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When you find the Jerk Free Server, let us know I don't dare hope for that. Different jerks would be nice though. |
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kildorn
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PUG'ing around on my female dorf frost dk I noticed a couple of things.
First: most DK's suck balls.
Second: people love death gripping melee and leaving ranged to gather pats.
Third: no one seems to know that death grip is a fucking taunt.
Fourth: no one uses DG or Ice Shackles on runners. Ever.
Fifth: Stoneform > DK's.
Ingmar, your server's time is horrid.
DG isn't really a taunt, it's mocking blow. And I totally used it on Loatheb last night when my targeting got all messed up and it flipped back to loatheb when I was trying to DG a spore. :( |
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I use DG just to piss off our druid tank sometimes. He's a 45 year old lineman (not the football kind) and gets SOOO irritable if someone pulls aggro that I just have to laugh and laugh as he struggles for that 3 seconds to get the mob off of me.
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kildorn
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Well that was after pulling aggro in the first 10 seconds of Anub because I'd forgotten that I switched to frost presence last attempt to try and recovery add pickup duties. I think ingmar wanted to kill me before the night was over.  |
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Well that was after pulling aggro in the first 10 seconds of Anub because I'd forgotten that I switched to frost presence last attempt to try and recovery add pickup duties. I think ingmar wanted to kill me before the night was over. Nah, I forget to switch my presences all the time, he should be used to it. Trying to tank in blood presence was an adventure.  |
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Hindenburg
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DG isn't really a taunt, it's mocking blow. And I totally used it on Loatheb last night when my targeting got all messed up and it flipped back to loatheb when I was trying to DG a spore. :(
Summoned Ghoul, sent it to attack while I idled with Omen threatbar open. It built 2k threat. DG'd and didn't attack. My threat went 2k. I still had 2k threat after the 3 seconds were over. Isn't that taunt behavior? I'm under the impression that mocking blow worked sorta like an inversed fade, in the sense that your real threat is restored after the effect is over. |
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Merusk
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Yes, that's taunt behavior. DG is very much a taunt.
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Sjofn
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Used to be the only taunt for DKs, then they realised that sort of blew it out the ass since they couldn't really make the cooldown shorter.
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Sheepherder
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Isn't that taunt behavior? I'm under the impression that mocking blow worked sorta like an inversed fade, in the sense that your real threat is restored after the effect is over. Mocking blow causes the target to attack you for x duration and would give you a high (static) amount of threat. Taunt forces the target to attack you and sets your threat to the previous targets threat (variable). |
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Hindenburg
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Yes, I'm aware of that, which is why everyone here is saying DG is a taunt.
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Ingmar
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Mocking blow has a glyph to turn it into a taunt!
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It does ?
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Ironwood
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Hmmm.
Vigilance makes it a little worthless tho.
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Ingmar
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The real problem is it is a major glyph slot. I can't see carrying that in plkace of something that affects a more useful ability.
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Fordel
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You'll just waste it on a Cyclone regardless.
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Ratama
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Fordel
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They're all too busy speaking at each other about how dark and mysterious they are.
You do make a killing selling eye patches though.
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My favorite self-RP'd character ever was a farm girl who left her parents place because it was boring and she wanted adventure. After finding out that no, you can't join the local militi,a but we will rape you k thx she decided she liked being a whore. A lot easier to roll drunks than slay monsters.  This was on a Mud, not an MMO but yeah, LOTTA eyepatches, lost families and "born into destiny" types out there. Heh. |
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Fordel
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I love RP, but what passes for it in a game like WoW is terrifying. I think my roomie and I are the only ones whose families for the most part are still alive*, happy, and aren't completely mal-adjusted.
* For the sake of disclosure, out of all my characters across several games, my Druid's parents are dead (Druid on my RP server). All she knew about it is they were probably defending Hyjal along with a bunch of other Night Elves and hasn't seen them in years. She doesn't like talking about it, maybe one person dragged it out of her in a long RP session, and it certainly hasn't been in any publically available bios. She's also a big hippy who advocates for peace since there's all those forces that want to wipe out both sides.
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Fordel
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The best RP characters in WoW are the Undead players. Mostly by coincidence and accident, but the "oh God I've lost everything I've ever known and love" actually makes perfect sense for a Forsaken.
The Worst, are the people who RP Trolls. Mon.
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I love RP, but what passes for it in a game like WoW is terrifying. I think my roomie and I are the only ones whose families for the most part are still alive*, happy, and aren't completely mal-adjusted.
* For the sake of disclosure, out of all my characters across several games, my Druid's parents are dead (Druid on my RP server). All she knew about it is they were probably defending Hyjal along with a bunch of other Night Elves and hasn't seen them in years. She doesn't like talking about it, maybe one person dragged it out of her in a long RP session, and it certainly hasn't been in any publically available bios. She's also a big hippy who advocates for peace since there's all those forces that want to wipe out both sides.
I always make a point in my mental vague background (in case someone RPs at me while I'm dinking around on a RP server) that my parents are ALIVE and I LIKE them and they TOTALLY APPROVE OF MY LIFE CHOICES. It never comes up, but if it did, I am so ready! You'd think the blood elves and Forsaken (maybe gnomes too) would have their parents be alive. It's totally their version of being orphaned, given they've been all wiped out and shit, y'know? |
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The best RP characters in WoW are the Undead players. Mostly by coincidence and accident, but the "oh God I've lost everything I've ever known and love" actually makes perfect sense for a Forsaken. Forsaken death knights are even better: Killed by the plague, raised as part of the Scourge, freed by Sylvanas, killed again by the Lich King/Scourge, raised again as a minion of the Scourge, freed again by Tirion/Mograine Jr. (And that's on top of formerly being descended from a race of twice-cursed iron/stone/etc giants). |
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Oh, I'm officially subscribed now. I'll be around for a bit.
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The Worst, are the people who RP Trolls. Mon. I was actually given a stern talking to about roleplaying a troll properly and how I wasn't doing it right (talking normally). I responded with "doncha kno mon?" and was promptly yelled at. Saying "my manwich!" didn't smooth things over any either. |
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Lantyssa
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Why isn't it 'proper'? All their dialog has them speaking that way.
What I sometimes do though is give characters an accent when talking in common and speak with a normal inflection and better grammar when using their racial language.
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The Worst, are the people who RP Trolls. Mon. I was actually given a stern talking to about roleplaying a troll properly and how I wasn't doing it right (talking normally). I responded with "doncha kno mon?" and was promptly yelled at. Saying "my manwich!" didn't smooth things over any either. MY MANWICH is my stock response when trolls RP at me. (I don't play on an RP server on either side currently, if I did I wouldn't be that rude.) |
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I tend to prefer RP servers in general even though I don't really get past light RPing myself. I do like to have backgrounds for my characters in my mind at least regardless of what kind of server I play on. The best part about RP servers is I don't have to run across people who name their characters 'PooperPally' and other such nonsense. And yes, I ran into someone with a name similar to that last night on the non-RP server I'm playing on right now.
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kildorn
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Stupid names are better on RP servers, but the only character background I ever have is "I'm this dude who people ask to do things and I only really pay attention to the what items do you want, not the blahblahloreblah reasons"
I'm a horrible RPer.
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I had a RP character once, way back in the day (not on WoW), he was mentally unstable. Some times he would help people, and other times he would cut himself, just for fun. His parents where normal middle class people who couldnt figure out where they went wrong with their child. It used to really freak out other RPers.
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Selby
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Why isn't it 'proper'? All their dialog has them speaking that way. Logic with this particular person failed. They didn't understand even when I phrased the questions as simply as you did. |
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