You know what I find even more depressing? the rare (and I mean RARE) occasion when someone posts one of those 5k word entries with bullet points and it isn't just good, or well thought out but really brilliant, so good that you want to play it right away. 

The depressing part is that as soon as anything like that is posted the "personalities" of the forums and trolls come out of the woodwork and attempt to shit all over it. Seriously on the few occasions when I have seen it happen since 2006, it has never ended well. Never mind the poster getting a job with turbine, never mind the devs actually taking some of it on board, not even that. If it is good, and well done? devs have never ever even commented on it. I have always assumed it's because they just don't want to lend any credibility to the ideas of someone outside the bullpen, and the Forum scum just don't want anyone to get credit and support for something they didn't think of.

That depresses the shit out of me, does anyone remember the guy who posted the amazing Cavalier class write up? or the guys who posted breakdowns for all races?  nope? thats because people suck and all creativity must be crushed I guess. 


In the end, there is a reason folks like Munk, and Harhar have ended up posting builds here. Never mind classes, races, mounts, how much chance did the big stuff ever have if bloody builds using existing classes get forum-fucked.

The cynic in me can't help but think that the Devs would somehow "incentivize" an idea like that into another Challenge Grinding/ Favour earning/ Tchotchke-dropping clusterfuck.

But it would be nice to have a personal record of the in-game milestones achieved.

more like turning it into a cash grab.. or both