I'm at irc mainly at work, so i idle a lot... and ofcourse i hop there at sometimes during weekend... but then i'm prolly drunk and people hastily retreat and leave IRC before i start to babble and post silly music videos
But... IRC really improves your gaming experience, you get almost immediate replies to your questions and you get to know fellow players... and if your realm chatty is active you get to know players of your realmmates well too.
Back the old days, all Darkan leaders were at IRC, we crunched numbers and made a lot planning at irc along with chitty chatty... Same was with Tara and CE some extent too... I guess that was one of the reasons those realms were pretty dominate at beginning of Atamara... now they are dominating thrhough brute force
No irc needed
