SoW Casters UNITE!Follow

What if we just make people type out Spirit of Wolf instead of letting them use SoW as an abbreviation? Then at least they made the effort to spell out the whole word.

I have no problem casting sow on people who ask me nicely, but sorry to say I'm not going to go look for you, regardless of how nice you ask.

Pretty much same goes for rezzes. If I'm in the zone, you can bring your body to me and I'll cast the rez spell. But I'm not zoning to go look for it.

and regarding this hitting a nerve, you should have seen the flame war that was on the FFXI boards about white mages who didn't want to rez, damn people really are mean over there

Just delete your SoW spell from the spell book, then you can honestly say "I don't have that spell"

Most of us have rs3 now a days, for those zones where SoE doesn't work (Velketor's, Dulak...)

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The thread wasn't about not wanting to cast SoW - or any other buff - it was about re-educating people to understand that it is not their right to get it merely because they have found a caster of approximately the right class.
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Missed the tongue in cheek did you Cobra?

In their re-edumication period, when you repeatedly say

"no I don't have that spell anymore...I deleted it when i got rs3 and didn't need it anymore :)"

They might learn to live without it or even to ask for it politely.

Of course there are a few that will make your ignore list with their rediculous reactions to your claim of "deletion"

SoW Casters UNITE!

Wow! Look at all the posts on this silly little spell.

I think part of the problem is the ease of travelling Norrath now. Lots of people think that since they can take the book to PoK & from there most everwhere major that SOW casters don't have much to do.

I have 2 SOW casters ( Druid & Ranger ) and I have been known to do drive by SOWs. Have also traded SOW for other buffs when soloing. I am also a sucker for /shout Naked dwarf needs SOW for CR. How can you say no to that?

What drives me buggy is when I am sitting camping the silly duid in GFay for druid epic & I get tell "Can I get a SOW?" I'm just sitting here randomly killing PHs so I say "Fine" How do they respond? "Can you come to <fill in the blank>?" Tho which I respond "No I am camping ***(forgot her name)" Answer "Well I need SOW to get to Kelethin"

Hello? You expect me to tranverse the entire zone so you can get to where I am basically now? I don't think so. The sad part is I had that happen in LOIO more than once. I'm at the Windmill & someone wants me to run to zone line for SOW so they can run to Windmill. Yeah, right.

If I am sitting at Freeport gate, a zone line or anywhere else. Medding, chatting, planning -- whatever & I am asked nicely I will usually part with the SOW and maybe another memmed buff. I rarely ask for donations (unless a gate is involved) and I also always SOW guildies, group members & those paying for a gate. Anyone else better ask nicely and/or offer donation/trade. Give me grief ONCE & you are on the list for no SOW ever.

And I have 1.

Your tongue my tongue, his tongue....probably no difference whatever, except when mine is tongue-tied.

Although that is the first time I have ever had someone hammer me for having my tongue where it actually belonged...in-cheek.

Humor is a lost art.
And I am not an artist either :)

This is what I hate about being a wiz.. Im never able to pay back for all buffs I get for free. Sure I say thx and sure I teleport people but most often I dont have the tl they want.
What I enjoy mostly with EQ is the happy spirit, everyone is helping eachother out.
I want to do more but it feels like I cant with my wiz.. :(

I am a high level mage and have an understanding of the tells buff classes go through. I will be in Pok or just running through a low level zone and boom, tell-hell, "Can i get pet toys from you". Constantly being asked for toys is annoying when i am not advertising. I have no problem helping people but only about 1/3 of the people i summon for actually donate.

I personally never send tells to people when looking for buffs, I always /ooc. Sending an unsolicited tell is like telemarketing and is very annoying. EQ is a group game and people need to learn some respect for others.

A bit late coming in to this discussion. I have a Cleric, Chanter and a Druid so being asked for a buff is a constant thing. I had to put up /role on all my characters because I was constantly being bombarded with buff request. I carry a all/all claw on my druid and that seems to cut down sow requests. I don't have an epic yet for my chanters so he rarely gets asked for buffs. However, my cleric, depite the /role I get asked for virtue often because he carries his epic with him.

