Pipkin was my first character rolled on Venture Co, however, due to initial frustration with the mage class I bounced over to work on another class for quite some time. During that time, on the other class, I'd see WorldDef and Local light up with various spots of activity and it would, somewhat, dishearten me to find that the call for assistance didn't always receive an answer. (My views then were that a good chunk of the Alliance were either too tied up in AH transactions or were simply too elitist to go pound some Horde into butter.)