» A Tip For Those Who Share A Battle Group With An RP Server

A Tip For Those Who Share A Battle Group With An RP Server

Sunday night, I decided to help a guildie with learning this whole healing thing by tanking Drak’tharon Keep. I was on Matojo, Wyat was DPSing as Pierse and Najat was the level 80 Disc priest that was healing my little blue ass.

I love being healed by Discipline Priests and Resto Shamans because, assuming their gear is at least okay, I can keep pulling and they rarely run low on mana – yay!

Well, some poor bastard from Jubei’thos – Smite, I think it was – decided to start whining about RP realms and how they should have their own battle group. Hey, I agree – most RPers do – but for completely different reasons. After I told her that she should really watch herself since 3/5 of her groupmates are from the same RP server, she promptly sealed her fate with more whining along the lines of, “Oh God why”, and I initiated vote to kick.

Frankly, my dears, if you’re going to be like that you don’t deserve to run with me and I don’t want to dent my 18k health pool (22k buffed, which… I can’t imagine what it’ll be at 80 if I keep up with his gear, enchants and gemming) for you, so get out.

“But Mat!” You cry, “That was so mean! You should have given that person a chance!”

Eff that, man.

I deal with a small amount of shit for my server, and that amount is enough to make me very protective and defensive when it comes to TB. I often hear the following, in no particular order, from various sources (including LJ):

“RPers are scrubs.”
“RP on TB is dead.” (FUCK YOOOU)
“You’re on a RP realm? Fail.”
At this point I’ve run out of examples because the cold meds are starting to stomp on my head.

So, naturally, I’m not gonna put up with that shit when I can help it.

Remember, folks: Roleplayer does not automatically equal “shitty player”. You go ahead and keep up pulling stupid shit, though – I enjoy biting back, and I bite just as hard as any other player.

Looking For Asshats/Group, Matojo is a Snarky Bitch, RAGE, WHARRGARBL | admin | January 26, 2010 1:31 pm

5 Comments

By Askevar, January 26, 2010 @ 3:21 pm

Interesting point of note: Every battlegroup except two have exactly one RP realm. One battlegroup has no RP realm. One battlegroup has 3 RP realms.
By Kaethir, January 26, 2010 @ 3:33 pm

To be honest I couldn’t tell you which realm(s?) in my battlegroup is/are RP…

doesn’t matter to me, I just care if you can play.
By Askevar, January 26, 2010 @ 3:38 pm

I will also admit I know where you’re coming from. I’m not much of an RPer though I do enjoy it on occasion. I’m probably more PVE-focused in reality. On one of the channels I’m on, there was a discussion this past week about how raiding is only fun if you play how you want to [aka 71 points in one spec, so what if you pull 300 dps] and how if you expected people to take their characters seriously in terms of raiding, we shouldn’t have rolled on an RP server. :/

Enjoyed the debate till it got personal.
By Anea, January 26, 2010 @ 6:08 pm

I don’t blame you one bit – I’d have initiated a kick too.
By Endyme, February 23, 2010 @ 4:18 pm

When I transferred to ThoBro a few months ago and looked at the composition of the battlegroup, I was like, “Huh, only one RP server, a few PvE servers and oh boy….lots of PvP servers. Swell.” Surprisingly, I’ve only had one instance where it was any kind of issue. One of the party members made some crack about RP servers and how they hate RP and another party member, who was *from ThoBro*, must have been on mind altering drugs of some sort and spewed nonsense that didn’t help. I just lol’d it off and went “Forsooth, let us have at these foul beings!” and all that jazz.