The Most Dreaded /tell Phrase

[Thicket Tundrabog]

On another thread, many people said that they dreaded tells that started with Unknown person tells you 'hi'.

I thought it would be cool if people listed their Most Dreaded /tell Phrase.

My most dreaded phrase is "Are You Busy?"

The problem is that I never know how to answer it. "Are You Busy" can be followed by a myriad of requests. Examples are

1. Can you powerlevel me/port me/buff me/give me stuff?
2. I'm looking for someone to organize a raid on Chardok royals. Can you do that now?
3. Who do I turn parchments in to for druid spells?
4. Do you know a good website for tradeskill stuff?
5. Do you need an (item I've been trying to get for the last 3 months)?
6. I'm thinking about applying to your guild. Can you tell me how to go about doing that?
7. My mother is really sick and I need someone to talk to.

When asked "Are You Busy?", I usually don't answer the question. I counter with my own question... "What do you need?". This isn't totally satisfactory because it opens up a potentially unwanted conversation. Nevertheless, it's really difficult to ignore "Are You Busy?" Depending on the topic, I may really want to talk to the person.

What's your Most Dreaded /tell Phrase?

Thicket

[Lilosh]

/tell Noishpa any pot9 will donate
/tell Noishpa port 2 sb plz can pay


Punctuated just like that.

-Lilosh

[kiztent]

I try to answer are you busy with:
"yes, why?"

that way, if they have something important, they may tell me what it is, and if not, it's not that important anyway.

But the tells I hate the most are anything with the word "epic" in it, unless there's a number of obsceneties or comments about wasted time surrounding it.

[Lilosh]

But the tells I hate the most are anything with the word "epic" in it, unless there's a number of obsceneties or comments about wasted time surrounding it.

I forgot this one! Noish doesn't do Epics anymore.


I've helped with MORE than enough epics to help balance the help I got with mine. My only exception if Cleric epics , if I'm in a good mood, or actually like the cleric involved.


-Lilosh

[Chantra]

KEIhead tells you, 'KEI PLZ, WILL DONATE'

<I'm in PoK, and there has been people /oocing their services for crack for quite a while.>

'I'm not casting, go see XkeivendorX'

'Do they have max extended KEI?'

'I don't know, I'm not them'

'You're right here!'

<in front of forge/brew barrel-- take your pick>

'You would be correct.'

<So, I get tired of talking to them and I toss a VoQ>

'I wanted KEI! It lasts longer!'

'Mine lasts about 2.5 hours and it was free. Go find XkeivendorX and pay them money then.'

<And the donation? 8pp>

[Koru]

Anything that starts with 'hi'. Now in order to be filled with sinking dread of stupifying conversational chances this must not be a 'Hi' or 'Hello' or 'Howdy there', it has to be 'hi'. Then two things must happen, I must reply straight away and then there must be at least a two minute wait from my reply until the person responds with a sentence containing no more than 7 words, 1/3rd of them abbreviations - thus hinting at an intellect capable of gross acts against the Theory of Evolution. At least one 'u' or 'plz' must be one of those 7 words. I've yet to see a conversation started this way that wasn't doomed.

[Chenier]

I'm sure DenMum could wrote a book on these...

Mine is:

"Someone told me to talk to you." This could be anything.

- A guildy (or an alt, perhaps one I don't recognize) wants something crafted (I'm a guild tradeskill officer) and want to request one/some of something (even when I EXPLICITLY state on our boards that no requests via tells will ever be accepted).
- Someone who needs a guild officer. I tradeskill in our off time and many times, am the only officer on and who knows what this person is gonna say next.
- Could be someone from EQTraders.com or DruidsGrove.com who recognized my name and just want to say hi or ask a question (those are my favorite! hi!).


The other one that drives me nuts is when, even after you repeatedly tell your guildy the common name for a buff, they always ask you some other weird way.

"PoS please"

huh? Oh....seasons.

Hi, it's "seasons", "regen", "nine/9"....not PoS (that's piece of sh*t where I come from), BoR (that's blessing of reverence not blessing of replenishment), or whatever weird way they come up with to ask for 9.


Or just the normal raid annoyance of buffs:
Chenier tells the raid, MGB 9 inc in 1 minutes, click off V!
30 seconds later
Chenier tells the raid, MGB 9 inc in 30 seconds, click off V if you want 9!
25 seconds later
Chenier tells the raids, MGB 9 inc nownownonownownownownownow!
/cast mgb 9
15 seconds later
AFK_warrior_01 tells you, um, could i get 9 please?

