Random Acts of Kindness

[minerenginer]

When has that random 60 given you 10gold? stuff like that.
I was given a world enlarger and gnomish shrinkray by a 60 who was quiting engineering back in the day:laugh:

[Wes]

When i was leveling my first character on frostwhisper i got a lot of help from 2 friends that have been on it right from the start and had a couple of 60's

The day i hitted 60 my two friend decided to make a new start on a fresh server and gave me all their gold, items (boe) and whatever they had, as a Gratz-present, that was around 800g + some blues i could use on my rogue...

Sadly the convienced me tomove to them on the new server 2 weeks later, so never came around to spend the gold :-(

[Sacroth]

I got a stamina buff from a level 60 priest.

I was happy.


I don't like the concept of 'rushing', so I always turn down help from high levels.

[Schmaleop]

I've given out gold on occassion to low level players.
If they come up and ask me a general question like 'Where is the alchemy trainer?' for example or seem genuine enough and rather new then i tell them and usually trade with them and give 5 g.
If its a begger they just get ignored however.
I've been given a few random blues by higher levels when i started out aswell.
So i just carry on the generous trend.

[Mordiceius]

Being a UD priest, if I see alliance just doing quests in an area, I'll usually mind control, let them know I'm not hostile and then fort buff them. Unless they're a female night elf, I'll demand they dance for their life and then ask if they're really a girl or just a guy playing the character. If they are a guy, I kill them. :-D

[Wild Soul]

Not really high level, but I do leatherworking so I give out goodies (quivers, armor, etc.) all the time when working on my skill.

I also really do pass on items I don't need when grouping, even if they are green and/or would sell well on AH.

Also, if I pick up a nice item that is for another class when soloing, I usually just give it to the first member of that class I can find that is high enough to use it.

Oh, and I happily help anyone lower than me get somewhere as long as they ask nice. I'm a free escort service from the Crossroads to Thunder Bluff and Orgrimmar for low levels scared of being eaten:tongue: .

I have had people be really nice to me as well. I had some bad luck in a quest and three or four really high level guys(35-60) came off the road and run down to save my unlucky little butt (accidentally stood in the wrong place and aggroed around 7 creatures my own level(14-16) as they were re-spawning) so I did not die a horrid death.

And I have a great guild. Higher levels happily help me run through dungeons and such so I can get quests done. I know all guilds are supposed to do that, but still really nice of mine to make the effort.:heart:

[Taboma]

I play a Troll Mage on Agewynn server. Normally I play with a "If it's red it should be dead" mentality. However, if the alliance doesn't mess with me I won't mess with them if I am involved in quest/grind. Well, I was in the Swamp of Sorrows helping a guildmate & roomate out upping his lock picking on the sunken locked foot lockers. Well, being a herbalist, I popped the finder on and rode my raptor around gathering until he sent a party message for assist with 3 or more fishies that bite. So, I'm crusing along and see a female human mage/lock not sure getting tagged by 4 of those little dudes, unknown fishermen or whatever, and I see she's in her low 30's and dont see any help for her. Now, I am 60 so she'd be a cake walk for me but I am feeling generous and her toon pic is cute so I fireblast one and kill it and fireball another for her. She's in the clear now. Well, her little buddy Mr Human Paladin, lvl 34, feels froggy. Guess he was killed and ran back, rez'd and sees me there. He quickly tags me, Hammer of Justice I think.. yah.. so maybe a tad higher but still grey to me. Now here is where I wish we could talk to the other faction because I was helping!! So, I silence him and PoM a Pyro into his half-lifed rear and he dies. I turn to her and shake my head, mount up and walk away as she /salutes me. Ya know Mr Froggy tracks me and my guildy down and dang if he doesn't do it again... 3 sec later he's bones again. The female types /cry and /bow thinking I am now gonna burn her too. I dont, I just meander on and see her again about 30 later, pallyless, and in trouble so I kill 2 for her and again I get a /salute. Wish her pally buddy would have had her demeanor and not jumpped to conclusions. I like to help and thought I was being the "better man" by helping a PLAYER in need and not an Alliance who needed to die. Plus I felt better later in WSG frying 2 Paladins back to back. Plus handing out free minor mana/heal pots at Xroads always makes me feel better. :grin:

[rgirty]

When in a city I normally do a "first tell wins a *random item here*" i get a bunch of tells and mail it to the first one.

