Topic says it all really.

Ok so heres the story... I come from an RP realm (let the flames begin) joining a guild that centres itself around RP doesn't care if you have epics, doesn't care what level you are. Just so long if you abide by the server rules, and enjoy storytelling etc, that sorta thing, you are welcomed with open arms. (that doesnt mean we all wear robes and try to do impressions of Gandalf)

On Moonglade our guild is somewhat respected for its RP, and being a guild officer, i have to deal with a lot of requests from people to join.

A few months ago i was in STV using the neutral action house, and i recieved a whisper from someone "please cn you help me with some quests" usually i'd just tell people i'm busy, or ignore them, but he actually made the effort to spell the word "please" instead of "plz" or the ever confusing "pl0x"

So off i went, with a lvl 34 Human Warrior, and helped this fella out with a few of his red quests.. We chatted a little whilst we played, and it came to my attention that this wasn't a very old player, as he kept on having to go "becuase dad neds 2 chek the emall" he also clearly had no idea how to play, kept on pointing at random objects and saying "coooooooooool!!", and by the state of his outfit, it looked like he hit mach 2 and collided with a Dorthy Perkins store.

Anyhoo.. After a few quests, i really had to go, he was a very polite kid unlike most that play, and actually said "thank you very much" instead of "thx" but then he started asking if he could join my guild.. Now i don't wanna sound big headed, but that sort of player isn't suited for an RP guild.. Atleast not the one i'm in.. Its like a fury spec warrior wearing all green items, asking to be main tank in an MC run.. Its just a big no no.

So not to hurt his feelings, i just told him we were full at the moment, he didn't mind, and bounced off into the sunset, again thanking me.

Over the course of the next few weeks, i would recieve messages from him, just random stuff of his progress, the occasional "ding! lvl 50 :D" he wasn't one of these annoying people that you help once, and then they seem to think you're some sort of xp vendor for the remainder of there leveling process.

A few days ago i was in SW checking the AH, and some people were flaming some poor guy in the trade channel about selling an item for a high price... Afteri while i realised it was this kid that i helped out so long ago.. I didn't want to get involved and just let the flaming die down, but these idiots on the AH were just being really nasty to the poor kid, sure i know they probably didn't know his age, but still, you should be aware of that when playing games like this.

Anyway, a few hours later, i get a message from this kid "i got kicked from my guild :(" i tried to cheer him up, but it wasn't happening.. And to be honest i couldnt be arsed trying, and i was tired and logged off.

So yesterday i log on, and say my usual hellos to everyone, and go to the mailbox.. When i get there, i see this kid sitting next to the mailbox, no guild tag, people bouncing around him having fun.. And theres him, all alone, no-one paying attention to a "noob".. Now i know human race facial expressions never change, but as far as avatars go, this one looked really depressed.

So i message him asking if hes cool, and he tells me hes thinking about quitting, becuase he gets bullied alot at school, and his ex guild mates all said really horrible things to him, and that he knew some of the kids in reality, becuase they go to his school, and are beggining to bully him in school about how he plays WoW etc. We all remember how it was.. I remember i used to get bullied in school for not having any toys, or having an old version of a toy.. Imagine it now, you get bullied about it at home AND school too.

Now this kid had got himself to lvl 62 under his own steam, where as the kids that were giving him a hard time, were all about level 20 and spent the majority of there time in Goldshire asking people to raid Crossroads.

So what did i do? I took the kid shopping is what i did... Bought him his epic (ground) mount, a load of nice armour off AH, which i made sure was well colour co-ordinated AND gave him very nice stats for his level. Bought him 2 very nice rare axes (fotgotten the name) and got a guild mate to put +15 agility on each one.

I also bought him a host of accessories, fun stuff, like a mana wyrm, somedeviate delights, an Orb of deception.. yunno.. all the "coooooool" stuff.

Then i invited him to an outing to Goldshire with 6 other guild friends, to casually walk past these bullies who kicked him from the guild. I then RPed the role that he was a great warrior, and saved me from some horrific fight etc etc blah blah.. The bullies then started to flame him in general chat about "noob" things hes done, so i told them hes one of the best PVPers i have ever met, and he won his epic mount from a bet, by defeating the most powerful PVP player on our realm (whoever that is.... sorry! hehe).

After a while, these kids started to change there attitude, and actually began to beg for him to rejoin there guild.. But i told him not to.. Instead, i helped him make his own guild, i bought his tabard, helped him with his spelling etc. And also helped him recruit enough members to get his charter registered.

Fast forward to today, and i get a mail from this kid.. Except its not the kid, its his Dad, thanking me.. He said i quote

"Dear Falcore

I want to thank you for helping my son in this game, he's been so excited for days about the new things you bought him, hes also been having a tough time in school latley, and we agreed we would get him this game as an escape, although latley its turned into nothing more than another source of bullying and abuse.

Thanks to you the little chaps smiling again.

Once again, lots of thanks!"

