Sometimes the official boards just really really impress me with their stupidity

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...p&T=597139&P=1


This is an argument from a healer trying to prove that healing a tank on Drek'thar or Vanndar is a bad idea and that the healers should be doing DPS instead to help win the game faster.

Here's a snippet

Shadow priests are the best priests. And they look all cool and shadowy too!

Ugh, and here I am --- someone who stopped pvping on my mage so I could healbot on a paladin. Much more fun to play a healer in my opinion (Other then the resident warrior getting healbotted).

Something about an official wow-pvp forum terrifies me. I didn't even know it existed.

This person brings great insight and intelligence to World of Warcraft. Perhaps I should duel wield tank Vandar next time, in berserker stance all the while?

Oh it's not even that.

This attitude is pretty much par for the course. It took 20 minutes of begging to get a warrior to tank Vandar the last time I was in AV - they were more interested in running back across the bridge and killing alliance as they spawned at the entrance.

That's the problem with the EJ forums. We shield you people from the real world, making you soft and vulnerable and forgetful of a place that's overrun with knuckle-dragging, ROFLing, hyperstupid dipshits.

Stupidity is contagious- please don't bring that stuff here. Reading that post only angered me ><

haha

And we love you for it.

IMO any good insult has to include mouth-breathing.

I've recently become embroiled in PVP for the 1st time attempting to get access to the Exalted Frostwolf gear, and I've come to several conclusions:

1) Retards are genetically drawn to Alterac Valley. There's some latent genome in human DNA that Blizzard has unwittingly tapped into that acts as some kind of siren song to make double digit IQ players flock like lemmings to the instance.

2) People are so retarded in AV that there's no rational way to explain their behavior. I have to tell myself this or I will lose faith in the human race in general, and gamers in particular.

3) If there is some kind of idiotic, totally retarded tactical mistake that a player can make in AV, they will make it without hesitation.

4) I'm 2.7k away from max Exalted. I pray that I never have to PVP again after this.

I had severe allergies growing up and developed a habit of breathing through my mouth.

YOU ARE SO BANNED!

Pugging Arathi Basin is the most infuriating thing you can do in this game. The mechanic is so simple, cap the base, leave 1 or 2 people to defend it and the rest move on. I always end up staying at the farm and watch the mob of mindless idiots go from flag to flag capping it and all of them run off to the stables to get kills, leaving the flag to get taken about 10 seconds later. I say something in raid and it is met with no reply whatsoever.

Or the guy that yells picks up the flag in WSG and stands in the middle farming kills because he needs more honor, eventually dying and curses me out when I grab the flag and cap it immediatly because I robbed him of honor.

This is one of the reasons why I like being a druid so much. If everyone else is too retarded to tank him I can do it, and if everyone else is too retarded to heal whoever's tanking I can do it. Generally I can find one competant tank or healer in an AV so I just take over the other role and bam easy win.

The best option though is to just bring in a warrior with skulls for his shoulders and have him tank the general and marshalls at the same time.

Sigh. Regardless of any theoretical increase in speed, I don't see how a strategy that depends on ~20 random people to react well to keep an encounter controlled is more feasible than one that requires only two people to react well.

An Aggro Ping-Pong strategy can work - I've been in groups where we had no healers, and we took Galv and Drek down by having hit burn through a couple of tanks and then get ping-ponged around between several [vastly overgeared] DPS classes who decided to ping pong him. The kill still took longer than if he'd just been tanked in position and sundered the whole time.

That worked because:

a. we were overgeared

b. it was planned. The hunters were ready to pick up aggro when the tanks died, they weren't blowing deterrence or FD early, the warlocks and mages were spread out and Drek was always snared. No random pugs had any involvement in the affair.

In a pure PUG situation, a healer can assume that the warrior who wants to tank will be decent at it, and heal to the best of his or her ability. The PUG DPS doesn't need to do anything correctly, they're not relevant to the strategy unless the tank loses aggro or dies. Or the healer can decide to let the tank die, then hope no-one gets aggro and leashes the boss, hope sunders/curses stay up, hope the boss doesn't one shot everyone and reset, and hope the nearest graveyard doesn't get assaulted.

I think this may have been written from the perspective of someone who has never figured out that mana can be regenerated.

Correction. The secret to leading AV raids is using Capslock to send every PUG on your side away from the enemy base, and using 10-15 people you trust to win the last GY and kill the leader. At least that's how it works for Alliance, I'm not sure if horde can manage it as sneakily.

WoW seems like such a simple game to us, but really, why can't these people get it? Are they literate? Can they perform well in their jobs? Did they have 3.5 GPAs or more in college? The dude in question in the OP can obviously type with some competance but he has virtually no understanding of how the game works.

Sometimes general intelligence level does not equate to understanding the game at all, and that mystifies the whole situation even for me. You'd expect the l337 d00ds to play like this but there must be something underneath the surface that makes literate people be this dumb.

I have no explanation for this. I'm sure a behavioral psychologist would have a field day with WoW, but the social dynamics present when you get this many idiots together in one virtual space are interesting, and frightening.

I had a moonkin druid tell me yesterday that innervate was best used on himself

i currently have a bout of chronic congestion and can barely breathe through my nose :(

to the wow forums i go!