#wwv

It annoys the shit out of me when people quit beluga or wwv just because maybe one person in the group has less than 650AP or maybe under 500 crit def or even if the player is under hongmoon lvl 10. One of my good friends said one of the answers he got for asking quitters why they quit was cause they already predicted they were going to lose because of lower lvls and didn’t want to waste their durability....Are you fucking kidding me? These mother fucking greedy ass little shits seriously give up just because their weapon costs maybe 5 hammers to repair? And 8/10 times they’re fucking no-lifer whales who have fucktons of gold; they’re literally just being greedy fucks. 

I STILL have the screenshots of an entire group of people (minus my boyfriend) telling me I’m shit, I don’t belong there, I suck all because my soul shield at the time wasn’t full sparring/challenger. They ridiculed and belittled me, then raged at my boyfriend who was gold for “letting this trap” in the group. THEN they raged at me for him dcing and calling us both stupid and retarded and one even had the audacity to say that everyone watching his stream was laughing at me (can you tell I’m talking about AALaguna). Oh goody boy the 10 fucking people watching your stream are laughing at me. Good fucking job. I tried harder than him and you know what, saying that was fucking vicious (not the streaming part the other stuff, I don’t give a shit if 10 people who aren’t interacting with me at all don’t like me). To have EVERYONE in that group tell me I shouldn’t be there, I don’t belong there, I’m shit, etc. even before the match started....I actually lived quite long against the other group for how “undergeared” I was so.....What’s their excuse that they were dying like flies?

Thing is, especially for the way both beluga and wwv are set up in Blade and Soul, it is SUPPOSED to encourage even groups because you can only queue with one other person. 1. That group that tore me apart, we didn’t fucking ask to be put in a platinum group because my boyfriend wasn’t even close to plat rank so fuck you for thinking we purposefully tried to sabotage rank 2. It’s fucking random, of course you going to have groups that are uneven at times. Even if you have a group with the same gear and same level, that doesn’t mean it’s going to be even. There are a number of factors that go into 6v6 other than gear. SKILL is one. It also depends on the time you queue. If I recall, it’s a lot more even in the evening NA times because you have more “undergeared” people queueing. That does NOT mean you should/have to quit. Chances are most likely both teams will be equalized in NA evenings than in the afternoon; I generally feel like I fight harder people during the day than I do at night. 

Gear does not equate to skill level, and I have no fucking clue how many fucking times someone can say this. Just recently I had a little hm7 sin (on opposite team) who won their beluga for them cause he’d just go around stealing the horns. He was smart and just stealthed away from all pvp. While obviously non-sin classes don’t have that luxury, it can still help greatly when other players play smart like that. Before I had my gear, I made sure I got my KFM HM block asap that gives me 1s iframe after successful counters....couldn’t kill anything but even with my gear I was tanky as shit and served to distract teams. I still do that. Get 3v1 or 4v1 and just troll people with my block. And obviously this kind of thinking where gear = skill spans across ALL kinds of games. In Aion, I had so many people doubt my ability just because I was missing x gear or I wasn’t x. I had so many GOOD friends be underestimated because they weren’t x or x geared....But they ran circles around the geared players. It’s unfair and it makes people feel like shit to do that kind of stuff.

Saying all of this, however, does not mean I don’t understand gear requirements. I do in cross-server in Bns. I could understand certain circumstances in Aion where it was necessary (Like DR when it was actually hard and DD example). I do AP requirements a lot of times when I’m recruiting for dungeons. This does not mean, however, that I kick someone for having 2AP less than what I required, and sometimes I do end up taking people who are severely under if I think they can be potentially carried if they need to be carried. A lot of times, though, they’re alts of players who have already been through the dungeons several times and so I don’t even need to explain anything. 

The difference between pve and pvp content in Bns is that pve you have 100% control over the people you take unless you lfp while you’re inside the dungeon. For 6v6 you cannot control who you get as your team except one and who you can get as your opponents. Therefore, it is completely unfair to tell someone they can’t queue just because they don’t have x or y. You did not ask to get paired with them and they didn’t ask to get paired with your elitist ass. I do understand it’s a letdown when you lose, because I feel it too sometimes. But I know the difference between SKILLED players and GEARED players. So I can chalk a defeat up to “well we just didn’t have geared people” and that’s no big deal. But I rage out the wazoo when it’s “what the fuck how are these people so retarded?” because I’ve had groups with more golds get shat on by silvers. Why? Because our golds played like fucking retards. 

In the end, people play games for a variety of reasons and it’s fucking selfish and stupid of these elitists little shits to sit there and say “you can’t enjoy this part of the game cause I say you’re not geared” or “I’m gonna throw a tantrum and shit talk you because I say you’re undergeared.” Yes, there were tons of other things going on in my life that didn’t help that day those people tore me apart in wwv, and yes I’m aware I need thick skin to play mmos but I just wanted to forget what happened earlier and relax, and they made me cry. I had to leave call with my boyfriend and go cry in the bathroom for a good 20 minutes because they ruined an experience for me. I still don’t like running 6v6 (even though I can usually take the hate) because I’m afraid one day I’m gonna get people who rage at me like that. That doesn’t promote positive, safe environment, and it’s cruel of anyone to take that away from someone else.