One Easy Way To Make Me Smile
When I log onto my WoW and am greeted by Hello Tessy or JOOL or hi tess! or whatever my guildmates call me before I’ve had a chance to type in anything in gchat, I can’t help but smile and I get that warm fuzzy feeling inside. My guildies are happy to see me!!
And I try to reciprocate.
When I see a guildie log on I greet them with a hearty hi <insert name here> =). I am glad to see them come online and I hope they feel welcomed.
It doesn’t take that long and it really works wonders towards making your guild feel like a little sheltered friendly place online, that home within your home.
If you don’t get a ping! and a yellow message in the chat window when a guildie logs on, do like this:
Escape > Interface > Social and check the Guild Member Alert box.
Ta-daa! Now you can see when your guildies log on and give them that warm welcome!
Of course, even with the sound and chat message I miss it sometimes, when I am fighting or AH-ing and have my attention on other things or maybe I am just alt-tabbed out, so of course it it happens that I fail to see people come online and thus don’t greet them. This doesn’t mean that I am not happy to see them, it just means that I didn’t see them.
And I know this attention-elsewhere-thingy happens to other people as well, so if no one greets me, well then I just have to say Hi all! loud and clear in gchat and then the hi’s will start popping up.
But still, no greetings beats those first ones :-)
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I used to find that with healing and raid leading at the same time, I had absolutely no time to give my guildies the attention they deserve when they logged on. I *was* happy to see them, I just didn’t have an extra hand to type out a welcome
I installed a mod that would do it for me automatically, and customized a fair number of greetings that the mod could chose from, but people caught on to it pretty quick and it began to feel even more impersonal than just not having enough time to type a quick hello.
I eventually trained myself to be able to spam CoH, shout “GET OUT OF THE FIRE DAMMIT!” over vent and type /g hihi!! really quickly. It seems to work for me :D
Yeah when raiding or running instances it is often tricky to fight and write at the same time, and when you got a quiet moment later the onlogging alerts may have scrolled up in the chat window and you’d forgotten about them.
I can understand that automatic greetings would feel impersonal, even when customised, so better to not say anything at all then til you get that quiet moment and hopefully remember who’s logged on.
Or do it your way, which I try to as well, at least when I feel certain enough no one in my raid or group will die if I take a few seconds to type in gchat :-)
I actually find it better to greet someone after they say “hi” in the guild chat. Then I know they are there and will actually notice when I greet them. Probably because I often login, get loading-screen, alt tab, and then get back in again after several minutes of being online. So if people greet as soon as I get on, I most often miss it :(
A bit off topic perhaps, but what I find strange is the “drama” I’ve seen at times if someone doesn’t get greeted before they announce in /g that they are online. For me it just makes more sense to get online, say “hi I’m here” and then get a warm welcome, instead of expecting people to keep track on that yellow system message and a “ping” (which you can turn on/off and filter as Tessy show in the post)
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You go for the logical way Jac, I go for the emotional way :-)
I guess that could be the reason for the drama as well, if people subconsciously see logging in as similar to walking into a room full of guildies, but no one acknowledges their coming in there before they say anything.
You’re right, one that’s one of the best things about the game, getting greetings right after you’ve logged in, but before you say anything :)
I’m in a new guild so I haven’t reached the family feel yet – I miss it. Hopefully it’ll be coming soon!
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I’m sure it will, Anea :-)