yeah ofc, I’m not saying my char have reason. She just act like that. But she do not go around persecuting them because that would be a crime against the alliance.
idk they could’ve just sided with kael who’d saved their city multiple times + also was a respected friend of the kirin tor + an actual monarch and not just some up-jumped nobleman who got promoted due to everyone else dying around him
Yeah but that hair, though?
Could those forces fight against the rest of the Alliance remnants and the active Scourge - assuming they disbelieved his accusation of treason?
Kael’thas’s retinue was a small proportion of the surviving blood elves, too - the majority remained in Silvermoon.
Kael did hold off garithos, the kirin tor, mercs, red dragons and more all on his lonesome!
Well I guess he had Vashj. Musclenaga.
I am all for considering the Secret Cow-er Defence Level as canon
Everything in World of Warcraft is based on real-life inspirations that the writers have remixed into a setting
Like you wouldn’t go “HEH … it’s World of Warcraft, not WORLD OF REAL LIFE” if someone assumed generic lawn grass functions the same way in Azeroth as it does IRL - ie. a soft plant you can walk on instead of RPing that it takes your leg off
That’s because they’re the same thing
The bows night elves use are actually based on the real life concept of bows - they’re not some new ideal that the writers collapsed into being without from the darkness of nothingness. Like 95% of WoW’s internal logic is the same as real life’s
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World of Warcraft invented war. Never been done before…
Genius concept, if I may say so myself…
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But Tehya, Groove is in the heart.
URGH.
-Ragdolls-
Speaking of, we badly need ragdolls in this game.
When I kill someone in PvP, I need the janky physics engine to send them to the moon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-2iD669CVU
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I got yeeted across the Moon by a Trove Guardian the other day in Destiny.
Ehhh, there are a lot of worst types, and a lot of people fluctuate between them as circumstances change.
1.“You’re only my friend until X” Basically go along with their power trip, try to exert your own free will and suddenly you have run over their cat, and they will let everyone know that you have ran over their cat. or Cats plural, you probably ran over all their alts cats as well. Weirdly I’m not even on about Team Red shenanigans here, but stuff I’ve seen in Stormwind get nasty. (Bonus points if they start hating you because your female character won’t ‘put out’)
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“Do as I say, not as I do” types. What I mean Is the type of person who wants the special Item of Zorg, or some sort of McGuffin. Years down the line, another player in the same guild goes down the same route, they too want their share of the cake, They want an item of Zoltan, or some sort of Mcguffin identical in purpose. Said person then turns round and complains that it is unrealistic for this second player to have an item similar to the one they have, and that something -must- be done! They must be told at once!
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Anyone using this thread to surreptitiously dig at others ( I make no exception to myself in this, I am guilty of all three up to here, as is just about every person who roleplays on the server, to a lesser or greater degree, with a few saintly exceptions.)
But then how did we expect such a provocatively titled thread to unfold? Easier to curse the darkness than light a candle.
On a less charged level. My personal peeves for RP types are: (ANd none of these refer to people, just generics).
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‘Masters of their Craft aged 30!’ ( Now I know this is Blizzard’s fault (Coughs, Jaina) and I know that Child Prodigy’s are a thing, Mozart was relatively speaking one). At 20 you’re not even a master at being an adult yet, let alone a transdimensional mage or warrior who can bend the fundamental building blocks of reality just by having a very loud voice!. You know like, think of it with your tutor’s, They’ve taught you everything you Know. They haven’t taught you everything -They- Know. Nobody knows everything, that’s just purely dull.
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Erper’s. I mean two consenting adults who -know incontrovertibly that they are both adults, in private, then fair enough. This said, I don’t RP with them, they could be absolutely stellar performers in the field for all I know?
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Tavern Heroes, or to use the Horde Equivalent Mag’gora-a-go-go types.
You know them. They sit in pubs in full plate (Really uncomfortable move by the way, plate is not -that- uncomfortable, but you wouldn’t go for beers in it.) And that is ….all… They do. They never go to campaigns, or RpPvP events (and that is -Fine!- because they are not everyones cup of tea, pineapple full of Pina Colada or mortar shell full of Gin) But they sure talk a good fight… Until they spot that special someone. Across the tavern their eyes will meet. If Alliance, it is usually a Void Elf or Gnome, if Horde usually a Blood Elf, andthey know it is destined to be…a chance to look like a Hero, to make up for the fact they sit in the Pig and Whistle or Wyvern’s Tale every night trying to look like Lord William large Gonads (Trying to find a word Blizzard allows, heh), and can now pick on someone…
Bonus points for the words “Weak or Cowardly” and if they whisper their opponent going "It is unrealistic you would win against my battle hardened pub brawler, Orc " I so want to see one of these types when playing one of my Orcs so I can just -school- them as to what a Mak’gora is, when you call it, what the rules are, why you call it, and most importantly, when you -Don’t- call it. But yeah, Tavern Heroes, Mak’gora’ a go-go are just as annoying as each other, maybe we could just deport them all to Fray Island…?
