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[Ektar]

The many misconceptions of the nonhardcore raider!

Or what I label it from my own experiences and assign it arbitrarily to the general case.

Originally Posted by Skope [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

- Nobody is impressed with your dragon loot.

First, that's simply not true. I've had people marvel at my FA/LR/DE mask.
Second, I don't give a shit. Do you think I wasted so much of my life ensuring server first FA so I could go around telling people it's the first one? (not that I haven't done that..) I did it because it was a childhood fantasy. I did it for myself.

So not saying it was a childhood fantasy of mine to poopsock classic eq raid mobs, but ya know.

Originally Posted by Skope [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

- Everyone thinks you're losers for losing sleep over mobs you've killed a million times and loot you'll give to your alts or sell in EC.

An example being the VP picture on the TR website - they don't give a fuck.

Originally Posted by Skope [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

- you can have all the try-hards. in fact, please point them out to me before they apply to divinity and let other guilds know as well. i'll be sure to send them your way

Do it, brew. No paladins.

Originally Posted by Skope [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

- you've done this shit for more than a year and still haven't had your fill

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Originally Posted by Skope [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

- you two guilds will bump heads, spill it over on the forums and think that the rest of us give 2 shits. we don't. sometimes it's entertaining, most of the time it's annoying.

Well this one is probably right [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
edit: At first I figured this was right. But honestly? So many non tmo/tr chime into these threads that you'd think... man, maybe they don't not care? Be honest with yourself, if you didn't care you wouldn't throw your thoughts into the ring. I don't care in what way you care - you don't have to be like "oh em gee I want trak too," but you obviously care in some way.

Originally Posted by Skope [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

- you've been the laughing stock of the server for how long now?

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Originally Posted by Skope [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

- it's EQ. it's not hard. you get 8 spells/abilities and you use 5 of them at most. congratulations.

Oversimplification is implicit in this condescending verbiage.

How could I be so amazing and others suck so hard at this game if it were that simple?

[Skope]

Originally Posted by Ektar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

How could I be so amazing and others suck so hard at this game if it were that simple?

time invested. and ektar, don't tell me for a second they don't wank themselves off at the pixels they get. it's been a shitfest for raiding since poopsock last summer with momentary lapses of normality, quickly fucked by "must do anything to make sure we're #1 and they aren't." nobody cares but these 2 groups of people and they feed off each other.

The fact that a select few assholes want to consider this their job doesn't mean the entire server has to bow down and listen to their shit. I don't give 2 shits about TR or TMO, IB/DA, the pricks that run these guilds or their dragon/god loot, but i feel as if it's the same old shit over again and the server is worse off for it. The pop is down, people quit and you're not seeing as many new faces as you once did. Is this all attributed to this crap? no, certainly not, but some of it is. i don't have much time anymore, but even when i do i find it hard to muster up the will to log in anymore. it's their shit that can make this a sad and depressing place to be. the others are a string of those broken patches we had that made some classes completely unplayable for weeks, the time it takes to invest into raiding because you two won't go outside and want to ruin it for everyone else, and the fact that the GMs/guides have let it get this far. it's all disappoint. sometimes i wish uthgaard would approach the bickering between you two the way he approaches single-player disputes: ban you both for not shutting the fuck up. btw, uth, i think you're a pussy for not doing it. if that shit could have been handled before a petition was sent in, it should have been handled before a petition was sent in. the mere fact that it wasn't means they're not willing to talk, and yet they want to discuss rules. are you serious?

i say their shit, because you're not one of them anymore, ektar. you were once and maybe you can see if only for a second just how silly this shit really is

[Loke]

Ok, I'm done trying - both to turn this thread in a productive direction and with attempting to keep it out of RnF.

Skope, your forum join date is 2 months after mine, yet you have over 30% more posts than I do, what does that tell you? Unlike you, I am actually playing the game. I have experienced every encounter in the game to date, completed numerous quests that I never got to on live, and met a bunch of nice people while doing it. You on the other hand haven't had a serious kill in weeks, if not months... and you come here and insinuate I'm wasting my time and that I'm obsessed with this game? I'm not going to break out the "I'm a young doctor" thing, but let me assure you, this game has never hindered my personal life - in fact, I probably do 10x more reading because I play p99 than I did when I didn't play.

I like a lot of people in divinity and cannot think of a time I have lashed out at you guys for anything, but this whole mentality that you are better than everyone on the server because you're so above getting raid mobs is just silly. [edit: deleted a pretty weak analogy]. At least we're in the game playing it - you just sit on the forums and comment on what we do. Get the fuck over yourself and stop pretending that you don't care about what TMO and TR do, because your 550+ posts and presence in this thread clearly show that you do.