so i was approached last night in a vague manner by a few iron fist guildies to join up on an excursion into razorfen kraul. considering i'm now a level 36 warrior orc of doom, i felt reasonably comfortable with the crawl through the kraul, and so hastened to climb aboard our five-man party toward furthering the reputation of the iron fist.brahmabull and azzaa were in charge, eagerly recruiting myself and shaniqua into the mix before kicking a random to make room for oix (the twink - and i'm still a bit dubious about the whole twinking thing but i'll tell you about it at the bottom of this post) and getting underway in a most professional manner.
we slipped easily into the mix, downing boars by the meattruckload, and pretty much glud fairly comfortably through thanks to brahamabull's stoic leadership and supreme efforts to maintain his position as prime tank.
with azzaa prowling the herd and shaniqua obliterating everything in the way, i was greatly enjoying myself. oix bopped heads and stabbed in the back, and everything was brilliant.
i took these gorgeous pictures of our time with the boars, as we downed the big boar thing that got in our way with barely a scratch to our armour.
a few tense moments involving a bit of confusion - oix was in a bit of a hurry while the rest of us were just more concerned with sticking together - managed to stifle the caves for a little while, but it worked out in the end.
unfortunately, azzaa didn't get his axe which he'd been hoping for, but we're a determined bunch and will no doubt give it another try quite soon.
now to my concern regarding twinks. see, i haven't given it much thought until this past few days and it all began while i was enjoying an immensely fantastic and thoroughly rewarding session in stranglethorn vale with shull.
we were cruising through the area punching up trolls when a twink came running up to us (level 30 - vastly smaller than he should have been considering he was playing in an area of level 38 creatures), and he said hello via "invite me."
my first response was "why should i? and hello to you, too."
he seemed to find that amusing, and promptly responded with "come on! invite me plz."
as he died three times in front of us, i still refused to invite him. i did send an invite only because shull felt sorry for him, but he didn't seem to respond to that. perhaps he missed it. in any case, he repeated his demand and i finally gave up as he died yet again and said, "dude, you really might want to think about going to tarren mill for a while."
to which he responded, "and you should consider inviting people more often!"
should i?
i fail to understand why i should babysit twinks, aiding them to leech off my back while they reap the rewards of my efforts. i figure if they're so impressed by their collection of items far beyond what their character needs, then they can bloody well fight on their own two feet - not on mine. their equipment is beyond mine but they still want to stand behind me.
we had another twink in an instance with us the other night, and he seemed more intent on needing items than actually doing anything remotely useful and it got to the point where we just had to hearth out and leave him to his own devices despite the whining pleas following us out.
i guess what i'm saying is i really don't care if people want to create twinks for themselves. i guess it's a brainless way of starting a character and involves less hard work, but at the same time i really don't feel like being imposed upon to make their lives even more easy in the same way i wouldn't lend money to paris hilton.
on a positive note, i'm glad that at the moment in our guild, as some of the higher level guys run away and join other guilds, there's a bunch of us around the same level who are determined to stay together. i'm very comfortable with these guys, and think it's been simply brilliant lately.
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