Captain Grim

There's something magical about gazing longingly into that DPS meter, every fight, and try your best to climb those ranks to the very top. If you succeed, you ascend, becoming one with the universe. But sometimes Xxxfeetdestroyer, comes in and shatters your dreams by getting to the top with a better class than you, then proceeding to post the DPS stats from the previous fight a couple of times just to establish how much better they are. DPS are a special and you can't live with them or without them.

It's been a while! And I'm happy to present my very first non-fully machinima WoW video! Crazy I know. The whole plan was for me to take it chill and make a non-machinima video so I don't have to work too hard, with my finals coming up. But this video ended up requiring more work than a regular machinima! so there you have it :) The topic of the Corrupted Blood incident has honestly been covered to death. Especially when doing research for this video, I realised how many MANY articles and videos there are on it, and now with covid-19 being a thing and the two topics having some similarities, even MORE content has been made on it. It's nuts. Maybe I could have skipped making a video on this topic, but I have been planning this one for months and finally decided to get it done. I also just thought that it was a fun topic to cover in a non-machinima manner, so it is what it is!

Sometimes playing a video game will bring you more pain than pleasure. This especially hold true about Classic WoW :) The game is so immersive, that when something horribly annoying happens, you feel it very strongly in real life. Pure agony... But that's one reason why we love it after all! There's honestly so many of these small moments that could be thought of that I could make dozens of videos about them, whether that happens I don't know! But here is the part 2 to the original Struggles of Playing Classic Video. Enjoy! :)

Ah questing in Classic. Isn't it great to come home after a busy day, have a snack, maybe a drink and load up Classic to level one of your alts until you get sick of it. Relaxing right? Well some of these times you just might come across some of the most annoying players in the game. I mean, if you're on a PvP realm it's already bad enough to have to watch your back all the time, but what happens when even players from your faction turn out to be your biggest obstacles. You can't even kill them! The infuriating experience of finding someone already at your questing spot, who's just too thickheaded and greedy to understand that it might be better to quest together, rather than act like some cool pro gamer edge-lord that can clear out the whole are himself and expecting every mob to be owed to him. God, those people need help! But oh well. Once in a while you just might see some players like that greedily tag one too many mobs, which would then lead to their horrible demise.

With the recent news surrounding a priest who was banned for 6 months for dispelling a livestreamer on Classic WoW, I just thought it's a perfect opportunity to make this short continuation of my recent "Struggles of Playing Classic Part 2" video. I know a lot of people want to banish every dispeller to the shadow realm, but them getting banned for that cause some livestreamer asked? That's pretty hilarious and unnecessary. I personally don't think a player needs to be banned for something like this. In addition, people argue that world buffs should be changed so they can't be dispelled. But I don't think that is necessary. At the end of the day people can comfortably raid even without world buffs, not to mention some of the main ones like the Dragonslayer one are already undispellable! There's no need to focus on try-harding/min-maxing all the time and getting the highest parses. It's an old game with very specific annoying things in it.

So!... Shadowlands huh? Honestly, it's looking pretty exciting guys. After BfA I remain a bit sceptical, but lots of the changes and additions to the game look great. One big thing, is all the customization additions to the barber! Blizzard finally embraces the true end-game of World of Warcraft, indeed - fashion. You must compete with everyone else to have the coolest transmog and the most interesting character appearance! Who cares if you get all those [Ahead of the Curve] achievements when you look like total trash? You want to stick some random flowers and leaves in your hair? The barber's your guy. You want to have a blind eye for no reason? The barber's your guy. You want to change your character's gender? *The barber's your guy*... They've become very flexible over the years, haven't they? It all just started with some facial reconstructions and chiropractor sessions. Even the base stuff in Shadowlands, like the facial hair options, hairstyles and accessories are nice additions

Have you ever raided in either Retail or Classic and realised how much of a mess it is and wanted to go back to do some raiding in the alternative option, but then you also realised that that is also a total mess but in generally different aspects? Yea. That's just how raiding is and in this video I'm taking a few scenarios from both retail and classic and then comparing them. But yea sorry about the lack of uploads the past month! I wasn't feeling too great and it didn't help that I planned this video kind of poorly so it turned out a lot longer than I expected haha! But I just wanted to make 1 more Classic WoW related video before I turn my attention primarily towards Retail, especially since Shadowlands is just around the corner. I also thought that I hadn't done one of these Classic VS Retail videos in a long while, so I thought it's a good opportunity for that.

You know, tanking is a lot like babysitting several children but, in this instance, they have machetes, grenades and guns. Your job is to try and protect them from hurting themselves or stop them from getting you killed. You're also perpetually in pain and on fire. I honestly can't count the times that I as a tank have had to stop, take my hands away from my keyboard and hold my head for a moment. I have stood there, mouth wide open, starting at my brilliant DPS rush in head first in front of me into several packs of mobs or the times where the healers go on some dumb rant nobody cares about in the middle of a fight, instead of healing, causing us to die. I love tanking, cause as a tank you're kind of like the main character. You're the guy confronting all of the bosses and mobs and the rest of the group are your sidekicks. But sometimes those sidekicks are a bit too eager to stab you in the back.

Good riddance. Father.... is it... over...? At long last... I can't lie, I'm a bit happy BfA's finally over and I can start slowly erasing it from my mind, but they say the most traumatic memories stick with you the longest, so who knows how that will work out! I basically wanted to make one last video to send off this GREAT expansion with, so I went through some scrapped scripts and ideas I've had regarding BfA and reworked some of them for this video. Hope you enjoy!

Man. Here we are guys. A new expansion. And oh boy has it brought a lot of things for us to experience. Legitimately, Shadowlands has had the single smoothest expansion launch for me. Everything was super seamless on my realm, no real MS lag or server crashes. This honestly surprised me so much, since the lag on pre-patch was horrendous, so I thought if they're struggling on that, it's almost certain of the actual launch to be a total mess. Thank god it wasn't the case, at least not for me! There's definitely lots of things that came in Shadowlands worth talking about and discussing but there's one main takeaway you can get from me regarding the expansion... and that is.... THE RE-ADDITION OF PVP VENDORS OH MY GOD WOWWWW OH MY GOOOOD! I'm so happy they finally brought them back. To me it was pure insanity for them to be removed in the first place.