At first i thought RP was just way too geeky but then my brother started playing on a RP server so to spend time with him I moved too. Well needless to say I'm hooked (and strangely finding I love playing a female tauren druid, oh my therapist is gonna love that one). I just wish he wouldnt have picked a RPPvP server but oh well I have gotten used to gnome slaughter :P. I play on Maelstrom as, you guessed it, Greywind a lovely little (for a tauren anyway) furry druid :D.
Yup, I likes the RP servers when they're not pretentious asses about it (oh and they can be). Some of them just have too much of a stick up their arse and they can forget that even roleplayed characters know how to have fun. Still, when you find a good server or a really ingenious and inventive group, it's golden and downright uncomparable. My favourite gaming experiences are roleplaying with a talented group. It takes a lot more feeling around on an RP server to find good people but the rewards are definitely worth it, I'd say.
As for PvP ... that's the only part I wouldn't like. ;p I'm an explorer and I like being able to go wherever I want unchallenged (providing I don't walk into enemy cities or attack/aid someone who's flagged). I'd hardly be able to keep up my visits to places like Teldrassil and Dun'Morogh if people were killing me all the time as I attempted my peaceful envoys.
I've seen the worst /1 General Spam excuse for roleplaying ever there... I wanted to re-roll Horde, powerlevel using exploits to 60, just so I could run back to Ironforge and lay the proverbial (great word, even though I'm not sure if I spelt it right) smack down on the person who dared foul the general channel with such nonsense.
I was debating playing on a RP server, but like Rowne and Instant pointed out already, it was the childish, adolesent, and young immature adult comments that drove me away from such an idea.
I felt that the good groups of truly genius characters were too far and few between the scolding of n3wB Sp34k, that the effort outweighed the enjoyment.
I agree with Rowne on the PVP servers (all of them infact). I am a defender, not an antagonist (no, seriously.... stop laughing!) - If someone lays seige to my kingdom, I will defend it at any cost, be it even my life. I enjoy the traveling explorer approach, having the freedom to explore the vast wastelands and lush forests of Azeroth, without confortation.
Hoever, I cannot help the passing by insult toward the opposing faction, irredgarless if they can understand me or not.
Everything that's said here is so true. It's rare that one actually finds a group that's fun. I have an amazing track record of being taken seriously when I shouldn't (I self deprecate a lot and everyone takes it at face value) and I freak the living hell out of some groups. Why, only the other night on City of Villains ...
[local] Primal Alpha: Pff, you call that a crime? It's only a true crime if the the most overweight security guard is left butt-naked and convinced of his part-time carreer as a ballarina, prancing amidst the most unseemly bank-wide orgy this city has ever seen. Now that would leave superheroes in need of therapy and that, my friend, is a crime.
*Coughs.* Primal Alpha being my really twisted mind-controller and some people don't appreciate his black, British humour.
I miss City of villians, i got to play it at a firends house and I'm sort of hooked. But I'm a little bit depressed about the interface though but maybe it gets better the more you use it.
I am on a RP server at the moment. Its not perfect (never are) but I find that its a nice medium between explitive using BNET kiddies and Stuck up RPers.
BTW Rowne I like that :) But don't forget to add peanut butter next time.
I'm on an RP server, too; I started on Cenarion Circle and moved to Twisting Nether when the RP-PvP servers opened (or truthfully a few weeks after). On CC I found the atmosphere to be more mature than on a regular or PvP server; on TN, I've found a truly, truly awesome (and pretty big) guild to play with, so even if we have some PvP server a-holes, I can turn off /general and have the best time I've had in WoW.
Like Rowne, I find a good session of roleplaying much more fun than any instancing or BGing or anything of the sort, and also like Rowne I think having fun is more important than adhering to any crappy "RP rules" people seem to make up on the fly. Staying in character is pretty important to me, though.
Hrm... I'm rolling a new alt with my duo partner and want to give RP a go. I'd love to be able to harass Rowne ^^
Anywho, anyone got a good guild that will take a semi-RPer and his friend. We're not hardcore RP but we'll do our best to stay IC. We're really looking more for a great group of people to be with than anything else.
Anywho, anyone got a good guild that will take a semi-RPer and his friend. We're not hardcore RP but we'll do our best to stay IC. We're really looking more for a great group of people to be with than anything else.
