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Yeah, yeah, a friend got me hooked on WoW... (Level 37 Draenei hunter, Ally side, Level 29 Troll Warrior, Horde side, PM for handles)
So, friend and I have been questing Horde side to take advantage of the Refer a Friend bonus exp...
Wandering through Orgrimmar, alone, to try to complete the Love is in the Air achievements, some random guy starts a trade with me. So, I stop walking when the trade window opens, to see what's about to happen. I've run into some very generous people at random.
No, he drops a grey (for the non-WoW-ites out there, useless) blunderbuss into the trade.
Me: "Uh...? Why?"
Him: "For Free."
Me: "Again, why?"
Him: "No speak English."
(Note, I'm on Scryers, a largely English server, being as it's based in North America, according to the log in screen)
"Er..." says I, complete the trade, and continue on my way, thinking nothing of it until later, when me, my friend, and my friend's roommate are grouped, wandering the Crossroads, myself busy clearing my inventory of crap with a vendor, and some guy walks up to me and trades me another random grey.
"Uh," says I, out loud. "Why give this to me?"
"I don't want it," says he.
Say I, "So, why not sell it to the vendor I'm standing next to, or destroy it?"
He walks off, to jibes from friend and his roommate, as they're in the same room...
Later, we're walking out of Crossroads, myself, lvl 26, my friend, 27, friend's roommate, early 40's...
Some guy decides he wants to duel me. I stop, and turn around to find a skull-lvled asshole initiated the challenge, so I decline. (Skull level is five or more levels above yours. Very deadly) And continue walking, intent on questing/instancing... Only to get another duel challenge. I stop, again, and comment to friend/roommate abut this guy and his desire for an easy challenge... and subsequently ignore him. As we're walking out of Crossroads, he's /yelling that I'm a chicken, and I can't hear it. Only hearing friend/roommate yelling back. And I'm sitting here, thinking, "Okay, yeah, if it was JUST ME, alone, yes, then it might be 'chicken', however, I've got a healer and a second warrior on my side. A warrior who is heavily fortified. Yeah, I'm chicken for walking away, and not giving in to your desire to see my life gushing from me, only to be res'd... to watch the beat down that will likely occur. I'm sure he was just whining that I wasn't PVP flagged.
I only do that on accident. Wandering with two level 75+ chars, in a group, toward Undercity, looking for Coins of the Ancients, as a level 15-ish hunter... and some random enemies attack me, and before the group can warn me not to attack them back, I'm dead, and PVP flagged for 5 minutes. And corpse-running, again, and again, and again...
So, friend and I have been questing Horde side to take advantage of the Refer a Friend bonus exp...
Wandering through Orgrimmar, alone, to try to complete the Love is in the Air achievements, some random guy starts a trade with me. So, I stop walking when the trade window opens, to see what's about to happen. I've run into some very generous people at random.
No, he drops a grey (for the non-WoW-ites out there, useless) blunderbuss into the trade.
Me: "Uh...? Why?"
Him: "For Free."
Me: "Again, why?"
Him: "No speak English."
(Note, I'm on Scryers, a largely English server, being as it's based in North America, according to the log in screen)
"Er..." says I, complete the trade, and continue on my way, thinking nothing of it until later, when me, my friend, and my friend's roommate are grouped, wandering the Crossroads, myself busy clearing my inventory of crap with a vendor, and some guy walks up to me and trades me another random grey.
"Uh," says I, out loud. "Why give this to me?"
"I don't want it," says he.
Say I, "So, why not sell it to the vendor I'm standing next to, or destroy it?"
He walks off, to jibes from friend and his roommate, as they're in the same room...
Later, we're walking out of Crossroads, myself, lvl 26, my friend, 27, friend's roommate, early 40's...
Some guy decides he wants to duel me. I stop, and turn around to find a skull-lvled asshole initiated the challenge, so I decline. (Skull level is five or more levels above yours. Very deadly) And continue walking, intent on questing/instancing... Only to get another duel challenge. I stop, again, and comment to friend/roommate abut this guy and his desire for an easy challenge... and subsequently ignore him. As we're walking out of Crossroads, he's /yelling that I'm a chicken, and I can't hear it. Only hearing friend/roommate yelling back. And I'm sitting here, thinking, "Okay, yeah, if it was JUST ME, alone, yes, then it might be 'chicken', however, I've got a healer and a second warrior on my side. A warrior who is heavily fortified. Yeah, I'm chicken for walking away, and not giving in to your desire to see my life gushing from me, only to be res'd... to watch the beat down that will likely occur. I'm sure he was just whining that I wasn't PVP flagged.
I only do that on accident. Wandering with two level 75+ chars, in a group, toward Undercity, looking for Coins of the Ancients, as a level 15-ish hunter... and some random enemies attack me, and before the group can warn me not to attack them back, I'm dead, and PVP flagged for 5 minutes. And corpse-running, again, and again, and again...
Damn, I hate those fuckers! I don't play the game, but most of the spammers and would-be spammers I catch and ban on here are those.
... I'm not going to spend 50 hours a week competing with people who ARE paid to play the game, to hunt drops or gather herbs.
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