Breakfast Topic: Nobody understands me
by Eliah Hecht 
Jun 1st 2009 at 8:00AM
In this large and varied game of ours, there are many things to love. There are enough, in fact, that some of them seem downright odd to me. One of our paladins is absolutely smitten with achievements, of any kind. Every so often he'll suggest that we do something bizarre in a 5-man or a raid and I'll start to ask him why, and then realize, oh. It's for the achievement. But that's still fairly mainstream; lots of people like achievements for whatever reason.
Me, I like keeping my old weapons in the bank, lining them up in a nice row. I'd like to put them on a mantlepiece or something if they ever implement player housing. I really enjoy training new skills and recipes - the gold glimmer and "whoosh" sound are oddly satisfying. I like standing on things that can disappear (like mining nodes), making them disappear, and then sitting down or dancing on the empty air. These are all loves that have perplexed my guildies at one time or another. I also really like smelting.
Then there's my love for math of all kinds in this game, but that's not particularly odd. Plenty of people like to theorycraft. Right? Right?!
What are your WoW passions that nobody understands?
Filed under: Odds and ends, Breakfast Topics
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
Soroks Jun 1st 2009 2:47PM
Going for the random raid achievements. I don't know why, but I like doing things even just slightly different.
Luke Jun 1st 2009 8:10AM
hmmm pre-nerf 6k FBs on clothies in the 60-69 braqcket :)
Hivetyrant Jun 1st 2009 8:10AM
Healing!
klink-o Jun 1st 2009 8:10AM
We were talking something that pertains to this in guild chat this morning- not stopping until a rep reaches 999/1000 as opposed to right when it rolls over to exalted. It just doesn't feel done to me unless the bar is full.
Delyriah Jun 1st 2009 8:45AM
I absolutely love collecting things from the holidays. I've still got all the fireworks, rockets, coins, elune's candle, festival outfits, the lantern that creates the light stones, the light stones, plus some from previous years from Lunar festival. I still have a bag of candy hearts, my dresses, some bracelets (given and ungiven), roses, and picnic basket from Valentines. From Noblegarden i have my rabbit, dress, tux, branches, bunny ears, the flower basket, spring robes. From the summer festival I have the Brazier of Dancing Flames, Vestment and Crown of the Festival. I dont have much from brewfest yet besides the pet, the stein, and the club membership, but thats next on my list after the summer festival! I still have many wands, squashling, the Horsemans blade, toothpicks and pumpkin heads (both ones you can cast on others and the helm) from Hallows End. And i have the Racer Car, the robot, Graccu's Mince Meat Fruit Cake, Mistletoe, Preserved Holly, Snowman maker, lots and lots of snowballs, my Winter Hat and outfit, lots of colored wrapping paper you cant get outside of Christmas all from Winter Veil.
Snuff Jun 5th 2009 11:26AM
Well besides looking at sarah Michelle Gellar I love raiding wid my guildies. I can wipe and wipe and wipe and wipe and wipe and wipe and wipe and wipe and wipe and wipe and wipe and wipe and still love it. Blasting thru Naxx is still fun to me and I show up every raid night I can even though I've seen the Grobbie encounter alot of times. But happy days we are starting ulduar and even invented our own hard mode on XT-002. Achievement defeat XT-002 without pulling the trash before hand also known as stupid hard mode.
jaenicoll Jun 1st 2009 10:57AM
999/1000 Exalted bar - Guilty
Collecting Pets - Guilty
Collecting Mounts - Guilty
Collecting Tabards - Guilty
Standing on chests, nodes etc before they disappear and dancing, emoting in air - V Guilty
Reading all the Quest Text and becoming inolved in the storylines - Guilty
Soloing all old world instance bosses at 70 - Guilty
Soloing all old world raid bosses at 80 - In progress
Soloing all BC instance bosses at 80 - Considering
Why? - No idea
Gemini Jun 1st 2009 12:36PM
Soloing BC 5-man bosses isn't that hard unless you're running it on heroic difficulty. I'd imagine you might have some trouble with MgT but my level 80 hunter was able to solo everything except that, which I two-manned with a priest.
