What I Would Like to See From the Roleplaying Community

A lot of roleplayers have this automatic sense of defeat about them. Nothing is within their power to fix, or if it is, there’s no point in doing it. Why should they report people that break the rules? It could cause trouble, create fights, fracture the community!

You know what? So does bitching without action. So does being a dick to people without real cause. So does being a permanent Negative Ned or Nancy. So does the constant complaint that Roleplay is dead, woe is us, let’s all cry for the good ol’ days.

My fellow Roleplayers, grow some fucking spines. Instead of bitching about the state of RP, do something. Be in-character wherever you go. Roleplay with everybody you meet, whether it’s in instances, battlegrounds, at the auction house, while negotiating for various trade goods – even the most mundane thing, do it in-character. Start running events! Start posting roleplay threads to your realm’s or community’s forums! Start dragging your guild or friends into the cities and roleplaying in public!

Don’t just sit there and bitch about how you think Roleplay is dead, how there’s no roleplay out in the world of Warcraft and blah blah blah, wah wah wah, soooooob. For fuck’s sake, pull your heads out of your asses and take action.

Report griefers. Report the textspeak kids that are yelling about how gay some dude named Tacobull is. Inform people that they are on a roleplay realm and that there is a specific ruleset that applies. They rolled on a roleplaying realm, it’s our sandbox, they have to play by Blizzard’s rules, too.

What does this mean for non-roleplayers?

It means that, really, not much will change. Your /guild, custom and /whisper channels are still yours to do whatever you like with, and you can get away with being OOC in /say and /yell if you’re sneaky about it. “lol im guna get so wasted 2nite!!! xDDD” becomes “Haha, I’m so getting wasted tonight”. Of course, the character could also be based upon you.

If you’re going to roll on a roleplay realm, be prepared to follow Blizzard’s roleplaying guidelines. That’s it. No ifs, ands or buts – it’s official as per Blizzard.

Overall, Roleplaying Community, I’d like to see you stand up for yourself. I’d like to see you do less complaining and more acting. This is going to be fucking hilarious coming out of me, but I’d like to see less petty bullshit and more working together.

If Matojo can set up the occasional roleplaying event and show up to a weekly tavern every so often that’s held by a guild that dislikes her (and that she doesn’t particularly like, either), other roleplayers (that don’t hold the “OMG RP IZ DED” opinion) can put in a little effort, too.

GearScore and the GearScore Add-on: My Final Thoughts

Over and over again the rants for and against GearScore are tossed about.

Let me be clear: I think it’s fucking stupid.

The GS Add-on studies the iLevel of the equipment a potential raider is wearing. It does not inspect their stat weights, their talents or play style. It can tell you that their gear is alright for the content, but so can a quick glance of the toon’s character sheet. So can calling them up on wow-heroes or a similar site.

If you are a raid leader that absolutely needs GS to figure out whether his or her raiders are capable of hitting a certain level of content, you fail.

If the very idea of GS being abolished makes you shit yourself, you suck. It is completely unnecessary. A single number cannot possibly replace actual brain power.

That’s it, game over. Go home.

Why I’m Opting In to RealID

First thing’s first: This is going to be rambly. I forgot my anti depressants at my parents’ house and am rather light-headed and nonsensical already – everybody’s affected differently. If I piss someone off, so be it.

So, there’s a lot of concern about privacy regarding RealID. I think y’all ought to read this post before continuing the incoherent rage and whining, first off, and secondly, I need y’all to think about social media.

If you’re signed on to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or any number of other social networking sites, your privacy is already out the window. Even if you’re careful about what you post. If you order pizza, your information is already out there. If you rent movies from your local grocery store, there’s another batch of people with your information. If you run your own website, finding out about you is as simple as doing a WHOIS of your domain (if you didn’t put your domain under a pseudonym or something).

Privacy on the internet is a myth. If you put information out there, you cannot take it back. No matter how paranoid you are, someone, some company, somewhere, has something on you.

Scary, huh?

If someone wants to find something out about you and they know what tools they need to do so, they can. If you race-changed and name-changed and then server-transferred a character to get away from someone, they can figure out where you went (there are WoW detective sites that actually track transfers and race changes). Pre-RealID WoW is no more private than post-RealID WoW.

