It's been one of those weeks.
No, not in a bad way, but in a "who did you think I was, anyway?" sort of way.
Like the Warrior who berated me in Arathi Basin for not pursuing a retreating Horde player and instead returning to the flag. "Shoulda killed him," he said. "Don't be such a pussy."
"My job is to protect the flag, not get HKs," I replied.
"She's right, you shithead," a Druid added.* "You win by getting and protecting the flags."
The Warrior just wouldn't give up. "But what Rogue turns away from an easy kill? She's a wuss."
"I want to win," I replied. "If it means fewer HKs, I'll do it."
"Chicken shit."
Or, like the group finder in The Old Republic, which had my Jedi Shadow automatically checked as Tank and Damage, and I only found out about it after I'd ported into Cademimu. "Gang, I'm going to drop," I said. "I thought I was queued as Damage, not as Tank."
"You sure?" the Commando marked as healer asked. "I can keep you going."
"Not here. I'm at the low end for this Flashpoint, and I'm not specced for tanking."
I'm sure the Commando could have given it a good try, but come on. I've been in Cademimu as a low end DPS before, and even then I had trouble staying upright against bosses.
Or the people in Eye of the Storm who, when they asked what to do in this battleground, I replied "You get and hold towers, then worry about the mid. Three towers will beat holding and getting the flag most of the time."
So what happened? 9-10 of our team went to the mid, 3 went to a far side tower, and there was one person on each of our regular towers. While our side fought over the mid, the Horde swept in and took three towers. As players died and respawned, we were slowly pushed back and away from the remaining tower.
So much for asking my opinion.
Or yesterday, when I was back on Taris with my Jedi Shadow, I got mistaken for a tank. I was taking a break from the Alderaan push toward the end of Chapter 1, and I figured it'd be nice to smash a few rakghouls and clean out some old quests in my queue since those raks couldn't really hurt me.
So, when the call went out for a group to take on the World Boss, I waited until I was sure there was going to be a group pulled together and I whispered if they needed DPS. I got an immediate invite, and I drove on over to the spot where Subject Alpha awaited us. As I arrived, discussion centered on who would tank the giant rakghoul.
"I can do it," a Shadow replied.
"Tal," the Ops Leader asked of me, "can you be off tank?"
I was about to say no, but then I remembered I was an L30 in the land of L18-20. "I'm DPS spec, but I can tank in a pinch since I've got more health than everyone else."
"O_o"
To be fair, there was an L47 Sage in the group, but I only discovered that afterward.** Everybody else was L20-L23 and had half of my health. I felt reasonably confident that if it came to me tanking, my lack of tank expertise would be offset by the Shadow's taunting ability and my extra health. Sure, I didn't have any of the Shadow's tank spec goodies, but I figured I could hold my own.
Probably.
Maybe.
Once everyone arrived at the site, about five minutes later, the tank pulled and we began. The main tank held aggro well enough that I hardly took any damage, and whenever the Ops Leader asked the World Boss to be turned around I taunted Subject Alpha to my side. My lack of aggro holding extras meant that the main tank got the World Boss back, but given the amount of healing heading our way we were in good shape. There was some nut who kept taking huge amounts of damage, but the healers in the group kept him upright.
After about 5-10 minutes, Subject Alpha bit the dust, and I didn't even have to worry too much about tanking dynamics.
Now why couldn't the Eye of the Storm run have ended so well?
*My Rogue is a female Night Elf. I've decided that it's easier to simply let people believe what they want to believe rather than correct them all the time.
**That probably explained why she was assigned to heal the main tank exclusively.
EtA: Cleaned up a few grammatical errors.
No, not in a bad way, but in a "who did you think I was, anyway?" sort of way.
Like the Warrior who berated me in Arathi Basin for not pursuing a retreating Horde player and instead returning to the flag. "Shoulda killed him," he said. "Don't be such a pussy."
"My job is to protect the flag, not get HKs," I replied.
