Comments on: Maybe it’s just me?

By: Bearkat

Bearkat — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:23:00 +0000

this could be my favorite post of yours, I must say. Oh, and I roll horde and your comment about running under that bridge — instead of taking the bottleneck or dropping in from above that the mouth of the mine — GENIUS! Never would have thought of it. I don’t think I am in your battlegroup (Kil’jaeden server), so I don’t think it matters too much. Again, thanks for the laughs!

By: Aurmith

Aurmith — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:00:06 +0000

This is such a great and true insight. I’ll remember that Foxworthy tidbit, I know. One of the reasons I don’t PvP much in BGs is because of the hate - and I know, I could just not read it, or put it in a different tab. But then it feels like I’m all alone and I don’t know what’s going on overall - there ARE some decent chats that come across now and then.

I did the quests on my frost mage - and got reported for AFK (so the complainers said) because I was in the areas that weren’t meant for capturing. I explained this on chat, and got “So what?” and more explicit comments essentially saying to “get with the program” and do the BG, not the quests.

I did the quests anyway.

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:33:21 +0000

Yeah that’s true. I’m one of those people, or used to be. See I’m in science, I do cancer research. It’s pretty hard, and you have to have a bunch of talents to do well. I just realized it was hard, after 10 years of work. I had several bad bosses, and didn’t do great work, but decent. I figured it was the project or the boss, you never know. Well, now i have a great boss, but again am doing decent but not exceptional work. Now i know its me, and science is hard, and only the truely exception will excel in it. The rest of us get through the best we can.

Oh, and trying to give logical advice in AV (such as cap IBGY) - absolutely useless. The mob will cap IBGY when they damn well feel like it. I’ve never had a AV where there was even a hint of coordination, just the usual zerg drek, cap the towers, get RH, all in.

By: Regis

Regis — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:28:20 +0000

Really good written post, the point at the end was perfectly executed. And “If you are calm and collected while everyone about you is losing their heads… maybe you’ve failed to grasp just how deep in the shit you really are.” made me laugh loud for a long time, got to get a sign like that

By: Kikidas

Kikidas — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:48:35 +0000

My favorite is when you die rushing the RH (because no one stops to help you live, it’s so awesome. *can you hear the sarcasm?*), and spawn back up at the Alliance RH… and the Horde offensive is bottling you up by Stonehearth…

You hear people saying ‘OMG! Look at all you newbs on D! Come O!’.

To which I reply, “You try it.”

The best was I said that, someone else said, “i just did lolz”… then two seconds later, same person says, “i just died”. Followed by ‘name’ has left the battleground.

By: Ess

Ess — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:06:08 +0000

Excellent post, once again.

When I was first considering trying the BGs, I thought I was going to be upset by getting killed over and over, but that turned out to be the least of my annoyances. What bugs me most is the attitude of my teammates. I hate the quitters! If the opposite faction even gets a slight lead, the chat is “oh well, we lost, stupid noobs, blah blah blah.” I’ve seen some great comebacks, and those are some of the most fun BG experiences I’ve ever had.

It’s true — there are some people (in the game and also in life) that make it a habit of trying to elevate themselves by blaming (or just shitting on) other people. It’s never them, it’s everyone else. I worked with someone like this for a few years (horrible! argh!!) and it turned out that she’d had interpersonal issues with coworkers in every place she’d ever worked. She honestly believed the whole world was against her, sabotaging her, jealous of her, had it in for her, etc, etc. Same kind of thing… she never guessed that it was just her. When I see kids act like that in the BGs, blaming everyone else for the failure of the group, I dearly hope that they’ll grow out of it, take some responsibility, and not carry the attitude into their real lives.

By: Deathrender

Deathrender — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:13:22 +0000

Hmm..you sure it wasn’t Ron White you were thinking there buddy? That bit about the the military base is on his “Can’t Fix Stupid” album.. Soooo..he either stole it from Jeff Foxworthy..or you be wrong Bear!

By: Artorin

Artorin — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:39:22 +0000

The only difference is the amount of resilience… since I’m not a hard core pvp player the 8k honor one is more then enough. I’m so glad I didn’t buy it when it cost 16k honor

You are totally right BBB its amazing how much some of those people can type while still playing… personally when I’m killing horde its hard to be typing THAT much in BG chat.

By: bigbearbutt

bigbearbutt — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:11:25 +0000

I think… I think I would have to go for the rare one… lol

By: icu

icu — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:07:41 +0000

8k Honor for the rare and 40k Honor for the epic one:

Rare: http://www.wowhead.com/?item=28235
Epic: http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37864