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All of the latest Mists of Pandaria newsBreakfast Topic: Emotes to improve cross faction communication
by Amanda Miller 
Mar 3rd 2009 at 8:00AM
Then the dance ensues. I salute, and the Mage waves. The Mage starts /saying things that I don't understand. I shrug. I wait for awhile, hoping that this will signal that I am willing to let the Mage go first. I'm hoping that my politeness infers that I will help.
Finally, I point at the Mage, then at the mob. Taking a leap of faith, the Mage tags it, and I run around behind to help, perhaps with a guildmate at my side.
After our parting farewells, I sit down to await a respawn. Personally, I think it would be much easier if I could say "I'm here to save the day!" or "I come in peace." Of course, there is some charm involved in finding a way to use our current emotes to communicate other messages, especially after Blizz added new ones in 2008.
How do you communicate to a player of the opposite faction messages that aren't directly built-in to emotes? Are you aching for a certain emote that would help you do this, or do you enjoy having to puzzle it out by piecing together existing ones?
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Breakfast Topics, Factions
Reader Comments (Page 7 of 7)
Angus Mar 3rd 2009 6:01PM
Doesn't work, they changed that a while ago.
"So and so makes some strange gestures" is all you see now.
uncaringbear Mar 3rd 2009 4:57PM
Reading some of these comments, it's a stark reminder why some of us rolled on a PvE realm.
Angus Mar 3rd 2009 6:12PM
Had this happen a few days ago. Tankadin that has no problems soloing level 80s and I see this poor 78 human mage get pounded by a quest mob as I got there. I sit there and wait. They show up again and I wait. They then do a 'point at the mob. I /nod. They /point at me. /no. /point at mage /point at mob /nod. They /cheer me and then tag it with an ice lance. I proceed to hold the mob and we murder it. I then mine my ore and /wave.
10 minutes later a level 1 whispers me thanking me.
I didn't have the heart to tell the person that the titanium ore behind the mob meant it was dying one way or another and it might as well have died for them.
Emma Mar 3rd 2009 11:29PM
I play on Blackrock (PVP), and to be honest I derive more satisfaction from helping a lowbie alliance player do a quest rather than faceroll his death.
I like knowing that somewhere in the real world, I've made a real human being happy or at least surprised ;)
Keyra Mar 4th 2009 12:37AM
To me, that's what the game is ultimately about - having fun, not pissing other people off just because we CAN with our über-cool ultimate level whatevers.
Good call, Emma, and good comment to the dishonorable horde player earlier! Such a person as that should be dragged into the commons and publicly stripped of his mantle, then exiled into Winterspring with naught but a [http://www.wowhead.com/?item=15794] and a [http://www.wowhead.com/?item=2138].
lethian Oct 10th 2009 1:31PM
ditto
Magnus Mar 4th 2009 1:30AM
This would be more of an issue for me if I actually -saw- opposite faction players before they came up behind me/divebombed my ass from the air and brutally murdered me while I was in the middle of a quest.
As it is I generally consider myself lucky if I catch sight of one before I've been targeted and get the hell out of dodge.
Hone Melgren Mar 4th 2009 7:35AM
I have an even better way of communicating with a hordie if I need to.
Horde Troll Hunter Alt
If I really truely need to talk to them I just swap over to my Horde alt
Usdom Mar 4th 2009 11:30AM
/truce
It is a wonderful thing.