I am not trolling. I am not QQing. And I need your full and undivided...
Oh, is that a warlock? loldeepfreeze icelance icelance!
Where was I? Oh, yes. Full and undivided attention.
Before I begin, I need to ask a simple question. Would all the mages who have been asked to port someone please raise their hand?
Yes, yes, I thought as much. This is not a problem, my magical brethren! Really!
You see, when you rolled your mage, you got to a certain level, and started learning portal spells. It was amazing, wasn't it? Casting your first portal?
But then you learned you needed to carry around these "Rune of Portals" things. They cost a little bit of money, but it was no big deal. You, and your friends, could be around the world in a mere 10 seconds.
If we fast forward to the Burning Crusade, the Almighty Blizzard decided that we shouldn't be the only ones with that kind of power. They decide to put our portals in a silly building with a search light sticking out of it. But that's all cool. We can deal.
However, if we fast forward to today, those portals have been eaten by a giant dragon. (Or maybe the mages keeping them up just ran out of mana.) And now it falls on us, (yes, us!) to use that portal spell we were given soo many moons ago.
Let us not be bitter over this change, but embrace it. Embrace it, brothers and sisters! Do not desecrate our forums with QQ from us. How will we ever be respected as Almighty Mage Overlords if we do that?
Instead, I propose we here today...
First off, we need to ban together to create a portal standard and stick to it. We are all brothers and sisters, here. We are all in this portal crisis together. We need a price. Correction, we need two prices, a "Here" price, and an "Away" price. (Now, if someone offers you more, by all means, feel free to take it. Especially if you have to travel.)
The lesser classes must learn to accept their Mage Overlords. We are not water fountains, we are not taxis. If this is too much for their fragile minds to comprehend, then they will learn to reroll, and respect us mages.
As I said before, my brethren, this is not a bad change. We have been chosen. There is nothing in your magely job description that states you must portal random strangers to even more random places. (wtb mage port from exodar to shatt, anyone?) You can chose not to. But remember, do not let this affect your fellow mages. Do not whine, do not complain. In fact, I've made a handy macro for those of you who follow this path.
Use it liberally.
So there you have it, Mages. Portals. Now get back out there, and kick some warlock... face.
tl;dr stop complaining, charge for your ports, kill warlocks.
I won't even walk to the next building for 3g, much less go find someone and port them.
Eh, I suppose. I've seen some lowbie mages port for 3g, but I like 10, personally. Not outrageous, but if you're porting a bunch of people at a time, it adds up.
After reading this forum, I'm surprised. Since the patch I've been tipping 30 cause I thought prices went up...
Not on my server.
If anything, prices went down because of too many overexcited mages, and people who whine at anything over 10g.
But like I said, it varies with servers.
I advertise in trade chat that I charge 100g or something stupid, not as a serious sell but as a whisper deterrent. 100% success rate so far with zero tells.
When I'm online, spending two minutes porting someone for what will likely be a 5-10g tip is two minutes wasted time that I could have been probing the AH or crafting, either of which is ultimately more lucrative.
I charge 20g but that is on the more expensive side on my server. I'll have to change when cata inflation hits though (and so will everyone so it's pointless reaching a consensus on how much a fair cost is for a port now).
Cant believe ive been tipping you bastards 50g.
Sad, sad shammy.
I've seen it advertised on my server for free on occasion, 5g most of the time, and one mage offering lifetime ports for 1k.
When I get to Dalaran port levels, I will likely be charging 10g, as I can't be bothered for anything less.
The only problem - while some people might not tip at all, some others will tip generously. Finding your gp/hour from tipping as compared to a straight fee will let you find the correct price to charge.
Sadly, I left my graphs and charts on another server and I don't think that people want to spend a week getting the raw data to find the correct price to charge, so we'll just have to play it by ear.
