Toxicity by Class/Race Choice

[Felsavior-zuljin (Felsavior)]

BE Female X Class (especially female BE Plate classes -holy paladin)

scoffs I’m not toxic, I’m venomous there is a difference

[Bellideyn-wyrmrest-accord]

Human Paladin
BE Female X Class (especially female BE Plate classes -holy paladin)
Human female with QT suffix (this admittedly is no longer the “cool kids” thing)

That digs deep.

[Watsamatta-frostmourne]

that ONE person in the entire world who plays that male pandaren mage… You know who you are.

[Erdrune-sisters-of-elune]

Last time I raided on this Toon was in WoD. I’d get kicked or declined all the time, and I’d never get salty about it. I think rets are/were more angry because, at least in that expansion, all our good weapons dropped from final bosses so it was a bit of “not good enough to get there, so you won’t be getting there, which would make you good enough to get there, but no chance for you.” I’m only doing LFR from now on and stopping there, I have no interest in trying to play this character competitively.

I’ve met a lot of toxic people in this game to be sure, but I couldn’t say they were all from a particular set of classes, but before we had the colored names half the time you weren’t sure what class someone was anyway if they just crap-posted in chat or something, which is what annoys me more than anything.

[Snikrot-silver-hand (Snikrot)]

Three words: Human. Male. Paladin

[Lovefool-alterac-mountains (Lovefool)]

Female human rogues are among the most aggressive creatures on Azeroth.

[Stéampunk-fizzcrank (Stéampunk)]

Humans or Blood Elves players for the most part I find rudest but I think that is because those are the 2 most common races played so i run into them more than others.

Not saying all of you are, just more common.

[Wugwai-silver-hand]

that ONE person in the entire world who plays that male pandaren mage… You know who you are.

What up homie?!?!

[Carissaria-aggramar]

Undead Rogues. They’re the ones who, after beating you in PvP, will hop over to the opposite faction, and whisper “lol get rekt” before /ignoring you and logging. They’re the ones who will see you’re dealing sub-optimal DPS in LFR and say, “boot this piece of trash, I’m not here to carry”.

This but he got beat and sent me hateful messages.

[Weathervane-windrunner (Weathervane)]

Meanwhile, the kindest and most understanding players tend to play things like Tauren Druid

Feel free to whisper me so I can change your mind about that.

Anyways I dont judge by class/race combos. I hate all rogues equally. Please to fall off the zanda pyramid k thanks!

[Lightmuffin-darkspear]

I mean, uh. Yeah, those human paladins are jerks.

<<<< Am dorf Pally. I just wanna heal/tank, drink a few hard ciders and then randomly give out gold to people. The human Paladins, eh, they’re a wee bit more stuck up the Light’s backside, aye? Get 'em drunk, though, and you’ll have a fair bit of laughs.

[Calithia-frostwolf]

Personally, I find that the most spiteful people tend to play Characters in a virtual world.

Fixed that for you.

[Hyuna-area-52]

Every warlock player I have run into in this game since 2005 appears to be a New-Aged Hippie type person, very ‘into themselves’ and more of the Liberal side.

If that angers you and you’re a warlock, you might want to evaluate yourself a bit.

I played an Enhancement Shaman for 6 years

[Biihksu-thunderlord]

Only in-so-far as PvP is concerned. There is a sub-group of dedicated griefers that always seem to roll rogues (especially the undead variety who seem to fancy themselves edge-lords). As that class is tailor made to ambush and gank people. Beyond that, all classes have good people and crappy people I’ve encountered. But that’s just my anecdotal experience. Others mileage will vary.

[Jehoshua-ravencrest]

Generally speaking, do you find peoples’ behavior dictates their class and race choice? Are they more likely to behave one way or another because of what they’re playing as (or rather, does it inform their behavior)?

Personally, I find that the most spiteful people tend to play Orc Warriors and Undead Rogues. They’re the ones who, after beating you in PvP, will hop over to the opposite faction, and whisper “lol get rekt” before /ignoring you and logging. They’re the ones who will see you’re dealing sub-optimal DPS in LFR and say, “boot this piece of trash, I’m not here to carry”.

Meanwhile, the kindest and most understanding players tend to play things like Tauren Druid or Pandaren anything.

Anyone else notice this, or is it just confirmation bias from me?

No, it’s just the toxicity of our city…

[Nickodemous-dalaran (Nickodemous)]

Fem tauren druids are possibly the sweetest human beings to grace this earths.

Male tauren are usually very nice too, but when they’re dicks, they can be REAL dicks.

I can relate to this…

[Hankypanky-wyrmrest-accord]

Human male warriors. They’re so mad when they die!

/slaps weapon out of their hand lol

[Imprepáred-bleeding-hollow]

One thing you can be sure of : Undead rogues in the world are going to be toxic asshats.

[Amine-blackwater-raiders (Amine)]

I could have agreed with you up to the point you said Pandaren anything were the kindest. I have seen plenty unkind Pandaren on this forum.

[Melithiria-moon-guard (Melithiria)]

I don’t think it’s a class/race thing.

I think it’s just hardcore PVPers, or people who a horrible at PVP and bark loudly to make up for their hurt ego.

Can usually see them running around spamming spells and griefing RPers by dueling in RP areas; their names and guild names usually don’t follow the naming rules, either… further griefing. Yelling dumb things.

One PVP guild even named themselves after a RP guild, with the PVP guild’s name being non-RP itself, to insult them… a major ToS violation, yet their name remains intact.

I can’t account for World PVP, considering I haven’t done any recently… but when I played on a PVP server, people would corpse camp you without mercy. One told me to “bring my main”, so I’m guessing that’s the mentality behind some of it. But it comes off as horrible behavior regardless.

I’ve met 2 hardcore PVPers that were nice. Others… I keep my distance from them.