More the merrier on quest kills
by Mike Schramm 
Feb 6th 2007 at 10:35AM
I have to admit that the spawn camping has slowed down a lot since the expansion's release (mostly because I'm still hanging out around 66 when all the crazy people have made their way up to 70), but if I could send one message to all my fellow Hordies out there, it's this: if you're after a named kill (like Grillok 'Darkeye' here), and you see me or someone else sitting on the spawn point waiting with you, please, please, please invite us to group up and get the kill together.There's no reason we should fight on this one. On a collecting quest, where there are so many boar's jaws to go around, I understand it's every Orc for himself-- in that case, I'll usually move on to greener pastures. But if we're both here for just the kill, why would you refuse a member of your own faction? This one's in Mystic Worlds' helpful Outland tips, too: if you're both camping the same named, group up.
Of course, this only goes for factions. I'll steal a kill from any Alliance I see out there, and I just expect those smarmy Night Elves to do the same to me (and I'll take them out when they're halfway down for doing it, too). But if members of the same faction are going after the same kill (or kills) for a quest reward, people, let's just all get along.
Filed under: Horde, Alliance, Analysis / Opinion, Quests, The Burning Crusade
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Rayze Feb 6th 2007 10:47AM
I always try to group up with people at a boss or named elite kill...it benefits everyone, and it just plain makes sense to complete a quest with the least effort possible. Everyone wins!
atr Feb 6th 2007 10:46AM
I go one step further. Playing on a PvE server, if I get to a spawn point and the Horde are already waiting I'll /sit and let them take the kill first, as well as grouping with any Alliance (and encouraging them to let the Horde have a stab at the kill first).
Unless the Horde are PvP flagged of course. Then anything goes.
Gitr Feb 6th 2007 11:01AM
Amazingly, it is working correctly on Burning Legion (PvP). I think that even if we could group up with the other faction for a quest kill, we would, but that's it. Back to fighting after it's dead.
Timelimit Feb 6th 2007 11:07AM
Completely agree, if I see people ahnging around a spawn point for an elite I'll ask them wether they want to group. Unfortunaetly it seems to be about 50/50 as to wether they bother replying and then go on to try and solo that lvl 67 elite (and die!)
And being an alliance Druid (Ommkin Love) i'll glady give a little /wave and /sit if the horde were there first (i've been knwon to throw in a few moonfires and roots if the lil hordie's are in trouble...and have found them helping me out at times!). Of course we'er all more than happy to help eachother, we'er all aiming to play the game and beat those quests...but as stated earlier; if PVP is on, then the game changes completely ;)
Zuuler Feb 6th 2007 11:09AM
I usually at least try to kill named and elite mobs by myself before I go looking for a group to kill it.
Grillock there actually caused me problems. His 2 adds ignored my VW and came after me. I feared them and went after the kill. Had him down to almost dead when he turned towards me, as well as his adds. I died. This is where a big worked in my favor. His adds went running out the the cave, and grillock didn't reset. I ss rezzed and finished him off.
If I go to kill a named or elite and there are other horde there, I ask/offer an invite. Help is always appreciated. But if no one is around, I try to solo before looking for help. Killed one of the elite named naga in Zangarmarsh by myself. When I got to the other one, there was another lock and a shaman, who gave me an invite and helped.
Gnomercy Feb 6th 2007 11:11AM
agreed with the above.
If it's red it's dead, but otherwise, I'll help hordie and alliance alike.
I used to have a KOS thing with this one hordie. I have since met him in real life, and sadly can't build up enough grumpyness at him to bother anymore.
evan Feb 6th 2007 11:44AM
I was camping Grillok on my undead priest and an orc warrior ran up just as he respawned and charged in.. I whispered "invite for grillok quest" and he responded with "less xp". I then watched as his health got low and instinctively started to heal... maybe a second into the GH I decided to interrupt it and let him die. I got to kill Grillok starting with half health and no adds... brilliant!
BartmanDK Feb 6th 2007 1:56PM
On my server (Outland EU) there havent really been that much fighting over questmobs.. if there are a lot of horde waiting we almost always team up so we all get the kill..
But a funny thing happend last night.. I had a quest to kill an elite i Terokkar and i thought it would give it a try myself since it was a 66 elite and im 70.. So i get there try it out and die.. as i rez there are 2 allys trying to get him down so i think what the hell why not help em out.. So we get him down and the two of them actuly wait for him to spawn again, let me tag him and help me kill him so i got the quest too.. So its not all fighting on PvP servers! :D
Flit Feb 6th 2007 11:28AM
Sorry alliance, i've had too many jerks swipe my kills to /sit while I wait. I'll let hordies go first always or help (if they will group), but i've ran into too many jerk alliance to be polite anymore.
One quest was an event that caused 5 spawns, and a rogue waited for me to come over, caused the event, and disappeared for me to agg all the spawns. I got ganked instantly. So. Angry. Half of the alliance i've run into have been like this.
Laukidh Feb 6th 2007 11:59AM
I cleared the mobs near Darkeye's cave and sat to drink... Two fellow hordies came by, stopped and looked at me, then ran in and downed him, as I shouted "Wait!" at them...
/grumble
Heymish Feb 6th 2007 12:01PM
Personally, I try to play my rogue like a rogue. I get such a kick out of stealthing near a boss, waiting for another person or group to take out the spawning in lesser mobs, and hitting the boss with a cheapshot to steal them. I even did it so slyly once that the group around me didn't realize that I tapped it, helped me down the boss, and watched them swear at me as I sprinted away. I especially like doing it to Horde. Seeing them swear in another language is even more satisfying for some reason. But then again I am an ass. But I figure since I can't get people to group up with me very often since lvl 1, everyone wants mages and priests, I got used to soloing and saying F U to everyone else. Except my guildies, who are also asses. Monty's Marauders FTW!
Greg Feb 6th 2007 12:06PM
Horde or Alliance I always try and get the tag first, solo, I love the competition!
Kevin Feb 6th 2007 4:31PM
I had to deal with this while going after the blackrock champions as a mid-level. We were in a group of 3, and a group of 2 was right next to us, and wouldn't join up with us. Then because we are both going after different people, we aggroed 10 guys and all 5 of us got killed.
mnology Feb 6th 2007 3:49PM
I'm not sure but I think I was actually healed by an Alli dr00d(as a Troll Sham) last night during the bird avatar event in Shattrath. I didn't really see any horde around but, I was getting healed.
A dwarf hunter was there too and helped me out as I was trying to solo it. So I stuck around and helped them with the DPS.
multikast Feb 6th 2007 4:54PM
I had this happen to me just the other day. 3 of us were grouped and there were 2 more waiting for the same spawn. i asked to group up and got no response. they were grouped too because i tried inviting them to our group. once it spawned, the warrior got the first hit. after it was dead, he proceeded to say 'lol lol lol! We win!' after that i lost any respect for that particular person as he appeared to be one of the '12 yr olds' based on his immaturity.
Tracy Feb 7th 2007 12:23AM
Got no problem with teaming up for kill all I ask is that I'm not sent a blind invite. Send me a blind invite & you'll get turned down 99% of the time. I recently had some guy get all p!$$y with me because I turned down his blind invite, never mind the fact that I was 2 hits away from killing the quest kill when he sent it.
A little courtesy goes a long way. Besides even Blizzard reminds us in the load screen tips that blind invites are rude.