Anon - What's the point?

[nalkin]

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

Camp something like the Ishva for 8 hours straight, and then right before it spawns have someone come in and sit on the spawn point.

Would you feel slighted?

Roll down to Ishva a minute before it spawns and jack the kill from someone who wasted 8 hours sitting there. How awesome would you feel?

[Szeth]

I felt awesome, but Nestor was mad as hell.

[Daldaen]

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

play a druid, you'll be wrong

He isn't wrong. I sit in ECommons quite often as a druid high enough to have the best buffs for our class. I still only get mabye 5-6 different people sending me tells asking for buffs, ports, or PLs. Occasionally if I buffed one person they send multiple tells and come back to refresh DS and such.

It isn't that bad really.

[Autotune]

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

He isn't wrong. I sit in ECommons quite often as a druid high enough to have the best buffs for our class. I still only get mabye 5-6 different people sending me tells asking for buffs, ports, or PLs. Occasionally if I buffed one person they send multiple tells and come back to refresh DS and such.

It isn't that bad really.

I played a druid from around jan-mar 2010 and i always got flooded with port and buff tells when i wasn't /role or /anon.

I haven't played once since, but i imagined it would be similar. I suppose the lower end population has pretty much died out tho compared to then

[Kassel]

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

I felt awesome, but Nestor was mad as hell.

I dont recall ever getting jacked, i recall 12 kills and no robe tho!

On my druid i am always /role as I would get flooded with requests for ports, i dislike saying no when i am busy so i would rather avoid the question.

[Szeth]

I was wondering how long until you ruined my false bravado.

I wouldn't play you like that brohemoth.

[Flunklesnarkin]

purposes of anon that i can think of

don't want people to know where you are? (maybe power raiding multiple zones.. don't want to give up tod?)

or don't want to get spammed for rez/port/group?

believe it or not some people will just invite anybody in their level range

[Atmas]

On my wiz I have had random people send me tells when I was in PoSky asking if I could come to OT and port them to Gfay.

People go anon to avoid getting asked for ports/rezes/buffs/plat and to avoid tipping off guilds they are in competition with what mobs are up.

[Brad_mo123]

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

I considered putting this in Rants and Flames because people who put Anon on annoy me. But I'm also curious if there is truly a legitimate reason to do this. Are you hiding your class? Are you hiding the zone you are in? I find it so incredibly annoying to do a /who all zonename only to show up and and there are several anon high level players killing everything in sight. I don't care that they are there killing non exp giving mobs. I just care that I took the time to travel to the zone because I thought it was empty and find out that it's being camped by a few high levels.

What is annoying is people being so nosey that this actually bothers them. The main reasons for me is that with 10 minutes of not being anon / roleplay I get a million tells asking me this or that when it can 9 out of 10 times be googled. I figured it out on my own why cant others, I really dont mind helping people but there are way too many beggers on this server and being bombarded with so many tells in a short period is ridiculous. Another reason is that I am in a raiding guild so being roleplay is required to hide what we are doing incase a raid mob pops. No matter the reason really everyone on this server holds a right to play how they want under the rules of the server and if the reason they are anon just to be an ass it doesnt matter, they have a right to it, get over it.

[feste]

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

"Hey do you got any rogue weps I can have" "hey you will drag my group out of the crypt even tho you are grouped and on the opposite side of the zone" these are the 2 most common tells I get as a rogue when I'm not anon..... Going anon just saves me the time of having to type "hell no" every 5 minutes

who the hell asks for weapons and gear. I've always thought of begging as weird. I mean if anyone wanted to give their stuff away to clear bank space or whatever they could figure out someone to give it to in a few minutes. although I digress.