Warlocks Suckier Than Expected; Girls Bad At Arena

I play on a 3's (I absolutely HATE people talking about 'three-vee-three') team that runs something of a FotM comp of rogue, 27/34 lock and resto druid. I'm mutilate specced for control and burst since I'm very unlikely to experience focusing on a team like this.



    The lock was originally specced into a crappy 5/0/56 destruction spec he claimed to love until I bullied him to spec first in affliction - he made an abomination of the build by filling out the whole aff tree and just randomly spurting the leftover points into something or the other - and now into the beloved SL/SL spec which I ran him through point by point.

    His survivability with the build is amazing - amazingly terrible, that is. He's usually the first one to die and does so with amazing provess, although sometimes we do manage to keep him alive by nuking down a similarly squishy warlock who thinks soul link makes resilience obsolete. I guess he just needs a bit of gear, but his alts steal his attention away from BGs every time I'm not looking. He speaks very little on ventrilo, and when he does, he makes everybody ears bleed with his shrilly voice and lack of a headset. Does a decent job spamming his drains though.



    And now the meat (no pun inten.. no wait I do intend) of the article: our lovely resto druid. She's the cutest little thing, a steaming hot Turkish girl who moved to the UK to study (drumroll..) english (clash!). She currently lives with her boyfriend, who happens to be in the same guild as we all do, and diligently does his cooking, washing and farming of gold (no really!). She would be the best geared of us three, but I couldn't get her to understand that yes, it would help to use those +12 Stamina gems for your armor as it's nice to have more +healing, but it won't do as much good if you're dead and moaning on vent the first thing every game. She talks a lot in vent which used to give me a hard on but now is just plain annoying.

    I don't have an issue with her skills as a healer, she does a great job, if futile, job at keeping our warlock up and even manages to toss a cyclone here and there or feral charge a mana burn. What she is not that good at is playing the arena outside the arena. When we lose two games in a row she immediately declares that we should stop playing lest we lose all of her rating, and delibarately starts making dinner for her lovely boyfriend just when we were supposed to have a few games. She also is very frustrated if we get less than 16 points from every win we get and my god, you really don't want to lose a game when she's having her period.



I just finished a rare session of ten games where we ended up gaining a total of 8 points since a few of the games our warlock had gear that had somehow gone red without him noticing, and the last ones he ran out of soul shards. Our beloved healer was very chatty tonight, telling us all about her trip to the movies with her boyfriend and how she thought the Harry Potter-films were terribly underrated.

    I think it's time for a stiff one of whatever booze I've left from friday and a nice six hours of sleep before a thrilling day studying the wonders of finnish legistlature, advanced integral mathematics and the english language.