Morning from hellFollow

This morning I remembered why I quit playing my 46 cleric. I got up at 3 am to sneak in a little EQ before work (5am). I take My 36 War and 46 cleric to Dulak to get a little Xp and try for my DW Emb. I start out at the Zone in, the killing is going fine and warrior is about to ding. I invis my warrior and go scout the docks, only one Boat Scrubber on dock by boat one. I invis my cleric and head for the docks. I pick up a couple stray players, a caster and a ranger.
A second Scubber pops, no worries. Cleric gets to dock 2 gnomes pop, invis on cleric drops. War tries to taunt one off cleric, Scrubber adds. I root one of the gnomes, cleric is almost dead. I manage to kill the Scrubber (no emblem) Second scrubber eats the wizard. One gnome attacks warrior, root breaks on second gnome and he attacks cleric, ranger trys to help but dies. Then my warrior dies and I gate my cleric. I now have 30 minutes before work.
When I zone into the Gulf I notice that I don't have any more invis potions. I log my warrior out and login an alt to stock the bank shared slot. Now the tells start pouring in. People all over the place want rezes (if your annon you must be a cleric right?). A guy walks up to me and starts asking me to link everything I wearing. Another guy comes up and starts asking me questions about my mount, asks me where they sell drogs and I tell him. Now he wants me to show him where to get one (mind you hes standing like three feet from the light house). More tells. I agree to help a group out in Nadox (its on the way, and I don't usually mind helping people).
So I'm auto following this druid with my cleric. On second box I am doing the CR for my warrior. Now there are massive amounts of tells coming in. I can't see a damn thing for all the windows popping up. I try to reply and tells are being misdirceted left and right. Of course my auto follow breaks and I'm left standing in the bay with a zillion zombies attacking me. I try to gate, interupted x3 (meanwhile my forgoten warrior is drowning). Cleric gates and is almost dead. Its now 10 minutes before work (still have a 20 minute drive and I'm still in my robe). People are getting pissed at me for no helping them out. More tells. Warrior's invis breaks on CR and I end up pulling the entire zone. The Ranger and Wiz get mad and log. I give up and log cleric. I ended up with less xp than I started with and no emblem for my troubles.

Whats the deal with people? Just because I am a cleric doesn't mean that I am required to run all over the world and help everyone (I'm annon and AFK, ingoring people and they just keep hammering away). WTF are people ******** at me when I'm telling them I can't help them because I'm on a CR? My first responsibility is to my group, but everyone seem to think that they are some damn kind of "Special Flower" and thus more important than everyone else.

I don't see how people can enjoy playing clerics.

I appologize to my group members and the people that died in Nadox for not getting them a rez.
I'm now sitting at work, regining from the **** chewing that I got for being late..
/sigh

You must be too nice.

I never get asked for anything.

And if it gets like that use /ignore

There is a wonderful old quote along the lines of

"Don't confuse Duty with what other people expect of you. Duty is what you expect of yourself"

If I had the book handy I'd look it up and get it right but you see the point. People have no right expecting you to help them. Your only duty in that situation was to your group. By being distracted you failed them.

A simple polite "Sod off I'm busy" will usually send the nuisances happily on their way.

Yes I still enjoy playing both my clerics. And I don't get this kind of tell-hell at all. If I get half a dozen tells in a 3-hour session it is pretty remarkable. And those will mostly be from people I know just chatting.

Of course on FV /role is pretty normal so people would have to see me wandering about in plate armour with a hammer to guess I'm a cleric. Then they ask for SoW

The cleric on the other server doesn't get many tells either though.

I think you probably got on some users "friend" list and that causes a chain-reaction. Someone needs a rez then User_01 checks their list of mug clerics and sure enough you're online.

It's not that I don't help people it's more that I leave them wishing they hadn't been helped. Just a knack i guess.

one advice that will be helpfull: switch your chat settings so that tells come in from your main chatwindow - no more pop ups then ;-)

you could also go into the chat box's options and turn tells off .... there is good and bad ways to this but if u really dont want to be botherd by ANYONE you turn off /say and /tell

My cleric is eternally afk...in raids...in groups...sorry I am away from keyboard...
The last time I forgot to afk was in an LDoN and some guy asked me to zone out real quick and rezz him. Um...no?