Cataclysm

[DakAttack]

Re: Cataclysm

If somebody is RP'ing in my group I tend to play along. I'm not an RP'er myself, I don't like that deep a level of pretending, but I don't mind humoring somebody.

[Aksannyi]

Re: Cataclysm

Hahaha. I'm not interested in really doing any RP, but the stories are really good now that I'm reading them. I wouldn't really mind if someone RPed in a dungeon with me, though. I might even humor them and go along with it just for the hell of it.

[Firewind]

Re: Cataclysm

hehe, well I have two accounts so I honestly didn't realise it would have been a problem until I read that post .

The EU RP communities for MMOs are very good and they tend to be tight knit with lots of communication between guilds to organise inter-guild events and guilds on the other faction to organise PvP events. Sure there are griefers but you get them everywhere you go and on games that are actually well moderated like WoW, it's easy to get rid of them by reporting. On WoW, griefers on RP servers tend to get a nice message from a GM within about 10-15 mins of opening the ticket and due to most GMs being overworked, you tend not to see the griefer around again .

I'm honestly not sure what the RP community for the US is like on MMOs because I've never really sought it out outside of FFXI/XIV. I do know that most American roleplayers tend to do it on MUDs.

And Roleplaying is now actually my favourite form of trolling in Dungeon Finder groups and Random BGs. The reactions vary from:

1) Indifference. Most people don't care as long as you can play your class.
2) "Cool an RPer, sure I'll play along" people who don't roleplay but will humour you as long as you can play your class (Happened often on FFXI)
3) You find another RPer, closet RPer or someone who just wants to try it out and they play along (This happened a LOT on FFXI)
4) People who flame you on a personal level with a baffling level of vitriol because you don't play the game how they want you to play it. Rarely they apologise when they realise you mean no harm and can play your class, most of the time they just flat out ignore you. These people usually get a little "reported" tell. What is hilarious about this kind of person is that Raiding is possible while staying in character if you are in a Military Style RP Guild .
5) People who seem to take offence to a roleplayer being around. These are the ones I like because they are different then the above. #4 actively tries to upset and insult you. This type of person just rages while everyone else (myself included) gets to sit back with the popcorn and giggle.
6) People who go into a foaming berserker rage because someone is having fun in their game. I usually reach for the popcorn and watch the fireworks when I get one of these guys.

[Aksannyi]

Re: Cataclysm

OMG. I clicked that link you posted Firewind and then from there clicked off to the General Discussion forums where I spend a lot of my time browsing while work is slow, not thinking anything of it. (I noticed it was different, but forums update all the time so really, for all I know, they had updated them.) When I got there, it said I didn't have a game license under my RL name and I'd need one to post. I searched the armory and didn't find my character name anywhere, so I started to freak out.

Started looking for support numbers and such, thinking the worst, even though I still had my password as I was clearly logged in. It took about 20 minutes of clicking links/searching support until I got to the phone support page, where I realized I was ... on the EU Blizzard site ... and therefore of course would not have a license or characters.

So maybe staying up late last night wasn't such a great idea after all. /facepalm

[Aksannyi]

Re: Cataclysm

Yeah I've been reading WoWWiki which is entertaining, but it's so watered down. And you're right, not all of the articles have updates pertaining to the present (post-Cataclysm).

I'm running on pure adrenaline at work today because (lolPSTserver) I stayed up til 1 AM raiding ICC with my guild. It was so damn fun, I didn't even care what time it was. I have a feeling I'm going to be keeping a lot more late nights when we start raiding Cataclysm in January, so I'd better get used to it.

[Firewind]

Re: Cataclysm

Seek out the Roleplay community. There's a lot of Lore stuff and roleplay guides can teach you a lot about the lore of a particular setting since roleplaying well requires you to know the world well. Azeroth's actually pretty fun to roleplay in in general.

This is a thread containing roleplay guides but it's useful for learning the lore for the various races. WoWWiki is good for lore too but the guides are several years out of date so I wouldn't touch them with a barge pole.