And I concur -- what server and side (A/H) are you guys playing on? Most all of my old gamer buddies are moving away from WoW and the guilds I was in have all but evaporated :(. I play both UK -and- US servers, so um... either works! :)
Hrm... I'm rolling a new alt with my duo partner and want to give RP a go. I'd love to be able to harass Rowne ^^
Anywho, anyone got a good guild that will take a semi-RPer and his friend. We're not hardcore RP but we'll do our best to stay IC. We're really looking more for a great group of people to be with than anything else.
If you don't mind RPPVP, our Alliance guild in the US Maelstrom server, "?ngels av T?nda", is exactly that: a semi-RP, for-fun, do-it-all, please-everyone guild, so much that we only have 3 rules:
1) To try acting IC when possible (but not necessarily always);
2) Do not curse in the guild chat (PG-13);
3) Have fun (yes, literally).
If you're interested whisper my main (Carolyn, female human priest) when you have a lvl 10 character. See our site: http://angels.guildportal.com.
PS: So far we have two semi-mandatory addons: GuildAds and GroupCalendar. Common events are scheduled through GroupCalendar, while high lvl events, such as MC, are scheduled through the website.
Silver Hand Templars of Dawn. :) We are semi RP guild. Great group of people, but not really a raiding guild. We do have some fun groups and activities but if you're heavy into raiding and high end we probably aren't for you. Oh we are alliance side, but will prbably be reinventing on horde for the expansion. We'll have the Templars of Dusk or some such companion guild horde side.
Many of the Insomniax team have recently joined us. Mostly because we are laid back. :)
Hrm... I'm rolling a new alt with my duo partner and want to give RP a go. I'd love to be able to harass Rowne ^^
Anywho, anyone got a good guild that will take a semi-RPer and his friend. We're not hardcore RP but we'll do our best to stay IC. We're really looking more for a great group of people to be with than anything else.
If you don't mind RPPVP, our Alliance guild in the US Maelstrom server, "?ngels av T?nda", is exactly that: a semi-RP, for-fun, do-it-all, please-everyone guild, so much that we only have 3 rules:
1) To try acting IC when possible (but not necessarily always);
2) Do not curse in the guild chat (PG-13);
3) Have fun (yes, literally).
If you're interested whisper my main (Carolyn, female human priest) when you have a lvl 10 character. See our site: http://angels.guildportal.com.
PS: So far we have two semi-mandatory addons: GuildAds and GroupCalendar. Common events are scheduled through GroupCalendar, while high lvl events, such as MC, are scheduled through the website.
Aww too bad I'm horde, I'll try not to gank you guys :(.
Aww too bad I'm horde, I'll try not to gank you guys :(.
Hehe, thanks! :)
However, please note that our guild doesn't have any policy regarding ganking. Doing ot not doing it goes mostly according to each character's background. I only ask people to try avoiding doing it if it's very OOC for them. So, some of our members do gank, including the guild leader herself, while others (myself included) don't. Actually, when I see a low lvl horde player having trouble with a mob I help him. Too bad high lvl horde players simply love ganking me...
That's actually not true of the Tauren at all, at least if people know how to play their race it isn't. For those who've followed the Tauren lore and actually taken note of the Tauren quests, they're nothing short of benign and the most merciful race of all those on Azeroth. The main problem is the people, they just don't know how to play their damn race. This is one of the reasons I came to dislike Warcraft because it laid down a lore and didn't bother to enforce it. I prefer CofV/CofH instead because people lay down their own lore and enforce it as they want to.
Anyway, as a Tauren who knows how to play his race (possibly one of the ... oh, two on any server), I was responsible for great acts of mercy. I saved Alliance people from certain death, I accompanied some and helped them quest, I tried to pacify skirmishes (which was really silly and ended up with myself dying), I tried to influence raids to be purely defensive rather than turning offensive and to guard our lands rather than invading others, I even organized a few peace walks which involved the Horde and the Alliance wandering around Azeroth being spat at and called traitor by almost everyone (haven't these idjits ever encountered the Argent Dawn?).
It doesn't really come down to the Horde or the Alliance being bloodthirsty, per se. It just comes down to people being jerks and because the Horde look more "ugly", apparently they must be more evil, that's how it is in the minds of most people, even though the lore directly contradicts this. It's the same as people who believe the Alliance are saints because they're obsessed with "beauty" and "prettiness" and naturally that must be good. It reminds me of the 60's in comic books when "evil" was Russian or Poor and "good" was Capitalist or Rich.
