A Mages tale

[Agatha]

For those of you who don't already know, I am Agatha. I am known for my total decimation of everyone i come across. Anyway, on to the purpose of this post.

Bear with me, I swear there's a point to this.

I just want to talk for a short about mages and the overall p1999 community here in my experience as both a non-mage and a mage. First, I leveled up as a few classes but my first real "main" was a dark elf Cleric level 51 that I traded for Agatha. When I was leveling up my cleric I was generally treated warmly; I always found groups, people typically were respectful but you know not everyone is a saint :P. This left me absolutely loving red99, it was the Everquest community from the days of old (or young in my case as I was 11 at release) nonetheless it was everything I'd missed from EQ with a few more trolls and longer expansion estimations lol.

Once I received my mage, the first thing I noticed was people wanted free summoned items, to swords while I leveled etc, and because it was new it was fun..it was great being able to finally return part of the kindness they'd shown me while I was leveling my cleric. We remained good friends however once I got busier on Agatha, and had to start turning them down I noticed that despite my efforts to stay in contact many...stopped contacting me and starting giving me the cold shoulder. Well, maybe they are busy right?

Then I started pvping more and getting better in various zones, learning mechanics and everywhere I went, I was treated like complete trash. I have easily spent 10+ hours shit talking to groups, soloers, quadders, duors, etc in various zones trying point out they should quit and that they sucked, and minimize zone disruption.

The point I'm getting to primarily is that, everyone treats me like shit by default cause i own. The reason I am writing this post is even I noticed myself doing it earlier because I am sick and tired of being blamed for everyone sucking in the zone because some noob pvper doesn't understand his mechanics...because, they think just cause they hail and /bow that im going to let them live.. I am typically very very sensible, subject to logic and listening to what people have to say without simple-mindedly dismissing it, but honestly with all the mage hate even this mage right here, one of the few who IS being decent and who doesn't screw over the group that isnt nihi you spent 2 hours putting together is starting to lose his patience.

I guess it really comes down to this..I understand why you dislike mages, but at least until you know its intentional, what can it hurt to give them the benefit of the doubt? If they are a douche you'll know almost immediately. At least that way SOME of the mages might end up nice...I can promise you one thing, mages typically treat you like shit, so you treat them like shit...The same is true for us mages..even if we were tolerant before, if ya treat us like shit long enough, eventually we're just going to treat everyone like shit...cause we all have a point. I'm not at mine yet, and I hope I never hit it...but sincerely, just give it a thought.

-Agatha

P.S. - Soz for wall post, just feel like it's something that needed said, and everyone else just sits around arguing about how non-mages can go to dungeons or mages could group or share solo pvp kills blahblahblah...none of that matters...We all just wanna play EQ, the great game we fell in love with over a decade ago with an outstandingly wonderful community where you actually need people to achieve things. Deuces.