EZ_Dahne
11-15-03, 07:45 PM
So I've been trying to get the new Trials of Atlantis master level quests done in Dark Age of Camelot. Of course, I manage to get most of the parts done, then somehow miss all the tiems when anyone's doing the last bit, which is coincidentally the hardest. It takes a couple groups of people.
So I log on today, and discover that some people just finished doing the part I need. Damn. I join the battlegroup and ask if they wouldn't mind doing it again. They ignore me, as people usually do. I ask again. Ignore. Sigh. Then I get a tell from a person I like a lot, asking if I could come help with another master level quest. Of course, it wouldn't do anything for me, since I hadn't gotten to that one yet, but they needed clerics. I had nothing better to do, so I came along.
The one this group was doing was ML2 parts 2 and 10. 2 was a bit of a pain, but we did it fairly quickly. 10 was a bitch and a half. It involved a ot of constant healing and praying that my mana bar would go up fast enough to keep the tanks alive. We screwed up the first time, after we'd almost killed the boss. He instantaneously healed himself of the damage it had taken us a good hour or so to inflect. So we regrouped and tried again. The regrouping part took a bit, as someone fell off the cliff and had to be led back up. This time, after another good hour or so, during which I both healed frantically and ate fried chicken, we triumphed. The lesson here is, fried chicken ensures all victory.
Then we went to roll for loot. I missed out on a piece of incredably awesome cleric armor, but won a roll on another piece no one there had any immediate use for (it was for a scout, a class of which none were present) then sold it to someone for a good bit of coin, which I shall throw into tradeskills as I usually do. Finally, rolling was done. The whole thing, waiting for people to get there, fighting the boss, and rolling for loot took 3 to 4 hours. As I had threatened to through the entire thing, I asked everyone to come help me with my quest. Of the 20 or 30 people who were there, guess how many stayed. Just guess.
That's right. Two. One of which may have been AFK. Even the person who had asked me to come in the first place left, though she at least had a good reason. (She had promised guildies that she'd help them with something, then put it off for a long time.) I ask my alliance, which is constituted of several large and many smaller guilds, for help. One person comes. My quest, I might add, was a good deal easier than the one they had just finished.
What the @#%$ is wrong with people? Someone does you a favor, you do them one in return, is that so @#%$ hard to understand? You could at LEAST pretend like you notice that person exists! I know I shouldn't have expected any different, but damn! I know I don't mean jack @#%$ to anybody, but you'd think you could take five minutes to help somebody out even if they're nothing more than the mana bar that keeps you alive.
Moogle Charm
Have you hugged a white mage today?
So I log on today, and discover that some people just finished doing the part I need. Damn. I join the battlegroup and ask if they wouldn't mind doing it again. They ignore me, as people usually do. I ask again. Ignore. Sigh. Then I get a tell from a person I like a lot, asking if I could come help with another master level quest. Of course, it wouldn't do anything for me, since I hadn't gotten to that one yet, but they needed clerics. I had nothing better to do, so I came along.
The one this group was doing was ML2 parts 2 and 10. 2 was a bit of a pain, but we did it fairly quickly. 10 was a bitch and a half. It involved a ot of constant healing and praying that my mana bar would go up fast enough to keep the tanks alive. We screwed up the first time, after we'd almost killed the boss. He instantaneously healed himself of the damage it had taken us a good hour or so to inflect. So we regrouped and tried again. The regrouping part took a bit, as someone fell off the cliff and had to be led back up. This time, after another good hour or so, during which I both healed frantically and ate fried chicken, we triumphed. The lesson here is, fried chicken ensures all victory.
Then we went to roll for loot. I missed out on a piece of incredably awesome cleric armor, but won a roll on another piece no one there had any immediate use for (it was for a scout, a class of which none were present) then sold it to someone for a good bit of coin, which I shall throw into tradeskills as I usually do. Finally, rolling was done. The whole thing, waiting for people to get there, fighting the boss, and rolling for loot took 3 to 4 hours. As I had threatened to through the entire thing, I asked everyone to come help me with my quest. Of the 20 or 30 people who were there, guess how many stayed. Just guess.
That's right. Two. One of which may have been AFK. Even the person who had asked me to come in the first place left, though she at least had a good reason. (She had promised guildies that she'd help them with something, then put it off for a long time.) I ask my alliance, which is constituted of several large and many smaller guilds, for help. One person comes. My quest, I might add, was a good deal easier than the one they had just finished.
What the @#%$ is wrong with people? Someone does you a favor, you do them one in return, is that so @#%$ hard to understand? You could at LEAST pretend like you notice that person exists! I know I shouldn't have expected any different, but damn! I know I don't mean jack @#%$ to anybody, but you'd think you could take five minutes to help somebody out even if they're nothing more than the mana bar that keeps you alive.
Moogle Charm
Have you hugged a white mage today?