Yes, offering her the bg would have probably been the right thing to do, but the second we showed up she starts going ballistic in yells about how she's first in line.


Btw guys, don't get the impression that we ran straight in the circle and started the encounter either. When we showed up we waited about 3 minutes for an incoming bot only to have the guy on the bot LD. So I myself then proceeded to load a bot, which was in DL, put it on pad, port to volcanus, then run to encounter and start. That entire time her 'group' was still nowhere in sight. We more or less said screw it and started it.


And when we did start the encounter and were working on the first mob, another 3 or 4 people showed up. I'm not entirely convinced that they could have completed it themselves anyways, but that's not the issue here...


And about the comment, you guys don't know the context that it was in either. There was a good 20-30 minutes of arguing/whining/pleading in tells afterwards and she picks one half of one random comment and throws it up on the boards. Was it a little mean? Maybe. But after 20 minutes of politely responding to insistent pleading, where she tried everything from threats to begging. When she finally started going off about not helping the realm by stealing people's artifacts, I was fed up enough I gave the reply "Having SoM on a rr7 would benefit the realm more than a rr2". Btw, there was no flame of any sort about a PvE guild.


Another note, after she gave up she sent someone else to whine/plead/beg with me. A guy named Stealhead (guildy?). In tells with him I got him to admit that she had planted a bot there for 7 hours, not actively camp it. Wish I would've enable chat log or taken SS's, but oh well, I was doing all this while we were fighting battler etc.


And finally the Dreamsphere issue... I know nothing about it. I'd like to hear some more concrete details instead of just flames/accusations.

I personally would just like more accusations...they are much more entertaining.

lol, yeah flames are entertaining.


Here's another note that crossed my mind. If she had been 'actively sitting there for 8 hours'. Why in the world was her group taking so long to get there.

But even in the case that the statue spawned 1 second before we got into clip range, we spent no less than 10-15 minutes getting bots before we were ready.


Another thing that crossed my mind. Would've mentioned this in last post, but I just woke up thanks to phone call after 5 hours of sleep bleh...

While my bot was inc, I did /who AoE and there was 5 people online, one in cursed forest, 2 in connacht, and her bot and herself in typhons. Sure didn't look like she had a guild group incoming. Yes they did show up after we started it so must've been anon, but still, are we supposed to stand by when we're ready on an encounter we really want when for all we know she might be waiting for people to even log on.


And the bg was out of the question, there was too much friction at that point. Like I said, she went haywire when we showed up.

hahah losers

<<There was no bot-parking going on. I had been camped there myself for eight hours, actively watching that spot. The second it popped, I told my guild.>>


That means nothing because how is anyone supposed to know whether or not a particular person was actually sitting there actively WATCHING an encounter the whole time or whether they actually did call up their guildies right away or that they actually have enough incoming to get it. Too many unknowns.


Better to let the people who get there faster with a group ready to go start up the encounter. It's an objective test for things and removes the guess work. Also the faster encounter get done the faster the turnover for them to respawn again. It's a crappy situation but that the life on a high population server where mythic refuses to lower timeers on respawns.


All that said, the low RR comment is stupid especially if someone is trying to outfit a new character for RvR.

 

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SoM is an evil encounter, poor hygelac waited what 14 hrs for the spawn, not a bot just him sitting there! Well at least its a 100% drop not like some other encounters.


To the whole stealing encounter issue, SoM can be done with 6 people, probably would have been better to pull when you saw tno standing there. Oh well I dont care its a pos cloak and rs 3 goes for like 10p on lance you are better off without it!

 

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RS3 is not as hard as some people in hib think. My guild has put 4 complete RS books together in about 6 or so hours worth of time and we were just trying to PL folks. Organization and persistence ftw.

 

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yes Bjor that happened to us a few weeks back. . .


one FG (okay 5 + 3 bots) of Angels of Albion members (i know, no knows or cares about us small guilds) was trying to kill a fully leveled Battler (note: he was fully leveld with graves all around when we got there). ..to no avail.


a BG of Zen came up to do the encounter (was like 2+ groups) and not only waited to make sure we werent going to restart the encounter again (we were busy trying to rez the last group memeber still). . .but they offered to have us join them!


The only qualifier is that they wanted to call sleeves for one of their members. . . which was fine since we were there for credit (and a chance at the arti). Long story short, not only did they let everyone roll for the arti (all chars, not just those who could use. . .which benefitted us because only 3 in our groups could have used), but even let the lvl 44 who ended up winning the arti roll as an equal share (ie the same /rand number).


All in all the encounter with Zen (which I've had pently of other positive ones in truth) really made my day.. . .The good will fostered that day still hasnt gone forgotten!


^^^ we need more stories on VN like THIS

"you had your 3 chars logged in there, dont lie"


yes, i did, which means that i was not bot parking as you and your guildies think. bot parking is leaving an alt/bot somewhere, while you go off and do something else. i had all 3 accounts there... i think that's called camping, which is a very different thing.


"Cyce to send kari cookies as restitution."


mmm, cookies! pecan sandies, please!


"... or that this guy that started the thread might have needed it to finish his template so he can START rvring and get that higher RR you hold in such high regard."


yes, thank you.


the 'guy' that happened to start this thread is female in real life but yes, i am wearing all SC'd gear already and the piece i'm missing for my template is the SoM. I happen to have all three scrolls, and I was all set to activate and level it, so I could RvR. Now I've got to waste more time trying to get it.

"but the second we showed up she starts going ballistic in yells about how she's first in line. "


"There was a good 20-30 minutes of arguing/whining/pleading in tells afterwards and she picks one half of one random comment and throws it up on the boards."


"we spent no less than 10-15 minutes getting bots before we were ready."


Please ignore my previous rude comment.


"Would've mentioned this in last post..."


I am glad you didnt mention it. It would have meant less VN drama.