Nightmare Mode Camp: TLPD
Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2011 8:26 am
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
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
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.
