Originally Posted by
Synaxis
Oh dear.
OP, I am sorry. You suck at forums. I will explain.
First and foremost, this thread is not new or unique. There have been plenty threads about this very same topic for months now, people debating and speculating on the fastest way to get to level 85. I am sure, were you savvy enough, you would have easily been able to use the search feature to find one such thread. This would remove your need to make a thread about the same topic, which completely removes you from the trolls' line of sight.
Secondly, as soon as you use the words 'hardcore' and 'casual,' in a post, you bring yourself to the foreground. When your usage of the words is as you actually did use them - that is, when you refer to yourself as 'hardcore,' and imply that anyone who is a 'casual' player is lesser than you - you become an immediate target and the trolls will begin feeding on you. When you continue on to imply that anyone that cares about the lore and the stories and basically any other enjoyable part of the game that is not server first 85 is a casual and therefore inferior and not in possession of a mindset quite worthy enough to reply to your srs bsns thread, you turn even the people who are not generally aggressive on forums against you. Suddenly, you have brought upon yourself a pile of shit so epic that you will undoubtedly drown in it.
And third, regardless of what your subject is about, how legitimate your concern is, how critical your problem is - as soon as you say the words 'don't troll me' or something similar in nature, you have issued a challenge to all of the most clever trolls lurking about the forum. Some will inevitably bite, even if everything else about your post was flawless. It is the nature of the troll. They are aggressive creatures.
In summary, OP, you need to get your head out of your ass and think before you type on a public forum, particularly one as frequently hostile as this. Do not ever use the words 'hardcore' or 'casual' again in reference to some completely imaginary, indistinct castes into which all players must fit, particularly when your definition of a 'casual' encompasses the vast majority of the player base and is, as far as you are concerned, infinitely less valuable than you, a total bad ass motherfuckin' hardcore playa' who don't care 'bout playin' a game for fun, even though games were totally meant for fun in the first place. People like you are the reason why this game has such a negative social stigma attached to it.