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Turning Cold; “Run-through’s? Get Lost”

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Yesterday, I had an ex-guildmate message me.

Our guild used to be a strong levelling guild, and as usual for guilds that have a lot of lowbies, we had a lot of twink wannabees who drained nearly all of our high-levels’ “helping energy” by asking for endless run-throughs of lowbie dungeons.

Then, we started to clean things up, and either booted or encouraged twinkers without high level toons to trade off favors with, to leave the guild.

From what I recall, that was a year ago we made that change.

So, this ex-guildie messages me and has the half-brains enough to first of all, tell me that he and his brother are looking for a guild to “run them through WC” when I ask him what he’s looking for in a guild when he inquires about re-joining. After I had told him about our casual, 30+ year olds status and how we don’t do dungeon runs with guildmates hardly at all.
So, I politely say “no, sorry, our guild doesn’t do run-throughs” and Mr. Stupid responds back:

“so, if you have some time now, could you run us thru then?”

My response:

“no, sorry”

/ignore ex-guildie

He then proceeds to hop on an alt to message me further. Thankfully I have WIM set up to filter out tells to a seperate window that doesn’t pop open when I’m in battle - I actually have to click to see the message when I’m ready for it.

I didn’t even bother to look at the message. I’m way too cynical and cold to give a rat’s ass about individuals who talk to me looking for handouts as our first interaction in months, if ever.

I logged out, hopped on an alt, and made sure to blacklist the ex-guildmate to the few others who /ginvite within our guild.

Later on, I logged back in to /ignore the other alt he whispered me from, but found that alt (his lvl 35 or so that might actually be able to trade favors for twinking his lowbie) has been deleted.

Ex-guildies looking for handouts are worse than the random lowbies asking for run-through’s in cities, because they also expect that you “liked” them since they were in your guild in the past.

Pixels, my friend. That’s all 99.9999999% of you are to me on this game. And the odds that you’d be in that 0.0000001% of whom I think more of than “get out of my way, please?” is … well, pretty damned low.

I’d say that it’s at negative numbers, and you’ve got lots of out-of-hole climbing to do if you ask me for a run-through without first having lent my character some type of help in her time of need.

PS: Hey, I think I’m feeling crochety these days. What do you think? ;)

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Sylvina
 1 

I have a lot of old guild members and friends, and while they’re nice… some of them just completely sucked as players, or knew just how to annoy me. I still put up with people like that, but I very very very rarely ever run people through instances unless it’s an IRL friend.

I used to have a lot of friends run me through the Dead Mines on my Horde, because it was basically impossible to get a group for Hordeside, and I was infatuated with the place (it’s one of my favorite instances). Luckily, nobody ever hated me for it, I had a really great bunch of folks in my guild and we all worked together consistently when we needed to.

May 15th, 2007 at 1:08 pm
Galoheart
 2 

Before when i was solo as i usually am…… I never so run thru for any lowbie.
I now have a guild and i still don’t so run thru’s as a person favor. For help with a group i know someone in the group as a ingame friend a while, maybe i would but i’m only doing it for the player friend not the PUG.

If i ever do a run thru it will definetly have to be for someone i really know. Or it never will happen me running thru anyone else.

When i was a lowby, we all been there as a player i prided my self on self reliance i did stuff my own or find a good group of players to PUG with for an instance or just moved on without doing it.

I kinda think people that need run thru’s suck as players and the ones that don’t are too lazy as players to do it in a group their lvl. To run thru and aid these players is to help them lvl up and complete the instance and i’m not gona do that. If they suck as players then you definetly don’t need them at the higher level. Its some those same people that make your life hell at higher level. I’m not gona aid and abeth a lowbie for a run thru, so what if you got a lvl 60-70 as a main. Big deal. Go find a group of your peers to do it with, do it the hard way. This aren’t easy street.

May 15th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
Blackheart
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The big difference for me is how they ask. If they ask for a run-through in guild I say No. If they ask for a group, I might log on an alt and come along. But I don’t give hand-outs. Of course the rules above don’t apply if it is someone I have known for awhile, because then we are probably trading lowbie runs for alts. If it is anyone outside my guild I just say “Sorry, in a group”, been thinking of putting it on a macro.

A for feeling crochety, people can cause that. Just remember It’s only a game, and one person is not going to spoil my fun.

May 15th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
Cicatrice
 4 

Anybody my main “grew up with” (ran instances/quested with regularly from 1-55) gets runs from her for their alts if the ask nicely and I’m not busy. If they grew up with her, chances are they’ll ask nicely, be fun to run through, and know the importance of actually doing the run on their own at some point. Usually I’ll run a friends alt through after whatever they wanted didn’t drop for their group. RL friends also get runs, but if they’re new to the game I make them do the run on their own before I run them through. It’s all case-by-case. I’ve never run an unknown lowbie through, becuase that strikes me as incredibly boring and neither I nor they will get much out of it.

And crotchey is fun. :)

May 16th, 2007 at 11:24 am
Rizzo
 5 

If someone asks me to ‘help them’ though a low level dungeon, I’ll usually just log an alt of appropriate level/class… and if that’s not what they mean, I say that I’d like to ‘play too’… Unless of course I’m in a farming mood, and all they’re getting out of it is the odd blue, quests done, and XP, and I like them… ;-)

I’ve gotten crotchety before usually because of someone else’s behaviour, but that doesn’t happen often… having a priest as a main I can’t go through a day without a ‘can you come to X dungeon which is 5-15 levels lower than you and help us out, all we need is you’ and most of the time I can’t devote 1-2 hours to said dungeon, let alone set up time (assuming that they aren’t all sitting at the meeting stone and waiting for me to be summoned) I usually reply with the ’sorry, not right now, thanks’ or ‘I’m already in a group doing X, but you’re free to join us’… As for alts of people I know, I will usually do what I said above and log a level appropriate char. (Priests, I find, are horrid for PLing, and I like to keep my hunter for ’solo’ play nowadays).

Meh, its just a game, and anyone who takes it too seriously, or is a social retard can find somewhere else to go (least of all another guild, who I usually warn their leaders to watch for certain behaviour, giving them the benefit of the doubt that they can change/grow)… don’t beat yourself over it.

May 21st, 2007 at 12:05 pm

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