If Im going around on an alt doing stuff and I see a guild having an event I like to pretend im afk or vendoring stuff and watch.
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i choked on some roast beef in my esophagus and my eye exploded
I fed the cats all the marrow and jellified tendons out of my slow-cooked lamb-shanks and now theyāre refusing to let me go to work.
I literally try to go for the door to leave and they jump up and grab onto my legs.
Iāve created super-monstersā¦
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My secret is that I am an Argent Dawn - EU refugee. I quietly detest the fact that I have to re-level on WRA and MG from scratch and get all my tmogs and flying achievements again, but thereās really no other way.
Which means I am sitting here and quietly hating Blizzard for not having flying achievements and transmogs carry over between US and EU. So I am sitting here and being a bit bitter about not having 15 years of progress, and I silently hate everything for it.
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Iāve only heard good things about Argent Dawn in the past - what made you leave?
To be fair, Iād say that 80% of the server are great, and I believe some of the events are brilliant.
However, my partner has experienced a doxxing attempt and some nasty harassment (from a different group) in the last couple of months. Blizzard was initially able to help with the doxxing, but couldnāt step in anymore when the libel was taken to Discord later on. And Discordā¦well, they were Discord about it.
In the end, she asked me whether we could start again on the US servers because she didnāt have peace of mind anymore. They would even track down her alts by comparing battle pets. It all got a bit out of hand. Blizzard couldnāt help all the way because a lot of the later issues surfaced on Discord, which is obviously not their territory to step in.
Like I said, I wouldnāt say that the server is bad in general. But after the last couple of months, we definitely needed a break.
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Yeah thatās rough, Iām so sorry to hear it. I hope you find a home here on WRA - I for one love it here.
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Only manged to cry/teary-eyeād like 10 times watching Brave a couple of nights ago. Pretty proud of that!
I do, as well! I hope the server treats you and your partner well, Athrus. Welcome to the community!
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This.
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the internet is a nightmRe and youāre all stuck with me
Thanks for the kind words, everyone. I think I will start slowly and unlock some allied races in the next couple of weeks. Iām not sure if I can be bothered to re-grind all essences twice, or if PvE and PvP should wait for Shadowlandsā¦
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Iām writing this at 4 in the morning so this might be really dumb but Iāve held onto this for a while. This is a genuine confession that Iām really ashamed of but need to get off my chest because of some recent things.
Before Altielle became my main RP toon, I used to RP on the Alliance. I met someone on the character I mained and we became RP partners for like 2 months.
Then Altielleās RP took off and I didnāt want to play that other character anymore. Instead of telling the other person I just logged in less and less before giving up entirely. Essentially, I ghosted them like a gutless wimp.
Iām ashamed of that. Horribly ashamed. It was a terrible thing to do to someone. The other person didnāt deserve it but I didnāt have the spine to tell them Iād have rather played Altielle than the other character. This has haunted me forever.
Even worse? Iāve had it happen to me recently. The person I -adore- RPing with logged in less and less. I felt them slipping through my fingers and we just ended the bulk of the charactersā relationship together tonight. Weāll remain in contact OOCly I believe, but I probably wonāt be RPing with them much, if ever again (not by choice!).
Looking back, I feel like I deserve this for what I did. In fact, I probably donāt even deserve to still get out with my OOC friendship still intact. This should have happened to me before I did that so Iād know how it feels. Because I never want anyone else to feel like this ever.
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I can relate. Itās not a pleasant feeling. I remember something along those lines happening in Legion. I was part of a raiding & RP guild ever since Ulduar. We had this one officer who managed our guild bank. He was a steady raid member since ICC all through to Nighthold.
However, shortly after starting Nighthold progression, he left the guild. No message in guild chat. No Discord announcement. When people tried to message him on his alts, he simply wouldnāt answer. Even to people like me or the co-guild leader that he had been friends with since ICC and who hung out in voice at least once a week for years. We werenāt best buddies, but weād play games together and talk when we could.
We still donāt know what happened since he wouldnāt talk to any of us. Itās not a nice feeling, considering it leaves that lingering curiosity about what happened.
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Yay more confessions!
The only time I really feel up to doing anything is when Iām on my medication. Now, my meds are for ADHD and narcolepsy, so itās kinda understandable I guess that all I can do off them is sleep and not focus or feel interested in anything, but it really sucks lol.
So, when Iām not on them, nothing gets done and I feel like a failure when it comes to my guild responsibilities.
Then when I AM on them, Iām in over-drive plan/talk/do the thing mode so I feel like I get annoying because I plan ALL THE THINGS and talk nonstop and post too much on the forums. 