I will be opting in to RealID because a) Most people already know my real name by now (Parasite Eve, sets people on fire, sings, there you go), b) I’m not afraid to tell people “Not right now, I’m busy”, c) I’m not afraid to simply not accept friend requests from people I don’t like.

If people take my behaviour personally, that’s their problem, not mine. I already have someone taking my snarkiness as a personal affront whenever it’s her hubby (who, by the by, can defend himself he’s an adult for fuck’s sake) that’s snarked after he acts like a fuckwad (hey, he’s a dick to other people sometimes, too, I figure he’s earned it). The best part is that afterward he doesn’t take it personally. Why should he? Why should anybody?

If I don’t want to spend time with you, I’ll tell you. If I want to be left alone, I’ll tell you. If I don’t want you knowing where my characters are at all times, you’ll know. Do I give a fuck if you know my e-mail address? No. I use the same e-mail address for everything. I don’t have the attention span to have a different fucking e-mail address for each little thing that I do.

And chances are, if I let you refer to me by my first name, I’ll happily let you stalk add me (that means you, people with my cell phone number).

You have more power with this thing than you think you do, but if your freak-out is lack of privacy, darlings? You’re on the internet. You’re already without privacy.

I hope Blizzard’s enjoying my chat records~

The Druid, the RNG and the Sudden But Inevitable Betrayal

My Druid, Varkev, hit 80 on… Wednesday night, I think. Two respecs of his Resto tree and 3k gold down the tubes later, his resto gear was better than his feral gear and I decided to attempt healing a regular. That went well (despite my lack of trinket and several greens), then I found Je’Tze’s Bell on the Auction House for 750g, quickly nabbed the rest of the money I needed for that, aaand… Varkev had his trinket slots filled. I had enough emblems from my daily regulars during the leveling phase that I was able to afford an Idol of Flaring Growth, then a handful of heroics later, The Egg of Mortal Essence to replace that pesky green trinket.

I was shoved into Heroic ToC, flailing and cursing, only to find that I managed it pretty well and walked away with several delicious drops. Oh, and a feral helmet.

Though, I’m thinking I’ll drop the feral off-spec and go Resto/Boomkin.

Needless to say, I was pretty damned proud of my little druid once all was said and done. I logged off feeling damned good about the bugger.

Then I signed into my e-mail this morning to see a ‘password reset’ notice from Blizzard and I knew exactly what was going on.

To be honest, I figured I’d be hacked eventually. I didn’t get an authenticator ’cause I a) just didn’t care and b) didn’t’ want to spend the money. I’d also lose my brain if it wasn’t in my skull, so the chances of it going missing are pretty high. However, I do know what got me – the flash vulnerability from last week. If I had known about it last week, however, I would have updated ASAP.

So, totally my own fault.

The great part is that the hackers wouldn’t have been able to get much worth out of my accounts because, um, I didn’t really have much left over from enchanting and gemming Varkev’s new gear, ’cause I was lazy and hadn’t been working very hard to make more money. They stripped my 80s, but none of my alts that were below 80 and not my hunter.

Derp Derp.

Aw well, I think that’s Djehuty telling me to take a break.

Thanks to Khydann for the screenies of my characters popping in and out of /tbdf, and for reporting the accounts – also, for letting me know and confirming my suspicions. ♥

Oh Lawdy, Loot Debates

Last night there was a debate in the local OOC channel regarding loot in random dungeons, and I am mighty proud to admit that I started it (tongue planted firmly in cheek).

I decided to run a quick random on Dawngarde, my holy paladin, who has no back-up spec but, at her level, still has enough tools to DPS with few issues. I queued as DPS and as a Healer. Lo and behold, I was dropped into ST with a pair of druids, shaman and a hunter. Once the tank realized that one of the Troll bosses (necessary for access to the Prophet) had been forgotten, he dropped, quickly followed by the shaman.

The remaining Resto (or Balance? I don’t know, he was healing and doing very well at it) asked me to tank – but I don’t carry a shield. So he took over tanking while we waited for a proper tank and another DPS or healer.

To re-iterate: My level 49 Paladin on Thorium Brotherhood does not have a secondary spec. I have other more important things to put cash toward, and in the leveling game I am not the only one occasionally DPSing in a healing spec before Outland. Frankly, at that point, I don’t care what your spec is as long as you do your job and you aren’t stupid.

Once I dig up the screenshot of what happened next I’ll post it and name names (especially the druid, because he was awesome and I want more people to acknowledge his awesome), but anywho.

