I am a racist.

[Endie]

Have you subverted the norm by playing Lando on WoW yet?

I'd have to actually have some control over how my character looks in order to pull that off.  What do you think this is, UO?

Well, play an undead and claim that Han cursed you for all eternity as he fell into his Carbonite sleep.  Which, you might add, is a typical white-supremacist, honkey-assed move with which to suppress the proud, black man.

[Zetor]

Undead are the Night Elves of the horde.

Just as [relatively] popular, too. :P


-- Z.

[WindupAtheist]

BTW, while I've mulled over making a blood elf pally at some point in the future, if I did it would be on my PVP server.

[Morat20]

I have several dwarf and Night Elf toons on an RP server. Also a few humans. No gnomes, strangely. The closest I come to RPing is for my dwarf to act like an idiot. But I think that's just me. :)

Admittedly, the guild I'm on is full of people who tend to be 30+, or their kids (kids are given special titles so we know when not to say "FUCK!" over TS or party chat). We raid exactly once a week, with more thought towards having fun than skill or speed. (In fact, a few of our members raid the same dungeon with a more 'hardcore' group with alts -- they're shocked at how fast they rip through the content comparatively. But they have better gear, a better mix, and more skilled players. And apparently people get pissy on wipes. We don't give a shit....)

Our RP is pretty limited. And I tend to avoid the RP hangouts in any case. I joined the server because I figured there'd be less counterstrike-wannabes and fucktards. That's more or less been the case.

[Nebu]

Admittedly, the guild I'm on is full of people who tend to be 30+, or their kids (kids are given special titles so we know when not to say "FUCK!" over TS or party chat). We raid exactly once a week, with more thought towards having fun than skill or speed. (In fact, a few of our members raid the same dungeon with a more 'hardcore' group with alts -- they're shocked at how fast they rip through the content comparatively. But they have better gear, a better mix, and more skilled players. And apparently people get pissy on wipes. We don't give a shit....)

Our RP is pretty limited. And I tend to avoid the RP hangouts in any case. I joined the server because I figured there'd be less counterstrike-wannabes and fucktards. That's more or less been the case.

This gives me a much better appreciation for why you enjoy the game so much.  If I were to find a group of quality folks (as you have), I'd probably have had a much more enjoyable experience with WoW.  Instead, the general chat channel has left me scarred for life.

[Dren]

I RP with my warlock gnome by jumping around a alot.






Ok, I just like it because it gives me something to do while waiting.  Yes, I jump around a lot.

[Dren]

Admittedly, the guild I'm on is full of people who tend to be 30+, or their kids (kids are given special titles so we know when not to say "FUCK!" over TS or party chat). We raid exactly once a week, with more thought towards having fun than skill or speed. (In fact, a few of our members raid the same dungeon with a more 'hardcore' group with alts -- they're shocked at how fast they rip through the content comparatively. But they have better gear, a better mix, and more skilled players. And apparently people get pissy on wipes. We don't give a shit....)

Our RP is pretty limited. And I tend to avoid the RP hangouts in any case. I joined the server because I figured there'd be less counterstrike-wannabes and fucktards. That's more or less been the case.

This gives me a much better appreciation for why you enjoy the game so much.  If I were to find a group of quality folks (as you have), I'd probably have had a much more enjoyable experience with WoW.  Instead, the general chat channel has left me scarred for life.

General chat is not an option for me.  I never ever ever ever have it on.

I am in the same type of guild.  Most are 30+ unless their kids are in too.  One family consists of a mother, father, and two daughters.  They can, and usually do, play all at once.  We have several couples that play.  One guy just turned 40.  No guild drama and very casual when it comes to instances.  Wipes are expected and joked about.

Yeah, I've been in bad guilds in WoW too.  I recognized this and left.  It took two changes to find this guild and I'll stick with them through this game and maybe beyond if possible.

[Jayce]

General chat is not an option for me.  I never ever ever ever have it on.

General chat wasn't an option for me until I learned that the people who live there are easily riled.  I ended up enjoying it because I'm cleverer by half than most of them (which really isn't saying much) and it's a lot of fun giving them a hard time.

[Morat20]

I RP with my warlock gnome by jumping around a alot.

Ok, I just like it because it gives me something to do while waiting.  Yes, I jump around a lot.

Someone once posted fake patch notes in which night elves were given an XP penalty each time they jumped. :) When I'm bored (normally while waiting for buffs on our weekly raid) I like to turn on Cheetah and run in circles, then feign death. Then do the train noise. Only gnomes and dwarves get away with crap like that.

I also like to run into newb areas, use Eyes of the Beast, and menace players. Admittedly, that's getting harder to do, but it's fun scattering the new players when a level 60 cat materializes next to them. Mostly I just run it around helping out new players who got in over their heads learning how aggro works.

