Some specific targets and areas require a team to do it successfully, so spreading out does on occasion either slow down the progress or halt it completely depending on the classes and item level of the team you’re in. Island Expeditions tend to go faster when you all group up anyway from my experience.
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Well, fair enough. I’ll take in to consideration for future reference.
Here’s a PvP peeve: Arenas! I can’t seem to be able to keep a party member around. I only had two wins thus far, and that was with someone where we jelled quite nicely. Sadly they didn’t accept my Battletag request after leaving with some dogs, so I don’t know if I’ll meet them again.
Afterwards it’s been a downward spiral. Starting games which lead to losses, people leaving after 1 to 2 games. Even involved getting grouped with someone from the server, and I… Lost my temper on them (Though to be fair, I didn’t have a very high opinion from the start after he went all-caps against me).
If anyone here isn’t impatient when it comes to PvP, wanna team up?
The AD forums being full of posts like this. Void elves are a race like any other, leave us be 
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Every race gets dunked on for one thing or another. If you want to be “a race like any other”, you’ll take your lumps and move on.
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SIIIINDDDRIIII! Our enemies hide in METAL BAWKSES , DA KOWARDZ! TEH FEWLZ!! Asthma
Funnily enough in the original (and now non-canon) Warcraft RPG the Scarlet Crusade and the Argent Dawn were called “Heretics of the Holy Light” because they splintered from the Church of the Holy Light.
The weirdest part however is that playing a Warhammer-esque concept is actually not that hard in Warcraft. There are enough lore-friendly-concepts possible: An Alliance supremacist for example. You could even call the blood knights heretics with such a concept! After all they left the Silver Hand, followed Sylvanas and are fine with the killing of innocent civilians. Tthey betrayed the ideals of a paladin and knight. HERETICS!
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You can tag along every wednessday as the mendatory AP grind ensues, mostly its me and a mate that go and grind, no fear of being booted, unless you afk ofcourse.
I appreciate the offer, but my lone wolfyness may lead to want to wander off, smell the roses, do epic battle against beasts and then collect their Azerite.
I don’t normally advocate such things, but there are means to play it today without looking very hard. It seems to be doing reasonably well population-wise too. But true, it’s not around any more in any official capacity.
Though EA seem to care very little for such projects, there’s about 2-3 of their ‘dead’ games that have all been revived for years and they haven’t lifted a finger at them.
True. Though tbh MMOs with dedicated RP servers are a rarity these days, I think the last MMO to do ‘RP servers’ was… I want to say SWTOR? Since then RP groups largely find an unofficially dedicated server and migrate there. In some circumstances the devs acknowledge it and do decide to make a statement or two regarding the griefing of roleplayers being a no no. (Wildstar loved it’s RP community, right up to it’s dying breath at that)
If anything I find smaller game populations make it easier to find fellow RPers and people tend to learn quick to grant us some peace and respect our preferred playstyle. Anyone who doesn’t quickly gets curbstomped by the non-RPers who actually do give a darn. Hard to escape notoriety in a small group.
Of course it’s perfectly fine to hold those ideals IC. It just makes me tilt my head a bit when Alliance RP seems to go through a huge ‘Warhammer’ phase. With multiple guilds going the same route and being the predominant face of the Alliance in large-scale events, which is at odds with how the Alliance is portrayed 99.9% of the time (IE being very much tolerant of alternate views or lifestyles so long as they do not directly oppose the Alliance). Often to the point where when the one guy/guild who portrays the typical/normal Alliance speaks out against the atrocities being blatantly committed, they get ganged up on, when realistically it should be the other way around.
I’ve seen the phase go in and out of fashion since about… Wrath? If it were a single guild that actively advertised itself as RPing a very extreme group, sure, but when for a few months it seems to be overwhelmingly most of the blue team (many of whom are NOT advertising as being an abnormal group)… kinda weird. Particularly when outside the odd dubious action the Alliance are as typical ‘good guys’ as it can get since the days of Warcraft 1 (Remember when they imprisoned the orcs instead of executing every single one of them?).
Of course towards Horde races that view might be valid, just most of the time I see it flung at Void Elves these days, usually followed by random assaults/lynching. I don’t like the race either (OOC) but I can’t help but feel like -that- particular case is driven by pure OOC dislike, particularly as their sole evidence is “This one priest guy said ‘Maybe this isn’t the best place for you’, that means we can murder them in broad daylight right?” and conveniently ignoring the Void Elf NPCs that not only roam Stormwind freely but even them commenting on being ‘cautiously welcomed’.
tl;dr: A heresy hunting type group or guild could work even on Alliance. But it only ever seems to come in massive waves that end up becoming the temporary norm instead of the atypical/extreme group that it ought to be, resulting in typical Alliance guilds feeling bordering out of place during large scale events. And personally it feels weird when I’m apparently fighting alongside Chaos Marines or the Inquisition.
After spending ages talking to someone who endlessly uses cutesy terms in place of actual words, stuff like doggo and pupper can go on my list of peeves.
It’s a dog and a puppy. We have words to describe them. If you’re over six and say doggo/pupper, you deserve a slap. It’s not cute, it’s not funny, it’s just bloody irritating.
Now get off my lawn and take your newfangled electric lawnmower with you. Damn kids.
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I think I might be the Loa you were channelling there. Like a grumpier Bwonsamdi.
“Here’s a Birb” “No, Its a f*cking Bird” It has the same number of letters, Where the hells does the misspelling come from? Are people that desperate for the cult of youth that grown adults will devolve into baby speech that even infants don’t use?
“Good Doggo” “You’ve added two letters to a word, and an extra syllable that weren’t needed, why would you even -do- that?”
“Pupper” "You know what, I’ll give you that, its a diminutive term for a baby/infant animal, you get a free pass on that. Something about he word sounds vaguely wrong, and slightly salacious, but that’s probably just me.
“Snek” “Was the extra letter really too much effort to write/type?”
Don’t get me wrong, I love the descriptive alternate names for animals like “Trash Panda” and “Danger Noodle”, but the Cutesy childlike renaming just seems a bit…ewww…
Blizzard having the audacity to give me just enough content to keep me logged in but not nearly enough to stop me flying around in circles about half an hour in.
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Don’t you mean a slappo?
I tend to add -o to the end of words. More of an Australian habit mind you.
Righto, goodo, druggo… Mum-o (never).
Its the meme disease taking over.
Since on the internet people are all anonymous, they desperately try to use “memes” and funny internet slang to feel a sense of kinship amongst eachother.
This is easy to observe in banter of certain chat channels or discords.
Since these people don’t -actually- know eachother personally, they create an illusion of knowing eachother by echoing memes and other pop culture references.
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A good sign of actually getting to know people is the point where you replace such pop culture memes with inside jokes, at least that’s how it seems to me.
I’m after Marks more than the elite set myself @1600 (gotta get all PvP weapon sets…). Arena is faster/easier than RBGs for that. If you’re Horde/+a healer, throw a mail to Eleonrir and we’ll see what we can do.
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I loathe that one. Which is a problem as I now read it almost everyday.
I blame your generation Brig. Taught an entire my generation that it’s okay to talk to cutesy wutesy things in a OwO what’s this I wuv u voice and this is the natural progression.
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I can only laugh bitterly at the thought that at one point in the future your cutesy generation will be paying for my elder care and changing my diapers.
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Is this how language evolves? Imagine how people talk in 10 or 100 years.