Here is a breakdown of how I see the WoW social status.
M+/Mythic Raiders: Clearly the sports jocks. They use top end gear and steroids to produce the best results. Completely immersed in the guild pride and care only about stats. Anyone not wearing the logo is the enemy. They want your praises not your opinions… This year is gonna be the year! Go Team!
PVPers: These are the band geeks. Good at coordinating and talent that gets overlooked all the time. Always wanting to be accepted by the M+/Mythic crowd as being equals but end up getting bullied by them anyways.
PvEers: are the hippies caring only for the environment. They have little interest in battles and prefer peace.
RPers: the Art kids caring about lore and story only. They can tell you who was the first King of Lordaeron but have almost no athletic abilities.
Casuals: The cool kids every one wants to hang around. They are normally chill and have a relaxed style but still have enough ambition to get things done. Definitely invited to the party when the parents are out of town.
Solo: The people wearing Misfits T-Shirts smoking in the bathroom. Skipping class and never doing homework. When they are not skipping they are in suspension.
Forum warrior: these are debate kids. They never agree with anything and will fight to the bitter end to prove their point. Even if they agree with the topic they are trying to disprove. Will never admit they are wrong regardless of information and will block you if you out debate them.
Lol, I see the PvE’rs as the band geeks and the PvPer’s as the jocks.
Mainly because PvPers fight other PvPers, it’s like a football team.
And it’s generally more toxic, like with sports fans fights and banter.
Using addons like kickbots in PvP is akin to steroids, it’s cheating lol.
I don’t really see anything in PvE that’s similar because you can’t really “cheat” against PvE without exploits.
More folks have PvE rewards than PvP ones (according to DataForAzeroth under Rarity), PvP always felt more exclusive to me, other than Mythic raiding which is as far as you can go in PvE.
PvEers would be more like the art kids. They care about lore and story. PvPers always seek recognition and praise from society and want the same respect as the M+/Mythic community. I’m definitely gonna add PVEers to my edit.
In all honesty… You want to hear the truth? The “Solo” player is what’s keeping your game alive.
Second, top end players are usually the ones to ruin it for everyone else.
And third: The real ‘solo’ class are the ones that care about community… Also, you forgot to say those that prefer not to group with a group of people. and then there’s me, for example. I’ve been hunting the dream team to hang around with that no one really groups in this game, or if they do, they’re very very slim (looks like my current Guild is chill so far, so there’s that)… There once was, but I F***** that up with a group of friends I had for a while, cuz most of the game is filled with the same lingering effect of things that the elitist create in this lovely game.
I recall a realm I was on back in the day there was a player in Stormwind who would spend time talking in chat and always seen them standing on the stack of crates across from the AH.
Always greeting and talking to others. Seemed to be a well known. The part I loved was meeting new players and playing with them and running into each other again to group again.
Was how friends were made felt more natural. Today everything on wow feels so… isolating? You Q through a system and thrown in with people you never met, barely talk, you just go through the motions like a rat race without any thought but the goal and when its done you may have beaten the dungeon but you lost what made wow fun.
Making friends along the way. Wow is an MMO it has lost that sense of community with how its become so streamline imo.
I made myself a bit sad writing this… Lol I blame Dallas airport layover. Come on plane to Tucson
