Don’t forget she also one-shots an entire Forsaken camp. And yet even with all of that she and Malfurion combined couldn’t bring down Nathanos. Plot armor at its finest.
Probably the same plot armor that stopped Nathanos from putting an arrow between her eyes while she was bound by a Valkyr.
People spilling their spaghetti all over the shop because of light plot armor in WoW is a slight bit silly, especially after Legion.
Generally anything people see as “Character miraculously surviving or beating a stronger enemy” is plot armor.
I stopped taking those too seriously because that would be a descent into madness and perpetual state of defiance against others.
WoW’s story, especially the ingame stuff is not DnD. Rules will be broken or ignored at any time’s point for the sake of Continuity is here to enhance story, not tie the hands of the authors.
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That’s a rather poor argument tbh, consider that by that logic she could have one-shotted him before the val’kyr bounded her.
That’s perfectly fine. But then let’s not pretend that it’s a good story.
Like you said, plot armor. I’m just saying that the plot armor goes both ways.
That’s just the way it goes with blizz’s writing, I’m not saying it’s fantastic or innovative, but it is what it is and to pretend it’s something else just because you (not literally you, the ‘you’ in my initial post AKA whinebois) don’t get everything going your way 100% perfectly is… rather silly.
when u finally catch the nibba who been posting “wow has a good story” on ur AD forums
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My peeve is any time a villain gets beaten within an inch of his life and just goes ENOUGH and binds the protagonists in place while he sods off gloating.
Velen killing Talgath was years of distilled catharsis poured into a single moment.
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Pet peeve today: people that don’t have enough imagination.
Yes, roleplaying a ren’dorei as a quel’dorei is fine. No, I am not roleplaying a quel’dorei but come the fuc on bruh. We roleplay in fights all sorts of movements, spells and literally when picking boxes up or such we roleplay that we carry a box (or whatever) while walking, only imagining the box in our characters hands.
HOWEVER when you have to imagine a ren’dorei with lightly brighter skin IT’S SUDDENLY A PROBLEM? I dunno, seems a little odd to me.
This goes further. Yes, I know, let people roleplay whatever. I won’t interfere with others people fun but this is still a pet peeve of mine: people that roleplay too simply things and complain about others powerlevel. Y’all know what I mean with this.
Peeve number 3: child roleplayers. How and why is this a thing? Unless you are Michael Jackson there is no way you can portray the behavior of a child correctly. And even he struggled. In addition to that atleast use the pet appearance thing to take on the appearance of that one child squire PvP pet instead of the normal playermodel just smaller. It’s JUST WEIRD MAN, GO AWAY.
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Last peeve for this year:
Forum STILL portraying Uruk’s achi points instead of my account’s achi points no matter what I tried to do.
I have a high elf at the moment (who i portray with a void elf). The intent is to turn her into a void elf at a later stage if and when they’re capable of doing so.
Simply put, she would’ve been a-okay with becoming a blood elf IF they did not join the Horde.
But anyway, I guess i’m in for a long wait until then and that’s my peeve, since I want to turn her into full on purple skin with void hair.
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I’m assuming a typo there, and you meant ‘too simple’ things, as in low fantasy characters? Yeah. That’s always a character choice. WoW is an uber High Fantasy setting, with elements of Steampunk, Sci Fi and Cthulu. You can -choose- to play a low fantasy character (I’m not knocking that, a few of mine are) but you can’t then complain about other people being OP when they are just following the setting rules. They are the norm in the setting, not you. They are not ‘unrealistic’ because the Reality of Azeroth is High Fantasy. There is a place for both types of RP, but neither is more ‘gritty, realistic and right’ than the other.
I’d argue that Michael Jackson in no way was able to portray the behaviour of a child correctly. Whether this stems from some character flaw, or his own unfortunate and by all accounts unpleasant childhood is uncertain, but he certainly was not childlike.
