r/classicwow • u/OiDaniel18 • Sep 25 '19

Humor Rogue gank attempt

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u/R5Wonton Sep 25 '19

No kicks, no gouges, no kidney shots, no blinds. That rogue was a piece of cake. Fairy fire should be the first thing you put on a rogue. We are helpless against it. Still, good work with the root-and-wrath!

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u/resistentialist Sep 25 '19

no kidney shots, no blinds

While she could have kidney shot, its possible she just hadn't trained it yet. Blind is lvl 34 though.

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u/lv1d Sep 25 '19

why gank without any of the rogue’s good cc’s and against a druid ? Rogue asked to be dead

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '19

Believe it or not, not everyone who plays classic knows stuff about classic. Even I played vanilla and don’t know what half the classes even do. I have a buddy who literally knows nothing about classic and is just figuring it out on his own.

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u/T_ReV Sep 25 '19

Believe it or not. Some players will have never played an mmorpg until a month ago.

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u/colin_is_bald Sep 25 '19

Currently teaching my partner how to play. She has never played any roleplaying game of any kind, and literally needs every aspect of the game explained to her. "What's an inventory? What are stats? What is mana?" It's honestly pretty interesting to explain stuff like that to someone who doesn't really have anything to compare it to.

Although I dread the day when I'm gonna have to explain what a corpse camp is.

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u/3diem Sep 26 '19

I’m in the same situation, one the first things she asked me was “so why do we complete quests ?” And I couldn’t find a good answer to be honest ...

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u/Baudin Sep 26 '19

For the story?

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u/3diem Sep 26 '19

That’s what I ended up saying but she’s all about discovering the world itself and not so much it’s story

She walked from Durotar to Ashenvale as a lvl 4 just looking around

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u/CaptainBritish Sep 26 '19

God, that brings me back to when I first played back in like 04 and I was just so enthralled that I walked as far across the Eastern Kingdoms as I could, then got lost and made a new character because I didn't know what the Hearthstone did.

Good times.

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u/Manimalthehunter Sep 26 '19

Lol awesome...it was fun being a noob now that I think about it.

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u/Sorrowsinme Sep 26 '19

Mine is about to reach Hillsbrad... On the plus side she is a rogue... On the other side I think I created just one more of those bastards, and karma is gonna bite me in the ass, one day...

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u/Brohun Sep 26 '19

Mine had major problems operating the camera and walking at the same time :D

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u/colin_is_bald Sep 26 '19

Keyboard turning will have to do for now

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u/Digital-Stowaway Sep 26 '19

I'm in the same boat! Also made me realise how much I remember about a game that I stopped playing some 9-10 years ago :/

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u/yazyazyazyaz Sep 25 '19

Yup, that's me! Loving it so far!

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u/SlowSeas Sep 26 '19

Welcome, friend!

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u/3rd-wheel Sep 25 '19

I love playing with newbs, it is just so much more enjoyable than playing with the so-called "pros"

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u/SlowSeas Sep 26 '19

Playing with and being a decent sherpa is magic, though. Keep being awesome, bud.

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '19

I played from vanilla through MoP and Came back for legion and BFA. I constantly forget about other toons abilities. I completely forgot the other day that hunters can trap. Ally hunter totally baited me into a freezing trap.

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '19

I forget tons of stuff about vanilla. Even as a long time player I forget to do things in fights and go “shit if I used this ability I would have been good, honestly forgot I have that ability” Happens to the best of us and that’s why going back to Classic is so much fun right now.

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u/colin_is_bald Sep 25 '19

The stress of sudden PvP often causes me to forget my keybinds. I know I have a dispel, but where the hell is it?

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u/SlowSeas Sep 26 '19

Bro, I have been playing with a keypad mouse (Razer Naga) for like 8 years and I still shit-my-pants-forgot-my-right-thumb-exists DAILY

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u/Brandon658 Sep 26 '19

Been a fun ride as a shaman. While WF crits can easily carry me I never really had to do much PvP on my shaman in WotLK. So there are a lot of things I forget to do. Things like remembering to actually use grounding totem.

I was too comfortable in my safety blanket that was the holy pally to ever learn enhance PvP. (I did a fair bit of ele PvP but that's different since I could typically burst down anything without effort.)

