MMO Gaming

The server I am currently playing on in WoW is a transfer server, which means, for the most part, everyone that moved over already had a high-level character and moved to avoid queues and the like. It was not immediately open to be rolled on, so no new characters were popping up.

That is why, when I decided to roll a Human Priest and mess around with leveling I expected it to be deserted, completely barren. Apparently that isn’t the case. There’s hundreds of them. All of them completely oblivious to how the game works, what to do, how to do it, the way to do it. They are all noobs. I am surrounded by them. To my right; noobs. To my left; noobs. In front of me; noobs. Behind me; some jackass horde rogue trying to get me to flag PvP.

These people invite me to groups at random. They will attack the same mob I’m hitting to help me kill it, just to be helpful. These are obviously people who haven’t played the game before. That was clear when the first attacked Hogger, the elite, bane of Elwynn Forest. I watched him die. A second came, I laughed as he fell before Hogger’s might, 3 came at once hoping to overcome the beast and he cut them down as if some logger from the fiery depths of hell. And still I laughed. I tagged the demon with a Mind Blast, then Shadow Word: Pain. He ran at me but I turned and used my own shield, throwing on a Renew as well. A Warrior came from the side, stunning him momentarily as I readied another Mind Blast, the one that would send him to his grave. The great beast fell and I took the paw from off him, the forest was safe again, until the giant respawned.

As I came running back I saw the brute once again cutting a swath of destruction through the unwitting fools, and once more I laughed.

Given, I was probably enjoying their misery and death just a little too much, but I find it fascinating that so many of them seem completely unable to read the quests.

I answered one question a person had eight times. This is not an exaggeration, it is the real number. He wanted to know where the vineyard was. I told him. He asked again a few seconds later, and again I explained it to him. It took eight times to get the point across. Or rather, it took eight times before I scared him so much he didn’t dare ask again for fear I would actually disembowel him.

I guess what happened is our server is now the default new server for people just starting up, trial accounts or full accounts. To be honest, I’m kind of torn between which I like. The enjoyment I get from seeing the incomprehensibly stupid do utterly moronic things cannot be matched, but I may prefer going back to the empty wasteland then having all my mobs killed by pure luck from the infestation of inbreeding all around.

That’s just me though.

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