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neto: Hi! Id first like to know where are you from, what is your name, your age and how much time you have been playing WoW?
Poptisse: My name is Therese, im 25 and been playing since January 2006. I’m from Sweden. neto: Do you remember why you started playing? Did you start playing for fun? You knew when you first got into WoW that you were going to be part of a world known-top guild? Poptisse: I started playing because I saw my brother doing Molten Core during christmas when I visited my family. At first it was for fun, but as soon as I dinged lvl 60 I got sucked into raiding pretty quickly. Poptisse: And no, I could never imagine that. I still can't believe it! neto: Does this hard raiding style has made you do some sacrifices? For example, getting late to bed having classes tomorrow morning? How do you handle this? Poptisse: I did sacrifice some time with my friends, but I dont think I ever sacrificed my work while I still had one. I quitted my job way before I got into Nihilum. And before that I never had to consider progress etc. Poptisse: And Ive always been a nightly person, so going to bed late is something ive done since childhood. neto: What do you think a person needs to become good at something? What do you think was the key for you to become part of Nihilum, and to keep yourself at the top level? Is it the attitude, the time, the dedication..? Poptisse: I think it’s a lot about dedication. Loving what you do, and being able to focus and read and understand the game from all aspects. I honestly dont know why I got to be a part of Nihilum, but I guess after all I had what they were looking for. A dedicated, good, reliable player. Poptisse: It’s not always easy to be a female gamer and to prove yourself at those levels either. neto: Would you like to tell us a bit more about being a female gamer? Is it common in your guild? Are you the only female? You feel good? Poptisse: I wouldn't say its common in our guild, but I honestly don't think there is any anti-female-gamer attitude. Right now it’s me and a resto druid, at the release of wotlk and the merge with SK we also had a warlock, whom later decided to leave however. I feel awesome, but Im a bit boyish myself, so I dont really have a problem with the sometimes harsh guy attitudes. I do think I am respected as a player and not as a female. Poptisse: At least I hope I am! Poptisse: I can imagine girls having issues in those guilds though, because the environment can be really rough sometimes. neto: Im guessing you and your guild have already cleared some content from the PTR. Many players complained about actual content being too easy. Do you think Blizzard will disappoint the community again with Ulduar? In terms of difficulty. Poptisse: Hmm, I do think it will disappoint the real hardcore raiders. Poptisse: I mean, I remember myself clearing the first MC, BWL. And the epic feeling of epic was fucking epic. Now it’s more like a brainless zerge where people fight about purples, rather than screaming over a dead boss. I remember wiping for days on Ragnaros, with my first guild. "Riders of Thulsa Doom". But when he died…the screams! Dont get those feelings anymore. Blizz wants to make all content open to everyone, even those who dont get the term "dont stand in fire". May so be it, it’s their game after all. neto: Have you thought of a solution for this? What should Blizzard do? What about hardmodes, will they fix this issue? Poptisse: Thing is, basically it’s all about world’s first. Weather you get it on hardmode or not. But I dont see a solution either, it’s too late for that. Everyone is used to wellfareepics and zergfests. neto: From all the encounters you had the chance to participate on; can you rank these in terms of difficulty? Poptisse: Freya 3 adds as #1. Mimiron as #2. Thorim as #3, maybe. neto: Is there any particular encounter that you had really fun wiping on? Vent laughs? Poptisse: Mimiron. For sure. Everyone loved that encounter! It’s an epic fight, 4 phases. You fight a robot, first his lower part, then his torso, then his head. On phase 4 you fight the whole body together, but then also p1-3 at once. So it’s a LOT of raid damage, tank damage, crowd control, special awareness. neto: Im guessing it’s pretty easy to fail in the first tries. Poptisse: Yeah well, when you have 8 melee getting blown up in a second by mines you start rubbing your head! It’s a great fight, much credits! Can’t wait to fight it for real on hardmode. Freya is great too, esp on hardmode, but hard! neto: You feel like the majority of players will enjoy the new content? Poptisse: I expect a lot of qq from "casual" players. But I dont see why people want to faceroll all content for free epics. What’s wrong with a little bit of challenge? neto: So in terms of difficulty, you would rate Naxx 1/10. Ulduar would be like…? Poptisse: Easymode on all bosses I’d say around 6-7ish. It’s a great step. As blizz said themselves, not something you pug at once. neto: Would you like to give away some predictions? Can you tell how much time will it take for the new content to be cleared at least on the easymode? Poptisse: Wow, well. Its 14 bosses, it’s really hard to judge. I think the top 20 guilds will clear it in 1-2 resets. Even 1 maybe. I’d say around 2-3 weeks in average the top 100 guilds will. neto: It will definitely take longer than Naxx, but not longer than old instances like, for instance, Sunwell maybe? Poptisse: Sunwell had 6 bosses, but brutallus and muru was insanely hard. At least Brutallus could be a cockblock if you had bad geared tanks. Muru took weeks. Hard to say really, guess ulduar will take slightly longer due to the amount of bosses. neto: So, I have