It happens to everyone. At some point the day will come when you hit that edge of hearing the same repetitive words over and over. Whether it is your little sister telling you to wake up, your parents telling you to go mow the lawn. It will happen to you at some time in your life.
To set the scene, I believe in being helpful in World of Warcraft. You will not see me running around places jumping up and down like a hyperactive chichuaua looking to do good deeds. But if I'm running past someone who is killing a mob I will take a few steps back and help out. Usually a wave is thrown in my direction or a thank you. Not a big deal but if it helps someone I score one in the win column.
One of the ways many people on servers is answer simple questions over the trade channels. This happens especially when it comes to the rare monsters that pop up on Timeless isle. Chants of 'when is Houlon', 'Timer on Houlon' etc happen all the time. A quick answer is given and everyone moves on.
But occasionally you get one person that seems incapable of looking up anything. For the next two hours you hear questions like 'Is there any rare up'. 'Where is [Insert Timeless Isle Rare]' or my favorite one of the bunch 'Please wait for me'. Patience still kicks into the game play that answering these questions are easily answered, even if they become monotonous.
This weekend where I had to draw the line was arguments that happened when it came to some answers that I 'helped' with this weekend. One of them started with the timer on Houlon. I had helped with the kill on my hunter and was running to finish up some of my dailies. If you have looked up Houlon on Wowhead you know there are three spawn points that she can pop up at. The most common spawn pop is just past the bridge on the upper side of the hill. But occasionally she will spawn further up the hill or even all the way past the second bridge. In this case she popped on the first spawn point, but wasn't tagged. So she popped up at the second spawn point and was engaged. After the kill a player asked 10 minutes later about what the timer was on Houlon. Trying to be helpful I told them that she had already showed up and was killed. For some reason the person proceeded to try to argue with me that I hadn't killed her and that they had been at the spawn point all the time. Then explaining that there are still three spawn points they responded with 'I know where she spawns. Obviously they didn't cause if they did, they wouldn't have been griping about waiting for her. Sometimes you just cannot win and it is better to retire from the field of stupid and do other things with your game time.
The other event that proved to me that there is a special brand of stupid was the incessant amount of questions there were about where rare mobs were. I use an add-on called rare coordinator to keep track of timers on the island. When a rare is announced on the add-on coordinates are also included in where the rate is. Some of them, such as the Emerald Gander, can only give general area directions. Most players get the coordinates and hopefully they are close enough to get there and get a tag on the mob. But occasionally people miss their chance and have to wait til the next round. What ground I was the complaining that no one waited for them to arrive. No one waited for them to be escorted to the promise land of the rares and let them get the first shot. Coming off as a requirement that everyone should help them to obtain all their goals, including the mount form Houlon because they had just arrived on the island. The answer to this is a resounding NO. No one truly owes anything, anything other than to let them figure it out themselves. When people take their time to help, be nice and say thank you. Otherwise, there are information websites such as wowhead and mmo-champion that can give 90% of the answers. Expecting someone to walk you through everything is insane. Not being grateful for the help that people offer and complaining just gets other to shut up and leave you to your own ignorance.
Not everything is bad with helping. But sometimes helping is to let people swim in the deep in for a bit til they learn to at least float.
Okay, time to put my soapbox back up.
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