Everyone needs this alt

Everyone needs that alt. While that line is incredibly vague you'll understand what I'm talking about in a moment. I have that alt. Hell it's what this blog is named after. I love playing my mage. It's a change of pace from healing on my druid, different role, different abilities and different style. It's also insanely fun. There has never been a time where I didn't living bomb everything in a trash pack an not giggle like an insane person. It's fun watching all those explosions.

Traestus helps me keep my sanity. There's only so many times a player can hit the same spells in the same fights in raids. Having that alt that you just mesh with is super important to keeping your game fresh. I suggest find a class you just think is cool that you don't normally play. Find the tree you love the most and stick with it regardless of what is considered "best". I do it with my hunter and the fearsome Devilsaur "Omnomnomsaur". It's fun as hell watching that thing stomp around chomping stuff. Same with Trae and his living bomb. Sure the class you pick or even the tree might not be it the first time.

Trae was rolled to be arcane....then I found fire and all its pyrotechnic glory. I implore people to go out and find that class that spec that they just love outside of the one they normally play. So go out and warlock it up with Seed of Corruption, break out your own personal hammer of justice and smack some scourge around. You'll look at the game in a different way and maybe you'll just start burning them with fire.

-- This post brought to you by Living Bomb and its incredible awesomeness. Seriously don't roll a mage unless you want to tab dot everything with this spell and laugh like a madman as everything ever explodes in brilliant fire.

How to deal with that guy.

We've all ran into that guy. You know the one in your heroic that drives everyone up the wall or the guy that shows up and you're not even sure knows what game he's playing. How do you deal when you just want to get in and out of Heroic Halls of Stone as fast as possible and every DPS in your group is bashing their heads against the unsmashable wall of 1k DPS?

It's simple, find an outlet. Yeah, all my characters are overgeared for heroics, I go in for frost or for offset pieces. My druid can't use triumph for anything other than epic gems and buying hodir rep things since I like having exalted factions.

If you've got a group filled with bad DPS, instead of berating them in chat which in turn will make the run take longer. Instead if you're in a guild link the meters in Gchat and play guess the tank. Are you laughing at their expense? Yes. Are you actively making their time worse? No. You're run won't take any longer and you'll save some sanity.

And yes some people will say that it's important that we try and teach people how to improve their DPS. I've tried, I've made recommendations on specs, websites to visit, simple things such as "You're a DK why in the holy hells are you gemming spirit!?!?".1 in 10 I'll get someone that will listen however most of the time I get blind rage for suggesting this because "It's their 15 dollars and they'll play how they want to." So I rag on them in guild chat.

For those that say heroics are for these people, well they are but until Blizzard stops giving out 2 frost for doing a random dungeon each day I'll keep heading in there.

And frankly me linking meters in guild chat and giggling is a heck of a lot better than taking that bile to party.

So find an outlet, realize that in the end it is just a game, that yelling at any random DPS to "improve" will not cause any noticeable shift in the next ten minutes and just do what you can control.