I dont' really know if the person needed it or not, or if someone who needed it missed it. Normally the items are between 1 and 5 G so no real issue either way.

[Cadineal]

someone quitting my old guild gave me all his traveller's backpacks and like 150g. I crapped my pants then proceeded to spend at least 40% on engineering and snazzy new gear.

[Twoflower]

when i was lvl 20 someone came to me and gave me 25 gold. I didnt get the time to thank him since he stoped playing or never came back online...

on the other hand, while leveling enchanting, i made all enchants for free, silly me :)

[HobJoe]

I always seem to be the sucker that hands out gold to lowbies. Had someone pst me asking for some earthroot. I explained in great detail why I (as a miner/skinner) would never in my life have that in my bag. And when I say great detail I mean I spent 15min explaining it to him, not because he didnt know but because I wanted to waste his time :) So after all that he then says " can I have some gold to buy some then?"
me:"lol"
him: "??"
me:"lmao"
him:"Well can you buy them and give them to me?"
me:"<-----still laughing"
him:"I dont get it?"
me:"not from me your not"
/ignore

Did i mention how much i hate beggers?

[Pleonast]

In my upper 40s, I was grinding near Loch Modan trying to complete my Calico set (just for fun). I was one piece short and asked in General if anyone had it. One person did, a lowbie priest, and I offered to buy it for several silver (well above vendor value).

As we had the trade window open, I realized the many low level greens I was going to disenchant might actually be useful to him. I gave him the choice of the money or one of a list of about 5 items that'd be useful for a priest. He picked a really nice green staff and was ever so happy...

[Naolin]

I get some random enchants once in a while, mostly enchanters that are leveling I guess :)

[Scrapples]

I just hit lvl 40 GM took away money on suspicion of Gold buying... I was just about to buy my 1st mount and bam logged on no gold got the email. So I typed /1 in Org and explained my story and the high war lord at the time sent me a tell saying check your mail. I checked it *300g* in the mail. :D I was pretty happy.

[Misskatonic]

I just hit lvl 40 GM took away money on suspicion of Gold buying... I was just about to buy my 1st mount and bam logged on no gold got the email.

Completely off topic, but why do the GM's keep doing this? :ponder: I've never seen any gold seller than I reported get banned, but all these random players that manage to save up some good cash seem to get busted down to nothing. Now I feel nervous about saving $$ for my epic mount :undecided:

[FodderCannoned]

I give away dark iron rifles to every hunter that needs one in my guild for free when they hit level 50.

[Scrapples]

Misskatonic- Little comprehension problems? please read the post again...

Regards

Scrapples

[Elly]

50 gold from a guy called Sausage to buy my mount.... 'think nothing of it' he said. I did think something of it though because you feel such a cad taking 50 gold for doing nothing. Of course this is at the same time as I was legging it up to the mount person to buy my beast:)

I've also had people make me nice daggers or buy stuff at the auction house for me. These are people I've just met chatting in town. This is usually after they've examined me, seen that I'm wearing poo gear and feel sorry for me (I'm assuming).

I prefer to remember these occasions rather than the times I run into complete tools.

[SadaraK]

Makes me feel rather unlucky reading all these acts of kindness :), Never had one myself as i was amoung the first on my server to hit 60 and have never lvl'ed an alt (yes, server start till now, no breaks, no alts :) ).

Though have done a few nice things for no particular reason in the past, like running a total stranger through WC when i was 60 just because i didn't have anything else to do.

One thing i do find (though it may just be my server), is its surprisingly hard to simply give stuff away sometimes. You randomly open a trade with some lowbie to give him a few green items u dont even need to de and i have had people say no, or been inundated with far to many questions :).

Oh, i once was inspecting a lvl 30 warrior in org and saw he was using some lvl 15 green chest, took pity on him and bought him a green one from ah that was closer to his level :). He proceeded to follow me round for days asking if i thought any of the rest of his gear needed updating :/, goes to show, becarefull who you are nice to :).

[SPIDERADE]

i was questing with a stranger fordrops in alterac and he had to leave sudenly, he was so much help and i was going to keep goining i offered to give him enough of my share of the drops so he could complete a quest, it would have taken bout 10 mins to replace what i gave him

next day there was 100g in the mail from him, saying it was for my first mount

[Illiana]

Hmm, let me think...