I just wanted to add my thoughts here anyway because I don't think the Horde are vicious or bloodthirsty at all, that's just people. According to the Horde, as far as the Taurens and the Orcs go at least, they're good peoples. Now if only more people paid attention to the damn lore. Though I don't see that happening any time soon.
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Just to add to that, the amount of evil Tauren around really surprises and annoys me and I feel the need to educate some of them with a heavy stick. I mean, okay, let's say they haven't seen the lore ... even the intro movie backs this up. Everyone else is wielding weapons or fighting and being violent in the Warcraft intro and ... what is the Tauren doing? In the first instance he's doing nothing but sprinkling magical fairy dust over Mulgore. In the second the poor Tauren gets blindsided by a Dwarf Hunter (probably whilst picking flowers).
Blizzard really needs to enforce lore on RP servers, otherwise there's no point in having it at all.
Yup. Back when I was playing I really did my bit as the morality of the Horde -- because that's what the Tauren really are. Hell, I even spent some time in Dun Morogh on one server, helping out the lowbies by taking out anything that was about to kill them dead and making it clear I was there to help, otherwise I just watched and didn't make an ass of myself. All in the name of hopefully creating better relations between the Alliance and the Horde. I think that if all people played their Taurens as well as I did, we'd have a Peace Council setup already and this civil war would be mostly over by now.
I really congratulate those who know how to play their race, though. It's a good thing to see and I really praise people for it. It's just my nature to love a good roleplay and I think that's why I moved onto City of Villains. Where there you'll actually find a good team to roleplay with, in Warcraft the response to roleplay or actually upholding lore is "lawl rollplayrs".
Hm, I wish there were organized RP committees for the Warcraft RP servers, I'd so get involved with that kind of thing if there were.
Hm, I wish there were organized RP committees for the Warcraft RP servers, I'd so get involved with that kind of thing if there were.
Agree with what you have said. I logged into an RP sever the first week of retail and after an hour I immediatly left, out of the 50 people I met one was an actually RPer and the rest were l33t RP griefers there just to cause trouble, I never bothered to go back since.
If a good RP comunity did start up on a server I would gladly move to play there. Until then I'll just stick to CoH/CoV for my RP fix (even though my accounts expired oops...need to change that lol).
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As for PvP ... that's the only part I wouldn't like. ;p I'm an explorer and I like being able to go wherever I want unchallenged (providing I don't walk into enemy cities or attack/aid someone who's flagged). I'd hardly be able to keep up my visits to places like Teldrassil and Dun'Morogh if people were killing me all the time as I attempted my peaceful envoys.
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Curse PremiumI've seen the worst /1 General Spam excuse for roleplaying ever there... I wanted to re-roll Horde, powerlevel using exploits to 60, just so I could run back to Ironforge and lay the proverbial (great word, even though I'm not sure if I spelt it right) smack down on the person who dared foul the general channel with such nonsense.
I felt that the good groups of truly genius characters were too far and few between the scolding of n3wB Sp34k, that the effort outweighed the enjoyment.
I agree with Rowne on the PVP servers (all of them infact). I am a defender, not an antagonist (no, seriously.... stop laughing!) - If someone lays seige to my kingdom, I will defend it at any cost, be it even my life. I enjoy the traveling explorer approach, having the freedom to explore the vast wastelands and lush forests of Azeroth, without confortation.
Hoever, I cannot help the passing by insult toward the opposing faction, irredgarless if they can understand me or not.
[local] Primal Alpha: Pff, you call that a crime? It's only a true crime if the the most overweight security guard is left butt-naked and convinced of his part-time carreer as a ballarina, prancing amidst the most unseemly bank-wide orgy this city has ever seen. Now that would leave superheroes in need of therapy and that, my friend, is a crime.
*Coughs.* Primal Alpha being my really twisted mind-controller and some people don't appreciate his black, British humour.
BTW Rowne I like that :) But don't forget to add peanut butter next time.
Like Rowne, I find a good session of roleplaying much more fun than any instancing or BGing or anything of the sort, and also like Rowne I think having fun is more important than adhering to any crappy "RP rules" people seem to make up on the fly. Staying in character is pretty important to me, though.
Tis great fun to play. IC reasons to bash on warlocks, ic reasons to be totaly uptight towards non elfs. Great fun indeed.
