miri
[wow] aww yeah sellin blues to twinks for ridiculous sums of money
miri
seriously woke up this morning to see a pair of level 19 mail boots had sold for 190gs.
miri
on one hand, wowhead told me they were BiS for heavies at that level so it's no real surprise -- I'm just grateful for people with lots of money in the game lmfao
miri
on the other hand, nice to see people are still just as weird and creepy as ever in this game
miri
my very first stranger interaction was a blood elf pally rollin up on my panda like 'hey you're cute' followed by 'let me buy you a drink' followed by dance emotes and sudden fur licking????
miri
on the plus side, after I stopped talking he asked if I was uncomfortable and wasn't an asshole or anything when I gave him a very solid yes, lol. He was just like 'ah, it's hard to find love in this game'
miri
lolol oh honey look at your life, look at your choices. thanks for not being the creepiest creeper but uh
successfail
I guess you might say he was lookin' fur love in all the wrong places.
miri
WYN
successfail
/shot
miri
successfail
I regret nothing
miri
I think he'd have probably done better on an rp server :|a
miri
oh god and there was some pally that followed me around for like 2 hours yesterday
miri
similar leveled belf lady. I was leveling my skinning and doing some fishing and exploring over by shadowkeep and they were just. Following. Not /f follow, but consciously direction their character; every time
miri
I'd stop they'd just zip around super close. They weren't menacing or anything, just really really weird -- the only thing I ever saw them say was 'help' when they'd come down off their horse to whack a croc
successfail
Maybe they were playing a naturalist, observing pandas in the mists.
miri
or two and I guess they got overwhelmed? maybe they pulled aggro from my voidwalker 
but I laughed hard
but I laughed hard
miri
lsdkfjlsjdkf this was my belf lock tho, haha
miri
I've been playing for less than a week, man, when did all the weirdos really decide to let their crazy hang out?
miri
there were always weird and creepy folks, but they usually got to know you before they started the groping and stalking, lol
successfail
Too much eggnog being drunk before/during WoW time
successfail
It's the rum.
miri
...fair enough, haha
miri
I'm not very impressed with the whole server merging thing, though, I have to say.
successfail
Oh, did they have to collapse a few of them?
miri
I've been queued to even get in a couple of times? That hasn't happened since the first year it was out.
miri
It would have made sense that way, but they ... didn't, really. We're merged but separate with one server for sure, but then there's also like 5 or 6 other servers with people I see in chat?
miri
if the game was like gw2, I wouldn't mind, as far as kill/loot/exp sharing. But it's not. Having to camp the same patch of dirt for half an hour to get the kills I need for a quest is ridiculous
miri
it's nice to see people in lowbie zones again, but I'm really starting to remember the things I didn't like about wow, and consequently adore about gw2, haha
ᴀɴ ᴀᴄᴛᴜᴀʟ ʜᴏʙᴏ
oh my god
ᴀɴ ᴀᴄᴛᴜᴀʟ ʜᴏʙᴏ
ahdjasda well I guess it's nice to know some thing never change
ᴀɴ ᴀᴄᴛᴜᴀʟ ʜᴏʙᴏ
gosh wow
miri
especially when I've been having to fight people for kills through level 30, now.
successfail
Ergh, that's just lame.
miri
LMAO YES RIGHT? Juuuust let that creepy flag fly, guys
ᴀɴ ᴀᴄᴛᴜᴀʟ ʜᴏʙᴏ
I've been playing Tera for similar wow-esque nostalgia with better graphics lately and... YEAH. Nothing like that to make you appreciate the gw2 community. So much. ><
miri
GW2's community, if you avoid the forums and queensdale, is pretty wonderful. There'll always be a troll or two, but for the most part they're pretty good people
ᴀɴ ᴀᴄᴛᴜᴀʟ ʜᴏʙᴏ
They really are. That's what sold me on the game as much as anything. The quality of mmo players overally is pretty damn remarkable.
ᴀɴ ᴀᴄᴛᴜᴀʟ ʜᴏʙᴏ
Esp in the pvp/wvw community.
