During odd days and nights I have written a few posts that I never posted because they were either incomplete or too embarrassing to post.
Here’s one of those posts – unedited and unfinished.
In real life I know myself well enough to say I’m a fairly arrogant and slightly judgmental person on particular subjects. It’s a personality trait I’ve gotten used to and have accepted, because it’s something that will always surface eventually no matter how hard you’re trying to get rid of it. With this in mind I’ve been fairly opinionated towards things in WoW as well. There are sometimes things I find worth discussing and sharing thoughts on, but other times I’ll be plain harsh and state the facts.
A couple of weeks ago there was a widely discussed thread on the Druid forums, someone found the armory entry of a Nihilum Druid and openly ridiculed him or her for the choice of gems. I had no intention of joining in as I somehow couldn’t really form an opinion on a post that went something like: “LOLZ CRIT GEMZ NIHILUM DURID SUXORZ”. It was about Nihilum-member Marilyn who wore feral tanking gear with several gemslots stacked with +8 Critical Strike Rating gems. After a few more pages of spam with various opinions – Marilyn posted a response saying something like “ehm… guys? I was asked by my brother to respec and tank Karazhan. They were the cheapest rare gems there were available on AH”.
The thing is – Marilyn was originally a Restoration Druid and now currently geared in T6 with 2340 bonus healing. The poster of that thread had no idea of that, and he assumed Marilyn was taking part in regular Hyjal/BT farm runs as a Feral.
This scenario might as well have been caused by me in a setting during an instance run. Sometimes I comment on drops and classes who may or not pick up the drop, and sometimes I’m horribly wrong in my comments. I regret it the moment when I actually think about it and feel awfully ashamed for ranting about it for several minutes.
There are however occasions where I just don’t get the choices of others and absolutely don’t regret my arrogance and comments on the matter.
For example; an epic cloak dropping on a Karazhan raid with +damage and healing stats. You would figure that cloak is meant to go to people who are for example shadow priests, mages or warlocks – but I was really surprised when I saw not only casters, but also two healers, that rolled on the item. Now, I know my Druid itemization fairly well, and if there’s one thing I know is that cloaks have no specific armor requirement and that – while choices for cloaks may be slim compared to other gearslots – there are several choices of quest-items, random drops, greens, blues and purples that have more then 35 bonus healing on them. I’m really sorry if someone is offended by this, but if you’re rolling on a dps cloak that has 35 damage & healing on them, you have no clue about your random-healing-class nor itemization and you’re denying the item from the dps classes who could actually use this item.
I have an equal amount of dislike in my head when I look upon yet-another level 70 who is still wearing his or her level 60 epics. I may be very jealous of the fact that those people probably have raided the “old-world” instances while the level cap was 60, because I never got the chance to be part of that because of several breaks from WoW and incredibly slow leveling. And I’m even perfectly aware of some really good lvl 60 epics (heck, I’m collecting the Beast deck and want to get a trinket from BWL) and the fact that T3 will last a really long time. Yet what I simply cannot appreciate is someone passing or not even think about getting an easily obtained item that has vastly superior stats on all points, just because it’s not purple enough or because it’s the “wrong” armor-type. I could name all the various reasons why it’s incredibly selfish not to go for the upgrade, but I think I proved my point.
Just because I get agitated more and more by various things where my arrogance declares someone as a person who doesn’t know his or her class, it doesn’t make me wrong.
Especially when the guild is concerned or people in general that I’m in contact with, I feel obligated to say something about it. A person making the “wrong” choice for something in either his or her talent build, gear, gems, pet, whatever – reflects and influences the performance and options for raids and instance runs that they participate in. And I’ve seen more then plenty enough runs to know the reasons we wipe when certain raid-formations are made.