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I recently started medication for a similar issue. I was under performing at work and got into hot water for what was organizational issues that really impacted my performance. I didnāt want to get back on meds because I feared feeling it was a crutch and I had drug problems in the past. Well I bit the bullet and just talked to my doctor and got back on medication for ADHD. I feel like a different person now, it really helped me get back on track both professionally and personally. I am reading again, staying up on cleaning the house and I have been getting very positive reviews from my Director.
Sometimes I think we just need a little help here and there. I know the feeling like it can feel like a crutch but I personally feel now that results should speak for themselves. Donāt feel ashamed for being a productive person! Thereās no stigma for getting the help you need.
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Warcraft 3 was my first exposure to the Warcraft universe. Maybe it was because I was so young (IIRC maybe 10 or 11?) but for whatever reason the storyline really blew my mind.
What really moved me was the stories of the Horde. The journey of Thrall, the redemption of Grom, the tragedy of Lordaeron and Sylvanas. For a long time, the Horde was my favourite faction.
Fast-forward to today and I have a hard time enjoying the faction. I guess I donāt āgetā what Blizzard is trying to do with it.
I can get behind the idea of a ācivil warā story where more violent elements of the Horde have to be resisted by those who are more peace minded, but rather than do that story once really well, Blizzard half-assed it twice. (For my money, and I realize many disagree, but I think BFA did that story better, and might have been more well received, story-wise, if this was the first time the Horde had a civil war.)
That, coupled with an AU where the orcs are evil even without the Legion (and lack a satisfactory redemption even then) and Iām just exhausted. I used to have tons of Horde characters. Now I have two, and theyāre a Blood Elf and a Nightborne. To sum up this post, I just donāt like the Horde anymore.
That being said, the vulpera questline, the Horde Council, new characters like Talanji, Zekhan, Calia, Sira, and other changes have me a little bit excited to see where Blizzard takes the Horde.
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I confess I did not think it would be too difficult laying the foundations for the major conflicts in my novel and that it wouldnāt be very complicated.
I promptly ended up creating the two major conflicts present being the humans undergoing a revolution against their absolute monarchy which turns into a civil war that will determine if a Dictator or Constitutional Monarch rules while across from them the Orcs essentially have a brewing conflict of 1 powerful individual pushing Pan-Orcism and wanting to unite all their peoples against others who are happy with their own Clan/National identity the way it is.
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I largely prefer the lore of Alliance races. I mained Alliance (and barely, if ever RPed Horde) from MoP to mid-Legion. But I canāt get into Alliance RP like I used to. In part, I feel like this is because the Alliance is too morally good. Thereās no nuance whatsoever in the factionās morality.
I know a lot of people feel the Horde is, at this point, pure evil, but I donāt think so. The Horde seems to be in a constant state of self-examination. Itās not what Thrall set out for it to be, but nor has it fully bent to the extremely violent visions of Garrosh and Sylvanas. The Horde, itself, is morally grey, walking a razorās edge between good and evil, and intermittently leaning towards one side or another.
The Alliance just continues to react to the evil of others. The last notable political upheaval within the Alliance was probably Moira Thaurissanās coup of Ironforge, entirely localised within one of the books. Tyrande doing her own thing isnāt necessarily political upheaval, though Iām interested to see where it goes.
But yeah, on Hordeside I feel like itās been a real journey to discover my characterās morality. The ups and downs have been interesting. My long term Alliance main, (A worgen warrior OOCly named Crazyprophet, and ICly named Bradley Silverlaine) on the other hand ā¦ just feels tired. So, so tired. Thereās been less evolving of his character and more exhaustion. He gave the Horde a chance in MoP, and now heās forced to do so again, feeling as if another war is just a few years away, and heās exhausted. Heās sick of friends dying. Heās 28, and heās tired enough to feel like retiring. And I donāt know, itās just been depressing.
For this reason, I want the Alliance to have SOME kind of internal struggle. I really want there to be decisions that push oneās morality - that maybe demand some evil in the service of a greater good. I want the Alliance to lose its focus for a time, so that they can determine what that is again. I guess I want the Alliance to be lessā¦ perfect. Hopefully then, itāll be more interesting.
Yeah, I kind of agree with this too. Both factions have kind of suffered from the story. I guess for me, the Alliance is still slightly more tolerable because of the aesthetics, and thereās still a lot of āuniformityā both in the lore and among players, even if it is at time a sort of bland conformity. Like, any Alliance race can interact with any other and it āfeelsā natural, whereas the Horde kind of feels like a bunch of disparate blocs.
Additionally the Alliance has moral indigence going for it, which is always easy to write. Vengeance is a powerful motivator and story hook.
I do want to dive back into the Horde though. Iāve been trying to think up a new Horde character (or maybe bring back an old one!) for Shadowlands to get back into RP with the red bois.
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