I remember having a rival of the same class (ret pally) back in cataclysm and always wanted to do better than them and do harder content. Nowadays you never see the people from your server due to layering. I miss seeing the same people daily and interacting with them, it made the world feel alive.
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Cata had crz… so ya
Nope. Because I’m not about competition and having to wave my e-peen around. I have things in the real world I’m proud of. Games are for fun, not for trying to act like you’re special or important. Because you know what, nobody really cares about your skill in a video game. Outside of a tiny group of people.
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That was the MoP prepatch, IIRC.
Not a rival but there was a notorious gnome Rogue on Eredar that terrorized everyone. It was great.
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I don’t miss it, I used to play on a very low horde populated server. And there was this guild that used to spread rumors and get people blacklisted so they cannot play the game at max level.
Back in vanilla, a gnome warrior named “red” - generally pretty even but he must have done things wrong because it way too easy for me to kite him as enhance. Also a warlock in T2 with 5k hp, but I don’t recall his name because his gear stood out so clearly. That was rough but doable, all other warlocks were cake.
There were a handful of hunters, but they were more like playthings than rivals. Stop killing the sentry totem, champ. Well, unless you want me to leave the defense point and come stomp you. Again.
I lost track of how many rogues 100 -> 0’d me in one stunlock.
I can’t recall that I ever had a rival.
back in the day? tol barad and wintergrasp were the highlights god i miss the rainbows
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I never had a rival, but it was really great to have different groups, guilds and all the socio idiosyncrasies and dynamics those entail.
It’s interesting to me how you joined a genre of games that you despise the premise of.
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Except oddly enough, there is a lot of cooperative aspects of WoW.
You can’t do most of the content without cooperating.
Yes… my first character was an Orc Warrior named Deadpool. There was an Alliance Paladin on my server named Dedpool that was typically 10 levels below me. I used to corpse camp him and tbag him so bad
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I had entire guild ticked off at my rogue main in BC.
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i think it that you might have missed the point here. for example back in wrath and cata when servers were mostly stand alone instances my old ally guild would wage war constantly with a horde guild to for control over these zones(winter grasp and tol barad) so often that we would actually form bonds with these guys(this is before you could roll both sides on one server) we would talk smack on the server forums and look foreword to the next battle. it wasn’t about e peen swinging or skill it was about the thrill of battle and eventually a felling of respect for a worthy opponent
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Not many, but one I will always remember even though I forgot his name.
Leveling in Outland for the first time, on my hunter.
There was this Alliance Rogue that was staying around the same level
as me. We started a rivalry with each other.
He would see me fighting a mob and kill me.
Later, I would see him entering a cave. Wait outside for him, and kill him.
We were going back and forth like that for weeks. Even though I
didnt much like PVP. It was fun trying to catch each other by surprise.
One day, I was fighting a hard mob, and ended up with more mobs
on me. I was going to die. All of a sudden my rival lands next to me.
I thought he was going to get me this time. But he jumped in, and helped
kill the mobs. After all the mobs were dead, and my HP was at half.
I figured he was going to attack. But he bowed, waved, and flew away.
I never saw him again.
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There was a loudmouth idiot horde mage in BC that just did BGs. I don’t think he knew I looked at him as a rival, but he was a goon on the forums that always acted better than he was.
Anyway, he continued his stupid thing into Wrath then I just happened to armory him and he had a full clear Naxx down while I was some goofball just mad at him on the forums. So I leveled a balance druid, decided to dive in and it all kinda snowballed from there in Wrath.
Once I got caught up in my thing I forgot about him, but times like this I’ll remember how I ended up raiding some cutting edge content almost purely out of spite.
Welcome to modern wow.
No, never did.
i would usually see the same names in the chat log defeating one another in duels in the Dalaran sewer.
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My only rival in WoW is pet pathing.