by Allison Robert 
Sep 30th 2009 at 8:00PM
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Reader Comments (Page 5 of 12)
yarf Sep 30th 2009 10:20PM
I've never been good at making money on the AH and things. However while raiding Naxx (in Wrath) I didn't have an epic flyer to get back to the instance, so I would have to slow everyone down while they waited on me.
A friend then gave me 3500 gold, the rest I needed for epic flying, under condition I pay him back 3800. It was fair, I paid him back about 2 weeks later.
I passed that favor on by loaning 2000 to a guildie. Granted I do expect 2500 back. But considering he gives me mats for flasks and fish feasts, I won't complain overly much if he just gives me the 2k.
My husband gave me enough to get my DK flying as a birthday present as well.
I've had priests ask for advice on how to up their healing or dps, which is something I don't mind at all.
In regards to helping lowbies? While farming low level enchanting mats for an alt, and running RFC for greens, or even raising my unarmed skill or mace skill, I would take 4 lowbies, mass pull RFC, and just bubble, heal, smack smack smack.
I like helping people out, but I am the kind of person who, if asked for 5 gold to help someone get their mount, I laugh and tell them to go out and do a few quests.
Things like that is too easy to get money for. Even flying at level 60, if you sell your boe's on the AH and vendor greys and stuff you will make enough on your own.
Though as I'm levelling some alts using Refer a Friend, I'll pay peoples' repair bills for running us through instances... and then some.
When most people tip 1-2g for alchemy mixtures or tailoring to me, when I need something made, I tip 10-20g or more depending.
I had someone cut a gem for me. Simple cut. However I xmuted the wrong gem, and they stood and waited while I hearthed, bought the gem i needed with badges, and came back. Tipped 50g because they waited.
Overall I try to be nice. :)
Calo Sep 30th 2009 10:27PM
I remember back when I started playing (WoW was my first MMORPG), I was amazed by the kindness and attitude of the people in WoW. Random buffs and heals would be thrown at me, people helping me out on random quests. Coming from counterstrike an improvement is not that hard, but still! One player even went out of his way for hours to help me do some quests for me that he had done ages ago.
Nyenna Sep 30th 2009 10:36PM
im on a time out from wow atm but i do remember a couple of times i have been helped out by buddies in real life as well as those that i have made in game, such as the usual helping me power level or loaning me some g.
but there was this one time that blew me off my feet. i was in HP trying to get the achievement of doing a certain number of quests in that area and needed only one more to get it. i found a quest giver for a hellfire citadel dungeon quest where you had to kill a certain number of titled goons. i accidentally understood it as a ramparts quest and asked if there were any rampart runs. we managed to make a group and as we ran through it i started to realize that the goons i was supposed to be hunting were not around. i did what any normal player would do in my situation.
i typed /cry.
the rogue in our party asked what was up and i told him about my pursuit for the achievement and about the quest i had to achieve it. as it turns out, it was a shattered halls run. i felt totally bummed because one, i had no idea where that was, two, you needed a key to get in, and three, i think its supposed to be a raid? not sure, and im still not sure because this is what happened.
after we finished the ramparts run, the rogue asked me to hang on for a sec and said he will be back. a lil later i get a whisper from another toon saying he was the rogue earlier and told me he was going to help. low and behold, the rogue was his alt and in its stead an awesome lvl 80 tank specced pally was helping me out.
the pally showed us the "magical" way to get into the shattered halls, ran us through the entire thing, helped me finish the quest and thus obtain the achievement, and even let me keep an awesome legs plate armor drop from the last boss.
this was already around three in the morning!
coincidentally my main is a pally tank as well and he ended up becoming my pally "mentor" so to speak and has helped me since then whenever i bugged him.
i have a couple of more stories of being helped out by this particular guy and a lot of others that i could share another time. i know there are a lot of rude and obnoxious people on wow that have more than once had me considering to stop pugging but its awesome people like the one i shared among many more (like those from my guild, SHOUT OUT!) that keeps me pugging and enjoying.
wolfdyne Sep 30th 2009 10:37PM
Also, I never gank lowbies and I'm a Horde. I tend to help those that are new to the game. When it comes to people's alt toon, I'm not as quick with my charity. I was running through Arathi Highland and there was 3 ally lowbie helping each other quest. When I rode up to them, they sort of dispersed and ran off in different directions. I was only going to ride though and not disturb them but my being there caused them to lose their focus. Moments later, somebody announced over General chat that they were going to gank the three allys I saw earlier. The guy that was going to gank the allys was asking people if they had seen them so I said, 'YES', the 3 allys are over here and we teamed up. I led him around in circle until he finally got fed up. I don't know why did it but it just makes me feel bad to see lowbies try their hardest to kill off mobs and somebody runs up and kill them. Some hour later, I logged back on and I saw all three of the allys corpses strewn across the road near the ogre encampment to the south. I knew they weren't killed by an Ogre since they died on the road. I knew it was an 80 that ganked them.
erknost Oct 1st 2009 2:40PM
Terrible, terrible history.
