Things that annoy me
by Allison Robert 
Jul 5th 2008 at 7:00PM
Or, how to celebrate the birth of a nation via an ugly series of Horde losses in Arathi Basin:1. Every single Alliance character in the game has a Black War Tiger.
2. Every single Horde character in the game has a Black War Raptor (yes, myself included).
3. I could be wrong, but I don't think "Lich King" is pronounced "Lick King," as I keep hearing it pronounced on my server.
4. However, it might be because the word looks somewhat Germanic, and I will be unable to keep a straight face for the duration of the next expansion.
5. To the point of losing it completely if I hear "World of Warcraft: WRAAAAAAATH OF THE LICK KING" intoned by the Deep-Voiced Serious Trailer Guy.
6. How male human characters run. There's a lot of great animation in the game. This is not one of them.
7. Practically every main-tank of every Hordeside raiding guild is a male Tauren.
8. An egotistical male Tauren. Look, Spanky, just because Bulwark of Azzinoth is bigger on you than anybody else does not mean that the same is true of appendages elsewhere.
9. Almost nobody plays female Dwarves, female Tauren, female Orcs, or female Trolls. Out of idle curiosity, how do these races reproduce?
10. On that note, why does nobody roll female Undead Warriors? Their special attack animation is insane. "They look like flippy psychotic fleas from Hell," as one of my guildies observed (go roll one and Heroic Strike something if you don't believe me).
11. The distance and time spent corpse-running in vanilla WoW, back when the notion of an MMORPG being a time sink was more widely accepted. Try being a Hordie who dies in the northern Barrens or an Ally who dies in western Elwynn and you'll see what I mean.
12. How easy some classes have it while leveling. Hunters? Please. Warlocks? Christ. F$^&*#@g pet classes.
13. Swearing under my breath whenever I die on my hunter and warlock.
14. Feral-specced: guilted into tanking everything for everybody.
15. Resto specced: guilted into healing everything for everybody.
16. Balance-specced: feeling guilty that I'm not tanking or healing.
17. Being a Flame tank on Illidan. I hate this job. Flame-tanking: a raid mechanic brought to you by Blizzard's Department of Sadistic Bastards. I suspect these people are also responsible for the entire design and implementation of Shattered Halls, the "I Was A Lot of Things..." quest in Shadowmoon Valley, and the Aldor Rise elevator.
18. People who have never rolled anything other than a DPS class telling me how to tank or heal. You see that guy over there? Yeah, that guy -- the one playing your class with your spec but with half your gear, thrashing you on the meters. There's one in every raid. Ask him how he does his job and stop pestering me about mine.
19. People who have never rolled anything other than a DPS class complaining about the tank and healer shortage.
20. People who have rolled a tanking or healing class, keep their toons specced for DPS, and then complain about the tank and healer shortage. Sorry, buddy, but if you have a shadow Priest, a retribution Paladin, and a fury Warrior, have never healed or tanked, and have no intention of doing either, then don't fill my chat log with whining over how I'm not at your beck and call 24/7.
21. Spending a reagent to battle-rez someone who then dies again with ten seconds. Well, there's half a gold and a 20-minute cooldown well spent.
22. People who AFK in battlegrounds. There's a little something called the "tragedy of the commons," dude. Might want to rethink your potential honor-per-hour gain when you're directly contributing to your own side's failure.
23. People who crater on Archimonde, screw up their constructs on Gorefiend, move during Flame Wreath on Aran, don't understand "Run to the wall!" on Netherspite or Leotheras, run straight into volcanoes on Supremus, don't realize they have Parasite on Illidan, die to Spout on Lurker, and haven't figured out why pulling aggro on Hydross is a bad, bad thing.
24. Actually, scratch that. We've all done this crap at least once. I'll reserve my irritation for the people who continue to do it.....5 months into farming the fights.
25. Moonkin. Not because I don't like the spec (I do) or I haven't played it (leveled 40-69 as balance), but these people are ALWAYS somehow the first to break the unwritten Druid Truce in battlegrounds. To add to the agony, a goodly percentage of them really do just spam Moonfire.
26. That infuriating talent in the Affliction tree that gives Fear a >20 yard range.
27. Desperately trying to root people inside bases in Warsong Gulch and realizing, yeah, I'm just gonna die.
28. Zoning into 8 straight Arathi Basin matches with Horde starting anywhere from 4 to a whopping 10 people down compared to Alliance. We few, we few, we happy few, we band of buggered.
Filed under: Horde, Bosses, Raiding, Humor, Instances, Odds and ends, Analysis / Opinion, Druid, Alliance, Battlegrounds
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 6)
Acidus Jul 5th 2008 7:10PM
i have a female undead warrior and the spinny thing does kick some ass, we also had a female orc tank as main tank in our old raids. i miss pre tbc raids.
29.The lack of world pvp. Come on blizzard. i had wet dreams about taren mill and southshore pvp in the old days, its some much better than bgs.
Snailking Jul 5th 2008 8:11PM
Not only does the flip-attack rule, but the female undead UNARMED attack is the coolest animation in the game. Ever. Period.
doyesac Jul 5th 2008 8:46PM
I adore my female Undead warrior. Only problem is -- after rolling Tauren so often, I can barely see her on screen.
Allison Robert Jul 5th 2008 10:14PM
Doyesac: YES! That's always been my problem when switching from my main (a female Tauren) to a non-Tauren alt; all of a sudden the world seems huge rather than the toon.
