Nightmare Mode Camp: TLPD

[Schwert]

Long tl;dr rant and story! Beware! Ohhhh goodness beware!
Mayhaps a warning story of sorts to those who think it'll be an easy camp.

This started a month and a halfish ago. July 28th to be exact.
It'd be impossible to remember why I decided to start camping but my motive is obvious. I'm a mount collector at heart.

I had known about Time-Lost for a while but didn't go after him because I knew it'd be a time sink however...I began to read stories about other peoples camps. Week, Month, Week, 3 days, Week, 2 weeks, Month, Week. It didn't seem nearly as bad as it was back in Wrath. Besides, these people who seemingly took a month weren't camping more than 6-8 hours a day.
As the jobless loner that I am I knew I could put some major hours in and walk out of Stormpeaks in a decent amount of time and some knowledge on camping under my belt.

I was dead wrong.

From day 1 of my camp I should have realized something was going to go horribly wrong.
A hunter came by and stacked on me. He began asking questions and I answered them linking the general websites to give him a hand. Besides, the more the merrier right? Nope.

This idiot begins to spurr at me to get off his spot and began to lay traps on me for hours. Not even guild mates rushing to me and counter-stacking could get this guy to leave.

Turns out a month later it was some guy who in a sexist rage barred me from ever participating in RBG's again because Fury Warriors are completely unable to out-do arms in any sort of PvP envoirment. [[This is what I'm told. The sexist actions? Right to my face. Another story for another time...]]

So, eventually after a few days he leaves me alone. I'm back to normal with stackers coming by every day to every other day. I begin to make friends with another hardcore camper and we would laugh off the daily "GTFO" and "UR STUPID FOR WASTING UR TIME ON DIZ" people that seemed all too common for me.

2 weeks have passed by this point and I'm getting frustrated from seeing nothing but Vyragosa's. I grumble because I need my VP cap for the week so I que up DPS solo and get into a group in which the tank degrades me for not being arms. ((Dead serious. Should have capped this stuff.))

After pulling 19k on Ozumat to shove it up his I get whispers from my fellow friend that TLPD had spawned right ontop of her. At least it wasn't from my spot and she was finally getting hers. We had a deal prior that if it spawned we would roll to see who would kill it.
I lost.
She killed and looted it.

It wasn't too bad of a blow since I knew mine was going to be coming.
I was wrong.

Another couple of weeks pass and we've got two more campers.
One wasn't even at max level and continued to stack on others from time to time. The other? He played fair. He deserved it...but more on that later.

My guild at this point was getting pretty ticked at me for the sheer amount of time I was putting in and the fact I wasn't running dungeons with them anymore. The sheer amount of people landing on me cursing, insulting me and telling me I was never going to get it had caused me to break down. I listened to a friend tell me to take a break and I flew off my spot to go check mail in stormwind.

I began to get whisper after whisper of "GRATS" and "OMG FINALLY".
It had spawned at Ulduar and was killed at the multi-path spot seconds away from Frozen Lake, where I had been camping. The person who stacked complained about how his mount was taken from him since he took my spot literally a minute or so after I had left.

I was in tears. So many people thought I was the one who got it because at this point I was pulling 16 hour camps and it was only seconds from where I had been camping.
I flew back over to see proof of the kill and there it was.

Not a huge deal. I can keep trying.

Time passes once again and the stackers and douchebags continue. By now I was starting to get people spamming duel requests for upwards of an hour but I didn't move from my spot. I was told to never move so I didn't.

I go to bed and wake up in the morning to find out the stacker ended up getting his at the spot I usually camped only a few hours before I woke up.
I was livid. Absolutely depressed as well. How could somebody so disrespectful get it so quickly?

I once again sucked it up with false pride and sat myself back down.

That's when the real drama started.

I had begun to consider faction changing my main to horde side. An officer of mine mistook me for saying I was going to do it right away and left the guild to make his own. With her the other officer left along with 80% of our guild. There was no way to repair. In a mere hour my guild had fallen apart to a misunderstanding and there I was sitting at the Waterfall spawn only to have Vyragosa go "HEY SUP." in my face.

I raged. I literally couldn't believe the sheer irony of the timing and the fact that if mayhaps I hadn't been camping for so long this wouldn't have happened. My gut felt like it was in a knot and I thought maybe karma would smile at me because of the crap I had gone through.

This was around the 1 month mark.

I wake back up the next morning to find out the other camper had gotten his an hour before I logged in.

I was devastated. Here I was, the last of the original 4 who had been up there the longest...without anything to prove aside from countless Vyragosa kills and stories upon stories of stackers and tickets upon tickets of harassment files.

I wanted to quit but the sheer amount of time I have put in so far...
I don't know if I want to.

I had parked myself at Frozen Lake overnight only to be woken up at 5am by a stacker spamming presence changes at me. He literally said to my face "I am going to steal it from you".
10 minutes later he's still on me. Vyragosa comes swifting around the bend and I lag out.
I lost the kill because I couldn't even move due to the lag.
The brat has the decency to shove it in my face and because he had done no "cursing" the GM's wouldn't do a thing about it.