Anywho, anyone got a good guild that will take a semi-RPer and his friend. We're not hardcore RP but we'll do our best to stay IC. We're really looking more for a great group of people to be with than anything else.
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Curse PremiumMe too, hehheh! :wink:
And I concur -- what server and side (A/H) are you guys playing on? Most all of my old gamer buddies are moving away from WoW and the guilds I was in have all but evaporated :(. I play both UK -and- US servers, so um... either works! :)
If you don't mind RPPVP, our Alliance guild in the US Maelstrom server, "?ngels av T?nda", is exactly that: a semi-RP, for-fun, do-it-all, please-everyone guild, so much that we only have 3 rules:
1) To try acting IC when possible (but not necessarily always);
2) Do not curse in the guild chat (PG-13);
3) Have fun (yes, literally).
If you're interested whisper my main (Carolyn, female human priest) when you have a lvl 10 character. See our site: http://angels.guildportal.com.
PS: So far we have two semi-mandatory addons: GuildAds and GroupCalendar. Common events are scheduled through GroupCalendar, while high lvl events, such as MC, are scheduled through the website.
Many of the Insomniax team have recently joined us. Mostly because we are laid back. :)
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Aww too bad I'm horde, I'll try not to gank you guys :(.
Hehe, thanks! :)
However, please note that our guild doesn't have any policy regarding ganking. Doing ot not doing it goes mostly according to each character's background. I only ask people to try avoiding doing it if it's very OOC for them. So, some of our members do gank, including the guild leader herself, while others (myself included) don't. Actually, when I see a low lvl horde player having trouble with a mob I help him. Too bad high lvl horde players simply love ganking me...
Anyway, as a Tauren who knows how to play his race (possibly one of the ... oh, two on any server), I was responsible for great acts of mercy. I saved Alliance people from certain death, I accompanied some and helped them quest, I tried to pacify skirmishes (which was really silly and ended up with myself dying), I tried to influence raids to be purely defensive rather than turning offensive and to guard our lands rather than invading others, I even organized a few peace walks which involved the Horde and the Alliance wandering around Azeroth being spat at and called traitor by almost everyone (haven't these idjits ever encountered the Argent Dawn?).
It doesn't really come down to the Horde or the Alliance being bloodthirsty, per se. It just comes down to people being jerks and because the Horde look more "ugly", apparently they must be more evil, that's how it is in the minds of most people, even though the lore directly contradicts this. It's the same as people who believe the Alliance are saints because they're obsessed with "beauty" and "prettiness" and naturally that must be good. It reminds me of the 60's in comic books when "evil" was Russian or Poor and "good" was Capitalist or Rich.
I just wanted to add my thoughts here anyway because I don't think the Horde are vicious or bloodthirsty at all, that's just people. According to the Horde, as far as the Taurens and the Orcs go at least, they're good peoples. Now if only more people paid attention to the damn lore. Though I don't see that happening any time soon.
--- Edit ---
Just to add to that, the amount of evil Tauren around really surprises and annoys me and I feel the need to educate some of them with a heavy stick. I mean, okay, let's say they haven't seen the lore ... even the intro movie backs this up. Everyone else is wielding weapons or fighting and being violent in the Warcraft intro and ... what is the Tauren doing? In the first instance he's doing nothing but sprinkling magical fairy dust over Mulgore. In the second the poor Tauren gets blindsided by a Dwarf Hunter (probably whilst picking flowers).
Blizzard really needs to enforce lore on RP servers, otherwise there's no point in having it at all.
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Curse PremiumYou said everything I might've thought of and more. :?
I really congratulate those who know how to play their race, though. It's a good thing to see and I really praise people for it. It's just my nature to love a good roleplay and I think that's why I moved onto City of Villains. Where there you'll actually find a good team to roleplay with, in Warcraft the response to roleplay or actually upholding lore is "lawl rollplayrs".
Hm, I wish there were organized RP committees for the Warcraft RP servers, I'd so get involved with that kind of thing if there were.
Agree with what you have said. I logged into an RP sever the first week of retail and after an hour I immediatly left, out of the 50 people I met one was an actually RPer and the rest were l33t RP griefers there just to cause trouble, I never bothered to go back since.
If a good RP comunity did start up on a server I would gladly move to play there. Until then I'll just stick to CoH/CoV for my RP fix (even though my accounts expired oops...need to change that lol).