Superstone Jul 6th 2008 3:45PM
I play a female UD warrior, as said before, UNARMED is the best. Unarmed fury is ridiculously cool. Why are the undead chicks so feral? listen to their /flirt's and /silly's they are some bitter, bitter women.
kabshiel Jul 6th 2008 5:21PM
Female Draenei unarmed attack is pretty similar. It looks like she's gonna rip your face off.
Kaphik Jul 5th 2008 7:14PM
Male Tauren Warriors ARE > the rest of you.
I have a female Undead Warrior, she kicks butt.
I have a female Orc Hunter, but hunters are a p.i.t.a. for me to level for some reason.
I hate raptors, I refuse to own one on any character.
Just wanted to refute some of your points. ;)
BigLove Jul 5th 2008 7:20PM
#25, what is the unwritten Druid Truce in battlegrounds?
Killah Jul 5th 2008 7:33PM
Whatever you do, don't spam Moonfire.
Allison Robert Jul 5th 2008 8:03PM
A lot of druids won't attack other druids in battlegrounds and world PvP unless attacked first. This used to be a rather courtly nod to the very small population of druids in vanilla and early BC, but with resto druids' ascendancy in PvP content (and feral's in PvE), a number of people are now playing the class who are either unaware of the informal "Druid Truce" or simply don't care.
Allison Robert Jul 5th 2008 8:08PM
Oh yeah, and like Killah said, don't spam Moonfire.
Dan Jul 5th 2008 9:33PM
Don't forget that the Druid truce not only refers to vanilla-WoW, but also the whole lore of it. The two Druid races united into the Cenarion Circle, and (especially in RP realms) this is a very sacred bond.
It seems that even on non-RP realms many Druids still like to hold this bond sacred. I know I do as much as possible (although I've always considered BGs as a place where the bond breaks due to the battle going on).
Jarrod Jul 5th 2008 10:22PM
Yet another reason to despise druids. This "druid truce" is the very definition of idiotic. Next time, I'll be sure to only heal the people on my team that really came to the BG to win and left the stupid at home.
Allison Robert Jul 5th 2008 10:53PM
To Jarrod -
The "druid truce," as I said, is something of a faded concept with the rising popularity of the class, but it made a sad kind of sense in vanilla WoW when few people played them (especially Hordeside). Druids were a fairly weak class even with all the tweaks made to their talent trees and abilities (Hurricane used to be the 31-point talent in Balance; Innervate was its Restoration counterpart) and it was extremely rare to see them specced or geared to DPS. If you were a Druid who met one of your opposition counterparts, 95% of the time they were a fellow healbot and you both knew perfectly well that you weren't threats to each other.
Don't forget that we were also relatively weak PvP healers before BC hit and resilience gear was introduced. The players who ruled PvP in vanilla WoW were either people who raided and had gear that far outclassed the average player's at 60 (Naxx/AQ40-geared premades could destroy ZG/MC-geared premades, to say nothing of PuG's), or classes that depended on the kind of burst damage that resilience now lessens or negates entirely (one of the reasons that shaman were such feared opponents). HoT's pair well with resilience, which reduces the incoming flow of damage to a more manageable rate. They didn't do as well pre-BC when burst damage defined PvP. Druids have the slowest "big heal" in the game, Nature's Swiftness is a 3-minute cooldown, and all of our HoT's could be dispelled or purged. This was well before the days of Cyclone and Lifebloom.
So. If you ran across a fellow Druid, you knew they probably weren't a threat to you, were likely to be healbotting (insofar as was possible) fellow players, or running flags. And there just weren't that many Druids period because most people disliked the weaknesses (some real, some imagined) of the class. Thus began the informal "Druid truce" (you'll still see references to it around the official Druid forums today), where a plurality of the Druid population would not initiate hostilities against other Druids in world PvP or battlegrounds. You'd likely be healing the people who *were* smashing other Druids' faces, don't get me wrong, but you were unlikely to (proverbially speaking) fire the first shot.
In most respects the truce has now vanished. BC improved the class and its itemization tremendously, a number of new people now play Druids who are either unaware of the class' pre-BC history or just don't care about it, and, well, Druids are now capable of the kind of DPS and HPS that can decide matches. But some of us are rather sorry to see the old truce go the way of the dinosaur. It was a nice, distinctive, poignant little thing for the class as a whole.
Yada Blah Jul 7th 2008 12:54PM
I never knew the origin of the Druid Truce.
While I've always respected it, in RP terms, I've always explained it as Druids keep their arguments to themselves, in Moonglade. No outsiders allowed.
Angry Joe Jul 6th 2008 1:47AM
Just to be sure, DON'T SPAM MOONFIRE!
Ceolwulf Jul 6th 2008 4:46PM
Things that annoy me:
Tauren druids. As a night elf druid, they are by far the one class most likely to gank me. Druid truce is long dead on Detheroc.
Ravenblight Jul 11th 2008 3:54PM
Allsion thx for the explanation... i didnt know about that...but then again i have not ever played a druid
Thats was pretty interesting...and i like that code of Honour
stonehead Jul 5th 2008 7:20PM
Things I love:
1. People who spell "beck and call" correctly. "Beckon Call" MEANS NOTHING!
ThorinII Jul 7th 2008 9:22AM
I have to admit I was educated by this post. My parents have always said "beckon call" and I therefore did not realize this was a common mishearing of "beck and call." I will be sure not to pass on this mistake to my children. Thank you.