Did I overreact?
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 2:45 am
Alright. So this story involves four people; me, my best friend and longtime WoW player whom I will dub "N", a new WoW player whom I recently recruited who will be known as "R", and another person whom I have known for a long time and I will refer to as "C".
R is new to the game; he played computer games for a long while, but they were mostly FPSes and RPGs - this is his first big MMO. After much deliberating and checking out all the different race/class combos, he decided on a Draenei Hunter, much to my delight. So I start a little Shaman, and N decides to tag along with a friend of his, and they both make draenei as well. Once they're about level 12, C comes in and offers to run us all through Deadmines to level 20.
Now, C is notorious for being somewhat of a d-bag. There have been times when he's been perfectly nice and even bought me gifts for my birthday/Christmas. And there have been times when he is bent on pissing as many people as possible off. I figured this was one of the former, so we accepted quickly and were rushed off to Deadmines.
Once we get to the ship, I notice something white lying on the ground after C has made his way through the first patch of mobs. I realize it's the Brilliant Macaw, but too late, and give R a heads-up that it might pop up again. He is thrilled; he is already keen on pets and he doesn't even have a mount yet! I ask C if he could refrain from killing another if he sees it, to which he replies with an ominous "Well I don't really look at what I kill". I try to set my worries aside and we continue with the run.
Come our third run, we come back to Ironclad Cove and sure enough, Megawing is flapping around at the final spawn point. C aggros it, but doesn't kill it - he threatens to if R doesn't get there in time. R rushes over as I yell at C over the VOIP we use. R gets there, starts taming, and I start to relax -
But then the bird falls dead, and C gives a little giggle. I proceed to rage at him for killing it, stating that not only is it a rare spawn, but R was really excited about it and really wanted it. C replies with "It's not that big a deal, it's not that rare, whatever man jeez" and then we all fall silent for awhile.
I talk to N about it awhile afterwards, as he was in on the run, and he said that I might have overreacted a bit, but also that C was wrong to kill it.
TL;DR Being run through a dungeon, runner kills a rarespawn that new WoW player wants to tame, cue intense rage from me.
Was I wrong to rage, or did he deserve to be yelled at?
R is new to the game; he played computer games for a long while, but they were mostly FPSes and RPGs - this is his first big MMO. After much deliberating and checking out all the different race/class combos, he decided on a Draenei Hunter, much to my delight. So I start a little Shaman, and N decides to tag along with a friend of his, and they both make draenei as well. Once they're about level 12, C comes in and offers to run us all through Deadmines to level 20.
Now, C is notorious for being somewhat of a d-bag. There have been times when he's been perfectly nice and even bought me gifts for my birthday/Christmas. And there have been times when he is bent on pissing as many people as possible off. I figured this was one of the former, so we accepted quickly and were rushed off to Deadmines.
Once we get to the ship, I notice something white lying on the ground after C has made his way through the first patch of mobs. I realize it's the Brilliant Macaw, but too late, and give R a heads-up that it might pop up again. He is thrilled; he is already keen on pets and he doesn't even have a mount yet! I ask C if he could refrain from killing another if he sees it, to which he replies with an ominous "Well I don't really look at what I kill". I try to set my worries aside and we continue with the run.
Come our third run, we come back to Ironclad Cove and sure enough, Megawing is flapping around at the final spawn point. C aggros it, but doesn't kill it - he threatens to if R doesn't get there in time. R rushes over as I yell at C over the VOIP we use. R gets there, starts taming, and I start to relax -
But then the bird falls dead, and C gives a little giggle. I proceed to rage at him for killing it, stating that not only is it a rare spawn, but R was really excited about it and really wanted it. C replies with "It's not that big a deal, it's not that rare, whatever man jeez" and then we all fall silent for awhile.
I talk to N about it awhile afterwards, as he was in on the run, and he said that I might have overreacted a bit, but also that C was wrong to kill it.
TL;DR Being run through a dungeon, runner kills a rarespawn that new WoW player wants to tame, cue intense rage from me.
Was I wrong to rage, or did he deserve to be yelled at?