face smiling back at them! Plus they seemed like a perfect fit for gloves because I bet they'd be very snuggly and gloves are like warm snuggles for your hands XD I thought a panda face would be cute and boy was I right. This one is probably my favorite of the three, pandas are pretty adorable and having a little smiling face looking back at you is always nice! I was looking at conversations I had, had a couple of months ago and realized that I was probably inspired by someone who was talking about liking panda. I am really glad that I had that conversation because it made me come up with these :3. I of course had to make kitty gloves too! I think they turned out pretty cute but I may change them some. I feel like some of the little details that you normally think of when you think of cats (like whiskers) get kind of lost because the colors are pretty similar but that also has to do with the time that I took the picture (it was kind of overcast). I may just test it out and see what other colors I like I was thinking about doing white, as I think the whiskers will pop better but we will see! I have so many ideas for gloves and other things that it will probably be awhile until then. Regardless I do think these ones turned out pretty cute!
For those interested the button takes you to the Etsy listing :). Unlike the undead the Argent Crusade has some much more wholesome tasks for me. I'm surprised they were even willing to allow me to help after the mess I've made but I am happy for the chance. So much of my adventure has been full of dark and terrible things, but my heart yearns for the work of a true hero. The ones that go down in history because of how awesome they really were. Clearing the area of the plagued creatures is a tedious task but one that is well worth it. I may not be able to heal them now but hopefully the samples that I recover will yield the missing information the Argent Crusade is looking for. The land itself seems to be healing but the animals are not, they are stuck in this plagued life, tormented by it until their deaths. I do not know how the Horde can work with these Alliance though, especially after they were preparing to attack us in Hillsbrad Foothills, I do not like being by them, it feels like some of them maybe spies or something for the Alliance. I hope these druids really know what they are doing or it may cost us dearly. At least I was given a really Horde druid to help. Poor Zen'kiki isn't very good at being a druid, he isn't really helping me, it seems more like they are just having a pity party for him and allowing him to tag along with me to give him something to do. He hasn't gotten in my way too much at least, but he did manage to starcall himself and almost died... I wonder if the Argent Crusade will be able to find a use for him. I'm not sure that being a Druid is really his calling. The plague has a strange way of taking hold of its victims. Even the plants are cursed by the this darkness and undeath. I would also like to know how the plague has managed to bring these things to life. An animated pumpkin that is looking for blood is really something. I did still have some lingering quests from the undead... at least I don't feel as bad since these humans are dying anyways. I'm sure we will need more undead soldiers in the fight against the Alliance and whatever other evils we will face. I've heard rumors that the Legion which was once expelled from this world has returned. Oh my, I have no idea what this once was, but it definitely has to be extinguished. The plague has brought so many horrors. Seeing this also has me wondering if I should be near this farm, right after I used the plague. What an unsettling party, at least we have more soldiers. The Val'kyr is rather intimidating, she says nothing, silently she does my bidding, and with her magic we brought these humans back as undead. I'm not sure if she is an angel or a demon, her powers seem to be a little of both, light magic that seems tainted by the darkness. After releasing her back to Lindsay I was relieved to hear, that I could go back to helping the Argent Crusade. I wonder if I will see Lindsay or the Val'kyr again, they were very unsettling but powerful. I feel like we may need them when Koltira is ready. The battle for Andorhal looms over my consciousness, the anticipation is like a plague of its own.
Most of the time what we are doing in video games is fighting, fighting the "bad guys" but who the bad guys are is all a matter of perspective. I think the conflict between the Alliance and Horde is a good example of this. Both sides have done some messed up stuff in the name of their faction but their goal is to protector their people, and all is fair in love and war, right? The more I learn about the story the more I actually see the Horde as the bad guys (especially the undead, the lack of ethics with the undead is real) seeing as they invaded but I still fight for the Horde, the Horde is still my home and that means standing up for them right?
