My Stance On Being Social

One of the major flaws in the goblin way is their anti-social tendencies. I am social and I have no problems with admitting I'm social. There are perks to being social; Here are a few:

- Most of my farmers are my friends. Ex guildies, current guildies, etc. When the farmers do their rotation on the servers I have farmers still who are selling me product cheaper then the farmers would. Why? because I'm a friend.

- I helped out 2 or 3 guild members with noble trinkets. I sold 2 of them at 50% market value. And 1 I traded 7 noble cards + 400g for a trinket because the last card was 2kg in the AH. In return 1 of them is farming me junkboxes and titanium ore. And another has a stash of eternal life I can buy at any given time. (Even at 50% market value I'm still making a profit)

- Playing the auction house is about developing relationships with people. Whether its potential buyers or sellers. I scratch their back and they'll scratch mine. Now the random person isn't going to return the favor usually and that's fine. I don't generally help out those people I don't know.

It's a great feeling knowing I've helped several people obtain their epic flying because I bought their herbs / ore / etc. And in return nine out of ten people have returned the favor and cut me deals on herbs and ore. I've even received crates of herbs for free simply because they wanted to show they are grateful.

My usual disclaimer. I'm not saying go out and help out every Joe, Dick, and Harry expecting the favor returned. Because it won't happen. However selling a greatness trinket at a discount (still making profit) to a friend only creates a better friendship and thus increases the chance to pick up some extra perks down the road.

If your a reader of JMTC you may remember me talking about loaning one of my farmers gold to purchase their epic flying. He repaid me in 2 days and to this day he still farms for me. Even when the AH prices spike to 18g a stack he still sells to me for 12g a stack. Why? Because I helped him get his epic flying.

Where the idea of being social is a bad thing came from I really don't know. I just keep seeing it around various blogs and I find it odd considering they are blogging. Last I checked blogging was being social. A true anti-social would record their daily happenings in their Hello Kitty diary for nobody to see.