Wildstar Launch Thread - Server: Stormtalon | Faction: Dominion

OUAriakas_sl said:

Onoes, my awesome/funny post is more of a story from when I briefly played EQ back in the days right after launch.

I was a barbarian warrior with no guild playing around with this "new" MMO thing. Around

level 20 I went to Highpass Hold and heard about the most amazing weapon for warriors called the Polished Granite Tomahawk. It was the first weapon that I had heard of that had a beneficial effect and was soloable; all it took was the patience to camp the gnoll spawns for the named to appear.

I camped those gnolls for around 30 hours over a few days (which seemed like forever to me) and finally decided to log off for the night and just move on without the famed PGT. The next afternoon I logged in and who was standing in front of me but Grenix Mucktail, the keeper of the axe. I immediately engaged and at about 75% health a few more people jumped in the fight. When he went down and started the telltale EQ sparkle that meant I got to loot I typed "FUCK YEA" in general chat and looted my precious weapon. I had done it!

About 5 seconds later I started getting blasted by PMs from about 20 different people. Apparently a rather large guild was camping the gnolls to get one of thier new warriors the axe and had been at it for around 12 hours straight. They were not happy that I had gotten the kill and to make matters worse I had missed a letter in my general chat exclamation and instead it read "FUCK YA." The guild leader PM'd me that such disrespect was not looked upon kindly and that their new goal was to make my experience a living hell.

I tried to explain my side, but they were having none of it. For three days their level 60 members followed me around stealing my mob kills and training enemies to me. I thought I'd never be able to enjoy the game again. On the fourth day I went into Qeynos and PM'd the guild leader that if he called his guys off that I would give the PGT to that warrior in person. They agreed and I started the trek to Highpass Hold for the exchange.

Making that trip was hard. I was angry that I had to give up this magical loot that I'd worked so hard for; but it was either that or seemingly never get to enjoy EQ again. I briefly considered just not handing it over and starting a new character, but it just seemed wrong to do that to this asshole guild flexing their roster muscle.

I zone into Highpass Hold and was about to message them that I've arrived when I get a PM from the raid leader. He says that they just had two Grenix Mucktail spawns in the last 10 minutes and that they don't need my PGT anymore. He says to keep it but not to ever disrespect his guild ever again. It was the best message I'd ever recieved in my short MMO life. I don't think I'd be playing MMO's now if I would have had to give up my hard won loot or had a guild harass me until I quit playing.

Hopefully this was completely boring.

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