There was that time when I bought The Butcher for 50 silver in the auctionhouse (and it goes for much, much more due to people wanting to equip blues on their twinks). So I was pretty happy. Then the seller whispers me and said he made a mistake; buyout should have been 50 gold. He doesn't whine or ask for his item back or anything, but instead congratulates me on the bargain I got. I am so impressed with his behaviour I send back the Butcher to him for 50 silver COD. :grin: He wasvery happy!

Then there was the time that I was levelling up one of my alts, she was lvl 7 or something like that but already had five 16 slot bags. Then this random lvl 60 sees me, stops and proceeds to give me some 6 slot bags! I didnt have the heart to tell him I already had better, so I thanked him and later gave the bags to another low level.

[Calli]

While on my mage, priest or druid or druid I'm constantly throwing buffs on random passers-by as I run about my business. Maybe 20% bother to even acknowledge me. While on my priest or druid I often have to stop to dismount and cast heals on random strangers who have gotten WAY out of their depth and are about to die. As many as 30% never even bother to say "thanks", usually Hunters for some reason.

Last weekend I'm on my Warrior waiting for the boat to Auberdine when a lvl 32 warrior wanders over and stands waiting with me. As you do, I check out his gear and am horrified to see he's not only wearing greens that are several levels lower than optimal (that's pretty standard on a first-time toon, I guess) but he's wearing LEATHER! Soon as the boat arrives in Auberdine I take him to the Darnassus Auction House and spend 40g getting him decent gear. I just can't abide the idea of a warrior having to wear the junk he had equipped. So after more than doubling his armour rating, stamina and strength, how does he express his gratitude? He complains that his dodge and melee crit chance have gone down.

Still, every now and then someone reacts with such obvious happiness that it makes the reactions (or complete lack of reaction) of the smacktards worth it.

[yavvy]

With my level 7 Orc Rogue, I had found 6 linen and went to Orgrimmar to get a bag made. I saw a 60 Undead Priest wearing the Truefaith Vestments, and asked if she could make me a bag of the linen. She would, I just had to wait a little so she could get some thread she needed. When she came back, she made me the bag - and gave me a Journeymans Backpack as well. :grin:

[KalziEast]

I have dueled level 40+'s at level 10-30 and have gotten between 1 and 20g just because they were nice and liked how I had so much courage =P. I have also had people who randomly did nice things like "Hey, you need to go to SM Cath or something?" and stuff. =P The server definately was WAY nicer back a year+ ago.

[rabidstoat]

Someone enchanted my bracers for free in Stormwind, on my level 25-ish toon. I forget what type of enchantment it was, not top end, but decent. They ran off before I could thank them.

I sent them about 5-10 gold worth of high-level herbs from another alt, ones that would be useful for their leveling up in a few skill points, and thanked them for the enchantment. They used maybe a gold at most to enchant me up, so I made to sure to more than cover for it.

[Annael]

I make a habit of random acts of kindness. I love to give away bags to real low levels are they so appreciate it. However all acts of random kindess come with a condition - that the person does an act of kindess themselves sometime.

For example if it's a bag that they pass in one as I did.

[DevilMonkey]

My level 60 rogue was missing his Shadowcraft Shoulders, and after 37 runs I was getting fed up with the whole thing. When the cap on the instance was lowered to 5men I despared I would ever get them. I had done all the quests many months before and had done 33 ClassRaids to try and get the shoulders.

Needless to say I had Crusader on both weaps.

It was the weekend after 1.10 and I was in IF complaining about the lack of my set when someone from a high level raiding guild /w me. His BWL raid had been cancelled and he and 3 other guys in full tier 2 armour offered there services to get my item.

Needless to say we started at 10am, by 7pm I got my SC Shoulders. I paid the repair bill for each of the guys and thats all they wanted. Total of 7 runs.

CannonMaster... you got owned, over and over. And now I will never have to see you again

HURRAH

Darkmantle Spaulers FTW!

Silk

[inviso]

I end up mind controlling and buffing horde all the time, especially when I'm running around in a 30-40 area collecting herbs, fishing, and such. Makes me grin when I add almost 25% to a rogue's life.

