FUDK4: Enjoy The Pain

by Oozo

http://warcraftmovies.com/movieview.php?id=167725

WARNING: You are about to enter the faceroll zone. If you do not like protection warriors, do not proceed. If you do not like twinks, do not proceed. If these things don't bother you, then by all means continue onward and ENJOY THE PAIN.

WHAT TO EXPECT:

ONE vs. AV ZERG
BADASS DANCE MOVES
HATE CRIMES
ENEMY TWINKS
PUSSY. LOTS OF IT.
ENEMY RED AND ORANGE CONS.

This warrior was levelled to 60 in a few days via friend link. It was the first time I've played a warrior, so you will see some mistakes as I was working out my keybinds, macros, and timing. The protection warrior was very unbalanced when compared to fury and arms. Those builds couldn't compete as a twink, since they did less damage... at the cost of having less survivability and less mobility. Hold it, what did I just say? Yeah, right. Stupidly unbalanced. I'm glad to see that Blizzard has come to their senses with regards to the changes coming to warriors in Cataclysm.

SONGS/CONTENT:

ENJOY THE PAIN - 16 VOLT
Intro
1v2 - 69 Warlock/65 Hunter
Interrupted 1v3 - 68 Death Knight/64 Death Knight/62 Druid (already low health)
Chain 1v8 - 60 Death Knight/52 Warlock (x2)/53 Rogue/60 Warrior Twink (DEoI)/56 Mage (runs away)/58 Druid/56 Mage/60 Hunter Twink

JUST ONE FIX - MINISTRY
Chain 1v6 - 60 Warrior/56 Rogue(x2)/54 Warlock/52 Rogue/55 Shaman
1v3 - 62 Druid/69 Hunter/64 Warlock - 3 more kills after INC heals
Chain 1v6 - 54 Warrior/57 Paladin/58 Warrior/60 Warrior/59 Rogue/58 Death Knight

THE DREAMS THAT ROT IN YOUR HEART - 16 VOLT
Interrupted 1v5 - 69 Mage/64 Warrior/68 Paladin/63 Druid/60 Warrior
1v2 - 64 Rogue/62 Rogue
1v2 - 60 Warrior Twink (Sulfuras)/60 Paladin Twink (bad) - defensive CDs on cooldown
1v2 - 64 Warlock/66 Rogue

TWO WIRES THIN - 16 VOLT
1v2 - 68 Hunter/65 Death Knight
1v5 - 51 Hunter/54 Rogue/58 Rogue/60 Rogue/53 Shaman
1v2 - 66 Death Knight/67 Warrior
1v3 - 61 Mage/61 Druid/68 Shaman
1vWTF - 59 Seasoned Defenders (x4)/51 Hunter (x3)/54 Rogue (x2)/55 Shaman (runs away)/57 Warrior (x3)/57 Rogue/59 Dirk Swindle/58 Warlock (runs away)/55 Lana Thunderbrew/60 Murgot Deepforge/ and a few others

ALKALI - 16 VOLT
1v1 - 60 Druid Twink (trolls be flippin' out, mon)
2v4 - 61 Warlock/66 Shaman/67 Rogue/67 Warrior
2v4 - 60 Twink Prot Warrior with 20K HP buffed in last stand. This fight was won before the adds, he had used his defensive CDs while I still had mine available.
Some 60 Rogue Nostalgia

I've been entertaining the idea of doing a 60 nostalgia video before Cataclysm hits. I added these clips so you know that I've been on the other side of this gear disparity. I know what it's like. I have no disrespect for the people killed in this movie, in most cases they had absolutely no way of winning the fight. But, hey... that's the World of Gearcraft for you.

Sunspots (Moonkin PvP)

by Oozo

FULL movie is here: http://warcraftmovies.com/movieview.php?id=158561

I was disappointed in the feedback on this one. I put a lot of effort into the editing, but apparantly it was too much. That many people with consistent negative feedback can't be entirely wrong. Because of this feedback, I toned down the editing in the my new warrior movie. I also made sure that my health was always available for the viewer no matter how I was zoomed in. That's a good thing. I learned a new technique which I will apply to future movies.

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This is a segment from an upcoming L80 moonkin PvP video. There have been some moonkin videos put out recently that don't even come close to showing the full gameplay that is necessary to solo PvP successfully with a moonkin. The moonkin is by far the most challenging class/build I have solo PvPd with, but recent movies are doing the moonkin a serious disservice by portraying them as nothing but starfall and typhoon.

Some people actually believe that all you have to do is press starfall, run in and win. This, obviously doesn't work. If you don't get chain-CCd, they will just pop their defensive cooldowns and laugh at you. You have to set starfall up against any opponent with a brain. That means trying to survive while they work with superior tools against yours. And, by superior tools.. I mean things like offensive dispels (which moonkins don't have), instacast silences and interrupts (which moonkins don't have), get out of jail free cards (which moonkins don't have), get the picture?

