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Thread ID: 105168 2009-11-21 21:32:00 Things that irritate. Cicero (40) PC World Chat
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832256 2009-11-24 23:33:00 People who complain about threads they insist on watching.

Strange sods.
Cicero (40)
832257 2009-11-24 23:38:00 People with no tolerance for those who are different.
Old, Fat, Gay where would you stop?
Get real, we all are in this life together.
KarameaDave (15222)
832258 2009-11-25 01:23:00 ESPN
iTunes
DRM
Broadcasting rights
Top gear on Prime
The fly that flies around the room whilst your trying to sleep after a long hard days work.
davidmmac (4619)
832259 2009-11-25 01:54:00 People at give way / stop signs that pulls in front you and accelerates "slowly"

People at give way / stop signs that pulls in front you and accelerates "slowly"
when there is no cars behind me, why couldn't they wait?

People traveling at 50-60km/h on 80km/h road.

People that don't indicate.

People thinks paved road between shopping mall is the same as zebra crossing and it's a sin if you don't give way to them.
SKT174 (1319)
832260 2009-11-25 02:56:00 ESPN
iTunes
DRM
Broadcasting rights
Top gear on Prime
The fly that flies around the room whilst your trying to sleep after a long hard days work.


Top Gear you are ******* kidding
prefect (6291)
832261 2009-11-25 03:16:00 Getting one hit by Lord Jaraxxus because the stupid tank couldn't hold agro after I spell stole nether power and critted 3 times in a row.

What?????
Richard (739)
832262 2009-11-25 03:40:00 Top Gear you are ******* kidding

Think he means the fact it's on Prime and maybe he can't get it?
--Wolf-- (128)
832263 2009-11-25 03:41:00 Freeview? pcuser42 (130)
832264 2009-11-25 04:02:00 Think he means the fact it's on Prime and maybe he can't get it?

We can get it it's more the fact it's full of ads (45 minutes of top gear + 25 minutes of ads) and (annoyingly) there are bits missing from the version that is screened in the UK (eg the news) :annoyed:.

I don't mind ad's, but I find Prime just overload it too much.
davidmmac (4619)
832265 2009-11-25 04:15:00 Getting one hit by Lord Jaraxxus because the stupid tank couldn't hold agro after I spell stole nether power and critted 3 times in a row .

What?????

Lord Jaraxxus is one of the bosses from the Trial of the Crusader dungeon in World of Warcraft .

A dungeon is basically combination of mobs (random monstors), a series of bosses (extremely high health, hard hitting with special ability heroes) that requires a group of 10/25/40 players to work together to defeat .

A group has to be created with many different classes to be able to take on the various challenges, a tank is a warrior type class who wears plate (or leather if a druid) has a large amount of health, and has specialized in boosting stats such as block/parry/defence ratings . His primary task is to taunt or 'agro' the boss or mobs and force them to attack him as he is capable of absorbing huge amounts of damage . A healer (or several depending on the fight) will also be assigned to him, usually a priest or holy spec'd paladin and have spells they can cast on the tank to restore health and create temporary damage absorbing 'bubbles' around him .

Then you have the dps classes like myself, who specialize in maxing abilities that help them maximize their dps (damage per second) output but usually are very weak in comparison to a tank - as this is not their primary role .
After the tank has got the boss or mobs sufficiently taunted and attacking him, the dps begin to unload on them and zerg them down as fast as possible .
As a mage one of my abilities is SpellSteal, where I steal a helpful spell from a target, and in the instance of Lord Jaraxxus - Nether Power which boosts spell damage output . It is important that I steal this from him, otherwise the spells he begins casting on the tank will be too powerful for the healers to manage resulting in the tank dying, and the boss rampaging through the raid slaughtering us .
But a slight funsie to stealing such a power spell is that it also significantly increases the damage from my own spells, and when dealing damage to a boss, if the amount of damage a player deals to a target exceeds the agro level held by the tank, the boss will switch targets to whoever has the highest amount of agro - which is not desirable at all .

A crit (critical strike) is a chance you have on each time you deal damage or cast a spell to have the amount of damage (or healing) dealt doubled, or increased by a factor depending on what you are casting .

So after stealing NetherPower and sitting there blasting away with arcane barrages etc - if I score too many critical strikes in a row and the tank doesn't taunt fast enough and hold the agro, the boss will switch targets and charge over and start attacking me - usually resulting in a one-hit killing blow as I am not wearing plate armor etc etc .
Highly irritating as you then have to sit the rest of the fight out (dead) and wait till it is over so you can be resurrected by one of the healing classes - doesn't often happen and is a notable attribute of a bad bad tank .

Immensely annoying especially if it is in the first few minutes of a long fight .

Yea . . . I might have got over excited with my reply . . . kinda seems long . . .

*sniffle* want . . more ~twitch~ WoW . . . . *blargh*
Bozo (8540)
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