How’s it been? How’s the RP? Do people still RP?
What’s new? What’s old? Any fun new guilds/events?
I logged in for the first time in almost two years thanks to a friend gifting me a sub, and I was disoriented and realized I had to update add-ons because that’s not a thing in the other game that I definitely haven’t been playing.
Is the Alliance dead? Is Enekie the only remaining one, as was written in the prophecies back in Wrath?
Deets please.
enekie isn’t even real.
That’s very true. I’m playing the game that rhymes with Grinal Grantasy Grourteen.
Hrm, I see.
As I’m being lead to believe by an earlier poster of high regard and trustworthiness, due to your existence not be confirmed it is perfectly valid, perhaps even encouraged, that you would enjoy other things that would other jeopardize your contract with the big weather company to never play any other video game ever.
Hey Wolf,
I took a pretty long break after the newness of Shadowlands faded. I recently got some PvP gear and am working through the campaigns for the second legendary. I play occasionally. The gameplay is kinda fun. I miss the days when you could hang out in the Dalaran sewers and snipe people from the rooftop, or when you could defend your PvP tower against people who really just wanted the free honor. More than missing that I could do that, I miss wanting to. I want a renewed sense of sportsmanship and good natured conflict on WrA, where PvP can thrive alongside RP.
Life has been good. My career is on a great trajectory and I’m going on plenty of adventures with my partner. Things feel fulfilling.
I sometimes wonder if I’m the only one who checks these forums as part of their daily routine out of years of habit, despite the reason to check declining drastically over the years. Probably not the only one.
How have you been?
Good to hear your career is on track and that you and your partner have had smooth sailings in adventures!
I occasionally checked the forum but didn’t feel validated to actually post anything since, well, I didn’t play. Now that I have a month to shove my existence to other people before it will probably disappear, I felt inclined to at least poke the sleeping nest and see if anyone pops their heads out like a bewildered forest denizen who would simply like to be left well alone.
I’m doing alright, honestly. Getting ever closer to graduation with my second degree, and then I’ll be moving back east coast since I’ve been invited by family to stay with them for a few months while I pretend to be human again since I’ve done nothing but work and do university at the same time for the past six years or so. It’s doubly nice because I’ll only be a 4 hour drive away from my possibly-future-spouse and I plan to visit him as many times as I can manage in my hiatus from existence.
I was ranting to a friend about the… less than stellar- this isn’t correct, more like mundane? Casual? Modern? Roleplay in numbah four and then a teen and how it never scratches the itch that WoW’s provided, so they offered me a chance to try it again without having to spend a dime. So here I am a fool, who despite not being particularly thrilled at spending money on this game, landed themselves the chance to see if the RP magic is still there and had backed up his TRP3 for Wolf in the off chance that this company suddenly got fully cleansed (it didn’t) and will probably test the waters in the coming days even though I’ve been told by multiple sources that most blue-adjacent folks have fled to MG.
I’ve not had a ton of experience with the RP on Grimble Grontasy, but I admit that it does lack the aura of tension and rivalry and edginess that WoW has. Even if the story isn’t fun, the setting is and it’s hard to replace that with three powers that more or less all get along pretty well.
But I found that I can get the setting in Discord RP, so I do not feel the need to add my payment to Kotick’s escape yacht fund.
It’s technically not an escape yacht if he’s just sailing it in circles around Blizz HQ!
And yeah, the best way I could describe Grimble Grontasy is that the settings are perfect for what they are: a stage for the story. They give a great background for your journey through the story, and they do that job very well. But they lack substance outside of that, its world’s problems are solved during the story and its citizens you would normally interact with are not-required and downright tedious at times in the form of quests, so really what’s left outside of personal headcanons and worldly roleplay? I tried to bring stuff to the outside zones away from player-created housing and it was always shot down relatively fast.
It’s a bummer because I love going out in the world, but in Frimble Lantasy you basically have to have a dedicated small group of friends to get something like that going. Which that itself was a headache to find for such an endeavor, to be honest. I missed the days of just taking people and going out to a zone and making a fun little adventure there.
