Oracles Quests and KSing

Yes, yes I know this sounds like another thread on a tired topic, but maybe I might have a different perspective.

The fault for the conundrum, if there is fault, belongs with PWI. Don't get me wrong PWI, I love you, and you know from my account activity that this is truth. Still, love doesn't mean blindness.

I initially loved the oracle rewards, but that was VERY poorly thought out. The drop rate for these rewards is huge, and that would be ok, IF, and only if 1 of 2 things were done.

1) Create a scroll that demands the random killing of a mini-boss or multiple mobs... like 20 of X mob. There are enough types of mobs in the game that this would have vastly spread out the prey and the hunters. I like to believe that PWI is capable of producing what should be a relatively easy item to produce.

2) Increase the number of target mobs. Oracle III has 3 mobs that spawn in the same area. There could be more added in the general area. Oracles I and II only have the one mob and they will be camped for weeks or months until the supply of these scrolls go bye-bye.

Of course it's too late to do that for this event.. food for thought for future events.

So back to KSing... let me paint a picture of my experience.

I went to the Oracle III area with 150 scrolls to burn. I get there and there is a small group taking turns on 1 of the spawns and FFA going on for the other 2. Nobody was complaining except for the random person that would run in and try to kill a mob without being aware that other people are not NPCs and may have their own agenda.

Sometimes these people would get on board and join the procedure, sometimes they would leave in a huff after telling us all about our genetic makeup.

About every 5 minutes someone would show up claiming that everyone should let them get their kills because they only had 1, 2, 3, or 5. This sounds all warm and fluffy except that there are 1000 people needing 1, 2, 3, or 5 and at what point does an individual person's goals get to get counted.

For me, I stood in the FFA area. If I was able to hit a mob first, I typically got credit for the kill because being an 88 witch I do decent damage. I'm not bragging, their was an archer and veno there eating my lunch from time to time. But I chose my own sense of right and wrong. If I hit the mob first, it was mine and I killed it. If my spell landed after someone else's, I stopped attacking and let them have their kill.

I'm sorry if tyhe fact that I have played more than many and am higher level and can kill faster seems unfair, but the truth is that the way this even was planned leaves NO EQUITABLE way to share the targets.

One could argue that standing in line is fair. I would argue that if me being more powerful than another is unfair then someone having no job and more time to stand in line than me is unfair. Life is not fair, fair is where you go to ride rides and eat cotton candy.

I will say that in my time there I saw 2 people from Enrage who were quite powerful and frequently won the kills. Trying to beat them to a kill actually was kinda fun and I won my share. I COULD have been pissed and called them KSers, but it seems to me that they had scrolls just as I did and I can't complain that they can kill more efficiently if I don't want others to accuse me of the same.

I will say, however, that where I chose to back off of kills I didn't hit first, they did not, but I have yet to read in the rules where my method of decorum was required. I saw nobody killing the mobs that did not have scrolls, so they were not griefing anyone. They were maybe just not as interested in being sociable.

What did amuse me the most was that I would attack a monster and get in 2 clear spells before someone else would attack the mob, and when they did not get credit for the kill, I would get accused of KSing. Sems to me if they jumped in after and they got the kill, they would have been the KSer.

KSing sucks and I do not advocate it, but I think that the use of the term is very much overdone and self-serving. KSing does exist and should be stopped, but just because you don't get the kill you want doesn't mean you have been KSed.

I'm sorry I got a little wordy here, but then if you read this far and thought it was too wordy, why didn't you stop? Maybe I KSed your self control?

By the way, I personally only have been accused of KSing a couple times since I started playing, but I find the whole argument overdone and amusing... except when the accusation is genuine.