I had an interesting situation recently with my low level (about 16 or
so) Dwarf Hunter. I was bit tired of grinding so I thought I'd take
some time off and just grab some flight routes. My Hunter, by the way,
is poorly equipped but has a good pet. He doesn't normally melee
unless the mob is pretty beaten up so his equipment is not of prime
concern right now.

So anyway, I'm looking around where to go (I'm in the Westfall coast),
and after looking at the map, I thought I might try for Booty Bay. I
had never been there (in any form!) so I thought I would just give it a
swim down the coast. After a fairly uneventful swim (aren't the
Hunter's special abilities great!), I arrived at Booty Bay and
thankfully didn't get immediately ganked. So I pinged the hippo ride
and then wandered down to the docks to see where the ships could take
me.

I'm just minding my own business (trying to look as small as possible;
I was quite worried about the gankiness factor here) when this big high
level type comes up and stands next to me. He doesn't say anything for
awhile and then finally whispers "Is that one of your alt characters?"

My nervousness meter then went off-scale. "Um... maybe... why do you
ask?" thinking I'm about to make a whole bunch of graveyard runs.

He responds "Well, your equipment is so shabby that I thought I'd give
you some money to upgrade it."

Gotta love those "I'm gonna hook you up" stories.

I've been on both ends so I might as well elaborate.

My main is a 60 Dead lock. I was on trial for my first 20 levels so I
was running through tristfal and whatnot and along the way I went to
the crossroads as many people are want to do horde-side. While there I
made my way to Camp T for the first leg of the long "I wanna go to TB"
run. I ended up running into the 30-something elite 4some that wander
just south of camp t not knowing where I was going. Needless to say
they were ?? to me and I got my arse handed to me on a silver platter.
So I'm corpse running and a 60 rogue and another 60 lock were clearing
them out and the lock looks at my (mostly white with a few treasured
greens) and goes "Oh wow, you must be new" and I wasn't sure what he
ment, so he tried to trade with me and couldn't thanks to the trial and
says "Oh yeah, send me a tell when you upgrade because I've got some
stuff I'm just too lazy to DE and I'll tailor some things for you so
you can actually level". I upgraded and a few days later I sent him a
tell and immediately he was in UC trading me new bags, robes, a staff
that I had no clue how to train to use, He even helped me run through
WC on an alt so I could get some other gear. The only thing he asked me
was that when I hit the higher levels to help out other newbies when I
could.

So I did of course,

I was doing another WC run on a warrior alt (just so I could appreciate
the stance dance I guess) and our priest was brand new, first instance
run even. So, she had no clue what to do, how to do it, and fell in the
hole right before the instance twice before we even got into it. With
some helpful "ok watch my health, shield now, mind flay the caster"
whispers she kept us from wiping. So afterwards we started talking and
she thanked me. I took a second to look at her gear and saw she
definatly needed a hook up. Told her to wait in XR while I got my lock
(mid-40's by now) and whipped up some stuff. To wrap it up, we're still
really great friends and actually raid togeather all the time now that
we're both 60's.

It pays just to help people out, even if its just to clear out that
wool or light leather rotting in your bank :P

djarvinen@gmail.com wrote:
> I had an interesting situation recently with my low level (about 16 or
> so) Dwarf Hunter. I was bit tired of grinding so I thought I'd take
> some time off and just grab some flight routes. My Hunter, by the way,
> is poorly equipped but has a good pet. He doesn't normally melee
> unless the mob is pretty beaten up so his equipment is not of prime
> concern right now.
>
> So anyway, I'm looking around where to go (I'm in the Westfall coast),
> and after looking at the map, I thought I might try for Booty Bay. I
> had never been there (in any form!) so I thought I would just give it a
> swim down the coast. After a fairly uneventful swim (aren't the
> Hunter's special abilities great!), I arrived at Booty Bay and
> thankfully didn't get immediately ganked. So I pinged the hippo ride
> and then wandered down to the docks to see where the ships could take
> me.
>
> I'm just minding my own business (trying to look as small as possible;
> I was quite worried about the gankiness factor here) when this big high
> level type comes up and stands next to me. He doesn't say anything for
> awhile and then finally whispers "Is that one of your alt characters?"
>
> My nervousness meter then went off-scale. "Um... maybe... why do you
> ask?" thinking I'm about to make a whole bunch of graveyard runs.
>
> He responds "Well, your equipment is so shabby that I thought I'd give
> you some money to upgrade it."

