yea I have had people come up to my camp, while i am in combat, and open a trade window with a few pp expecting me to buff them...not asking, nothing.
other times I have been trained by someone so desperate for their buff that the endangered or killed my group (again not asking, I would have said don't come)
I could come up with hundreds of examples of this, so yea I understand the attitude of reluctance to buff.
Now my 'credo' in game has been to depend on the group/guild I am with. I won't /ooc looking for xyz nor will I send a tell to a stranger asking for something.
This is not to say I don't appreciate random buffs, and also I will spend time and energy randomly buffing people when the mood stikes.
Personally, if I am in a group adventuring somewhere and random soandso sends me a tell asking for xyz, I just ignore it.
Back to the original topic -to me a good player of whatever class has room in a group, back in classic/live wizards often filled the important roll of evac/snare where dungeon groups needed 4 basic things -tank, healer, crowd control and snare. On this version the snare isn't required so wiz are even less needed.
A few wizards really shined back in classic, and would never hesitate to invite them to a group.
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