I port friends around anytime they want. I get so many whispers for ports that I feel like public transportation. And many people ask rudely. Nowadays I don't reply to whispers unless they ask nicely and say they will tip. I have a life away from WoW so what little time I have to play I like to PvP not port people around
I put up a /dnd stating that my ports are 100g. It's mostly to stop people from spamming me with port requests, and hey, if someone does wanna give me 100g for it then I'll toss 'em one.
If you like being a low price portal hooker though, all the more power to ya, means I have less people who think I don't have better things to do that give ports all day asking me for ones :P
Man, the outright self-righteous importance, greed, and contempt for strangers coming from other Mages is baffling. Imagine if everyone had that attitude about helping anyone when all it cost them an insignificant amount of coin, and takes up some of their precious time. You have a gift/talent that helps your fellow humans. You should use it (within reason) to do so. My 10 seconds of time is not worth more than their extra 10min of travel time, and their 1-10g they might tip.
Man, the outright self-righteous importance, greed, and contempt for strangers coming from other Mages is baffling. Imagine if everyone had that attitude about helping anyone when all it cost them an insignificant amount of coin, and takes up some of their precious time. You have a gift/talent that helps your fellow humans. You should use it (within reason) to do so. My 10 seconds of time is not worth more than their extra 10min of travel time, and their 1-10g they might tip.Most people are generally idiots or a-holes. What's my motivation in helping them?
Your wrong assumption that most people are idiots and a-holes makes you both. In case your mama never taught ya, doing good for good's sake is reason enough.
Man, the outright self-righteous importance, greed, and contempt for strangers coming from other Mages is baffling. Imagine if everyone had that attitude about helping anyone when all it cost them an insignificant amount of coin, and takes up some of their precious time. You have a gift/talent that helps your fellow humans. You should use it (within reason) to do so. My 10 seconds of time is not worth more than their extra 10min of travel time, and their 1-10g they might tip.
How much is a dungeon queue that has run 12 of an expected 15 minutes worth? How about BG queues? How often are you actually just sititng around in the particular city that someone wants a port from and doing basically nothing?
How much is a dungeon queue that has run 12 of an expected 15 minutes worth? How about BG queues? How often are you actually just sititng around in the particular city that someone wants a port from and doing basically nothing?
These situations are included in the "within reason" portion of my statement. Of course it is not reasonable to drop a queue to port someone. Or if you are getting CONSTANT whispers from people, every 2 minutes, than that would be unreasonable as well.
Someone asks for a port. Click*invite, "Please come to me." When they are near, click portal. If they open a trade window for tip, great. If not, no biggie. I do this anywhere. If I'm out questing or in cities. And most of the time I am in a city is for a daily, checking mail, crafting, or AH. None of those are interrupted so badly that I can't take a second to help another player.
How much is a dungeon queue that has run 12 of an expected 15 minutes worth? How about BG queues? How often are you actually just sititng around in the particular city that someone wants a port from and doing basically nothing?
These situations are included in the "within reason" portion of my statement. Of course it is not reasonable to drop a queue to port someone. Or if you are getting CONSTANT whispers from people, every 2 minutes, than that would be unreasonable as well.
Someone asks for a port. Click*invite, "Please come to me." When they are near, click portal. If they open a trade window for tip, great. If not, no biggie. I do this anywhere. If I'm out questing or in cities. And most of the time I am in a city is for a daily, checking mail, crafting, or AH. None of those are interrupted so badly that I can't take a second to help another player.
Agreed... mostly. I port my guildies/friends for free at any time. I even go to them if needed nad wil drop queue if I need to (I tell them and usually they can wait). I also don't have a problem asking them for help. Shouldn't the same thing go for crafting professions as well though?
Average price I see is 5g on my server.
i've only paid 5g, any more than that seems unreasonable for an easily obtainable spell.
The whole thing reeks like tanks who advertise in trade to sell "instant queues".
Just port people who ask you, or ignore them if you don't feel like it. They will just find someone else to do it.
If they give you a tip, accept it if you want, otherwise decline it. The reagent cost is meaningless.
And this might surprise you, but *most* mages don't extort a fee for casting a portal spell.
