That's because it's way more noticable there and they tend to get reported right the fuck away. I watching people curse in BG chat when a GM starts talking to them.
I've had people claim to report me before. I seriously doubt the GMs care. Especially since there's no rules against it.
Of course, I wasn't really afk, or I wouldn't know this, but you get the idea.
Of course, to retards in BGs, guarding the farm with my hunter is afk.
They don't care, they have stated time and time again, if the player is there and not actually physically gone from the PC, there isn't a damn thing they will do about, reports or not. It's a waste of time to report a AFKer that isn't botting or simply out of the room.
I sit in Drek'thar's room, alt-tabbed and programming, waiting for them to come so I can fear them into the warmasters (if I'm on my priest), cyclone the main tank (if I'm on my druid), or purge everyone and hide fire nova totems in Drek's wolves (if I'm on my shaman). If I join a fresh AV, I solo cap the southern Dun Baldar bunker less than six minutes into the game, which usually confuses the Alliance enough that they never even get to Drek's room where I then sit waiting.
unless you are the only guy trying in a game of afkers
THEN WHAT
THEY VOTE YOU OUT
Being in combat removes the debuff... and if I'm the only guy trying, I'm probably going to get into combat.
Or, a less serious response: THEY'D HAVE TO BE DOING SOMETHING OTHER THAN FAPPING TO PORN AND HITTING THEIR SPACEBAR BETWEEN MONEY SHOTS TO REPORT ME!
IRT "Why do I care":
A) I hate mooches. Why should I have to fight for objectives for 20-40 minutes just so someone can crack one off and earn the same amount of honour?
This behaviour is part of why the Alliance get so thoroughly reamed in my Battlegroup for WSG and AB (I don't play much EotS, but I suspect this is true here as well). 3/40 people AFK isn't really noticable over such a large map. 3/10 or 3/15, however, is utterly crippling to a team. I've had AB games where we won or lost by the smallest of margins, and had those 1-3 afk'ers actually participated (even just by standing at a flag and making people think twice about trying to ninja it), that win might've been a little less stressful, or that loss might not've been a loss at all.
It's bad enough that, unlike the Horde in my BG, we have to wait on queues; thus, forming up for AB is often a case where we're down 3-7 people until the match starts, because people are either in another BG and hoping it'll end before their 2 minutes runs out, or afk, or are deciding which game they want to join, or just can't be bothered to actually 'leave queue' when it pops, so the Alliance side starts at reduced numbers, and as I'm riding to the Stable/BS/Horde Base in WSG/wherever, we slowly fill out to capacity as those asshats are removed from the queue and new people (who may or may not join quickly) take their place.
I don't fault my BG's Horde for having the advantage of instant queues, and recognize that the AFKave phenomenon hits them as hard or harder than it does me, but there are several reasons that PuG vs PuG, we lose the majority of the WSGs and ABs that I've seen, and I don't think it's just because we all suck.
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I suppose if you ignore the scoreboard, and the fact that the afkers stay in the cave the entire game, then yeah, it's pretty difficult to extrapolate.
If you're gathering supplies at the mine or taming wolves/rams, there'll be nothing shown on the scoreboard to reflect that, and an afker often can hide in town amongst the other people using vendors and doing quests etc.
If you at least help clear the mine once, I believe you'd have damage/healing done. Even if you punched a ram once, I think you'd show up with damage done. Hell, if they're collecting turn ins... they won't be in the cave.
I don't expect this will utterly kill any and all afk'ing forever, but it's usually not that hard to spot an afk'er as it currently stands. If, in becomming slightly harder to spot AFK'ers, they become even remotely useful, I guess that's a step in the right direction.
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Of course, to retards in BGs, guarding the farm with my hunter is afk.
Yeah a lot of the time I'm "AFK" in AV I am actually sitting somewhere like Stonehearth or Iceblood GY and alternately reading forums and tabbing back in to thwart would-be GY ninjas. I find it fun and though I'm not pushing for the aid station, I AM actually contributing a little.
Wait a tick, tanks will no longer be immune to Daze? Nooooooo...
Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.
Yeah, it was hard going back to my mage and constantly getting dismounted.
And I'm 42 now, soon I'll be back to 70 and you could come hang out on Zul'Jin...
I guess I'll actually have to be careful while doing the Skethis bombing quest - rightnow I just ignore the Kaliri and drop my charges - gonna hafat break that habit before I break my head in a fall!
Also: stop tempting meeeeee...
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Wait a tick, tanks will no longer be immune to Daze? Nooooooo...
Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.
Yeah, it was hard going back to my mage and constantly getting dismounted.
And I'm 42 now, soon I'll be back to 70 and you could come hang out on Zul'Jin...
I guess I'll actually have to be careful while doing the Skethis bombing quest - rightnow I just ignore the Kaliri and drop my charges - gonna hafat break that habit before I break my head in a fall!
