Speaking of Horde commendations...
Mar. 28th, 2006 08:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tirsdenThe first part of the story is from a while ago. I was playing my gnome warrior (level 19 at the time) running PvP flagged as usual, sitting in the middle of Auberdine minding my own business. Mind you, Auberdine is an Alliance town smack dab in the middle of Alliance territory. Suddenly a troll shaman on a raptor runs by, nuking the crap outa me in one or two hits. Ehhhh... huh? So I'm ghosting my way back to my body ready to get vengeance, even if it means untimely death again. Meanwhile my guild leader and good friend has his level 60 rogue on, and after my death report in guild chat he's on his way to show this shaman what he gets for playing dirty. We're partied so he can find me faster.
Someone says the shaman is on the docks (which are quite long, two different ships come in there), and so I'm running around on the docks trying to find the guy. Don't see him... run back towards town and SPLAT, dead from behind again. Grrrr.... ghosting back again...
By this time, rogue buddy has arrived, and says he's killed the shaman twice now. WOOT! I meet up with him in the middle of the docks, and who should arrive again but the troll, no longer PvP flagged. We exchange emote taunts for a bit and then apparently my flagrant dancing made him mad enough to attack me. Dead again, LOL. But this gives my rogue buddy the chance he needs to kill the shaman *again*.
Alright, by the time I make it back again the shaman has fled south towards an island. Rogue buddy is chasing him and so I hurl myself into the water and swim for it. Rogue says the shaman is gone, I get to the island and spot the troll swimming around below, flagged. So ensues a heated battle in which I for once don't die and actually land a couple debuff skills on the shaman. He shoulda killed me in one hit and went back to the rogue. But oh well, sucks to be him.
Shaman dies again, and rogue says that if he comes back I should kill the totems (there was one the shaman put up in the last fight till he died). Mkay, but then the shaman apparently bailed and returned to evil lands. LOL. WOOT! I got me a touch of honor points and... somewhere in here I'm getting tells from a low level night elf I remember seeing on the docks. She tells me that the shaman admires my spirit, and says most high levels will run *away* from a fight, and here I am at level 19 running *towards* them. I told her I was unafraid of the Horde and ready to defend my lands and the lands of my friends to the death. She passed that on to the Horde guy and he in return said that more high levels should be like me. (Horde and Alliance characters cannot communicate like this normally, my guess is the night elf was either playing the game in the same room as the troll, or they were on Teamspeak or some program like that. This also explains how the shaman knew I was sitting in town PvP flagged at the beginning of this story. I remember that night elf from a few minutes before being slaughtered.)
Now for the rest of the story. And a greater understanding of what the troll was talking about. About three or four days ago I had my level 10 night elf druid on for a few minutes to check mail and do some tailoring. Suddenly there's a local defense message: Darnassus is under attack! That's uh, the main night elf city (where I am in the middle of at the bank). Wow, someone must be doing a big raid. Well heck ya, I'm gonna get in on this! Someone shouts that he can't take them all, and needs help. Well, yeah my heal is crappy at this level but it's better than *nothing* so I run to the front gates, expecting the fight to be there. Crickets. Nothing. I ask in general channel where the fight is... you'd think if he needed help that bad he woulda said where it was if it wasn't easy to find. Eventually someone says they're by the portal, and some other know-it-all says "they can't have made it that far." Mind you, the portal is where I started behind the bank. Soooo I run back.
Turns out there are five level 60-ish Horde sitting in the water by the bank/portal laughing at everyone. Since nobody seems interested in taking them on, I hit them with my crappy Moonfire spell (a damage-over-time spell that is completely woosy against them but WHATEVER I'm not gonna sit around and do nothing... like the high levels are...). Of course, every time I land Moonfire on someone (and yes, it did stick about 3/4 of the time) I find myself thoroughly dead shortly thereafter. On about the third or fourth run back to my body, someone says "send me a tell for invite to counterattack" and I send him a tell with "yes please" and get back to my body. Just before they go in, the raid leader says, "you're too low" and KICKS ME OUT!!! I say, "but I can heal, even if it's a crappy heal, it's better than nothing!" "You're too low" is all I get. And because they're in a raid, apparently I can't heal them (I tried, the only thing that would stick was my regeneration spell which is truly about worthless on them).
So after watching a couple chars bail and use first aid to heal, I gave up. I got ready to log out, and then sent them a scathing rebuke over the general chat channel. "You guys suck. What a way to discourage low levels from helping defend our lands." I logged in my low level rogue and ranted in guild chat, and my guild members agreed that the whole thing was crap. It was a raid, throw a bone to the crazy newbie and let her die all over if she wants. Besides... as I remember, they had no healer. With the first aid going on, that's pretty obvious.
It doesn't end here. I'm so steamed and hoping the Horde owned those twats, I logged again and made an undead newbie just to chat with the one name I could remember from the Horde raid. I sent him a tell, asking how their raid went in Darnassus (he was in the Ogre city so I figured they were all dead or gone home by now). He said it went pretty well. I said "Good!" and told him what had happened on my end. I said, "You may remember me, I was the crazy level 10 druid who kept casting on you guys." And he was like, "lol, oh yeah." And then... "moonfire wft"
LOL. For those who don't know, FTW means For The Win and what he said could be interpreted as me owning the day with my crap spell. Of course, that's a whole lot of sarcasm thrown in, but still... I like the orc's attitude much better than the high level pricks who kicked me out of the raid. Yeah, I imagine there's crappy high levels on the horde end too... but this is now two instances where Alliance high levels have come across as bad. Heh. Half makes me wanna switch sides. But no, I will do my best to rise above the retardedness and find the good high levels (some of which I already know) and show the lowsy ones what for!
