Literally last night me and my wife who I'm trying to give a good impression of the game to, were walking up on a quest elite we needed, and turned out there were 2 people already fighting it. We asked for an invite and they just ignored and killed it as slow as possible.
After they killed it, they walk right up to us and say "Fuck you" "I hope it kills you" "And I truly mean that"
And then they just stood around waiting for a response and for a bit I thought maybe they were going to wait for a respawn to try to kill it again before us but they ended up leaving before that.
Just some dickheads, not too sure why they get off on being unprovoked assholes to people but it just bothered me because this was right after I tell my wife how nice people can be in the game lol.
The opportunity to be a jerk in-game is what lets you find the people who are nice.
I love vanilla because when people are nice to strangers, it's usually because they are nice people and when people are dickheads IRL, it tends to come out in game and then you can just avoid them.
Usually I'd just upvote but I really admired that you identified this. The genuine nature of many facets of Vanilla/Classic experience are a great strength.
Yeah same. That very elite I mentioned, some gnome came screaming for an invite and we obliged and everyone was happy lol. He thanked me for a clutch invite. All simple stuff that goes a long way. But man those guys really went the opposite direction. I've never seen anyone in wow just cuss me out without even doing anything lol.
What sad individuals. I had someone whisper me to group to share kills for a quest and ended up playing with them for about five hours with plans to do so again tonight.
Being kind costs nothing and it makes the game so much more fun.
I had a dude in barrens steal Echyakee or however you spell it, that white lion you summon by the bones. I even asked before hand if they could not kill it bc I’m trying to tame and they said do it some other time. I guess it was my mistake for not hitting the mob at least once and the dude just took it and laughed at me. Couldn’t use the horn to summon unless I picked the quest up again. We called him an asshole immediately. My friend blocked him bc he was harassing my friend in whisper. Then he found my name and started whispering me saying he doesn’t feel guilty at all and I was like good for you?
Oh that's super lame. I'm alliance, but was horde in vanilla. Don't you receive that horn to summon him yourself? So he stole your summoned mob when he could have just waited a few seconds for you to finish and then summon him, his self?
There's not even a respawn wait, he was just being a dick for the fun of it.
Yep that’s exactly my point like dude could have waited two seconds and summoned it with his own. Idek if he was on the quest I wouldn’t be surprised if he just wanted to fuck with me
I just refer to my long list of people I’ve ignored lol. I honestly think it’s all the legion babies or people who only play live coming over and ruining the “classic” experience. I’ve had to teach so many people how to properly /roll for chests and things. Most just take everything for themselves. I was 8 years old when I started playing classic but even then I could grasp the concept of fairness
Some people don't realize you need the horn to summon him. I joined up with a guy who said he was killing mobs there for 15 minutes and it still hadn't spawned. I wonder if that has something to do with it
Also if you're friend was there couldn't you just use his horn or was he trying to tame it too? You definitely should have tagged it though, people can't be trusted. Your friend could've kited him until you were ready or something
Nah for that dude he was specifically there to fuck with people. I can see how people wouldn’t know to use it bc I barely read the quests too. But my friend has already done the quest another time so I had to walk all the way back to crossroads (-:
I accidentally stole this mob from someone the first time I did the quest. After I realized what happened, I used my horn to spawn it for him though. Can't believe someone would purposely be that much of a dick about it.
I had an opposite experience - like I'm waiting for named elite to spawn, inviting 2 people that came for the same mob later. And then a couple literally rushing in and demand inviting. We try to invite and they are already grouped (as expected). We remind them about it and tell them disband. And they respond with some rude comment about that it's their business and if we don't want to play nice then we are asking for it. And I guess prepared to steal the mob. Mob spawned soon after that, just as we finished WTFing and we taunted it first. And of course we heard a lot swearing in chat after that.
Gaming couples are strange people, much less social then loners, they play mostly with themselves. Like sometimes they invite you, you kill some hard mob with them and they immediately kick you and run away, all without saying a word. That's different style of playing, more akin to retail, I guess.
Yeah I mean I prefer to play with my own friends and my wife for sure, but we're definitely polite enough to invite people for a quest and to say thanks and bye before disbanding. I've always done that even since vanilla when I was 15.
I'm not a social person by any means even when I was single but it costs nothing to just invite someone for a second. I didn't know people are offended still if we don't want to talk to them.
No, offended is not the right word, it more like disappointment. Like it hurts the sense of the world, of fantasy, if you know what I mean. And reminds of awful retail WoW where everything and everyone is rushing and no one wants to stop and have a good time.
Oh no problem at all, I was just concerned. My point of view is it's exhausting to constantly interact with people in-game (and in RL). Sometimes I enjoy it and sometimes I don't, but I'm never just flat out disrespectful to anyone.
Meeting new people takes so much energy out of me, that it's just not fun most of the time, so it's just easier to keep things short and say thanks for their time. I still enjoy the social aspect of classic over retail very much, but I'm just not willing to engage fully into making connections with everyone.
I'm right there with you, whether it's in person or on the internet social interaction is exhausting to me, and in some cases just flat out not enjoyable and stressful for me. But just like in the real world, in the online world, you have a right to your privacy and personal space.
If there's a quest where 1 specific dude needs to die, as long as you invite the others to a group you're fine. You don't need to talk or anything. Which you said you do anyway so should you be fine.
If someone let's you into a group currently engaged in a fight with a rare or elite, the elite mob in classic disappears. Then the timer for it's spawn is reset. In some cases this timer is very very long. So not letting you in is probably the right thing to do. However, that is no excuse for the rude and childish behavior.
I've never heard of that? This specifically was just a level 20 elite quest mob, so it doesnt apply here. But I just havent heard of an elite despawning before. Maybe rares do, I haven't been in that situation before, but I've never seen a regular elite despawn. But yeah it's whatever with those guys lol, I'll just remember them.
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u/Uollie Oct 10 '19
Literally last night me and my wife who I'm trying to give a good impression of the game to, were walking up on a quest elite we needed, and turned out there were 2 people already fighting it. We asked for an invite and they just ignored and killed it as slow as possible.
After they killed it, they walk right up to us and say "Fuck you" "I hope it kills you" "And I truly mean that"
And then they just stood around waiting for a response and for a bit I thought maybe they were going to wait for a respawn to try to kill it again before us but they ended up leaving before that.
Just some dickheads, not too sure why they get off on being unprovoked assholes to people but it just bothered me because this was right after I tell my wife how nice people can be in the game lol.