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Post by
Rankkor
Why are people jerks?
Cuz of
this.
/thread.
While I highly disapprove of anyone stealing loot that isn't useful for them (Something that happened ALL THE DAMNED TIME IN DRAGON SOUL LFR, and I mean ALL THE DAMNED TIME till they added the new system near the end of Cata) devolving into a profanity-spewing maniac isn't going to make me feel better, isn't going to give me any loot, and isn't going to help anyone.
I'd simply stop bailing them out if I'm the tank, or healing them if I'm the healer. If I'm DPS, I just add these players to the ignore list and continue on. Totals, gear we get from dungeons while leveling up is placeholder gear, that will get replaced in a few hours/days anyways. Is something like that worth all the fuss? hell no.
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978011
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Post by
Wowpixel
One of the worse culprits for tradechat nonsense that Blizz implemented to aid and abide the downward spiral was to allow cross faction toons on the same server.
Having a level one player from the other faction spamming in your trade chat just for the sake of being rude and annoying is just another reminder of how Acti/Blizz has little foresight in their decision making at times.
The allowing of 2 factions on a Battle.net account was the single worst mistake Blizzard made to the game. It's worse than adding PvP when the game wasn't designed for it. It's worse than arena. It's because the game is about faction rivalry.
People can't be loyal to two masters. One will suffer.
It's those things and consequence free attitudes this game has built up over the years that attracts the worst to the community. There they fester and ruin the fun of others.
Blizzard's current "solution" is to give power to trade chat trolls and misfits to "report", which is probably why we have such long waits for GM replies...bogs the system down. I mean if they can troll raids, what keeps them trollling the report system?
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1069282
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Post by
Lordplatypus
All that it takes to get a Great Pandaren Banquet is to do a set of dailies and grab it out of a bag, no joke. To be honest, I'd think needing on something that isn't actually needed is one of the big "No-nos"
here
's a page on it. Considering how often it happens, alot of people would have bad memmories of it.
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1069282
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Post by
Eccentrica
It can be very frustrating to do dungeons or LFR and come out empty handed, particularly when the loot seems to pool in the hands of the same people over and over again, and yes, repairs bills add up. However, gold can be acquired a bajillion ways. At certain points, gear is just more valuable.
While it can be very tempting at the end of a run to roll need on something not because you need it, but because you've come up empty handed so far and you just want one piece of loot to show for the run, just don't. There will be plenty of runs when you win far more than you expect, even on greed rolls.
Some days you're the statue, and some days you're the pigeon. It all evens out in the wash.
Post by
banokawow
The Wow-verse is a tough place to live in. Don't give up and just /ignore if someone gets to you. Giving up is pointless if you ever want to enjoy this game.
Post by
lokuv
A lot can be said for both new players in-game and the irl youth, growing up in a harsher and more intense world today. Not only can learning how to properly handle and deal with the one, greatly prepares oneself for the other; the same correlation can be argued that failing at the one can greatly increase the likelihood one would fail at the other.
Firstly, and with some fore sight the most vital, the idea of teaching our kids (for those of us who have younger kids starting to want to play this game, I'm talking about an age range ~11 - 14) the 'proper' way of handling a social situation that is negative in nature. There is this age-old debate raging on, about whether or not violence in video games produces problem children, and should thus be restricted/banned. I believe taking an active role (should there really be any other kind?) in our kids' lives, includes things that we may feel uncomfortable about exposing our kids to. Be it a particular after school activity or sport they want to take part in, when they start dating, learning to drive, getting a part time job, or yes even playing a game that could have suspect content; despite how uncomfortable for us , the parents, these situations may be- each provides an opportunity to give life long lessons to help positively shape our kids' minds.
Secondly and very nearly equal, are the scenarios that crop up a lot in this thread: confrontation in someway with a 'jerk or group of jerks' and how best to handle/ deal with it. Bullying, getting teased, the race to popularity, approaching that girl/boy you have a crush on, and to a certain degree, yes 'stealing your ''loot"', all present themselves in some capacity both in-game and in our kids' lives. Embrace these situations when they present themselves first in a video game, and utilize them individually as teaching tools; this allows us to better prepare our kids for the riggers of life by exposing then to negative situations firsthand yet still "far enough away" so as to not have a catastrophic effect.
TLDR version- When you find yourself in a bad situation, find the silver lining in it and figure out a way to learn something from it. And if you have kids that play, closely monitor them while taking advantage of situations that they can learn a valuable life-lesson from.
Post by
calilac
It's one of those unwritten rules of raid etiquette, a pretty big one at that, but they shouldn't've jumped you so hard for it since you sound like a pretty new player. Like someone else said, people are people. I think pretty much any MMO is going to have the socially inept jerks, there's no real repercussions for losing your cool and going off on someone in heinous ways like in a face-to-face game. WoW specifically has a large player base so the population of the jerks is going to be large but, I've found, it also has some of the best people who aren't quite as loud as the jerkwads but once you find them it's gamer heaven.
