Last night I was helping a friend kill the voodoo, hex trolls, and Zalazane on the echo isles with my higher level orc hunter. We were not grouped together because I did want my higher level to hinder her exp, I was mainly there to keep things from going sideways. Some random orc runs by and immediately sends me a group invite, didn’t say anything, just sent the invite. I declined because I see random invites without any whispers or public chat as rude because you don’t know what I’m doing. He then asks my friend if they want to group (they were around the same level) and she says yes. Zalazane spawns and the two of them kill him and the orc drops party then proceeds to get snooty with me because I declined his uninvited invite and missed out on the kill.
First of all, I wasn’t there to kill him. Secondly, if he had asked, I would have told him as much. Thirdly, there is no excuse to smart off about it like a 13yo, seriously.
Point being, if you want to invite someone to a group, ask. It’s not hard and only takes a second.
In that situation I can see your side of it but if I tag a quest mob that I know has a long respawn and someone comes running up and sends me a pinvite then I’m gunna hook them up.
There’s no need to make them wait for 5 or 10 mins when I can click a button and make their night better.
I had that happen twice yesterday. I figured why not, but had to straight up ask what the group was doing. Invite out of the blue and no actual communication. When they were done the party was disbanded. Neither time was I doing what they were doing.
I have too much social anxiety for that. Even just seeing an invite box causes my stomach to churn, I break out into a cold sweat, and my heart starts racing.
I just want to stand nearby, maybe 15 feet away. I can pretend you’re a good friend from over here. That’s the extent of my comfort zone.
Your friend should have just invited them. a high level there just smashing camps of mobs for a lower level is cool of you, but if your friend had invited the others, you might have even made a new friend.
I can see your point, but being in that area and killing all the mobs, I think a group invite and the reason for it would be pretty obvious.
i’ve accepted random invites from people in the area of quest mobs and I’ve had good times when accepting, we all did our part to kill the mobs and everyone was pretty social about it.
I don’t mind the random invites so much. That being said, if you invite me, I’m going to ask what we’re doing. If you don’t bother to speak in party chat, I’m leaving the group.
Not going to stop sending invites just because of someone’s anxiety disorder. IF it’s genuinely that bad knowing classic WoW’s entire foundation was its community and social interaction, why play it if you cant handle that?
Yes, all the OP needed to do was whisper the orc just what s/he told us, “I don’t want my higher level to hinder exp” and suggest that he invite the friend and all would have been friendly.
This has always blown my mind. When you invite someone to a group you have a yes or a no button. That is asking. Why do you need a private conversation first lol. It’s like getting mad at someone for holding your door open and saying “ask me before you open a door for me”