Today was a good example. I was busy getting things from the bank, wasn't even paying attention to what was going on, I get a trade window open with 25pp on it. I read the dialog and this guy hails me, says "v plz" and opened the trade window with the pps. I got so mad, I just cancelled and ignored him. He eventually went away.

Couple of things. I never ask for SoW anymore since I got RS3 on all my high enough characters. When I do need a buff or two, I always ask for it in /ooc or wait until someone is advertising for the buffs. All 3 of my mains are on 3 different accounts so I can cross cast the buffs I need but sometimes I am too lazy to log one in so I ask for buffs from others.

Here is my thought on the buffs in general including SoW:

1. If I have the time and someone is asking for it in /ooc, I will tell him to meet me somewhere to cast the buffs.

2. Never ask someone directly or whether nicely or rudely. If they want to cast a buff, either they will advertise in /ooc or respond to request via /ooc.

3. Always carry an agent with you if you want a buff. For SoW, you don't need it but for other buffs you often do. I have had incidents where I was down to last 2 peridots and I was saving for the HoV for the group. Someone comes and puts pps in trade window and demands a V. When I asked him if he had any dots with him, he didn't. Even if I wanted to be nice to him and cast a Virtue, I just didn't have the agent to be able to cast it. If he had a dot, I would probably have casted it if I was in a good mood.

4. Be polite and be thankful. Return kindness with either a thank you and/or buffs in return. I don't really need PPs and rarely charge for them. I usually cast as a service to others. If you are nice, you are more likely get a buff from me.

Just my thoughts.

Taushar

SoW is a lot of trouble? Please.

I get the requests for pet kits. That's about 9 casts (1 bag and 2 kits of 4 items each). If the person just stands there I know I'm also going to get asked for additional armor for the pet. If they seem to be standing there a while longer I know they're trying to remember what else I can summon. DD or DoT bracer. Focus earring. Maybe some bandages would be good too. You know, my food and water is running a bit low. You can make levitation rings, right? You get the idea.

A lot of players seem to have no problem asking for all these goodies and making no donation. /sigh. To those of you who have been generous, I sincerely thank you. I just wish you weren't hopelessly outnumbered by people who aren't.

Yes, the SoW comment up top was tongue in cheek. I just want to remind you you're not the only class being bugged for things.

It's no accident I play a class that doesn't cast buffs.

Edited, Wed Sep 1 23:13:44 2004 by Yanari

Dracker SoW ME!

I've taken my shammy to the 57th lvl. Even after lvl 9 when we get SoW I rarely had anyone ask me for SoW, this is because I am always looking for grps and trying to lvl, maybe some of you should spend more time at that then in PoK where you are more likely to receive the /tells.

If I ever ask for a SoW for an alt I'll ask nicely and always tell them I will come to them incase they are busy doing something, also This goes along the line of asking for KEI, usually I'll send a tell to the highest ench in PoK asking them may I pls donate for a kei, will come to you. All of them have responded with a yes I am near this NPC.

No, actually, you missed the point. This isn't about precious time or sharing the perk or any of that. It's about polite vs. rude. The influx of rude demanding players who assume that getting a SoW from someone is their God given right, is the problem.

The problem is courtesy impaired players who are comfortable sending a tell to a complete stranger, demanding SoW (or KEI or Temp), even to the point of expecting that person to drop what they are doing to come service them, and then get indignent if they are refused.

Polite players will always get a stack of buffs from the original poster, or any number of other players. Rude demanding players will only get /ignore. As well they should.

Now you've got it!

And while /ignore is always an option, don't you think it's a shame when someone has to resort to that in order to block a source of harrassment that never should have existed in the first place.

Personally, I value my time ingame as a block of space wherein I don't have to deal with the real world. It always pains me to have that reality imposed upon me anyway!

Oh, yeah... you might have said *three posts and counting*! I have a feeling you'll be around for a while!