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Post by
Eccentrica
DeathRubian Some honest advice here
Original post is 4 years old. I think we can be reasonably certain he is no longer monitoring the thread.
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517094
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Post by
Antimetica
I don't see how people would need gold? My character is level 68 (started a goblin rogue on the horde side) and by questing, dungeons and selling loot I easily had enough to buy all riding skills and cold weather flying.
For rude folks it isn't worth my time to argue. I just add them to the ignore list and move on.
Yeah, that's a point.
So OP, I get it you were tying to be social. Let's put it in the real world context. Do you talk about money with complete strangers? Money's just one of those kind of sensitive subjects. And being that you're below level 10, which is typically bank/auction house land (below level 10 your details will not show in the WoW Armory), it is not far off a guess you might be a gold beggar. Of course assuming makes an ass out of whoever is assuming. They shouldn't have been jerks.
Post by
calilac
Um... I'll just leave this here. Makes a nice little sammich.
DeathRubian Some honest advice here
Original post is 4 years old. I think we can be reasonably certain he is no longer monitoring the thread.
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1122438
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Post by
Elanorien
well,on the thing about you quitting your characters... i used to be like that. Let me give you some advice on how to stay on a character for a bit. First off, don't pick your character out of "O' it pwnz newbz!" because people who roll the Flavor of the month, are most likely the noobs they are trying to pwn.
You must Choose your character from a roleplaying perspective. the most important thing about liking your character, isn't just that you like his abilities or how good he is,(or she) its that you like the kind of person he/she is. IMO to properly play wow, you, to a certain degree should roleplay, in your own form (im not on a RP server i dont do it much though).
like my paladin, for example. Before i played wow i played wc3 and pally was my favorite hero. i think paladins are awesome, because they are genuinely good people who put themselves in danger so others can be safe.
When i started and rolled Paladin, All of my freinds talked about how much pallies sucked (this was vanilla wow so they were sorta right). Later, i quit wow. it was confusing to me, and i kept quitting the proffessions on my pally and i just genuinely sucked as a player.
then, i decided to play again, and hopped back on. this time i took the advice of my friends and rolled the "good" class, and i kept rerolling... and quitting after like 5 minuets. seriously, level 5, then QUIT. i stopped playing on my pally because i seriously needed a restart.
Then, i decided to make a paladin (this was early bc). my freinds argued with me on how stupid of an idea this was. i formulated my own argument and convinced one of them that paladins didnt totally suck at everything, and could sometimes be ok. What happened to that character? he got all the way to 70, i raided, and now i have him at 80, and he is raiding.
I have lots of fun on that character, i've been with him for the good and bad times. i tanked in bc, even though it was hard, and sometimes i think i made him look stupid or whatever, it doesn't matter. so in my opinion, Choose the class you think is the coolest from an RP perspective. Like, no matter how good rogues get, ill never role one, because i hate them, their villanious dishonorable theives. though my buddies would persuade me to roll a rogue, i can confidently say, im glad i chose pally.
So I realize this is HELLA old, just stumbled across it while googling something totally unrelated, and just wanted to say that I completely agree and I think this still holds true. I've never RP'd, but I'm nerdy enough that I've come up with back stories for my characters, haha. I've been maining my resto druid since vanilla (with a few extended breaks from the game here and there). I care about her and her story, I feel a connection to her, and it just keeps me loyal to her as my main, lol. And I've noticed with my ults that I'm far more likely to play them and put effort into gearing them if I feel a similar connection. I seem to have to like the combination of their race, class, and even the transmog look that to a degree defines them and affects first impressions. If I don't feel some kind of fondness or attachment to the WHO the character is, the notion of them I've developed in my mind, I just lose interest in working on them.
Hell, even now I'm leveling a new priest to replace one because I just feel no connection to her, lol.
Post by
jarycu
I think that might explain why I like some of my characters a lot more than other ones. I've never thought about it from that angle, but it makes a good bit of sense. My warlock is a cartoon conglomeration of who I think I am and who I'd love to be: She's sarcastic as hell, tough as nails, sets people and animals on fire just for the heck of it, and generally hates everything. (I don't see things on fire, but I do imagine it a lot LOL!) My shaman, she's one of those characters you see in movies that embodies good, but also knows she's better than you.
My warrior? I hate him. He has no story. XD
Post by
Jkpman
I don't really attribute a back story to any toon, but I do tend to stick with what I think are reliable classes.
Until Wrath I played a Warrior as a main, and abandoned him for a DK which I consider if I had to pick as my main since then.
With all the changes since then the DK has felt the most solid to me. (I loved frost tanking for the short time it was viable, and frost really makes more sense as a tanking spec to me.)
sets people and animals on fire just for the heck of it, and generally hates everything. (I don't see things on fire, but I do imagine it a lot LOL!)
Yeah lol.. that's a budding serial killer right there.
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