Draenei role-play

come back to us yarnaat!! monny misses you!

Monrena wrote:dru was moving countries, thelos had a few holidays /wow breaks, delidah stopped logigng his paladin alt.. and prity much all draenic rp just vanished,

Actually, I haven't moved yet. I had just lost interest in WoW and was off playing NWN2 until MoP launched. I'm rather ADD like that.

ahh alright fair enough.. still its likley monny will be following up on some old roumers and whispers and wil be heading to bootybay soon *nods* but that asside,

I do think there is interest.. we just need that ball to be pushed

I liked talking with all the nutcases in Shatarth .
> Reason for not RPing a Drenie Bob's a full time job...most of that job = cleaning up train wrecks but mehh.

I'm thinking of migrating my Priest and joining these chaps. I've spoken to these fellows and they seem very clever and passionate about what they do. Just the sort of thing I was looking for. It's a shame it's on a pve rather than a pvp server, but meh. Can't always win.

'cause of the hugely bad reputation the class has been given from an OOC pov.

I actually think your Worgen and DK reasoning is the opposite way around. Worgen were disliked because of OOC reasons at first, I see a lot of Gilnean Worgen - I don't think I've met one that isn't - and the reason they start in Human form more often is because they usually 'fight' the curse. It is understandable in the holy city of Stormwind for that to be the case. The common civilian of Stormwind probably mistrusts most Worgen. Think about it!

DKs on the other hand have built their own bad rep. A lot of them walk around and cause trouble, or at least they used to and now it has given them a negative outlook.

I think the further this thread goes on, the more nitpicking is being done about not playing Draenai. The most realistic answers are from page 1 to why people don't play the race.

Vaell wrote:DKs on the other hand have built their own bad rep. A lot of them walk around and cause trouble, or at least they used to and now it has given them a negative outlook.

This. The bad reputation comes from all the shitty people over the years who played it piss poorly.

I have 2 Draenei. One I play now and then, another I play rather often. Sadly, being Black Hand Death Knight you won't see me prancing about the cities much.

Vaell wrote:

'cause of the hugely bad reputation the class has been given from an OOC pov.

I actually think your Worgen and DK reasoning is the opposite way around. Worgen were disliked because of OOC reasons at first, I see a lot of Gilnean Worgen - I don't think I've met one that isn't - and the reason they start in Human form more often is because they usually 'fight' the curse. It is understandable in the holy city of Stormwind for that to be the case. The common civilian of Stormwind probably mistrusts most Worgen. Think about it!

DKs on the other hand have built their own bad rep. A lot of them walk around and cause trouble, or at least they used to and now it has given them a negative outlook.

Completely Agree with the whole DK / Worgen getting bad reps from poor RPers and ppl that pissed others off.Completely true

Bob's Worgen and not Gilnean
Sir Walker (AKA Patty) is a worgen DK and not Gilnean
Also Bob's totally trustworthy... kinda maybe..."Ohhh OK here's your watch back "

Pat can be usually found anywhere except the Cathedral area as "Hollies" make him nervous.I may ask if the Regiment want him as a pet / mascot.they can lock Sir Walker up during the day.

I always thought Draenei were a kinda cool alien race. Even still i once had a male Paladin main on alliance on a private server - which was running WOTLK, mostly becouse i liked how he looked.

Still to RP one myself, i can hardly push myself to try and RP a Kaldorei or such, but if i'd be so interested and read things up i could do it. For Draenei themselves i'm not sure what i'd do with them. I guess it's more of how i feel, but right now igot enough chars to handle, we'll see i guess.

I remember still in cata when a lot of worgen caused a lot of truble here and there, yet it was still a time when i mostly was still learning the ropes myself.
Though my first worgen is not a Gilnean. More worked around drinking worgen blood then later went to Darnassus, sadly that's all backstory (Since yes first char and all). But i liked how it turned out.

As for the religion part, sadly i do have a Paladin, still trying to find a good way to show the walk not just tool using, but inbetween healing about three shoulder shoot wounds daily and Shadow things lurking around it's a bit tricky. But i am making a bit on how she views it all.

Then again i never really made a char based for RP, so it was more personal things i decided on.

When I were a noob...Yes I was one once.. I RPed a Draenie thinking they were something onto the fanatical loonies of the Black Templars .... my first bit of RP with a certain Drenie priestess saw me do what I can only describe as an EPIC Facepalm.A few years on and I think I could RP one... it'd have to be a female though..Male space goats look dreadful..
No offense to Thelos but Bob got an eyeful in Gilneas that time and has avoided purple jelly ever since

they do seem very good thelos i myself am styaing here on good old defias thow, shame they could not be on defias

Monrena wrote:dru was moving countries, thelos had a few holidays /wow breaks, delidah stopped logigng his paladin alt.. and prity much all draenic rp just vanished,

If I look at the broad strokes of what I have role-played over the past year and a half, my paladin is by far the most played character. But; She's on horde.

