7 - Find yourself nerfed

It happens to everyone at some point. Get over it.

Balance is an important issue in MMORPGs and sooner or later, it throws everybody. Barring some sort of serious neurological damage or the kind of alcohol-fuelled rampage that would make Godzilla’s trips to Tokyo look like historic walking tours, there’s no way you can go to bed in the evening and wake up the following day and become completely rubbish at your game of choice.

That is unless your game of choice is an MMORPG and your character has had a visit from the Nerfbat. It’s a unique phenomena in gaming: you find yourself an all conquering hero one day and then the next day your attacks don’t work so well, the enemy has a new AI and ultimately you find yourself needing the support of a raid group before starting a fight with a Tickle Me Elmo. Of course, the flipside to the pain and suffering caused by the Nerfbat is that when it’s not your turn to feel its wrath, you can mock the victims with gusto.

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