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 by Jasi, Level 63
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Jasi: Hi Noxn - Why dont you start by sharing with us some of your background info.
Noxn: I currently live in colorado, im 18 yrs old and my interests are computer games like wow, cs 1.6, wc3, dota, and sc. Some other interests are basketball, hiking, and just chill'n with friends. I'm a senior in high school and my rl goal for my life is to be a small-animal veterinarian. My favorite band is Mae.
As for wow stuff, season 1 - I was focusing mostly on raiding , but I also did some arenas. i was switching between holy and shadow with a rogue and warlock partner. We did okay, but nothing special, I was able to make the cut for gladiator though. I didn't 3v3 or 5v5 much, because most of the people i played with were in the same guild so we had to raid a bunch.
Season 2 - this is when I transferred servers to Mannoroth and started to focus more on pvping, I got my old friend from level 60 on dragonmaw to reroll a new character with me (Conradical, warlock), and I helped him on his way up to 60. once he got there, most of the season was trying to help get him and his rogue gear. At the end of the season, I decided to play with a different rogue, Rotard, where we got rank 1 in 2v2 as shadow priest/rogue in 1 week of playing. This was when I realized I didn't suck at pvp.
In 3v3, I did a lot of druid, lock, shadow priest and druid, rogue, shadow priest with Bani, Conrad, and Rotard (the rogue). We were able to get top 10 in the world and rank 1 in the bg as druid/lock/priest fairly quickly, but a lot of it was just farming low pt teams because we were, for the most part, way ahead of every other active 3v3 team.
My approximate highest ratings for the end of season 2 were 2600, 2500, 2400.
S3 was the season where I was able to get triple rank 1 and be the "highest rated player in the world" although at the time, most of the good players were still PR/Arena point selling so it wasn't something to really brag about.
My team setups were 2v2: sp/rogue (conradical), 3v3: sp/lock/druid, sp/rogue/druid (conradical, bani). 5v5: sp/lock/mage/rogue/druid (conradical, bani, spk, jorkk)
Jasi: So why, after all of the success, do you prefer to stay outside of the e-sport side of WoW? Wouldn't you like to be raking in the same kind of cash like Hafu etc are?
Noxn: Well money isn't a huge problem in my family. We aren't rich but we aren't poor, we have enough money for me to do what I want to do with my life. I just don't think playing at a wow lan event would be very fun, it seems to me like there's so much counter-comping and travelling, and I just think it's more trouble than what it's worth, especially if I don't want to do it in the first place.
Just by watching the tournaments through streaming, etc. it doesn't seem like the kind of environment I'd enjoy either, especially recently when it's a common thing to nerd rage for some reason >.<
I think a LOT people at the tournaments take wow more seriously than what it is, which is just a game to have fun playing. Maybe I have it completely wrong, and maybe I will attend a lan in the future - it's just not something I think about doing right now.
Jasi: I heard you were pretty into DoTA, can you elaborate on this?
Noxn: Yes. Our team name is ROYALE WITH CHEESE, as seen here: http://www.caleague.com/?page=teams&teamid=190785
It includes ex-WoW player Nervii, the druid god Looped, the motormouth bani, the nerd rager nekos, railzz-sama, and the achievement master serephim.
I suck at dota though and I'm carried by my teammates, who I actually got into dota. They have surpassed my skill. My favorite heroes would be... LUNA, the bloodseeker strygwyr, and mangina the anti-mag.
Jasi: Who would you consider to be your favorite and least favorite WoW personas?
Noxn: I like tyveris because he puts in a TON of work into arenajunkies and I dont think he's recognized enough for it. I never would have thought the site would have gone as far as it did when i saw the post on the WoW PvP forums. Other than that, Lusitania is hilarious and his pictures own, and I like conrad because he's unpredictable whether he makes a joke, acts asian, or nerd rages.
Jasi: At one point you quit the game, and many thought their beloved Spriest hero was gone for good. What happened?
Noxn: What made me quit the game was feeling like I was playing a broken class after realizing we couldn't have done anything to win the series vs loop/veex, I got all emo and quit.