Gotta love those "I'm gonna hook you up" stories.

I've been on both ends so I might as well elaborate.

My main is a 60 Dead lock. I was on trial for my first 20 levels so I
was running through tristfal and whatnot and along the way I went to
the crossroads as many people are want to do horde-side. While there I
made my way to Camp T for the first leg of the long "I wanna go to TB"
run. I ended up running into the 30-something elite 4some that wander
just south of camp t not knowing where I was going. Needless to say
they were ?? to me and I got my arse handed to me on a silver platter.
So I'm corpse running and a 60 rogue and another 60 lock were clearing
them out and the lock looks at my (mostly white with a few treasured
greens) and goes "Oh wow, you must be new" and I wasn't sure what he
ment, so he tried to trade with me and couldn't thanks to the trial and
says "Oh yeah, send me a tell when you upgrade because I've got some
stuff I'm just too lazy to DE and I'll tailor some things for you so
you can actually level". I upgraded and a few days later I sent him a
tell and immediately he was in UC trading me new bags, robes, a staff
that I had no clue how to train to use, He even helped me run through
WC on an alt so I could get some other gear. The only thing he asked me
was that when I hit the higher levels to help out other newbies when I
could.

So I did of course,

I was doing another WC run on a warrior alt (just so I could appreciate
the stance dance I guess) and our priest was brand new, first instance
run even. So, she had no clue what to do, how to do it, and fell in the
hole right before the instance twice before we even got into it. With
some helpful "ok watch my health, shield now, mind flay the caster"
whispers she kept us from wiping. So afterwards we started talking and
she thanked me. I took a second to look at her gear and saw she
definatly needed a hook up. Told her to wait in XR while I got my lock
(mid-40's by now) and whipped up some stuff. To wrap it up, we're still
really great friends and actually raid togeather all the time now that
we're both 60's.

It pays just to help people out, even if its just to clear out that
wool or light leather rotting in your bank :P

djarvinen@gmail.com wrote:
> I had an interesting situation recently with my low level (about 16 or
> so) Dwarf Hunter. I was bit tired of grinding so I thought I'd take
> some time off and just grab some flight routes. My Hunter, by the way,
> is poorly equipped but has a good pet. He doesn't normally melee
> unless the mob is pretty beaten up so his equipment is not of prime
> concern right now.
>
> So anyway, I'm looking around where to go (I'm in the Westfall coast),
> and after looking at the map, I thought I might try for Booty Bay. I
> had never been there (in any form!) so I thought I would just give it a
> swim down the coast. After a fairly uneventful swim (aren't the
> Hunter's special abilities great!), I arrived at Booty Bay and
> thankfully didn't get immediately ganked. So I pinged the hippo ride
> and then wandered down to the docks to see where the ships could take
> me.
>
> I'm just minding my own business (trying to look as small as possible;
> I was quite worried about the gankiness factor here) when this big high
> level type comes up and stands next to me. He doesn't say anything for
> awhile and then finally whispers "Is that one of your alt characters?"
>
> My nervousness meter then went off-scale. "Um... maybe... why do you
> ask?" thinking I'm about to make a whole bunch of graveyard runs.
>
> He responds "Well, your equipment is so shabby that I thought I'd give
> you some money to upgrade it."

Gotta love those "I'm gonna hook you up" stories.

I've been on both ends so I might as well elaborate.

