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I'm new to WoW guys/girls and I must say I posted a while ago about all the negativity in WoW and how it brought newbies (myself included) vibes down and also influenced us to have a negative and indecisive view of the game. At one point I actually thought I wasted my money buying WoW.

But in the case I did not and am enjoying my WoW experience it is such and awesome game with a awesome community.

I have never had the privilege to help someone in WoW as I am still new but on the reverse side I can honestly say I have been helped and guided a lot by friendly players and it makes the game so much more desirable.

Its threads like this that shows me I did not waste my money and WoW is not going anywhere anytime soon.

Thanks to the OP for this and all the players who are nice, friendly and helpful to others it will eventually come back to you.

Yes! Pay it forward is a brilliant philosohpy. When I started playing this game I really put the 'new' in newbie. But I ran accross several players, inside and outside of guilds that tutored me, boosted me, bought my flight training when I got to Outland (with big wide eyes) and took me through my first few dungeons ('u know, Yri, tanks aren't that keen when u typhoon the mobs off them'). I kept in touch with those that still play.

Now, if I see someone that needs some help, or advice, or some gold for something I will always try and help because it was done for me. If you're in the intimidating environment of LFD/LFR now, and someone takes the time to whisper you the tactics if you're stuck rather then just shouting you out in front of the group, it makes an impact, and can make you friends for your whole wow-life.

Never had any nice experiences with other people not once.

i took a level 35 to ironforge once. gave him 50g showed all my cool mounts ,pets and wepoans and he was amazed. would ahve run him through some dungeons but i was busy and had to go

Getting an opportunity to help can also be helpful for the helper. ;-)
I got my sandstone drake form and found a lowlevel (16 I think) who was not an alt and gave him a tour across the thole Eastern Kingdoms. He leveled up twice, merely through exploration. Needless to say, he was very excited.
After the tour, in all his thankfulness, he felt compelled to try and milk the opportunity, but I kept it positive and told him he doesn't need to worry about making gold and should focus on his inner strength and independence, and that was received well.
It was very nice that I could put that new and expensive mount to good use. After all, a passenger mount is a social feature.

24/01/2012 21:43Posted by Fjellkriger

Never had any nice experiences with other people not once.

It will change when you change yourself. You will make different decisions, move into different energy fields where you interact with different people. Don't force it though and don't worry.

I tend to be generally considered a 'thing where the sun can't shine'. It's a huge comfort zone for myself since I don't expect anything from anyone. As opposed to many people who are 'nice & friendly' because they need something, or expect a favour back.

It's like valentine: you have to express your love on that particular day, and preferably spend a ton on presents and whatnot. I rather express my love throughout the entire year. The one on the receiving end will be much happier when it's unexpected than when it's some forced pose because everyone does it.

I'm very lucky to be part of a lovely little roleplaying guild where everyone always gets on and is happy to help out a fellow guildie in need, it's very rare that I encounter much negativity in my day to day WoW routine, and when I do me and my guildies are quick to disarm it with our happy silliness.

The perceived negativity of a lot of the playerbase in WoW really spurs me on to act nicely and kindly to other players whenever I can, I love the feeling that whenever I'm in a pug where someone yells at another player for dying/underperforming/wearing the wrong ribbon in their hair I always take the time to remind everyone that it's just a game, and ultimately we've all come together to have fun.

You'd be surprised at how many times it defuses potential arguments and bickerings, little things like saying hello and thank you, being upbeat and encouraging about your gameplay experience, and just generally keeping in mind that WoW is a game we're meant to enjoy, all contribute to a super-happy and ossum experience.

Like attracts like, happy-dappy fun snuggles will brighten your day every time!

@Vaneras: True. We can greatly distort our perception of reality by more or less consciously deciding what we want to see and what not to. Belief plays a big part in this.

@Zenga
So true. Often, friendliness is all about the actor's needs. In that case, sooner or later, if not left to their phantasy world, the brown stuff hits the fan.
Don't make being an 'S' into a view of yourself, though. ... But I think you won't. You're mentioning the kind of sincerity that I like, too. About not being a trained monkey.

1) On Valentine's day I gave every female in our guild a bunch of roses (in-game obviously). It was only a sort of joke which I was using to wind em up- but the reception was awesome. Some of the girls were genuinely pleased and teary :D

My gf (now wife) didn't get anything mind. Hehe

2) I randomly try and shout out in trade "Polite and chatty? Want an instant heroic queue? Whisper me, I'm doing a few runs as tank now".

I don't do this that much anymore, but I originally started doing it because I was hoping other people would notice and I could occasionally go on my hunter and get a chain group going. Didn't happen but still...

