Hey, druid herbalists, c'mere...Follow

A poorly thought-out and broadly generalizing post? From rusttle? Say it ain't so!

Care to explain why you might think it is "broadly generalizing"?

I am pretty sure rusttle isn't on one of my 4-5 servers, but I have seen the same complaints on my servers. It seems to be a lot of Taurens doing it just because they can, and they might think that since they can (because Blizzard gave them Cultivate) do it then it is alright to do so. I will admit that there are A LOT of Taurens out there that will not do this, but as they say ... one bad apple... yadda yadda yadda...

People (not all, mind you) have complained forever that letting druids farm in flight is "bad"... that really isn't the major complaint now... it's the Tauren's ability (Cultivate) to pick herbs crazy fast.

To prove my point... a non-Druid Tauren (no flight form) can land on a herb you are 25% done picking and they can click the herb while you are still "picking" it... and the Cultivate (Cultivation?) skill will let them outrun your picking ability and they can be back on their mount and gone before you get the "This item is already being used" error.

Now, I know it isn't every Tauren herbalist doing this, and maybe it isn't even 20% of the race/class/profession combo doing it, but it doesn't take 51% of the combo doing it before it raises an eyebrow at Blizzard... it only takes enough before one developer goes to the team and asks, "What can we do about it?"

At this point I am not minding "racing" Taurens to herbs, because certain herbs are spawning like mad, and even if Taurens are getting 5 herbs to my 1 herb... that 1 herb is usually getting picked by me in less time than what it use to take when I had to fly around a lot just to find one to pick.

This. Particularly since he's coming into Alla's Druid forums to complain about it, when the sorts of players who do those things are rarely the kind who bother to read here.

And to be frank, there are times on my DK when I fly to and start mining a node, but due to my crappy pc and the fast speed of my mount, another player doesn't pop into existence until after I click it. I have no way of knowing if they were actually there first or if they arrived after me, so I just mine/pick.

If I succeed, I know I got to it first (so either they are really slow, and I'm sorry, or I got to the node before them).

Frankly, with an increased rate, that would sometimes result in stealing the node. But I can't always know if someone is there unless I wait at the node. And I'm not going to do that, because it defeats the purpose of having a faster pick time and leaves me open to have someone ninja my node.

And I seriously doubt this is going to be "fixed." The fact of the matter is that nodes don't lock to the first person using them. I doubt they'll drop the racial without giving Tauren something else in its place (which I'd prefer, so by all means keep going).

Plus, there's no way Blizz is going to remove looting/etc. from forms. The outrage from that would be significantly more than the outrage that some Tauren Druids are 'stealing' nodes.

Honestly, I don't see it as being a problem that's even on Blizzard's radar right now. What, with all the glitches, PvP imbalance, PvE imbalance, etc.

Oh, and rusttle, putting a disclaimer that your post isn't QQing... doesn't stop the post from being a lot of QQing.

Yup, broad generalization as I said all druid herbalists are non-stop ninjaing, oh wait, no, I didn't - idiots. >_<

No broad generalization?
Combined with the downright denigrating tone of your posts you've just managed to make yourself look like a delusional moron again rusttle.

Edited, Feb 13th 2011 6:01pm by Aethien

I'm certain it doesn't apply to me; I ninja most of my herbs in aquatic form these days.

You can root, ninja the herb, then switch to aquatic form and leave. No worrying about that pesky in-combat thing slowing you down anymore.

I <3 Vashj'ir.

Someone should find that photo of Theo with the piece of paper, it would fit well here.

I almost posted it but decided against it because I've done that before.

All you need is a Theo post, any Theo post.
If you go to the profile of a premium member you'll be able to click a link to go to their images.

It's not what rusttle posts, it's how he posts it.
Every single thread he makes is a QQ thread where he rants and rages about whatever has gotten his fancy this time, preferably with a holier than thou attitude and poorly thought out arguments.

Druid taking a stab at the Druids here is what got under most people's skin, I suppose.

I just found it very ironic.

I would still maintain that if someone else had posted, word for word, the exact same post, nobody would have an issue with it. I certainly have no problem with what he posted (despite having disagreed with other things he has posted) and didn't take it like a personal attack on me like some of you seem to have decided to.

If you don't like a post rate it down or post why you disagree, but please don't turn this forum into yet another WoW forum full of continual personal attacks. We don't need it.