My main is a 60 Dead lock. I was on trial for my first 20 levels so I
was running through tristfal and whatnot and along the way I went to
the crossroads as many people are want to do horde-side. While there I
made my way to Camp T for the first leg of the long "I wanna go to TB"
run. I ended up running into the 30-something elite 4some that wander
just south of camp t not knowing where I was going. Needless to say
they were ?? to me and I got my arse handed to me on a silver platter.
So I'm corpse running and a 60 rogue and another 60 lock were clearing
them out and the lock looks at my (mostly white with a few treasured
greens) and goes "Oh wow, you must be new" and I wasn't sure what he
ment, so he tried to trade with me and couldn't thanks to the trial and
says "Oh yeah, send me a tell when you upgrade because I've got some
stuff I'm just too lazy to DE and I'll tailor some things for you so
you can actually level". I upgraded and a few days later I sent him a
tell and immediately he was in UC trading me new bags, robes, a staff
that I had no clue how to train to use, He even helped me run through
WC on an alt so I could get some other gear. The only thing he asked me
was that when I hit the higher levels to help out other newbies when I
could.

So I did of course,

I was doing another WC run on a warrior alt (just so I could appreciate
the stance dance I guess) and our priest was brand new, first instance
run even. So, she had no clue what to do, how to do it, and fell in the
hole right before the instance twice before we even got into it. With
some helpful "ok watch my health, shield now, mind flay the caster"
whispers she kept us from wiping. So afterwards we started talking and
she thanked me. I took a second to look at her gear and saw she
definatly needed a hook up. Told her to wait in XR while I got my lock
(mid-40's by now) and whipped up some stuff. To wrap it up, we're still
really great friends and actually raid togeather all the time now that
we're both 60's.

It pays just to help people out, even if its just to clear out that
wool or light leather rotting in your bank :P

djarvinen@gmail.com wrote:
> I had an interesting situation recently with my low level (about 16 or
> so) Dwarf Hunter. I was bit tired of grinding so I thought I'd take
> some time off and just grab some flight routes. My Hunter, by the way,
> is poorly equipped but has a good pet. He doesn't normally melee
> unless the mob is pretty beaten up so his equipment is not of prime
> concern right now.
>
> So anyway, I'm looking around where to go (I'm in the Westfall coast),
> and after looking at the map, I thought I might try for Booty Bay. I
> had never been there (in any form!) so I thought I would just give it a
> swim down the coast. After a fairly uneventful swim (aren't the
> Hunter's special abilities great!), I arrived at Booty Bay and
> thankfully didn't get immediately ganked. So I pinged the hippo ride
> and then wandered down to the docks to see where the ships could take
> me.
>
> I'm just minding my own business (trying to look as small as possible;
> I was quite worried about the gankiness factor here) when this big high
> level type comes up and stands next to me. He doesn't say anything for
> awhile and then finally whispers "Is that one of your alt characters?"
>
> My nervousness meter then went off-scale. "Um... maybe... why do you
> ask?" thinking I'm about to make a whole bunch of graveyard runs.
>
> He responds "Well, your equipment is so shabby that I thought I'd give
> you some money to upgrade it."

Gotta love those "I'm gonna hook you up" stories.

I've been on both ends so I might as well elaborate.

My main is a 60 Dead lock. I was on trial for my first 20 levels so I
was running through tristfal and whatnot and along the way I went to
the crossroads as many people are want to do horde-side. While there I
made my way to Camp T for the first leg of the long "I wanna go to TB"
run. I ended up running into the 30-something elite 4some that wander
just south of camp t not knowing where I was going. Needless to say
they were ?? to me and I got my arse handed to me on a silver platter.
So I'm corpse running and a 60 rogue and another 60 lock were clearing
them out and the lock looks at my (mostly white with a few treasured
greens) and goes "Oh wow, you must be new" and I wasn't sure what he
ment, so he tried to trade with me and couldn't thanks to the trial and
says "Oh yeah, send me a tell when you upgrade because I've got some
stuff I'm just too lazy to DE and I'll tailor some things for you so
you can actually level". I upgraded and a few days later I sent him a
tell and immediately he was in UC trading me new bags, robes, a staff
that I had no clue how to train to use, He even helped me run through
WC on an alt so I could get some other gear. The only thing he asked me
was that when I hit the higher levels to help out other newbies when I
could.

