GlennDanzig220
04-07-2004, 18:11
Well, last night I must say that I had the most pleasant dueling experience I could have ever asked for. I know that "public" dueling is much maligned for the general lack or respect and/or manners of the people involved, and (for me, at least) the general lack of character variety involved. Personally, I'm probably not good enough for private dueling or for anything like Clan Honor, so all my dueling takes place in the public sector. About every other game I join, I always hear "Fire druids suck" or "Noob fire druid" (my only remaining character, waiting on the new ladder :sleep: )along with the normal witticisms of the public dueling game population.
Well last night, I decided to join a dueling game for a bit before I went to bed. The only person there at the time was a lvl 90 lightning sorcie (I'm lvl 88), with a couple of lvl 50ish chars just watching (?) so we dueled a bit, pretty evenly-matched duels. So, people started joining, and the low levels left. Within about 15 minutes, we had a MA assasin (no ww), a dual-wielding ww barb with a dagger (it wasn't wizardspike, but I do remember him saying he used it for resists, a bit different but different is cool), a non-teleporting hammerdin, a doom/wielding conviction vengeance pally, and a holy freeze throwpally with glimmershred. Everyone was polite and humorous, taking their semi-unconventional builds with a grain of salt, and nobody took themselves too seriously. Nobody left, maybe because we all realized that what we were taking part in was an extraordinaly refreshing breath of fresh air from the stagnation of public dueling. At no time did we see a telehammerdin, a telemental druid, a boner, or a trappy. While I admit that not every person who plays those classes is a complete jerk, a good number of them love to rub it in your face that their build is "better" and that you "suck" for not having one of the "ownage" builds. Certainly, a "good" telenec probably would have wiped the floor with all 7 of us at once, but nobody cared. The sheer wonder at meeting up with 6 complete strangers in a public duel game and not once having to deal with townguarding, gold stealing, vicious trash-talking, and just the general lack of class displayed in most public games was almost too good to believe.
I stayed as long as I could, but after about an hour, my eyes just couldn't stay open. I was the first to leave that little piece of dueling heaven. Just when you think that battle-net is a lost cause, with all the duping/hacking/classless/annoying folks who at times seem to make up 99% of the population, you happen to join that one game where you realize just how good it could be, and I consider myself lucky to be one of the people who've actually found it.
And before I go, I don't care if you think my character sucks. I don't care if you think the only reason we were enjoying ourselves is because we all sucked and were evenly matched because of it. I don't care if your trappy could have come in and "Pwned" us all. You can have fun your way, and I'll have it my way.
Long Live Fire Druids!!
Danzig
Well last night, I decided to join a dueling game for a bit before I went to bed. The only person there at the time was a lvl 90 lightning sorcie (I'm lvl 88), with a couple of lvl 50ish chars just watching (?) so we dueled a bit, pretty evenly-matched duels. So, people started joining, and the low levels left. Within about 15 minutes, we had a MA assasin (no ww), a dual-wielding ww barb with a dagger (it wasn't wizardspike, but I do remember him saying he used it for resists, a bit different but different is cool), a non-teleporting hammerdin, a doom/wielding conviction vengeance pally, and a holy freeze throwpally with glimmershred. Everyone was polite and humorous, taking their semi-unconventional builds with a grain of salt, and nobody took themselves too seriously. Nobody left, maybe because we all realized that what we were taking part in was an extraordinaly refreshing breath of fresh air from the stagnation of public dueling. At no time did we see a telehammerdin, a telemental druid, a boner, or a trappy. While I admit that not every person who plays those classes is a complete jerk, a good number of them love to rub it in your face that their build is "better" and that you "suck" for not having one of the "ownage" builds. Certainly, a "good" telenec probably would have wiped the floor with all 7 of us at once, but nobody cared. The sheer wonder at meeting up with 6 complete strangers in a public duel game and not once having to deal with townguarding, gold stealing, vicious trash-talking, and just the general lack of class displayed in most public games was almost too good to believe.
I stayed as long as I could, but after about an hour, my eyes just couldn't stay open. I was the first to leave that little piece of dueling heaven. Just when you think that battle-net is a lost cause, with all the duping/hacking/classless/annoying folks who at times seem to make up 99% of the population, you happen to join that one game where you realize just how good it could be, and I consider myself lucky to be one of the people who've actually found it.
And before I go, I don't care if you think my character sucks. I don't care if you think the only reason we were enjoying ourselves is because we all sucked and were evenly matched because of it. I don't care if your trappy could have come in and "Pwned" us all. You can have fun your way, and I'll have it my way.
Long Live Fire Druids!!
Danzig