#33 Burning bridges

How common courtesy can go a long way to helping you find friends in MMO's. The other players aren't your enemies guys. 

Alludra the mannerly mage here helping you avoid...awkward....ness

Tons of games are out right now, getting expansions, new content, or are just whole new experiences as a whole. This is a chance to make new friends and start new MMO adventures

I KNOW! LET'S BE RUDE!!

Seriously, you have no idea how many times I run an instance or pug with strangers and find that everyone is exceptionally rude, the guilded players, the unguilded players, the cross realm guys! Wow guys, way to win friends and influence people.

Whether you like it or not, you are together to meet a common goal, whether it is a dungeon, raid, World boss, or pvp event. I'm not saying you have to be best friends, but a bit of common courtesy would go a long way to making sure you don't accidentally burn some bridges.

Or you could sit there and insult everyone and wonder why you aren't getting any heals. I am sure that just means the healer, who is keeping everyone else topped of, just doesn't see you, standing in the fire and insulting everyone.

#32 Advice gone wrong

Alludra discusses what happens when advice is taken all wrong.

Alludra the mannerly mage here, helping you avoid those social missteps that can lead to no group invites.

Last week we spoke about conspiracies, and how you aren't the center of them. (sorry!) Now let's talk about the other side of that! no not being the center of a conspiracy, but taking my advice wrong.

Grouping up for the quests is fast, easy, and will get you out of those choke points in a zone, but grouping for a quest and then going afk, letting your team mates do all the work while you just soak up the xp is not only wrong, but it's a great way to get yourself black listed.

Don't be so lazy! Find a mob, kill a mob! Do your share of the work! That's the point of the game and teaches you how to play. Or you can be that guy who doesn't know how to play. I'm sure everyone would love that.  

#31 Expansions

We are back and talking expansions and typical conspiracy theories! (As in, no, you aren't the center of one!)

#30 Swearing

Swearing in your guild! What's too much? What's too little? Suprisingly that's up to you!

#28 Live and Let play

Getting along in MMO's is difficult, and sometimes you just gotta be the bigger player

Alludra the mannerly mage here to help you have fun in your gaming hobby.

Expansion release dates are getting set, people are coming back to their games and excitement is in the air! You know what that means! It means that there are more poeple in the games we love.

This...is a mixed blessing.

On the one hand it means shorter quies, more adventuring and fuller guilds and raids! On the other it means more impatient people being...well let's just say being unplesant! yay! We get to hear about how the game we are all playing sucks and how it was so much better duirng another era! Oh! And don't forget how no one knows how to play! Oooh! Tell me again how you know everything about what I am doing wrong!!

If that doesn't sound familiar that's because these are things no one says!

So what do you say we all just agree to pretend to get along! You know, for fun's sake?

#27 Zone Sharing

Sharing is caring...kinda. Zones shouldn't be battlegrounds between those leveling and those going for achievements, so why not just share?

Alludra the mannerly mage here to help you have fun in your games!

Crazy right?

The summer lull is a great time to roll a new alt, or to go after some of the missed achvements in our favorite games, so isn't it great when the two intersect? Doesn't everyoen just love it when their low level toons can't complete quests or finish objectives because there's a level capped toon wondering around AOE' ing everything in sight? No dude, we arne't mobs, but please kill all the mobs in the zone, we can wait!

A great way to try and aoid this type of frustration is to try and quest in another hub, but some games don't allow non- linear questing anymore. making this more difficult for everyone involved. My suggestion is before you report someone for greifing, wisper them and ask them to chill out or even invite you. If they are rude que for a dungeon, the level capped player might be two zones away by then.

#26 How to be a good party guest

Alludra explains the ins and outs of the social type party, much different from the loot type ones!




Alludra the mannerly mage here with some party etiquitte!

No not THAT kind of party, but the purely social kind!

Okay so say someone is celebrating a big event and you are invited to the virtual party! Remember, the rules of being a good guest apply in game just as much as they do out of game!
Check the party location against your rep standings when you RSVP! It would suck to arrive and bring the guards down on the party suddenly! Homicides tend to interrupt small talk and party chit chat!

Once committed, don't back out! Like any raid leader will attest, it's dissapointing when your guests call out of a party! Even if there's epic lootz on the line

Bring something! A pony keg, keg pony, or refreshment service of your choice can go a long way to help out the host! Catering mage looking a bit tired? Warlock cookies running short? be the party hero!

Enjoy yourself! ...but not too much! Relax and mingle with other classes off the charts. Let go of your nerf/buff rage for a night and complement people on that nice mogged outfit or rare pet, but keep it within limits, being too inebriated to see that that blood elf was actually a guy can lead to awkwardness down the road.

Finally lend a hand with the cleanup, if asked. This goes double for all those undead out there who can *ahem* help with the corpses!

(Party rules real rules from How to be a Good Party Guest )