petition bard swarming?

[Daywolf]

So I know there were a couple threads on bard swarming here the past month or so, but has anything come of it? I didn't follow the threads too much, but I'm not sure if there was any GM input on the issue.

I'm not sure what would be acceptable for an in-game /petition when it comes to bard kite swarming. What is acceptable and what is not?

I was very tempted to petition tonight, but just decided to log, as most in the zone were just leaving anyway. So on an alt, in a lvl15+ zone, a lvl56 bard enters. Decided, yeah pull the whole zone all to himself. And when I say pull the whole zone, I mean pretty much everything 50+ mobs in a trail. I ran out a bit and went invis, in the middle of nowhere. The bard smacked right into me. I moved to another part of the zone, same thing happened, bard smacked right into me. He didn't seem to be looting, just grabbing everything around anyone and running off to kill it, tracking players around the zone. I watched him do this for over 30 minutes.

But that's my personal observation. I thought about petitioning it, but have no idea if it would go anywhere. To me, I'd call flat out griefing, ban the stooge on the spot, but that's me. So that was pretty much it, lvl ~20 players emptying out of the zone.

Hard to say, it's an outdoor zone, all wandering mobs so no real "camps", makes an easy petition. There are rules on camps, but what were the rules on entire zones? Especially a lvl56 bard in a zone mostly populated by lvl12-20 players? In early EQ, thanks to slow connections, never had these types of issues. Here though, broadband can easily be used "grief" and that's legal?