TechnoMonk wrote:
I do that myself, got a whole chain of professions. Personally though it was the pvp that got me really into wow and forced me to start socialising. I got ganked by some hunter ( guy named redstone, this was x years ago and i still remember), and it annoyed me so much that I got 0 help from anyone that I started saying that I was always going to come back to the low level areas to help with high level gankers. 20 levels later and I'd be back every day ( it lasted literally like about 18 months of me doing the same every day, i was totally focused on it) I'd ask in local defence if anyone needed any help. People would answer, people that were just as annoyed by being ganked and I would help them and sometimes I'd end up becoming friends with them. It wasn't so much that I was looking to make friends but purely out of necessity ( having to group up at level 40 to kill say level 60s) I'd group with people multiple times and slowly I've got more and more used to it.
Pvp realms are great for providing that necessity to group. Without pvp I can easily have seen myself getting bored of wow a long time ago, you add people and you've suddenly got a random factor that just keeps you coming back for more. I think the whole things built my confidence up with people and social situations.
I'm still not great with social through, I still refuse to talk on comms and because of that I've never got too into arena, I rarely do more than the absolute minimum gamesn needed and the max rating ive been up to is about 1800 ( although my mmr is frequently higher and I've beaten 2200 rating teams). I did some raiding in wrath( purely for pvp, for trinkets and weapons) but it was only ever pug raiding and I've never really got into the guild thing the way other people do. Still, there are plenty of things for me to do as someone that does prefer to remain as solo as possible and tbh i think that in some ways it's made me a better player for trying to do everything alone before I'll group with people (example screenie, got tons more with people saying equally nice things, people never send messages insulting me in game as i hear is common, I've only ever had compliments for the entire time ive played
http://imageshack.us/f/687/wowscrnshot102610015524.jpg/).
cool i was on an rp normal server, no pvp unless you flagged yourself, pvp was hell for me when i was forced into it on the battlegrounds. because not only couldn't i not fight well but i've got this thing against killing players, i'm fine if the other character is an ai
but i wasn't going to join a pvp server hell no... i got enough of getting ganked, raped, farmed, taunted, annoyed, missfired [where an archer's stay arrow hits you], killstealed, made fun of, and what not on conquer online. by the end of the 2 years i played it i wanted to violently murder everyone on that server, i'm slowly coming to grips with my rage toward that game but it's still hard. because when i see pvp that is what i remember.
i liked it better when i could choose if i wanted to be ganked, raped, farmed, taunted, annoyed, killstealed, made fun of, and what not. and i had a hard enough time just completing the quests most of the time, the AIs killed me enough as it was. i had a personal grudge against the abominations after a while.
i never got compliments of course i never talked to even be remembered, but i wasn't playing the game to be social or make friends it was by my real friend's request, and i try not to think of it but i blame her for getting me to play the game. because that game sucked the life out of me, i wasn't doing anything but play wow, and at one point i thought i was going to be a hostage to it, and i thank my bro and fallout 3 for getting me my life back, but even now i still have withdraws.
and i told my mom to have my dad lock my cds in the gun safe.
06 Jun 2011, 3:36 pm