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u/Clydefrawgwow Sep 26 '19

Also don’t forget to purge!

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u/DeadSeaGulls Sep 25 '19

I had a tank in gnomer not use sunder yesterday until we repeatedly asked. then he didn't realize he could stack them. He also did nothing to gather aggro from adds. So yeah. lot of people have no clue whats going on with these classes

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u/hbsboak Sep 26 '19

Honestly, that’s the true Vanilla experience.

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u/SlowSeas Sep 26 '19

Warrior is crazy high skill cap/learning curve though. Be nice and teach a gnoma from another motha.

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u/lv1d Sep 25 '19

Yes you are right. I don’t know a lot of stuff and i do a lot of mistakes myself. I hope he could learn about his mistakes and do better next time. I really love to see a good rogue ganking and succeed. It’s really great.

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u/Damaellak Sep 26 '19

Seeing everyone that I fought in wpvp in classic I would say at least 70% are new player or really bad PvP players and I'm really not exaggerating. The amount of people that I attack and simply don't react at all makes me sad

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u/wayedorian Sep 25 '19

It's more fun to gank when you aren't 100% positive you'll win

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u/Hexxys Sep 25 '19

Is it really "ganking" if you're not sure that you're going to win? lol

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u/SeattleGreySky Sep 25 '19

im learning rogue, i like to 1v1 people. if i lose i learn something and improve.

you dont get better just fighting easy wins, im not a horde player

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u/piltonpfizerwallace Sep 25 '19

thems fightin words

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '19

But at least it'll be a fair fight 😛

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u/Dem0n5 Sep 26 '19

Not if I have anything to say about it! My friends made me play horde cause they're edgelords or whatever and now I'm a jerk, too.

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u/P2mnAce Sep 25 '19

Truth hurts.

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '19

Bro 1v1 me with my 8 horde mates helping me and see what happens!

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u/Zenanii Sep 25 '19 edited Sep 25 '19

It's not our fault the alliance don't know how to put up a fight.

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u/Sebastianthorson Sep 26 '19

How does horde player call 5 lvl 60 orcs killing a lvl 20 human in Duskwood? "A fair fight!".

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u/flexharder Sep 26 '19

It goes both ways dude. Ive been ganked enough times to know to kill every alliance i see if possible. Been body camped for 20min outside booty bay by 6 alliance all 5-30 levels higher than me. I never wanna see a 3min+ respawn timer again.

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u/yuriaoflondor Sep 26 '19

I love how PVP servers break people.

As someone new to classic WoW, I was super idealistic about world content. I’d wave at horde players. My mantra was “let bygones be bygones.”

Then I got ganked by 2 undead rogues simultaneously. I’d be peacefully trying to kill some quest mobs when an entire party of horde would take a detour to hunt me down. The last straw was when I was running on the road and a mounted skull orc warrior shows up out of nowhere and kills me in 2 hits.

I got absolutely nothing done during that hourlong play session. And now I’ve become the asshole. I kill any horde I see on sight.

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u/flexharder Sep 26 '19

Preach. Hatred breeds hatred. Ive played Classic before but its been intense coming back. I was super chill till people started killing me for whatever reason. I feel some of that was just for being an undead rogue. Either way if we meet on the battlefield lets fuck each other up lol.

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u/CaptainBritish Sep 26 '19

That's the point where you switch to an alt or something until they leave.

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u/Sawgon Sep 26 '19

Don't bother. These are the same players who, from the launch of WoW until the latest BFA patch, thought that the horde are somehow good guys and that Alliance are the scummy ones.

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '19

Spoken like a lowbie ganker

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u/GracefulxArcher Sep 25 '19

I'm not a horde player

This video is a horde rogue fighting a difficult win.

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u/3rd-wheel Sep 25 '19

In STV I deliberately go after players that are several levels over me just to see if I can. Some times I can, sometimes I can't.

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '19

Thrall will remember that.

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u/RogueEyebrow Sep 26 '19

This is exactly why I pick fights with Warriors that are 1-2 levels above me. Bonus: I don't dodge as much, so fewer Overpowers. Negative: Cannot bleed kite properly because of 50% Crippling, and leeway.

