I have decided that spec'ing your paladin is similar to the type of occupation one may choose. enjoy:
Holy
This person enjoys a cushy job at a corporation. Work is steady and stable. Pay and benefits are fair. This job offers alot in terms of progression and promotion. Training is by the book and many resources are available.
This job can be thought of as tedious and repetitious. An equal replacement can be sought with out much effort or training. At the top level ones life is served up as long as the corporation is maintained. However, while stuck in middle management one may long for a career change.
Prot
This person makes a living as an independent contractor. Ones personal touch can be applied, for better or worse. Though there are some basic standards, some will specialize in a specific area to make an impact on certain jobsites. This job can make an impact on ones collegues and create a demand for ones techniques.
With the wrong training and skill, this job can be disasterous. A single miscue can ruin the entire project forcing the crew to start from scratch. The job is not always steady and often times the lack of qualifications will force one to be outbid by a more suited seeker.
Ret
This person makes a living as an entrepreneur. This is a battle to be seen and heard. One must find a way to stand out and show what one has to offer beyond the competition. There is no formal training and the competition is brutal.
This job is a grind to stay on-par. Very few will excel to be on the Fortune 500. Institutions will be of very little support and progression may slow due to this. Without the right mindset, one will fail and often choose a different path...perhaps one more cushy.
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I'm curious abot the methods used in coming up with this classification. I don't see how you could do it without involving a blindfold/dartboard or a magic 8-ball.
Now that I have expressed my scepticism...I will say that you were correct for me. Damnit.
I'm a city planner and run a Holy paladin. And I doubt he will ever be anything but a Healadin. I wasn't aware that I was destined to be a Holy Pally though.
Now that I have expressed my scepticism...I will say that you were correct for me. Damnit.
I'm a city planner and run a Holy paladin. And I doubt he will ever be anything but a Healadin. I wasn't aware that I was destined to be a Holy Pally though.
LOL!! thats awesome tommyguns... definitely gets a a rate up for creativity.
edit: just curious which category being a Marine puts me in.. haha... but my oldest char is holy and my civilian job back home is as a supervisor at UPS... fits your description there... and when i get home from this tour in iraq i plan on starting my own matrial arts school... fits my ret ;) haha.
Edited, Jan 22nd 2008 12:52pm by toolofjesus
edit: just curious which category being a Marine puts me in.. haha... but my oldest char is holy and my civilian job back home is as a supervisor at UPS... fits your description there... and when i get home from this tour in iraq i plan on starting my own matrial arts school... fits my ret ;) haha.
Edited, Jan 22nd 2008 12:52pm by toolofjesus
Prot pally but my occupation reads more like your description of a holy one.
Ret = Bag boy at the local grocer's?!
booo, i have a holy job, yet i spec'd prot and had a blast.
then took a break from prot to go Ret and im also having a blast.
i hate healing with a passion . . but then again, i throw/kick with my right hand, and eat and write and draw with my left . . so im always off when it comes stuff like this, specially when its left or right brain comparisons.
Edit: apperently i can kick with my right hand . . . c.c
Edited, Jan 22nd 2008 10:18am by RuenBahamut
Edit: actually reading it over a bit. my job is both Holy and Prot at the same time. almost exactly, just delete the indepentent part. not anywhere close to Ret . .
Edited, Jan 22nd 2008 10:22am by RuenBahamut
then took a break from prot to go Ret and im also having a blast.
i hate healing with a passion . . but then again, i throw/kick with my right hand, and eat and write and draw with my left . . so im always off when it comes stuff like this, specially when its left or right brain comparisons.
Edit: apperently i can kick with my right hand . . . c.c
Edited, Jan 22nd 2008 10:18am by RuenBahamut
Edit: actually reading it over a bit. my job is both Holy and Prot at the same time. almost exactly, just delete the indepentent part. not anywhere close to Ret . .
Edited, Jan 22nd 2008 10:22am by RuenBahamut
Not to bash this, cause i actually like reading creative stuff like this. rate up. Actually there is some research being done as to identity vs. online identity and roles. Research shows that online roles are not correlated to real life roles. On the contrary, you will often find that online roles are the opposit of reallife, or at least to a certain extent fit a dream or wish (concious or unconcious) of set player.
(Forgive my horrible spelling, not native english and stuck full of medicine at the moment)
(Forgive my horrible spelling, not native english and stuck full of medicine at the moment)
Sadly, the description of Holy matches my job to a T.
Interesting topic.
I work in hospital and I love my holy pally. I wonder why....?
My job is about as intellectually stimulating as it gets and I don't find healing to be tedious or boring. I also disagree with this claim:
Ever seen a just-respec'd feral druid try to heal SL? Not pretty.
I work in hospital and I love my holy pally. I wonder why....?
My job is about as intellectually stimulating as it gets and I don't find healing to be tedious or boring. I also disagree with this claim:
tommyguns wrote:
An equal replacement can be sought with out much effort or training.
Ever seen a just-respec'd feral druid try to heal SL? Not pretty.
Sorry, you were wrong about me too.
My pally is protection spec and will never be anything else until he's high enough to do arenas when I flip-flop specs for PVP/PVE.