heard you play a Priest =) Poptisse: I love my priest =). Played priest since day 1 and will until I quit. neto: I know you wrote a gear-guide for Sunwell. Do you have in mind writing another guide for Ulduar? Poptisse: Im not sure Im going to be responsible for that, Im sure we will have some once our website is up running though. I really hate writing guides for holy priest, because there is no real theorycraft for it. We're all so different. neto: I will personally tell you that my character looks a lot like yours, and I think im doing good =P Poptisse: Well I got a lot of questions why I socket for int, for example. Big manapool. And the fact that replenishment is the best mp5 you can have. Specially now in 3.1 when they nerf spirit. neto: You’re saying you will keep socketing int in the next patch Poptisse: I will focus even more on it. I like the spirit and spellpower I get on my gear/enchants, but I dont see SP being the mandatory factor atm. As for me I value int > haste > spirit > sp > crit. neto: Can you give me your values for the patch? Poptisse: int > haste > sp > spirit > crit neto: How do you prepare as a player/raider/person to achieve the 'First kills’? Poptisse: Ulduar is going to be the first REAL progress for me. Sure we had Malygos, Sarth and even a lot of Naxx was new to me, but everyone knew everything already so…I will prolly prepare myself IRL with a lot of water, energy drinks and make sure I eat enough. In game I've stocked up on elixirs/manapots/food/haste/sp pots. Enchants, gems, and all that. Just so that I never have to go to AH during the progress :) neto: Outside the game, but still game related, do you have a gear-list prepared for yourself? Like what you will be needing (in terms of loot) in each encounter. The enchants, gems, are you used to plan this stuff? Or you just do the math whether what suits best for you at that moment? Poptisse: With Ulduar that is really hard, since not even 50% of the loot has been revealed. I guess at the start you'll do the math at the spot. neto: You will follow the int > haste > sp > spirit > crit rule Poptisse: More or less yea Poptisse: I have a pretty decent rule when it comes to managing mana: My manapool's % should always be in line with the boss %HP. I’m just a fan of regen. neto: And inside the team/guild/organization/raid you feel you fill up the role of a hardworker, leader, friend, how can you describe your work/role? the funny girl. the serious one. the mad. the ihatetofail..? Poptisse: Im probably the perverted, unpredictable retard. I think some people see me as pretty funny though. I’m usually pretty quiet in raids. I dont say much unless I have too. Poptisse: Or if I nerdrage :D neto: Do you feel this is good for a guild? Like you have a raid composition and you also need a vent-environment, especially when it comes to long hours of wiping. How would you describe the perfect environment? The whole guild feelings? You want it to be serious still funny? A balance..? Poptisse: It has to be a balance. If you dont laugh you aren’t having fun and then I dont see the point, but you shouldn’t laugh too much either. And I dont want a gun to my neck. I think we've had a nice balance on PTR, I enjoyed it a lot! neto: Can you tell me anything you have done in a raid (With Nihilum/Ensidia or any serious raid) where you screwed it up? Poptisse: Haha! Yes. Twins. Sunwell. If you've ever done the fight you know the ledge… ive seen so many fails there so I always pressed slowwalk, walked up, positioned myself, then turned slowwalk off. neto: so one day =P… Poptisse: So one day, I walk up, but instead of pressing slowwalk again to turn it off, I press numlock. Poptisse: = autorun. Poptisse:And I seriously felt my trial go down the drain. But at least I laughed! I swear 90% of everyone that ever did twins did that mistake too. “The ledge of doom” neto: When something like that happens in a serious raid, let’s say it won’t happen next week in Ulduar, but a special First Kill for your guild or any special achievement. You hear laughs in vent, it is all quiet, or what? Poptisse: It really depends. Im human, everyone can fail. But let’s say you've been wiping 10 hours on X boss, which has X ability, let’s say conflag, as on twins. You finally have it close, then this X doesn’t move out with conflag. I'd get mad, mad, mad! But let’s say, you've been wiping for 10 hours, X gets into the raid, X never done the fight, X fails at that, you have to accept it. Swallow it and move on. It’s really situational. neto: I was asking this because I believe it is very important to keep the group focused. So sometimes you have a really good try and at the end someone fails, and I wanted to know like how the topguilds react to this Poptisse: I think the patience goes down hour by hour. You can’t blame people for being human either. Progress for 15 hours, and you have to expect mistakes from some corner neto: Speaking about failing. Have you seen in your WoW career any ‘fail’ because of the Internet? Poptisse: Lots of times. neto: Does your guild prepare in any way to avoid internet failing? Poptisse: I think people's net is generally monitored. For myself, my net has been shit from time to time. But then I always tell whoever is leading the raid that my net is shit that day or whatever. So they at least know! I mean, I wouldn’t want to ruin a worlds first because I dont want to admit my net is dodgy. neto: Would you like to lead a raid sometime? Poptisse: I did weekly Hyjal/BT pugs pre WotLK. neto: Funny raids :D? Poptisse: I think most people had a lot of fun, yes :) neto: Thanks so much for your time! Any final words, a /wave maybe? Poptisse: More girls to WoW!
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