Damn straight, I want it!

Want what? Huh?

Well, let’s set the stage. It’s an all too familiar story. Bellwether talked about it here, I mentioned it way back there, but everyone sees it at some point in the game.

You’re moving along, minding your own business, and some other player finds a way to screw with you in the game, compete with you for herbing the mobs you downed, whatever.

But more than anything else, they taunt you, they crowd you, they compete with who can tag a mob first and then maybe Feign Death or Vanish when pulling a train so the mobs aggro on you when you’re busy, whatever. They try to ruin your fun to swell their own pathetic little egos.

And then they whisper you to gloat about it, or threaten you in an attempt to intimidate you.

That’s right, I’m taking about asshats from your own faction messing with you. Asshats that you are blocked from retaliating against, except for a whining /report.

So Blizzard, I’m asking you… I’m begging you… Wrath of the Lich King is coming. You’re working on all different sorts of things. You’re playtesting all sorts of different stuff.

So please, at least CONSIDER it…

Give us PvF.

Player vs own Faction.

If some asshat from your own faction is being a dick, please give us some way to attack him, kill him, and camp his ass. Please.

Let us flag PvF, and if someone whispers us, let us attack them in return.

Please.

I would suggest that, for fun, if you flag PvF, you can only be whispered by people in the same zone. That way, you can talk in Guild chat, custom chat channels or Party or Raid chat without hindrance.

But if someone whispers you, you know they are in the same zone, and you can hunt them down and kill them.

Please. I’m BEGGING you!

I know the last Shifting Perspectives column over at WoW Insider was on April Fools day, and for SOME reason, you folks don’t seem to think it should count.

Whiny bitches.

A bear works and slaves over Hello Kitty for HOURS, and do I get any thanks? Hell no.

But fine. That’s okay. I’m not hurt. I’ll just… I’ll just…  {sniffle}

This week I’m dropping the bomb on your butts. You want Shifting Perspectives? I got your Shifting Perspectives right here.

At least, I will when that link goes live at 11:00 AM Eastern time this morning.

That post is my definitive answer to all the excellent folks that have been emailing me asking when I was planning on updating my feral bear tank gear guide.

Now, I know that SOME people are never satisfied. Even though that article weighs in at over 7000 words, someone is going to bitch that it doesn’t include a guide to bear tanking enchants, gems and consumables. Or that it doesn’t go past Kharazhan.

Well, the enchants and gems will get covered NEXT freaking week.

And gearing up past Kharazhan will come sometime in the future too.

Now, I have had some folks ask if I ever have any plans on doing a similar gear guide for kitty gear.

Yes, yes I do. As much as I talk and talk and talk about bear tanking because it is our feral role in groups, I know that I personally spend 90% of my play time solo in kitty form and shifting in and out of kitty. I can’t imagine I’m alone in that.

I think spending 90% of our feral playtime in one form makes it well worth talking about the gear we seek out for Kitty roles, and no, it ain’t the same as Rogues. So that will be going up either the next week or the one after.

And there will be the final installment of the bear tanking guide, too. /aspirin

So lay off, damn it! I’m working on it!

On a side topic, if you are interested in collaborating on a Resto Druid or Moonkin Druid gear guide up to and including Kharazhan, please let me know. I’d like to do one on WI soon, like in a month or so, and I think it would be very valuable to a lot of players. After all, Shifting Pespectives ain’t supposed to be all feral all the time.

Peace out!