My job is as an insurance adjuster (automobiles only) with one of the top 5 Insurance companies in the country.
My pally is protection spec and will never be anything else until he's high enough to do arenas when I flip-flop specs for PVP/PVE.
My job is as an insurance adjuster (automobiles only) with one of the top 5 Insurance companies in the country.
Celcio wrote:
Prot pally but my occupation reads more like your description of a holy one.
Ditto
"tommyguns" wrote:
Prot
This person makes a living as an independent contractor. Ones personal touch can be applied, for better or worse. Though there are some basic standards, some will specialize in a specific area to make an impact on certain jobsites. This job can make an impact on ones collegues and create a demand for ones techniques.
With the wrong training and skill, this job can be disasterous. A single miscue can ruin the entire project forcing the crew to start from scratch. The job is not always steady and often times the lack of qualifications will force one to be outbid by a more suited seeker.
This person makes a living as an independent contractor. Ones personal touch can be applied, for better or worse. Though there are some basic standards, some will specialize in a specific area to make an impact on certain jobsites. This job can make an impact on ones collegues and create a demand for ones techniques.
With the wrong training and skill, this job can be disasterous. A single miscue can ruin the entire project forcing the crew to start from scratch. The job is not always steady and often times the lack of qualifications will force one to be outbid by a more suited seeker.
Creeepy sir.. However you did this, I commend you for your ability to use binoculars...
STOP WATCHING ME!!!
this turned out to be an interesting thread. i actually didnt intend this to be a personality correlation, rather a 'where does this spec fit into the grand scheme' with RL references.
but now i see there is some bearing on playstyle vs RL. i also didnt intend for this to knock any one playstyle or occupation, nor was i trying to be bias. just some interesting discussion.
wonder if you're confusing role with personality projection. if you hate routine in RL, you will probably hate routine in-game. however, you may be reserved in RL but be an a-hole in-game.
i didnt intend tedious to come off negative, perhaps unambiguous was the better word.
but now i see there is some bearing on playstyle vs RL. i also didnt intend for this to knock any one playstyle or occupation, nor was i trying to be bias. just some interesting discussion.
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On the contrary, you will often find that online roles are the opposit of reallife, or at least to a certain extent fit a dream or wish (concious or unconcious) of set player.
wonder if you're confusing role with personality projection. if you hate routine in RL, you will probably hate routine in-game. however, you may be reserved in RL but be an a-hole in-game.
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My job is about as intellectually stimulating as it gets and I don't find healing to be tedious or boring.
i didnt intend tedious to come off negative, perhaps unambiguous was the better word.
I think I see a flaw in your logic. I'm a prot paladin and I work at a library.
I don't exactly get hazardous pay. Competition isn't that tight when your co-workers include an anemic Macedonian gypsy and a narcoleptic old lady.
I don't exactly get hazardous pay. Competition isn't that tight when your co-workers include an anemic Macedonian gypsy and a narcoleptic old lady.
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you may be reserved in RL but be an a-hole in-game
I'm actually an A-hole in real life but reserved in-game. Do I get a cookie?
I don't think he was saying that if you spec this way, then you will have this kind of job, he was just making an analogy between the class/spec roles in the game and different job types.
"CapJack of the Seven Seas" wrote:
I don't think he was saying that if you spec this way, then you will have this kind of job, he was just making an analogy between the class/spec roles in the game and different job types.
Bingo.
Maybe, some of us need to relax a smidgen. He wasn't trying to **** others off, just trying to make something fun for everyone. It doesn't seem like it worked though.. Back to the drawing board Tommy.
PS
"This is what the alphabet would look like if you removed Q and R"
PPS
That would just be ridiculous..
PPPS
I'm prot and mine was pretty exact. The decisions I make are not so dramatically inclined to effect everyone and their grandma at work. But pretty accurate in the beginning. I enjoyed it Tommy!
Edited, Jan 22nd 2008 3:33pm by TacticalRage
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PS
"This is what the alphabet would look like if you removed Q and R"
"This is what the alphabet would look like if you removed Q and R"
i dont get it . . .
"The RuenBahamut of Doom" wrote:
i dont get it . . .
Aww... Mitch Hedberg said it... Come on... You can get it! I believe in you!
Mitch Hedberg FTW.
Mitch Hedburg, he died way too young.
A pass of rum for the departed.
A pass of rum for the departed.
"CapJack of the Seven Seas" wrote:
A pass of rum for the departed.
Here here!
Bigdaddyjug wrote:
My job is as an insurance adjuster (automobiles only) with one of the top 5 Insurance companies in the country.
We need to talk!
"the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
Hermann Goering, April 1946.
Hermann Goering, April 1946.
i havent listen to Mitch in about a year, guess its time to dig out his CD. ^^
It was on his first CD which wasn't sold in stores.... unless he would take one into a store and leave it.
Ahahaha, i remember that one.
i also remember that i only listened to the first CD once. even though it was funny, it was also kind of slow. ive listened to the second CD several times however.
i also remember that i only listened to the first CD once. even though it was funny, it was also kind of slow. ive listened to the second CD several times however.
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