[Aksannyi]

Re: Cataclysm

*BUMP*

Question for anyone who may know. I've been bored at work so I've taken to reading some of the backstory/lore on WowWiki during my downtime and it's really fascinating. I didn't know there was really that much backstory in WoW until I bothered to look it up.

So now I'm wondering, can anyone recommend me some either good websites to check out, or even what the best books I should read for the lore? Now that I've gotten a taste of it (and I'm sure it's quite watered down on the Wiki), I'm hooked. I'm particularly interested in the stories of the Horde (naturally) and Sylvannas/the Forsaken, but really, I'd love to read up on all of it eventually.

[Aksannyi]

Re: Cataclysm

You know what sucks? I have this meeting today after work, and all I really want to do is go home, wait in the queue for a bit (which will be long enough for me to shower, eat dinner, clean up a bit, etc.) and get back down to Vashj'ir. And also fuck around with the Winter Veil event.

But I have to like, do real life stuff. :/

[Firewind]

Re: Cataclysm

You should be thankful you're not on my home server Cenarius. They tend to run lats in the 800s at expansion releases and when new raid dungeons open up.

Ouch. I don't think I've seen my server, Defias Brotherhood (UK) actually spike over 140ms and that server's located in France. To connect to it my ISP routes me through the US, along the east coast and back across the Atlantic for some stupid reason...

It's why a consistent latency of400ms shocked me really. I've NEVER had latency like that when playing on the US servers for MMOs before.

[cadoxangelus]

Re: Cataclysm

Just rolled a BE on Drak'tharon. Caleus is my name, tanking is mah game :D

[Aksannyi]

Re: Cataclysm

Sweet, thanks. Now to run around on Wowhead or Wowwiki (which I can access) to see if there's any stat info, and honor costs and whatnot.

Although I stupidly spent a bunch of honor on PvP stuff without realizing that, hey, new level cap, obsolete gear. Guess I will be running around in 80 PvP gear while running random BGs out the ass.

[Absentia]

Re: Cataclysm

Can anyone do me a favor?

Been googling all morning trying to find images of the S9 PvP gear but everything I find is fucking YouTube videos, and ... you guessed it, can't view that at work.

So can someone watch this and screen cap the Priest set and post a pic for me? Pretty please!

Crap, never mind. The thread said it was everything, not just Warrior. Fuck it, I'll find the shit when I get home.

http://media.mmo-champion.com/images/news/2010/november/season9_female_m.jpg

There ya go.

[Aksannyi]

Re: Cataclysm

Can anyone do me a favor?

Been googling all morning trying to find images of the S9 PvP gear but everything I find is fucking YouTube videos, and ... you guessed it, can't view that at work.

So can someone watch this and screen cap the Priest set and post a pic for me? Pretty please!

Crap, never mind. The thread said it was everything, not just Warrior. Fuck it, I'll find the shit when I get home.

[Absentia]

Re: Cataclysm

I logged onto the server that was picked and I'm getting FFXI-level latency. I usually run no more than 50ms on my current server but on Dark'Tharon I'm not seeing latency below 442ms O.o

My latency is about 150-200 on there. It does spike to 300+ at times, though never really notice much of a difference.

Will be on tonight if anyone needs a dungeon run or something

[Aksannyi]

Re: Cataclysm

I just now remembered that I said I was going to make an alt on Drak this weekend. Oops. I was so occupied with my characters already in existence though. Aks is about 65% of the way to 82 (taking my time with her, nearly 500 fishing skill though! And I finished the third and final fountain fishing achievement!) and I spammed my hunter up to 20 so I could finally get a stinking mount.

Ganked someone in Hyjal the other day, reason I say "ganked" is because they were at like 8% health, but you know what, people do that shit to me all the fucking time so I only felt bad for about a second. And besides. PvP realm. That's just how it is.

For the most part, Ally and Horde have been playing well together. A few kills both ways, then we usually just end up going back to PvE and working on our quests. We all have the same goal in mind.

Regearing though, now that I got a bunch of PvP gear I realize I should have saved my honor points for when the 85 vendors come out. It feels so weird to replace purples with greens. Like seriously wrong.

Oh well. I'm having fun. I'll be glad when I get to 85 but I'm not in any hurry to get there.