I stopped playing WoW a month back due to many reasons (time issues, the community deteriorating and filling out my apps for grad school) but due to some free time I was really in the mood to check out the LFR feature on my priest so I cleared the raid all the way till the end. One thing stood out for me which made the raid really memorable: one of the priests won some dps boots from one of the bosses and was kind enough to offer them to me without even my having to ask (though I passed on them since I dislike dpsing on my healer toon).

Having played in pugs where people are generally selfish and rude, this was such a pleasant change of events that I happily traded the two healing maces (?) I won from Deathwing (Rolled on both since I thought I'd be lucky to even win one). Didn't even feel bad about losing out on the upgrades since this whole event, albeit it may seem insignificant to some, cheered me up about playing WoW again :)

I still remember one particular good deed clearly. I was playing my first character ever back in September '05, a dwarf hunter. There I was in Redridge Mountains near the horse stable, when suddenly a higher lvl opened trade with me and gave me a ring in the lvl 40 range ... a RING! I didn't even have a ring at that lvl. I was sooo excited and happy! :=)

Was doing a daily in Tol'barad, accidently pulled alot of mobs which i didn't want to on my way to the cannon quest, and caught eye of a DK who was on the edge of death taking on three mobs.

Popped a bubble on him, flash heal spammed him up, when the mobs finally reached me he dropped a howling blast on them all and took them down them for me. We then proceeded to thank one another and went on our way.

I try and be nice to new players or just players in general when I can be, if my Mage is asked for a portal I give them for free as long as I'm asked nicely, I used to boost people years ago too but got fed up with it so don't do that anymore.

I have come across quite a few nice and helpful players, when I first got my own account a few months before TBC came out I joined the guild my Mum and Step Dad were members of (Continental Drift on Draenor) and found them to be a really nice and friendly guild, had help leveling up, learning about instances and how to use my character (Undead Rogue at the time) which I was very grateful for, once I reached 70 they took me to raids (mainly Kara for gearing) and loved that, I tried to help them out as much as I could too like duoing a Fel Reaver with a Shaman friend so he could get his key for SH (man was that fun :D).

More recent help I've gotten was receiving 300g on an Ally alt on a server where I had no main since I'd decided to reroll, I did help the guild with an achievement for fishing and so did many other members and we were all rewarded with 300g and thought that was nice, I was happy to help them out either way, I also got help from my GM the other day when I was going after the Elders for the Lunar Festival, I was stuck on one since I couldn't solo UP so my GM came along and helped out on their Mage which was really nice.

I find I get less help than I used to due to being an WoW 'verteran' but I am very grateful for the help I do get and have done in the past, considering my experience with the game (not just players) tends to be negative often it's nice when someone comes along and helps you with something no matter how small or big, would be great if it happened more often to more people :)

i generally will help people who need it like responding in trade or chat in a apropriate manner

however i have my darker days for instance i was on my hunter doing lfr and i had seen the tier pants pass me by multible times but this time i won them i needed them for my 4/4 set bonus
a warrior wanted them too and his/her dk friend was being a %!%! telling me to hand them over eventho i won them fair and square. so i says tough luck i won them so there

My first toon was a hunter and one day when I was about level 25 I saw another hunter with a white tiger and whispered him to ask where he got it. He said to me that the level range was wrong for me but that there was a perfect pet for me in Darkshore. He took me there (ran with me on foot even!) and helped me find cat statues for a ghost saber and helped me tame it, giving me food to make it happy as well since I didn't have enough on me. After that he organised me a portal to Shattrath and showed me where to set my hearth and how to find the portals to the various towns. I was beside myself with happiness that a level 70 would even speak to me, never mind spend so much time helping me out.

Another level 70 hunter that I had whispered to admire his pet took me under his wing, randomly picking me up and dragging me off to boost me and deciding for no apparent reason that he would buy my epic mount for me, even though I had enough gold for it.

Both of these people, when I asked how I could repay them, said "just do the same for the next guy who asks for help", so I do.

I came back to the game and my best friend in WoW offered me 4000 of her saved up valor on BoE gear for my characters. Funny to think we became best friends because I randomly decided to help her through a rough time in her life. :-)

Lots of nice people, just need to be nice to find them.

As an enchanter, I have a philosophy of "the tip is entirely up to you" when they provide the materials. It is amazing how generous players can be when not pressured into a flat fee.
As a result of this philosophy I have built up a loyal customer base, many of which are now comfortable sending me the mats & vellums in the post with a list of enchantments they need.

