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New Rule – If you have a Chilly Slobberknocker equipped, let someone else do it

I know you mean well and good on you for trying but when you come into a battleground with zero resilience and leveling blues and think you stand a chance at getting that flag back to your side you’re actually acting like a double agent for the other team. They’ll be more than happy to pull people off of defense if it means they can get their flag back just by mowing you down on the way back home. You see that prot warrior with loads of pvp gear? Let her grab the flag!

New Rule – If you’re level 80 and you’re not doing pvp, take Drain Life off your action bar

Its crap damage and advertises that you don’t have a clue what you’re doing. Particularly in a 5man, there should never be a time when Drain Life will help you. Yes there are the exceptions that prove the rule but they don’t apply to you. Or you. Or you in the back. Certainly not you with that Chilly Slobberknocker!

Are we sensing a theme?

New Rule – I’m totally ok with you being mad

Recently I decided I was enjoying WoW too much so I decided to gear my mage for pvp. I started the honor grind with a grand total of 20 resilience from my level 70 trinket and have been cutting myself ever since. I’m up to almost 500 resilience now and even though that’s hardly anything, pair it up with Ice Barrier and I can actually stay alive for a while.

Anyway. I joined up with a VoA25 group recently and was accosted by one of the other mages in the group.

“HEY DO YOU PVP. YOU BETTER NOT PVP BECAUSE I WANT THE WRATHFUL GEAR AND IF YOU WIN IT I’LL BE MAD. SO MAD.”

This pleasant fellow went on in this manner saying that if you weren’t rocking a 2000 rating with a rogue/mage/priest team you had no business taking pvp gear for any reason. The same tired rants spewed out of his mouth about how battlegrounds aren’t real pvp and anyone who doesn’t do it his way is wrong, etc. Of course he only talks like every WoW stereotype ever, even down to the gratuitous use of the pejorative “scrub”.

His trump card is his Warlord title which only makes me think he probably smells bad.

Of course, ultimately he proves every suspicion I have about him correct when we all zone in and he finds out… gasp! He’s already saved to VoA25 this week! His last words before leaving the raid are “Good luck mages on pvp gear. Except Adrina. I hope you don’t win anything scrub!” Powerful words coming from someone who can’t tell their ass from a raid lockout.

Guess what dude. If I win the roll on the Wrathful gear I’m seriously thinking of making a fraps of me deleting it forever in front of you. Just for fun. Or maybe I’ll gem it with spirit and run around in circles in Warsong Gulch because honestly, I’m very very all right with you being mad.