As we ran around destroying shit, another holy pally and a prot warrior zoned in. We finished off that last Troll, dropped down to the next level and ran to finish the Prophet’s room. The warrior was trigger-happy and I occasionally had to stop and toss a Holy Light (with delicious glyphed AoE healing action), but otherwise I happily exorcised/holy shocked/judged/consecrated along. The Prophet wound up getting pulled before all of the trash was finished, the other holy pally died to ghosts, so I healed through what little trash was left (protip: Run from ghosties) and the boss fight. With the boss down, a caster chest dropped, which I rolled on and the other holy pally did not. I rezzed her and we moved on to the next set of bosses.

Fast-forward to the Shade of Eranikus. We were both DPSing through him and tossing the occasional heal, and when he died he dropped a caster shield. I, the Prot warrior and the other holy pally rolled need – and I won.

The other holy pally proceeded to bitch me out and call me a cocksucker for winning her loot, twice, then dropped as the druid and I explained that I’m a healer, too, and in just as much need of those items as she was.

What would she have said if a caster shaman had won the roll, or if the Prot warrior (why she was rolling on a caster shield I’m not sure, but hey, whatever) had won it? I bet they’d be cocksuckers, too.

Nobody ‘owns’ the drops in a dungeon. Just because one is healing does not mean they get all the caster drops, nor does the tank get every piece of plate with stamina on it. Yes, it’s nice when people automatically pass on a piece that can be considered an upgrade for the healer or the tank, but this isn’t always going to happen. DPS need loot, too.

My philosophy is this: If losing a roll on a piece of equipment in WoW is worth nerdraging over for you, it’s time to step away from the computer and visit the outside world. I do not care if the item went to somebody that only heals with their guild or only does DPS once in a pink moon, or if a ninja took it for the vendor value – it’s not worth busting a vein over pixels and the attitudes of people you may never see again.

Chances are, that item will drop again. Chances are, you may see that drop or get something better with emblems.

I have lost a healing upgrade to one of the people that was arguing against those of us who occasionally roll for off-spec loot (and, guess what? I tend to ask first – I’m rarely told ‘no’). That same person has frequently rolled on off-spec loot (why the fuck would that person argue against the concept? I don’t know, head up arse syndrome I guess). I may have said “Aw, darn”, but not once did I ever go off on them for daring to take my loot.

Frankly, that attitude is far more disgusting than any attitude that I cop.

Whether we like it or not, the very nature of dual specs and random dungeons have made how we roll for loot a little different – and really, it’s more the dual spec thing than anything else. Many of us have two specs that we’re trying to gear in our daily dungeon runs, so naturally we’re going to roll on shit that will benefit us. That’s the idea.

How do I handle loot? If I’m running on a tank or healer that has a DPS spec, and a DPS item drops for my DPS spec, I wait to see if anyone rolls need. If someone does roll need, I tend to let it go – unless the group is full of jerks, then I don’t let it go. Hey, I’m not gonna be nice to dickheads, okay? The same goes for running on DPS that have tank or healer specs. If nobody rolls need, I state my intentions – “I’m rolling on this for my off-spec” – and I roll for it.

Last night, I was playing a character whose only spec was one that benefits from spellcaster stats. Should I have passed? No. I have just as much right to roll on those items – which are upgrades – as anybody else that can benefit from them.

And, as far as I’m concerned, so do you. As I say in randoms, “If it’s an upgrade and can benefit you, roll for it. I don’t care!” We should be happy when our fellow WoW players win something shiny and helpful.

The real dicks aren’t those who roll for upgrades against others, but instead are those who get pissed off about losing a roll. That’s it.

Tanking: More Than Just Having Things Hit You OR If You Don’t Know Shit, STOP TALKING

“Okay fine, I admit it, I don’t know anything about tanking.”
“Now you get it!”

Yesterday I was home from work. I wasn’t feeling very well, in part due to drama from the night before (where I got to play moderator again – not something I wanted to do, but I was the only one around at the time that could) but mostly because my body has decided to be a jerk lately (no, it’s not my time of month, thanks for asking). The topic of Death Knight Tanking came up, and guys, I totally learned something.

I’ve had it wrong all along!

Frost? Totally has defense-boosting talents that make it the tank spec and it is not in the party’s best interests for the tank to use their survival-related cooldowns. You’re wasting runes on Vampiric Blood, Rune Tap and other related skills!

