I have not played my druid in ages. There have been several patches, and my talent points have been refunded and unspent for a while now. A friend sent me a cute little baby moonkin pet to cheer me up while Elfy was away. So, I finally spent those pesky points so I could get my moonkin form back and chill out with my lil pet. Not even 10 minutes later I get a whisper for a raid invite. Elfy tells me to mess with him. It was one of those nights where that sounded like just the thing to do. This is how it played out:
Vaniash: dps for kel thuzud 10?
Me: please tell how to wow?
Vaniash: wth
Vaniash: how to wow
Me: please how to wow?
Vaniash: wth did u messga me that?
Me: please wow?
Vaniash: do u need help?
Vaniash: like ar eu mental
Vaniash: stop messaging me
Me: please help wow?
Vaniash: why the hell would i wanna help wow the peopole who fricken lure u into like what 15 bucks a month
and that is where it ended. I think Vaniash was more mental than I was! I know I could have just said no, or told him to try the looking for group channel, but this was soooo much more fun! It is a pet peeve that people still whisper random people for groups like that. If I wanted to be dpsing something I would be in the looking for group channel. I should have told him how to wow!
~Emily
Monday, December 6, 2010
Friday, November 12, 2010
/DND rl wtfpwns WoW time
Yeah, that title probably won't make sense to anyone who doesn't play WoW... sorry.
It's been a while. I haven't posted any WoW news or stories. I'm still enjoying my new quiet server. I have a level 58 character, and a level 52 character. This is good, as I am able to farm things that sell for more and then I can get cool stuff to amuse me. I haven't really been playing much. It's the time of year where real life sort of has to take priority and I have to actively be an adult. Having said that, you can still catch me holding down my chair running around pew pew pewing things with my hunter. I want to get my higher lever characters to 80 before the new expansion comes out, in December. :( Yeah, that's not going to happen.
Oh well. I'm still here, still doing my best to stay away from people and if they won't leave me alone I ruin the game for them. I guess I do have a gift!
It's been a while. I haven't posted any WoW news or stories. I'm still enjoying my new quiet server. I have a level 58 character, and a level 52 character. This is good, as I am able to farm things that sell for more and then I can get cool stuff to amuse me. I haven't really been playing much. It's the time of year where real life sort of has to take priority and I have to actively be an adult. Having said that, you can still catch me holding down my chair running around pew pew pewing things with my hunter. I want to get my higher lever characters to 80 before the new expansion comes out, in December. :( Yeah, that's not going to happen.
Oh well. I'm still here, still doing my best to stay away from people and if they won't leave me alone I ruin the game for them. I guess I do have a gift!
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Moved
After finally being done with the SSDD (any Stephen King fans out there?) on Silvermoon I have started over on a new server. My characters on Silvermoon are still there. I have not deleted them, or moved them. Yet. I'm not in a guild. I don't have anyone that I'm questing with. It's just me, doing my thing, and enjoying the peace and quiet.
I haven't decided what I'm going to do with my characters on Silvermoon. I guess I will continue to just let them sit there. I'm going to keep chillin on my new server. I'm already level 41. If you can find me, I'll friend you. ha ha ha!!
I haven't decided what I'm going to do with my characters on Silvermoon. I guess I will continue to just let them sit there. I'm going to keep chillin on my new server. I'm already level 41. If you can find me, I'll friend you. ha ha ha!!
Friday, February 26, 2010
/Sigh
So if you read this blog you know this is where I like to vent my World of Warcraft (WoW) joys and frustrations. I seem to be more inspired to write the frustrations, perhaps I am a cranky writer. I generally vent about really stupid people here, and this post is no exception. Hey, I don't see any point in trying to be nice anymore (ha ha, was I ever nice?).
History
My main character (the one I prefer to play), Chala a Tauren Druid, has been in 5 1/2 guilds. I have been playing this character almost from the beginning of the game coming out. I started out alliance but after frustration with the age range of players we switched to Horde, we were told it seemed to be more mature than alliance. So needless to say, I have been playing Chala for years now. The 1/2 guild is a guild merger, which I'll cover below. All my guild endeavors have been shared with my Elfy, of course.
