Comments on: Improving the Quality of Conversation

By: Ercles

Ercles — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:36:54 +0000

I tried using similar “tricks” for a long while, but eventually gave up. Tried various comments, greetings, jokes. Everything. Best I usually got was a “lol”, “wtf?” or “;D”.

The language barrier might be an issue on the EU servers. I’m in a battlegroup with an all Italian server and another were the majority seems to be eastern european, doesn’t exactly make getting a conversation going any easier.

By: Inquisitor

Inquisitor — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:53:38 +0000

I managed to liven up a particularly dull VH by rambling on about food for a while (while tanking). It ended up getting into a full on discussion as to the benefits or otherwise of smoked salmon (real-world, not a buff food) – which probably added a good 60 seconds to the run. Easily worth it.

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Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:30:36 +0000

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By: Nazaniel

Nazaniel — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:04:08 +0000

I tried this a bit the other day – some other things that seem to work quite well for me are:
- asking about titles: “You’ve got Loremaster! Wow!”
- asking about pets – “Wow, where did you get that giant lobster from?”
- asking whether the tier-10 set bonuses are any good for their class – 2 piece vs 4 piece – which can actually turn into an interesting discussion!
- asking if they’ve had any good drops or upgrades lately in ICC or something like that.

In other words, people like to talk about themselves. (Who’d have thought? ) The exception to this, and the place where you get some great conversation, is pre-80 LFG runs, where the conversation is often fantastic!

And thanks for the tip about Dream Shards on Barthilag – I’ve started greeding instead of sharding
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By: Zahraah

Zahraah — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:31:05 +0000

Getting more and more groups that say nothing.. not even when I poke fun of them being the silent types, but your right about the morning thing.. except it hasn’t gone much further then that and normally its me saying.. ” It’s evening here… where are you?”
I have been calling people asses more though. Only when they deserve it.. and even that doesnt get a reaction.
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By: Cassandri

Cassandri — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:39:56 +0000

@Papa I see your point, but there’s more down time for the rest of us. Buffing, drinking, or waiting for bosses to phase change or whatever. You can’t rush events like the HoS Tribunal of Ages. I like to fill that time typing/chatting

By: PapaNasty

PapaNasty — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:35:49 +0000

lol

I can’t really chat and tank at the same time. At least not in /p etc, can get by on vent of course.

Well can squeeze out a few words when I’ve got enough aggro on everything, but when I’ve established enough aggro for that, I should be pulling the next group of mobs (unless it’s some annoying pull etc)

So the way I see it, if I chat in /p or even reply to /w, during a heroic run, I’m holding up 4 other people because I’m chatting.

As dps, you’re only slowing down the run by maybe 1/3rd while you are chatting away, and as a healer probably not at all (since hots are awesome), but as a tank the run stops when you start typing.

Which is why I always prefer to do any instances or raids with vent, since even if we can successfully do the raid without it, it just maintains that social element for those of us who can’t afford the time to chat in text.

By: Clickityclop

Clickityclop — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 01:06:03 +0000

I’m sure I’ve seen Jokey before, think I was raiding a toc and a saw a whole mass of Druid jokes, there were so many I was wondering how long it took to think them all up. They’re so bad that it’s good!

By: Cassandri

Cassandri — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:56:33 +0000

@Vid Yes, the lower level runs that I’ve been part of have tended to be more social. But often I’m in there with Lathere and we’ll happily type nonsense to eachother for 20 minutes. So that kind of skews my results somewhat.

@Jokey I like your Druid jokes. They’re absolutely terrible! If you play on Barthilas as well, am I allowed to know what character name you go by?

By: JokeyRhyme

JokeyRhyme — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:00:00 +0000

Hey there, I had no idea you played on Barthilas (aka “Barthilag”)until just now. ZOMG! We’re server-twins! … or something.

Whenever there are Druids in my party (at least once a day I heal with my own) I tend to start making dreadful Druid puns. For example, if the tank is a geared Druid, I’ll say something like “Wow, you must be pretty geared, . I bearly have to heal you at all.”

If I’m on my Tree AND it’s a Bear tank, then I’ll follow this up (regardless of responses) with: “Well, if you don’t like my Druid puns then maybe I’ll just leaf”. Other comments I make are “Sorry about my bad jokes, I’m a bit wooden.” The list goes on.
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