27May

There’s No Place Like Home

General, Ildiko, Player versus Player Comments

– unfortunately.

I logged in yesterday evening after a holiday weekend full of revelry, fun, and no World of Warcraft to find that my beloved roleplaying guild no longer existed. Shocked by this discovery, I spent almost an hour trying to find any information regarding The Paragon, but to no avail; not a single person I spoke to had any idea that the guild had disbanded, much less what had become of its wonderful and eclectic bunch of members.

I probably would have moped around the house for a bit after finding this out, but my younger sibling was a sufficient enough pest to somehow rope me into rolling a toon on his newer server. Until recently he was a long-standing member of Arthas Alliance raiding guild SECURITY, serving as the guild’s Restoration-turned-Feral-off-tank druid. In light of their recent poor performance and his diminished availability, however, he’d decided to take leave of the guild and rerolled on Shattered Hand with a number of friends from high school. Despite being rather morose and feeling dejected, I joined him yesterday evening.

This lovely piece of troll-flesh is Ildiko, my second-ever mage and yet-another-troll¹.

Shattered Hand is a very different environment than Feathermoon. For one, it’s a PvP server where Feathermoon is one of the first batch of roleplaying servers that were ever released. And while I originally started out on PvP servers, it’s important to note that I’ve been on Feathermoon almost exclusively for well over a year and a half now.

Perhaps I’ve been spoiled by my time on Feathermoon, but never before has the disparity between PvP and roleplaying servers seemed so apparent. The first thing I noticed were the slew of asinine names running rampant. Names that would have been balked at or looked down upon on Feathermoon where everywhere, prompting me to cringe noticeably when I stumbled across one — and they were everywhere. Public channels such as Trade and General were full of absolute stupidity, running the gamut from Chuck Norris jokes in the Barrens to what appeared to be a genuine debate concerning the virtues of pedophilia² spanning both Trade and General in Orgrimmar.

And that fails to take into account the Your Momma jokes, comments regarding people’s sexual preferences, and some of the most atrocious spelling I have ever had the displeasure of reading in my entire life.

All in all, it seemed like every vice, every stereotype of PvP servers were suitably justified. Which isn’t to say that I dislike PvP servers; in fact, I’d claim the opposite! I spent quite a bit of time on Arthas and I genuinely enjoy world PvP. However it just gave further weight to the phrase “There’s no place like home.”

Which is, by far, my favorite race ↩
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Responses

RE: Footnote #2: None.

BTW, how do you do those footnotes? Is it add-on, or do you

Kestrel said,

29 May 2008 at 12:28 am

…or do you code them by hand? (got distracted and hit submit…have you considered a comment editor plugin? :D)

Kestrel said,

29 May 2008 at 12:29 am

That’s fine, Kestrel; I’m easily distracted as well, so I know the pains of early submittals! I use something called FD Footnotes by John Watson of Flagrant Disregard. I looked up a number of plugins before settling on this one, so I hope it works well for you if you’re looking for a footnotes plugin!