From the endless supply of Chuck Norris jokes to the truly oddball mixture of political and social topics, Barrens Chat is unique to World of Warcraft. Elwynn Forest Chat might want to compete, and The Lion's Pride Inn at Goldshire notwithstanding Elwynn Chat is definitely second banana to Barrens Chat.
I was reminded of that the other day when I was on my Shaman for a little while, working on some of the Kill Ten Rats* quests.
Someone complained in Barrens Chat about someone stealing their mining node while they were actively mining the node, and instead of sympathy the player got a lot of "mine faster" and "too bad so sad" reactions. A few people did express disapproval of that asshole's behavior, but they were outnumbered by quite a bit.
Then conversation turned toward politics, and... Yeah, I'm not gonna go there on this blog.
I was kind of disheartened by the conversation, so I switched to another tab where I had Gen Chat disabled and kept questing.
Then I got back to The Crossroads, and before I could even unload by bags a Tauren Hunter came up to me and opened a Trade window.
He began dumping a load of crafted gear into the window.
"Do you need anything for this?" I asked. "Some mats or something?"
"Nah," he replied. "Take it."
He also provided me with an extra bag, since I was a bag short and my bags were all full anyway.
After that conversation, I shook my head. "Only in The Barrens," I thought.
*Or in this particular case "Kill Enough Harpy Lieutenants and Take Their Rings".
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