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Cupcake Gnomes. I’m not getting the rant out again, don’t worry.
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Child RP’ers, seen it done acceptably once, but then never seen most of them, and that was a teenager who wanted to be a Vet when adult, and was actually asking sensible questions of Rangers about how to look after animals and suchlike. Very rarely seen it done well, and usually very badly…
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What are they?
Gnomes who basically totally buy into the ‘Quirky’ and ‘Zany’ stereotypes as an actual character trait of all Gnomes, as opposed to social Camouflage, as we see it to be, given how bloodthirsty and introspective some Gnomes are. “They’re so cute, and Zany!” "And also did the precise mathematics as to how many people dead was an acceptable loss when an unverified poison gas was released into the air vents of their city, knowing full well only those at the top were likely to survive. Oops. Turns out nuking the Troggs didn’t kill them either, and now all the power stations are blowing up as everyone has been gassed…apart from those poor soldiers trapped in the lower levels howling for support over communicators, support that will never come. One by one falling silent…
A Cupcake Gnome ignores the hideous story of the background of the race, or in fairness, may just be so traumatised that they have retreated into a happier fantasy place, and gives more credence to the idea of Gnomes as comedy things to be punted. Despite the fact that even a tauren would break their leg if they tried…
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Blast, my two top picks already taken. Couldn’t put it better myself.
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Cults of personality, particularly the aggressively expansionist sort. Bad enough to have a closed off bubble of sycophants patting oneself on the back saying how all is good and you’re definitely not doing wrong doxxing someone, but many magnitudes worse when you try to enforce your hubris onto the rest of the server!
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Narrative setters - those who think that by their “virtue” of creating RP for “you” (despite not asking them to go out of their way to make yet another obnoxious publicity stunt dressed up as yet another plague oubreak/martial law/public execution/chest thumping jingoistic rally) they somehow gain a blank cheque to do literally anything and everything they want in public, to hell with considering other roleplayers immersion or even their character!
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The “Legitimate businessman” - Yes we’ve likely all seen these sorts of players who plainly think they’re in the newest episode of Peaky Blinders (or Hawaii Five 0 by current Stormwind trends) and completely ignore the contextual background of their urban setting to make what is a barely veiled criminal enterprise roleplay that has no intention of actually suffering the consequences of being so blatantly obvious. To the point they just get their alt friends to play corrupt guards who let them out of prison (on the rare chance they actually get imprisoned.)
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The " OOC / IC " crowd - using the uno card of “but its just my character” to justify blatantly out of universe motivations for actions, be it perverse ERP chasing, authoritarian power fantasy fulfilment and just in general to demean or belittle other types of perfectly lore-abiding forms of roleplay (Social, pacifist, township or otherwise non-genocide related forms), while hypocritically being a shambles themselves. This also extends into the realms of what Levey mentioned about untouchable characters.
And on a strictly personal (likely irrational) dislike is 5)
Gnomes. While I frequently air my rancour at Elves and Forsaken, I have a particular dislike (and genuine sorrow for the Gnome rp community) due to the Gnomish Illuminati, one of the most insidious and destructive cliques that have turned Gnome rp from something potentially one of the most creative and wholesome things to do into two-dimensional cut outs backed up by a truly terrifying array of perversions.
Very much connects to the cult of personality types, you’re their friend so long as you’re offering them something. Then the daggers come out for you when you decide to back out of the madness. 
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agree one hundred percent with this. And a very good point about the gnome community. Very rare to see a good form of rp from them, specially in SW
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Worst type to RP with is the type of people that adapt to the situation everytime for their own benefit, even if it goes against their character completely.
An angry and depressed character that suddenly turns cheerful and optimistic out of the blue so that the current RP crowd he’s in will like him more and he will fit in and make some friends quickly.
Personally I love to see different personalities clash IC, that’s how we get character development and interesting roleplay.
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just out of curiosity… can you make some exemples? Would love to have a laugh
We have the ‘‘I hate war, I don’t want to spill unnecessary blood’’-type that then goes off to war because they want to get out there, maybe get som publicity.
Or the ones that dislike perhaps a certain race, or class IC, but when they come around they suddenly love them and want to be great friends. Then when they’re in another group again the continue to voice their distate.
Generally I find it’s people having an opinion shared with X people, but they change it around to agree with Y people later on, despite contradictions. It’s mostly small things, so naming a lot of small examples would just be too much.
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