"She's right, you shithead," a Druid added.* "You win by getting and protecting the flags."
The Warrior just wouldn't give up. "But what Rogue turns away from an easy kill? She's a wuss."
"I want to win," I replied. "If it means fewer HKs, I'll do it."
"Chicken shit."
***
Or, like the group finder in The Old Republic, which had my Jedi Shadow automatically checked as Tank and Damage, and I only found out about it after I'd ported into Cademimu. "Gang, I'm going to drop," I said. "I thought I was queued as Damage, not as Tank."
"You sure?" the Commando marked as healer asked. "I can keep you going."
"Not here. I'm at the low end for this Flashpoint, and I'm not specced for tanking."
I'm sure the Commando could have given it a good try, but come on. I've been in Cademimu as a low end DPS before, and even then I had trouble staying upright against bosses.
***
Or the people in Eye of the Storm who, when they asked what to do in this battleground, I replied "You get and hold towers, then worry about the mid. Three towers will beat holding and getting the flag most of the time."
So what happened? 9-10 of our team went to the mid, 3 went to a far side tower, and there was one person on each of our regular towers. While our side fought over the mid, the Horde swept in and took three towers. As players died and respawned, we were slowly pushed back and away from the remaining tower.
So much for asking my opinion.
***
Or yesterday, when I was back on Taris with my Jedi Shadow, I got mistaken for a tank. I was taking a break from the Alderaan push toward the end of Chapter 1, and I figured it'd be nice to smash a few rakghouls and clean out some old quests in my queue since those raks couldn't really hurt me.
So, when the call went out for a group to take on the World Boss, I waited until I was sure there was going to be a group pulled together and I whispered if they needed DPS. I got an immediate invite, and I drove on over to the spot where Subject Alpha awaited us. As I arrived, discussion centered on who would tank the giant rakghoul.
"I can do it," a Shadow replied.
"Tal," the Ops Leader asked of me, "can you be off tank?"
I was about to say no, but then I remembered I was an L30 in the land of L18-20. "I'm DPS spec, but I can tank in a pinch since I've got more health than everyone else."
"O_o"
To be fair, there was an L47 Sage in the group, but I only discovered that afterward.** Everybody else was L20-L23 and had half of my health. I felt reasonably confident that if it came to me tanking, my lack of tank expertise would be offset by the Shadow's taunting ability and my extra health. Sure, I didn't have any of the Shadow's tank spec goodies, but I figured I could hold my own.
Probably.
Maybe.
Once everyone arrived at the site, about five minutes later, the tank pulled and we began. The main tank held aggro well enough that I hardly took any damage, and whenever the Ops Leader asked the World Boss to be turned around I taunted Subject Alpha to my side. My lack of aggro holding extras meant that the main tank got the World Boss back, but given the amount of healing heading our way we were in good shape. There was some nut who kept taking huge amounts of damage, but the healers in the group kept him upright.
After about 5-10 minutes, Subject Alpha bit the dust, and I didn't even have to worry too much about tanking dynamics.
Now why couldn't the Eye of the Storm run have ended so well?
*My Rogue is a female Night Elf. I've decided that it's easier to simply let people believe what they want to believe rather than correct them all the time.
**That probably explained why she was assigned to heal the main tank exclusively.
EtA: Cleaned up a few grammatical errors.
Once again I see a pattern where WoW = rude and SWToR = Mature.
ReplyDeleteI don't think this is strictly an apples to apples comparison. I've discovered that PvP tends to bring out more asshats than what you find while out questing. Instances/Dungeons/Flashpoints are somewhere in between.
DeleteNow, having said that, I do think that there are more asshats in WoW these days than most other MMOs. I keep hearing about Aion's cutthroat PvP, but since I didn't stick long enough with Aion, I wouldn't know about that. * Of course, WoW has more of everything than most other MMOs given the size of the playerbase (with the notable exception of leveling toons out in the field).
*Aion does have many more gold spammers these days than WoW, which surprised me.