TESO added sittable chairs even went back and made other chairs sittable, when they also added player housing.
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D&D 5e peeve: variant humans are too good, so all of the power gamers in our club play them and I’ve come to see variant humans as “the munckin race” as a result. And humans in general, since nobody plays standard humans.
The funny thing about BFA is that the actual Battle for Azeroth itself is trash, nonsensical and generally bad, but the expansion’s stories that are totally unrelated - like the Zandalar and Kul Tiras leveling experiences - are excellent.
This expansion for sure is amazing for trolls. But that is because of all the lore and cool stuff brought with Zandalar, not due to the BFA itself.
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Thing with blizzard is they often try to make lore stuff a very big deal, and when they do, it flops, when they don’t… well, that’s the zone stories.
I think this right here is what is making me not want to really Roleplay. At all.
It’s pretty annoying for either faction. You want to Roleplay as a combat-capable character, and you’re automatically pressured in to being part of the war, even if the story itself isn’t all that great, nor if it’s something that you want for the character.
I have a few battle-ready Orcs, but don’t want to RP any battle with them, because I hate Combat RP. I imagine usually people would shrug their shoulders and let you be, but in BfA’s story, they’re probably gonna try and pressure you in to caving in the heads of Gnome babies because “Alliance Bad, go smash”.
Here’s something of a peeve of my own: People trying to pressure you in to combat RP even if you don’t like the sound of it. It’s the reason I avoid Roleplaying guilds, or go and leave guilds as soon as the Guild Leader starts trying to lead the guild in to a direction that involves “More action-packed setpieces”. If that is what they want, then they should go join one of the hundred military guilds already present.
Which is a really frustrating thing, because I don’t like the Alliance, and yet they have a bit more freedom in how you can Roleplay. Essentially I feel like playing an Alliance Civilian is more logical than a Horde Civilian, since Stormwind’s more built as a proper city, rather than Orgrimmar and it looking like a stronghold that’s constantly preparing itself for War (Might be wrong on this, feel free to correct me).
I just want to Roleplay a level-headed Warrior Orc who travels the lands, and doesn’t want to get in to a fight with everything that looks at him funny, and scoffs off random people who try to insult him in to a fight. Is that so unreasonable of a request?
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The way the two BFA stories… don’t actually interact is annoying, especially the war campaign stuff.
Big old invasion in Stormsong valley, sure would of been nice to do that on my Horde character.
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Guess I could always make a Troll and Roleplay as a civilian there… But I would like a Zandalari Troll first, and even then I plan on making either a Troll Druid or a Troll Paladin Exile for reasons.
I actually think that Final Fantasy 14 is one of the best games when it comes to roleplay. You have housing, you can actually change the expression of your character, and tons of emotes for all kinds of purposes (even different sitting animations…and you can sit on the edge of a bed!). The biggest problem is that you more or less have to ignore the main storyline to a certain degree. Which isn’t that bad because the entire world is build around adventurers anyway.
Why is that important, Keydiam? HMMM
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XIV has pros and cons. A few too many cons to make me really want to get into it.
No official RP servers, no addons, housing is incredibly limited and expensive (Intended to be a guild thing whereas TESO, Wildstar and LOTRO keep it affordable and infinite in availability), making alts for RP is a PITA because of the main story quests and length of leveling and lack of ‘heirlooms’ or similar (The entire game is based around you being able to do everything on ONE character, nearly all store purchases are character specific as well), transmog system is both more freed up than WoWs but also not (Particularly with a fair amount of gear being wildly different between genders, lots of class restricted gear besides raid armour, etc).
Great game, but for RP it’s… doable, but it would be a large hassle especially if I wanted to do more than one character.
Plus the only active RP community is on US servers. Even if there’s an EU group or ten there for RP good luck trying to organise or join raids at ‘prime time’.
Basically this.
They wrecked large parts of the setting, eliminated long-established RP hubs that have been there since vanilla, and offered little in return. It has also made RP downright not fun at times. You either shoehorn your character into Blizzard narrative or you’re a traitor and [opposite faction] sympathizer. The bits of good RP I do get are good despite BfA, not because of it.
Wait, GW2 allows this now? I remember how our guild leader had to make different versions of his character so he could wear different types of armor.
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No that’s more or less how I feel about how the factions differ as well RP-wise.
Alliance has a wide variety but Horde seems to be nearly entirely fighty guilds of some kind. It probably doesn’t help that thematically Orgrimmar is military based from end to end, while Stormwind has a variety of districts.
Nope. This is something they have yet to actually change afaik. They just “get around it” with store costumes now.
Which are now, last I tried the game, not only on an artificial scarcity with ‘rotations’ of items being available, but what is there is all anime OTT levels of design.
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It’s kinda telling that I am 10x more interested in when my character is getting married than I am in the results of a world-spanning war.
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Oh boy. I’m just glad my main was a sylvari, because trying to assemble a somewhat-reasonable casual outfit for my human alt was painful. Especially so for a female character. It was all miniskirts and larger-than-life animesque costumes. I ended up picking those wide pants that Lionguard NPCs wear.
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I was gonna list off some responses to this, but to save time; EU RP is very segregated. You kinda have to get lucky enough to find it in the wild or wiggle your way into FC’s to get it.
The game is not alt friendly whatsoever but to counter that you could theoretically RP different characters on each job. A bit long-winded and might confuse some people but that’s about the only argument I could make for it.
In replacement of addons, there’s a large modding community that can make some things more fun. Most people link a tumblr or something in their search info as their profile. (I for one am okay with no RP addons)
It’s not necessarily a large hassle, you just need to stick with it to really find something. I assume once you’ve settled with a group, you’re pretty much golden. It’s just -finding- that group.
I mean yeah they sell ‘inexpensive’ (compared to anything WoW sells) skip options but sheesh, the way you have to do ‘A realm reborn +’ to get to Heavansward is cack.
Especially since A realm reborn + is like 200+ quests long, most of which are fetch quests and talk to quests on various corners of the game world.
Heavansward’s post game is pretty damn cool though.
Another peeve comes to my mind because I just fought through one of the big Kul Tiran ships: The fact that Zandalar is supposed to have this giant fleet which can challenge the Kul Tiran one but there is absolutely nothing even remotely naval about their entire continent. No shipyards anywhere, and only two small harbors.
My rogue had a coat. A COAT! WHERE’S MY COAT BLIZZARD?!
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Maaaybe. But it’s still a hassle and yes it would be very confusing, at least in WoW you can use RP addons to make it plain as day you’re RPing someone else on the same character.
XIV? Less so. You have a giant name stuck over your head and no alternatives. And while a race change is like £5 instead of £25, it’s still a hassle if I wanted to do that every sodding time I wanted to RP as someone else.
It’s par the course with Blizzard. With a few exceptions (dare I say MoP?), the supposed main plot is a forgettable lowest-common-denominator thing and the best parts of the expansion are stories not related to it. It’s similar to how the most well-received writing in Cataclysm comes from the 1-60 revamp (which gave us plenty of memorable characters like Zen’Kiki, Maximillian of Northshire and Johnny Awesome), and the best part of WoD is arguably the arakkoa storyline.
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I think this may be why a lot of people stick to their houses/mansions. It takes about 30-60 minutes to unlock the three main housing districts. At the same time, you’re pretty much locked into that area with no advneture to be had.
I wouldn’t call it a hassle, more dedication. You need to be dedicated to the cause and unfortunately to one character for XIV to be viable.