ᴀɴ ᴀᴄᴛᴜᴀʟ ʜᴏʙᴏ
Considering those are often trashtalk zones in most other mmos
successfail
Hell, if you just stay out of the way of the Queensdale champ train (and even then only on certain servers) it's not too bad.
miri
where as in wow you get to see people frothing with rage when people play the anal [ability] game (holy shit wow that's still a thing), but absolute silence when someone flat out says
successfail
But seriously, WvW is so pleasant to be in I was incredibly surprised.
miri
'a cunt is the person attached to a pussy' in trade chat right afterwards
ᴀɴ ᴀᴄᴛᴜᴀʟ ʜᴏʙᴏ
....wow
ᴀɴ ᴀᴄᴛᴜᴀʟ ʜᴏʙᴏ
classy wow 
successfail
...wow
miri
lmao yeah it's just the vitriol in mapchat when someone touches a champ out of order that makes me shake my head.
ᴀɴ ᴀᴄᴛᴜᴀʟ ʜᴏʙᴏ
Yeah wvw depends on your server, but it's just amazingly above board in mine and from what I've listened in on other servers/talked to transferred guilds about.
miri
and yeah, the wvw crew is generally fantastic. Generally. We have Ajax, though ......
successfail
Yeah it's like dude, this is a starter zone. Go play in Frostgorge.
ᴀɴ ᴀᴄᴛᴜᴀʟ ʜᴏʙᴏ
All the regulars end up getting to know each other and even if some guilds have beefs with each other, it's just incredibly civil by comparison to the usual fare : P
ᴀɴ ᴀᴄᴛᴜᴀʟ ʜᴏʙᴏ
Yeah there are trolls that throw hissyfits but : P
miri
haha Ajax is bronze league famous at this point. I ... actually kind of like him. He's an ass, but only superficially? Like the big meanyface drill sergeant that is actually pretty soft, haha
miri
yeah as far as pvp community goes ... there's a lot of whining and hacking-accusing going on in the forums but for the most part it's a very small number of people being very, very loud
miri
always the same 2-3 names per server
successfail
My feeling on the official forums is that if you're spending that much time on them bitching, you're spending precious little time actually playing the game.
successfail
Also I'm playing a P/P thief in PvE without full zerkers gear, bite my shiny metal ass.
successfail
(Although I was experimenting with D/P and holy god everything dies)
miri
yeah. I had to ban myself from the forums because the absurd amount of negativity was making me enjoy the game less. Even though I disagreed with p much all of the things they were saying, still.
ᴀɴ ᴀᴄᴛᴜᴀʟ ʜᴏʙᴏ
LMAO oh god the "zerker or bust" argument in pve. it tickles me every time. that's about the only routinely dumb thing I see in la mapchat.
miri
sdlkfjlsdkfj lol the SO wouldn't give up his p/p for anything, bless u both
ᴀɴ ᴀᴄᴛᴜᴀʟ ʜᴏʙᴏ
(mmm d/p)
miri
I don't have a single piece of zerker gear. I have never had problems.
successfail
Seriously. The only reason to use zerker gear and have everyone in your party wearing it is if you're speed-clearing dungeons.
miri
Of course, I've never speedrun anything. Hell, I've still never even done CoF and CoE :|a but I tend to only run with guildies or friends so \o_o/
ᴀɴ ᴀᴄᴛᴜᴀʟ ʜᴏʙᴏ
Yep. Only time I had a full zerker was greatsword warrior for the CoF runs when I had to spill blood for gold for my legendary.
successfail
If I was going for that, then yeah I'd optimize because that's the point. But I don't, I don't join speedrun groups, so step the hell off I look like a badass.
ᴀɴ ᴀᴄᴛᴜᴀʟ ʜᴏʙᴏ
My mesmer is half zerker and some mixed trinks my. lol greatsword mesmer.
successfail
Ah, legendaries. Some day in the distant future I'll make Quip.
miri
that and it seems kinda silly to drop a condi necro in zerk gear in the first place <.< not that anyone wants a condi necro in their dungeon group lmfao
successfail
And then I will be the most ridiculous.
