Originally Posted by
Fyrce
Ok, I'll join, though sometimes I'm not sure whether I'm laughing or annoyed.
(1) I'm calling them cowardly level 45s, who think they cannot do anything unless they're backed up by a full group of other level 45s. And I don't mean just to run an area fast, either. Running fast I get. Not being able to do an area because you do not have enough shields around you because the other shields don't know they are shields ... Maybe that's priceless. Which leads to ...
(2) Bears who don't roar, Birds who don't scream, and clerics who don't buff. Um, are they playing?
This particularly applies to the previous level 45s, but also to lower levels who don't even KNOW what skills they have, much less how to use those skills. Um, hello, when a new skill is available, I actually LOOK at it and I can read. (Come on, doesn't this apply to ALL games?)
(3) Add to that, bears who don't pull, birds who don't grow roots, clerics who can barely heal. Hello? Group with 3 mages; Why isn't the tank warrior, the one keeping the boss one of you morons triggered off your heads, getting healed? I've seen weaker 45s than some level 20s and 30s. I'm sorry, but a weak 45 is just pathetic. Actually a weak any level is just pathetic. I don't care what great EQ and pots you've got if you have NO skills. Remind me not to tank for none VoB, VoM mages (How come there are so many of these? "BUFFs? What're those?"). Remind me to also not tank for people who love to trigger multiple bosses in the Swamp mini-dungeon. Jeez. Do they NOT know mini-dungeons or something?
(4) I admit to replying "Sure" with my tank bear when asked for a rev. AND a dead mage, who got revived by another mage, who then says, "I didn't know warriors could revive." Oh my god, LMAO!!
I need to have more fun with these people. And I need to not spam pots trying to save them. Hmm...
I have also tried the education route, though I'm thinking about giving up on that. My brother says to keep trying.
I have told bears to scream, birds to scream, birds to root, mages to heal, buff and ink. I think mostly they think I'm speaking Russian.
Well, a few of those times was someone going, "Is that something _I_ can do?" Another LMAO moment.
Or the level 45s who wonder what a combo is ... oh wait, I'm assuming they actually know what their skills are ... Man, I crack myself up a lot.
Now for something a bit more inspirational (and apparently against the grain of common wisdom):
(1) Early on, as a level 20s cleric, I cleared AO2 with a couple 45s (one was a pally) and a really low level (he was an alt). We did good, did not get stalled anywhere, got pinks.
(2) As level 42 INT cleric, I start on AO1 alone, people join and I take a group from AO1 through AO2 and clear. The mostly end group has a level 41 mage, two level 30s warriors (one who knew what he was doing, one who wasn't bad), a 20s bird. We clear the tower without too much dying, without getting hung up, even with several players crashing out (one bear and bird), several people level, and we got pinks.
(3) A level 29 warrior, with no special potions or EQ, tanking swamps with a level 23 cleric (who knew what he was doing) and almost clearing it: Now that is fun.
It's also fun to tank the area and watch the idiot level 34 warrior, who doesn't have any skills except whack with battle sword, rush ahead, and die. Quite entertaining.
(4) Tanking Frosts as a level 20s warrior, finishing alone while lots of level 30s quit out after dying: dying bears, mages, archers. More LOL moments.
