12-31-2008, 01:40 PM
This thread will be controversial.
After the server came back up, I've come to notice certain...trends among the playerbase concerning character types. Trends I don't at all like. Certain character concepts that should be altogether rare, yet end up stupidly common. Or character concepts that are outside of what the race/class should be RPed as, and in numbers too high for that to make sense. I'm going to name two, the two I see as the biggest problems since the server came back up.
1. The Obvious Warlock
Warlocks practice very dark magic. They summon demons, they inflict diseases, and produce curses. Very few sane people think that messing with such dark powers is a good idea, particularly since Warlock-magic is very addictive and corrupting. Even those who enter the profession with good intentions don't end up completely unchanged.
What is worse is that Warlocks are typically treated like dirt in most societies. Orcs view them as beneath even peons. Humans have a very strong distrust over it due to knowing first-hand how corrupting the arcane can be. The only races which view delving into the darker arts as any sort of acceptable are the Forsaken, Blood Elves, and sometimes Gnomes. To everyone else, it's an abomination to be shunned.
This is why walking around Orgrimmar or Stormwind with a Succubus or Imp out in plain sight is a patently *bad idea.* It is also a patently *bad idea* to go singing about your less-than-noble profession in the middle of such cities.
2. The Idiotic Orc
Every time I see one of these characters, I want to smash someone's face in. Usually it's from someone who should know better.
Orcs aren't stupid. They're uneducated, and maybe slightly less intelligent on average than a human, but they aren't out-right stupid. In addition, Orcish is an Orc's native language, so they should have no problems speaking it. It's literally designed for their mouths and mental abilities.
So WHY, then, are there already *at least* three completely brain-damaged Orcs in the game already?
In isolation, this isn't so bad. Every race has their idiots. One can see the humor in such a character, especially with a brutish race like the Orcs. The problem lies in the sheer numbers that this overdone character concept is done at. It pushes past the realm of the believable and enters the realm of the completely ludicrous. Every other race is filled with intelligent beings, while half of the Orcish characters in-game are acting like they have IQs below fifty.
If you *must* play a galactically stupid character, there are other ways to go about it, and other races to play. Including the Forsaken, which actually has a plausible reason to be moronic without resorting to being a one-in-a-million idiot from birth.
I'm done ranting now.
After the server came back up, I've come to notice certain...trends among the playerbase concerning character types. Trends I don't at all like. Certain character concepts that should be altogether rare, yet end up stupidly common. Or character concepts that are outside of what the race/class should be RPed as, and in numbers too high for that to make sense. I'm going to name two, the two I see as the biggest problems since the server came back up.
1. The Obvious Warlock
Warlocks practice very dark magic. They summon demons, they inflict diseases, and produce curses. Very few sane people think that messing with such dark powers is a good idea, particularly since Warlock-magic is very addictive and corrupting. Even those who enter the profession with good intentions don't end up completely unchanged.
What is worse is that Warlocks are typically treated like dirt in most societies. Orcs view them as beneath even peons. Humans have a very strong distrust over it due to knowing first-hand how corrupting the arcane can be. The only races which view delving into the darker arts as any sort of acceptable are the Forsaken, Blood Elves, and sometimes Gnomes. To everyone else, it's an abomination to be shunned.
This is why walking around Orgrimmar or Stormwind with a Succubus or Imp out in plain sight is a patently *bad idea.* It is also a patently *bad idea* to go singing about your less-than-noble profession in the middle of such cities.
2. The Idiotic Orc
Every time I see one of these characters, I want to smash someone's face in. Usually it's from someone who should know better.
Orcs aren't stupid. They're uneducated, and maybe slightly less intelligent on average than a human, but they aren't out-right stupid. In addition, Orcish is an Orc's native language, so they should have no problems speaking it. It's literally designed for their mouths and mental abilities.
So WHY, then, are there already *at least* three completely brain-damaged Orcs in the game already?
In isolation, this isn't so bad. Every race has their idiots. One can see the humor in such a character, especially with a brutish race like the Orcs. The problem lies in the sheer numbers that this overdone character concept is done at. It pushes past the realm of the believable and enters the realm of the completely ludicrous. Every other race is filled with intelligent beings, while half of the Orcish characters in-game are acting like they have IQs below fifty.
If you *must* play a galactically stupid character, there are other ways to go about it, and other races to play. Including the Forsaken, which actually has a plausible reason to be moronic without resorting to being a one-in-a-million idiot from birth.
I'm done ranting now.