Just letting you guys know I’ve been out of town from Christmas to New Years, but I’ll be back up and posting in a few days. I hope everyone is enjoying the holiday season!
In the mean time I thought I’d answer some random comment questions since I can’t really write articles here.
Response to Eviscerate X Critics
First, I’m not whining here but I thought I’d talk briefly about the common critiques I found for this video. To all the people who had problems with Eviscerate X because of the music or gameplay. I usually don’t listen to critics too much because honestly, I try to make vids for fun, the way I want to. But a really common problem people had was with the music in the video. I’m not asking you to like it, but I wanted to use some of my favourite Metallica songs and kind of stick with the same feel throughout the video. I knew beforehand a lot of people were expecting trance and that a lot of people wouldn’t like it, but I don’t think trance really fits for world pvp / duels well. Going with one band mostly throughout a vid was something different I wanted to do as well, but apparently people never listen to albums from a single band or artist the whole way through.
So I apologize if the music ruined the experience for you, but at the same time that’s just too bad. I pick music I enjoy, I always have and I always will. If I make another video I’m not going to think for a second about picking music based on the opinions of others. And to people who said Metallica is “bad music”, really I’m not asking you to like it but you should considering having an open mind to other genres of music because if you don’t, you’ll be missing out.
Regarding the game play, a lot of people said this wasn’t my best video from that perspective. Honestly, this is the video where I played the best, I know that from my own perspective. It was recorded the same time as Arena Vol. V and VI, as well as a bit after, so I don’t really see how people had a problem with the game play. Even the first pvp scene in the video was in my opinion the strongest clip from the rogue ffa I had in Arena Vol. V which I saved for this. I think people who had a problem with my game play in comparison to other videos were mostly people projecting the fact that they either didn’t like the music or the lack of arena and that affected their view of the actual PvP.
Final notes, to the people who wanted arena, the whole point of the video was fuck arena, I thought the message in the intro made that pretty direct but when I saw some people rate the video based on my arena ratings, I guess that went over some people’s heads. If people have legit concerns about the video or simply didn’t like it, that’s cool. Like I’ve said a few times, I make videos because I enjoy it, if other people enjoy it that’s just a bonus for me. This isn’t me crying about people not liking it because that’s your taste and your choice. I just found it annoying that the biggest problems people seemed to have were from the music standpoint or game play standpoint.
From the RvR Guide, my UI
“when you get opened on, trinket -> gouge really is the only thing i would do (on all the servers i’ve been its been polite not to use prep in any rogue vs rogue duels, maybe that makes a difference) because that way (if they dont dodge/parry) you still have your blind and can turn the situation around by vanish -> cs (-> mut -> ks), wait for them to trinket -> blind / prep vanish. its just what i usually do if i dont have the opener and it works most of the time.”
The problem with using gouge (more…)
