When not to laugh
2007-12-03
The 'uber' 12-year-olds who populate online games aren't so smart.
In World of Warcraft I have a priest. She has a talent so that when she dies, she hangs around for 15 seconds and is allowed to keep casting healing spells on nearby friendlies. (In order to do so her normal graphic [of an 8' blue person with a huge purple pony tail] is replaced by a giant winged, floating angel thing: although it's kind of fixed now, previous incarnations of the ability were so useless I tend to refer to the talent as Improved Death Animation).
I was in the Battlegrounds last night fighting opposition players. At one stage I was against two hunters. As a Holy-specialised priest I'm an excellent addition to a group, but on my own I'm little more than a diversion; generally a brief one at that. So I did some damage to the weaker one, put my big damage-over-time spell on him and promptly got killed. When I turned into a big angel, one of the hunters laughed at me.
Behind him, his friend with little health and a big damage-over-time spell keeled over, dead. And although my character wasn't alive, technically I was still in control of her and she was still in the area, so I got the credit and the points for the kill.
The best time for people to laugh at you is when you know better.
In World of Warcraft I have a priest. She has a talent so that when she dies, she hangs around for 15 seconds and is allowed to keep casting healing spells on nearby friendlies. (In order to do so her normal graphic [of an 8' blue person with a huge purple pony tail] is replaced by a giant winged, floating angel thing: although it's kind of fixed now, previous incarnations of the ability were so useless I tend to refer to the talent as Improved Death Animation).
I was in the Battlegrounds last night fighting opposition players. At one stage I was against two hunters. As a Holy-specialised priest I'm an excellent addition to a group, but on my own I'm little more than a diversion; generally a brief one at that. So I did some damage to the weaker one, put my big damage-over-time spell on him and promptly got killed. When I turned into a big angel, one of the hunters laughed at me.
Behind him, his friend with little health and a big damage-over-time spell keeled over, dead. And although my character wasn't alive, technically I was still in control of her and she was still in the area, so I got the credit and the points for the kill.
The best time for people to laugh at you is when you know better.
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