Too long nothing done with this blog, time for some ranting!
I play on both sides of Argent Dawn and there's quite some namecalling going on against the inhabitants of another realm in our
battlegroup especially Crushridge. Crushridge basicly is completely populated with italians and seemingly the italians are too small a minority to be given their own servers like the germans, french, spaniards and russians. Since the introduction of the "Dungeon Finder" tool we can be teamed with any of the (labelled) english speaking realms. And most crushridgers don't speak english and everybody's yapping they can't communicate with them. Also the other major complaint is that they're all M&S.
From my not-so-humble point of view:
1) They don't speak englishI say "So fucking what!". Every single heroic I join I start with either a "Hello", "'elo", "Morning" or whatever variant and mostly I get about one reply in partychat. That makes for 2 (two) words. Now every now and then, lets say once each dungeon run for the sake of argument, somebody dies and there's the inevitable "ress plz", followed by a "thx" after the resurrection is completed. Putting the total words spoken at 5 (five). Then there's the end of the dungeon, mostly a few persons leave almost instantly when the last spoils are divided, some even before that and on average one person says something in the order of "thx, bye" before leaving the group. Before I even have the chance to type something, the group has already completely dissolved, leaving the total amount of words spoken by the entire party, during the entire run, at 7 (seven)!'For me, that's a pretty accurate number for the average dungeonrun I am in. And does it matter that the Crushridgians don't know those few, of which some merely corteous, some utterly redundant, words? No, it doesn't matter at all!
2) M&S (Morons & Slackers)Basicly the slackers don't even end up on my ignore list, I'm even quite lenient about putting the morons in there. So mostly my ignorelist is filled up with the asshats and idiots you meet during your time in crossrealmdungeoning. Gunho's ignorelist gets cleaned up every now and then and there's nobody on there at the moment since he's frostemblemcapped and therefor doesn't need to do the daily dungeon anymore.
Steamy on the other hand, is about 157 emblems away from having all the stuff he wants from those emblems and will do anything to get them quicker! Including the daily dungeon. Also note that I jumped in heroics as a tank the moment I hit 80, uncrittable, not-to-great hit, non-existant expertise and about 22k health, so I mostly got more aggro from my partymembers then the instance's mobs. And here's the never cleaned up list with my ignores:
Argent Dawn - 12
Burning Legion - 6
Chrushridge - 5
Daggerspine - 1
Deathwing - 7
Dunemual - 4
Dragonmaw - 2Now since I also do my pug-raiding on the Argent Dawn I'm pretty sure half of those ignores came from pugraids, so about six of those came from running the dungeons. There's nobody in there that spammed crap in trade or general, I got a second tab in my chatframe which holds all general and trade "conversations" which I check every now and then, but not so often that it causes me to lose sanity. And that leaves me with these numbers:
Argent Dawn - 6
Burning Legion - 6
Chrushridge - 5
Daggerspine - 1
Deathwing - 7
Dunemual - 4
Dragonmaw - 2In my experience, Crushridge isn't the worst realm, it's Dragonmaw, followed closely by Burning legion and... what, our beloved Argent Dawn! Crushridge doesn't even get a medal it only reaches fourth place on my personal asshat & idiotlist. Followed by Dunemaul with a shoddy four ignores and Dragonmaw and Daggerspine are hardly on the charts!
Myself I really don't care what realm you come from when you're in the same group as I am. And I think that all the M&S or A&I don't care alot about realm boundaries either, there's good and bad people everywhere. And during my heroic tankingcareer it seems they have had a hard time finding the Dragonmaw and Daggerspine realms to infect with their ignorance. Crushridge has its share, but more or less then others? Not in my experience.
Next stop, Goldsellers!Everybody hates them, nobody likes them, Blizzard repeatedly keeps banning them and you know what? They keep coming back! Now, why do they keep coming back? For profit ofcourse, what else? Selling virtual cash for real cash is the business they're in and seemingly there is a market for it.
Steamy has made his own
Boots of Kingly Upheaval and
Pillars of Might. Together, combined with buying the plans, that boils down to 15
Primordial Saronites. The current marketvalue of those on Argent Dawn would be about 12k gold and at the beginning of the Icecrown Citadel era about 30k gold. Now that kind of money takes either a shitload of dailies, farming or "playing" the AH, as it's often called in a way to make it sound fun.
Personally I frigging hate them all. For starters, daily quests are not quests, they're chores! They're not hard, they're not exciting and it's the same stuff over and over again.
Second, farming. Pick a certain item or mob and keep on killing/gathering till you've accumulated enough resources to make it worthwile. Is is hard? Probably not. Exciting? highly doubtfull.
Last but not least, "Playing" the AH. Buy low, sell high. It's like the New York Stock Exchange. Once again, enjoyment is in the eye of the beholder and my eyes certainly don't see it that way. Sniffing through all the crap on the AH looking for a profit, no thanks!
And here come the goldsellers, even a no-spamming, wellknown, rather respectable one might say, and expensive like
IGE offers 15k gold for about 34 Euros. Think up a timeframe it would take an average person to get 15k gold. Now compare it to the time they have to work to gather 34 euros. Finally compare the effort put in adjusting the personal budget to accomodate those 34 euros, to spending those hours ingame gathering 15k gold.
"Time is money, friend" and I certainly don't hold it against anyone if they spend some
real money on digital gold.
On a final note; screw ranting, playing the devils advocate is much more fun! :D