I never really got into role-playing a draenei, but I sure do -love- role-playing their faith. Scuzy has been a convert to Naaruvada for a long time now, even after Naaruvada pretty much bit the dust, I am still role-playing it. I've tried to get back into Alliance role-play, but it keeps putting me off. Too much politics, too little adventure. I would love to get a horde-side lighty-guild going, but it is doomed for failure.

So, I shall remain a lonely crusader.

Die, warlocks. Die.

erwtenpeller wrote:

Monrena wrote:dru was moving countries, thelos had a few holidays /wow breaks, delidah stopped logigng his paladin alt.. and prity much all draenic rp just vanished,

I've tried to get back into Alliance role-play, but it keeps putting me off. Too much politics, too little adventure.

disciples so far have provided me and monny a lot of supprising adventures and fun and they even lack polotics at times too.. there awsome best choice i made having monny join them with the lack of any draeneic community at the moment

I already have a paladin, though. I'm all good on Lighty-RP

I promised to do more random shhiii stuff on Bob again.He's not really a lighty though

Drustai wrote:

Vaell wrote:DKs on the other hand have built their own bad rep. A lot of them walk around and cause trouble, or at least they used to and now it has given them a negative outlook.

This. The bad reputation comes from all the shitty people over the years who played it piss poorly.

Vaell, wasnt your DK a mass murderer?

To be fair, DK's are a good class to play an evil shit with.

Well yes, they are mostly going to be morally grey at best. The thing is however I still think it is dumb to judge the Ebon blade on the example of how DKs are RP'd. Same with any faction. But meh, this is not a DK thread.

erwtenpeller wrote:To be fair, DK's are a good class to play an evil shit with.

Dunno, tbh. Sure, they've all the skills and the effects to appear as darkish/evil chars, but the background Blizzard gave them, the standard dk background goes for a more lawful good char(Ally side) than anything. Differently from other classes they've a very specific and particular backstory, which leads to that kind of char, if followed naturally. Sure, you can strap away that backstory bundled with them, but then your char isn't a 'normal' dk, but a sort of special snowflake(nothing against special snowflakes, as long as they've a good reason to exist within the lore).

Call me odd, but I'd love to see an evil draenei, honestly. Really evil, Drustai is not evil, just terribly misguided by her fears, at least how I figured her out. Draenei have a huge potential to become villains, whatever class you pick. I think they are the race, Ally side, with the biggest potential on the matter, not to mention their physical traits are devilish enough. They are perfect, they think themselves and act like as they are above the common average person, they have knowledge of lightyears space and thousands of years time. This is, from an rp perspective, gold. A draenei who thinks he's above his allies and he's the only one right person(or draenei are) is a great start for a villain.

To say that we agree.

DK's are terrific to play evil shits because they have lots of evil dark looking gear and scary blue eyes. Draenei are terrific for playing evil shits because they look like demons.

Why do you think there's so many Draenei DK's? Evil, dead, AND looking like a demon. It's a double whammy!

erwtenpeller wrote:To say that we agree.

DK's are terrific to play evil shits because they have lots of evil dark looking gear and scary blue eyes. Draenei are terrific for playing evil shits because they look like demons.

Why do you think there's so many Draenei DK's? Evil, dead, AND looking like a demon. It's a double whammy!

*nod* The werewolf zombie falls not far behind

Exactly!

Just like, if you want to play something sweet and innocent, you go for Gnome or Human girls!

Human girls

This is gonna be a huge derail but... human girls mostly look evil in wow.

I'll put it this way...

I WANT to play a Draenei, although there are two things that put me off.

1) The starting zone, and the whole 'levelling' business. Sorry, but the Azuremyst Isles are so... UGH! I can't work through them. Really, they hurt me psychologically, and despite numerous times and numerous character creation windows, I've never gotten Rinaax past level 10 and reaching the first camp.

2) Elitist bastards. I'm not buying or reading through books just because I don't match the high level of lore knowledge that is demanded of me by these 'elitests'. Even to a point where I'm mocked and jested at by others when they pull out a random point of history and expect me to know what happened during this period. Alright, the little 'clique' that put me off Draenei Roleplaying has since disbanded and the players have left, but without saying names, a certain Blue girl lover put me off Draenei Roleplaying for a long ass time. I'm still hesitant these days because my knowledge of Draenor-to-Exodar-to-Azeroth is lacking, and I'm less than encouraged to research it when I know I'll barely be scratching the surface of Draenei lore.