Greedy Wizards and Druids

[RipVanFish]

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

Druids and wizards are worthless and they should be grateful they can provide a free service to the rest of us load bearers

LOL, it’s savage, but also kinda true.

[Freakish]

What does a lvl 9 need ports for? Go explore, do an adventure learning zones you've never walked through before. There's content between druid rings believe me.

[Madae]

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

What does a lvl 9 need ports for? Go explore, do an adventure learning zones you've never walked through before. There's content between druid rings believe me.

Can't speak for everyone, obviously, but some people prefer playing some of the Antonican races and then leveling in Faydwer, like Crushbone for example. I tend to leave Befallen or other places around levels 10-11 to go to Unrest.

[baakss]

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

Can't speak for everyone, obviously, but some people prefer playing some of the Antonican races and then leveling in Faydwer, like Crushbone for example. I tend to leave Befallen or other places around levels 10-11 to go to Unrest.

But mooooooom! I wanna level theeeeeere! Not here! And when I didn't wanna pay for a port they made fun of me!


I know, I'll post about how the big bad druid was meanie head! That'll show em.


Gtfo crybaby.

[Madae]

Wish I could edit posts... but yeah, there's also Everfrost and Qeynos starts that people happily want to get out of for something a little more populated.

[PDX0621]

I dunno, I mean, if they aren't stating a fixed price, you pay what you want to pay and you move on.

[Barlu]

If I still played would definitelt have done the /random for ports. Love that.

I always tried to tip generously the whole time I was on the server if I asked for a poet. When I was dead broke I ran places. When I had plat I payed well for pickups because I valued their time. As enchanter brain buffs were an added bonus.

There are a ton of people on this server that are incredibly generous with their time and just happy to help. The rest are trying to make plat for their mains and are posting for plat. They should be compensated for their time.

[Natewest1987]

Well. You’re not wrong (about most of it), but they’re also not wrong for wanting to be compensated for their time. Ports are a great incentive to play those classes, and many people might make the decision to play them based off potential pp return, just as someone else might choose to play an enchanter so they could farm high level content.

I always lead with what I’m offering when I ask for a port. I tend to overpay, because as an erudite, traveling was terrible until I recently could summon a cold stone. It is rare though that I pay less than 30 plat per port.

The big issue with ports in my opinion is that people treat them as services, instead of products, but somehow forget that 99% of the time you pay a flat rate for a service and then tip on top of that based on your experience. For instance, when is the last time that you got a haircut without paying for the cost of the service itself ?

You are absolutely right that they should specify what they want as compensation, but while they are at it - get rid of the “suggested donation” bull shit. Either do it strictly on a donation basis and GTFOver it, or charge what you want to and drop the word donation, because that’s when it comes across as ridiculous.

Several times Ive came across Druids that charge per spell tier. So for instance level 29 spells were a different rate than 34, etc. I’ve also seen them include “tips greatly appreciated”. I think that’s the way to go and it would solve a lot of this bull shit

[drdrakes]

You're 'not knowing how much to tip' while also posting on this forum pretty much sums up the kind of piece of shit you are =)

[Wallicker]

Or you can send a tell saying will tip x amount for port from A to B. The porter will accept or decline.