Also: stop tempting meeeeee...
Well, in a minute I'm going to leave for drill this weekend, and that sucks. I could have gotten to 48 by Sunday.
Oh well...
TDL on
Meet me on my vast veranda
My sweet, untouched Miranda
And while the seagulls are crying
We fall but our souls are flying
As far as being dazed off my mount in Skettis, one thing i used to do on my 60% flying mount was simply fly straight up; the mobs would follow until they caught up, but then stop before hitting me until i got too far away again and would follow again, repeating that until they ran back to wherever i aggro'd them. I'm not sure if they changed it for all mounts yet but this doesn't work on my 100% mount as i rise too fast and hit the roof before the mobs de-agro :x
The Monstrous Kaliri can't follow you moving up and down. If you zig-zag up and down (not quickly: raise for 7-10 seconds and then drop and repeat) while flying they'll always be above/below you and thus not able to hit you.
Not that it matters to me, I'm a druid thus daze doesn't knock me out of flight form.
The Monstrous Kaliri can't follow you moving up and down. If you zig-zag up and down (not quickly: raise for 7-10 seconds and then drop and repeat) while flying they'll always be above/below you and thus not able to hit you.
Not that it matters to me, I'm a druid thus daze doesn't knock me out of flight form.
Though I wish you could use the Booterang in form, like you can the various bombs--thinking of performing Peon Discipline by hucking a boot with my wing gives me the giggles.
So, random brainfart because I feel like coding something: A WoW auction site. For stuff. You know, stuff.
Sometimes it's too damn expensive to try to sell stuff on the AH, and I hate yelling in trade. So I was thinking about a site where you put up stuff you have for sale, and people can search for items on their realm and bid on it. The auction owner then gets notified and can talk to the buyer in-game.
So, random brainfart because I feel like coding something: A WoW auction site. For stuff. You know, stuff.
Sometimes it's too damn expensive to try to sell stuff on the AH, and I hate yelling in trade. So I was thinking about a site where you put up stuff you have for sale, and people can search for items on their realm and bid on it. The auction owner then gets notified and can talk to the buyer in-game.
Thats a pretty good idea really. Didn't EQ have player run shops or something? I kind of like that idea, but I don't want to sit at a shop all day while people "browse my wares". Like make a Bazaar type of event every month or something that takes place outside of every major city, where people can run their own shops for a day or two (have to pay some G up front for space and all) and people can buy whatever you may want to sell for your suggested market value. Come back at the end of the day, clean out the register, go back to doing whatever.
You can more or less do that your realm forum -- not the standalone vendor thing, but the letting people know you can make X item thing.
Some of the servers I've played on had a sticky thread on their realm forums detailing high end crafters and what they can make. I know Dark Iron has one, and it's kept pretty up to date.
Ive never gotten a warrior past 12... So far for me my highest levels with each class have been Hunter 61, Paladin 60, Priest 28, Shaman 27, Druid 24, Rogue 21, Warlock 17, Mage 15, Warrior 12.
Where do I go after Zangarmarsh? Nagrand or Terrokar?
I usually skip Terrokar cause I like Nagrand better.
Generally a good idea to skip Terrokar anyways to quest in Nagrand and run Auch instances to get Lower City rep up before getting rep from quests-only past Honored.
Terrokar has a lot of those "...oh and by the way..." quests and some out-of-the-way quest givers. I try to burn through Terrokar for the Lower City rep and because Netherweb Spider Silk sells for a decent amount on the AH.
I guess the annoying part is the lack of roads on the southern part and it means you can't really AFK without getting aggro from something.
After having levelled every class save for shaman to 25+, I must say... warriors are gorram boring to level.
After getting the class abilities for level 20 on other characters, I've always found getting to 20 on other characters pretty painfull, but the highest level warrior I have is only 16... It just seemed to take a really long time. I think it really would start to be fun when you are tanking in dungeons and such though, they actually have to do a lot of thinking to manage aggro... and when I say manage, I mean take all of it.
It really sucks being a warrior in the early levels. The rage mechanic really doesn't scale very well at lower levels so you're almost always rage-starved, you have hardly any of your cool abilities, you don't get Berserker Stance until 30, and you don't have an answer to healing mobs besides strapping on a shield until you learn Pummel sometime in your late 30s.
But once you get all your stances, get your Whirlwind weapon, and get your level 40 talent, it's so much fun. You just have to put up with a whole bunch of stupid crap to get to that point.
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They don't care, they have stated time and time again, if the player is there and not actually physically gone from the PC, there isn't a damn thing they will do about, reports or not. It's a waste of time to report a AFKer that isn't botting or simply out of the room.
Yeah, it was hard going back to my mage and constantly getting dismounted.
And I'm 42 now, soon I'll be back to 70 and you could come hang out on Zul'Jin...