I also often drop off a mount to help someone (horde or alliance) when they pull too many mobs and are about to die. By the same token, I'll go out of my way to buff/heal up a lvl 30 alliance that's getting worked by a 45+ horde and then decimate the silly horde (who shouldn't have been in darkshire in the first place...)

Nicest thing I've had happen to me is a leather crafter who not only refused money for the crafting of my devilsaur leather set for my rogue, but also used him own cured hide as the ones up on the AH at the time were crazy expensive. I didn't have much money at the time, but it was easily the most effective 100g I've ever spent on mats and without his encouragement, I may not have done it.

[DodgeBullets]

Well i was at the Ogri HA and some guy came to me and opened trade window (i thought "what are you going to give"), well he gave me 65G and 6 bags 16 slots and 6 warlords cards that i sold and made a about 200g selling them.........

And 5 min later another guy came to me and gave me more 55G and 14 bags of 14 slots.....

I become stupid and couldnt close my mouth lol... like the rogue SAP:shocked:

i forgot to mention that they both were all naked and probably quiting wow for good.....


ohhh this my first post here....:laugh:

[Scorch_Hellfire]

well one time i was on my 60 human lock and was getting bored with ab and such, so i went down to westfall for a while and helped low levels do vc a couple times... fun times there... :laugh:

[oramac]

as far as items go i dont really get or give any items, except to guildies. but ill assist virtually anyone out there. im a 49 pally and many times ive gone to solo "X" instance in horde territory and seen a few lower lvl horde getting their sh!t kicked in. generally i go over and help them kill em. also, hasnt happened yet, but if a really low lvl horde were to tag me in trisfal glades for instance, i'd prolly remove all my armor and weapons and let them have a free HK. i wouldnt just stand there, they'd take some damage, but i'd let them kill me.

[Jomwu]

My Shaman will often give shocks to mobs that are tough (or annoying) to others when passing. I also try to rez any fallen Horde members I come across.

[Ashoran]

Heh, when reading the thread title I cant help but imagine someone running up to another person and shouting "KINDNESS ATTACK!" in their face, then giving them a bunch of cash. Must be the lack of sleep.

When I was Lv50 I asked my raiding friend to help me kill Kroshius when he had time. He said yes, no time like the present. I was in Un'Goro and my Hearth was on cooldown, so he invited a Warlock from his guild to summon me. The Warlock then invited a Warrior to aid the summoning and everyone decided they was coming along. A Druid joined in the fun and I had suddenly gone from despair to rejoicing. I was not only going to take Kroshius down, but my 4 BWL equipped friends were coming with me. It was a turnaround indeed.

Kroshius died in 5 seconds or so and everyone laughed at the giant chicken. A few minutes of standing around smashing stuff with my newly earned Infernal led to them asking if I had gotten my troll feathers from ST yet.

Sure enough, 30 minutes later I had a brand new Scythe to decapitate anyone standing in the way of me and the power that I craved.

It was a pretty shocking revelation for me. I had always seen Epic geared raiders standing around Orgrimmar as some sort of mystical beast, not to be bothered by us mere mortals. They were on that higher plane that I can only dream of, disturbing them is just not done. They only conversed with the other Gods.

All of a sudden not only were they talking to me, but an entire group of them dedicated an hour of their time solely to me for no gain of their own. It was pretty amazing.

[KalziEast]

I've got a lot of guild friends that help me constantly with stuff like SC and stuff. We're going to MC now, so, SC is kind of crappy compared to it, but, yeah.

[Wotok]

I was at AH, minding my own business, when a low level came up to me and opened a trade window. He put some disenchant stuff in the trade window and told me I should give him x amount for it. He then hit the accept button, so I did too :) I told him he shouldn't spam ppl and ran out of AH to the mailbox.

As my random act of kindness, I offered to give his stuff back. After he said thanks, I mailed it to him for 60c cod.

[Calli]

:laugh: Wotok, you sir, are a WINNAAAR!

[KalziEast]

Lol, an easy 30c made =P.