Jasi: Whats the deal with the whole mystery surrounding whether or not you're male or female? Are you ready to put the question to rest?
Noxn: I am female. The reason I never say is because it really doesn't matter if I'm male or female. I really don't care if they confuse me as either. I' m not going to meet these people irl since I don't have any plans to go to wow lans / tournaments. It shouldn't matter - I'm just a wow player playing to have fun - gender shouldnt matter.
Jasi: Do you ever find yourself hiding the fact that you're female if the person is never going to hear the reality in vent?
Noxn: Yea, a lot of the people I talk to, especially the ones that aren't part of the pvp community, still don't know im female and probably wont figure it out.
I type like a dude most of the time, so people don't really question it or have any reason to unless they've heard something about it.
Jasi: Do you ever find that you're treated differently once someone discovers that you are in fact, female?
Noxn: Yeah, all the time. It makes me want to put them on ignore or ban them from vent or whatever way I have contact with them on. It's extremely annoying to get e-hit on, since I dont have any plans to have an e-boyfriend.
The sick ones increase the use of smiley faces, message me more often, wanting to like arena, instance, all the time etc. I get lots of real life personal questions, but if I sense a dude is e-hitting on me, I just stop responding, or I respond with like 1-2 words to anything he says, and he stops msging me.
Jasi: Have YOU ever taken advantage of being female in relation to gaming?
Noxn: If there's a female gamer who says they haven't ever taken advantage of their gender, they're lying. SORRY TO SAY.
Jasi: When you first saw the 3.0 changes, were you excited to see that Shadow might have finally gotten the breath of fresh air it needed? Also, whats your planned spec at 80?
Noxn: I was excited at first, because Dispersion is a great idea (but it needs something else, like the health regen back) and Fade breaking snares gives us the mobility we needed in arenas. later on when they changed shadoweaving to be a self-buff is when I started hating the changes. I currently prefer playing the pre-3.0 shadow priest compared to the 3.0 one simply because of shadoweaving. There's nothing more annoying to me than to have a paladin or priest spam dispel my dots with just one button. It's hard to say how shadow priests will be at 80 though, I feel like we might actually be able to put out pressure without dots with crit being more of a shadow priest stat and mind flay being able to crit.
As for spec: http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?talent=bxIMzZZ0xfrRfkfVqfdAo Depending on my survivability, I might move the 2 points out of imp ve and put them into mind melt or meditation.
Jasi: What were your thoughts on shadow mid to late season 4?
Noxn: Shadow has progressively gotten weaker over time; pre bc shadow priests were overpowered. Season 1, they were good, season 2 they were good and season 3 they started to show signs of weakness, but they were still able to get high rated with good enough teammates and the right set up. season 4 was slightly worse than season 3, but they were still good and relied on in every 4 dps 5v5 set up.
Jasi: Can you elaborate on your thoughts of crit being a new viable gearing point to Shadow in terms of it being good/bad?
Noxn: With shadow power putting us at 200% crit, crit affecting dots, and mind flay being able to crit, having crit at 80 seems to be the way to go. Again, its' hard to tell until we're all 80 and mostly everyone has the arena gear, but I feel that we might be able to put out pressure with just mindblast/death/mindflay instead of relying on dots to put out any sort of pressure like we do now.aving. there's nothing more annoying to me than to have a paladin or priest spam dispel my dots with just one button.
Jasi: If you had to chose between cutting off your own arm or having three, which would you pick.
Noxn: having three for sure... it'd vastly improve my computer gaming skills
Jasi: What changes would you like to see Blizzard do first with Wotlk in relation to Shadow?
Noxn: The main things I'd like to see changed about shadow priests, besides fixing dot vulnerability are: making it so abolish disease is castable in shadowform, giving us a damage spell in the discipline tree so we can do something besides jump around and spam dispel while our shadow school is silenced, making some sort of change to dispersion like making it give the hp back against instead of just mana, and if shadoweaving is to remain a selfbuff make it so that we gain the +dmg on our dots from shadoweaving as the stacks go up (like if we're using VT, Pain, and DP to stack up weaving, then make it so they get the benefit of that shadoweaving so we don't have to reapply them to get that extra dmg)
Jasi: What do you think will be the new effective 2v2 comp for Spriest's at 80?
