Lately I’ve gone on a bit of a PvP kick. It’s really been an exciting experience for me because I don’t PvP a lot, and the character I’ve chosen to go on this adventure with is my discipline priest, which is the class I know how to play the least.
He’s not a twink by any stretch of the imagination, but I like to think I have a half-decent clue of what I’m doing. I’ve also found that battlegrounds are always short healers, so I figure any help is good help.
Having said that, I would say that about 95% of the battlegrounds I’ve run in the last two weeks have concluded with Wetnap being #1 in the healing chart. (Although I should admit that in many of those, he was also the only healer.) I don’t go there to score huge amounts of honour, or produce massive DPS or a trillion honourable kills. I go there to support my team. I go to buff. I go to help. I go to keep the Alliance from dieing more than they need to. Judging from the numbers, I would say that I succeed a good percentage of the time. Nothing feels better than defending a flag when an assault group comes in and keeping your friends safe.
The thing that bothers me about PvP are the wannabee raid leaders. They usually follow the same pattern every time. First they enter the battleground and issue orders while they’re waiting for the gates to open. Second, nobody follows the orders. The rest of the battleground is subsequently spent QQ’ing on the team and telling them how much they “suck” in the most graphic language possible and encouraging people to either leave the battleground or “just die and let them win” — because they’re upset that the team wouldn’t play by their strategy.
I had a real winner yesterday. And I suppose it should be expected because it’s March Break in most parts of North America. I joined the battleground as a replacement for someone who left. The Arathi Basin was already 1400/360 or thereabouts. We were getting hammered big time, and this little dufus of a priest started the crocodile QQ tears. I couldn’t believe he had the audacity to call me out by name! He proceeded to tell me how my healing was inadequate, and how I was being beat by a HUNTER etc etc…
Ok… I’d been in the battleground for a sum total of 20 seconds. They’d probably been fighting for maybe ten minutes, and this idiot was going off on my head because some huntard who had more mana than sense was spamming heal pet and blowing a ton of bandages.
You can’t very well leave the battleground chat. Well, you could but then you might miss a legitimate instruction from a helpful player.
I wish there was a solution. I guess /ignore works. It’s just such a freakin’ shame.
You will always find people like that in BGs, and you’ll get used to them to the point where you will not even make the effort to /ignore.
To be honest, if I’m in a silly mood, I like to wind them up even more. One thing you’ll notice is that they are not aware that something called sarcasm even exists…
Yes, you have a valid point. I just wish the signal to noise ratio wasn’t so damned high.
Just go alone with it gweedo, you get a good giggle and you anger them more than you expect lol.
Go along**** curse your site not letting me edit!
I see a regular column titled “Trash Talkin With Wetnap” in the near future. I would like to be a part of said column by being in the BG when it happens. I need a good laugh. I’ll be your Ed McMahon, bro.
~Rolánd