A warrior and his spirit gear
by Adam Holisky 
Apr 5th 2008 at 9:00AM
For some reason on my home server, Eldre'Thalas, when folks see a tank standing around in Shattrath without anything to do, they immediately start sending tells asking if I want to go tank such-and-such an instance for them. I don't mind it when my friends or guild mates do it, but it does get a little annoying when complete strangers do it constantly.So I've come up with a solution: spirit and intellect armor. Whenever I'm doing anything other than fighting, I'm wearing bright yellow spirit and intellect armor that I got off the AH. I spent about a hundred gold on this dastardly set. It looks awful, it smells awful, and it's a great repellent for annoying unsolicited LFG tells.
I got the idea from looking at people's gear who are apping to my guild. Some of it was just plain nuts – spirit gear on Warriors, "of stamina" gear on Priests, things like that. Of course, they might have just been logged out in that gear the same way I'm logged out in mine right now. But when you're apping to a guild and one of the requirements is to log out in PvE gear for the next week, well, too bad so sad for them.
While this has solved the problem of annoying LFG tells, it has created another one. "What the $@%% is with your gear? Are you a $@@#$!@1!" asks one Mage. "Um... did you buy your character off ebay?" questions a Paladin. These make me laugh more than anything, so they're easy to ignore.
I'm interested to know if any of you out there are sporting a joke gear set. Share and enjoy!
Filed under: Warrior, Items, Virtual selves
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
Hular Apr 5th 2008 9:08AM
If I get asked to tank, I sometimes arrive wearing the level one armour set you can buy in the starting areas. Always good for a laugh... Until you forget to take it off for raids.
tcgiant Apr 5th 2008 9:33AM
Then it becomes HILARIOUS.
kapowaz Apr 5th 2008 9:33AM
Indeed! How dare anybody emerge from pre-70 in anything less than a full set of epics? The very idea.
Daz Apr 5th 2008 2:36PM
Good call mate. Nice to see there's hope for me when I hit 70 and I won't just be harrassed by elitists!
Laurens Holst Apr 5th 2008 9:34AM
Well, I’m slowly gathering stamina and defense gear for my mage, but I actually intend to tank with it! Call me crazy!
Derek Apr 5th 2008 9:35AM
It took so long for my T2 shoudlers to drop, I started tanking with the shaman dungeon set out of spite! But yea, I had a play set, involved the rocket helm and one naked warrior! I've always wanted to collect the white bandit leather armor, looks kickass if you can gather all the pieces.
kapowaz Apr 5th 2008 9:37AM
Also; for somebody whose job it is to write about your experiences with World of Warcraft, is it too much trouble to ask that you use the appropriate words? "Aping" is an entirely different and real word, and saves only 3 letters from "applying". You're hardly abbreviating Serpentshrine Cavern, here.
Alchemistmerlin Apr 5th 2008 9:52AM
Wow, you corrected a blogger's post! Your E-peen must be HUGE!
kapowaz Apr 5th 2008 10:02AM
Sure, *that* follows. I guess it *is* too much to expect blog posts on the most popular independent World of Warcraft blog to be held to any kind of standards. Hey, let's all go register mywowbloglulz.blogspot.com and have done with it, eh?
Balasan Apr 5th 2008 10:06AM
Kapowaz has a point. Applying and Apping are just 2 letters apart. Best example for shortening has been provided - Serpentshrine Caverns into SSC. U SRSLY CNT B THT LZY 2 TYP 2 LTTRS!
Bastiaan Apr 5th 2008 10:24AM
With kapowaz on this one - apping is not a necessary abbreviation for applying, and aping has a different meaning.
Also, why is correcting a blogger's spelling or grammar such a bad thing? After all, correct use of language will help the bloggers to get their point across quicker, which is probably something they'd like. So kapowaz' post was actually helpful for Adam.
andyjay220 Apr 5th 2008 10:45AM
You guys who are challenging apping (I'm sure aping is just a typo) need to go study rhetoric. If you want to capture the attention of your audience and persuade them, you need to appeal to your character and emotion (pathos and ethos). Using "insider" words like apping is one way of appealing to a particular group. The mmo community has a lot of slang that makes us feel part of a homogeneous group, and a writer who is catering to such a group is well-advised to use that type of language. Any WoW player can easily identify a newbie player by their lack of familiarity with the jargon.
If you doubt me, those of you pushing for stricter grammar also are part of a group (a group that values the use of formal language). Both groups can easily identify those who are "in" and those who are "out" by the language and terminology used.
umhihowareyou Apr 5th 2008 11:18AM
aping = blog version of spirit armor
you fools got trolled suckazz!
Adam Holisky Apr 5th 2008 11:37AM
I was fighting with MS word all night as it tried to correct apping into aping. Looks like it managed to get one by me before I posted this.
Regarding the use of the word, you'll notice that yourself and everyone else knew what I was talking about. It is part of our lexicon as players of World of Warcraft. As such I look at it as a stylistic choice, within the bounds of proper use during discourse.
jrodman Apr 5th 2008 12:38PM
Other words that are part of the "World of Warcraft lexicon" include u, srsly, and nub. Please try to integrate more of these into your regular blogging voice, for more versimilitude.
elle Apr 5th 2008 4:55PM
I've played WoW for two and a half years and never heard anyone use the word "apping." Anywhere. Not even in Trade.
Culhag Apr 5th 2008 9:38AM
There's a warrior on my server who has a full dongeon 3 priest set, and healing stuff for every slot.
Isambaard Apr 18th 2008 4:43PM
Because I'm a pedant, the best he could have is 7/8 tier 3 as the tier set ring is class specific.
Still an awesome idea and if I had the spare time to play in Naxx I'd likely do it also.
Feoremar Apr 5th 2008 9:43AM
Pretty cool looking helmet though....
Calaana Apr 5th 2008 9:53AM
I get a similar effect sometimes... Why does my healing set suck so much? Well, it's my tanking gear. Same reason my healing spec sucks.