In World of Warcraft you will meet many players. But just at the launch of an expansion you meet some clichés that you just have to love.
World of Warcraft has now arrived in its 9th expansion. But as with the launch of every addon, all sorts of people appear who fulfill common clichés and make you roll your eyes or smile. We introduce you to 5 types of players that you can meet on every corner right now at the launch of Dragonflight.
1. The planned file corpse from the friends list
“Who the hell is Kouhai? Have I ever played with that? Why did I put him on the friends list again and why is he in the throat?”
hand on heart Not every player on the friends list is really a friend that you know really well. Over the years you may have lost touch or added someone back then because you liked each other.
When launching a new expansion, it’s worth taking a look at the friends list, because there you can find people you haven’t had contact with for many years.
It’s worth writing to these people and trying to talk to them.
Because they are often fellow players who have not just exposed one, but several expansions and are now running through world history a little planned. So at the start of Dragonflight you can see some people making their way to the shadow lands and asking, rather bemused, when it will finally be about dragons.
Here you can help out and integrate some old acquaintances into the circle of friends or the guild.
2. The quest text ignorer
“The quest is bugged. Has anyone else had the problem that it just doesn’t go on?”
Quests are part of every adventurer’s daily work in World of Warcraft. But coping with quests also means dealing with quest givers and in the most perverse cases – Elune save! – even having to read the quest texts to understand a mission.
In 99% of all quests this is not that important. You simply click on “Accept” and then look at the world map, where it now glows blue. Then you just kill or click on anything that sparkles in any way. It will work.
But in about 1% of the quests this is not possible because something specific is required of the character. Either you have to listen to dialogue, use items in a certain order, or take some other action that isn’t immediately obvious.
There is a way to solve these quests – you could just read the quest text, which usually describes in great detail what to do.
However, these players find it much easier to ask directly in the General channel, “Is the quest bugged? Doesn’t work for me.”
As a rule, there is also a player who takes over the work and writes the solution to the riddle in the channel – often because he or she has just looked it up on the Internet.
The motto of these heroes: It’s better to ask stupid questions 3 times than to look once in the quest log.
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3. The constant nagger
“Same snot as every time, Blizzard just doesn’t learn from their mistakes and WoW just keeps getting worse.”
Everyone knows these people because they have to share their displeasure with the whole world. It doesn’t matter whether it’s the new quests, the new areas or the new features. Everything is bad.
There is absolutely nothing that these players really enjoy – apart from the “realization” that World of Warcraft is still as bad as it has been for the last tens of years.
These whiners used to be avid gamers who really liked World of Warcraft. It’s not the same feeling anymore and somehow they can never really tell: have I changed that much? Has the game changed that much?
Nevertheless, these players rarely manage to finally draw a line. They stay in World of Warcraft and share their anger with everyone. Because if they didn’t do that, the day would have so many more hours that you have to fill somehow.
4. The overhype players
“OMG, did you do the quest with the dwarf? Have you seen the dragon daycare? That is fine!!!”
Where there are complainers, there is also the other extreme, which we summarize as “overhype players”. They’ve been looking forward to the expansion for weeks and months, and have dedicated their lives to immersing themselves in it and spending every minute of their free time in it, at least for a while. Where the complainer only sees the bad, the overhype players can only see the positive.
Legitimate criticism, such as bugs or balance problems, are simply swept under the carpet and disappear under the wave of positive energy. Nothing can dampen the mood of these players.
Sometimes all that positive energy can be annoying, but you can’t help but think that these are the people who simply have the most fun in World of Warcraft.
Cortyn is also rumored to be one of those people.
5. The planned one
“I should be in the second area in 2 hours and 15 minutes, but before that I have to complete the tomtom route to the Dragon Glyphs in 16.3 minutes…”
A new expansion means there is a lot of new content. But new content also means one thing: unfinished business. Everything is a list to be completed and efficiency is the most important thing.
Even before the expansion has started, everything is planned down to the smallest detail:
The launch of the expansion is the beginning of fulfilling a large “to-do” list, which is meticulously and efficiently processed. While others are still enjoying the landscape, the well-planned one is already 2 areas further and has consumed all the content in a continuous run.
To others it may seem like he doesn’t enjoy the content at all, but that’s not true. He derives his fulfillment from the fact that his quest log is now empty again and his list of achievements is full. When everything that needs to be done has been done, the well-planned person is satisfied, even if it looks like it can’t be any fun from the outside.
Did you also observe these player types at the beginning of Dragonflight? Or what kind of clichés do you come across?
Or maybe you’re stuck in one of the 10 phases of every WoW player…