Mostly I just work on alts or PvP. My rogue's up to 22 and I'm having a blast. I went and tried battlegrounds with it and recalled why any bracket sucks if you're in the lower five levels. The insane twinage in the 20-29 groups doesn't help that. I had some level 29 crit me for more health than I had.

[Dren]

Actually, the one character I move around the most on is my NE rogue.  I am constantly moving around in different combinations of moves because I'm doing that constantly in combat.  I find it helps with all those wait times and keeps me intune with my controls.  That's one reason I like playing my rogue more than any other class right now.  I am constantly moving during combat and have many things to use in different situations.

Well that, and the fact that I'm only like one of two rogues in our entire guild.

[Morat20]

Actually, the one character I move around the most on is my NE rogue.  I am constantly moving around in different combinations of moves because I'm doing that constantly in combat.  I find it helps with all those wait times and keeps me intune with my controls.  That's one reason I like playing my rogue more than any other class right now.  I am constantly moving during combat and have many things to use in different situations.

Well that, and the fact that I'm only like one of two rogues in our entire guild.

I like my rogue just for the ability to sap people. Just, in general. It's fun to stealth up to them, hit them on the head, then stealth away. I'm a simple man.

[Dren]

Actually, the one character I move around the most on is my NE rogue.  I am constantly moving around in different combinations of moves because I'm doing that constantly in combat.  I find it helps with all those wait times and keeps me intune with my controls.  That's one reason I like playing my rogue more than any other class right now.  I am constantly moving during combat and have many things to use in different situations.

Well that, and the fact that I'm only like one of two rogues in our entire guild.

I like my rogue just for the ability to sap people. Just, in general. It's fun to stealth up to them, hit them on the head, then stealth away. I'm a simple man.

I have found the joy of Improved Sap just recently and use it to no end now.  Much agreed.

[MrHat]

I agree 100%.

[Morat20]

I have found the joy of Improved Sap just recently and use it to no end now.  Much agreed.

Improved Sap is the awesome. In the BG's I was trying, it was about all I could do -- I'd sneak up to a level 29 (often a rogue, having tried to ninja-cap an unguarded flag) and sap him, then scream for help. Bought me thirty seconds for someone to get there, since lord knows I wasn't killing him.

[Zetor]

Yup... my old main is a 60 rogue I stopped playing a looong while ago. He's specced almost full subtlety, has the Darkmantle boots [+8 stealth], the Catseye Goggles [+2 stealth detection], the stealth detection talent, improved sap and full Master of Deception.

Since my gear is pretty bad, pretty much the only thing I do in BGs is to sap enemy rogues, repeatedly (it unstealths them and they HATE it). In one AV I got some rogues so PO'd at me, about two-three of them would gank me whenever they caught me out of stealth. :P


-- Z.

[Calantus]

Mon.

The single word that says alliance RPers have nothing to complain about. Hearing a troll end every goddamn sentence with mon makes me want to rip their ears off.

Although, I think my hatred for RP servers stems from the fact that the unwashed masses actually try to talk to me there. In a PVP server you can group up with someone and "hi" will be the most actual conversation you have after the group is formed. I like this. The average WoW player is not worth talking to and I'm too nice to tell them to STFU or ignore them. Plus it is much easier to tell when someone is saying something worthless when they just say it straight out. The faster I can tune out the words coming out of your mouth that are not relevant to the game, the less painful the experience becomes.

[Fabricated]

My favorite RP story from WoW is a pirate themed guild that had a couple of its members argue in-character with a GM over them roofsniping people.

Best Line: "Thar be a ramp."

[Endie]

My favorite RP story from WoW is a pirate themed guild that had a couple of its members argue in-character with a GM over them roofsniping people.

Best Line: "Thar be a ramp."

You should be able to see the discussion in question here.
Spitting on the GM and then claiming "it be a pirate sign'o'respect" then threatening to make her walk the plank (backwards) when chastised takes a degree of chutzpah.

[WayAbvPar]

I haven't had many interactions with dwarves (other than killing them), but this is pure truth (and artfully told)-

And night elves.  God damn I hate night elves.  Seriously, every single person with a night elf toon on an RP server is a complete homo.  If it starts to rain, some palmfucking catass night elf will start yammering in chat about the wonder of nature.  If there's a low level female toon running around Goldshire, some skeezy night elf 20 levels higher and with nothing better to do will be blathering and blathering away at her like a sexually stunted 32-year old trying to pick up high school chicks.

Goddamned blue backflipping Drizz't blowing fucktards. Every goddamned one of them.

[Morat20]

I haven't had many interactions with dwarves (other than killing them), but this is pure truth (and artfully told)-

And night elves.  God damn I hate night elves.  Seriously, every single person with a night elf toon on an RP server is a complete homo.  If it starts to rain, some palmfucking catass night elf will start yammering in chat about the wonder of nature.  If there's a low level female toon running around Goldshire, some skeezy night elf 20 levels higher and with nothing better to do will be blathering and blathering away at her like a sexually stunted 32-year old trying to pick up high school chicks.