Now all of this cost me a total of 1600g-ish. Money that i was saving for my epic flying mount... But i tell ya, putting a smile on a bullied kids face like that is worth more than every epic in the game.

Moral of the story? Helping makes you feel happy, flaming just makes you an *!*@*#%.

It's almost like you're Blizzard and the kid was Ezra!

Hehe think what ya want..

I did good :)

That post made me smile.

If i knew the outcome of spending all that would be good and had the money it would be totally worth doing the deed =]

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Q u o t e:
It's almost like you're Blizzard and the kid was Ezra!

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The whole Ezra thing was mainly a PR stunt (yes, the people at blizzard obviously felt sorry for him, but without any publication of this it would have never happened).

I find this story far more altruistic =]

To be tottally honest, after i made the guild for the kid, and after buying all those items, and after giving him his "street cred" back, he just logged off and didn't even say thanks..

Which actually pissed me off to no end, and i was cursing about him to friends..

But then i got that message from his dad, and it made me smile..

But i didnt wanna put that part in the story.. Becuase apparntly i have a really smell epeen :P

This thread made me smile irl. Thanks, Falcore :)

something nice to read before i go to bed :)

If you were standing in front of me atm I would give you a big fat hug, thats is an AWESOME thing to do.


Reminds me of something I have done(Dont wanna hijack your thread but imma post it anyway)

There was this dude, asking in SW for cash. Now normally I tend dislike beggars but this guy didnt go GOLD PLOX!!1!111SHIFTELEVEN!!!

He was very bad at english, what he asked me was:

"hello mister please can you give me silver coin 34? very please? sorry english bad, I am italian person but want sword from auctioneer but silver I have is 22 only is not enough but sword is good so I want but money I dont have please"

Yes that was what he wrote, he was a level 37 gome warrior, and he was wearing WHITE equip, yes, all white equip, not a single green on the poor sob.

I felt quite sorry for him, but communicating with him was hard, luckily one guy one my friendlist was a dude in this italian guild(Knights of italia or whatever) So I asked him to join my group and play translator.

So, after a good 15 minutes of seeing italian text flying around my screen combined with smilies I see a guild tag under said warrior's name.

The guy had to log but the gnome now was super happy, it was as if he forgot about his sword.

The guy also taught me some italian prahses as "follow" "stay" "attack" and such(Wich I already forgot by now-.-) As I was planning to take him to SM with me.

And so I did, boosted him trough SM a few times, almost got the whole Scarlet set for him+beserker helm and Herods shoulder, on the final run trough Armory Ravager dropped.(bought some greens for the remaing slots, rings etc)

At this point I think the dude had an orgasm or something, he (offcourse) got the axe and went balistic, he equipped it and jumped around like an little bouncing ball spamming ythe /ty command on me.

I also bougt him some plate blue's for in the lv 45+ range(As the SM set will serve a warrior well into that lv range)

He was EXTREMELY happy, and making him happy, made me happy.

I recieved a mail from him in very broken english:

"Dear mister

Thank you now I have guild and items very powerfull so strong I am now I am happy so happy you are very good person for me I pay you for you being nice one day I swear someday i pay you ok? thank you thank you you nice person."

A good few months later I recieved another mail from the guy:

"I promise to you I pay back, now I level 60 and pay you back! I always keep promise I that kind of person here is gold for you for helping please accept, I will not take back, you must accept or else you insult me!!!" (I think his guildies helped him with his english a bit.

[40 Gold]

I wanted to give it back, really I did, but since he said he would be insulted I did not.

I chatted some more with my friend in the same guild, turns out that when he started to learn the basics of the game he evolved into quite the tank. And he even became their MT.

I really am not the person who likes to gloat and swell his pride by telling his good deeds but this made me very happy.

anyway, you rule :)

You reminded me of someone who was really helpful to me when I was a total noob 2 years ago.
I was a level 8 hunter and got lost in Durotar and ended up in the barrens, a level 24 troll hunter found me and told me that I was going the wrong way, and how I should use my hearthstone to get back to my questing area. He then gave me bags, a few money and wished me good luck, I thank that person even that I don't remember his name.

Every time I see someone that's totally new to the game or to the server and willing to be helpful, I help them to the MAX. I think I've given away over 50 bags to lowbies since I joined Scarshield Legion, helping people brings a smile to both you and the person you're helping. Also, it makes use of all that cloth I have on my alts.

And god knows how many times I helped one of the above posters (Cierra (Terak)), we're still good friends :D

/praise Falcore :)

I guess we all remember that kinda stuff...I remember when I'd just started with 2 of my irl friends on this game..We had a coupla lowbie hordie characters, and were all hopeless noobs. And someone gave us a WHOLE FREAKING GOLD!

We were rich, I tell you :P

I've also helped out newbies (mostly on my Druid though), but nothing on par with this.

/bow Falcore.

You put a great fat smile on my face this friday morning, Falcore :-)

Thank you :-)




-Starchie