Well, consider me schooled.

Gawsh, to think I had it wrong all this time. It’s amazing my party didn’t die with my thoughtless use of these health-boosting, survival-based talents. Why, the loss of threat generation must have nearly wiped us countless times!

Okay, serious business time. Let me put this in bold type for you:

Tanking is not just about pissing off monsters.

Tanking is not just about pissing off monsters.

Tanking is not just about pissing off monsters.

Is that clear?

Okay, good.

What is your job as a tank?

1. Out-threat your DPS and healer.
2. Keep yourself alive.
3. Keep your party alive.

What does this mean?

As a tank, you have to be the one and only thing the mobs concentrate on. They have to hate you. On top of that, you have several skills, several cooldowns, devoted to one of the following:

• Temporary total health boost
• Temporary damage reduction
• Instant % health recovery
• Temporary armor or avoidance boost

It is your job to use them, to love them and to love your healer by loving those skills. By doing everything in your power to help your healer keep you alive, you save your party from death.

But Matojo, it’s the healer’s job to keep me alive!

It’s also the healer’s job to keep him/herself and three other people from death.

Believe it or not, running instances and raiding are about teamwork. DPS prevent nasties from reaching healers or from hitting the boss and causing them to heal back to full, or they interrupt casts, or they aid in adding to your, the tank’s, threat – some provide buffs. Healers keep the party alive and provide buffs. Tanks sometimes provide buffs and distract mobs. The other part of the teamwork scene, for the tanks, is helping to make things easier for the healer which, in turn, helps make their mana pools last longer. No mana, no heals, and if you’re being wailed on like whoa and not doing anything about it, that mana isn’t going to last long.

Those cooldowns help make you last longer in battle, which helps your healer last longer, and helps keep your party alive.

But Matojo! I waste valuable runes/rage/mana on those cooldowns! I need those resources for threat!

As a Death Knight, by the time I’ve started my diseases, dropped Death and Decay and had some crits from Howling Blast/Icy Touch/Frost Strike, I’m generating well over 40k threat per second. On longer fights, it’s more. This is usually at least 38k or more threat per second above my DPSers.

The fact is, if you cannot spare a cooldown to save your ass for fear of losing threat, there is something wrong with what you are doing. It could be your rotation. It could be your gear. It could be your spec (shitty specs do equal shitty threat, but shitty specs are also the product of shitty players and therefore point to more problems). You could be in the wrong presence, stance or you forgot righteous fury again (Paladins? As long as RF is up, you sneeze and LO! there is threat).

The Teal Deer: One, tanking is not just about holding threat, it’s also about using all the tools that are available to you to succeed. Two, if you spec like this to tank* it’s obvious you have not done any research on tanking as your particular class/spec – so please, stop acting like you know what you’re on about.

* Before anyone brings up Gahiji’s current blood spec, yes, I know it’s not optimal for group tanking. It’s meant for soloing instances and level 60 raids, and it’s in the process of being tweaked. If it’s successful, you lot will be the second to know!

Cranky Matojo is Cranky

Normally I am pretty patient with people (shut up, Kaphik) and willing to give the benefit of the doubt. Well, people that don’t spout hate language/misogyny, gem for mp5 and/or wander through life with their head lodged firmly up their arse.

Oh, wait.

My guild has picked up somebody that takes everything that I hate about wow_ladies and sticks it into a single, annoying human being. Making a big deal of being female? Check. Misogyny and misandry? Check.  Insistence on hand-holding when attempting to figure out a new spec (right down to asking what each and every talent does)? Yep. Constantly asking for help? Yeeeah.

Fuck me with a rusty pike.

Maybe I have been spoiled by my guild’s relative sanity and its female population’s lack of the stereotypical and idiotic. I mean, I rarely complain about the guild and I haven’t had such an issue with a guild member in a very long time, so this must be A Big Deal.

I knew this person was a bad fit when their response to a tale about two Blood Elf priests being jackasses in a pug was, “Ooooh, gai boiz, how CUTE!”

That’s right, folks. All Blood Elves are gay males. Let’s forget that the characters were later mentioned as being female – I bet that suddenly stopped being cute for that person. Lesbians, after all, aren’t nearly as adorable as gay dudes, right?

