Well. I very very rarely use anon or role. Fortunately, as a paladin, I don't have to deal too much with requests for anything (amazingly no one ever asks for rez which surprises me).
Even when I played my wiz more often, I didn't bother with it. You take the good with the bad. Sure. You get folks begging, but there are good apects to the "random tell" as well.
I'm constantly amazed at the tells I'll get out of the blue for a group. Even when I don't have my LFG tag up! I actually logged on last week, and in under less then a minute recieved a tell from a totaly random person asking if I wanted to do an LDoN. I didn't know him or anyone else in the group. I can only assume he did a /who search and just picked my name out of thin air (or maybe I did group with him at some other time and totally forgot about it).
What's really amusing are the tells for groups when you're not really looking. I pretty much never go anon, and I only go role when doing a guild raid and don't really want people knowing exactly where we are going. You'd be amazed how often I'll be in some zone in the middle of nowhere, with /role on, and have my lfg tag on so my guildleader can reshuffle the raid around (literally for less then 3 minutes), only to get a tell asking if I want to join someone's group in zoneX. Hmmm... Let me give you a hint: If I'm in a zone like ToV, VP, or ST, I'm probably not actually looking for a pickup group. Just a thought.
The only annoying ones really are the beggars. I don't get too many of those fortunately. I guess newbies tend to focus their begging on folks in robes for some reason. Go figure. What I get more often then anything else actually is newbie paladins asking for advice. I hate to brush that kind of thing off, but it can get annoying. I didn't log on so I could spend an hour explaining everything about being a paladin to a brand new player. I suppose I'd be flattered, but odds are they just did a who for high level paladins and I was probably the first one nice enough to actually answer their questions. Oh well. There are worse things I suppose.
Oh. And the requests for me to link my epic (pretty much constant). I don't mind that too much. It's the inevitable: "Aren't epics a total waste of time?" that bugs me. Depends on what you like doing and why you play the game. I also love folks who are wearing gear half as good as mine ******** at me something like: "Why the heck are you carrying that piece of crap around? You know there's better weapons, right". Um... Yeah, I do. There are weapons that have better DPS. There are weapons with more stats. There are weapons with more resists. However, even today, it's ridiculously hard to find a weapon with more of all those things even available for sale anywhere, let alone for a price under 60k or so. If not replacing my epic means I can use my money to buy other things instead then you'll just have to deal with the fact that I upgraded my armor instead...
Oh. And I hate folks who get into a pickup group with you and want the group to go take out some named in a zone somewhere. Typically one that maybe isn't quite a raid mob still, but used to be. Maybe even one that requires some skill and knowhow of the zone and pulling strats. When I get those people, I always just say something like "This group can't kill that mob". Then they start going off with "But I read about a <classX> soloing him, surely we can take him, no problem...". Ok genius. That may be. And if I was with a full group of guildmates, I might even try it. But when I say "this group can't kill that mob", it's not because of class or level issues, it's because I have no idea how many people in this group are total morons who will get us killed before we even get to that mob, let alone are able to follow the directions to allow us to kill him. Um... But I'm already getting a the idea that the minimum number of morons in this group is at least 1...
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