My sweet, untouched Miranda
And while the seagulls are crying
We fall but our souls are flying
Must be some other reason that the AFKers start yelling 30 seconds after I'm done talking to the GM then.
Being in combat removes the debuff... and if I'm the only guy trying, I'm probably going to get into combat.
Or, a less serious response: THEY'D HAVE TO BE DOING SOMETHING OTHER THAN FAPPING TO PORN AND HITTING THEIR SPACEBAR BETWEEN MONEY SHOTS TO REPORT ME!
IRT "Why do I care":
A) I hate mooches. Why should I have to fight for objectives for 20-40 minutes just so someone can crack one off and earn the same amount of honour?
It's bad enough that, unlike the Horde in my BG, we have to wait on queues; thus, forming up for AB is often a case where we're down 3-7 people until the match starts, because people are either in another BG and hoping it'll end before their 2 minutes runs out, or afk, or are deciding which game they want to join, or just can't be bothered to actually 'leave queue' when it pops, so the Alliance side starts at reduced numbers, and as I'm riding to the Stable/BS/Horde Base in WSG/wherever, we slowly fill out to capacity as those asshats are removed from the queue and new people (who may or may not join quickly) take their place.
I don't fault my BG's Horde for having the advantage of instant queues, and recognize that the AFKave phenomenon hits them as hard or harder than it does me, but there are several reasons that PuG vs PuG, we lose the majority of the WSGs and ABs that I've seen, and I don't think it's just because we all suck.
If you're gathering supplies at the mine or taming wolves/rams, there'll be nothing shown on the scoreboard to reflect that, and an afker often can hide in town amongst the other people using vendors and doing quests etc.
I don't expect this will utterly kill any and all afk'ing forever, but it's usually not that hard to spot an afk'er as it currently stands. If, in becomming slightly harder to spot AFK'ers, they become even remotely useful, I guess that's a step in the right direction.
Yeah a lot of the time I'm "AFK" in AV I am actually sitting somewhere like Stonehearth or Iceblood GY and alternately reading forums and tabbing back in to thwart would-be GY ninjas. I find it fun and though I'm not pushing for the aid station, I AM actually contributing a little.
It's really not that hard to sit on a GY/Tower for 5 min and deter people from taking it.
That may be the best guild name I've seen in months.
I guess I'll actually have to be careful while doing the Skethis bombing quest - rightnow I just ignore the Kaliri and drop my charges - gonna hafat break that habit before I break my head in a fall!
Also: stop tempting meeeeee...
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Well, in a minute I'm going to leave for drill this weekend, and that sucks. I could have gotten to 48 by Sunday.
Oh well...
My sweet, untouched Miranda
And while the seagulls are crying
We fall but our souls are flying
My sweet, untouched Miranda
And while the seagulls are crying
We fall but our souls are flying
Not that it matters to me, I'm a druid thus daze doesn't knock me out of flight form.
Sup Druid-who-loves-insta-shifting-and-dismount-immune buddy :^:
Though I wish you could use the Booterang in form, like you can the various bombs--thinking of performing Peon Discipline by hucking a boot with my wing gives me the giggles.
Sometimes it's too damn expensive to try to sell stuff on the AH, and I hate yelling in trade. So I was thinking about a site where you put up stuff you have for sale, and people can search for items on their realm and bid on it. The auction owner then gets notified and can talk to the buyer in-game.
Thats a pretty good idea really. Didn't EQ have player run shops or something? I kind of like that idea, but I don't want to sit at a shop all day while people "browse my wares". Like make a Bazaar type of event every month or something that takes place outside of every major city, where people can run their own shops for a day or two (have to pay some G up front for space and all) and people can buy whatever you may want to sell for your suggested market value. Come back at the end of the day, clean out the register, go back to doing whatever.
Some of the servers I've played on had a sticky thread on their realm forums detailing high end crafters and what they can make. I know Dark Iron has one, and it's kept pretty up to date.
http://www.wowwiki.com/Server:Shadowmoon_US/Crafting_Index
Terrokar then Nagrand is the usual order.
hell yes!
I find they're fun once you start getting cleave and sweeping strikes going with a big slow two hander. probably the most fun leveling anything.
seriously
my whirlwind axe/sweeping striking/mortal striking orc warrior motherfucker is going to eat you for breakfast
maybe save some for a snack in the afternoon
motherfuckers
and they are like
ooooo haunted
I usually skip Terrokar cause I like Nagrand better.
Generally a good idea to skip Terrokar anyways to quest in Nagrand and run Auch instances to get Lower City rep up before getting rep from quests-only past Honored.
I guess the annoying part is the lack of roads on the southern part and it means you can't really AFK without getting aggro from something.
But once you get all your stances, get your Whirlwind weapon, and get your level 40 talent, it's so much fun. You just have to put up with a whole bunch of stupid crap to get to that point.