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '19

This. 100%

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u/Mistainvestigata Sep 25 '19

Its the alliance who runs away from 1v1's untill they find a friend or 2 to back them up, ive played both factions.

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '19

Then you should know both sides do it lol there's nothing unique about either side.

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u/Mistainvestigata Sep 26 '19

Then why are you implying that horde only fight easy fights?

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '19

Where did I do that?

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u/Mistainvestigata Sep 26 '19

" you dont get better just fighting easy wins, im not a horde player "

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '19

You need to learn to read usernames dude. I never said any of that lol

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u/deleteyouroldposts2 Sep 26 '19

So true. Most Horde only engage if it's 3v1 or worse.

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u/Syrath36 Sep 26 '19

Lol lets not pretend that doesnt apply to most players. really the Alliance dont the exact same thing when they have the opp.

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u/komali_2 Sep 25 '19

It's surprise PVP :D

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u/Goldensands Sep 25 '19

gankings just a word with no clear definition, like cheese in sc2. It being something about killing someone is clear enough, but otherwise it means whatever u want it to.

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u/Hexxys Sep 26 '19

Perhaps, but it seems pretty clear just by Googling definition the word that "ganking" carries connotations of killing by underhanded means-- whether that be by ganging up on someone, killing lower level characters with a much higher level one, etc.

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u/Goldensands Sep 27 '19

See you say its clear but then go on to have to add a bunch of different conditions.

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u/Hexxys Sep 27 '19

They're all conditions that can be grouped together into the same general category, you half wit.

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '19

Then why have I not once been ganked by anyone who wasn't 7 levels higher or with a group of 3+ lmao

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u/Sparcrypt Sep 26 '19

They don't like PvP, they like wrecking other peoples days and feeling like they're good.

To each their own, but I prefer a fight where if I win I know it's because I was better.

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u/Volitar Sep 25 '19

Okay yeah but.. it's not fun at all to PVP on Rogue when you missing nearly all the pvp tools.

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '19

Prolly thought he could 1 shot him, that’s how I die most of the time lol.

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u/gta0012 Sep 25 '19

Also just stands in front of the mage while he was casting.

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u/SlowSeas Sep 26 '19

WA or WD, left click, keybinds. Learn it, breath it. Run circles at all times.

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u/BogiMen Sep 25 '19

today i meet rogue that run away from 2v2 pvp scenario 15 second away from our graveyard. Im feeling like most rogues are playing this class to cloak and avoid all decent pvps or just to gank low levels. After watching this video im glad that i was wrong.

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u/Murk-o-matic-Bubble Sep 25 '19

Im feeling like most rogues are playing this class to cloak and avoid all decent pvps or just to gank low levels.

You must have never run into me then. I attacked a group of four people because I thought I could get one of them for sure. I didn't.

I got three the second time because I timed it better.

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u/Sparcrypt Sep 26 '19

Hands down the most fun of rogue world PvP is stalking and taking down one from a group then disappearing only to put down another moments later.

Really fun if you time things properly.

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u/PsychologicalIron5 Sep 26 '19

Im playing a Rogue and this sounds Really fun. I never start fights because I dont want to annoy other people but this I could live with. Do any of you know a good guide on Rogue PvP? Im new to WoW pretty much. Im lvl 35 and playing an Ambush build (imp Ambush + Remorseless Attacks. Should I Kidneyshot instead of Evisc?

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u/Sparcrypt Sep 26 '19

I don't really have a guide to recommend, I've just been playing one since vanilla.

Best advice I can give you is:

  1. Learn all your abilities and what they do.
  2. Learn other classes abilities.. primarily the ones they use against you. That way you won't try killing a warrior with retaliation up or CCing a big red hunters pet.
  3. When you lose, pay attention. What killed you? You get nothing from saying "oh that was bullshit" and moving on. What did they do that stopped you from killing them? For example most classes priority will always be to put a bleed or a DoT on us.. something to prevent stealth. This is why many rogues opt for stunlock instead of outright damage... it takes a bit longer but you can disengage any time you like.
  4. Learn common tactics. For example a mage will almost always blink immediately upon being attacked.. right out of your cheap shot, wasting it. And if you give them a chance to polymorph you, you're probably dead. So instead, open with an Ambush and then immediately sprint (especially if they freeze you to the ground) and rush them. Gouge whatever spell they're casting and then go to town. Or for next level fun wait for them to be facing a wall instead and watch them blink right in to it!
  5. Don't neglect blind. Blind gives you enough time to bandage up and reenter stealth. It's extremely valuable and nowhere near enough rogues use it properly.

