Profession bigotry?

Interesting thing happened to me this morning playing GW before class. I was hanging out in Shing Jea with my necro being social and having a very good time about it. According to the people I was talking to I was funny entertaining and a pretty cool guy. After a few mins I decided to switch to my warrior character and came back to Jea to talk and screw around with the same people and suddenly I when from funny and cool to “stupid warrior, YOUR (since 99% of GW players don’t know the difference between YOUR and YOU’RE) a n00b!”

That got me thinking. I was saying the same things, acting the same way, and doing the same things as I was with my necro. What was the difference and how much of it was due to the fact that I happened to be on a warrior toon? How many of these people have actually tried or been a warrior character and how much of is due to the fact that it’s in vogue to hate on warriors, I mean all the cool kids do it right?

What happened when you logged on to your female elementalist?

He got asked out on dates!
Or better yet, he got IM'd " want to be my GF? "........ LOL

It could be possibly one of these reasons:
1) People may still think warriors are lame yet not all are.
2) They may have thought your warriors' appearance was strange.
3) Disliked armor cus warriors (particularly males) are known for bad armor combos.
Best thing to do is shake it off and ignore it :P

Lemme guess; your necro was female and your warrior was male?

No one cares about the difference between your and you're. secondly, I don't think is profession biased, you must have said something a little different or what not or possibly the noob wasn't directed at you. Lastly, yes all the cool kids do it.

No one who doesn't care about sounding like a moron, at least.

That's the problem.

You don't go around with a necromancer builds when you are a warrior.

Let me take a guess (similar to one above)

Your necro was female. Your warrior...was.....WAMMO.

You're wrong in your assumption.


People have been reacting differently towards different classes/races/apparent sexes for as long as there have been mmos.
This surprises you?

Warriors are, by and large, the "stupid class" in that they draw the majority of idiots to play them. That said I don't believe all Warriors are retarded; there are plenty of intelligent ones. But Warriors do draw a lot of idiots, as do the other members of the holy trinity, Elementalists and Monks.

Fact of the game.

Being a Ritualist is pretty awesome.

Warmos suck, that's why they hate you.

this reminds me of the day there was a rit who was acting stupid much like wammo. man i wanted to slap that rit act like a rit dude seriously... i never have experienced this myself so im just playing stupid

Balthazar Form Dervishes are the new Wammos.

It's WAMMO, but let me guess. Not one cares about wammo or warmo either?

Just to be a jerk I'm going to make a Imbagon toon with the crappiest armor I can think of and chase eles and rits around in my underwear.

That'll teach'em

does not compute.

Let me guess, your warrior had un-dyed canthan armor ?

Oh and you were showing your helmet ?

Character customization + armor / dye and weapon appearance choices play a big role in how people act toward you.

The only thing I have to watch for as a warrior, is when I have a cute monk following me around in pvp - it freaks them out when I start ripping into an identical looking equally cute monk on the other team.

So I end up letting enemies go, or having the cute female ele kill them.

Stereotypes have some truths behind them, there are alot of run into large groups of enemy alone warriors and alot of dumbzos in that class. Just like there're alot of snobby savior complex monks. I usually judge after people say things though. Maybe you tried some new matterial or different kinds of jokes?

I have to admit, I see a male war and go "uck", but that's mostly a looks thing really (same goes for male monks, male NF necros, etc); I don't have much against them. Nor have I encountered much bias towards me (other than for some... controversial and occasionally questionable builds I run), and all my characters are female (2 of them eles, 1 rit, all casters except the para and derv). Well, I take that back. There was one idiot sin in the Echovald who was partying with me for a quest (I was running the necro in my avvy) until he started going "I'm gunna Raep uuuu." and I kind of said, "ummmm, NO", dropped him on Ignore, and mapped out. That was just an idiot being an idiot, though (wonder what he thought of my little mm mapping out at max minion capacity?)

Gotta say I do have a sin prejudice because they're another idiot attractor. When run well, they're great. The problem is that at least 60% of the sin population (mostly in PvE) isn't interested in acting like a sin, they're interested in running around looking like Naruto and trying to tank. And failing. Miserably. So I do tend to look down on them, a little. No verbal abuse in outposts, though, really, just a tendency to avoid them in PUGs wherever possible. And it's not like I haven't met good sins. In the guild I used to be in there was one guy who was a really great sin, ran with us a lot. And I once met a very clever sin who saved the entire party from wiping during Cap Son (she was maybe level 17?) by solo tanking all the Crimson Skull - and this was before SF was big; she was staying alive through well-applied monk enchants and a couple of Shadow Arts skills.

So yeah, moral of the story: what prof bias there is is the result of a large population of stubbornly clueless people ruining a profession's rep for everyone else.