(07-03-2015, 04:15 PM)Lilia Lia Wrote:(07-02-2015, 05:32 PM)OttoVann Wrote: I would never roleplay someone who was a Master Goldsmith/Weaver unless I had those jobs leveled up. Â Same goes for anything else.
Thats how I handle it at least. Â When it comes to roleplaying an Artisan, your credibility OC/IC takes a massive boost when you can make them shit with your nametag on it. Â Thats just how it is, regardless of the pristine liberal stance many roleplayers take to IC/OC separation. Â This is the plain fact of the matter.
I think this is more important for crafting since you actually can craft things for other players and have a material impact on the game world for others. You will have people IC asking you if you can craft certain things for them and they will surely expect you to do more than just emote handing them over an imaginary completed item.Â
It makes me wonder how much stronger the OOC/IC nexus would be for combat classes if this game had one-on-one PVP dueling. At that point I think people would be singing a much different tune because of how much practical fun it is to incorporate gameplay and RP.
I love PVP, I love dueling, but within the realm of RP even I realize that RPers aren't necessarily PVPers, and that PVP (the game function) is hard to really make interesting in RP.
For instance, my character is for all intents and purposes a Ronin/Samurai and I represent this with DRK and NIN and glamours. Within both classes are skill and abilities that are essential to being successful in a PVP environment that I wouldn't utilize. Further, I realize I also put far more effort into PvP and PvE than other RPers, and others more than I, it tilts into unfairness sometimes.
My time on SWTOR had that issue, especially when I was sitting in Ranked Expertise gear and the majority of the rest of the community were not nearly as far into it for various reasonings.
