It’s very strange and I think it came from the low fantasy andy Tide Raven/peasant RPer who wants to exist in game of thrones and not the high fantasy setting WoW is.
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This is all i hear.
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Ethereals can speak. They don’t even have physical bodies. Checkmate.
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I won’t name specific guilds or people, but usually when I notice that the conversation is sub-par, taking longer then 10 minutes for the other person to reply or its just droll as hell, I try to brush them off and leave
"Ah I see, well, that explains many things… " leaves
If its multiple people in the conversation I always try to adress the one with better writing skills and enjoyable to speak with while only giving short emotes or responses to the lesser skilled ones, and if they are power-emoting, I just take it on the nose like a champ rather then throwing my weight around like a chimp.
Unless they go for lethal, if so, I hold nothing back and will give as good as I get, no-one takes me down without a fight for it.
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How did we hurt you?
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Don’t you mean
Black Bart breathes a heft of pipe smoke like those white plumes rising in the wake of cannonfire. He turns his haggard neck, silvered and shining with scars past, to survey the troll. His beard is wet with grog and he wrestles a crumb of stale, moldy cheese out of that forlorn bush, and eats it. He could be smiling but it is hard to say what intent lies beyond that wretched brow and if he has been known to smile it was not in moments like this. He has been drinking for as long as it has been raining and it has been raining for three weeks and his mouth fights him over the words he craves to utter. But alas in the end he croaks out:
Arrr matey, how have we hart ye??
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I despise the prose.
Pretty good but, you forgot to shoehorn in a mention of Blood Island.
Personally I try make the best I can, to see if the roleplay can be at least interesting. If not, then I’ll take my leave/come up with a reasonable reasoning as to why I wouldn’t be interested in whatever they choose to roleplay as. Most people, thankfully, are very okay with that, but there have been the occasional threats in the past that I have “ruined” their roleplay and started to guilt trip me for whatever reason. Those are, by far, the worst.
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Sorry, you’re not allowed to enjoy your preferred style of roleplay anymore, someone on the forums said so.
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It’s borderline hilarious how entitled us forum dwellers are as the rest of the realm carries on without giving us a second thought.
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Their arguably the happier ones tbh
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I’d go a step further and say there’s no ‘arguably’ about it - I’ve found this hobby (which I almost feel needs to be said that it is a hobby) a lot more enjoyable when hanging around folk who take it just a little less seriously and I feel like you can tell they’re enjoying it more than the “ugh, look at this lame character concept 
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No I’m actually genuinely curious, because it isn’t the first time I’ve caught you on the forums trying to paint us as some backwards anti-fantasy puritans and I’d like to hear why, maybe I can clarify some things for you. I’m flattered that you think our small guild of pirates have had any kind of cultural impact on the server to dictate whether or not it should be socially acceptable for druids to speak in animal form or not, but I don’t know why you think we’d care?
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You could jumpscare half this forum by mentioning that the average Azerothian still has to poop in either an outhouse (shared with the entire neighbourhood) or a dirt patch in the grass and that they still have to collect their water from a well.
Fundamentally, the lower aspects of “fantasy” have a big role in Azeroth, its just that the average quests don’t really tend to focus (beyond vanilla) on how John Smith and his farm are doing. But the average Azerothian? Still very much capable of being “GOT-esque”.
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If the shoe fits!
Don’t be flattered, I was just using you as an example of an RP trend that was taking stride back when these discussions over the practical nuances of the magical were relevant on the server. I for one would be surprised to see your small guild of pirates even interacting with a druid of any sort.
Because you’re replying to my posts defending your views? Buddy, either you don’t care and you go about your business or you do care what people think and say about your RP and jump to its defense online. What is this, 2011? I don’t care about your opinions Crazymon and I want you to know it!
Is there a specific reasoning for why that Guild/What They Do, though? Ultimately, a lot of Pirates in WoW are using sloops and scooners and waving cutlasses whilst clad in basic leather armour. There’s not really anything magical or fantastical about the average Pirate crew in Azeroth.
There’s an upper-scale of course where you get stuff like the Defias having Aquamancers and so on and so forth but I genuinely don’t see the problem with RPing a pirate group who haven’t really talked with Druids, Mages etc., magic classes are meant to be kind of rare, they’re not meant to be walking around everywhere in the world. A single Paladin visiting a region, for e.g., tends to make the entire region either go on edge or breathe a sigh of relief.
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I think Crazymon just had a crazy moment and mentioned a completely random guild without thinking too much about whether they’d fit his description, only that they are likely to be low fantasy
or he’s just malignant idk
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Me, on my shadow priest, in a pirate guild, doing shadow priest things, wondering if perhaps [Fade] is too good at it’s job.
Jokes aside I can confirm that most if not all pirate guilds I’ve seen over the past half a decade have had at least some fantastical element at play, either in the guild’s plots/storylines or in a select few characters that dabble more in magic - typically seedy sorts with your 'locks and spriests rather than the Sorcerer’s Apprentice-esque magi, though.
Also just adding onto this in terms of things I can remember off the top of my head - the Defias had aquamancers and blood magi in the Deadmines, the Bloodsail have warlocks with succubi in Stranglethorn, kul tirans have all sorts of magical folk who might defect to piracy but I’m fairly sure we see at least a few tidesages amongst their crews and a few fire-focused magi there too - but ultimately even if those are routes that players take (and sometimes we do), most people want to join a crew not to read a book and spout ancient words of power, but to hold a saber and a flintlock and contract scurvy.
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Uh, since when? Even in Vanilla half the NPCs were magic in one way or another. And this is what I’m getting at. I know that a lot of people like to RP WoW as a low fantasy setting where magic and the magical are a rare sight, and that’s fine with me. Unlike what Loras seems to think, I don’t fancy myself the RP police and generally have always encouraged folk to explore the boundaries of what is considered the server norm, whether it be weird secret dragon RPers in 2013 or the cooky macabre Duskwood RP to this day. What I take issue with is when these RP preferences become walls for guilds and cliques to shelter themselves away from all the outside RP they deem garbage, and when these isolationist practices grow more and more frequent and turn AD from a living world and a connected community to a bunch of different cliques each of which don’t pay for the others’ subs.
It’s not that they haven’t, it’s that they will actively avoid it and discourage their members from doing so, gradually building toward the situation I described above.
No, I meant what I said and I always do.