Child RP is almost always done badly. Almost always. I have seen it done well, and it is when people remember that “Gee Shucks, I should be able to RP as a child, because, well, I was one!”
It is the one life experience we will all have in common. We were all -children- once.
So how come 9 out of 10 Child RP’ers completely forget what it was like, and go all ‘Cookie fiend’?
That’s not what being a child is like! Apart from the most precocious of children, children are -not- cutesie. I mean FFS my own pre-teen childhood may be more than three decades ago but I firmly remember that at the time I wanted to be seen as older than I was, more capable, for grown ups to take me seriously, to be able to decide my own bed time, and if offered milk and cookies to placate me my answer would have been a withering stare. Perhaps I was a precocious child, but the key point of being a child is that you don’t -want- to be a child, or treated like one Adulthood is this crazy mysterious club where all the interesting things happen after your bed time and they can watch special TV Shows with rude words and boobs and blood in them which you’re not allowed to. They get to do this weird alchemy of going away for a day and coming back and no one scolds them for staying out too long, but instead say “How was Work?”. They’re all massive, it is like walking amongst trees, and they always laugh at your jokes, even when you know that your jokes are not actually funny…
So how is it that many people forget that, and play Children as cookie fiends with a perpetual speech impediment, I mean if you are going to do it, do it -Right-.
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Pet peeve: Children
Not child RPers, I just can’t stand kids in general.
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But… they didn’t know that on beforehand…
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Maybe she has always been a blood elf then. it was just easier to just say she was a high elf.
EDIT: I mean, as Brigante likes to put it, the high elves wanted to stay vegan while the blood elves didn’t (by drawing from living creatures)
She would’ve been happy to feed off of other living things, she just drew a line at siding with the Horde.
EDIT2: She’s still a hypocrite mind by even considering using Darkhan’s teachings.
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Yeah like Tyrande Whisperwind?
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IRL pet peeve: It currently sounds like a warzone outside, thanks to parents that think sending 12-year olds into the streets with a bag of fireworks is acceptable or even remotely safe. Besides, they shouldn’t even legally be lighting fireworks until 18:00…
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It annoys me that some of the best looking areas for RP are in phased dungeons, island expeditions, raids or battlegrounds.
Take for example the throne room in Blackrock Depths, ideal for Senate style role play. Then there’s that one island expedition on the Gilnean isle, I want to say Havenswood, that has a whole island of cool little towns and stuff to explore but you can’t really given the short time frame and lack of folks. Or sometimes you’ll see a cool area but it is just full of hostile NPCs, like the fort in Tirisgarde sound.
Even the little submarines in game would be neat to role play in but as far as I know the only one you can really get into is the one in Gilneas that requires some dodgy wall jumping stuff.
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Vashj’ir also has a submarine, I believe.
Nathanos and two Val’kyr of the nine (who are extremely powerful in their own right) and the player character (ie. a guy who kills gods with 9 of his friends)
Nathanos himself is pretty powerful on his own also. Lorelets that think Tyrande is some sort of Super Saiyan who should be able to smoke anything or it’s “plot armour!!!” refer to this one scene in WC3 (which I don’t think many of them have even played) where Tyrande uses the generic Priestess of the Moon level 6 ability to AoE down a mob of 20 ghouls / misc undead as they try to cross a bridge but isn’t very good at using it and ends up blowing up the bridge (laddie…) that she’s standing on also
My WoW character could easily do the same thing by pressing death and decay and then clicking on the ground but he can do it without also falling into a river by accident
The only plot armour in Darkshore is that Tyrande didn’t accidentally hit herself with her “ENOUGH!!” moon attack and didn’t up getting thrown into the sea
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Don’t forget she also one-shots an entire Forsaken camp. And yet even with all of that she and Malfurion combined couldn’t bring down Nathanos. Plot armor at its finest.
Nathanos, pre-power-up flesh ritual and without the aid of the Val’kyr, required a small army to take him down. And they didn’t even manage to kill him.
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