Although I do help players out the best I can (I am only level 27 so not much farther along than they are). I help them along, I don't hold thier hand and do it for them. This has been a standard I have uphelp through the MMO's that I have played. If you hold thier do it for them, that is what they expect and it just leads down a bad path as has been said above.
Cobra101 wrote:
I've seen mid and even high level characters in that barrow den on Teldrasil towing round a level 8 who is so impressed by their ability to one-shot everything and gets his quest done in double-quick time. Big exp boost, ding, "Can a high lvl hlp me wit q" - rinse&repeat
It seems more a sort of ego-trip for the helper and results in players reaching the upper game completely unable to play their class because they've never actually had to. A high level always did the work for them.
It can be terribly hard to explain to some of these nitwits that you don't pay your sub to take them repeatedly through an instance 30 levels below you so they can get a rare drop which somehow their character cannot progress without.
I recently was helping someone kill Ogre's in Mo'grash, and we had maybe 7 greens drop and rolled greed on each, and he won 4 of the 7 and then after he was done, actually had the nerve to ask if he could have the other 3 drops. At first I was shocked from disbelief.
Then after recovering from that, I first said no, I need money too, so I am going to sell them because things don't get cheaper as you progress in levels, so I need money just as bad as you do. To that he says he is totally broke and has no money, and needs 1g to pay off someone else he borrowed from someone else.
I stayed calm and said, well those 4 drops you got would easily sell for 40-50s a piece on the AH, so go to the AH sell them, then you will have enough money to pay off your debt. To which he replied, what about money for me.
I think that was the straw, so I told him that I go out of my way, help you kill level 18-20 elites that you wouldn't have stood a chance against 1 on 1, I asked for nothing in return. I even gave you a fair shot at all the greens, to which I had every right to claim as a fee for helping you, then I died twice to save you because you don't pay attention enough to see a huge ogre walking directly towards you and you stay right there, while I am fighting two other's in a cave, so no you're not getting these items or any help from me again, damn your selfish.
So that made me kind of mad, so I headed over to the barrens and got into a fight with some hordes to take off some steam (you can always count on some lower level hordes to attack you in thier territory to get a good PvP fest going) I think I killed 6 or 7 different horde(I wasn't corpse camping, I was actually running around to different rare spawns, figured might as well try for my recipes while killing horde) before a higher lvl came and took me out. But I blew off some steam with that, and will still help people out.
There was an upside to the story though. After a day or two I get an ingame email, that said thanks for helping and gave me 20s. The amount wasn't a big deal, I guess my being firm with him kind of set him on the right path of not being so greedy, who knows maybe he will go and help others too.