This kid is still out "camping" and stacking on people. I've moved from Frozen Lake due to the sheer amount of harassment I've gotten from the spot to Ulduar but it feels hopeless now.

I've been told I've missed 3 more Time-Losts during the course of all this but I have no idea if the claims are real or not. So I could have missed upwards to 7 in this period of time.

I've been pulling 24 hour camps now for the past few days with only a single Vyra spawn ontop of me. My friend who is now helping me and putting the exact same hours in hasn't seen anything.

I just don't know if I can continue doing this. I've left out a lot of details as to what the stackers and greifers were doing exactly but needless to say each other put me into a state of anxiety and it just keeps getting worse with each passing day.

I keep reading stories about people getting theirs in a week or two and the people who got it in a month or so seem to think I'm lying when I say the harassment was happening on almost a daily basis.

It just honestly feels like I'm not gonna win and I've lost all the support I have aside from that one person...and I feel like I"m using them since they state if it spawns on them I can have it.

I don't know what to do.

Tl;dr: Lost up to 7 Drakes in a month, get nothing but greifers on a bi-daily basis, feel like crap like whoa, need hugs

[Nili]

*great big giant hugs*
You have my support, don't give up and don't let the assholes get to you <3

[Schwert]

I'm really trying not to.
There's just way too many of them on this server.

We finally got a Vyragosa confirmed ((right ontop of my friend)) this morning so I can finally take a shower and do a dungeon. It's a huge sigh of relief.
We hadn't seen anything for 2 days.

[meepitco]

Just keep taking it day in, day out.

It's one of my original banners, but I'll make a new one for TLPD campers.

[Schwert]

Haha. He's so derpy~

The fact I haven't seen any stackers for the past two days at Ulduar makes me feel better. That combined with the support you guys just gave makes me feel like...going to bed!
Because I can do that! No stackers! Ha, I love you Ulduar.

/crazyrant

[Zhuge]

hey hun!

So sorry to hear your awful story

The only thing I can tell you is don't give up (I know I know everyone says this!) but I was out there since March (!!) and I just got mine around 2 weeks ago. In fact, I've spent that much time out there I havent done any dailies for the MF except the ones to open the portal that I did this last week, and I've only just tamed some of the new rares

7 TLPDs in a month seems alot tbh! If he's spawning that regular on ur server I wouldn't panic On KT EU we saw a timelost evey 3 weeks or so at max (there was a mage who camped with me and he did the 24/7 thing even after a Vyra spawn). Overall since I started I've seen 2 from FL, 1 from Ulduar and 2 from Brunn.

So chin up! Report them stackers and keep going - let them have the best spots, they will get bored - my stacker did!

GL!

[Nili]

<3

[Schwert]

hey hun!

So sorry to hear your awful story

The only thing I can tell you is don't give up (I know I know everyone says this!) but I was out there since March (!!) and I just got mine around 2 weeks ago. In fact, I've spent that much time out there I havent done any dailies for the MF except the ones to open the portal that I did this last week, and I've only just tamed some of the new rares

7 TLPDs in a month seems alot tbh! If he's spawning that regular on ur server I wouldn't panic On KT EU we saw a timelost evey 3 weeks or so at max (there was a mage who camped with me and he did the 24/7 thing even after a Vyra spawn). Overall since I started I've seen 2 from FL, 1 from Ulduar and 2 from Brunn.

So chin up! Report them stackers and keep going - let them have the best spots, they will get bored - my stacker did!

GL!

Haha. The thing is if we have Waterfall and Ulduar 24/7 the best spot is no longer the best. It's the same as the others.

I kind of doubt it was 7 spawns because people do lie to me about stuff but 4 is still a huge number. Why I'm kind of "meh" about camping right now. The chances of another spawning soon is kind of...shudder worthy.

And major grats on getting yours AND your new pets.
Now, if only Warriors could RIDE Skarr.
Oh yes...best mount...

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All the good luck tokens are so cute~
; _ ;

[Atalanta]

I know your anxiety very well, believe me. My server is full of them on the Alliance side. You can't stay airborne because they'll just teabag you, even there. In fact last week (I left this out of my thread....) a Night Elf Warrior came over to me, flying TLPD and /spit, /rofl at me. I don't know what kind of enjoyment people like that get from doing such things, but whatever.

If you stick to being dedicated and determined, it'll be yours someday. Your terrible luck will turn around, I'm hoping for you.

[Schwert]

I know your anxiety very well, believe me. My server is full of them on the Alliance side. You can't stay airborne because they'll just teabag you, even there. In fact last week (I left this out of my thread....) a Night Elf Warrior came over to me, flying TLPD and /spit, /rofl at me. I don't know what kind of enjoyment people like that get from doing such things, but whatever.

