Just accept the invite if you're on the same quest.

There is a member of my guild who has severe arthritis, particularly in her left hand. She can play the game with a gaming mouse (yay thumb buttons!) - but it is painful for her to type out messages on the keyboard.

For this reason she will send out blind invites because it only requires clicking on a character and then clicking the "+". A shame that people here automatically assume a person is somehow bad or rude for simply sending an invite. We don't always have the whole story.

lol, same thing happened to me several times too. Makes you wonder about people.

As to invites, if we are in the same area competing for mobs or a quest objective, by all means invite me. Or if I see you there, I will ask to team up. One thing that bugs the heck out of me is clearning all the trash to an objective or a quest mob and have a player leapfrog past me to get it first. I had two players do this to me yesterday--asked if I could join but they rushed in to get the mob first after I had cleared the way. It wasn't a big deal since he respawned within 30 seconds or so but it was annoying. I made a comment like "Thanks for teaming up to kill the quest guy." One person didn't say anything but I got a whisper from another player who said that he was so used to being ninja-ed for resources, mobs, etc in WoW that he just does it first to everyone. He did apologize and we chatted for a few minutes but why they didn't toss me an invite seeing me standing before the mob was beyond me.

I must say, I love all of the random responses to this thread. The topic is a very narrowly defined case, and everyone goes on about random stories.

If we're competing for the same mobs, I know exactly what quest you're on. If it's a limited spawn to where we're both slowed down, I'll gladly accept an invite just to finish the quest without tripping over each other.

Every case of blind invite will get declined by me, but that's an entirely different scenario. You see the other person fighting you for quest mobs. It's not a blind invite if you know exactly who they are and why they're inviting you.

unless youre standing next to me jumping up and down flailing your hands wildly as i burn down a mission boss guy i tagged just before you arrived, i wont accept your blind invitation. in the aforementioned case tho i might be the one throwing the blind invitation.

I can understand why your friend/guildie in this situation does this, but I have had bad experiences for the past 10 years on random invites so I don't mess with them. if she has a handicap in playing i applaud her for finding a way to play around that handicap but I do not know this for i have never met your friend/guildie before.

I would suggest that she develop a hot key to send a tell or a /say stating this. I do not require a whisper but i do like to get some indication of an invite before. even then i may be afk or something at this point.

Darth Freki

Yup

Also, i play stealth classes because i like to stealth around and sometimes i have to go afk often

Feel free to pop that invite but don't get pissy if i decline

Refusing an invite is fine. No harm; no foul.

My point is that the assumption that everyone who does an invite is being rude is a poor one. Nobody here knows everyone's story. Judging someone with nearly zero information seems to be far more rude than someone inviting you to play a game with them.

I generally prefer to do quests alone. If somebody invites me and we are doing the same quests i will accept and i really have no problem if they do not speak first. When i see somebody doing the same quests i will usually go somewhere else because doing most quests in a party makes them way too easy and that is not fun for me.
When somebody has LFG turned and i decide to invite i will do it without speaking first. I mean having that means a 'Yes of course i want to team up', right? I did get a few cases that had LFG and did not accept the party invitation.

I'm in the same boat quite a bit too. It often has more to do with not wanting to inconvenience anyone else. But when I do group, I'm fully committed. I'm not a fan of blind invites either, but I'll accept if it makes sense for both of us.

I ignore if someone just sends an invite out of the blue.
I like to be asked , if so, unless im real busy ill join.