Vandar Sep 30th 2009 10:48PM
Sometimes when I get bored or could use some good karma, I will go out to Westfall. I put the word out in General chat that I will give the first two people to send me a tell a free Deadmines run. Of course I always get a bazillion tells so I try to help multiple groups. And why only 2 ppl? I give them the deluxe treatment and give them rides to the instance on my mammoth :) Sometimes they try to pay me for my services. I tell them to pay it forward and do something kind for someone else someday.
TweakyDig Sep 30th 2009 11:03PM
Wow, these stories are so touching! I wish I had enough gold to help someone get their flying mount or something. :) I think I might take an hour or two this evening, jump on my main, and run some lowbies through RFC or SFK. :D
Dawnforge Sep 30th 2009 11:04PM
I've been lucky to play on a server full of generous, lovely people. Case in point:
I rolled a warlock alt, later in BC and was levelling her. At the time the server had a serious gold farmer problem, so the greens I could have used were selling for about 50g for a level 20 chestpiece. If I didn't get the drops I wanted/needed, I was SOL because my main was on a different server so I didn't have the cash. I ended up falling in with this group of people who often instanced together, and they took me along a lot — they weren't my guildies or anything, just my friends. One night, they told me to bring my 'lock to UC, and set about crafting her gear upgrades and giving her enchants.
of Moon Guard US Horde, Adries misses you.
As for my own personal good deeds — yesterday, actually =P
I was poking around in an instance when someone piped up in one of my channels that his rogue had freshly hit 80 / returned to the game. His name seemed familiar and I realized that my guildmaster had mentioned being friends with him some time ago. They used to be guildies before each of them had a fallout with their former guild. I told him to send my GL a tell when he got home and we'd drag him through heroics, etc. When my GL got home, he talked to his old friend, gave him a few BOE upgrades from the gbank, and put together a Direbrew group in secret using his rogue alt. We got the Tankard, which he promptly handed over to his friend. Tonight I'm dragging him through a heroic zerg.
How I met my GL? I was up late one night, and in the same channel this level 40 paladin asked if anyone would be willing to take him to the alliance cities to get their fires (it was during Midsummer). Not actually doing anything else, I shrugged and agreed and set off to Darnassus with this stranger. He died to guards a lot. I accidentally pulled the fishing trainer. We laughed our asses off. He saw I was unguilded, and asked if he could ginvite me so that his paladin alt could be in the guild as well. I agreed. He promised to take me to Naxxramas sometime. He continued to level his paladin, raided with me on his rogue, and we became fast friends.
He carried me through Naxxramas and replaced half my gear in one night. When he saw I was still (STILL!) rocking a Shard of the Virtuous from Karazhan at level 80, he called in all of his friends to get a Titansteel Guardian made for me on the spot. He's one of the most generous people I've ever met in game and out.
He's also now my boyfriend. :D
Grimsblood Sep 30th 2009 11:12PM
I must say this is actually the first wow.com blog that i've bothered to post on. Respect to you all of you who have done nice things.
As for myself, i made a habit of doing nice things for people back when i played more (part time atm lol), and still get random whispers from people that i dont know, and sometimes i feel like i've boosted half of my server through SM on either an alt or a main. Thats my 2cent, keep it up guyz. =D
obeliskdtormentor Sep 30th 2009 11:07PM
I use to be that person that gave gold and helped out and crafted items for other players. Until those very players became a thorn in my side. Gold for this i just transfered. Gold for repair. Gold for mount. Gold cause im broke.
Last time i checked there no faction bail out for players. If i work hard for the money, then you work hard for your money.
Its hard out here for a gnome PIMP. and his alts (hoes)
Athinah Sep 30th 2009 11:09PM
I've been playing since a year into BC, so i've had plenty of time to get my epic flyer, well, I got my BF his first since he had been playing longer (and he dislikes farming) then after i got my own, i got my guildies there epic mounts. Then after our guild fell apart and i was on a new server in a new guild, i helped 5 or so with there epic flyers before the cost was lowered and there wasn't as many dailies. so i've gotten about 10 or more there epic flyers, not encluding my own
Wulftracker Sep 30th 2009 11:10PM
I created an anonymous alt on my realm, and occasionally have my main run Stockades to gather items. I'll also hit the AH for low priced pouches and bags.
