(09-21-2016, 03:19 PM)Renault Delumiere Wrote: I want to agree with you to an extent, I really, really do. I think it would be incredible to see high-level content RP'd out and documented. That would be some very interesting story telling.
However...It is my personal opinion that a group of adventurers going back and going over these hurdles when the content is easy and the story old (as is the case of Coil), would have less credibility to claim their feat than the writer who claims the same, and HE was the first to tackle the challenge, back during it's relevancy.
I'd rather lend credence to people who are dedicated to telling a good story than to people who happened to be in the right place at the right time and to have a solid raid group, 2 years ago, before I even played the game myself.
Basically.
I do not value raid progress, for any purpose. Not for me, not for others. I don't see it as something that's important or that should be specially respected. I don't find it enjoyable. I don't admire those who do it. It's just a difference in preference, and they're not "more worthy" of admiration just because what they pour their time and effort into happens to yield in-game achievements. IMO, they shouldn't be able to "transfer" stuff they did that gets them good reputation in the raiding community to get the same ego-stroking in the RP community as well.
I roleplay. I do so, in part, because I value roleplay. I value creativity and work and time and effort poured into bringing a character concept to life.
People trying to bring non-roleplay-related stuff into it comes across as grasping at straws because they're insecure in what they're trying to portray.
IMO, if you have to reach to something outside the scene and go "no, really, look, you HAVE to go along with what I'm RPing, because I did this thing that's totally unrelated to anything to do with RP", you've already lost my attention.
If you're RPing it with skill, finesse, and humility, then the question of whether you're "for legit" shouldn't even have to come up.
I'm aware I'm being quite harsh here, and it's because I had bad experiences with thoroughly arrogant, unpleasant people in the WoW community who thought that being realm-first raiders on a really tiny realm with no PvE community meant that the RPers hanging around should be kneeling at their feet. If someone wants to RP a character who others kneel at the feet of, I'd rather they build that gravitas through roleplay.
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