@Durrty BGs

There is something to be said for the value of a player that is able and willing to lead raids-- there is no doubt about that. Unfortunately, I can't help but see the magnanimity and role playing flourish in this response as little more than a metaphorical brown paper bag being carefully placed over the misshapen visage of a solid 2/10.

Durrty wrote: ↑

Mon 21 Jan 2019 3:24 PM

For the people who have grouped with me while I was leveling that I removed from the group, usually it was due to me experiencing you to be slacking, not buffing correctly after repeated attempts, having friends in the group which was holding up spots and not contributing (like having a sorc and a minstrel while doing Shredder farming) and me having someone from guild or alliance asking to join instead, which I always try to facilitate as long as it doesnt damage the group.

I'm going to directly address this as I feel it is more than a little misleading. You invited me (Reaver) and a friend (Sorc) to your group while there were 3-4 of you in the frontiers focus pulling trees. Obviously Reaver is not ideal in a focus pulling set up, but I had shield side stun and was trying to peel when needed and provide that sweet 5% xp bonus. You were also getting crack from the sorc which I assume was the reason you invited us two in the first place.

Eventually it is decided that we will move to DF. I do not recall if we got wiped or the camps weren't ideal as there were other focus pull groups just about everywhere. You then state that Aaronx, our cabalist, will be AoE DoTing and we will no longer be focus pulling. Uhhh, OK, fine, we can do that, but it obviously wont be nearly as effective and it will be certainly be harder for us to maintain aggro as by this point we only have an arms, infiltrator (which you invited, disbanded and then invited again...?) and Reaver as our tanks. I don't remember the exact group setup but we ended up adding another cleric who struggled with buff allocation, but seemed to eventually figure it out. I'm inclined to be patient with people on the first day of the server, but that's just me.

So here we are, a group that you have personally created using a strategy of your choosing, ready to do "AoE DoT" pull in DF. What happens? Well, the sort of thing that usually happens when a Cabalist AoE DoTs multiple mobs after a poorly constructed tank train has had about 8 seconds to generate aggro. The mobs go on him and then eventually on to the healers trying to keep him up and we wipe.

"Maybe we should try focus pulling instead?" was suggested more than once and ignored. Again, I get it if the Cabby finds focus pulling boring, is eating or fiddling with his nuts, or whatever, but you can't expect a group with two clerics and a Cabalist to work as well when we are trying to do some convoluted DoT strategy. We had both the ability to focus pull and the ability to single target pull with mezzes from a mind Sorc, but nah, let's AoE DoT pull instead.

Anyways, to my recollection, we got a bit deeper into DF and were, shockingly, running into the same problems we had been experiencing. Aggro got out of control and I think a few people may have died. We rez up and then "I'm going to do some restructuring". I see group members disbanded until eventually I too am removed. Then we are treated to some garbage "apology" in /say.

So here we are, somewhere near rocots (So it's not like we can leave without dying), with a group that you have personally put together using a strategy that you and your guildmate have chosen, and you decide to entirely disband us with no communication. It's a real shitty thing to do and honestly not something I have ever seen in all the years I have played DAoC. The last time I can remember seeing someone treat group mates so poorly was back on Igraine during SI when a Merc named Kkortus would consistently run into spawns before disbanding when he was logging for the night resulting in the entire group getting rolled, but I digress.

We have all had shit groups filled with uncommunicative players that might as well be playing from 6' underground, but outside of perhaps our inexperienced Cleric this group was not one of those. On top of that it was one you had constructed yourself. Each member invited was one that you had OK'd. You chose our strategy and lead us to where you wanted to level. Then you unceremoniously disbanded everyone in a pit of aggro with little more than a "don't be mad niggas". Perhaps I'm old-fashioned, but there is a sense of decorum when it comes to PvE group play that I think is reasonable to expect from other players in old MMORPGs, especially DAoC, and your actions and attitude were definitely not in line with what I've come to see from fellow adults playing this game. It is seems clear to me from the context of my experiences with you and your guild as well as the nature of your post that other players can expect the same sort of treatment when grouping with you.

Does what I'm saying here really matter? No, not really. I expect if you lead successful raids than your value to the community far outweighs the exceptionally low perception of your character those that interact with you might come to have. It is unfortunate, however, that there is generally no recourse for people who display so little class when interacting with others outside of a half baked post on a thread that is probably going to be locked.