Oh, I totally get that, it can sometimes be hard to go help somebody knowing you get little in return... except maybe the expectation that when you need something similar, they should feel obligated to help.
Another issue here, is that it seems much of the newer content is designed around the idea of people having all the buffs, because everybody has a list of buff bots. And it is just so tedious to go through and buff up, then log that toon for your box to buff it, just so you can go do something. And if you need a port somewhere, and one of those toons isn't a porter, you have to do the account-two-step for that also. Just too many un-fun things to overcome.
But we should probably stop shitting up their thread with this SoD stuff I guess.