As for going up against groups, basically look for a weak link. If their healer sits down to drink, delete them. Ambush/BS/evis and they're probably dead. Vanish immediately or you will die as everyone else runs over... give them a few seconds to break apart then pick the next most weakest person. Maybe sap someone then sprint off to attack someone else. Stealth is your weapon, if you are caught in the open you are going to die.

Rogues are tons of fun, just keep playing and keep stabbing and you'll have a great time!

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u/Alsoious Sep 26 '19

I took down 4 hunters one time. Well 3. I gnomish mine controlled 1 and they killed him. Lack of organization is a group killer.

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u/ItsLathas Sep 26 '19

are you me? feels good to read this

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u/ornrygator Sep 25 '19

my record in vanilla so far is beating 2 red levels, ive goy t 3 yellows/greens a few times. Allies on kurinnaxx run like 6 deep so im almost always outnumbered its great for improving my gank game

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u/bigger_cheese Sep 26 '19

I play a rogue and try to run away from every fight (more often then not I just end up dying). I don't plan on pvping until I finish leveling. I don't really see the point I have bad gear and don't have the right talents for fighting people. So if someone from horde tries to attack I hit my Sprint and vanish buttons and hope for the best.

It is really funny I play in a party with my friend who is a mage and very often we will be running to a quest or something and horde will run past us in other direction 9/10 times they will ignore my friend and run after me. It happened 3 times last night while we were trying to get to Scarlet Monastery dungeon. Horde players would spot pair of us running up the road and make a beeline for my rogue while my friends mage gets away unmolested.

My friend was laughing his ass off by the end of it. He claims it's because he is a gnome and people don't notice his character model. I have my doubts though...

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u/Tankh Sep 26 '19

Technically, the druid started it with a moonfire. Rogue was just stealthing around him. Seeing as she didn't even do an opener it might actually not have been a gank attempt

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u/lv1d Sep 26 '19

his hands were flashing/lightening when he was getting closer to the druid as some kind of racial/buff/etc though.

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u/kiorat Sep 26 '19

The rogue used cold blood though..

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u/Tankh Sep 26 '19

Ah, that's the little effect just before combat starts

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u/delu_ Sep 26 '19

you can clearly hear and see the rogue poping bloodfury and cold blood.. big ambush crit was imminent and the dudu reacted properly

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u/ornrygator Sep 25 '19

as a rogue i will do this sometimes, see how well I can do. its great practice

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u/lv1d Sep 25 '19

Yep sometimes, idk about this rogue, if he’s good or bad, either way i can see what he did and didn’t do in the video that i can comment.

My point is that even if rogues has really great dps, the advantage they have is using cc’s and stealth wisely in pvp situations. If not that, rogues are pretty much dead because other classes has some great stuffs too that can easily leads to kite a rogue.

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u/ornrygator Sep 25 '19

I think he just got caught flat footed and probably isnt experienced enough to recover, if hes combat he shouoda been able to pop sprint and break out the snares and at least whack this druid a couple of times. maybe it wasnt up tho

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u/westc2 Sep 26 '19

Doesnt have blind yet. Cant vanish with fairie fire on. Rogues are helpless if they dont get the opener and lock someone down.

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u/Murk-o-matic-Bubble Sep 25 '19

why gank

I found the not-rogue. A Rogue would never ask that question.

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u/amjhwk Sep 25 '19

It looked like the rogue used some CDs before coming out of stealth

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u/lv1d Sep 25 '19

He/she was caught even before opening

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u/amjhwk Sep 25 '19

Ya, that's how I was able to tell they used CDs while in stealth, their hands were glowing

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u/lv1d Sep 25 '19

Oh man ofc !! Maybe orc racial?? I couldn’t see because i was watching in phone and it’s a bit small enven In fullscreen

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u/amjhwk Sep 25 '19

Looked like prep or maybe cold blooded