I just … whatisthisIdon’teven. For the second time in what, three years, I’m going to have to add a Harbinger to my ignore list.

I have seriously never seen the stereotypical gamer grrrl outside of wow_ladies and I don’t like this and I want them to go away. Make it stooooooop.

In other news, apparently girls ask a lot of questions and are bad at WoW. DID YOU HEAR THAT, MERI, WE ARE BAD AT WOW AND WE ASK A LOT OF QUESTIONS. HOW DO I MINE FOR FISH, GUYS.

THE HATRED OF A THOUSAND RAGING NERDS

HEY. HEY HATERS. HEY.

There has been a case, on my server, of some Orc players taking every possible opportunity to talk about how they hate Blood Elves and wish they weren’t part of the Horde, as well as sharing their opinion that the wee elves should be removed from the game.

For the record, I think the guys that have been spewing this shit are fucking idiots.

Hatred of a particular race or faction on the part of the player just doesn’t make any fucking sense – and neither does judging a player based upon what they play.

It’s to the point where I am, unfortunately, beginning to wonder what the correlation between playing an Orc and being an unpleasant asshole actually is, then I stop and realize that isn’t fair to the cool people that I know that occasionally play Orcs (hell, even I have one – Mikome has just barely dodged the chopping block). Frankly, I’m a little embarrassed by the jerks on behalf of the non-jerks.

I do not understand people that claim to hate any particular race in a game, or any particular faction. Did Blood Elves kill your father? Did the Alliance take your lunch money? I mean, I understand why characters may hate on elves – but their players? Is it a case of being unable to separate the self from the toon?

I think it’s a case of Nerd Rage or something.

Nobody has to like everything – I don’t like human dudes, have you seen their fucking upper lip when they don’t have facial hair? – but it really isn’t logical to hate on pixels or the people that play them. “I don’t like Night Elves” is fine. “I hate Night Elves and anybody that plays one is [Insert Insult Here]” is not, and anybody that honestly believes that is a fuckwad.

Playing a particular race or faction does not make anyone inferior.

Read that line. Re-read it. Memorize it. Beat it into your skull.

Guess what? Some of my best in-game and Blogging friends have Blood Elf or Alliance mains. You may know some of them. They are awesome people. There are other awesome people in the same boat that I have not linked and, guess what? Their choice of race and/or faction does not make them any less awesome.

My server is lucky to have some of the best, in my biased opinion, Blood Elf roleplayers ever. They have deep, interesting backstories that have developed and continue to develop over the years and months since BC. They have fun roleplaying and killing shit, they are amazing people on an OOC level and they, like me, roll their eyes when the obligatory daily “I hate Blood Elves” pops into /tbdf.

Yes, there are some Blood Elf character concepts that make me roll my eyes and sigh – but the things that some players do does not make the race suck.

I am sick of Blood Elf hate. I am sick of race and faction hate in general. Fucking stop it. It’s tiring. It doesn’t make sense.

STFU, haters.

One More For the Alt Closet and More Babble

My Warlock hit 80 yesterday and is already hit-capped thanks to some crafted gear. Oh, Ebonweave, I love you.

So I am now up to Warrior, Rogue, Hunter, Mage, Priest, Death Knight and Warlock at 80, which probably means I spend way too much time on WoW, but really, meh, whatever. I am finding that my preferences for DPS are tied between Warlock, Mage and Death Knight, surprisingly, so I will probably just prod at their gear gradually between my preferred activity of watching toons gain experience and delving into the occasional Roleplay thing.

I am loling at my community’s belief that there is no such thing as a wrong opinion. Believing that it’s stupid that there are some people that don’t enjoy raiding is, frankly, wrong, because who the fuck are you to decide the stupidity level of one’s in-game preferences? Then again, I have no respect for the person who stated that as his opinion (hello, he spent a long time thinking that he didn’t need to gem or enchant his gear as a raider, his opinion does not matter because it’s bound to be idiotic anyway).

I’m finding that the more certain individuals try to push me into raiding, the less interested I am. When I hear, “Now pick one and get it ready for raiding” my immediate internal response is “no, fuck you” – have I mentioned I’m really cranky and combative lately? Like, if a baby looks at me funny I might punt it.

It’s just… if it’s so damn fun then stop fucking pushing and let me come to it on my own. I’m already wishy-washy about it as it is, damn it, and sitting there trying to debate my decision to do shit other than raid is fucking – AUGH. I rolled on a fucking roleplay server. If I wanted to raid, I’d actually make the attempt at making a character raid-ready.