Goddamned blue backflipping Drizz't blowing fucktards. Every goddamned one of them.

I'll have you know that neither of my nelves does that sort of shit, and I'm on an RP server. Of course, they're both female and I avoid Goldshire like the fucking plague.

[Nija]

I don't play WOW but this quote just came up on our IRC quotebot and I figured it was relevant to this discussion.

And ANY racism on the internet discussion, actually.

<Chat_Girl> <Seros> These things we know as facts: I'm not white. I'm not black. I'm racist. I'm 2" of pure man.

[Rasix]

I'll have you know that neither of my nelves does that sort of shit, and I'm on an RP server. Of course, they're both female and I avoid Goldshire like the fucking plague.

[Morat20]

I'll have you know that neither of my nelves does that sort of shit, and I'm on an RP server. Of course, they're both female and I avoid Goldshire like the fucking plague.

Druid and a rogue -- took it for the Shadowmeld bonus to prowling. Have you seen the male night elf models? Or how, god forbid, they fire a fucking bow? I'd rather shoot myself than play a male night elf.

My main's a Hunter -- male dwarf.

[Rasix]

Just giving you shit.  :-D  Felt like busting out one of my old motivators also. 

Yah, male night elves look terrible.  To me they look kind of lumpy and simian with really crappy facial hair.

[Morat20]

Just giving you shit.  :-D  Felt like busting out one of my old motivators also. 

Yah, male night elves look terrible.  To me they look kind of lumpy and simian with really crappy facial hair.

I figured. It's just, you know, only accurate for my mage. And my paladin. And strangely enough, even on the RP server, I haven't had one jackhole try to hit on me.

Then again, I ignore general chat. Don't Roleplay, and don't hang around Goldshire looking for handouts. Idiots.

I joined an RP server figuring I might find a more casual guild experience, with an average older age -- which I did. There are huge downsides, though. :)

[Tale]

Wher mankirks wief?

[Triforcer]

I miss Pandarens    Is one or two NPCS too much to ask?  If they are worried about gaying up the lore, that Julie Andrews bread-baking pleasure cruise sailed long ago. 

[Furiously]

I watched Marry Poppins with the neice a few nights ago... Yummy.

[Azazel]

Druid and a rogue -- took it for the Shadowmeld bonus to prowling. Have you seen the male night elf models? Or how, god forbid, they fire a fucking bow? I'd rather shoot myself than play a male night elf.

My main's a Hunter -- male dwarf.

My first main is/was a male night elf, which I took to avoid the Mangina-itis. He looks like shit, and I stopped playing him. If I could mangina him, I'd do it in a heartbeat.

[Lantyssa]

I really am sorry for any of you that wants to play male characters in WoW.  They're hideous.  Trolls are the only ones I like, with Humans and Dwarves being meh.

[HaemishM]

The Tauren males look decent, as do the humans.

But WUA, why the fuck are you on an RP server with any general chat channels on? I blogged on this site's WoW blogs about that shortly after the game came out. It was a fuckfest of one-legged retards having a fart-kicking contest.

[Azazel]

On WoW's males:

Humans look okay, gnomes look alright in a cartoonish way.

Trolls and undead also look alright, in their own way. As do Dranei and the cast of Dragonball Z Blood Elves.

Tauren, Orcs and Dwarves look good. As do Goblins.


Night elves look like arse. And not good arse, either.

[Damn Dirty Ape]

Tauren and Troll male toons are the best of the lot, but too bad for me their starting areas suck in comparison to Alliance ones.  So, I wind up with mostly female toons.  My main, a human warlock, has been hit on clumsily a few times; it's been human paladins rather than night elves who were the horny buggers, though.

FWIW, here's a pic pre-BC as I was rather pleased at the look I finally achieved through the AH.  The BC upgrades pretty much made it obsolete since "it's better to look good than it is to feel good" doesn't apply to really phat l3wtz: 
   

[Signe]

Orcs, both male and female, are my favourite look.  Troll and Cow People aren't too bad either.  The dwarfs look just like every other game dwarf I've ever seen.  Ho Hum.

[Jayce]

The Tauren males look decent, as do the humans.

But WUA, why the fuck are you on an RP server with any general chat channels on? I blogged on this site's WoW blogs about that shortly after the game came out. It was a fuckfest of one-legged retards having a fart-kicking contest.

I used to /leave general every time I created a new toon, but then I thought of something.

Now I just make fun of all the idiots.  They are easy targets, it's fun, and they just might learn something.  Not 99% of the time, but hey, 1% isn't bad.

Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the asstards.