Someone says the shaman is on the docks (which are quite long, two different ships come in there), and so I'm running around on the docks trying to find the guy. Don't see him... run back towards town and SPLAT, dead from behind again. Grrrr.... ghosting back again...
By this time, rogue buddy has arrived, and says he's killed the shaman twice now. WOOT! I meet up with him in the middle of the docks, and who should arrive again but the troll, no longer PvP flagged. We exchange emote taunts for a bit and then apparently my flagrant dancing made him mad enough to attack me. Dead again, LOL. But this gives my rogue buddy the chance he needs to kill the shaman *again*.
Alright, by the time I make it back again the shaman has fled south towards an island. Rogue buddy is chasing him and so I hurl myself into the water and swim for it. Rogue says the shaman is gone, I get to the island and spot the troll swimming around below, flagged. So ensues a heated battle in which I for once don't die and actually land a couple debuff skills on the shaman. He shoulda killed me in one hit and went back to the rogue. But oh well, sucks to be him.
Shaman dies again, and rogue says that if he comes back I should kill the totems (there was one the shaman put up in the last fight till he died). Mkay, but then the shaman apparently bailed and returned to evil lands. LOL. WOOT! I got me a touch of honor points and... somewhere in here I'm getting tells from a low level night elf I remember seeing on the docks. She tells me that the shaman admires my spirit, and says most high levels will run *away* from a fight, and here I am at level 19 running *towards* them. I told her I was unafraid of the Horde and ready to defend my lands and the lands of my friends to the death. She passed that on to the Horde guy and he in return said that more high levels should be like me. (Horde and Alliance characters cannot communicate like this normally, my guess is the night elf was either playing the game in the same room as the troll, or they were on Teamspeak or some program like that. This also explains how the shaman knew I was sitting in town PvP flagged at the beginning of this story. I remember that night elf from a few minutes before being slaughtered.)
Now for the rest of the story. And a greater understanding of what the troll was talking about. About three or four days ago I had my level 10 night elf druid on for a few minutes to check mail and do some tailoring. Suddenly there's a local defense message: Darnassus is under attack! That's uh, the main night elf city (where I am in the middle of at the bank). Wow, someone must be doing a big raid. Well heck ya, I'm gonna get in on this! Someone shouts that he can't take them all, and needs help. Well, yeah my heal is crappy at this level but it's better than *nothing* so I run to the front gates, expecting the fight to be there. Crickets. Nothing. I ask in general channel where the fight is... you'd think if he needed help that bad he woulda said where it was if it wasn't easy to find. Eventually someone says they're by the portal, and some other know-it-all says "they can't have made it that far." Mind you, the portal is where I started behind the bank. Soooo I run back.
Turns out there are five level 60-ish Horde sitting in the water by the bank/portal laughing at everyone. Since nobody seems interested in taking them on, I hit them with my crappy Moonfire spell (a damage-over-time spell that is completely woosy against them but WHATEVER I'm not gonna sit around and do nothing... like the high levels are...). Of course, every time I land Moonfire on someone (and yes, it did stick about 3/4 of the time) I find myself thoroughly dead shortly thereafter. On about the third or fourth run back to my body, someone says "send me a tell for invite to counterattack" and I send him a tell with "yes please" and get back to my body. Just before they go in, the raid leader says, "you're too low" and KICKS ME OUT!!! I say, "but I can heal, even if it's a crappy heal, it's better than nothing!" "You're too low" is all I get. And because they're in a raid, apparently I can't heal them (I tried, the only thing that would stick was my regeneration spell which is truly about worthless on them).
So after watching a couple chars bail and use first aid to heal, I gave up. I got ready to log out, and then sent them a scathing rebuke over the general chat channel. "You guys suck. What a way to discourage low levels from helping defend our lands." I logged in my low level rogue and ranted in guild chat, and my guild members agreed that the whole thing was crap. It was a raid, throw a bone to the crazy newbie and let her die all over if she wants. Besides... as I remember, they had no healer. With the first aid going on, that's pretty obvious.
It doesn't end here. I'm so steamed and hoping the Horde owned those twats, I logged again and made an undead newbie just to chat with the one name I could remember from the Horde raid. I sent him a tell, asking how their raid went in Darnassus (he was in the Ogre city so I figured they were all dead or gone home by now). He said it went pretty well. I said "Good!" and told him what had happened on my end. I said, "You may remember me, I was the crazy level 10 druid who kept casting on you guys." And he was like, "lol, oh yeah." And then... "moonfire wft"
LOL. For those who don't know, FTW means For The Win and what he said could be interpreted as me owning the day with my crap spell. Of course, that's a whole lot of sarcasm thrown in, but still... I like the orc's attitude much better than the high level pricks who kicked me out of the raid. Yeah, I imagine there's crappy high levels on the horde end too... but this is now two instances where Alliance high levels have come across as bad. Heh. Half makes me wanna switch sides. But no, I will do my best to rise above the retardedness and find the good high levels (some of which I already know) and show the lowsy ones what for!
