I don't think it's the armor, I think it's the player base. Younger kids tend to be [jerks], especially when given anonymity. The fact that the wolver lines are considered the best swordsman armor (and are therefore used by everyone) is coincidental and has nothing to do with a player's attitude.

Sample sizes. There are many times fewer gunners and bombers than there are swordsmen, so you are therefore less likely to encounter a jerky gunner or bomber. If you took equally large groups of each (say, 500 each of gunners, bombers, and swordsmen), you'd likely find about the same number of jerks in each group.

@Tlachtli

It does when someone really is that stupid to represent their entire community like that . I'm with Iron now, this game is being ground into nothing with these "Updates" (NERFS OF TOO EASINESS) and immature kids like these. Personally, As soon as they said Kick him, I would go solo. There's no reason to have PUGs if they dont stick together. How about instead of having the Join Party option, they have a Skip to Terminal option. This would be an actually USEFUL thing. No more randoms, no more restricted groups trying to invite for a Shadow Lair.

I for one hate stereotyping, but it makes sense the way we have the people who do these thing represent us.

Still waiting for new content.

Also yeah I use Wolver, but I'll glady switch gears if this is what I encounter. By that I mean I'll switch gear for Iron, not the idiots.

I was once kicked from a nooby party leader that was begging for crowns or CE -- right in the clockworks! Few minutes later, he booted me and I left a nice message to him. I've never heard from him since.

Let me start by saying yes, those guys were idiots. You're going to find jerks like that on the internet.

But listen to yourself. You're judging a mass of players because 3 people that just happen to be wearing the most popular armor in the game were jerks to you. That's like having a guy with a different shirt than you insult you, and then hating everyone with that shirt, even though they have nothing to do with the guy that insulted you. It's stupid.

I had someone in a Snarbolax coat be a complete jerk to a friend of mine and then me. Do I hate people that wear Snarbolax armor? No, because it was the person that was a jerk, not the armor. The number of helpful players that wear Snarby gear I've seen far out way the one that has an attitude problem.

Before you ask, yes I'm a swordsman. I don't act like that. The friends I have that happen to be swordsmen don't act like that. I'm sorry you've gone through that experience, but judging everyone on the acts of one person is going to give you a really sour outlook on life.

Everyone else has pretty much summed up what I was going to post.

There are always a-holes in games. End of story.

I was kicked for no reason in CK earlier today by our leader and he was AFK the entire time last I checked. You get over it an move on. I've had people kick me for wearing my proto gear as a costume before despite telling them otherwise and requesting they inspect me. If people are going to kick you for no given reason or silly reasons like that, then you don't want to be with them in the first place. Don't let their silly reasons ruffle your feathers.

"That's like having a guy with a different shirt than you insult you, and then hating everyone with that shirt, even though they have nothing to do with the guy that insulted you. It's stupid."

i saw a ..big guy in a bus, his completely black t-shirt had a big white "f"-word accompanied by a big white "y"-word printed on it o.o...try another analogy xD?

#17 its funny, almost like they took the words out of my mind :O

How do you know whether they respond to you or not whileyou're away?! :D

/stalk

I KNOW RIGHT! Yesterday while in Haven, some NOOB was trolling me with grammar and stuff and saying how my gear sucked (yet he's only been playing for a day) and he didn't realize that I was wearing a costume over my bomber stuff...

We Wolvers isn't stupids! We haves smarts!

Well... I partially agree with this: As today, when I started my jelly run, I came across two guys in 2 star wolver gear (it is really the 2 star ones that bother me) and what do you know? They were complete noobs. And when the party got to the elevator the two wolvers just trolled us by running around and jumping out of the elevator just before I got on.

They kept me in that game for a good 10 or so minutes, I only stayed because I thought they were just keeping themselves busy while waiting for the arena to appear, but nope. And after that the only thing driving me to stay in with them was my only-I-can-understand-it OCD. Eventually I bribed them with the promise of CE if they step on, and they complied. They never got their CE (haha(now let the shunning begin xD), in all honestly I would never normally say something and go back on it because it would linger in my conscience(was that phrasing rather fail?) but in my opinion I think they deserved it, I only wish there was some way to report for this sort of behavior because if I were to report them for being annoying it would just say that I should ignore them.

But yeah... I too, like all of you, am against stereotyping and I know just because a couple of people who wear a common choice of armor does not account for the behavior of all others who wear that armor(and I too once wore wolver gear and in retrospect I am very pleased no one has shunned me)
I suppose I'm really posting here to vent my anger but after reading through all of the posts it has help to calm me down... a bit xD. And just to end it, I am so peeved at the two guys I unluckily met I would name and shame them, but only if you all want me to xP.

P.S. If I have somehow offended any of you, let me know and I shall apologize. And please say it in a somewhat nice way and don't go ALL-CAPS-RAGE ^^.
P.P.S. Please ignore my bad grammar(if any) xP.

It's not just Wolver set users; you're on the internet. It attracts idiots like vultures to a carcass.

My best friend in the game wears wolver and with ^ that was my first armor too

i definately have found that almost if not all of the rude people (i sure would like to call them something else a bit less polite!) are always wolvers, now i know and have met plenty of wolvers that are nice and often entertaining people who i love to play with. and i have definately never meet a gunner or bomber who has been a to me.
Just my opinion based off my experience of my (unhealthyly) vast amount of time playing this game.

Hey now, not all wolves are like that

If you're a jerk in an online game for no good reason, you're almost certainly going to be the type of person to equip what the community feels is the best armor. That is, Wolver.

Correlation does not imply causation.

I'm a pure gunner, possessing exactly one 5* weapon that isn't a gun (and I use Polaris as my only elemental weapon), but I really haven't ever gotten much hate. That may be because I used to solo all the time before I got higher gear, and nobody complains about full 5* people. It may be because the jerks are all young males who are attracted to my gender. Or it may be because I don't suck.

I dunno. Have fun in the game and have fun in the chat, play well and play team-consciously, and then if you do all that and people are still jerks to you you can just laugh at them for being stupid.

Based off some real-life experiences i've had. But the difference here is my assumptions were generally proven by the other a-holes like the first ones, but i'm an ash tail (took me FOREVER), and I think i'm nice to play with, with the exception of when I die too much(sporadic) and when I have lag (I tend to be in a bad mood then). Feel free to disagree if you've played with me (nicely though, or i'll embarass you on the internet). And most wolvers I meet are pretty nice, sure, some are a-holes, but i've met some a-hole bombers and gunners too, and mostly helpful ones too, can't leave that out. So, I try not to stereotype based off one experience.

Jim Dale thinks we should use the power of maths and science for this.

1) Every player of Spiral Knights is a Wolver.
2) Every Wolver hates Ironskull.
3) Every Wolver compliments Jim Dale.
4) Every player of Spiral Knights hates Ironskull.
5) Every player of Spiral Knights compliments Jim Dale.

actually that makes sense, i started out as wolver and WHY THE 'ELL NOT?! PROBLEM?! woof woof! >:O