Zarinar Jun 1st 2009 10:36AM
My little quirk is that i love collecting recipes:) i often waste all ym gold on AH for new recipes, when i should have used them for mount:)
khelegond Jun 1st 2009 8:16AM
I like to keep old things (Vanilla). I just made Quel'Serrar, and I love to solo old instances (and Onyxia - which I do weekly). Also I'm collecting a full T0 from each class (except DK, of course) and I can use and show them, since I'm a pally :)
Pyornthe Jun 1st 2009 8:16AM
Must. have. more. armor.
My bank is stuffed to bursting with old armor that I love. I hoard it, and play dress up with big ole' Pyornthe. He looks pretty snazzy in the outfits I've cooked up for him, especially when I manage to match it to one of my 79 mounts. Almost to 100! [sort of :( ]
Cameron Jun 1st 2009 8:23AM
I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND THE MINING THING.
Also, I achieve like a madman at times. There's also my old habit of running the good, ole' instances every once in a while. What can I say, I actually LIKE WC. Oh, and I'm currrently at 6/10 on my DKs. I'm rolling one of each race to see how their back stories differ :D
Amethyst Jun 1st 2009 8:27AM
Vanity Pets, my guild hates them. I have 85 now but I can't celebrate in guild chat when I get a new one, as most of my guildies think I'm mad for collecting them :(
I also have a few pieces in my bank which are totally useless but which I love from a lore perspective, such as Moroes' Lucky Pocket Watch. When I needed on that as a level 80 mage, I think people thought I was a bit mad.
Mike Jun 1st 2009 8:27AM
Being a mathematician, I totally get enjoying the theorycraft part. Some years ago, I tried designing a RPG-esque system, balancing stats and results, any boy were the equations difficult.
Devote Jun 1st 2009 8:31AM
Yeah, got to agree, collecting old gear is so much fun, running MC and BWL every week to get my pally the judgement set and thunderfury
Got a couple of guildies who are utter achievement whores, one bought a mechano-hog just for the achievement, doesnt even use it since he doesnt like how it stands out amongst other mounts
As for standing on things, after the last boss in CoS, stand on the loot chest and start dancing, best part of the instance
Trasken Jun 1st 2009 8:33AM
Hmm.... one in particular I have a habit of doing is running through a town, being a rogue and all, in a nice little pieced together cloth set. I got all your traditional things, the 2h staff (the torch of retribution) a pointy wizard hat, etc. I also have a Elune Candle left over that I hit random people with, as well as use the focusing stones to complete my mageness "powers".
I also tend to keep older items (Vanilla WoW, TBC) in my first bank bag.
Another habit, which I've been told is odd, is that I refuse to land on my flying mounts. I tend to dismount as high as I can get away with without taking damage.
If I'm heading to pvp then I'll dismount in the air and stealth on my way down.
Boom Jun 1st 2009 9:31AM
"Another habit, which I've been told is odd, is that I refuse to land on my flying mounts. I tend to dismount as high as I can get away with without taking damage.
If I'm heading to pvp then I'll dismount in the air and stealth on my way down."
As a druid, I do the same thing, lose flight form, switch to cat and prowl before I hit the ground. With Feline Grace I can do it from higher than most people without taking any damage and they never know which way I'm coming from.
I do the same thing for in-air heals - lose flight, hit instant heal, and re-form before I hit the ground.
Cyrus Jun 1st 2009 10:13AM
RAWRbomb!
Dismount from a flying mount or shift out of flight form while some height above a targetable mob. Shift into bear form while you fall. (Come to think of it, ever since WotLK cats can do it too and it's safer for them. But it's COOLER to do it with a bear.) Assuming you feral charge during the very brief window in which you are in range of the target, you will take no fall damage.
I tried that a few times when my druid was feral specced. I didn't do it much, just enough to realize that it might be a fun stunt but wasn't worth the trouble and risk. Hmmm, but I've upgraded my computer since then, I wonder if it would work better now?
Joetheserviceman Jun 1st 2009 5:32PM
About the flying mount thing...
Heck yeah!
As a Warrior, I've macro'd dismounting and Charge. Then I fly just over the mob I want, pop the macro, and take zero falling damage. In pvp it works even better =D.
Jon Do Jun 1st 2009 8:48AM
Hats.