Chenier bites the head off of AFK_warrior_01!

[Aethia]

Ahh the dreaded... "Hi." followed by the "Hi, are you busy?" I too, don't know how to take it since I am often questing and tradeskilling and most know about my obsession.

I do the "what do you want" or... depending on my mood 'do I know you?" I started the latter because suddenly I was getting tells out of the blue from strangers - turns out, they were friends' alts. hehe

But yes, the question "Are you busy" when you are a necro tradeskilling is tough to answer. So I solved it by going anon when I tradeskill - I don't summon corpses except for HS because so few on my server have the key. That and I'm usually in the middle of some huge run and can't really interrupt it.

[Crydee Ossiriand]

That's where hotkeys like this become handy...


/r Sorry, I am A.F.K. (Away From Keyboard) right now.
/afk

[sumamael]

I thought it would be cool if people listed their Most Dreaded /tell Phrase.

1:
tells you, "Greetings, this is Customer Service Representative xxxx...."

Usually followed by the phrase

"I'm sorry that I can not assist you in this matter, please make sure to file a bug report. Good day to you!

2:
I pretty much agree with Chenier, those people can kill me who can't click down their virtue before a symbol MGB is inc. We do symbol MGBs on every raid, we raid almost every day, how hard is it to remember to check your buffs?

3:
at 1am after a looong raid night I get the following tell from a guildmate:
tells you, "t7! We neeeeed you for trial 7!"
"Sorry I'm tired"
tells you, "Oh come on, you can't log now, just the first named! 30 min at most!"
"oh okay"
......
followed by a 1 hour getting to the spot thing and 2 hours of failures on the named.

This gone on for almost every night for a week thus now any tell that involves the dreaded words of "t7" and "trial 7" or "wanna do GoD?" starts to freak me out

[Noni DeeCups]

/tell Noni "I heard you do trade skills" < from some person I don't know >
/sit
/camp
It will take you about 30 seconds to prepare your camp.
It will take about 25 more seconds to prepare your camp.
It will take about 20 more seconds to prepare your camp.
It will take about 15 more seconds to prepare your camp.
It will take about 10 more seconds to prepare your camp.
/r "yep"
It will take about 5 more seconds to prepare your camp.

Then I log my cleric or monk on

[splunge]

Oh ya the tells for PLing are the worst.. especially on Test Server where you have 25 free levels, gear and spells for 6 keystrokes.

Hmm... /rude[enter] is 6 keystrokes too...

[Draggar]

dumb_head_01 tells you "Can you SOW me?"
dumb_head_02 tells you "Can you buff me?"
dumb_head_03 tells you "I need a rez, can you help me?"
dumb_head_04 tells you "Are you KEIing?"
dumb_head_01 tells you "Are you gunna SOW me or what?"
dumb_head_05 tells you "Can you port me to (insert zone) plz?"
dumb_head_06 tells you "Can you cure my poison" (I snicker at this one)
dumb_head_07 tells you "Can you give me high buffs for PL?"
dumb_head_01 tells you "Hey, ***, I'm talkin to you! You gonna ignore me?"
dumb_head_08 tells you "I need you to cure my disease"


See a trend?
(And for those of you who don't know me, I'm a Rogue)

[Pootle]

the WORST one ---->

If you are like me and started tradeskilling when you were level 8, and dabbled in all the different ones through 4 long years. Now you are 65, and a GM of nearly all of them, and fairly famous tradeskiller (on your server)

/Player_110 tells you: I am at 32 smithing, what should i do now?
/Player_93 tells you: How do i make human cultural boots? (i am halfling)
/Player_301 tells you: How do i tailor cheap and quick 250.

Holy-poop!!!! I cant even remember what i did last week...

I really should set up a hotkey.....

/r go to eqtraders.com

[Maevenniia]

“Are you busy?”

Hoooooooo boy. Only, it’s not in-game that this bothers me, it’s at work. And the funny thing is, just as I was reading this, my co-worker on the other side of the cubicle wall, says “Are you busy?” I almost spit diet coke all over the monitor

This co-worker of mine is a nice person, but constantly asking “Are you busy?” followed by “I’m overloaded, I need your help for a minute, can you do me one teeny tiny (YEAH RIGHT!) little favour?”

INC, something really complicated, long and involved, work I really didn’t need in addition to my own. /sigh