ᴀɴ ᴀᴄᴛᴜᴀʟ ʜᴏʙᴏ
... if you are a thief with Quip I will love you.
ᴀɴ ᴀᴄᴛᴜᴀʟ ʜᴏʙᴏ
They are the most HILARIOUS things to run into in wvw.
successfail
I am a thief and I will have Quip.
ᴀɴ ᴀᴄᴛᴜᴀʟ ʜᴏʙᴏ
all of a sudden honking
miri
LMAO perfect
successfail
So can you equip two legendaries? Because the image of someone dual-wielding Quips just entered my brain and it's delightful.
ᴀɴ ᴀᴄᴛᴜᴀʟ ʜᴏʙᴏ
--why wouldn't anyone want a condi necro in a dungeon, the conditionmancer is one of the highest dps via aoe and survivable builds for a necro when done right...
ᴀɴ ᴀᴄᴛᴜᴀʟ ʜᴏʙᴏ
I mean yes the powermancer is nice. But. Theorycrafting shows conditionmancer is stupidly powerful in pve ><
successfail
People are down on condi builds because they assume the 25 stack cap means they're useless.
successfail
WHich is just dumb
miri
I don't understand at all, but most pugs don't want to touch one at all <.<
ᴀɴ ᴀᴄᴛᴜᴀʟ ʜᴏʙᴏ
That's... incredbily dumb, tbh... XD a 5man isn't likely to push past 25 stacks of bleed and bleed hits like a TRUCK.
ᴀɴ ᴀᴄᴛᴜᴀʟ ʜᴏʙᴏ
sob pug mentality.
successfail
I can understand slightly in open world where the cap means that if you're in the middle of a zerg and you're only conditions you're not doing as much as you could.
miri
it's totally stupid; I solo dual champions without breaking a sweat and they're buttfurious because I kill things ~too slow~
successfail
But a 5 man team? Bleed that shit.
ᴀɴ ᴀᴄᴛᴜᴀʟ ʜᴏʙᴏ
Yeah. It wouldn't be very useful in say temple zergs, etc. Because everything will be at 25 stacks always. But 5mans....
successfail
Yeah, the NOW NOW NOW FASTER FASTER mentality just needs to calm their collective tits.
ᴀɴ ᴀᴄᴛᴜᴀʟ ʜᴏʙᴏ
Yeah, fuck I LOVE taking my necro to 5mans. ANd he's conditionmancer when I pve.
successfail
Unless you're specifically setting out for speed, then chill. And if you are, then accept that not everyone else is and that is not bad.
miri
agreed. the non-pugs I group with comment about how much faster everything dies because I'm a goddamn condi machine.
miri
lmao yeah p much that
ᴀɴ ᴀᴄᴛᴜᴀʟ ʜᴏʙᴏ
rofl. I'm run cof p1 with 4 guardians and... some other class that wasn't dps. and we were wvw guardians. and we still cleared it in 15min. ><
miri
nice
ᴀɴ ᴀᴄᴛᴜᴀʟ ʜᴏʙᴏ
but of course the speed clearers gloated it wasn't 5min
successfail
Seriously, you can still do a damned fast run without having to min-max to the point of the death of all creativity.
ᴀɴ ᴀᴄᴛᴜᴀʟ ʜᴏʙᴏ
And yeah, same why I would take a healy/support guardian into groups of squishy more glass cannon people. XD keeps them alive and buffs them, run goes smoother
successfail
If you enjoy repeated 5 minute runs where you've almost gotten to Battletoads levels of memorizing what to do and when and where, that's cool. I won't join you.
successfail
But don't shit on me because I don't roll how you do.
ᴀɴ ᴀᴄᴛᴜᴀʟ ʜᴏʙᴏ
My main fractal group is great with 2 staff guardians and an ele specced for proccing fury off blasting fire fields. We run a constant 25 stacks of might and permafury
ᴀɴ ᴀᴄᴛᴜᴀʟ ʜᴏʙᴏ
everything falls over and dies
ᴀɴ ᴀᴄᴛᴜᴀʟ ʜᴏʙᴏ
nobody is a glass cannon
successfail
I really need to give fractals a closer look.
