I’m just gonna go out on a limb and say that I really hate the “loot and scooters” — the “I got mine, good luck with all of yours” people.

Tonight, I was messing around with one of the … how shall I say … LESSER classes. Fuck, I was tired of shredding mobs like they were audit workpapers at the once and former Arthur Andersen, so I made a new character that was one of the tired, the poor and/or the teeming masses.

How bad could it be?

(Real bad.)

So I joined this quest group that needed BossMob_04, that was FAR above my capacity. Hey, I warned them that I was a noob, that I had no business fighting this boss mob, that I was like wet paper attacking the proverbial scissors.

Anyhow, wonder of wonder, miracle of miracles, we kill the quest mob on the first attempt — sadly, the one dude forgot to loot before his trip to the graveyard. *sigh* And as luck would have it, we have to do the corpse run/noob zerge four more times before we can get his quest piece.

Along the way, we attempt to stack our chances with a few more noobs and all the while I’m counting up the number of times I have to zerge this bastard before I can politely call it a night. (Answer: zerge count = 7) Not that it mattered to Mr. Loot/Scoot, since he got his and took off.

In his defense, he did say “thanks dudes, have to run” while we were making graveyard run #5. Many will just unceremoniously /disband without a word. Fuck that, MOST will just /disband.

Which reminds me of something one of my gaming e-friends once said in EQ, while camping one of the MILLION Vex Thal key pieces … “You can really learn alot about a person by how they play games.” This, after one of our guildies looted and scooted … for the third time in a week.

Much as I’d like to start taking care of Number One (me) exclusively, I just can’t bring myself to that.

Apparently, that will be my line in the sand.