What is your view on RP or ERP and why is it so taboo within the community?

[reiichi]

I have never seen people "RP" in dungeons before unless they were a full premade group for an in-character run. The common mentality I've seen the thousands of RPers I've interacted with has been "don't do IC runs when you PUG or DF or RF content. And if you plan to do an IC run coordinated on PF, put that in your description or better yet, password lock it." A significant portion of RPers are already shy or socially awkward. I'd be amazed if they even spoke in a dungeon beyond the standard "hi/hello/hey" during protect casting and "gg/bye/thank" at the end.

Where are you all finding these "ice mages" and whatnot? Since I started this game in 2012 ON the unofficial RP servers even, I've yet to see it. What I think you've found are trolls masquerading as RPers. There's a difference even if they might look the same.

[Hestzhyen]

Where are you all finding these "ice mages" and whatnot? Since I started this game in 2012 ON the unofficial RP servers even, I've yet to see it. What I think you've found are trolls masquerading as RPers. There's a difference even if they might look the same.

They're rare, but you never forget them when you encounter them. A friend of mine was stuck with an Ice Mage in duty (only a Guildhest thankfully, but still!), and I've asked RPers to turn off their multi-line macros of special text for abilities more than a few times. One of the worst was a SCH in World of Darkness who shouted everything to the alliance, even Eye for an Eye casts. I also met a WHM who used /emote to literally fill the chat log with "flavor text" about their imagined actions for basic skills like Presence of Mind, Divine Seal (RIP), and of course Raise... not even anything funny, just "beseeches the elementals of the Twelveswood for their blessings to hasten the granting of boons to the party blah blah blah" type stuff. It's irritating to say the least. Just keep it to yourself or in an LS/FC chat if you want to be a special person with super cool and witty text to go with your spells. Or even better... USE /echo PLEASE!

[Naunet]

Where are you all finding these "ice mages" and whatnot? Since I started this game in 2012 ON the unofficial RP servers even, I've yet to see it. What I think you've found are trolls masquerading as RPers. There's a difference even if they might look the same.

Yeah, this is what I think every time I people use those go-to "rpers are ruining it for me!" stories. Not just because I've never encountered it myself (I haven't, ever, in all my years of MMOs), but knowing roleplay communities as long as I have... I've known people who macro stuff to their spells, but that's as "invasive" as I've ever seen.