Then my anonymous gift giver goes to start areas and gives out presents to all the non guild affiliated new toons. When times are good he may also give out 2-5 gold in those areas to new players to help them get equipped.
I love doing this, as its as fun as passing out presents from under the tree to little kids at Christmas.
New players (and old who aren't used to generosity in WoW) are thrilled and really let you know how nice it is.. and it just feels good.
Taivor Sep 30th 2009 11:10PM
After I transferred to Windrunner, my new guild quickly helped me hit 70 and then suprised me by paying for my reg flying mount. They followed up with "now fly your a$$ up to H Mech with us LOL!" (BC days). Since then, anytime we get a new player I do instance runs for them and reward them at, now 60, their first flying mount. I just ask them to please pay it forward as I have. Still in the same guild btw...
Dazaras Sep 30th 2009 11:10PM
Once, I was in Westfall on my paladin. I don't remember what I was doing there, but I was whispered by a level 13 priest who needed some help with some quests.
Her gear was mostly whites, greys and a few greens, but what stuck out to me was the lack of a wand.
Now, I still have nightmares about my futile attempts at a priest, which generally involved wanding things to death since it did more damage then my spells.
So after helping with the quests I hopped onto my enchanter and grabbed one of the Greater Magic Wands I had lying around my bank from leveling my skill. Then I thought, why not go all out, so I switched over to my tailor and made a bunch of 12 slot bags (the biggest I could make at the time) and all the best gear I could make for a level 13.
It's not much, but I hope I made the world a little bit of a better place to live in.
Dazaras Sep 30th 2009 11:22PM
Oh, another good story:
Verigan's Fist
Look it up, any old-school Alliance Pally can tell you what it is. It's a Pally specific weapon you get from a long class quest chain at level 20. It's also easily the best weapon in the game at level 20 (or at least it used to be).
As I was trying to make my way through the chain, I came across two more level 20 (ish) pallys and a high-40s hunter (whose main was a pally main) also doing it. They spotted me and recognized what I was doing and invited me to join them. Thanks to them I got that uber-weapon at level 21 and kept it till my mid-to-late 30s.
Dazaras Sep 30th 2009 11:33PM
Oh, another good one.
I made and mailed a bunch of my guildies Steam Tonks last Christmas.
Mastastic Sep 30th 2009 11:26PM
Two months ago I was leveling a new alt. My main makes his fair share of gold so I rarely have to worry about money. I met up with another rogue (the alt I was leveling was a rogue) and we were doing quests. He commented on the heirlooms I had and my swords. He told me he was saving up to get some new armor but that it was difficult because he was trying to level his professions at the same time. I checked his gear and he was wearing some of the gear you get at level 4 (we were near our 20's). I gave him 200 gold on the spot for gear and for his mount/profession/whatever. I always try to find who can use my extra gold as its always good to pay it forward.
Mastastic Sep 30th 2009 11:35PM
I almost forgot to tell the story of when someone helped me way back in vanilla WoW.
I was leveling my new druid on Azgalor and came across some world PvP on the road with cliffs on both sides outside of Auberdine. I remember cat stealthing down to the fight and the Horde Druid with friend won out. He mentioned that I should probably run away and I declined saying that its a PvP server...I'm here for this. He asked if I knew anyone on the server and I said no, which he then asked if I would like to join his guild. I agreed on the spot as I was really missing having that social aspect of the game. He got me in and it turned out to be one of my greatest experiences in WoW. I didn't know it at the time but I was lucky enough to join one of the most respected guilds on the server...our raids weren't great but our people were.
Wah Fuls do it best.
Drago Dracini Sep 30th 2009 11:34PM
I have something like this. I play on a PVP server and when I was... oh lemme see, like, 64 or something there was a quest in Hellfire that I needed to do, but I was a very bad warlock and was garbage, a group of allies were doing the same quest, saw me die and rez a few times, then just when i started the next quest, they let me tag the elite mob and helped me kill it. That was always a good memory.
Mr. Tastix Sep 30th 2009 11:38PM
I personally like giving lowbies gold. The last "good" thing I done was give a guy some gold so he could get Artisan Riding Training. Getting 5000g for it took me goddamn ages so I know how it feels.
I've given some low-levels 100-200g before. They seriously don't know wtf to do with themselves. I know I didn't when I was lucky enough to be given that much.