Something I've been noticing...

Ajiuo - Harshlands wrote: »

edit: found it. who the **** would make two cat venos leveled to 9x anyway?
And whatever I agrued with about her was obviously justified.

Ajiuo - Harshlands wrote: »

Yeah, like I said, being unable to multiclient limits what I can do for myself, but ofc I have friends and guildies to help. The only time I do ask for help from randoms is when all else falls through. I can see why a bunch of newbies don't stay in this game, esp if the mentality is passed through to the other servers and some just don't notice it because they don't need the help.

Also, for the troll above. The guilds were recruiting for 80+, by no means is that endgame sooo. And no one said anything about venomous ghouls and dryads, I was talking about bosses. (READ: those things that are unsoloable unless you plevel all the way to 100 then do quests.) Thirdly, these are only the latest 3 experiences I've had with people unwilling to help when it's quite obvious that they received help at some point in the game. Go troll somewhere else.

Ajiuo - Harshlands wrote: »

Atleast on HL is the mentality that "i'm not gonna help you, so help yourself."
Now, I know I have mains that can solo just about every boss for my nabwizard, but I'm unable to multiclient because this computer can't handle 2 clients at once, der. So I have to stick with asking friends/guildies and when that doesn't work, I normally go to the boss location and wait a bit for someone to come along, and if that doesn't work, I WC for someone.

Now, I decided to go to the one boss I needed and saw a BM about to kill said boss. I proceeded to ask her for help but in return I got this really rude attitude, her telling me she doesn't play this game for other people and that I was going to be blacklisted. Wut? I can see there is a line between asking for help on normal mobs and asking for help with bosses that you are otherwise unable to solo. And lets be honest, there's not enough lowbies to actually form a squad to kill the boss together these days. I really don't understand how she's "playing the game for me" and I'm sure at one point in her "high horse career", she received help from someone, because in an MMO, you need others to help you proceed. Otherwise, play a console game.

Anyway, I was sitting around Arch browsing catshops when a guild started advertising (and I did see a different guild the other day doing the same thing) with the taglines of "we don't help, get your own help". Just. Wut. What are guilds for? Unicorns and rainbows and puked up glitter? The main purpose of a guild is to help and get help, aside from the obvious TW. Then again, how is anyone supposed to compete in TW when the guild won't even help them with gears or bosses? b:surrender

So, it is just HL or have other servers been having this problem?

Ajiuo - Harshlands wrote: »

http://i39.tinypic.com/5e8if4.png
If you want, I can pm you the full screenshot without names blocked out (I was too lazy to just blur the names out hence the crappy chopping.) I don't know if posting with names attached would be considered namin and shaming. Not that i'm worried I'll get in trouble, but I cba to have it edited out of my post.

edit: to further explain how it happened...

I go to the boss I need. I see a psy flying next to the boss, so I pm her and ask if she needs it too. She doesn't return my pm til much later (you can see where she wc'd me). I noticed someone was hitting the boss so I pressed T and highlighted this BM. I then sent a squad invite but it was never accepted, so I pm'd her saying that I needed the boss too and if she could help. That's when she said the screenshotted text. It's obviously cut off because of my **** of censoring names. The first pm says "Yeah not much of a squad person" and the other cropped one says "i'm not here to play the game for others"


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I have had this happen on my server for my wizard, and barb some. Thankfully, it was not as rude as it was for you, but it was still pretty messed up. That said, this is what happened. I was doing cult for my wizard. Finally, I got to the point where I was in need of Krixxix. My main. Serenity eats Krixxix alive, but Serenity is on the same account as most of my alts, so I can't log onto her to solo them for my alts. My friends that I normally pm were occupied at the time as well. That said, I was asking others for help. Being that its around Orchid Temple, lots of rank 8, rank 9, nirvana geared people are there. Surely some of them can help me...especially some of the ones that my cleric squaded with and helped in the past, and who are on my cleric's friend list could help me out. Not all of that hard to solo Krixxix. He takes seconds to beat. I fly around and ask for help...people move around, but ignore the baby wiz pm'ing them. I get write in front of people, move around and ask for help on Krixxix. Took 10 minutes for someone to finally respond. A sin without epic gears that I knew helped me. My issue with that is that if you have rank 9, +12, are not doing anything, are not AFK since you're moving around some, are 7 seconds from where Krixxix is, and can't kill him for a baby wiz that's asking for help with him, how good of a player are you really? When I get at least one player on my other account leveled, things will get a lot easier, because although I have trouble dual clienting, and not lagging a lot,...its not so bad that I can't solo places and bosses for my alts. I can't log on at the moment anyways, and both my wiz, and barb...after pleading for help with Krixxix are now on Gouf. I'm fortunate to have good friends on my main account, so hopefully, I can avoid people being snide about helping me then.

Ironic how people treat some players of high levels one way, but act another way for players who are lower leveled...only to find out that they're one and the same person. I have no problem helping others on my characters. Its ironic how some people turn around, and have trouble helping me afterwards when they see my alts in need. Some feel that its too much trouble to fly all that way for Krixxix, yet I flew all the way for Khewey, bh59, 79, etc to help them.

Had to rant on it some. That said, I know how you feel on that issue.

Edit: Thankfully, most people are not like that. However, there are quite a few that you meet that are. Big thanks to everyone that helped SerenityCNB along, and those who helped my various alts too. Thanks guys.