The value of being nice

[Catamer]

what usually happens to me is this...
I drop a toon to invite someone and because i'm nice and don't need much in the way of drops, I let them loot everything.
I mean, since it's only for one run and I can easily run this instance until I get everything I want solo, why not let them have everything.
this turns into a huge WOW for the person, they make huge cash and gear so now they always want to run with me ... and I have no need of his help.
Now I'm stuck pimping out his ride and wondering why did I let this happen again.

If I do help someone I only give them one run and say CYA.

[elsegundo]

every other day i log on on my main, i'll get:
Clouds: hey el, are you busy? wanna do Nexus?
me: with who?
Clouds: just me.
me: erm... i gotta do some dailies. im a bit low on money and need to get rep. next time ok?
Clouds: sorry if im bothering you! lol


yea stuff like that. clouds is not his real in-game name.

[blast3r]

I've helped many people do the Ring Of Blood type quests, both in Outland and the several different ones in Northrend and it always gets a great reaction - people just love watching a 5-box team Pew Pew mobs. Or if someone's getting camped, and asks for help in General and I'm close by, i'll fly in and drop the hammer on the campers and maybe hang around for a bit depending on how busy I am.

The Zerg on Mag actually has a pretty good rep becuase of things like this.

Cheers,

S.

I'm a zerg guild member and i agree with this message.

[Dotalot]

it's good to see there's still some nice people left when i was boxing 2/3 chars no one rly bothered me at'all ... but since i started 5boxing my wow has changed :/ the number of times i have been called a cheater and eaven /spit on is uncountable .. is starting to turn me agansed the realm im in .... i have met another dual boxer there ... so i guess it's not all bad but nice to see someone with more pasiance than me :thumbsup:

[d0z3rr]

Wait until people take advantage of your politeness. Your attitude will change quite fast. :evil:

[beyond-tec]

I'm always in a hurry. I've already messaged a "cya" in the party chat, while grabbing my mount and leaving the group before he can say "thanks"
so he doesn't have a chance to start begging for more help or other quests. Usually I know the quests so I can deceide if he really needs help or is just a lazy bastard.

[Khatovar]

Wait until people take advantage of your politeness. Your attitude will change quite fast. :evil:

Yup. That's why I don't drop people from my groups to help others. If you group with them, they are much more likely to think that own you for whatever they can think up. I am more than happy to stay in my group and obliterate things for people, like the Ring quests, but but you invite people to group for an instance it quickly goes from "I just need to do this quest and I can't get a group" to "You are so fast at this! Aww, man, I was hoping he'd drop XXX. Can you run me again? And again? And again? And my friend, too? And we have a quest in this other instance..."

I'm a sucker and can't say no after I've said yes. Better to keep myself from getting in that sitation in the first place.

[Kel]

I'm a fairly infrequent boxer and usually two at a time, so I don't get that much attention. Mostly I've had a couple of people comment about my set-up (not in a favourable way, but not being really rude either), that usually results in me spending some time chatting to them about MB and how it's done. I've never had someone really anti-MB talking to me (except my boyfriend...).

Occasionally I get people who will watch me for a few mins and I had one higher level who wanted to group and help me kill mobs.

As there's only two of me I'm sort of limited in how much I could help, but I will probably handle it in the same way as I do on higher level toons in lower level zones. I'll help people with quests if they ask nicely (and it's a short one which they would actually need a group for) and I'd probably invite someone to a group if they needed the same mob as me for a quest (or if they run past me to tag it before me I may watch them die horribly instead).

[Vmpwraith]

Yeah I guess I have to agree with some of you the only real reason I let him in my group is because something has gone horribly and one of my characters had about 20-30% more xp than the rest. I guess thats from the mixed team and once I did the shaman quests it kind of put my shammy a head a little and it just got bigger and bigger. I would be more relectant to have some one join now as I have them all again within 3-6% so I dont want to mess that up to much. However decimating a group of mobs for them no problem.

[Kaynin]

Hehe, when I started I was uberpolite, explaining everyone what I did in detail, trying to promote multiboxing. But at some point I just has too many groupies. When I was high rated in 5v5 I had a lot of this kind of stuff too:

"Boost me in 5v5!"
"No."
"PLXPLXPLX"
"No."
"ILL REPORT YOU IF YOU DONT!"
"...lol"

xD

Anyhow I'm polite to my friends, I'm neutral to everyone else. Best way to be social in WoW. In pugs, or vs strangers, I don't say much. I don't hate, I don't love. I just am and they'll have to make their own minds up about me. If I ever help someone for a quest, it's out of boredom. Not good-will.