I’m leveling another mage now, on Emeriss. I started it 1 week ago and I spent my first days in the sunny Barrens, with its unforgettable chat.

And as I walked in, the first lines of chat I saw were something like:

Player X: Ding!

Player A: Fuck off!!

Player B: omg /ignore…

Player C: ffs…

Player D: /care

Player E: just shut up and play!

Player F: @@#!!

Player G: lmao, owned by maturity filter

Player H: Swe anyone?

….. and intrigued by these vivid reactions I defended verbally the poor dinger asking whats so wrong about announcing proudly that you’re a level 13 or so.

The only coherent response I got is that “he keeps dinging!”

Which is quite understandable, considering that you can get a character from 1 to 20 in only few hours if you put a bit of brain into it as well.

By the time I logged out, the dinging thing had dinged again 3 times already, thanks to some WC boost. Now I have no conclusion or personal opinion about the fact, as I still respond /1 Grats! every time someone says Ding, however the mass hysteria he created was priceless.