Posts Tagged Fun
Gaming with your spouse?
Posted by William in Gamer Wife, WoW on September 21, 2007
I have had several friends tell me that is it great that my wife and I game together, but there is a dark side! She is a stay-at-home mom so she has more free time then I do, and because of that she had more time to level her toons. I have no real issue with it but there are time where she will want to work on them together (my shaman and her warrior for example), but even if we were, she would sneak ahead of me by a few levels. On the other hand her main (A Hunter) beat me to 70 by almost 5 months much like you see in the below comic by Penny Arcade! It does a great job summing up how I felt after she hit 70 in World of Warcraft, leaving me in the dust.
Big Red Kitty’s Top Ten Rules for Pugging
I have been surfing other MMO related blogs, and I found the Big Red Kitty blog. It is a hunter related blog that covers a lot of good WoW related data. In one of his posts he echos my feeling on pugs. With no further ado here is his list.
10. Immediately assume the other four people couldn’t pass an IQ test if you spotted them the I and the Q.
9. If within the first three pulls, a person starts behaving like a crack-addict who just spent his last dollar on Arm and Hammer Baking Soda in a baggie, kick him without a second thought.
8. If more than one person acts like they flunked out of Saint Billy’s College of Underwater Firefighting for the Blind, just leave.
7. Master Looter or don’t go.
6. If you get with a good group and someone seems to have DNA-strands that are related to homo sapien, write their name down in a little book and keep it next to your computer. Have everybody in your guild do this and try to keep a website or forum updated with a Nice List.
5. Bad List, ditto.
4. Everyone makes mistakes. How one reacts afterwards is the key. Someone Needs a greenie by accident, give them the opportunity to make up for it by offering to pass on the next four drops.
3. If you find a really good player who pugs a lot, try to poach ‘em into your guild. They are pugging for a reason; their guild isn’t doing something right. Poaching should be done with class and dignity on both sides. If you casually ask, “You know, my guild might be interested in someone of your skills,” and they drop-guild immediately, you might want to take that as a sign that something just isn’t kosher.
2. Ignorance is not the same as Stupidity is not the same as Evil. Ignorance should be forgiven, Stupidity punished, Evil killed.
1. This game is much more fun with a group of people you can call Friends. Running Deadmines with your Friends’ alts will probably be more enjoyable than going to Black Temple with twenty-four delusional, self-centered, ego-maniacal @sshats.