I really like these groups that are unaffected by the faction differences, like the Argent Crusade in the Western Plaguelands they don't seem to care about fighting for the Alliance or Horde all they care about is healing the land they live in, and that is beautiful. So often we get stuck in this Us vs Them mentality that we forget, that we should all be working together. Now I won't lie that isn't always easy, especially when there are those blood thirty, and willing to kill, but killing back not the only way. What I've learned is that education has a lot to do with these type of things, and that educating someone when they are the wrong path can help them be put on the right one (I think that most people would agree that going out and murdering people is the wrong path). I'm on a PvP server and when I was writing the blog that the picture went to I died 3 times at the hands of the same mage, it was very annoying, but I didn't go on a killing spree of finding all of the Alliance here and getting them. I could have even switched to my max lvl pally and just one shot them all over the place, but I didn't and I choose not to even when people are hunting me or killing me like that because I'm not a very vengeful person. It would be different if we were in an area like Nagrand or Hellfire where there are areas to fight over, so you know if you're over there that you will be fighting (I usually leave people alone anyways, which is kind of weird since I'm a big PvPer in other games but if they are just doing PvE I don't want to bother them). I like the idea of shifting the thinking away from being an US vs Them because it is important, we are all humanoids over here, and there are much bigger threats that we should be fighting, and I like that a lot of the WoW expansions point to that. We have to work together in most of the recent ones because the threats are so much larger than our petty squabbles. I don't believe you can change everyone because there are some people so full of darkness that they just don't even want to change but I do think you can change a lot of people. There were studies done showed that IQ and bigotry have links (along with certain critical thinking skills or lack there of pointing to an increased likelihood of certain types of bigotry) and it was interesting because that means people can learn to be better and that is something truly beautiful. I like to think of the groups in WoW that are resisting this faction war as those people who have learned to be better. It is a metaphor to me for the ability to really critically think about what is the true problem going on here? And how do we fix it? You have to take care of where we live (like the Argent Crusade is trying to do in the Western Plaguelands) or no one will be able to live there at all, and then what? All the fighting that the Alliance and Horde have done will be for nothing if everyone dies. Now that the original Warcraft story is coming to a close I think it would be cool if WoW added a third faction, one that was the Alliance and Horde working together, you could fight for everyone instead of just the Alliance or Horde (like how the pandas are before picking). I think that it would be pretty cool to choose a neutral faction at a higher level and be able to go to both Stormwind and Undercity ect... They could just be the Factionless, the true heroes here to fight against those who want to destroy Azeroth. One of the places that the studies were talked about https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/were-only-human/is-racism-just-a-form-of-stupidity.html#.WTasKty1uM8 there are multiple different articles about this (elsewhere) though. I get the feeling that I've found another undead I shouldn't trust. I will do what he asks for now, but his hesitation is unnerving. The Argent Crusade even stand around him and he is still so bold. I hope they keep doing a good job of healing the Plaguelands, and one day that we see it at its full glory. I feel dirty gathering this grass for him, that may also be because it is plagued grass but that is besides the point. I wonder if he will show his true colors like the others did. I don't feel bad killing the Alliance, I do however feel a little bad about killing the dog, he did make it easier seeing as he already had a cute little fox in its mouth. Killing the foxes is probably my least favorite part about it, they are just wandering the woods doing fox things, and all of a sudden me and hunters come along. Maybe I can get away with pretending I killed the foxes and use the already dead ones as proof. If I could have a water elemental fox I would! We would have the cutest little water snuggles! I was supposed to check to make sure the Scarlet Crusade were dead, but oh my. Purple flames still emanate from their bodies what has happened to them? I knew they were bad and deserved death for their prejudice and killings but this? Whatever this is, I dare not get to close in case it is contagious, It doesn't look like the undeads work either. I will have to check back with them and see what happened here. I also may have my water elemental give me a bath just in case. Being this close could be a bad thing, it wouldn't be the first time undead sent me into an area that should be deadly to me. I was told nothing, I shouldn't have expected much else but foolishly I did. Now instead I am going to be putting more plague into the Plaguelands, and killing farmers. At least the farmers are supposed to be soldiers in disguise but we will see, we do need to get the Alliance out of the Plaguelands, they are way too close to Undercity. From here they could easily attack but I didn't think adding more plague was the best idea. It isn't my call, I'm sorry Argent Crusade... you will have some more cleaning to do... They may not like me very much after this. They did not seem like soldiers in disguise, I'm pretty sure they were throwing shoes at me, I don't know where they got the extra shoes from but I'm pretty sure one of them threw at least three shoes at me. I doubt this farm will ever look the same after the plague is done with it and I should probably take another bath... The ground shook for miles, what did they put in that stuff the barrels were pretty small for that size of explosion! At least I didn't completely hurt my chances with the Argent Crusade, their missions seems to be more of what I actually want to be doing. Helping. I will probably be cleaning up the mess I literally just made, but at least they aren't going to have me spread more plague.
I doubt Field Agent Kaartish will be happy to see me but at least I will be doing something good for a change. I wonder when Koltira will call for me. I hope I am still in the area when he does, I am tense just thinking about their final battle I wonder how he is feeling... So its not realistic that you would catch multiple fish with a normal fishing pole, you would have to do that one at a time (unless one fish maybe ate a smaller fish or something weird like that), now if we had a super advanced two in one fishing pole and net that could work. So my thought is why only have it so we can catch one fish at a time and how can we work around that logic to make it make sense to catch more than one fish. Granted it is a magical world so I think it only needs a little bit of logic to make it work (and maybe some Goblin engineering, it would probably have a chance of exploding then too but I'd take the risk!). We could have a super cool fishing pole that shots out a net at the end and allows us to catch more than one fish at one time. I think this would be really cool for those farming fishing for various different foods, but it would also probably look pretty cool too. What I really like about this idea is that it wouldn't be so, so long to catch the necessary fish. At this point the game has 800 crafting levels in every profession (which is like 5 professions if you are like me and get all of them) that is a lot on new characters I don't even really consider leveling fishing or archeology anymore because it just gets to be too much. I think having a crazy fishing pole with net would be a pretty cool idea to help with this process and would just be neat over all. Maybe after a certain level you could use this but would have to get your fishing level up to that point normally, that way it would be a reward for your hard work. Either way I think it would be pretty cool, and if Goblins made it, it would have an extra element of danger to the fishing process!
