One of my guildies was in Caledor with his Witch Elf yesterday when he got jumped by 2 Witch Hunters. While the fight was going on, a Swordmaster strolled up and watched. The guy from my guild is well known on our server as a good player, and managed to kill both Witch Hunters, but as you can imagine he had barely any hitpoints left. So the Swordmaster walks up and kills him. Fair enough, this is WAR after all, but then the guy feels the need to spam /laugh and /point emotes at the corpse.
Of course we’re all on ventrilo and hear about it, and as I’m in Caledor anyway, as soon as I see the Swordmaster I chase him down and start hitting. Turns out that I kill him with very little difficulty… The guy was doing stupid crap like running in circles around me (the mighty strafe turn! Reminds me of Mechwarrior 4 ;) ), despite the fact I put Touch of Palsy on him 3 times...
I’m not complaining about it, it was funny as hell for us and made him look like a proper tool, but why is it the cocky twats that spam emotes on people almost invariably turn out to be... well, a bit rubbish :P School bully syndrome?
Totally.
ReplyDeleteThe only people who point and laugh like that are people who are used to getting their asses to them on a regular basis.
There's a WE I keep bumping into that gets a sound whupping 1v1 but when her mates are around and I die it's /lol.
Tragic really aint it :) It's not helped by the safety of current MMOs and the lack of consequence then a character dies in game.
ReplyDeleteBack in the old Ultima Online days if someone acted like that they would get hunted down and looted clean. Guilds would add them to their kill on sight list and that was not something people could afford as crappy players.