There is many things. But here is one : When i was new to the game ,at around level 30 i decided to make my own guild.
I wasn't using AH back then ,all silver & golds i had was from vendoring items.
And so i established a Guild & invited people ,many different levels ,all sorts. Then soon after that few days or week later ,1 max level player invested 200g into the Guild bank.
I was like OMg what! :O 200g was for me ,like if i had 200k now. really. That was very nice of him ofc.
Then as i was leveling up ,i was in need of a gold for leveling up my skills (as higher you are ,more it costs) but as i was vendoring anything i gathered ,i really didn't had much lol.
So i took 20g from guild bank & ofc left the rest for the guild-ies. 20g for me was LOT LOT really lol. i was so amazed. Then another day when i saw that person online (1who invested his gold to GB) ,i told him that i took 20g from GB & if that is ok.
He replied : Sure ,no worries. (i couldn't believe that he can posses so much gold ,where from? :O!)
I decided to Add him to Friend list & once i get higher level & get enough gold i'll repay him.
& soon after that ,he went offline for a Long Long time. He probably had some Main & other characters maybe even on different server.

And so i leveled up to Max & learned how to make my own golds in time & became experienced player.

3 Years after (2.5 to 3) ,i still had him on Friend list & never saw him online ,even tho i played a lot. So after 3 years i noticed 1 name "came Online". I looked at it and thinked ,hmm this 1 sounds familiar ,from where again.
Then i remembered it was a guy who Invested 200g to my guild back when i was noob. 200g for me was like a whole fortune ,really.

So the guy came on after 3 Years offline!
I whispered him :"Hey yo ,you were once in my guild back when i was low level noob,do you remember? About 2 years ago."
He said : "Nah"
So i said : " Well anyway ,when i started my guild back then,you invested 200g in it & That ment a lot to me Back then. Anyway ,i have enough gold now ,i can repay you."
And he replied : "Nah ,it's cool".

And after seeing him online after about 2.5-3 years ,he went back offline for good. (probably with main somewhere else).

Was a nice experience & i never forget people who Helped me out! Especially not if i decide to repay them :D.


And yes. i help around to pretty much. Similar things that other guys/girls mentioned above ,like giving some lowbie a gold ,or a ride ,or saving someone from Death.
Always helping ,if i find myself in the situation i can.

Cheers.

There is many things. But here is one : When i was new to the game ,at around level 30 i decided to make my own guild.
I wasn't using AH back then ,all silver & golds i had was from vendoring items.
And so i established a Guild & invited people ,many different levles ,all sorts. Then soon after that few days or week later ,1 max level player invested 200g into the Guild bank.
I was like OMg what! :O 200g was for me ,like if i had 200k now. really. That was very nice of him ofc.
Then as i was leveling up ,i was in need of a gold for leveling up my skills (as higher you are ,more it costs) but as i was vendoring anything i gathered ,i really didn't had much lol.
So i took 20g from guild bank & ofc left the rest for the guild-ies. 20g for me was LOT LOT really lol. i was so amazed. Then another day when i saw that person online (1who invested his gold to GB) ,i told him that i took 20g from GB & if that is ok.
He replied : Sure ,no worries. (i couldn't believe that he can posses so much gold ,where from? :O!)
I decided to Add him to Friend list & once i get higher level & get enough gold i'll repay him.
& soon after that ,he went offline for a Long Long time. He probably had some Main & other characters maybe even on different server.

And so i leveled up to Max & learned how to make my own golds in time & became experienced player.

3 Years after (2.5 to 3) ,i still had him on Friend list & never saw him online ,even tho i played a lot. So after 3 years i noticed 1 name "came Online". I looked at it and thinked ,hmm this 1 sounds familiar ,from where again.
Then i remembered it was a guy who Invested 200g to my guild back when i was noob. 200g for me was like a whole fortune ,really.

So the guy came on after 3 Years offline!
I whispered him :"Hey yo ,you were once in my guild back when i was low level noob,do you remember? About 2 years ago."
He said : "Nah"
So i said : " Well anyway ,when i started my guild back then,you invested 200g in it & That ment a lot to me Back then. Anyway ,i have enough gold now ,i can repay you."
And he replied : "Nah ,it's cool".

And after seeing him online after about 2.5-3 years ,he went back offline for good. (probably with main somewhere else).

Was a nice experience & i never forget people who Helped me out! Especially not if i decide to repay them :D.


And yes. i help around to pretty much. Similar things that other guys/girls mentioned above ,like giving some lowbie a gold ,or a ride ,or saving someone from Death.
Always helping ,if i find myself in the situation i can.

Cheers.

This made me smile. :D

So many good stories can killed by bad ones! :(

When I was a new player I joined a guild and kept asking dumb questions ... And I always recieved an answer, and looking back I realise how dumb the questions were so I make it a rule to always answer any question any player has. Makes me a lot of friends! :3