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[Homburg]

Well, the difference is in RP you can jump out of "the story" to explain things to people. You can say, in advance, "This scene takes place in a restaurant on Pier 46 in Seattle..." then give everyone a brief description of the surroundings before play starts.

In fiction, you have to weave all that into the narrative, as unobtrusively as possible, often from the POV of one character, so it's a bit trickier. Also you can't provide photos or links to photos .

True that. My narrative is anything but subtle.

Of course these are gamers we're talking about. You basically have to whack them over the head with a stick to get a reaction.

 

[Recidiva]

Poking around on a buddies account right now before I activate mine, the accounts page was down this morning for maintance :/

My issue is they all feel like casters, no matter what I play. Combat arts etc eh oh well there are always the tradeskills!

Maintenance is over and it should be up right now.

My monk and bruiser don't feel like casters, or my Shadowknight. They're made of ow.

But I know what you mean, it's really a different combat system. My favorite non-casters are my swashbuckler - how can you NOT like "Walk The Plank" where you force someone to turn around while you backstab 'em again.

I love the tradeskills the most. I have one of each crafter, 10 levels above adventure level. I have two station accounts, so that's 24 chars...one of everything and me making all their stuffies. Working on raising up my guild level enough to buy a guild house. They now have NPCs you can hire to go out and collect resources for you. AND...a depot to put all trade components so that any crafts done in the guild house draws from that depot.

Heaven!

AND...this is a picture of an unfurnished New Halas home...but mine has christmas trees and pets and furniture and I wubbit. And that giant picture window looks out over icy water.

http://ratwarlock.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/halas_housing2.jpg

 

[Recidiva]

Another nice thing about EQ2, lots of nameable pets and sparkly fun things.

And the Fae give me an outlet for the intensely silly.

I get to be followed around by a tiger about four times my size named "Stripeybritches" and a little kitty that has a frost aura named "Frostybritches."

It's almost worth dying to see:

"Alas, Stripeybritches has died from pain and suffering."

My dark elf just named her kitty "Bait."

 

[Homburg]

So I'm doing a random with my little resto shaman (34th lev or so), and I get into a Scarlet Monastery group. The tank has less HP than _I_ do. Less. After the third time where she evaporated before I could get my first heal off, I decided to pay more attention.

1) No Righteous Fury
2) Ret Aura, not Dev Aura
3) Seal of Command, which means she's deep in the ret tree for someone tanking
4) Gear = utter suck

So I ask for dev aura and it takes two more deaths before I get it. And asking for righteous fury to be turned on produces a HUGE argument which winds up with the paladin telling the warlock "Y dont U tank then!!!"

So he did. And he took LESS damage than the paladin had been taking.

1) Right-click my portrait
2) Click "Leave group"
3) Headdesk

 

[Abraxas Winterlight]

low level randoms can be a nightmare


(I catch my 8 year old doing them. classic huntard that boy)

 

[John Doe]

So I'm doing a random with my little resto shaman (34th lev or so), and I get into a Scarlet Monastery group. The tank has less HP than _I_ do. Less. After the third time where she evaporated before I could get my first heal off, I decided to pay more attention.

1) No Righteous Fury
2) Ret Aura, not Dev Aura
3) Seal of Command, which means she's deep in the ret tree for someone tanking
4) Gear = utter suck

So I ask for dev aura and it takes two more deaths before I get it. And asking for righteous fury to be turned on produces a HUGE argument which winds up with the paladin telling the warlock "Y dont U tank then!!!"

So he did. And he took LESS damage than the paladin had been taking.

1) Right-click my portrait
2) Click "Leave group"
3) Headdesk

ROFLbrothel!

Pick-up groups are one of the many reasons I do not miss WoW.

 

[Homburg]

To be honest though, I level that toon using nothing but randoms. Literally, since level 15, the only exp he's gotten outside of dungeons has been the shaman totem quests. That's it. And, for the most part, I've had okay groups. Quite often, they've been solid groups. I've left party three times now in, well, twenty levels. So the randoms thing isn't super awful.

That said, sometimes you wonder. We wiped three times last night with me tanking as my pally in Old Kingdoms. On the third time I figured out why we were getting so many adds. The DK in the group had his ghoul out and the ghoul kept pulling aggro on the one spot where you jump down. I could've killed me a DK.

