Warning, post contains virulant rant. Parental discretion suggested.
This topic may have been touched on before but I am calling for a organised revolt!
I have characters who can cast SoW, and I have characters who cannot. My non-SoW casting characters WILL NEVER ask random SoW casters for SoW. If someone says in /ooc Casting Sow blah blah, that is different. Or I may ask in /ooc any SoW?, and if I get a positive response, fine. Plus if someone casts SoW on me I usually offer some plat.
So now why, because I am a Shaman or Druid and just happen to be passing by, am I OBLIGATED to SoW anyone who asks? And if I say sorry, I am busy, I almost invariably get a ration of sheet.
So what needs to be done is, people need to be educated. Too often in the past we SoW casters have aquiesced to the intrusive requests and some non-SoWers have come to expect this as the norm. Well NO MORE!
NEW SoW Policy:
1. WE will NOT cast SoW on anyone who merely asks. Sorry but some of you may be nice people but you should learn to live WITHOUT it or re-roll a SoW caster. Worst offenders are the people who /who Druid and then send tells to you soliciting free SoW. Point is to get people to STOP ASKING!
2. Anyone who offers to pay gets the full buff package.
3. Guild and Group members do not need to ask, they get it.
4. My non-SoW characters will only badger guildies for SoW :)
Ok so a few of the more ridiculous requests:
Just died with MY LEVEL 9 Shaman, popped naked into PoK. Not 10 seconds elapses and I get a tell for SoW. I did not even mem my spells yet!
Last night, I get ready for my customary Kill the Brownie in LFay (while foraging). I zone in, turn into a wolf and flip track. First person who walks by in the tunnel 'Cane you spare a Sow?' I say 'sorry'. They say '***'.
Then the 'Straw'...(also last night)
Go to Steamfont, check windmill merchants. Go see if Kobold Missionary is up and he is. Head to Minos Mine and buff up. Two low-level gnomes there, one a necro.
'Can we get a sow?'
I say, 'sorry busy atm, maybe in a sec.'
'Plz?'
(Oh yeah that's gonna convince me...)
'Can you thistle shield my pet?'
I say 'What do I look like? Your personal servant?'
'Obvioulsy not since you wont do what you are told'
'Hope you like Kobolds cause a screaming Kobold Shaman is coming this way'
To which they respond with the usual l33t remark topped off with a 'beeotch'.
So I am calling on ALL SOW Casters. REVOLT! WE decide who gets SoW. If we want to drive-by SoW that is our choice. Count yourself fortunate to get it! NO MORE RANDOM REQUESTS! If they cannot accept a polite refusal they can take a long walk of a short pier WITHOUT SOW! We must make people AFRAID to ask for SoW, then and only then the ones in DIRE need will dare ask or they will have their wallet handy.
/rant off
Edited, Dec 11th 2006 4:23pm by Danalog