Breakfast Topic: Fun with campers
by Jennie Lees 
Apr 6th 2006 at 7:00AM
The humble camper is a life-form frequently encountered amongst the many zones -- often found in great numbers
throughout high-level areas in particular. By sticking to one particular spot based on a number of factors -- primarily
aiming to harvest particular drops for fun and profit -- campers cause high-level questers a lot of trouble. I've had numerous encounters with level 60 campers who decide that pulling every mob in the area, all at once, is a good tactic to maximise drops -- indeed it is, but when there are other players there waiting to complete a quest, it's not a particularly nice tactic. Of course, on PvP servers you can add ganking into the equation, making it often more fun for the would-be quester to give up rather than waste several hours on one quest.
Have you had bad camping experiences? Any tips to deal with those who just refuse to budge? Or are you a camper, and willing to defend your stance?
Asking politely is one way to deal with campers, but it only gets you so far -- nowhere, when it comes to the opposite faction. Irritating them so that they'll give up is another tactic that I've seen employed, but can't bring myself to try. Ultimately, there isn't much you can do to stop people camping, especially when they ignore you -- but don't dismiss them all as gold farmers without a second glance. Some may be questers just like you.
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, WoW Social Conventions, Breakfast Topics
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Max Apr 6th 2006 8:03AM
I suppose i could be class'd as a camper at times, quite often I'll stay in Whelcar's excation site, for hour on end. The skining there is great and the Dino's respawn quickly, but if some 1 comes along i'll stop and wait for them to get what they need or help them out.
OK it's not the same as if your loking for the big drop, but I like to think i'do the same then as well.
jer Apr 6th 2006 4:49PM
I just can't stand when I'm doing the blackrock orc quests in redridge and the keep is swarmed with level 50-55's looking for some drop and offering to "help you out". SO obnoxious. Yeah, sure man, go ahead and nerf my xp on this quest, and yeah, lets all listen to the one jerk in the party who wants to make it a raid so we can include the camper, who cares if we can't even complete our quest.
That said, I totally hit Skull Rock outside Oggrimmar when I need some copper and just blast through the mobs there. I specifically avoid killing the boss though (also, most of the mobs don't even attack me so I'm mostly just stealing the copper...)