You know, too often bg chat is full of morons spewing filth around, accusing everyone but themselves to be clueless noobs and that this bg will be lost due to that.
Well, once in a while you just happen to see a conversation that, due to some hilarious timing of events, just makes you laugh. I happened upon such a conversation today as I was doing some last honor grinds for my Runed Ornate Ruby, and I even had the presence of mind to screenshot it.
Enjoy!
The hilariousness of someone complaining that people were not coming down to join him at Frostwolf Keep while at the same time failing to defend a tower at said Keep was certainly not lost on me or many others in this bg ;P
(And no, he was not the only one down there by far, so he didn't lose the tower due to overwhelming Horde forces.)
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Gem from bgchat
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Alliance suck at pvp!
Was doing some Arathi Basin runs, me and a few friends were playing for fun and for honor and for marks.
As we enter the bg and wait around Trollbane’s Hall for it to start, this druid yells out “If we can’t win, make sure we lose quickly!” Eh, say again?
Never mind, the bg begins and we race out to cap the nodes. We get two, the hordes get three and then four.
The yelling druid starts spamming bgchat – ok, let them win, lose quickly so we get our mark.
Eh, excuse me? Wouldn’t it be more useful to retake some nodes and win?
I suggest that if he wants to lose, why not get a group of likeminded people (you know there are more of this kind, we have all encountered them in the bg’s, the let-them-win-crowd) and go fight their bg’s sitting down unarmed. They would get their one mark in just a few minutes then.
This suggestion is not received favourably by Mr I-Want-To-Lose.
Me and my friends assault the farm, fight there for a few minutes, we die and run back but the hordes die too and we manage to claim the farm as ours.
I am not a good pvp’er, I usually refer to myself as bait, cannon fodder, an otherwise useless distraction or something similar that indicates that my prime contribution to bg’ing is keeping the enemy occupied and not killing anyone else. That I am not good at it does not mean I won’t try to kill the enemy (and I do kill them! A lot of them!) and also not that I don’t find it fun in some way – I would never grind bg marks if I was bored to death by it, and with some friends it is actually mostly fun. (In small doses, mind you, not day-long bg grinds!)
Anyway, our claim provokes new outbursts from the same Mr I-am-only-here-for-marks – Wtf are you doing? Don’t retake the nodes!! It will only take longer to lose!!
We move on to the lumber mill and we manage to take that node as well. We now have three nodes and a good chance at winning if we keep them, but then the horde claims the farm back and the stables after that.
Actually, we are having quite fun pissing of the Loser Druid and keep advancing, retaking node after node only to lose it as we leave it undefended behind us.
Meanwhile, the I-Can’t-Be-Arsed-To-Actually-Fight Druid is dancing around in the fields, far away from any skirmishes and very far away from being any kind of useful contribution to the bg, whining in bgchat about how alliance always suck at pvp. I guess he is talking about himself.
(A quick peek at this player in the Armory later shows him dressed in full pvp honor epics, presumably gotten from losing a helluva lot of bg’s.)
And of course we lose the game. And we get our 1 Arathi Basin mark of Honor
I just don’t understand these people – how can you roll an Alliance char and go bg’ing with him/her, expecting to win without actually having to make an effort and then spend half the time whining that Alliance suck in bg’s? Well of course they do – News Flash! – it’s because there are people like you in it!
Go roll a Horde char then- cause everyone knows that all Horde always use voice chat comms and are really coordinated and prepared and, oh I almost forgot, they do not suck at pvp! It’s some magic ability that comes from playing Horde – master pvp’er!
Well, lately I have actually won most of my bg games, both on Vashj and Aerie Peak, so I guess the Alliance does not always suck. And maybe, just maybe, the people who think that Alliance do suck and keep screaming this in bgchat, and keep telling everyone to lose quickly, maybe they are the ones that suck, and not the rest of us that actually keep fighting. Ever stopped to think about that, have you? Didn’t think so.
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Me me f**ing n00b!
So as I was playing my druid Joaquime today, and was on a flow in AV in the special AV weekend, on my sixth or so consecutive win, I was rushing down to Frostwolf Keep with some others to get and defend the grave yard and towers while the most of the crew were beating down on Galv. I came to a halt at the Frostwolf Graveyard where some horde was chasing down a gnome warrior. The warrior seemed to be on top of things and I threw him some heals to keep him alive long enough to get the job done.
Now this is me, in my catsuit, in my feral spec, healing because I can and because it seemed better to heal the warrior than go cat and dps at the time, when I suddenly get a whisper that just stops me in my tracks.
This is not something I usually encounter while bg'ing. For some reason this player has taken his time to target me, whisper me, taking care to spell noob the correct way, showing how good he is at communicating with people, and to include a profanity.
But he also forgets to include what he wants (a heal) and then he takes his time to whisper me again, adding this wish to be healed to his earlier statement.
For some reason he thinks its more important that I heal him than the warrior the two hordes are beating on.
I am at a loss of what to do, I see no other than the warrior in sight, and even if I could have seen the whisperer, his chances of getting a heal from me now is slim, to say the least. Non-existant, would be more truthful, even. Not-gonna-happen, is another way of putting it.
Anyways, the horde have reinforcements coming, the gnome warrior die, I die, and I have no idea if the unseen whisperer is dead too, and frankly I couldn't care less.
However, as I am at our grave yard, waiting to be ressed, I get another whisper from the sweet talker.
So I assume that he did die too.
He may have whispered me with more but I by this time I had welcomed him to my ignore list and was blissfully uninterrupted by hostile whispers out of the blue for the duration of that AV. We lost, by the way.
Now losses in AV do happen, but I can't help to wonder if maybe they are more frequent with players like this in them, players who actually spend time and efforts whining about things, rather than getting them done.
While in the AV, I checked him out in the bg tab, and he was listed as a shaman. So after the AV I was actually curious enough to check out this guy, and he was listed in the Armory in four different guilds (none of which had any other members than himself) and he was shown to be an elemental/resto specced shaman.
Now, last time I checked, a shaman can heal themselves pretty well, and this guy had about 750 +healing bonus. Me, in my cat gear, I have +0 healing bonus. It would have been better if he had whispered himself to get a heal. But maybe he was out of mana, in which case healing him up would be pretty useless anyways since it would mean I would have to stop healing the warrior.
This guy had netted about 3500 honorable kills in his days of playing. Me, on my druid, I have about 2300. I have not played very much BG's with her, I joined the general honor craze before TBC was released and have played a little since the Arena S1 gear became available for honor points, but that's about it. So, I am no BG expert, but I usually help get the job done without being a sad little moron like this new addition to my ignore list.
And think about the time and effort this guy spends on whispering people calling them things. Well, maybe he had never whispered anyone else and this was the first time, but somehow I get a feeling this was not the first time he did something like this.
What if he could make something useful out of that time instead? As most of us know, if you type something while fighting at the same time, both things get a little unfocused...
Ah, well, this is not really anything I wish to dwell further on. Morons and jackasses are sadly all too frequent in the WoW-universe, but at least this place has an Ignore-list.