[Imrei]

I was in mulgore on my Shaman delivering bags to my son's new character. He pointed out another Shaman who was seeming to ask a lot of questions to everyone. Everyone in the general channel was quite short with him (kinda normal unfortunatly...) and he was basically lost. My son had answered a few of them, but didn't know the awnswers to most of them. I tossed him a tell and spent the next hour explaining some of the basics of wow, how things work, and showing him a bit of getting quests, figuring out what to do next, and how to turn them in. I ended up also making him some 10 slot bags, and tossing him 5g as 'starter' cash... Turned out to be a younger player who had jsut gotten wow and was on his first character.....

Normally, I guess I am a bit concentrated in my own little world... It felt good to actually just be nice and help out someone who really appreciated it.

[KalziEast]

Imrei, you're one of the few that will actually answer questions to the new guys... I'm all for helping the people who JUST started WoW and even have invited a few to my (old) guilds. I mean, after a week of them asking in guild chat "What do I do when..." or "What do I do with..." etc... Still, I'm always glad to help someone who just got WoW.

[Baal]

I had some level 60 guy on Doomhammer run me through Ragefire Chasm. It was pretty nice of him. I needed to do two quests, and couldn't find anyone - and he just ran me through quickly - let me keep all the drops and everything. I asked if there was anything I could do for him - and he just said to remember it and do the same when I could help someone else.

I also like to do run-by buffs to lower level people - I just got my +20 Stamina spell. Bad thing i'm finding out is that low levels can't be targeted with higher buffs :\ I had kind of hoped to be able to go to low levels and beef up some new characters when I could.... but alas, I can only give them my crappy lower stamina buff which hardly seems worth it.

[Tarnop]

You still give them a higher level buff that a priest of their level would get (most of the time). Especially if you have talent points in it. Oh, and for hassle free driveby buffings: http://ui.worldofwar.net/ui.php?id=1011

[KalziEast]

Lol, I'm pretty sure back when the game was just about brand new (January area) people were able to give the +40 stam buff on level 1's. I'm pretty sure I got it once when I was around level 5, made a good 10 minutes without having to stop.

[Tikarra]

People are always trying to give me items. Not sure if any of it was any good but I always turn it down because I am stubborn and like to do things myself. Like If I am playing I won't let my fiance do something for me even if I am haveing a really hard time with it.

[Baal]

The other day I helped some guy escort that stupid elf from some hold to Rachet or whatever it's called. The quest is really annoying - I've tried it myself.

I came across some warlock trying it, and I ran ahead and cleared the way for him.

I don't think I'll ever get the quest for myself though

[snowieken]

Misskatonic- Little comprehension problems? please read the post again...

Regards

ScrapplesHuh? What's that supposed to mean? Where exactly did he/she misread your post? It's been a while ago, so did I miss anything? :azn:

And on a side note, if you were suspected of buying gold, even if it wasn't true, it's probably not too wise to accept a sum as big as 300 gold in the mail right after that. But that's just me, I guess.

[Linch]

I act as nice as I can especially to my guild members.

Low 40's needed help killing forzuk in arathi highlands, he was following the giant while I flew there.

when I was riding to him a 60 warrior killed the giant and started laughing at him and spitting.

Rode up dismount feared and downed the warrior.

Then found forzuk and killed him, then went to inner binding and killed a hunter that shot my guildy from a distance, killed the giant at inner bindings then on the way back to hammerfall (i was a bit in front) my guildy starts getting attacked by a 60 druid, so i rode back and dismantled the druid, took a little bit and had to chase him half way across AH but it was worth it.

I love ganking the gankers, and always will, I see it heaps in winterspring, 2 - 3 alli attacking (always) a less amount of horde, its good to ride in and turn the tide of battle.

[Naedea]

i forgot to mention that they both were all naked and probably quiting wow for good.....

Two characters on the same account

[moopy]

Well, last night's trade channel chat saw someone looking to give away some Beaststalker's bindings to a needy hunter. That's entirely praiseworthy, imho.

[KalziEast]

Moopy, I pretty much always give away Beaststalker's. Either I give it away or sell it for less than 1/2 of what the AH has been asking for in trade chat. Over 1/2 the time I see that same person selling it in the AH for a couple more gold than I sold it to them for and am sad to see it.

[Deathseeker]

I was always a lowbie, my best char atm is only a lvl 16 priest. Anyway, I can't really give out good items to anyone. What I do to compensate is I buff anyone I see and heal them if they're in a battle. I don't always get a thank you from them but it's still good knowing you helped in some way.