Why must people insist on inviting priests and warriors into groups before establishing communication with them? I can’t really speak for other classes, although Grimr as a hunter has far, far more playtime than Deadr does.
With Gitr, it was a constant stream of invitations as I was on grifs or grinding away through every level. Someone somewhere wanted a tank, and dadgummit, they were going to invite one. I can’t count how many times I accepted, hoping the best from this person, such as them actually having a full group that was going to work and only needed a tank. I also can’t count how many times it was one person starting with me and wanting me to help them fill their group; or worse yet, a group that had no chance of making it through an instance. Sometimes I would leave the group, and sometimes I worked my butt off to try to get it to work, only to have someone in an underpowered group leave.
Deadr has to be over 20 invitations without consent by now. It’s ridiculous. You wouldn’t invite someone over to your house without talking to them first. Likewise, you shouldn’t risk the gear, money, and time of you and everyone in the party by not having any more clues than level, guild, and class. It’s not like Deadr is a stinking celebrity priest that everyone wants to heal their parties going into RFK, but I sure do get a lot of whispers about it. I don’t mind whispers, it’s the invites that piss me off to no end.
I frequently have to put up my /AFK or /DND to get anything done. There are nights that I just need to grind for XP, and running around and sharing XP is not the way to level. It’s fun, sure, but not fast. To those reading this who have grouped with me, if you are on my Friends list, you are another story. Abull can whisper or invite me any time, because I know he will pull together a quality group in no time.
Enough ranting. What do you all think? Am I justified in getting my robes into a wad over invites?
Mate, you should try playing a hunter. The only invitations I got (outside my guild) were from players ten levels above me wanting to duel. ๐
When TBC comes out, I’m strongly considering rolling a BE priest. I expect that when that happens, I’ll have the same problem.
Grimr is a hunter. I got tired of “pet, sic ’em, shoot, fall asleep, ooohh the mob is dead.” I wanted more activity to kill.
I would have to disagree with the “party != leveling” comment. With my shaman, I have only soloed probably 1 or 2 times since I was level 20, and am about to hit 60 at 10-11 days played. Surprised the hell out of me ๐ Getting those quests done fast is actually a very good thing.
Oh, I agree that if you have a quest associated with say, finding things in an instance or getting the head/axe/foot/etc. of a mob or boss in the instance, then grouping up really is the way to go. My issue was that you guys already took me through SFK until I got everything I needed and I was still getting these kinds of invites from others 12 levels later because other people were assuming that either I needed the same thing or that I would be willing to take that much XP for my time.
I will go a long way for a guildie, but not for strangers that send invites before chatting around with me first.
I’ve had that sort of thing happen to me as a ‘lock, but clearly not as often as it has happened to you.
On a related note, I get badgered about summoning fairly often by people I don’t know nor care about. I suppose the running presumption is that when I am at a major town/destination, I am the leader in a group with two other Good Samaritans, all of whom are participating in, oh, something like a circle jerk, and are ready and waiting to help some random fool out. While I deny that I am the realm whore, I do respond well to foreplay (lots and lots!) involving complete command of the English language and monetary compensation. Ras Frostwhisper didn’t suffer eternal torment at my hands so that I could summon an asshat.
I know what you mean mate! Priests are loved by all but no one seems to care about their feelings lol. I for one hate people inviting me as a mage without speaking to me first. They just invite and say “great, thats aoe dealt with!” When they say this I just leave as they clearly think that all mages can do is aoe!
I feel for you mate ๐
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