Tipping for Ports: Apparently I've Been Doing It Wrong

[Brut]

We're not at blue amount of plat yet, so I wouldn't go by those standards. 50p is a lot of money at this point when most of server can't kill a hill giant yet.

[M.J.]

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

We're not at blue amount of plat yet, so I wouldn't go by those standards. 50p is a lot of money at this point when most of server can't kill a hill giant yet.

I'd say there are two things that make me still tip in the 20-40 range for just about any porters time:

first, there are no Clarity spells besides bard songs. When I'm in a rush or the druid went OOM porting in, I have had to let druids click my manastone to get on the way in under 5 mins (the lower level they are the more time it takes them to med), and I wouldn't offer to a wizard unless I had time to bandaid them up some, as they have no regen / health back to help them top off.

second, there are more than a few camps and quests that put out decent plat from 9-15. and there are plenty of desirable items from zones like black burrow and crushbone that you can offer in trade for ports as druids have alts too - including things like cb belts / df belts / cb pads / cuttthroat rings.

Things that don't have much value on blue, have value here and are in demand. I'd also say that early on there were plenty of exp focused druids that weren't making money hand over fist and plenty of slower levelers like myself that prioritized platinum / research word camps had plat to throw around that people hunting animals / cheapskate mobs didn't. So it was a trade off. Which still doesn't help the poor that need ports, but shopping around for a druid in the mood to help, while not being a terrible human being, will resolve that. As will running while soliciting tells everytime you approach a druid / wizzy port in.