Wrath of the lich king - the idiots emerge.
The long awaited Wrath of the Lich King arrived, and it is every bit as good as I hoped it would be.
Northrend looks fabulous, Death Knights are every bit as fun as i thought they would be - and their instances starting area has fantastic quests and a wonderful event as the end quest.
There is only one negative. The masses and masses of idiots that have crawled out of the woodwork. In the race to level politeness and basic etiquette has gone out the window.
Mob tagging and kill stealing are rife.
Even your own faction will be doing their best to tag mobs before you.
The most recent example (which did make me chuckle)
I was questing in zangarmarsh on my Deathknight. I was doing the umbrafen quest and had to kill a named mob in the top of a hut. So i get there and a gnome deathknight has just killed it. So i wait patiently for a respawn. I’ve been there for a number of minutes when a horde deathknight comes in. He stands right in front of my human deathknight and it’s pretty obvious to me that this guy is going to try to tag the mob before I do.
So i get smart. I update a targetting macro I have with the mob name, and I spam it.
I know the boss has a couple of guards and if they respawn and I’m tab targetting I may miss out on vital opportunity to tag the boss.
I’ve also got my fingers hovering over death grip and icy touch (I think that’s what it’s called).
The boss spawns I pull him to me and tag him then burn him down.
At which point this horde Death Knight gets angry.
I get spat on, I get a slap round the face, he brushes up against me and farts and then struts round calling me a chicken. (Even though he isn’t pvp flagged).
This moron was actually upset that he was unable to steal the mob I had been waiting patiently for.
So i did the only decent thing - I laughed at him for a while, then blew him a kiss then went on my way.
Now the evil side of me had toyed with two revenge acts. One was to wait for the respawn and tag the boss again. (mildly naughty).
The other was to log on to one of my horde characters and mock him via whispers. (very naughty, and probably against blizzards rules)
However I think it’s much better to leave them bristling with rage whilst I go on and actually enjoy my game time.
Add comment November 18th, 2008