Counsel of Redrum (CoR). We started out and remained un-guilded for quite awhile. One day on a blimp we say another character with a really cool tabard. We asked to join the guild on the grounds of the tabard. What is really funny is they actually invited us! CoR was a decent bunch of people. They were friendly enough, and we got to do our own thing and enjoy some friendly conversation. We made some friends, which led to our next guild.
Requiem (Req). Req was a newly forming raiding guild. We just happened to be classes they needed (Elfy, aka Elfbite, an Orc Hunter) and we were interested in seeing raid content. It seemed like the next logical step. We had not hit the level cap yet, so we hurried through the last few levels and then started running dungeons to get gear to start raiding. It started out fun, it wasn't a big guild and we all got along pretty well. As we started building up our raid skills we started adding more members. This began the long road to me feeling really bad about my skills. I suddenly had people telling my my bonus healing wasn't high enough, that I needed to be faming for better gear and that I was healing wrong. No one was dying on my watch, I didn't understand what the problem was. But it seemed that my numbers weren't good enough, and I guess that was more important than if I kept my group alive. It got even more confusing. I was asked to pass on loot for other players, even though I may have rightfully won the piece and regardless of what a huge upgrade it was for me. And weren't they telling me how bad my gear was? That was also the beginning of the elitist attitude that crept in.
Evolution (Evo). Req built up a decent reputation on the server, and were progressing well. Then our guild leaders and officers decided it would be a good idea to merge with another raiding guild so we would be bigger, and progress further and faster. Bigger is not better, I believed it then and I believe it now. So we merged with a guild called Bloodpact of the Chosen (BToC) and became Evo. It all happened very fast, and I think it surprised most of the members of both guilds.
Evo lasted only a few weeks and people quit to go back to what was left of their original guilds. After that, Elfy's and my days in Req were numbered. Peoples attitudes were very elitist and it was becoming very had to like some of the people we were raiding with. Tempers flared, egos and attitudes swelled and it was starting to take the fun out the raiding experience. Instead of a fun game, it was starting to feel like a job. So, after thinking about if for quite a while, and crying about it just as much (hey, I am a girl) Elfy and I decided we would be happier if we left the guild.
We left and went back to quiet, un-guilded life. We still talked to friends in the guild, there were still some good people that all the nastiness and pressure had not gotten to yet, but it was only a matter of time before a lot of them left too. We weren't ready to answer all the "Why'd you leave" questions so we left Horde side for awhile and went back to Alliance. We leveled a Priest (me) and a Shamen (Elfy). Elfy had friends from work Alliance side, and we joined the guild he was in. That went bad, they were not very open and were quick to push those they didn't know as well out. But I'm not going to go into Alliance now, this is all Horde.
Union of Lost Souls (ULS). After the frustration Alliance side we came back Horde side and joined a friends guild, ULS. Elfy really enjoyed playing a Shamen, so we power leveld a Tauren Shamen named Scritch for him to play Horde side. Chala and Scritch became the healing team for ULS and it was great, while it lasted. While we were running with ULS, Req was falling apart. People were leaving for various reasons, some came and joined ULS (much to my dismay) and eventually Req turned into the guild Minion. Meanwhile, some of the people and reasons why we left Req in the first place were coming back into our gaming world. So, after a bunch of really snarky frustrating crap happened, and rules that were put in place to be fair seemed to not matter to everyone we left ULS.
Current
Everything we have been though has just about killed the game for us. We took some time off, and after a nice break we started playing casually again in our new guild that we formed with one of our friends from the early Req days, Pocket Full of Hate (Pocket). In the peace and quiet of our little guild of three we have found our quiet place. We are no longer obligated to run with people because they are guildies. In a way, we were free. We started running heroics (dungeons where you get gear and badges for gear) with our ULS friends and life was good.
