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Looking to the group for some guidance.
I am a guild master on thunderhorn (rangers of the glade, very small). Two
of my guild members Zerfer and Bayleigh (terrific players) recently were
victims of a Ninja looter. The toons name is tingram. Zerfer had actually
grouped with tingram several times before and felt there was some trust.
The 3 of them were working on a quest. When zerfer finished collecting his
items for the quest he made it free for all (I know this was a mistake
because quest items will still drop on creeps even if its not your turn to
loot), thinking it would speed up the quest. It was agreed that a roll
would occur on anything someone wanted. As luck would have it several kills
later an epic dropped. A blackskull shield.
http://wow.allakhazam.com/item.html?witem=1169
Tingram proceeded to pick it up. Bayleigh and Zerfer told him to roll for
it. Tingram said that he wasn't very lucky at rolling and was going to keep
it. Then he ran off. the 2 of them messaged him, he then put then on his
ignore list. As you can imagine they were both upset.
The next day after finding out the details I messaged tingram and very
politely asked him to either sell the shield and split the sale 3 ways or
meet with them and roll for it. I also explained to him that what he had
done was ninja looted and that the community on thunderhorn frowns on that
style of play. I spent a very frustrating couple of hours trying to mediate
with him. I offered to buyout 1/3 of the shield and then let Zerfer and
Bayleigh decide what to do with it. perhaps in an effort to stop me from
bothering him, tingram finally agreed to sell the shield. I asked him to
coordinate the sale with the other 2 parties....fast forward 2 weeks later
and he has yet to contact either of them.
I spoke with a GM and understandably they will not get involved. they feel
the community should take care of individuals like this. I agree with this
in the sense that I don't want Blizzard looking over my shoulder but I would
argue that to keep things fair Blizzard should allow the chat that occurred
to be posted. That would definitely frame what happened honestly. I know
in the end its just a drop but people like tingram do need to be exposed
otherwise they'll continue the same antics.
Now for the guidance. Should I post on the Blizzard forums?, is there a
list for people like this?
Any input positive or negative would be appreciated
Feides
Looking to the group for some guidance.
I am a guild master on thunderhorn (rangers of the glade, very small). Two
of my guild members Zerfer and Bayleigh (terrific players) recently were
victims of a Ninja looter. The toons name is tingram. Zerfer had actually
grouped with tingram several times before and felt there was some trust.
The 3 of them were working on a quest. When zerfer finished collecting his
items for the quest he made it free for all (I know this was a mistake
because quest items will still drop on creeps even if its not your turn to
loot), thinking it would speed up the quest. It was agreed that a roll
would occur on anything someone wanted. As luck would have it several kills
later an epic dropped. A blackskull shield.
http://wow.allakhazam.com/item.html?witem=1169
Tingram proceeded to pick it up. Bayleigh and Zerfer told him to roll for
it. Tingram said that he wasn't very lucky at rolling and was going to keep
it. Then he ran off. the 2 of them messaged him, he then put then on his
ignore list. As you can imagine they were both upset.
The next day after finding out the details I messaged tingram and very
politely asked him to either sell the shield and split the sale 3 ways or
meet with them and roll for it. I also explained to him that what he had
done was ninja looted and that the community on thunderhorn frowns on that
style of play. I spent a very frustrating couple of hours trying to mediate
with him. I offered to buyout 1/3 of the shield and then let Zerfer and
Bayleigh decide what to do with it. perhaps in an effort to stop me from
bothering him, tingram finally agreed to sell the shield. I asked him to
coordinate the sale with the other 2 parties....fast forward 2 weeks later
and he has yet to contact either of them.
I spoke with a GM and understandably they will not get involved. they feel
the community should take care of individuals like this. I agree with this
in the sense that I don't want Blizzard looking over my shoulder but I would
argue that to keep things fair Blizzard should allow the chat that occurred
to be posted. That would definitely frame what happened honestly. I know
in the end its just a drop but people like tingram do need to be exposed
otherwise they'll continue the same antics.
Now for the guidance. Should I post on the Blizzard forums?, is there a
list for people like this?
Any input positive or negative would be appreciated
Feides
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