Kendricke wrote:
Anduri wrote:...and then was completely unable to finish it...
I know this gets overlooked quite often, but I'm actually a relatively casual player. In the "real world", I'm a Project Manager for a technology firm. Long work weeks are the norm, and I'm often putting in 10-12 hour shifts on a typical day. In addition, I'm considered to be on-call at any time of day or night, and it's not uncommon for me to receive frantic calls on my cell at 5 in the morning, or at 11 at night. In the past 2 weeks alone, I've been "on the clock" at midnight three separate times.
When I'm not working, I'm typically trying to spend time actually running my guild, as I've done for over seven years now. I spend on average at least 10 hours each week just handling administrative or organizational issues regarding my guild's leadership. On top of that, I'm the Senior Interviewer at EQ2 Caster's Realm. You may think that may not take much time, but it's a rare day that I'm not spending at least an hour or so working on an article, trying to get some questions put through the process over at SOE, or attending some online function at the last minute when Arthais can't make it (as I did last night). When I'm not doing all that...I try to actually play.
Now, I do like to work on guides like the one here regarding strengths of a Templar. I wouldn't have started the guide if I didn't feel it had merit, and if I didn't feel the Templar class is strong. We are. Just because you think I can't think of strengths doesn't mean that's the case. It could just be that creating guides like this takes time - inordinate amounts of it. Sometimes, I simply don't have as much time as I'd like, and projects I truly want to spend time on get put by the wayside.
Then again, nothing's stopping you or anyone else from putting in similar efforts. I highly encourage more members of the Templar community to put in the work to build something constructive from time to time, to try to help and assist other clerics. You may not agree with posts like this or "The Controlling Templar", but I've gotten a lot of good feedback from both. Obviously there exists a segment of Templars who don't want to log into these forums to see "Furys rock and Templars suck" posts all over the place. Sometimes - just sometimes - players come to the class forums to find out helpful hints on how to play the class. :smileywink:
Way to completely miss the point. Do you understand the word "ironic". My post was not intended to be taken as a criticism of you - lord knows you're on these boards enough.I certainly didnt ask for an autobiography.