ULS started having more personality conflicts (not unlike why we left) and we found our ULS friends recovering Alliance side. So we switched over to Alliance for awhile and ran around with them over there. Talk of forming a new raid group came up, and Elfy and I were recruited to heal. We were all for it, with a few conditions: we would not participate if certain people were in the group. The guild master was not planning on most of the people on our list being invited. There was one, but I was prepared to let the one slide. I was firm in regards to everyone else. It seemed like everything was on track, and then someone stepped in to help the guild master get the group rounded up. This opened up the door for the people on our list and caused Elfy and I a lot of frustration. To prove my point about how much I will not run with anyone on the list I actually left a heroic because one of them was invited to fill in an empty slot. If that didn't get my point across, along with me saying I would not run with these people I don't know what would.
So today, I log in and find there is an invite for the first bonding raid with the new forming group. Can you guess what happened? /sigh Yup. The person at the type of my list was invited, so I declined. They can find another healer. I have put in my time and had to run with this person through most of my raiding life in this game. I'm done with him. I have earned the right to say hell no, and I wish my "friends" would understand and respect that. All the had to do was tell me from the start they wouldn't tell him no. I had a feeling in my gut. But you know, I hoped that just this once it was wrong. I hoped that the guild master had finally heard me, and understood where I was coming from, that I had earned her respect enough that she would respect my views and be honest with me rather than try to sneak me into a raid with him or bully me into doing it. I am DONE being a doormat. And I'm really cranky.
History
My main character (the one I prefer to play), Chala a Tauren Druid, has been in 5 1/2 guilds. I have been playing this character almost from the beginning of the game coming out. I started out alliance but after frustration with the age range of players we switched to Horde, we were told it seemed to be more mature than alliance. So needless to say, I have been playing Chala for years now. The 1/2 guild is a guild merger, which I'll cover below. All my guild endeavors have been shared with my Elfy, of course.
Counsel of Redrum (CoR). We started out and remained un-guilded for quite awhile. One day on a blimp we say another character with a really cool tabard. We asked to join the guild on the grounds of the tabard. What is really funny is they actually invited us! CoR was a decent bunch of people. They were friendly enough, and we got to do our own thing and enjoy some friendly conversation. We made some friends, which led to our next guild.
Requiem (Req). Req was a newly forming raiding guild. We just happened to be classes they needed (Elfy, aka Elfbite, an Orc Hunter) and we were interested in seeing raid content. It seemed like the next logical step. We had not hit the level cap yet, so we hurried through the last few levels and then started running dungeons to get gear to start raiding. It started out fun, it wasn't a big guild and we all got along pretty well. As we started building up our raid skills we started adding more members. This began the long road to me feeling really bad about my skills. I suddenly had people telling my my bonus healing wasn't high enough, that I needed to be faming for better gear and that I was healing wrong. No one was dying on my watch, I didn't understand what the problem was. But it seemed that my numbers weren't good enough, and I guess that was more important than if I kept my group alive. It got even more confusing. I was asked to pass on loot for other players, even though I may have rightfully won the piece and regardless of what a huge upgrade it was for me. And weren't they telling me how bad my gear was? That was also the beginning of the elitist attitude that crept in.
Evolution (Evo). Req built up a decent reputation on the server, and were progressing well. Then our guild leaders and officers decided it would be a good idea to merge with another raiding guild so we would be bigger, and progress further and faster. Bigger is not better, I believed it then and I believe it now. So we merged with a guild called Bloodpact of the Chosen (BToC) and became Evo. It all happened very fast, and I think it surprised most of the members of both guilds.
Evo lasted only a few weeks and people quit to go back to what was left of their original guilds. After that, Elfy's and my days in Req were numbered. Peoples attitudes were very elitist and it was becoming very had to like some of the people we were raiding with. Tempers flared, egos and attitudes swelled and it was starting to take the fun out the raiding experience. Instead of a fun game, it was starting to feel like a job. So, after thinking about if for quite a while, and crying about it just as much (hey, I am a girl) Elfy and I decided we would be happier if we left the guild.
