WoW Going EQ in terms of loot

[Draegan]

Originally Posted by Twobit Whore

I don't see how you could PvP without the stealth sound warning you of the impending stunlock.

I also havn't seriously PVPed in a while, not since pre-TBC.

[Deathwing]

Originally Posted by Hatorade

Awesome post...now if I was only smart enough to understand all of it.

He's basically saying instead of waiting for the whole 500 posts-per-page thread to download before displaying anything, here's the first few so you can read and get a good idea what the thread is about while the rest of them finish downloading.

Oooh, vent ranting! Let's see, people that play music over vent like we give a shit wtf they listen to. Mouth-breathers, literally. People with broken mics but are too cheap to get a new one from radio shack, so we have to listen to a helicopter in the background whenever the raid leader speaks.

[Draegan]

I'm generally not on vent when I play the game unless I have a few friends on it at the same time. I'm on guild vent during raids, then other channels when I'm hanging out with friends.

Sure it's annoying when you have 20-40 people on at once, however when I refer to vent and using it a lot, it's just about chatting with friends while you're farming.

[Zehn - Vhex]

Originally Posted by Deathwing

Mouth-breathers, literally.

"okay guys..psssahashashassasasasssh....we got this...shseewweeeeewwwwooooh....incoming!...psssss hhhhshssshshhshshshs"

[Izuldan]

Originally Posted by Felonius

I dont get all the vent hate, I think its one of the best things that makes wow a social game. The people from my guild, who I will prolly never meet in real life, are people I would go and get a beer with at the local watering hole. I guess on second thought I understand if you're anti social, but my casual raid guild (starting bt/hyjal just 2 weeks prior to 2.4) I feel like we're all friends and can get along, we have our cliques, and we shoot the shit all day up till raid time. At that point everyone shuts the fuck up like the adults we are (we dont recruit anyone under 20) and listen to the GM give commands over vent. Seems to work for us

See....I think that's probably a product of the younger generation. Lemme guess....you're in your early 20s? Probably have a MySpace or Facebook page? Regularly IM people, on the computer, over your phone?

I do none of that. I'm 40. For me, WoW isn't a social experiment or game, it's something I log in to to play and unwind. Faceless, anonymous people over the Internet don't interest me like they do the younger generation.

I'm not deriding the social services available over the internet, just letting you know it has nothing to do with being anti-social. I just think it's odd getting into all your personal shit or drama with random, people you really don't know except at the other end of a computer screen.

You blab on about how people you would probably never meet you would like to have a beer at in your local bar. I totally get that......with my RL friends that I actually do meet in real life and have an actual beer with. I don't need my WoW guildies to meet those ends, I have them already. Just like I don't need random hot-monkey-cybors from some supposedly internet hottie when I have that already in RL with my woman.

So again, while I agree with you that Vent can be a good tool for organizing raids and such (and I don't ever bother using Vent outside of WoW), I hope you can see why more than a few of us don't bother using it for "social" reasons. It's the same reason I don't talk to strangers about random personal shit, and just because we spend a few hours a day playing the same game doesn't suddenly mean you are my friend. If I want to shoot the shit about what happened during my day, I'll pick up my phone and talk to one of my true life friends, maybe figure when we're gonna hang out next......instead of sharing my shit with guildies in between trash pulls.

[Antoine]

Why not have real life friends and in-game friends?

[Draegan]

I hardly ever discuss real life issues with people over vent. We basically chat about the same things we do here in this forum.

[Lost Ranger]

Originally Posted by Draegan

We basically chat about the same things we do here in this forum.

I hope you mean the MMO section in general. I can only imagine what discussing SS section shit would be like!

[Rezz]

Originally Posted by Lost Ranger

I hope you mean the MMO section in general. I can only imagine what discussing SS section shit would be like!

Entertaining as hell, imo.

[Suineg]

Nothing annoys me more then when you have someone ask you to logon to their vent to do something simple as chat or group. Are you serious? You can't type things out in a 5 man?

[Zerai]

Originally Posted by Suineg

Nothing annoys me more then when you have someone ask you to logon to their vent to do something simple as chat or group. Are you serious? You can't type things out in a 5 man?

Depends. If everyone else is in vent, it's annoying to have to type for one person. I group with a couple people who just don't like vent. If they don't join, I basically ignore them because..I'm lazy and as a warrior, I'm pushing too many damn buttons to try to type as well.

Some days I don't feel like joining vent and I'm ok with not talking to anyone. It really depends on guild as well. I'm in a small guild of just close friends so if even like 4 people are in vent, that's a significant portion of the guild on a day to day basis so guild chat will be completely silent.

[Dalien]

Originally Posted by yknits

Everyone here should have wiped in kara at least a few times. Especially before the changes on nightbane. I'd rather play with myself than play wow atm. Although I do miss stomping people in PVP. I refuse to play any game that requires me promise attendance for more than 3 days a week. And to play wow at the level that is fun for me, that isn't to happen. That and I am banned atm for exploiting pathing while farming primals.

Go stomp people in PvP then. Stop fucking preaching about how easy and scripted raid encounters are when a simple check of your armory shows you clearly haven't done them.

[LadyVex]

Originally Posted by Zehn - Vhex

"okay guys..psssahashashassasasasssh....we got this...shseewweeeeewwwwooooh....incoming!...psssss hhhhshssshshhshshshs"

What about the people who have their bind to talk hotkey as something else in game, so at random moments they press it, or continue to press it so you can hear all of their hotkey pressing?

Its sorta funny too how you can tell which class the person plays by how fast the keytaps go: Rapid = tank, pause + rapid intervals = healer, timed taps = dps!

[Draegan]

I had a guy in my old guild that had his rogue macro like one button and all you heard when he talked was,
"MASH MASH MASH MASH MASH MASH MASH"

[Zehn - Vhex]

The mouse-clickers are the best. "click-click-click-click-click" like 30 times in rapid succession.

It's 2008 guys, time to get quiet keys.