So I did of course,

I was doing another WC run on a warrior alt (just so I could appreciate
the stance dance I guess) and our priest was brand new, first instance
run even. So, she had no clue what to do, how to do it, and fell in the
hole right before the instance twice before we even got into it. With
some helpful "ok watch my health, shield now, mind flay the caster"
whispers she kept us from wiping. So afterwards we started talking and
she thanked me. I took a second to look at her gear and saw she
definatly needed a hook up. Told her to wait in XR while I got my lock
(mid-40's by now) and whipped up some stuff. To wrap it up, we're still
really great friends and actually raid togeather all the time now that
we're both 60's.

It pays just to help people out, even if its just to clear out that
wool or light leather rotting in your bank :P

djarvinen@gmail.com wrote:
> I had an interesting situation recently with my low level (about 16 or
> so) Dwarf Hunter. I was bit tired of grinding so I thought I'd take
> some time off and just grab some flight routes. My Hunter, by the way,
> is poorly equipped but has a good pet. He doesn't normally melee
> unless the mob is pretty beaten up so his equipment is not of prime
> concern right now.
>
> So anyway, I'm looking around where to go (I'm in the Westfall coast),
> and after looking at the map, I thought I might try for Booty Bay. I
> had never been there (in any form!) so I thought I would just give it a
> swim down the coast. After a fairly uneventful swim (aren't the
> Hunter's special abilities great!), I arrived at Booty Bay and
> thankfully didn't get immediately ganked. So I pinged the hippo ride
> and then wandered down to the docks to see where the ships could take
> me.
>
> I'm just minding my own business (trying to look as small as possible;
> I was quite worried about the gankiness factor here) when this big high
> level type comes up and stands next to me. He doesn't say anything for
> awhile and then finally whispers "Is that one of your alt characters?"
>
> My nervousness meter then went off-scale. "Um... maybe... why do you
> ask?" thinking I'm about to make a whole bunch of graveyard runs.
>
> He responds "Well, your equipment is so shabby that I thought I'd give
> you some money to upgrade it."

Tip: You can't get "ganked" by your own faction. I'm assuming he was on
your faction because he whispered you.

Tip: You can't get "ganked" by your own faction. I'm assuming he was on
your faction because he whispered you.

Tip: You can't get "ganked" by your own faction. I'm assuming he was on
your faction because he whispered you.

Tip: You can't get "ganked" by your own faction. I'm assuming he was on
your faction because he whispered you.

john.ra@gmail.com wrote:
> Tip: You can't get "ganked" by your own faction. I'm assuming he was on
> your faction because he whispered you.

I suspect I may never get this right. This is from the World of
Warcraft page describing realms: "Sentence to Remember: On a Player vs.
Player realm, I may be attacked by other players everywhere at any
time, except in friendly (green) territories and in dungeons
(instances). "

So... wassup?

john.ra@gmail.com wrote:
> Tip: You can't get "ganked" by your own faction. I'm assuming he was on
> your faction because he whispered you.

I suspect I may never get this right. This is from the World of
Warcraft page describing realms: "Sentence to Remember: On a Player vs.
Player realm, I may be attacked by other players everywhere at any
time, except in friendly (green) territories and in dungeons
(instances). "

So... wassup?

john.ra@gmail.com wrote:
> Tip: You can't get "ganked" by your own faction. I'm assuming he was on
> your faction because he whispered you.

I suspect I may never get this right. This is from the World of
Warcraft page describing realms: "Sentence to Remember: On a Player vs.
Player realm, I may be attacked by other players everywhere at any
time, except in friendly (green) territories and in dungeons
(instances). "

So... wassup?