 

[satindesire]

To be honest though, I level that toon using nothing but randoms. Literally, since level 15, the only exp he's gotten outside of dungeons has been the shaman totem quests. That's it. And, for the most part, I've had okay groups. Quite often, they've been solid groups. I've left party three times now in, well, twenty levels. So the randoms thing isn't super awful.

That said, sometimes you wonder. We wiped three times last night with me tanking as my pally in Old Kingdoms. On the third time I figured out why we were getting so many adds. The DK in the group had his ghoul out and the ghoul kept pulling aggro on the one spot where you jump down. I could've killed me a DK.

Don't even TALK to me about DKs. I've had nothing but bad experiences with them!

 

[Wolf of Mibu 69]

My main is a Human Holy Paladin on the Aggramar server, but one of my favorite stories relates to the Horde pally I rolled on Burning Blade near the end of BC. The best part about this was that I was pretty much at the height of my skill, especially PVP-wise. I had gotten bored PVPing on my main, so I decided to play Horde for a little while with my friends.

I was level 27 and running through Hillsbrad when suddenly I got smacked with a Smite for roughly one-third to one-half my life total. I healed myself as I looked around, wildly, for the culprit, and saw that my assailant was a level 35 Dwarven Priest. He thought he'd get himself some easy prey.

So I proceeded to engage, blowing cooldowns and healing myself through his damage, as he proceeded to blow through mana healing himself and trying to kill me. I bubbled, used lay on hands, stunned him a couple times, used Lifeblood (herbalism ftw, heh), and used every trick in the book that I had.

Eventually, we both ran out of mana. At that point I was the one dealing 200-300 damage per swing.

He saw my first HK achievement go off. One of the single proudest moments of my WoW career.

Roughly 45 minutes later, a lv. 70 Shaman ganked me and then proceeded to corpse-camp me for a while. Something tells me homeboy found the other 35 levels he needed, because 8 wasn't enough.

Edit: also, I noticed there're Vampire: the Masquerade players here. Vamp LARP is one of my biggest hobbies. I'd love to trade war stories!

 

[satindesire]

blah. I never play on PVP servers for this exact reason. The horde never leave me alone, they absolutely LOVE to pick on cute Priest girls.

 

[Homburg]

He saw my first HK achievement go off. One of the single proudest moments of my WoW career.

Roughly 45 minutes later, a lv. 70 Shaman ganked me and then proceeded to corpse-camp me for a while. Something tells me homeboy found the other 35 levels he needed, because 8 wasn't enough.

*snort* That's awesome.

Edit: also, I noticed there're Vampire: the Masquerade players here. Vamp LARP is one of my biggest hobbies. I'd love to trade war stories!

Currently running one. Just wish I could find more active players. Well, okay, I need victims too, so I guess I should say that I wish I could find more players, period.

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blah. I never play on PVP servers for this exact reason. The horde never leave me alone, they absolutely LOVE to pick on cute Priest girls.

Killing healers is not just a job, it's a calling.

Last time I PVP'ed was on some BG and it was on my resto shammy (29 at the time). He's got the heirloom cloth robe and shoulders on, so the toon looks like a warlock. Lemme tell you, I got tooootally ignored until they realised that the guy in the warlocky robes was doing all the healing. Then I had everybody and their brother on me every time I turned around.

 

[satindesire]

Killing healers is not just a job, it's a calling.

Last time I PVP'ed was on some BG and it was on my resto shammy (29 at the time). He's got the heirloom cloth robe and shoulders on, so the toon looks like a warlock. Lemme tell you, I got tooootally ignored until they realised that the guy in the warlocky robes was doing all the healing. Then I had everybody and their brother on me every time I turned around.

It's a pretty fucking lame calling if you ask me. But you didn't. So...:/

I heal because I'm damn good at it. I've tried playing other classes, but Priest fits my personality AND my skill set. ^_^

Pally was nice, though. Healer that can wear plate? Heck yeah! *laughs*

But honestly, I got so many more invites to join clans and groups and raids when I played a Holy Priest.

