Comments on: Another holiday, another bunch of asshats

By: velk

velk — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:40:58 +0000

Still enjoying the event, two Noble characters now – and I have to agree with some of the comments – its a hunt = unless its overly camped, get hunting for them eggs – its way more enjoyable!

If not – 2am it – youll be done within an hour!

By: Leah

Leah — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 02:47:34 +0000

personally – I plan on logging in the middle of the night, probably wednesday (since its the most convenient day for me), when very few people are actually playing and plan on getting my pet then AND a polymorph rabbit book for my mage alt. in the meantime, I’m leveling a female dwarf hunter since they seem to be in hiding at this time O_O.

Best way I found of dealing with internet asshats is simply to ignore them and wait them out. someone is camping me as I o about Sholozar with Lafoo and takes my treasures before I can click on them. dismiss lafoo and just stand there afk. someone decides to bathe their mammoth in a tiny fountain in Dalaran? step away slightly and AFK again. funny thing – they go away sooner then you’d think, I’m back to what i’ve been doing and asshat is annoyed because they haven’t managed to spoil my fun :)

By: Easternwind

Easternwind — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:43:32 +0000

I found this post very interesting since very few people actually make laps around the towns on my server, but spawn camp constantly. I found a nice little niche for myself, and go back there when I feel like farming eggs. However, on the same token I haven’t had anyone accuse me of squatting on their spot. It’s pretty much assumed on my server that we are all a bunch of egg-fiend animals, and it’s a free-for-all. (Vulgar? Quite!)

My real feelings are what entitles a person to said spot? Were you truly the first person to get said spot? If a couple of people are competing who wins the spot? I wish I had time to do a more in-depth sociological study! :D

By: Jagg

Jagg — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:28:06 +0000

I had a found a great remote spot in Dolanaar on my Hunter during the busiest part of the day. After getting my 100, I logged to my Mage and headed back over. To my surprise, a NELF Druid had moved into MY bushes with 3 spawns!

At first I started clicking like mad in frustration, then I realized how stupid that was. So I /w the Druid: “I’m out, enjoy the spot”. They reply “Oh hey thanks! I only need 20more. I’ll tell you when I’m done”.

I hit up a few lowbie quests and got a tell a few minutes later. The Druid thanked me and said how much they appreciated it. We chatted a bit more and I had made a new friend.

So BBB for every asshat, there are still plenty of nice people and warm fuzzies you get for playing the game.

By: Syll

Syll — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:17:42 +0000

lol bbb! I’ve been waiting patiently for a new hall of famer. Gratz on finding such a wonderful specimen!

By: Erinys

Erinys — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:12:32 +0000

Go to Terokkar, its really quiet in comparison to the start zones and there are lots of spawn points. I play on a full server and I’ve only seen one or two people out egghunting there compared to the 49 plus in each of the start zones.

By: Phaedra

Phaedra — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:55:01 +0000

I guess I was lucky. I started about 7:30 AM in Dolanaar and within 2 hours, I had gotten about 225 eggs, getting everything but the bunny out of the eggs. There weren’t a lot of campers, mostly a healthy amount of people running loops, so there was a constant spawning of eggs. I admit, I was the druid in travel form, running around like mad. However, no one seemed seemed to be bothering anyone else. It really felt like a normal egg hunt, with little foot races towards the egg and then running off in search of the next one. I also wasn’t too worried about this holiday, as the RNG gods are completely beatable. Sure, everyone’s looking for eggs NOW, but the bulk of the achievement getters finished it up already. Mid-week I’m thinking about taking my bank alt down to get her some pretty new clothes.

By: ARA

ARA — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:52:14 +0000

I eventually found a nice spawning point in azure watch – 3 or 4 eggs were all mine for 45mins, so I got most of my stuff done in that time. I think its a bad design; could be fun, but very frustrating for the most part – unless you get lucky. The thing is that you’re not really hunting for hidden eggs, because we all know where the eggs spawn. Its basically a “right-click as quick as you can” event. Still. better than last year, at least we have a whole week.

By: boojah

boojah — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:22:16 +0000

I had a spot like this, was just sitting there, 2 egg spawns near me. Sometimes the loopers would come by and get one, but most of the time I was there for them, no biggie. A buddy asked me to go to a BG with him, I said np. Did the BG, spawned back to where I was… clicked an egg… and had someone start saying “you’re a putz” and “go find your own spot”. I ignored them. They whispered me that it was their own spot, they were there first, and I should go somewhere else. Now, I figured I could scamper off to some other spot and deal with the same thing all over again, or I could just keep clicking egg. So I did. Basically on my server you can’t go anywhere without insane competition for spots, the remote ones are really the best, and even if someone else comes along, it’s still pretty good odds. I’d like to be courteous and let people have “squatters rights”, and I’d love to have them myself, but this seems like a failure on Bliz, not me. I tried the running around and respecting others, but every spot has someone on it and you’re just offending a new person. I let it go and figure if people are offended by me clicking “their” egg, I can’t change it.

By: Awlbiste

Awlbiste — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:01:20 +0000

The thing about doing loops is that, at least on my server, there were 2-3 people per spawn point (in every town) so either you were wasting time because you would never get one, or you would inevitably ninja from someone. I just waited around and found a spawn after someone left both times I did this yesterday.