He said they've been asking for me by name, can you believe it me? I thought I was doing a pretty good job out here but I still can't believe it! Maybe this is when I will actually meet Lady Sylvanas, I've wanted to meet her my whole life, even when others were not as fond of her. Not who I was hoping for but not as bad either. He used to be a Blood Elf, I suppose to a certain extent he still is, at least he isn't as decayed as the rest. The Behemoths are disgusting, who even has enough time and effort to put them together. I've seen the guards in Undercity but seeing these ones run around, is a whole new sight... Not only do I have to fight them but I also have to fight the Alliance here trying to fight us. We won this place, they should just leave us be. That was a lot of skeletons, they ran around aimlessly at least, and didn't hit very hard. They may have been using other creatures bones to attack me. The grenades that I was given were rather useful here. Their radius was large large enough to hit so many skeletons at once! If only I could kill that many things at once all the time, helping the people of Azeroth would just breeze right by! I came here as quickly as I could! It must have been an error with the messenger, because I left straight away. I wasn't about to tell Koltira that though, he has already witness death to be brought back as a very cold but powerful undead, I doubt he would have time for my complaints. A part of me still wanted to tell him anyways but not now. Right now I have to save the city Andorhal is still under attack and a powerful Lich has come from Scholomance, with a very menacing guard. You could cut the tension with a butter knife. They stood there talking both softly and sternly. They may not be brothers by blood but they have been bonded as brothers by something much greater, death. It comes for us all but these two were given a second chance, one that it seems no one takes lightly. I wouldn't have dared to say anything but Koltira wanted to make sure we were very clear on that. I cannot imagine what it would feel like to know you have to fight your own kin. I wonder how this day will end. I have only just gotten here and I am already being sent away. Koltira is letting his brotherly loyalties get in the way of his tactics. There is nothing I can do to change him mind. I cannot help but wonder how this fight will end. Will Koltira be the one to walk off the battle field or will Thassarian? Or will their allegiances lie with neither the Horde or Alliance and instead with each other? We shall see, for now I must help elsewhere.
Maybe at the final battle I will meet the Dark Lady. One day... I do compare my MMO's a lot and this is no different. I do think that they can take different things from each other and incorporate them into their games to make them even better (still holding out for pet battles in Guild Wars 2, I would love that so much!). But for World of Warcraft I would love it if you could use the Trading Post from anywhere, especially during flightpaths. That would be so much more convenient than having to go to a major city and would give you something to do on flightpaths. I know I could just fly myself to place instead of taking flight paths but some places are far away and I look like I'm drunk flying all the time because I'm not really paying attention XD. I'm sure this would be nice to DPS waiting in dungeon and raid ques too, or when waiting on someone afk in the group. I feel like there are a lot of different scenarios that this would be so nice for and if they did the little things it could drastically improve the game. With having a lot of this unnecessary grindy stuff I feel like I am starting to see the games age because that isn't as much of a thing in newer games and while I am all for a World of Warcraft 2, there is still so much I have to do in WoW still! I'd just like to do more of it without having to wait to do these other things. Right now going to the trading post is kind of a begrudging task for me because I am spoiled by Guild Wars 2 where I just pop it open and sell stuff whenever I want, and I love that (especially since I am a bit ADD literally, they tried to give me medications when I was younger & I just didn't like them) it allows me to do all of the things I am thinking about at one time, and that feels good for and I'm sure it would be nice for others as well!
This is probably one of my favorite things in Guild Wars 2, I know it is a little thing but all of the little things they do add up to a lot of extra time actually playing the game verses waiting for something to finish. Basically if you are making something in bulk the process speeds up a lot, so the first couple will be slower but after you hit a certain point the speed of the process will sky rocket, and I'm not really sure why World of Warcraft couldn't/wouldn't do this. With the almost 300 Ghost Iron I have it would normally takes awhile (I normally just afk during this time). I know others aren't as patient and won't want to do extra things like this because they are even more grindy (like my boyfriend, when an expansion comes out he will play WoW for a couple of months than be done because everything is too grindy for him). A lot of games are evolving to have things be more efficient and I think WoW could still have a really long life ahead of it so it seems like it maybe a good trend to hop on! The little things like this add up, and can make tasks more fun!
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