That's okay. Next time I'm at your house if we can suspend the nerd farming for a moment (maybe five minutes) I'll show you what the hell I'm talking about.
My theory is that you have some sort of limiter. How are you at killing your fellow PCs in tabletop RPGs? Hang on... aren't you and I (kind of) playing in the same D&D game (Chris's)? Maybe I shouldn't try to put those sorts of ideas into your head.
PVP is a mix of basic ability and personality. For some reason most of the people I chatted with on Hellscream were hardcore pvp'ers, who tried to teach me to, well, not die instantly. I did learn to get better - mainly by playing the classes I was fighting against, but I will never be more than abysmal. Because I just don't care enough.
By Anonymous, at
6:27 PM
Re: PVP - Ah. Home work. Yes, well, a requirement to engage in applied research is certainly going to see me relegated to the minor leagues. There's no way I can make that sort of effort.
Or you could just turn your PVP flag off :p
By Anonymous, at
5:51 PM
Pft. I don't need your turgid logic here!
Tuesday, May 17, 2005
Ouch
That was another day that beat me up. You know, somewhere in there I'm pretty sure I must have achieved something useful, but I just can't think what it would have been. The rest of the time, I was madly running in circles just trying to stop things from going backwards.
The whole of last week was like that. The rest of this week is almost certainly going to be like that. Next week's solidly booked with...um, stuff like that.
What really irritates me is that I can't even be specific when I bitch about my troubles because there are, like, laws involved. Suffice to say that I think you'd be annoyed to. Yes, even you, the patient one.
Umm, RSS feeds?
Linda: I looked at my control panel thingummy and I can't see the address for the RSS feed. You may need to use slightly fewer syllables (or acronyms, maybe) for me to catch up. I have only the barest notion of what you're talking about and absolutely no idea where to find it or create it or whatever.
Something else I suck at
In World of Warcraft, there's the regular style of play, where you wander around killing monsters and doing quests for strangers (most of which involve killing monsters) - that's called PvE, for 'Player versus Environment'. The other kind of play is 'Player vs Player', or PvP. This is where you deliberately find and kill player characters of the opposing faction, gaining glory, bragging rights and extremely minor in-game rewards.
I totally suck at PvP. It doesn't matter that I'm not at maximum level, or that I don't have especially flashy equipment. It doesn't even matter that my character is from a class universally regarded as one of the two or three worst classes for PvP'ing in the game. Even if I had James Bond wearing a Green-friggin'-Lantern ring, I'd still be getting arse handed to me.
I lack some form of elemental, primal instinct for the death of my enemies, no matter how artificial. There is clearly some dysfunctional gene in my biodata impeding my ascension to an evolutionary winner's podium.
Or, I could just be a total spazz.
I'll get back to you on that.
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Actually, having a quick look, I'm not surprised you couldn't find it based on my advice. Whoops, sorry.
Blogger Settings.
Site Settings tab -> Site Feed.
Publish Site Feed -> Yes. Descriptions -> Full.
Click Save Settings.
Site Feed URL -> send to me! 8)
I should do another post and tell everybody about RSS and Site Feeds and how to automate the whole blog checking thingummy to be easier, and such. But not now.
You've got to really care to be good at pvp. You've got to practice, and study all the other class's weaknesses. There is some pvp I might consider interesting (capturing a zone outside an instance and 'converting' it to your side), but even the instanced battlegrounds.
I've kinda gotten distracted by watching the development of Vanguard instead (not out until late next year I suspect). You can have player-run towns in Vanguard :D
Andrea
Guess I'll just get used to being regularly pwned, as the Young Folk are saying.