I don’t have the fucking attention span, so drop it already.

Besides, I’ve pretty much decided that – after attempting to do a Naxx weekly and having it turn into an awesome bashing of the military and plague quarters – I’m only raiding with the Harbingers. [plug]The Harbingers of War are the most awesome guild on Thorium Brotherhood[/plug], they keep me sane through the issues I keep having with real life, thus, they get my undying loyalty and love. They’ve taken me into Naxx, they’ve thrown me at Flame Leviathan, they’ve offered – not PUSHED – me a spot in an Ulduar run (unfortunately, this week’s didn’t have enough people and I was in too shitty a mood to even try it), they held my hand, pointed me at shit and told me to kill it.

… And they didn’t laugh TOO hard when I died to Frogger. Twice. SHUT UP.

So yeah. I have a bunch of 80s and I don’t raid. BOOYAH. Respect my decision not to raid just like I respect YOUR decision to do so. Or something.

Last night, I also tried DPSing as Gahiji (my Death Nugget) and found that a) So far, I like Blood and Unholy about equally, b) I peaked at 3.5k DPS on Loken in Heroic HoL as Unholy, beating my previous DPS record on that toon by a good 1.3k, c) I’d like Unholy a hell of a lot more if I didn’t have to deal with the Ghoul. I picked up a pair of the tournament maces to try out DW Frost DPS, but will have to level up my mace skill first – I plan to finish that tonight, which means potentially pulling an alt into say, RFC or SM or something.

On Playing Half-Elves

I apologize if I’ve covered this before, but I was up way too late last night debating about this very thing, so it’s on my mind.

Most who roleplay with me are aware that I’m willing to accept a lot of things. I can deal with the walking homosexual stereotypes (though, to be honest, I’m getting a little tired of people playing up the stereotype of the FABULOUS gay elf – you do know it’s possible to be into members of the same sex without being flamboyant, right?), the occasional speshul snowflake, the dudes with mechanical parts (though that is supported by lore and people that don’t see that obviously never quested in Stonetalon, Borean Tundra or ran Gnomeregan) and the secret somethings. I can deal with strange shit if it’s played well.

What bothers me the most about the play of half-elves is that, like secret dragons, they are rarely played in a manner that realistically matches the setting.

In World of Warcraft, Quel’dorei – the blue-eyed, pink-skinned elves whose majority population became Sin’dorei with Kael’thas upon feeding on Fel energies – and humans are considered traitors by the Sin’dorei. For the Quel’dorei, it’s because they didn’t join the Sin’dorei in their transformation. For the humans, it’s because they basically left the Sin’dorei to die when the Scourge happened. So, one can imagine that neither race would be welcomed to the Horde with open arms – their offspring even less so.

So, try to imagine a half-elf that doesn’t have green glowy eyes. Tell me how long you think that would last in a Horde city, realistically speaking.

Yeah. Exactly.

You would also think that a character that has been challenged for being the product of two traitorous races’ mating, has been threatened and has had their points of view regarding human relations to pretty much every member of the Horde would be a little more careful about how… they… act. You would think that they wouldn’t be so quick to exclaim, “I’m part human!”, or to express their like of humans and how totally not dicks they are, seriously guys.

But, no.

Azeroth is a world that is at war. Most Sin’dorei are unwilling to forgive the Quel’dorei and the humans for screwing them over, and most of the other Horde races are pretty rar-fase over anything with an Alliance tabard. Yes, there are exceptions, but those are rare – and the player-characters that actually play out being “roooar hiss” are met with… surprise on the part of the half-elf. The half-elf who has been met with these reactions before.

What.

I’m not quite sure where my point was, I know I had one. I guess it’s this: If you’re going to play something that the in-game world at large considers “taboo” or outright traitorous, for the love of Djehuty who guides my writing hand please at least attempt to play your character in a manner that’s realistic for the setting. This does not include putting a spotlight upon yourself and bragging about where you’re from or what you did while under Alliance rule (I’m writing from a Horde P.O.V. here), nor does it include spouting off about how the Alliance are so totes cool and omg the Horde isn’t innocent either we should all be ~*friends*~. It… isn’t working that way in the game world. It really isn’t.

… No really I had a point come baaaaaaack.