If you stick to being dedicated and determined, it'll be yours someday. Your terrible luck will turn around, I'm hoping for you.

Aurgh. I swear. I left the Alliance on my server because people were acting like that...to other Alliance members.
((I was also getting into trouble with some of the raiding guilds and didn't want to put up with them treating me like crap anymore. Different story. > >))

Teabagging isn't something I've seen. That's actually kind of weird and honestly makes the person doing it look like the stupid one.

[Loki]

I feel your pain. I spent maybe 40 days in Storm Peaks (between 27th July and early last week, with one week's break), at least 6 hours a day, generally 10 hours, a fair few times 16 hours or more. I dropped Vyragosa 17 times and had Time Lost spawn 30 mins after I left, spawn while I was camping but at another spot, and before that camp I had logged in over his dead body and seen his corpse maybe 4 other times. Two days before I was going to curb camping to a minimum he popped at Waterfall and I narrowly beat a Horde to him. After killing those Vyragosa it certainly felt like I had wasted all that time but to finally down him was a great feeling. Hopefully you will get him soon

EDIT: I had resolved to not let it stop me from going out so I didn't go insane, so I missed a couple more days while I was doing other stuff. Despite this I downed a fair few Vyragosa (two per day on multiple occasions).

[Wassa]

'ello Kraai. I've seen you a few times in Storm Peaks as I do my tournament dailies. Good luck on getting Time-Lost! *hug*

[Britany]

I am so sorry. I believe you entirely - my server does not have as many douchebags, but I went through something similar for Time Lost, and now for Aeonaxx. While it only took me 2 days to get TLPD, I'm on Day 34 of my camp for Aeonaxx, and my friend's been camping TLPD almost as long as you have.

So, here's what happened:
There was this bot. He was on his level 76 alt camping Time Lost, after he'd gotten his first TLPD in a grand total of 5 hours. He had begun to stack my friend who was having the same issues as you - he kept narrowly missing out on his TLPD.

So, my friend tried talking to the bot. The anti afker ended up being extremely rude. This friend had politely pointed out that botting was against the rules and that he didn't really think it was fair for other campers. My friend serves in the army as a medic, so the bot said "army personnel whining about me anti afking, hope you don't mind blown off arms and legs in the field." among other various rude statements.

This harassment went on for a while, so we both filed tickets, and he got a slap on the wrist. He ended up getting his TLPD last weekend. He was level 76 or something. Sadly, he leveled to 82 so he could go camp Aeonaxx in Deepholm. I was doing actual camping in the forest for a few days while he was out there. Aeonaxx spawned. Now the bot has both TLPD and Aeo because his keyboard did the camping for him and he's camping Poseidus now.

So, I've been camping Aeonaxx for a while and it's frustrating to see people like that get those mounts. I'm sorry you have gone through so much. He'll be waiting for you next time. <3

[Schwert]

I would have constantly reported that person. Non-stop.
That's beyond offensive and botting ontop of it too?

I'll admit I've done no-no's and used anti-afk but I'm right at the computer or mere seconds away from it but that's beyond ridiculous.

It also upsets me somebody so low level could /kill/ the thing. I'd laugh if the botter died and he flopped his way infront of an actual campers. The sheer joy from that...
Just. Bad people get too much good stuff.

[Britany]

I don't like the idea of botting. It doesn't seem rewarding to me, like you put no effort into the camp.

Yeah, I was hoping he'd die. He even tried to use a method that would target, loot and kill TLPD if it spawned while he was in school but it failed and somehow he ended up in Zul'Drak and I think he may have leveled up to 78 to ensure he could kill the Time Lost while there.

Also, WTF. I just checked his armory to see if he got Poseidus...he didn't, but he got the White Hawkstrider today after 3 runs. Such bullshit.

[Schwert]

What the hell? THAT is against the ToS right there.

I'm only using a macro every 15 minutes so I don't log out so I can get some sleep for once and apparently that's not a bannable offense? ((GM's state that clicking a macro isn't a huge deal because keyboards and mice come built in with timers for that. I read up on it before I even considered it seriously.))

That right there is beyond botting and I'd consider him to be using a hack. I don't think it's actually possible to set up a macro to kill and loot Time-Lost without there being some serious fowl play involved.

Kids like that tend to quit after a while so he won't be a-hatting it up for long. I guarantee this. He'll get bored.

[meepitco]

White Hawkstrider in 3 runs. I'm sorry, but that's complete BS. Unless he won it when farming with someone else, there is nowhere near possible explanation to explain that....I say weird things...

[Schwert]

I don't know.

I got my White Polar bear in my 2nd dailies bag. It's plausible to have that kind of "luck". It just should never come to people like that.

[Schwert]

Vyragosa spawned last night ontop of me but that's all we're really seeing.

We're getting some really nasty spawn time gaps or they're literally spawning at FL/Brun non-stop.

[Britany]

Wow, that botter got raven lord today too. WTF.