Of the two more recent moonkin videos, one is a pure editing movie that doesn't showcase shifting, cyclone/starfire, kiting, or fighting against our hardest matchups (other casters). The other movie is by a top-end arena player that doesn't show these things either. After the arena player got flamed he went back and changed his introduction to the movie to appease the viewers. Quote:

Moonkins CAN'T do anything else but dmg. Look at the talent tree: dmg, dmg, dmg, range, dmg, a new skill with dmg, dmg and ultimate: DMG!

This... from a top arena players. Pathetic might be the word I'm looking for here. I'm going to try to refute this perception, but I doubt I will successful as the "moonkin don't take any skill" mindset has taken strong root.

Be sure to watch in highest definition. The quality is pretty good.

FUDK2: Battleground Hero

by Oozo

Update: The movie is published at http://www.warcraftmovies.com/movieview.php?id=152675

As expected, the ratings are all over the place. Some like it, others hate it. Most that hate it, hate it for lame and/or incorrect reasoning. But, that's just the way it goes. :) What was unexpected, is that they decided to feature it. Pretty risky, given that a good portion of WCM viewers dismiss this kind of movie out of hand.

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The movie is rendering now and should be uploaded to WCM within a few days. This movie will focus more on objective-based PvP than the 1vN PvP bloodbath featured in FUDK. I've also decided to add some humor segments to the movie, similar to what I did for the Huntard movie.

ATM, I'm inclined to keep a humor storyline going as it opens up avenues to talk about different elements of the game. Are DKs overpowered from 50-79? Can a lowbie contribute in his PvP bracket? How do you jump warrior charges and intercepts consistently?

It would also allow me to tie in my shadowpriest, hunter, druid, and rogue 70 movies and even go waaaaaaay back and do a "best of" nostalgia movie from my Chromed/Oozo pre-TBC footage. I am missing a few of the fullsize movies (Oozo's Fear and Chromed's Poison most noteably), but I should have enough to put something interesting together.

But, I digress. Breakdown and credits for the movie follow. Again, it is heavily edited such that the action and events in the movie sync up with the music. In order to do this I have to zoom, fast forward, slow mo, cut, paste, etc. etc. Lots of work went into this.


PART 1 - Scrubs Anonymous (humor intro)

- Toasty Loop by Jimbob

- Stealth Game Over by Jimbob

- Badass Theme - Loopmaster

- Eeeeeeeeeee! from Austin Powers "Goldmember"

PART 2 - Return to Bass by Meat Beat Manifesto (pvp segment)

PART 3 - Tzolk'in by Imprintz & Kleo (pvp segment)

PART 4 - Showdown (Excision Remix) by Pendulum (pvp/dance segment)

PART 5 - Industrial Love by ISTW (humor segment)

PART 6 - Montage from Team America (pvp montage, duh?)

PART 7 - Ray's Whipass by Mike O'Connor and Ray (credits)

Will update with link when it is published.

FUDK INC

by Oozo

As I type, iFyoUDeathKnight (FUDK) is uploading at Warcraft Movies. There is a risk that they will reject it because of it's filesize (930 MB for 23 minutes). I wanted to keep the movie HQ for those who stream. I'm crossing my fingers on this one, because I really really really don't want to sit through another 15 hour render hoping some error doesn't occur 10+ hours into the render (which has happened a few times on this movie already).

I'll have a full write-up for this movie later tonight.

iFyoUDeathKnight Trailer

by Oozo


By far, the Death Knight has been the most dominating class I've played in 70 AV. This had led to many 1vN clips, many of which are 1v4s or 1v5s. Also, I've had some crazy kill chains up to 8 to 10 people back-to-back.

Now, the question is: how do I present this material?

I could go documentary style similar to my Warhammer Choppa movies with added commentary. Or I could go for editting and pure entertainment value. Either way I want to give the viewer some way of understanding what happened and how my enviroment affects the decisions I make. In this trailer I am going for editting, but also do some slowmos and zooms to help the view follow the action, particularly for those who only watch movies via streams. Without zooming, stream-viewers would miss so much of what is happening.

But, does trying to accomodate both types of viewers lead to overall failure? I could go for a movie that is a mixture of what I do in this trailer but also uneditted footage with commentary. This might be the best approach. Otherwise, I fear most viewers would miss the little things I do that help me win these 1v5s. It's not facerolling. There is a lot of thought put into my actions here. But, how should I convey that without coming across as a pretentious ass?

Wait. I am a pretentious ass. Ah, nevermind then.

You can get a fullsize download at Warcraft Movies. Don't forget to rate! (even if you think it sucks)