We left and went back to quiet, un-guilded life. We still talked to friends in the guild, there were still some good people that all the nastiness and pressure had not gotten to yet, but it was only a matter of time before a lot of them left too. We weren't ready to answer all the "Why'd you leave" questions so we left Horde side for awhile and went back to Alliance. We leveled a Priest (me) and a Shamen (Elfy). Elfy had friends from work Alliance side, and we joined the guild he was in. That went bad, they were not very open and were quick to push those they didn't know as well out. But I'm not going to go into Alliance now, this is all Horde.
Union of Lost Souls (ULS). After the frustration Alliance side we came back Horde side and joined a friends guild, ULS. Elfy really enjoyed playing a Shamen, so we power leveld a Tauren Shamen named Scritch for him to play Horde side. Chala and Scritch became the healing team for ULS and it was great, while it lasted. While we were running with ULS, Req was falling apart. People were leaving for various reasons, some came and joined ULS (much to my dismay) and eventually Req turned into the guild Minion. Meanwhile, some of the people and reasons why we left Req in the first place were coming back into our gaming world. So, after a bunch of really snarky frustrating crap happened, and rules that were put in place to be fair seemed to not matter to everyone we left ULS.
Current
Everything we have been though has just about killed the game for us. We took some time off, and after a nice break we started playing casually again in our new guild that we formed with one of our friends from the early Req days, Pocket Full of Hate (Pocket). In the peace and quiet of our little guild of three we have found our quiet place. We are no longer obligated to run with people because they are guildies. In a way, we were free. We started running heroics (dungeons where you get gear and badges for gear) with our ULS friends and life was good.
ULS started having more personality conflicts (not unlike why we left) and we found our ULS friends recovering Alliance side. So we switched over to Alliance for awhile and ran around with them over there. Talk of forming a new raid group came up, and Elfy and I were recruited to heal. We were all for it, with a few conditions: we would not participate if certain people were in the group. The guild master was not planning on most of the people on our list being invited. There was one, but I was prepared to let the one slide. I was firm in regards to everyone else. It seemed like everything was on track, and then someone stepped in to help the guild master get the group rounded up. This opened up the door for the people on our list and caused Elfy and I a lot of frustration. To prove my point about how much I will not run with anyone on the list I actually left a heroic because one of them was invited to fill in an empty slot. If that didn't get my point across, along with me saying I would not run with these people I don't know what would.
So today, I log in and find there is an invite for the first bonding raid with the new forming group. Can you guess what happened? /sigh Yup. The person at the type of my list was invited, so I declined. They can find another healer. I have put in my time and had to run with this person through most of my raiding life in this game. I'm done with him. I have earned the right to say hell no, and I wish my "friends" would understand and respect that. All the had to do was tell me from the start they wouldn't tell him no. I had a feeling in my gut. But you know, I hoped that just this once it was wrong. I hoped that the guild master had finally heard me, and understood where I was coming from, that I had earned her respect enough that she would respect my views and be honest with me rather than try to sneak me into a raid with him or bully me into doing it. I am DONE being a doormat. And I'm really cranky.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Universal Ignore?
Yes, this is a World of Warcraft rant and it might be all over the map. Just thought I'd warn you in advance.
I apparently have lost ALL ability to be patient. I'm tired of feeling like I have to be nice to complete strangers. Why can't people just do what I do? I don't whisper complete strangers, I either ask my guild mates or I go look it up on this new-fangled thing call the internet (which one has to be on to play WoW). I tend to be very short (not nasty) with people if I give them a response at all, and I usually put them on ignore (which means they can't send me private tells in the game on that toon). Tonight was just a bad night, and I now have a new person I do not know to loathe. The guild is Iron Guard, the characters are Raytom aka Darianstorm aka Renaimed. I am assuming they are all the same person, but it is possible guild mates are "helping" him/her (I'm going to go with her because the last comment-which I'll type out down below-sounded like something a young girl would say. I would know, I was one once.)
So I am playing my level 73 Alliance druid, (Mellara-but don't whisper me, I'm a jerk). I'm frustrated with things Horde side and I am Alliance side looking for some piece and quiet and to just quietly level my character. Here is the conversation (word for word):
Raytom: How do you get to be a bird in this area?
