Don’t feel it’s rude to decline. It’s your choice. It’s no ruder than them sparking a conversation and you saying you don’t want to group up.
The behavior (inviting blindly) isn’t going to change. You can complain in game, you can post forum threads, and at best you’ll get a couple people to send a “hey, group for this” message instead of a blind invite. The only thing you can do is adjust how you feel/respond to it.
What is rude is trying to tell other people how to behave because you, personally, dislike a specific thing, when many others clearly don’t mind it at all.
Funny enough, this is one of those tips on the loading screen. Has been for years. The only way possible to get all people to “chat” first would be for Blizzard to code in a requirement … and that sounds awful.
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I don’t mind the random invites because I often have a hard time initiating a group that I myself want. And coming from someone who has sent out one or two of those invites without saying something first, it doesn’t bother me one bit of you decline. I don’t think you’re a jerk for it. I figure you don’t want to group and go on about my quest.
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If you are trying to complete a drop quest at the same time as 4 other people, it is not faster to miss 4 out of 5 tags and wait around while the other people do the same.
Group up, share xp, kill mobs quicker, get more chances at world drop greens/blues/epics, and your quest items. Also, meet other players who might join your future groups, dungeons, raid, or guild.
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I like it…we all understand that if another player is in the same area…they’re most likely on the same quest. Quicker than wasting time typing a message, asking to group. Can you block invites?
Hi, at least maybe the first 10 responses…
The OP is just saying send him a tell before sending an invite, so you know, he knows what you’re inviting him for.
Its just common courtesy, and it’s how people used to do things.
Just google courtesy and you MIGHT understand…
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Hi we are both in the same spot killing the same mobs did you want to group up so we dont have to compete with eachother for tags.
Or you could use deductive reasoning to understand that was the intent behind the invite.
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Agree on your deductive reasoning putdown.
Just explaining that the OP is making a perfectly reasonable request.
It’s courteous to send a tell in advance. Which is how Vanilla used to work.
We’re talking about Classic, not Retail.
(Or whatever they’re each called)
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Yeah. I dont disagree. I make attempts to coexist and try to push other people to think outside the box a little.
It is polite to talk to people. But not everyone has those skills, not everyone is the same. I try to accomodate that.
followed by /t wtf bro stop killin everything!
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It’s rude
Wut.
Just decline and say ‘no thanks’
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My server is small, this doesn’t happen. Also, I’m fast.
I think the impromptu invites are awesome,
It helps me complete the kill quests much faster and easier, and seriously helps if it is a named mob with a big respawn.
So all I can say is keep it up I love it!
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I mean I’ll try to remember not to invite you, specifically, when I’m killing a named mob and it looks like you’re waiting on the same one. But I’m still inviting everyone else.
There needs to be a laugh button on these forums. Thanks for the chuckle!
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Well then me and my rogue friend will continue to kill 3/4 of the mobs while we farm or try to get to herbs… I probably invited you so you get credit for your quest while we just try to get to a ore or herb 
For every person like you that’s more comfortable with small talk before an invite, there’s a dozen people who don’t want to type and just want to click buttons and get stuff done. IMO this is a place for the saying “it’s easier to put on slippers than carpet the whole world.”
No. If anything, I will do this more often than I did before.