This really ruined my leveling time. I was really enjoying my DK up until that point. After that, I waited for it to respawn, killed it, logged out. Can’t remember the last time I logged onto the character. It is amazing how people act online. I bet if it were real life, I would get an answer, but because it was the internet it seems people like to be assholes. I don’t get it.

When leveling my Resto druid in Northrend, I never tagged other peoples mobs, never stole their quest items. Though this one time in Whispering Gorge I think it is called in Howling Fjord, you had to blow up these mines and ore would come out and you had to collect a certain amount. Well, I was killing the mob that was guarding it and I saw this Warrior watching me. I killed the mob and blew up the ore. She moved on in and started looting the ores! I said “Hey, I worked for these!” and she responded “Too bad” just like Lieden. It happened another 2 times. So I just needed one more quest item, and I saw the warrior blowing up the ore. I come on in and take one and just said “Thank you!” and she whispered me “Grow up”.

Totally made my day… (logged out and played Diablo 2 <.<)

Not that I’ve spent an hour following a ninja around pre-tagging his mobs. No. Never. Of course not.

The oscar for biggest douche in the game can probably be given to a horde player on the EU-French pvp server Ner’Zhul. The guy has a shadow priest in vanilla WoW, that he parked all day on one of the shelves in Blackrock Mountain. Everytime an alliance player would run on the chain to go to BRD or MC, he would mind-control him and throw him in the lava. As he was standing in a very hard to reach spot, it was not that easy to go kill him and be rid of him.

He then proceeded to try everything he could to interrupt my completion of the quest – pulling stuff (even without his totem out) so that I couldn’t, grabbing my spirits when they spawned and generally being an asshat. Sweet then to see him ride off towards HH and get flattened by a fel reaver as I was doing some kills around the Forgotten Armory.

I’ll admit that a couple times I became vindictive to the person that did it to me. But I didn’t steal their pups, I didn’t give them the satisfaction of trying to race them to the pups, I Thunderstomped and Volleyed the pups. Evil, I know. Add me to the list.

Have I been screwed over? Of course. Does it make me bitter? You bet it does. Has it changed my behaviour? No, because I believe it’s more important to keep my own sense of self respect than it is to become like the kind of arsehole that pulls that kind of stunt. Have I made mistakes and grabbed something from a stealthed druid or rogue that I didn’t even know was there? Yes, and I apologised when I got an annoyed whisper (though I wouldn’t have if it was rude, mistakes happen after all). It’s amazing how a simple apology can be very effective in not getting the reputation of being an arrogant dick.

There’s a famous phrase, “Do as you would be done by, and be done by as you did.” It’s a simple phrase and for my money if everyone in WoW followed it then it would be a far better place. It doesn’t matter how old someone is physically, it’s the attitude they have to others that defines whether they are immature or not, and stealing nodes, item spawns or mobs from someone of your own faction who has worked their way towards it is immature behaviour. Taking obvious pleasure from doing it is just plain sad.

One thing I noticed on my server, a normal server but an unique one because whereas Alliance usually outnumbers Horde two to one, on this particular one, Alliance outnumbers Horde more than three to one! Thank goodness it’s not a PVP server – I’d be constantly ganked! Anyways, as I was saying, I noticed on my server that the opposite fraction DKs (not other classes, only DKs) are nice. The same fraction DKs? Quite the opposite.

I was doing a Horde-specific quest where I need to kill a named mob, grab a key, and shut down the gate (demon camp), and I was fighting through the mobs. I’m Fire spec, and it takes me three seconds to cast a fireball. A DK (Horde, naturally) nearby, obviously on the same quest, was fighting through the mobs at the same time, though I made sure to stay at some distance from her so we won’t compete for mobs. I targeted a guy and began up my fireball. The DK watched me, and then exactly as I unleashed my fireball, the DK death coiled the mob to her! As a result, she tagged it just a spilt-second before my fireball hit it. I groaned, but took it as an accident and turned around to attaack another mob – and that mob attacked me! The DK had gone off to the named quest mob! I whispered her, “Hey, why are your mob attacking me?” She replied, “You’re the one who attacked my mob!”

Ugh, are she serious? I replied that it was an accident because I had already casted my fireball when she tagged it, and I backed off – no reason to let that mob try to kill me. No reply, nautrally.

Quite a few Horde DKs have stolen my kills on my 61 Mage and 70 Hunter (when farming armor to pre-start my Mage for Outlands. Hehe), so I’ve grown accustomed to it, and I normally ignore it, though it still annoyed me because I wasted up mana trying to save myself from that fight (a clothie against two legionaries when already low on mana? Not fun) – luckily, I managed to escape.

Then I did another Horde quest, where we had to kill Fel Orcs, collect their blood, boil them in a cursed cauldon (when you do that, be careful: evil, bad-tempered scrabs scamper out. Sometimes you can get away before you aggro the scrabs). The mobs near that cauldon respawn at an insane rate, and to make matters worse, the mobs are usually warlocks with skeleton minions. Well, I saw a level 59 DK (typically other players wait until 60 or 61 before doing that quest) clearing the mobs around the cauldon. He seemed to be in charge of things, so I waited for him before I boiled the blood – no fair setting the scrabs on him. However, after we both retreated, FOUR mobs respawned on him – and three passbys aggroed! I immediately tossed a blizzard and flame strike in an attempt to help him out.. and ended up having to run for my life. However, he did manage to escape. Later he asked me if I could remove the curse (a nasty 15 minute curse that lowers healing effects and stats) and I replied with a cheery “Sure!” He was quite polite, thanked me.

Five minutes later, he asked if he could join my guild! He said I left a good impression because I was willing to help out random strangers. My, my. It was a pleasant surprise that there are some nice DKs after all! I invited him on one condition – “Don’t cause trouble.” He replied, “Oh, that’s not my style.”

It’s really interesting how different people you could meet in a mere time period of ten minutes. In ten minutes, I went from grumpy and cursing all the DKs to chatting pleasantly with one. Perhaps you should convert to Horde after all? ;D I kid, I kid. :)