I also just… can’t do Discord RP these days. It’s very hard for me to stay focused if I don’t have something forcing me to pay attention, like a shiny video game in front of me or a ttrpg that I need to look at icons/statues/etc. I will just tab out and then forget to reply and suddenly I’m the jerk.
I sympathize with that. For me, RP was a difficult situation where it was fun to do while doing other stuff, which WoW was perfect for. The addons and profiles made it really easy to just strike up RP while out doing stuff.
But that’s harder to do now. Discord takes more organizing, but on the other hand, it’s not WoW and there’s no text limit.
Not being WoW is definitely a benefit. I think its just hard for me since a majority of all the roleplay I’ve ever done has been in a video game or ttrpg, so when I try to do chat RP I just slowly start to fade and it’s not fun for anyone involved.
Guess we’ll see how I feel in a month and whether or not the feeling is truly dead and gone forever.
You’re not alone in that. I think, given the sporadic nature, it can be hard to maintain interest in it.
I do find it more fulfilling, since I’m the rare person who thinks in-game RPing is more restrictive than being able to type a complex description that might go against the limitations of WoW’s engine. But I also know I’m in the minority on that.
I definitely know the appeal of chat RP being able to write scenes and stuff that is much harder to depict in-game since it requires more suspension of disbelief than just typing out a paragraph in discord would be. I just like seeing the physical entity in front of me that activates my brain and goes “there he is he’s so real look at him”.
I’m also half tempted to try and run RP stuff and see if it gets bites or try to even do… walk up RP or try to attend events and see how it feels. I just have zero sense of how this community is anymore and have zero intention of ever transferring to MG since that would cost money and also I’d lose the one thing I have going for me: the name.
Walk up RP is the easiest thing. Just resign yourself to the gamble and think of it like sticking your hand in an animal’s den to see what you get bit by.
Last time I checked that’s how the worgen curse spread so I guess it’s fine.
My old guild PnP is back as Vigilants of Tyr (on Moon Guard) and it’s been great playing with everyone again. Started doing mythics for the first time and having a lot of fun with that. Can’t believe I’m actually doing content now! It’s good to have people to play with again and having a lot of fun.
Some of us have helped put together the Wyrmrest Community Project, which is helping to re-establish WrA RP though event collaboration/organization, and encouraging spontaneous RP.
There is also a pretty handy WoW RP Events Discord that helps get the word out about various RP events, regardless of server.
I encourage you to check both of these out!
I’ve heard many success of Alliance guilds moving to Moon Guard, which is both nice to hear and also severely depressing in that it required leaving to get anything done.
I can never leave due to the name, but at least I could queue stuff with folks on the other side of the fence now.
This is extremely helpful, thank you.
I held out for a bit but I miss my friends!!! Also summer sale on character transfers was a good motivator.
However I am hopeful for community groups, my characters are still all in the WRA community project group so nothing stops me from RPing with WRA folks and vice versa. There was a MOOOOOOOOT last month and plenty of familiar WRA faces attended. Also the majority of my characters are still on WRA so you haven’t gotten rid of me yet!!!
/pet
As things change, they remain the same. In Dragonflight, the same people will do the same things. They’ll just be older.
The only difference now is that we have a lot of conjoined communities and a lot of people whom were hostile to each other have made up and rekindled.
It has died down some, but that’s normal. A new season starts in but two weeks and after that, the prepatch. Then the flood of dragon OCs, dragon fanon, and more will come. There will be your token (or many) poster saying how they did it from the start and there will be your never-Dragon’ers and then the expansion will normalize and we will go back to talking about the same things.
Nothing major has changed.
Thank you for the reliable pets.
That’s fair, and honestly hopeful for me since I’ve always been a Neutral RPer through and through (hard to be pirate-y while sticking to one faction) so people mingling more between factions is always a plus for me.
I am also nonplussed and have very little care for the new race/class or w/e they are, so I wish everyone who will enjoy them to have a good time.
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also now i can group up with you and hug you in-game and there’s nothing you can do about it except deny me the party i guess