Mellara: I'm magic.
Then I put the person on ignore and got up to make toast. When I came back I had this message:
Darianstorm: Why don't you try being helpful instead of being a total jerk! I hope karma bites you hard in the ass!
Mellara: Whatever
My message did not go through because Darianstorm put me on ignore.
That irrated me. I took Raytom off ignore and whispered:
Mellara: Instead of being a jerk back why don't you try looking up flying on wowhead or thottbot? I'm not your personal thotbott and I'm tired of feeling obligaed to be helpful to everyone. Screw karma I want to play and be left alone.
I put them back on ignore. Then I get this message:
Renaimed: It's not like I was following you around asking you a bunch of questions! I didn't know you could fly in that area. YOU ARE A JERK and are the worst thing about WOW. Karma WILL bite you in the ass. You obviously are over compensating for a lack in size!!!!
Then they logged out. I took Raytom off ignore again and tried to send this message:
Mellara: Well, that's mature, considering I'm a girl. You didn't have to be a jerk and whisper me from three different toons total. You could have just left me alone.
But they had put me on ignore. I was soo tempted to log on another toon to whisper them but I didn't want to stoop to their level of douchebagery. I could have just said from the start "go look it up on thottbott" instead of saying I'm magic. But they really could have let it go. I wish I could just put everyone (except a few people) on ignore and just enjoy the game. All these other people are really starting to ruin it for me.
*sigh* Enough douchebagery for one night. I'm off to bed.
I apparently have lost ALL ability to be patient. I'm tired of feeling like I have to be nice to complete strangers. Why can't people just do what I do? I don't whisper complete strangers, I either ask my guild mates or I go look it up on this new-fangled thing call the internet (which one has to be on to play WoW). I tend to be very short (not nasty) with people if I give them a response at all, and I usually put them on ignore (which means they can't send me private tells in the game on that toon). Tonight was just a bad night, and I now have a new person I do not know to loathe. The guild is Iron Guard, the characters are Raytom aka Darianstorm aka Renaimed. I am assuming they are all the same person, but it is possible guild mates are "helping" him/her (I'm going to go with her because the last comment-which I'll type out down below-sounded like something a young girl would say. I would know, I was one once.)
So I am playing my level 73 Alliance druid, (Mellara-but don't whisper me, I'm a jerk). I'm frustrated with things Horde side and I am Alliance side looking for some piece and quiet and to just quietly level my character. Here is the conversation (word for word):
Raytom: How do you get to be a bird in this area?
Mellara: I'm magic.
Then I put the person on ignore and got up to make toast. When I came back I had this message:
Darianstorm: Why don't you try being helpful instead of being a total jerk! I hope karma bites you hard in the ass!
Mellara: Whatever
My message did not go through because Darianstorm put me on ignore.
That irrated me. I took Raytom off ignore and whispered:
Mellara: Instead of being a jerk back why don't you try looking up flying on wowhead or thottbot? I'm not your personal thotbott and I'm tired of feeling obligaed to be helpful to everyone. Screw karma I want to play and be left alone.
I put them back on ignore. Then I get this message:
Renaimed: It's not like I was following you around asking you a bunch of questions! I didn't know you could fly in that area. YOU ARE A JERK and are the worst thing about WOW. Karma WILL bite you in the ass. You obviously are over compensating for a lack in size!!!!
Then they logged out. I took Raytom off ignore again and tried to send this message:
Mellara: Well, that's mature, considering I'm a girl. You didn't have to be a jerk and whisper me from three different toons total. You could have just left me alone.
But they had put me on ignore. I was soo tempted to log on another toon to whisper them but I didn't want to stoop to their level of douchebagery. I could have just said from the start "go look it up on thottbott" instead of saying I'm magic. But they really could have let it go. I wish I could just put everyone (except a few people) on ignore and just enjoy the game. All these other people are really starting to ruin it for me.
*sigh* Enough douchebagery for one night. I'm off to bed.
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