Allways a jerk but why?Follow

I was born naked and try and stay that way.

You know, I don't think that the majority of people here, at least the regulars, are your target audience for this.

I mean, after all, we're all amazing players, incredibly considerate, and all around good looking people.

We are also brilliant, you forgot to add that. Probably because we are extremely humble as well.

I think the thing I like least about jerks in WoW is that threy make me feel less inclined to be a nice person to random players.

Take for example my most recent alt to hit level cap. She just got to 346 avg ilvl meaning that I can queue for the troll instances. She doesn't have that in either dps or healing kit though and I know I wouldn't be able to heal those dungeons (my 82k mana pool would not go very far I feel). But I find myself thinking "why shouldn't I try as dps?", sure I won't be able to pull 12-15k but I know the fights and my gear is correctly gemmed and enchanted. I find myself wondering why I should be running normal heroics (often skipping bosses that drop anything I need) when I end up grouped with people in ungemmed, unenchanted, green gear with the wrong stats for their role who are pulling <8k dps overall when I run the troll places on my other toons?

So whilst the Angel is sitting on my shoulder telling me to wait until I'm more ready the little Devil is saying that there are worse people out there than me so why not give it a try.

As for people spouting negative comments, I have in my mind a reasonable expectation of my performance. As long as I feel I am doing my job to the best of my ability I don't pay attention to anyone saying that I'm rubbish simply because I'm not in line with their (overexagerated) expectations. If I'm doing a bad job I recognise that as well and will take advice to heart (on the rare occasions people give advice rather than screaming obscenities) and will try to improve my gear/play before going into that situation again. But that's probably because I'm an amazing player, incredibly considerate, brilliant and good looking. Also, humble.

I have a nice spot on my ignore list for anyone who is particularly rude or who insists that everyone else is responsible for their mistakes.

Edited, Jun 15th 2011 10:41am by Tynuv

I never was.

Oddly enough i have a healer and hunter as well!

Anyways, in response to your original post

To solve your problem, just 'miss' a few heals on the guy that's being a jerk and he'll either shut up or leave.

Bottom line when it comes to games is this:

In today's world people feel fearless behind the keyboard because they are anonymous. It's a horrible trend of people feeling they can say what they want to whomever they want just because its typed and sent instead of spoken. If people would talk to people on the internet the same way we do in person it would be a far better place.

Now am I always the nicest, most respectful person every time I type something? No, but neither am I in person. No one is perfect, but if they took the split second it takes to remind themselves they are indeed talking to another human being, the world (of warcraft) could be a far more civil place.

I don't think Therion could be an actual asshat if he tried. That's a compliment though.

Obviously.

I must be in a different Dungeon Finder queue, because I've run tons of instances in the last couple weeks and I've only had 1 bad group and 1 bad individual. The first was a 3-member guild group apparently trying to boost their healer to getting some actual healing gear. He was a pally with sub-60k mp and was OOMing on trash, but his 2 DPS buddies refused to use CC. I was tanking on my warrior, so there wasn't much I could do except plow into stuff and kill it quickly. They finally quit after we wiped on the dragon boss with the changing wind directions and the tornadoes.

The other was a hunter that was hanging out in the back of the group and only killing bosses all the way through heroic SFK. I waited until right before the last boss to post an overall Recount (he had 2nd-highest DPS, but was dead-last on total damage done) and started a vote-kick. No surprise, it passed.

Edited, Jun 16th 2011 7:21am by AstarintheDruid

Who says I'm not? I just don't bring it into the game normally.

Both are from the Bovinae subfamily, and Taurens are described as "large, muscular humanoids and bovine in appearance, complete with hooves and horns". So pretty close. ;)

Ah, that's why all of those goblins have been looking at my tauren druid with a hungering eye.