ᴀɴ ᴀᴄᴛᴜᴀʟ ʜᴏʙᴏ
Fractals are stupid fun, esp with the remake :'D
ᴀɴ ᴀᴄᴛᴜᴀʟ ʜᴏʙᴏ
It's also specifically designed to just destroy people running the zerker mentality
ᴀɴ ᴀᴄᴛᴜᴀʟ ʜᴏʙᴏ
Literally. it's glorious.
successfail
Bahahaha
ᴀɴ ᴀᴄᴛᴜᴀʟ ʜᴏʙᴏ
There's a mechanic you hit at level...32? where you can be flanked for higher damage
ᴀɴ ᴀᴄᴛᴜᴀʟ ʜᴏʙᴏ
we laughed at the at first and shrugged
ᴀɴ ᴀᴄᴛᴜᴀʟ ʜᴏʙᴏ
and ice elementals hit my tanky guardian 4 times in a row with protection up for 8k
ᴀɴ ᴀᴄᴛᴜᴀʟ ʜᴏʙᴏ
weep...
ᴀɴ ᴀᴄᴛᴜᴀʟ ʜᴏʙᴏ
it was actually a really fun mechanic that make you completely change your playstyle because if you got flanked you'd probably die XD
successfail
I really do like how they introduced fractals.
successfail
Because it does address some of the BUT WHAR ENDGAME?!!?! complaints, it lets them experiment with new mechanics and offers new challenges and some progression for thems as wants it.
successfail
But it's also entirely separate from the other parts of the game, so if it's not your thing you don't suffer for it.
successfail
Honestly, they've done well with that in general -- WvW, PvP, open world PvE and fractals are all there and easily accesible and you can poke at them all to whatever level you like.
successfail
...I love how this [wow] titled plurk has turned into us cheering GW2
miri
Lmao yes! I also ... keep meaning to do more fractals, but I keep getting distracted by the other stuff. And leveling alts.
miri
I also really love the fact that gw keeps the economy sane. After a year, and due to all the gold sellers, the ah was p much out of reach to people just starting out on a server.
successfail
Yeah, for all the people grumping about how it takes time to earn money... that's actualyl a good thing.
successfail
If you could make 100g from a couple hours' play and there were no checks and balances, things would get crazy pretty fast.
miri
In gw2? Not the case. People complain that the price of silk finally broke 1s a piece, but ffs it's a gold or more in wow. You can buy exotics for the price of level 10 wow gear.
successfail
I think it's just a mindset shift -- things take time, there are only a few shortcuts you can min/max.
miri
Seriously. And the fact that no one has to compete for nodes, and you can gather everything with a little time and cheap tools, means you really never have to buy it there at all if you'd rather not
successfail
If you're only playing the game to get the best gear or to max crafting as fast as possible, you're missing most of the game.
successfail
And I mean again, if that's how you like to play then go ahead and play it, but realize that you're not the demographic they're going to cater to.
miri
Oh for sure. People complain about time gates, but that's also how it is in wow for the important stuff, too?
successfail
I'm a filthy casual, I like that there are checks and balances on how fast people who play 8 hours a day can dominate some areas.
successfail
I have a Chauncey. I earned that Chauncey.
successfail
MY CAT IS FANCY.
successfail
And I put in just as much effort to get my fancy-ass cat as anyone else with him, even though I can't play nearly as much as many.
miri
I too am a filthy casual, and I love being capable of keeping up with everyone else. Sure, I don't have the absolute best stuff, but I stay alive and contribute my share.
successfail
'Zackly. I can show up in m mismatched armour from five different sets, wield my dual pistols (although I just crafted two exotic ones and they are fine pieces of weaponry) and roll and dodge like a ninja.
successfail
And I will still stay alive and help.
miri
Ugh, gw2. Mmo love of my life now and always 