Etiquette in Blackburrow...?!

[Teako]

Any chance of you guys not spamming every single thread in the *blue* forums with Red banter? We get it, you have nobody to play with. I'm sorry.

[veejur]

To the original poster: there are a lot of really cool people on this server and you'll meet more of them as you continue to level. Unfortunately, it seems that the pre-level 30 zones are where it is most common to see people do stuff like this. My recommendation would be to leave Blackburrow and get an orc group in East Commonlands.

1. Ask in ooc "I'm a new character to the server trying to get to commonlands, would anyone out there mind helping me with a discounted port so I can get there?".

2. When you get to the commonlands, run to freeport and use ooc to ask for a bind.

3. Go to the EC tunnel and ask for buffs politely from the crowd via say. It may take a little bit but the main thing is to ask politely and not demand or use grammar that makes you sound like a moron - you'll get ignored.

4. Solo stuff around the dunes (run to tunnel if the air elemental aggros) or get in an orc group. You can ooc "Level 8 rogue LFG for orcs" or whatever your level is. This group will get you at least to level 12.

5. Go back to butcherblock and take the boat to Kunark. Read up on how to run through Firiona Vie, Swamp of No Hope, and then to Field of Bone to get to Kurn's Tower.

6. Get a group or solo skeletons from level 12 to 20 in Kurns. It has one of the best ZEM in the game at that level and you'll find many of the iksars seem to be less douchy and will like having a rogue as a groupmate since you're not an iksar class they can choose.

These are just suggestions to get you to 20 where the game starts to open up a little bit. It seems like many rich folks are in such a rush to level they pay to get power leveled or exploit quests like the gnoll fangs in ways that assume noone else on the server exists. Ignore these people, they are the ones who quickly get identified as tools later on in the game as they get called out for either playing their character like shit in groups, or pulling jack moves with loot or their guilds.

[skipdog]

Just find a camp in BB and hold it. If they are stealing your mobs, petition them. Petition them once, calmy.

I don't see why this is so hard. Use the rules we already have in place.

[Lojik]

To be honest, I agree with you OP. I personally think it's pretty dumb to be in BB at all after level 10. Whenever I made a new toon I would frequent BB and hunt there until level 7 or 8 and then bounce, turn in fangs and get to whatever level 10,11, 12. However there are no rules against being dumb or people camping things that are really not ideal for them. If all the spawns in BB are taken and you can't really hunt there, I really recommend leaving that area, it's just not worth it. Lots of people stick around the EC area and you should be able to get groups, or get buffed by high levels and kill some stuff in EC/NRO.

[Wudan]

reroll Iksar and you will not have to deal with lame softskin problems. Enjoy FoB/Kurns and be the boss!

[Swish]

Originally Posted by skipdog [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Just find a camp in BB and hold it. If they are stealing your mobs, petition them. Petition them once, calmy.

I don't see why this is so hard. Use the rules we already have in place.

Rule lawyering to this extreme is often lost on new players... and rightly so, it's shitty to have to go down that route.

[odiecat99]

Next time this hapoens pm me and I will deliver swift justice

[Buns]

I agree... I recently spent levels 8 - 12 there on my Enchanter. I leveled there over about a week. During that entire week, there was a dark elf who was camping outside BB every time I logged on. He was anonymous, but conned red to me the entire time (even when I was 12). He always had it camped. Inside it was impossible to find kills because people in their late teens were camping all the greens. The only place I had luck was the four mobs that spawn in Everfrost.

It's really frustrating because if you roll a character in Qeynos, it's really the only place to exp from 8 to low teens, but finding kills is impossible because there are so many uber twinked level 20s farming gnoll fangs despite it not being that great of exp for them. Since they're twinked, they should solo somewhere else since untwinked characters don't have that option.

I definitely don't remember it being like this in classic. In fact, BB was always dead on Tunare.

[Velerin]

the problem is the exp is just too high on those fangs. Those level 20s are doing it because its actually still real damn good exp. Hell its still noticeable exp in your 40s here.

[Kayso]

Originally Posted by Velerin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

the problem is the exp is just too high on those fangs. Those level 20s are doing it because its actually still real damn good exp. Hell its still noticeable exp in your 40s here.

Petition harassment-sure. Complaining about people level 20+ in BB-whiner.

The actually shitty thing about BB is all the people you see doing it wrong. Generally speaking, you should never be the right level for elites and commanders solo. You should either be ~ level 12 sitting on 350-500 fangs, or you should be the fuck out of BB.