Friday, February 29, 2008

Therapeutic Tanking

Okay I just noticed upon playing hours of WoW that tanking or dpsing as a warrior may be therapeutic.

A subject (me) was allowed to play WoW on a private server where he played as 1.) A warrior, 2.) A warlock and lastly, 3.) A paladin. On this server melee dps consists of spamming 2 buttons, with 3 others occasionally, tanking consists of pressing every button thats lit up, healing consists of pressing a button repeatedly every 1.5 seconds, and warlock dps is the same as what the Warlock King does on retail cuz thats just what he's best at.

The subject was noticed to be amiable and friendly, and even gave free enchants to other players of the community when playing the warrior.

However, upon playing as the healer, his narcissistic tendencies increased 6-fold, and an increased level of sarcasm was detected when talking to people in the raid. Also, the subject showed reduced levels of intelligence as he tended to scold the raid leaders which would lead to him getting kicked, despite the fact that the raid leaders really WERE incredibly stupid.

When playing the warlock, the subject only showed increased sarcasm and slightly increased hostility to other players who thought they knew how to play a warlock better then he.

Research has shown that the possible reason for this behaviour is that pressing one button for 15 minutes straight leaves the subjects mind with a lot of extra power to do things, and when left unused, will be unleased on victims intellectually inferior to the subject. Also, the reason for the therapeutic effect of playing the warrior is that having 1.5k damage per second and seeing big numbers pop up every 5 seconds and top the damage meter allows the subject to increase his already fat ego, reducing blood pressure.

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