When is a WoW player impressive to you?

[DarkAmbient]

I don't really look up to other players as such, they're just other people playing a computer game. But I was impressed with Raegwyn and Mione for their soloing skill.

[Elias01]

Mounts, only way to know if a player has cleared some mythic content or high rating pvp.

You mean mounts what people sell for gold or can be farmed in next exapansion? Not really.

[MrKnubbles]

TBH, only someone with the Crazy Cat title impresses me anymore.

Yes! I have that!

[Soon-TM]

If you divide a player's r.io rating by 100 you get the size of his di*k in centimeters

What about female players?

OT, impressive players are those whom I don't need to tear my hair off to heal their asses, while at the same time pulling at least decent damage/healing/mitigation. Bonus points for being polite, if not friendly. Mythic titles/mounts used to command a fair bit of admiration - before they could be bought, that is.

As for PvP, I just dgaf, even if there are some cool xmogs and mounts.

[Sosua]

I never said this goes for everyone. But a LOT of people did care.

Where you getting this statistic from??

[Kiwijello]

Playing a video game isn't impressive.

[Andonais]

People who run communities and events or rank 1 and first 100 kill guilds but I don't stop and stare like a child back in the old days.

[Nnyco]

I guess you speak for everyone?

"When is a wow player impressive to you?"

I gUeSs yOu sPeAk fOr EvRyOnE?

[Doffen]

I am the only one who can impress me. And pet battlers. Man that is dedication. That amount of endurance and effort is impressive. How can anyone live like that??! Salute to them!!

[Alydael]

Back in the days, raiders would /flex in Orgrimmar with their newly acquired raiding gear. People would inspect them and hope they once, would loot the items themselves.

These days, the population is incredibly sharded and with all the transmogs available, nobody seems to stand out.

For me, only rank 1 gladiator titles with a decent win-lose ratio, or famed titled players stand out. All others are just the 'average joe' for me.

What makes you look up at a WoW player and why?

It's just a video game, pixels don't really impress me. If you go out of your way to help someone who is struggling or to do someone a good turn- that is what impresses me.

[pewpmeiser]

When they don't come to forums to complain about the game.

[Ulfric Trumpcloak]

Sounds a bit like the Dunning Kruger effect in action. You consider your competence to be average because you find it easy.

The fact of the matter is that being good at PvE (as measured relative to other players) has a lot to do with skill - skill acquired through effort and time.



The number of buttons you have to press is irrelevant. When you're talking about any competitive activity, it's all about how good you are at it relative to other players. Take a sport like football for example: It's one of the most elementary, simple games in existence. Anyone (some physical disabilities/impairments excepted) can kick a ball into a net. Yet you wouldn't try to argue that people like Lionel Messi or Christaino Ronaldo lack skill.

The skill in PvP has nothing to do with how complex the character skill set is, it's all about how well you can execute it relative to other people.

Truly spoken like someone who has never played an organized football game in their life.

You're saying picking one out of 5 possible answers isn't easier than picking one out of 20. It's common sense. The game was harder to play when you had 20+ abilities on your action bars than now that you have 10 and half of them are cool downs.

If PvE actually takes skill then how was Alan from SeriousGaming a raider for Blood Legion, which was for a long time one of the top 3 WoW guilds in the world. If you don't know who he is, then Towelliee is a fresher example. PvE takes time, not skill.

[therealstegblob]

It is, because i doubt im the only one that thinks like this.

Just stop while you're not too far behind, dude.

Gear was the defacto and absolute bar for determining how 'serious' a player was back in the day, especially in Vanilla or TBC. We didn't have titles, achievements, lots of special mounts, etc. We had purple gear.

You can sit here and fucking pout about it and rage against the machine and scream about how there's DOZENS of you, but we don't want to hear it.

[zlygork]

When something is going wrong and the player stays positive and gives helpful advice instead of throwing a tantrum. To me that's far more impressive than a full mythic set or a world first

[Highelf]

Having a RARE item that isn't in the game anymore and hasn't been for a LONG time.

Seeing my cousin 1v2 in arena against the best comp at the time and with them being a high rank.

Certain titles.

[AlmightyGerkin]

Back when a wow player was impressive to me was if they had sulfuras in vanilla or something they worked really hard towards to and showed off. Includes Pvp gear or mythic tier gear but in a different color. But now it is not that impressive anymore.

[lukkoth]

Thats just bs, didnt care bout others loot back then and neither do i do it now.

Seems like you're part of the minority of players.

Aspiration has long been something that pressed folks to strive for better gear, etc in wow. Especially those familiar with the grind -- when you see someone with some gear that you KNOW is hard to grind, like both pairs of Dal'Rends, Briarwood Reed, Carapace, Truestrike Shoulders, and other rare pieces, or even full sets of raid quality gear, it's definitely impressive.

[Cwimge]

Mounts, only way to know if a player has cleared some mythic content or high rating pvp.

Or paid for a carry
Or bought an account
Or got lucky an expansion or two later

[Kithelle]

I doubt there is anything in wow that you can't do if you don't throw enough time at it.

Well being a server or world first mythic player, I don't think I'm willing to put that much work into a game unless I was getting payed lol, and may not even be good enough to pull such off because I don't play to perfection.

[lionofwar87]

Back in the days, raiders would /flex in Orgrimmar with their newly acquired raiding gear. People would inspect them and hope they once, would loot the items themselves.

These days, the population is incredibly sharded and with all the transmogs available, nobody seems to stand out.

For me, only rank 1 gladiator titles with a decent win-lose ratio, or famed titled players stand out. All others are just the 'average joe' for me.

What makes you look up at a WoW player and why?

When my enemy doesn't run away as they die