Of Dragonforces and WoW...

First the big news. I beat Dragonforce on Hard. I finally did it. For a long time I had lost in the first hammer-on section. Then I was eventually capable of getting through 80-90% of it consistently. But now, after getting 98% through then failing, I figured I was super close to actually beating the damned thing. So after a few runs of the whole song on Practice, playing certain sections on their own, and then revving it up for another try...

Well, after 2 attempts on Hard after that - the bitch was done.



Huzzah.

Notice also how I got a much better score on Easy -_-;;

And now to my next topic of topics. World of Warcraft.

I've been keeping my eagle-eye on WorldofRaids.com to get all the news on upcoming WoW changes and so on. A while ago I found out that the attunements for Karazhan, Mount Hyjal, and even Black Temple are being removed. I understand that it sucks to be mediocre in WoW, or part of a mediocre guild that is going nowhere. But this is just getting to be ridiculous. "Oh well, Magetheridon is too hard, let's remove TK attunement," and so on. All they're doing is letting people skip bosses that take some skill and move on. The only people who are going to kill Vashj and Kael'thas now are the ones who have already done it. People might not even bother with the T5 instances now. I have a feeling this is just going to keep happening, and the worst bit is that as you keep giving people freebies, they move up into tougher content with less skill and gear than they should have.

My old guild managed to progress through most of SSC and TK raids. Now I'm guessing that they'd at least be stuck on Vashj and Kael'thas (the last bosses of these 2 instances), and the only way they're getting into the T6 content is by waiting for the patch. Hell, I'm willing to bet that they haven't even got Mag down yet.

Whilst I don't care much for raiding nowadays. I do have respect for the people who are good at it. People who clear all the bosses, not because they need to in order to progress forward, but to show that they have the skill to do it.

Nothing in video games is impossible. All you need are the rudimentary skills, some time spent honing those skills, and a tiny bit of luck.