Archive for October 26th, 2007

go roll on a carebear realm lol

Friday, October 26th, 2007

Hey, Chronicshank, even though you'll probably never read this (although there is a chance, because I used to have a page up of a sort of Warcraft hitlist where I listed some people and I was getting hits from Google searching those names), I'm going to write this post to you. If anything, you'll serve as an example to everyone else!

I was leveling Kittari today. A 52 Druid... about halfway to 53. Rested experience, for the win! I could get to 54 in a day if I wanted. I was poking around Western Plaguelands, testing the waters for the quest levels. I was doing pretty good... That is, until I started seeing extra numbers popping up on my combat window. Lots of numbers. "That's an awful lot of output for a druid fighting a ghoul," I say to myself. There was a mage next to me, but he wasn't fighting at the time. Then I go, "ohh, look! there's an undead rogue behind this ghoul!" So I take the time to flee out of range while I determined your strength. Ouch. A 56 rogue. 4 levels above me, geez. Might as well kiss my druid kitty tail goodbye, right? Well, hold on... You attacked the mage! Alliance treaties dictate that all Alliance members should aid each other in time of need... So I rush to the aid of the mage... And we both completely overpower you in a matter of seconds and you die. Hooray! Disaster averted! Mage runs away and I never see him again. But then I see a passing 54 Alliance rogue. "Lovely!" I think. "Now I have some backup in case that rogue comes back!"

Well, come back you did... This time you resorted to killing us off with single blows in the middle of combating a mob. That is some really high Horde class right there. I don't mind PvP in the least bit, but sniping someone after a battle with an NPC is pretty low, even for an undead rogue. Maybe you were just angry and needed to kill someone. I understand that, because I do it all the time, myself. I get killed by someone who totally pwns me, and I go munch a nearby lowbie for revenge. But you didn't stop there. Which is also admirable! But you kept one-shotting everyone from the shadows while they were fighting NPCs. That is not so admirable.

A few of us got on the Local Defense channel to discuss the situation. General response: "Warning, lame-butt rogue in Sorrow Hill. 56, but must attack weak players. Will lose one on one." I must say that such a response was accurate. Not only did you keep killing me over and over while I was a) fighting a mob or b) healing after a resurrection, but when I actually decided to fight back, I murdered you. You stood absolutely no chance. Me! A 52 druid! Killing a 56 rogue! Such an impossibility is, in fact, quite possible after all! It was easy enough, in fact, that the first time, I thought you were merely 54. But the second time I killed you, one on one, with fresh health, I saw that, yes! You were 56. Such elation! Not only was a druid killing a rogue, but it was a 52 druid killing a 56 rogue!

Anyway, I just wanted to brag.

Well, except for that one time after I killed the rogue the first time and some doped up Troll mage with such a high level that he was ?? to me and a water elemental got me while I was fighting. Honestly. I'm very nearly convinced that all horde kill people in two ways. First is when their targets are so far below them, they're gray, meaning they give no honor. (As was the case with this mage. If it was ?? to me, then I was gray to him.) Second is killing a clearly superior enemy while he's already fighting. Either way is honorless, and if that's what it takes to make the Horde the most PvP-capable half of the game, then so be it. An honorless war-faring faction! Hey! At least you're living up to the roleplaying aspect of the realm, eh?