Noxn: If it's anything like 70, I'd say Druid/Shadow priest. Druids would have to get some more healing buffs though I think - resto druids are super easy to kill right now and they can't do a whole lot of cc anymore, because of how easy they are to focus down.
I feel that the main problem with the comp is both other druids and locks -- it took a lot of outplaying on our part to be able to finish games with a warlock on the other side. Moonkins right now do a ton of damage, and if this trend continues, sp/moonkin looks like an extremely dangerous comp in terms of both damage and cc (entangle, cyclone, typhoon to break casts, silence, and psychic scream).
After playing the comp, a huge problem with sp/druid was the shadow priest's mobility, but being able to break snares with fade should help a lot, especially with entangle/cyclone->fade and LOS to drink or heal up. Overall, it seems like a comp where you have a ton of mobility, damage, cc, and two classes capable of doing decent heals. the only thing that I think would stop this comp from being powerful is if druids don't have enough survivability.
Jasi: Is there a new Noxn title in the making, and if so, when can we expect it?
Noxn: I've been trying to make a noxn 3 for awhile now; I really wanted another shadow priest/rogue 2v2 centered video but conrad just doesn't play much anymore and when he does, he doesn't want to play his rogue. so unfortunately, that didnt happen. The best I've been able to do was the sp/druid video with looped. I guess I'll try again to make it during season 5, trying new set ups and such - I might also make a small video with world pvp on the way up to 80, but I wouldn't want that to be noxn 3, would rather #3 be full arenas like #2.
Jasi: What do you think is the biggest mistake newer or even "experienced" shadow priests make?
Noxn: It's dispelling for sure. I dont think a lot of spriests realized how often you had to cast dispel in arenas. Just a guesstimate off the top of my head, I casted dispels vs priest or druid teams for probably around 50% of my spells. it's important to know when it's good to dispel lifeblooms, when you should dispel over dmg, etc. and not a lot of priests picked up on that.
It's also extremely important to realize that your dispel is defensive too; i always set focus to the player who cc's the most w/ magic effects (mage or warlock) and spam dispel on the person they're sheeping/fearing before the cc goes off. it's not something you can do all the time, but it can win games if you make your healer immune to sheeps for the first part of the fights. I've seen more warlocks defensively dispel with devour better than priests do, which is kind of sad considering devour only takes 1 buff and it has a cooldown.
Jasi: Thanks for the interview
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Cooldown Nov 3, 2008 at 3:18 am
+12 votes
first? **** shouldn't have read the article
also noxn surprisingly doesn't sound like a dumb attention-starved psycho-**** like most chicks who play wow, that's cool
also noxn surprisingly doesn't sound like a dumb attention-starved psycho-**** like most chicks who play wow, that's cool
Romantic Nov 3, 2008 at 3:16 pm
+1 votes
Was it the "it doesn't matter what gender I am" part that got to you? Especially since it never talks on vent? Sounds like something a guy would say.
Cooldown Nov 3, 2008 at 8:24 pm
+1 votes
would a guy tell his dota league his name was hannah?
get ******, moron.
get ******, moron.
Persist Nov 3, 2008 at 8:43 pm
+2 votes
You're obviously not very bright. Noxn isn't an 18 year old girl.
Crocpot Nov 3, 2008 at 3:22 am
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"Jasi: What do you think is the biggest make newer or even "experienced" shadow priests make?"
go ninja edit your mistakes pleez, since you never ever ever read the article before posting
wtf why am i green
go ninja edit your mistakes pleez, since you never ever ever read the article before posting
wtf why am i green
resilve Nov 3, 2008 at 3:26 am
+1 votes
Good interview, and great job on the arenacast (sorry its late, just listened)
Hakai Nov 3, 2008 at 4:50 am
+1 votes
Is that Noktyn's head on your body while you're fcuking your pet whale... I mean girlfriend?
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