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010 . I am a stacking motherfucker.
I would like to start this little bit of shit by mentioning, yes, I understand on the Euro servers people see this as competition more than we do over in the US servers. Maybe that's just a small group of people I've talked to and some of the few posts I've translated where that was being talked about. Maybe. I don't know for sure as I haven't frequented the EU servers nearly as much as the US servers.
But here's my view.
If someone has been camping a spawn spot for hours, days, weeks, months... Yes months, it has happened... Anyone who comes up and stacks on them is a douchefuck. A dickbag. A rotten horse cum gargling son of a bitch who should be kicked in the nuts. Why? Don't shit on someone like that. Why is it shitting on someone?
Think of it like this. There was a period of time where finding a WII was fucking hard. Seriously hard. Say, every single person who wanted one knew, say, Target, only got one in every so often. So you went and stood in line right when the store opened, in Electronics. Imagine no workers would see the line 'till they got the WII and came to sell it to whoever was waiting, k? Say everyone who possibly wanted a WII also knew that. However, nobody knows when one is coming in. Nobody knows what day. Nobody knows if two will come in at different times of the day. So you're standing in line for a very, very long time. And some dickbag comes up and stands next to you knowing god damn good and well if someone walks out with a WII and both of you say you just got there, the person about to sell it will give it to the first one who claims they were there first.
Also imagine there are 3 other Targets nearby. What would you rather to? I have this crazy little thing called a conscience, so I would see someone in line waiting and go check the other targets to find one with no line. And in the case of TLPD, there are almost always one or more spawn spots open. (on servers full of nubs camping shitty spots)
So, check the other fucking targets.
What if all the targets have someone in line / What if all the TLPD spawn spots (or Aeonaxx spawn spots) are camped? Or whoever / whatever is being camped.
I don't know what you would do, but I add all the campers to friends list (wether or not I've talked to them.) I watch and when one leaves the zone I haul ass to see if anyone else took their spot. If not, I sit down.
Now, if there is an asshole out there, I'll gladly stack on them if there are no other options. And by asshole, I don't mean someone who had gotten pissed off at a stacker in the past - that is justified. I don't mean someone who undercut me on the AH or any shit like that. I mean, son of a cunt who will constantly show up at rare areas and troll / grief the shit out of everyone camping. Make as much noise as they can (which /ignore does nothing to stop.) You've probably come into this type of person before. I'm all over stacking on people like that.
But Ponderance, what about competition? If i stack on someone at Frozen Lake that gives me direct access to that 25% chance for a spawn plus a possible patrol route from waterfall and ulduar!!1!11!one!!1!one!1eleven!!1one!1
Fine. Yes, you can see Frozen Lake and those two routes, assuming they are uncamped spawn spots and make it that far. Fine. But it's not 25% if someone's there. It's 12.5% now. What do you mean, but you have a 25% of spawn at each one so it's 25% dumass!!!! No dumbass, it's not if someone's stacking there. You have to assume both of you have the same chance of having a lag spike when the other doesn't, being randomly DCd, pissing when it spawns and the other is sitting there, etc. Don't be stupid. 12.5%. It's the best you can actually guarantee. Meanwhile, any other spawn spot now has better odds for you than the one you're at.
And even if you're using a macro spamming program, ok, fine. Are they? Are you sure they're not?
Don't be stupid. Camp an uncamped spot.
The only kind of stacking I can think of that I would give the thumbs up to is, say, you have a group and some people want to camp but there are no uncamped spots. I would be behind sitting, say, hundreds of yards up in the air above / near the spawn spot. Just to watch. Because if something does spawn, and the person camping it is beating off or outside putting dirt up their ass or something, and you or someone in your party sees the alert and gets there and kills it / intercepts it while it's on the path based on information .... Well... They squandered their chance. I don't consider being a few dozen seconds out but in sight a threat. Nobody should. Sitting in casting range or close visual range, that's stacking. So far up you're a dot, watching... Annoying, but whatever. Don't fuck up, campers!
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