The value of being nice

[Vmpwraith]

Some peoples perspective about multiboxing.

A couple of instances I have experienced recently got me to thinking.

So there I was doing SM - library to break up my questing a little with my team. I zoned in and out a couple of times and noticed one guy was just standing outside the whole time. Now as you can see from my sig I play on Chinese servers so in my poor chinese I asked if he was ok and could I help him. I suspected he thought I was a gold farmer ... Yes we do have those here on the Chinese servers also. Anway he wanted to try to get the staff from the last guy so I dropped one of my toons and invited him to group and we started out. After a moment or two trying to explain in my bad chinese and his simple english that I was playing all the toons and that he needed to follow my lead we pushed ahead. After two runs we had his staff and he was super excited and mistified by the whole boxing idea but said It looks so easy. EASY is not a word I would use for multiboxing at least during the setup and getting to know how to play your team == afterwards maybe.

I also helped a guy to down King Bangorlash in STV.

Sometimes I dont think of much as I paly and dont always consider how others may view my Boxing (running in and pulling multiple mobs then moving on). I guess if he watched me kill Bangorlash for myself then just run off he may have felt a little pissed at how easy the game appears for me from his perspective (Can kill multiple higher level mobs etc) and get a little bitchy and anti boxing.

Anyway since theses occastions I have had numorous invites to jion his and others guilds or when my toons are leveled to have them join in for the larger instances or offers of help to me. So from now on I'm going to make it a point to set a good example and help others out on the server more (not always but when I have time).

By the way so far I've found chinese players to be very polite and extremely helpful many many higher levels will OFFER help to me Boxing or solo so I guess I should follow suit.

Do anyothers have any positive boxing stories like these?

[Podboxer]

Well I have one but it ends up bad I was playing leveling through dragon blight and I saw a hunter being camped so I went over there with my l74 shamans and beat the crap out of this l80 warrior later this guy invited me to his vent and we did a few instances together and since i was un-guilded he invited me to this guild that was working on naxx. so i thought hey i will join them when im 80 raiding. im in it for about 3 days really nice people then the guild leader gets on and kicks all my guys and tells me how multi boxers and pieces of crap and i should jump off a cliff!! well 10 min later we made are own guild and it has been great since :thumbup:

[Stealthy]

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.

[Ogloo]

Im glad to see that you have kindness (something not usually found in the game).

Im my time of lvln i have done all instances.. got the 50quest achievment at lvl 64... I have invited people standing outside, and guildies all for free no madder what, and they get all loot (because i dont take the time 2 ). But all in all, I think its fun having someone in the instance running around applauding you!, gets boring all alone in there u know? Even though they are taking some xp from my group its all cool!.

And whatever comes around goes around. so u know later they will help u out or lend u some cash for those 4 epic mounts

[algol]

I gank people in the middle of escort quests and eat orc babies.

(No, not really.)

[Zal]

I gank people in the middle of escort quests

I do this, alliance hate me.... a lot. Too bad they can't kill me

[jinx08]

I gank people in the middle of escort quests

I do this, alliance hate me.... a lot. Too bad they can't kill me

I've helped the opposite side in escort quests before.

One memerable experience was the escort Q for the horde side in western HFP. This BE lock was struggling, so, nice guy that I am, decided to give him a hand. So I merrily pew pew the whole area with my DK's to clear the path for him. When I get to the end, I turn around and wonder where he had gone? I go back and find him slumped in a heap. I had forgotten that I had pestilence and Blood boil in my cast random macro on each DK, and had inadvertantly killed him! Oopsy my bad lol

[Yamio]

Jinx08, that's funny!!

[Fef]

I very often help other players.

Since I'm boxing five, I mostly stopped helping horde though. It happened few times that I killed a poor guy unwillingly. Like click on the horde player to see his level, decide that he is not a threat, move on to next mob, forget to give the system enough time to accommodate target lag, send pets in ... Oops, 4 gorillas on the poor Undead mage ... So I prefer to just ignore them most of the time.

Just like when I was single and dual boxing, I never attack first. I don't see the point of killing one character using five equivalent level ones. Well, I don't attack first unless the player made it into my KOS list, that is.

[beyond-tec]

I've always helped others out - especially in the lower zones or burning crusade zones because they're nearly emtpy.
I don't help ppl through instances (don't wanna drop one toon because the amount of exp everyone got starts do differ
and the RAF bonus stops for one char). But helping out killing a single elite mob is for me "the most natural thing in the world"
(taken from babelfish - don't kick my butt if it doesn't make sense).

Usually those mobs are a one shot for my crew and I've never had a bad comment after I've explained that I play all the chars at once.
Most of them ask how it works and even a guild invited me to raid with them when I'm 80 so I got mostly positive reactions. The more
people you know, the more people know that you aren't a bot, the more defend you against smallbrainers that don't know what we're
doing and don't want to know because crying out "botter, reported!" is easier.

So showing others that you're helpful and that you're a human, not a bot makes much things easier.