Discussion: Villain RP

[Sindrí-argent-dawn (Sindrí)]

It absorbs… the pvp talent is another spell entirely

[Perroy-argent-dawn (Perroy)]

@Slerk-argent-dawn

Not even know the pvp talents of your own class. A shame really.

The spell “anti magic shell” doesn’t reflect spells and isn’t a PVP talent

Have you ever played a death knight before? You’re thinking of Dark Simulacrum - which doesn’t even reflect spells either

[Slerk-argent-dawn (Slerk)]

@Sindrí-argent-dawn

It absorbs… the pvp talent is another spell entirely

Oh, ok then. Must have confused something.

@Perroy-argent-dawn

The spell “anti magic shell” doesn’t reflect spells and isn’t a PVP talent

Obviously, though I do recall a pvp talent that gave it a % of redirecting the damage that was absorbed or something along those lines. Might be wrong memory though.

[Aerilen-argent-dawn (Aerilen)]

@Clovus-argent-dawn

Exactly. When you’re dealing with things that you can’t just brute-force, you have to play it smart, which both makes for more interesting emotes and combat. You get this interaction in PvP too by baiting interrupts and the like. If a DK is somehow lured into a trap, even if they’re just facing normal soldiers they could lose depending on what happens. Blanket statements like “DK > all” only really apply in a vacuum.

Yeah, like the age old saying goes “work smarter, not harder.” Just because your character doesn’t have a chance to kill X by brute force doesn’t mean it’s an inherently bad thing.

Roleplay is a narrative, not a competition.

[Perroy-argent-dawn (Perroy)]

@Slerk-argent-dawn

Obviously, though I do recall a pvp talent that gave it a % of redirecting the damage that was absorbed or something along those lines.

@Slerk-argent-dawn

Not even know the pvp talents of your own class. A shame really.

Yeah I don’t know why you responded with the snarkposting instead of entertaining the idea that someone might know what their character’s buttons do

[Baerhugues-argent-dawn]

@Aerilen-argent-dawn

Roleplay is a narrative , not a competition.

Which is why you’d want to avoid killing people in the first place, kills all the future narrative

[Sindrí-argent-dawn (Sindrí)]

@Slerk-argent-dawn

Obviously, though I do recall a pvp talent that gave it a % of redirecting the damage that was absorbed or something along those lines. Might be wrong memory though.

Paladins have something like that…

[Kump-argent-dawn]

@Sindrí-argent-dawn

Paladins have something like that…

Avenger’s shield? Love that spell. It absorbs damage, and when it runs out of time/takes all damage it could, it deals the damage absorbed (or a variation of it) as AoE. It’s for Retribution Paladins.

[Baerhugues-argent-dawn]

That’s Shield of Vengeance.
Avenger’s shield is the prot paladin AoE with silence on main target.

[Sindrí-argent-dawn (Sindrí)]

@Baerhugues-argent-dawn

Avenger’s shield

Oh damn i miss the old one… throwing people to death with a holy frisbee.

[Kump-argent-dawn]

Oh yeah… I mixed those, right right… I like both of them actually.

[Tyreathion-argent-dawn]

What do you mean?

[Sindrí-argent-dawn (Sindrí)]

you mispelled right as prick.

[Tyreathion-argent-dawn]

Nah, he’s just a prick. And pretty wrong, too.

[Guineveer-argent-dawn]

I might be more inclined to make villainous characters if it was easier to get a decent transmog together and get a character to a high enough level to not be utterly destroyed by mobs.

Villains exist to be defeated (at least in WoW), and if I have to put a load of energy to create an Eredar that will only survive until the end of a story, it’s really not worth the effort.

[Tyreathion-argent-dawn]

There’s an easy enough fix for that. Just don’t make your IC and OOC name the same, and whenever your character dies, just make a new TRP with a different IC character.

[Nelox-argent-dawn (Nelox)]

And don’t play a void elf.

[Coldsháde-argent-dawn (Coldsháde)]

What if I enjoy playing a void elf?

[Sindrí-argent-dawn (Sindrí)]

Then stop enjoying it.

[Jenit-argent-dawn (Jenit)]

have henchmen change their name to a number when they enter situation where they might die

if they survive it was them if they die it was a nameless mook