Dear WoW Friend (Who I will not name, you'll know who you are if you read this),

I'm not going to say this to you over the game. Why? Because I feel like if I do, you're going to talk back more than I'd really like. Sometimes I'd like to be able to release all of my emotions without getting a response until I'm done. You've already heard a taste of what I've wanted to say, and you've heard it multiple times, and yet you don't seem to understand it. Maybe if I tell you to read this, you'll read it and maybe understand.

I'll start with what I consider to be the good things about you. Or at least, the things that used to be good about you.

You used to be a lot of fun to talk to. I'd come on the game, I'd be invited to a group, and what would we talk about? We'd talk about random crappy stories that we were writing, or role playing, or something like that. Things that are fun, and doesn't make the game feel like a job.

You used to be helpful. I'm not saying that you're not helpful anymore, but I just don't see too much of it. Maybe I'm not on when things are happening.

But now? Now, I come on, and I hear something like this out of you:
- Would you run me through ____? (This isn't very common anymore, from what I can see)
- Want to do H ____ with me?
- What's better, ____ or ____?
- Look at what I just got! [Item Link]

It's instance, after instance, after instance, after instance. And gear talk, after gear talk, after gear talk, after gear talk. It's too much for me. I'm honestly not used to coming on to being bombarded with messages. A bunch of people saying "Hi Tasi!" is okay. But when I get asked about gear, or an instance, I actually get somewhat angry.

And then, I sometimes actually agree to do an instance with you.

And you start talking, and talking, and talking, and talking, and acting as if you know everything (or so it seems) and you're usually wrong. Just look at yesterday night:

Here we are, running Nexus on our lower level characters. I say "Kill the Tenders first" because they're the healers. Then you say "Yeah, because they use the best healing spell in the game, Tanquility" a few moments later, you then ask "You agree that Tranquility is the best healing spell, right Miz?" (Miz because I was on my paladin, assuming that your selective memory remembers that). And I say "No." Which is then followed by a "What's the best healing spell then?" from you. I give my opinion, which is that there is no "best" healing spell, and you proceed to talk about why Tranquility is so amazing.

Am I not allowed to have my own opinion?

And also, you don't even have a level 80 healer. You don't know all of the healing spells, and how they're used in raids. Hell, you haven't even started raiding in general.

Then, oh my god, again in the Nexus run last night. "What spec is Hylia, prot or holy?" Asks you. I just snapped right then. What you don't seem to get is that I like DPS characters. Yes, it's hard to get into instance runs if you're leveling as a DPS. WHO THE HELL CARES? I'm not someone who likes to have to get a group to level up. It's a pain in the ass to do that. Healers can't quest by themselves easily. I've leveled a healer to level 62 or so, and I hated it all the way. I've leveled a tank into the level 40s. It wasn't too bad, but it was slow, and annoying. My honest belief is level up the spec you're going to raid as. Which means that if I can't handle leveling as a tank or healer, I'm not going to tank or heal.

And! Oh. My. Fucking. God.
When we're doing Heroics. If Brid isn't on, then your suggestion is always that I heal. I have a healing spec. But lets face it, my gear is for DPS. I don't have much mp5 or spirit, so my mana regen is crap. I don't need mana regen so much as elemental, because my spells don't use up that much mana. Oh, and if you suggest I heal as Tasi? She doesn't have any caster gear anymore! Back when Milk and Cookies existed, our friend the Frost Death Knight asked me to put a resto spec together for Arenas. So I did, and I bought some cheap-o heal gear off of the AH. Not to mention that whoever I go as, if I'm healing, my internet and computer will decide to give me lag, and disconnect me.

And what haven't I mentioned yet...?

Well, there's your jokes. You need to remember that yes, I am a girl. Just because I don't like it when you me and our friend the frost DK are grouped and you and the frost DK are whispering "guy stuff" to one another doesn't mean that I appreciate some of your jokes, like the one about the Darkmoon faire that you made last month. You need to remember that things that are funny in your mind aren't necessarily funny to other people.

Then there's this other point that I can think of. It's probably the least important of all of them, but it's still important to me. I'm not even sure if our friend the frost DK was telling the truth when he told me, but I heard that your facebook is under the name of Areoa Tasima or something like that. I will say one thing:
Change it.
Tasima is my internet last name. Maybe I'm just being a little possessive, but this bothers me. I'd like it if you changed it.

I don't know if you've ever been told this by our friend who I've mentioned multiple times. However, you really seem to be a copy-cat. My internet last name (see above), your DK's spec (complaints from our friend), your DK's hair style (I noticed that now it's the same color as Mysa's. I know I directly said to you that I didn't want to have the same hair as you, and so I changed it, and now it's as if you're half-copying me again), and I vaguely remember you saying at one point that you were making your druid have the same hair style as... was it my druid, or my DK? I can't remember. Either way, I hope you get the idea.

I like to think that I'm a nice person. However, I get angry. And maybe I can't say things directly to a person's face, but I can sure as hell think them. And when I get too angry, I have to let it go somehow. Thus, there's this rant here. If you, or anyone else, has read through it this far, thank you. There's still a little bit left to go, though.

Maybe I'm just overreacting. Maybe I'm just upset that my friend, who has two or three pieces of epic gear is getting close to having the same DPS as my shaman, who has more like five or six. It's possible that I'm upset that I don't have anywhere that I can go to be by myself anymore, because I slipped that I had characters on Moon Guard horde and you and some others started asking me about it. Or maybe the fact that I'm upset actually has a good reason behind it. I don't know. Think what you will.

See you on Azeroth,
-Tasi

P.S. dA says my mood is Delighted, that's just my stupid computer being stupid. My mood is something more like angry.