 

[Homburg]

It's a pretty fucking lame calling if you ask me. But you didn't. So...:/

I heal because I'm damn good at it. I've tried playing other classes, but Priest fits my personality AND my skill set. ^_^

Pally was nice, though. Healer that can wear plate? Heck yeah! *laughs*

But honestly, I got so many more invites to join clans and groups and raids when I played a Holy Priest.

I actually had a lot of fun on my little disc priest, and am currently enjoying the resto shammy. I really wish I had an instant flash heal though. The two stroke Nature's Swiftness and then Healing Wave is not something I'm good at yet.

My ret spec has all the usual ret stuff, and then I dropped the rest of my points into healing. As a result, I can play back-up heal in a pinch. I often lose DPS to taking a second to drop a Flash of Light on the healer. With my crit rating in that spec I can get into some respectable numbers here and there. I've actually picked up healing aggro a coupla times, which is, frankly, a bit embarrassing.

But, for me, if I am grouping with the girls, I have to pull/tank. Neither viv nor MIS really have a tanking mindset, and neither pulls well when grouped. As a result, I don't play anything other than tankish classes with them.

I have an itch to do another disc priest for PVP.

 

[satindesire]

*Snip*

I have an itch to do another disc priest for PVP.

Unless the fixed it, Disc priests are dangerous in PVP. When Mister and I went to get our medals for gear, we HAD to PVP and he always took me with him. With him being a warrior with such a high crit and tons of health, and me going disc, it would take four horde to take us down.

 

[Homburg]

Unless the fixed it, Disc priests are dangerous in PVP. When Mister and I went to get our medals for gear, we HAD to PVP and he always took me with him. With him being a warrior with such a high crit and tons of health, and me going disc, it would take four horde to take us down.

Exactly why I like the idea

 

[satindesire]

Exactly why I like the idea

*sigh* I miss WoW.

 

[BiaTcHiNFiRe]

blah. I never play on PVP servers for this exact reason. The horde never leave me alone, they absolutely LOVE to pick on cute Priest girls.

I have oposite problem.

Damned allys never leave me alone! lol


I play on PVP server, but only because all my friends joined that server. I hate PVP!! I like doing raids and instances and farm things etc, but I never pvp. Just not my thing.

 

[satindesire]

I play on PVP server, but only because all my friends joined that server. I hate PVP!! I like doing raids and instances and farm things etc, but I never pvp. Just not my thing.

I'm the queen of instances. When we had a good group going, we'd do one or two a day, every day. It was awesome!

 

[Wolf of Mibu 69]

@ Homburg I just stepped down after two years from running the local One World By Night Vampire LARP. It'd be pretty cool if we were both in the same org.

@ Satindesire I prefer instances as well, and I'm a healer at heart. I have an 80 lock whom I never play, and up-and-coming rogue and mage. Those I think I will definitely play at 80. I really am a toon-leveler at heart though.

 

[Homburg]

@ Homburg I just stepped down after two years from running the local One World By Night Vampire LARP. It'd be pretty cool if we were both in the same org.

I've played in an OWBN network game. The local werewolf game is part of that org. My previous LARP was part of a semi-national org, and it burned me pretty bad on the whole subject. These days, I'm fine with my little troupe game and have no desire to be part of any org whatsoever.

Nothing against OWBN though. It's just a general distaste for the concept based on how poorly me and mine were treated by the Ashes people. The whole thing was petty and stupid, and that makes the bad behaviour on the part of the org even worse. From the way the local OWBN guys talk, that org is better managed.

How much interaction did you have with OWBN? In my case, Ashes talked to us only when they were handing down proclamations, and trying to beat us up for something stupid.

 

[Homburg]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhiGXKmRY4w&feature

40k animated movie.

Ultramarines.

 

[Recidiva]

I am...addicted to Farmville.

 

[Loradai]

hehe.... I should have never tried the new Frontierville

 

[Recidiva]

hehe.... I should have never tried the new Frontierville

I do not have enough time. Egads. Biggest time suck to end all time sucks. But MAN baby cows and party ducks are cute.

My favorite part: Cooperation without coordination. My own pace, no dying...aaaah.

 

[Abraxas Winterlight]

ok, respecced my secondary from Survival to Beast Master on my huntard.

actually having fun with it.

BM Turtle tank is just awesome!! & I tamed my first spirit Beast just now

Gondria

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4049/4716221621_b84eaee5e7_b.jpg