I killed a paladin! Eee! (WoW)

[thistlechaser]

Really, really bored on WoW, I got to thinking. I hate fighting DKs more than anything, and I have one already rolled... what would it be like to play on that end of things? So I sent him into AV and OMG I loved it! All the annoying crap from fighting them is a whole lot more fun on the other end! Even though I basically facerolled (I have zero idea what my abilities are or what I should be using -- need to work more on that!), I rocked!

Never in my PvPing life have I killed a paladin. Even when they're multiple levels below me, they're not worth the effort. Tonight, know-nothing DK me killed a paladin two levels above me! Amazing! And I killed a DK two levels above me, too! (I'm really not sure how I did that second one.)

And eee, he's so much fun to RP, too! He's changed so much in the year I haven't played him! And it's almost scary how he took off on his own, a total and complete person right from the first pose. I fell in love! I love that when that happens in RP! His voice just hit me like a ton of bricks! :D

I SOOOOO don't want to go to work tomorrow. Why didn't I try him out a week or two ago when I was sitting bored on the game? I could have been leveling him and RPing him all this time!

*wiggles!*

Comments

[gconnor.livejournal.com]

I haven't played my DK in a while, when I was 68-69 I spent a lot of time playing arena (mostly AV) and it was quite, quite fun. Once I hit 70 I decided to lay off the PVP for a while, so I have no idea if it's still just as fun in the low 70's. But yeah, I remember thinking DKs were great for PVP.

This last week I've been leveling my warlock. Got tired of Plaguelands and all that gathering of drops, so I cleared all my quests and hied myself to Hellfire Peninsula. Over three or four days I've completed all the quests except the (Dungeon) and two [70] quests, got the discovery and the questing achievements for the area, and moved on to Zangarmarsh.

In the process of leveling, I did what I always do, which was to walk up to random folks and say "Hey, do you want any help here?" This time it's worked really well, though I'm a little skewed in my idea of what's "working well"... I really like helping other people, and if I'm helping someone else, I really don't care whether I'm getting my own quests done.

Last night I helped some Horde folks kill a boss, which was fun. (I'm Alliance--my Warlock is a gnome female with red pigtails). I was in the area and I saw they were killing a boss, and not doing too well, so I jumped in and started beating on him too, and we all died. When they came back, I just lined up behind them and did /salute then /ready. They said something to me in Orcish which I didn't understand, but I just nodded. So we all killed the boss together and they /thanked me profusively. It was very cool.

Tonight I asked on the General channel if anyone wanted to help me kill a boss (same one, Arriz or something, Pools of Aggonar) and got a couple people responding. I thought it was cool that they came to help me, so I ended up grouping with one of them for the rest of the night, something like 4 hours. I was pretty much just helping this one rogue with a bunch of quests that I had already done... the idea was that we would eventually get back around to the same boss again and I would help him, but mostly I was just happy to have someone to group with. Turns out the guy is 12 and easily distracted... whenever he saw a Horde PVP player he would go try to kill them. I had to tell him a couple times "Hey, uh, I'm not interested in PVP so have fun with that, and let me know if you want help with any quests." To which he would say "Oh no, I'm questing, really..." and we'd go quest some more.

I think there was only one kind of sour note to the interaction, which was when I didn't get the drop that led to the next quest, he got his and went ahead with the next part, and was soon gone. This left me with one other person trying to do what I was doing but we kept dying. I kinda pointedly said "Hmm, I didn't get the drop, and I was kind of hoping you would wait and help me with this," and it took him a while to get back to where I was, but he came back and helped and I thanked him for doing so.

At some point I excused myself politely by saying "Well it looks like your next few quests are easy ones so I'm going to head on over to Zangarmarsh, but if you want some help with anything give a shout and I'll come back and help, and definitely let me know when you get to that Overlord thing." He had about 38 quests left in the zone but I think he eventually dropped them and came over to Zangarmarsh too.

I guess 12-year-olds get distracted easily. I didn't actually say "Hey if you're in a race to get to 80 with your friend, why are you chasing the Horde around, and telling people you want to create a 1-priest and such?" But I didn't. I just mildly corrected him the one time he failed to help me and I think overall I made a friend. Anyway, I'm just happy to be grouped and socializing and helping people.

I have to say, I really wish I were on an RP server though... I am on the straight PvE server where my sweety and some other friends are, but there is absolutely zero RP, and I would really like some RP. I'm amazed that people can play the game without RP, actually, but that seems to be the norm.

[gconnor.livejournal.com]

(Seriously, if I ever have a guild of my own it will probably be called "Ask me for help". I love the idea of a guild that just goes around helping people at all levels, at least with some of their time, kinda like community service hours.)

[voidmagus.livejournal.com]

In FFXI, that sort of thing was more common. I think one of the biggest on Midgard was WeSH (We Say Hurray), that grew into a considerable movement based on helping others.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, helping random people is such a nice thing! I don't do it often, mostly because I just PvP and 'helping' in that is basically what I'd be doing anyway. When guild folks need help doing some PvE thing, I'll generally jump in on that, but that's not got the specialness of helping people you don't know.

And you should try a RP server sometime! I've said many times that I would have long since quit WoW without the RP aspect of it...

[citizenbleys.livejournal.com]

I've never really had it happen to me in an RP--perhaps due to the limited amount and format I do--but the best thing EVER to happen to a writer is when the characters seem to start making their own decisions instead of going along with what I want as a writer.

I suppose it's better as a writer, because you don't get to make a second draft as an RP'er. Whenever my characters take off on their own, I wind up having to do a metric shitton of rewriting, but the story ends up much, much better as a result.

I don't publish any of my own shit, and even I only reread the stories where the characters take on a life of their own.

I suppose you can always retcon in an RP, but that doesn't really work as well as being able to go back into the past and change shit without anyone else ever knowing the original form the story had taken.

[naikitty.livejournal.com]

I suppose you can always retcon in an RP

But see, that's the best part about RP. The character -will- grow and change, but their past will always be there, and sometimes months or years down the road, something they did in the past that's nothing like what they've become will crop up and make for all -sorts- of fun little plot twists. :D

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

What she said! That's the fun of it. :D And not getting a second draft while RPing is actually not a bad thing -- it makes you write better, faster. You need to really think ahead of time (in no time!) what the best, most effective wording would be. I love doing that, playing with the pacing of sentences on the fly.

[pomr.livejournal.com]

I hate DKs. =)
I hate Paladins too. =)

PVP wise anyway, they're so obnoxious. Druid are obnoxious too - I mean - my former GM was one of the best geared DKs on SilverHand, and he was like 'GODDAMMIT -- stupid resto druids, I can't kill them!', this guy I've seen solo the spell caster boss in Oculus just before the end boss from 20% down to death while the rest of us were dead. =) He's REALLY good at DK.

I have a 58 DK but I doubt I'll ever play her, and I have zero desire to play a Paladin, in fact I've never even made one. Which is odd considering how much I love them in D&D.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I hate DKs. =)
I hate Paladins too. =)

*laughs* That had been my opinion, too! Now I'm all like "Mmm, a paladin! Crunchy! *CHOMP!*" :D

Druid are obnoxious too - I mean - my former GM was one of the best geared DKs on SilverHand, and he was like 'GODDAMMIT -- stupid resto druids, I can't kill them!',

*laughs!* :D I have a 30 druid, but at the moment he's really boring, since he's just a sucky rogue. Once he got higher, I bet he'd be somewhat more interesting!