My experience vary too, probably more so since i play on a pvp server. The worst thing that has happened to me is i was doing a mining run just going around nagrand mining adamantite and all or a sudden i spy not one but TWO Rich adamantite ore veins about 10 yards next to each other. JACKPOT. But of course i get one lot of ore out of the first one when im ganked from behind by a rogue laughed and spat on (with a macro..no one types that fast) and before i get back hes taken both and left.

But on elemental plateau i’ve farmed for hours peacefully with a mage called frosn who was busy with the fire elementals..we left each other and although my pet attacked him a couple of times because of aoe, i always apologised and he laughed and bowed. Even when i got ganked in the same place he watched but didnt help kill me and when i killed the ganker back he didnt attack me either.

i’ve probably rambled a bit too much but great read and i agree completely…i always make sure people in my guild behave otherwise they get warnings in the form of missing raids or demotion…i’ve had to remove some people for absolutely despicable language and behaviour.

Thanks for great read.

I have had it happen before that I’m out questing, doing my thing, paying attention to nothing but killing mobs/finishing that quest. I literally focus on nothing else. And then I’ve had someone (even people I know) whisper me just like BBB did. “What’s up, why’d you kill that mob/node I was working on?” I always say “I’m sorry, didn’t see/notice you” (because it’s the truth) and if it’s someone I know, I’ll offer to stay and help. Usually they just lol and say no worries, but I’ll help if I can.

If it’s not someone I know, at least half the time my “Sorry, didn’t see/notice you” is met with curses and derision. Oh well, what can you do? I’d like to say I’m consiously aware of all the other people in the game 100% of the time, but the truth is that sometimes I play wow to totally escape, and that means other players. It’s not on purpose, but it happens.

I guess the point is that, sure, it’s possible to be a dink on purpose, but it’s also very possible that just by playing the game, you’ll piss people off, even inadvertently. Frankly, while I try to be considerate and don’t go out of my way to irritate/annoy/grief others, Blizz kinda set this game up so that it’ll happen. I mean, what’s the right protocol? You’ve got one of the plentiful “get node” but node is guarded by mobs quest. Someone else is there… but there aren’t that many nodes.. I leave the node that is obviously being guarded by mob that player X is fighting, but I move on to the next mob/node… seems like the right thing to do.. but I’ve been flamed for it. Sometimes people think that it’s their “area”… I don’t know. I guess I’m just supposed to sit there for however long it takes them to finish?

I’d like to not be called an asshat or have my guild get tons of spam about me if something like this happens. Like I say, I help out when I can, but sometimes these lesser things happen.

Putting you on ignore was rude, though, that I agree with.

Before WoW I was a GTA fan. Loved that game, still do. But having played WoW for *shudders* three years, I’m now totally devoted to all things Azeroth.

Hmmm… apart from the fact that I’ll need to buy a new console to play GTA IV, I’m a bit disappointed that Rock Star Games hasn’t tried to create something with the MMO experience of WoW. That would really Rock. So my experience of gameplay has totally ramped up a notch in terms of expectations. In other words, experience has changed during gameplay for me, for sure. And it’s all about the people. People like my nearest and dearest…

My wife plays WoW. It’s a great thing to do together. And she’s way more social than me in the game, which is great ‘cos I need that. It’s a balance for my more technical style of gameplay, which I hope she needs too (probably not). We regularly talk about what’s going on with our WoW friends. It’s great. Also on the RL social trip, I have lunch nearly every day with my mate Daak (we work together) and the conversation always ends up on something WoW related…

And here’s the point. The best thing that came out of the social side of WoW that I can confidently point to is this blog. Daak and I, over lunch (as usual), agreed that our mate Windshadow was writing some awesome stuff in the Sidhe Devils Yahoo group we belonged to, and we both agreed that Wind should start a blog - for sure. So we told our mate Wind how good a writer he was and encouraged him to start blogging. The rest is… well, you’re reading it. (I’m sure he’d already thought about it, we just gave him a few words of encouragement)

So here it is, if there was ever an example of how our experience can change because of gameplay, then this blog is it. Fantastic!

Yesterday I was at Death’s Door farming fel armaments on my mage. I had cast a fireball at a mob, and right before it hit the mob, another mage ice lanced it. It ticked me off, as he was alliance, but I continued on. He did this five more times! I finally had enough and we had words…He claimed he was verifiying I wasn’t a bot! Oh please, he could have just asked. Things got very heated between us, when he finally said “I said I was sorry.” At that moment, I realized I needed to let it go and apologized as well. He then opens trade with me and gives me 500g for him acting like a jerk. Of course I denied, but he persisted, claiming he has like 30k and nothing to spend it on. I ended up talking to him a bit and realized he was actually a nice guy…we were both just frustrated.

So yeah, interesting twist to the mob-stealer story. =)

The Skettis Escort I’ve found to be very sociable on Anachronos, EU. Most of the time if someone’s hanging around one of the spawn points, they’ll happily group.

The Blades Edge SSO quest for Smuggled Mana Cells is one that often frustrates me because of the “interactions” with other players… I’ve had them stolen as I’ve walked up to them after killing a mob, never mind whilst I’m doing the killing. I accidentally stole one myself the other day and tried appologising, but was ignored. I think I really surprised someone last night when I leapt in to help when he was being trounced by two worms at once - and didn’t take his Cell…

In general on quests after “named”, I always look around to see if anyone else is looking like they’re after the same thing - meaning I’ve offered groups to others and have asked for groups, depending on my, and their, situation…

I’ve even managed to include (and be included) mid-combat when someone’s turned up after it’s started, which is nice…

As for the assisting, I help out when I can. If I see an Alliance toon getting jumped by multiple mobs, I’ll hop in there and help clear them out. We might be on opposite sides..but that’s no reason we can’t be civil. But as BBB pointed out, games like this will always have that…”element”…of people that try to ruin it for everyone else. Sure, BBB could have gotten mad, gotten eve, ran and tattled to a DM officer…but what would have been the point? That guy still wouldn’t have changed.. BBB took the high road and that’s commendable!

however i do find peope are sometimes more helpful / considerate doing the Netherwing Daily Quest to get the Relics ? The one where you stand right down besides the landing place with the 2 big 72 Elites standing guard. if i get there and horde are doing it i /w them as ask how many left and wait til the done or at least only pick up a mob when they are already fighting another.

As to the rest, I’ve often found horde folks on my server to be pretty polite in terms of tagging mobs, being patient, etc. There’s always going to be a few jerks, regardless of faction, but my personal experience with horde on my server has been pretty positive overall. A quick example would be the other day there was some random world PvP going on in Westfall. I showed up to help some of my friends, and after we’d all unflagged, there was still a flagged horde shadow priest running around. He/she was mounted, just kinda hanging out, and I watched one random alliance hunter flag and try to kill the priest (which, laughably, didn’t turn out in the hunter’s favor) and after the hunter died, the rest of us /cheer’ed at the Priest, and danced with him/her. They /wave’d, /dance’d, etc. and we all just sort of had a nice time hanging out. Moments like that make me glad to still be playing this game after 3 years.

I have absolutely no respect for people who think they can just ride in and take the credit for someone else’s work, and it unfortunately happens alot - Elemental Plateau anyone? The approach many people take of then spamming complaints about them over trade is really useless as well, it just makes the person complaining look like a whiner. Like Kestrel said, take it to the guild I guess

Polite players FTW!