Bard Swarm

[cd288]

Originally Posted by busted [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Velks is now off limits to bard swarms. Tell your friends.

Honestly you could probably just start spreading this rumor around that the staff said they'll start punishing Bards for power level swarming there and like half the bards might just take your word for it

[Vador981]

DN is such a crapshow of a zone since spiders started summoning. Used to be fairly well organized, constructs always parked out of the way (mostly). Now you never know what you're going to zone into. Was much nicer when bards kept the zone tidy in DN.

[Alam Mchealer]

10% a swarm at lvl 60 in velks. somebodyyyyy stop meeee

[Toxigen]

just steal mobs off the bard kite

[cd288]

Or just accidentally cause a massive train from deep in the zone onto the swarming Bard. As we've said, the pathing in Velks is just so crazy you never know when half the zone could suddenly show up at the entrance.

"Oh sorry we messed up our pull for the third time and no we don't have a rezzer here" ...30% exp loss will eliminate the power levelers real quick.

(That was a joke, don't ban me staff)

[WarpathEQ]

Gotta love the entitlement here. Talking about "My camp". If you've been at a camp for hours and say you've claimed the camp then why are there so many mobs up that require you to be pacifying multiple mobs to get to another mob? You can't "claim" a camp and leave the majority of the mobs up at the same time.

Here's some simple solutions for you, although based on the complaining tone I don't suspect that's the actual outcome you seek from this thread.

Solution 1: Actually hold down a camp if you don't want competition. If there aren't any mobs up and you're killing mobs as they spawn there's not really anything anyone can do to come in and take "your camp". Especially if their strategy involves kiting a large number of mobs.

Solution 2: Related to solution 1, choose a camp that you can actually hold down...If you're only capable of killing 4 mobs every spawn cycle and there are 20 spawns in that area than the majority of players are going to come in over the top of you because you're really just wasting the camp at that point and doing the opposite of holding it down.

Solution 3: Go somewhere else. I go back to the question of why are you at the entrance? Velks is a large zone and rarely has more than 1-3 people (usually enchanters) that are killing anything beyond the main room at zone in. You have pacify you can go virtually anywhere else in the zone, along with many other zones, to have an uncontested camp.

Solution 4: Get good. Learn how to compete. Alter your strategies to monopolize the mobs that you're after or to make it more difficult for others that also want to compete in that area. Let's be honest the majority of players on P99 are weak willed and when you actually are capable of standing your ground in a way that's not productive for them to also be there they usually leave fairly quickly.

[cd288]

Originally Posted by WarpathEQ [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Gotta love the entitlement here. Talking about "My camp". If you've been at a camp for hours and say you've claimed the camp then why are there so many mobs up that require you to be pacifying multiple mobs to get to another mob? You can't "claim" a camp and leave the majority of the mobs up at the same time.

Here's some simple solutions for you, although based on the complaining tone I don't suspect that's the actual outcome you seek from this thread.

Solution 1: Actually hold down a camp if you don't want competition. If there aren't any mobs up and you're killing mobs as they spawn there's not really anything anyone can do to come in and take "your camp". Especially if their strategy involves kiting a large number of mobs.

Solution 2: Related to solution 1, choose a camp that you can actually hold down...If you're only capable of killing 4 mobs every spawn cycle and there are 20 spawns in that area than the majority of players are going to come in over the top of you because you're really just wasting the camp at that point and doing the opposite of holding it down.

Solution 3: Go somewhere else. I go back to the question of why are you at the entrance? Velks is a large zone and rarely has more than 1-3 people (usually enchanters) that are killing anything beyond the main room at zone in. You have pacify you can go virtually anywhere else in the zone, along with many other zones, to have an uncontested camp.

Solution 4: Get good. Learn how to compete. Alter your strategies to monopolize the mobs that you're after or to make it more difficult for others that also want to compete in that area. Let's be honest the majority of players on P99 are weak willed and when you actually are capable of standing your ground in a way that's not productive for them to also be there they usually leave fairly quickly.

This dude clearly hasn't spent that much time in Velks lol

[WarpathEQ]

Originally Posted by cd288 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This dude clearly hasn't spent that much time in Velks lol

Certainly not at the cesspool of an entrance. I like to spend my time in Velks doing useful things like lower/upper dogs or killing Velk/Lord Bob. It doesn't take more than a few minutes of hanging out at the entrance to realize the long list of other places you could go that would serve you much better.

Its pretty much the equivalent of high level bards and enchanters that need to group for exp, just write it off and move on.

[nvidor]

Originally Posted by WarpathEQ [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Gotta love the entitlement here. Talking about "My camp". If you've been at a camp for hours and say you've claimed the camp then why are there so many mobs up that require you to be pacifying multiple mobs to get to another mob? You can't "claim" a camp and leave the majority of the mobs up at the same time.

Here's some simple solutions for you, although based on the complaining tone I don't suspect that's the actual outcome you seek from this thread.

Solution 1: Actually hold down a camp if you don't want competition. If there aren't any mobs up and you're killing mobs as they spawn there's not really anything anyone can do to come in and take "your camp". Especially if their strategy involves kiting a large number of mobs.

Solution 2: Related to solution 1, choose a camp that you can actually hold down...If you're only capable of killing 4 mobs every spawn cycle and there are 20 spawns in that area than the majority of players are going to come in over the top of you because you're really just wasting the camp at that point and doing the opposite of holding it down.

Solution 3: Go somewhere else. I go back to the question of why are you at the entrance? Velks is a large zone and rarely has more than 1-3 people (usually enchanters) that are killing anything beyond the main room at zone in. You have pacify you can go virtually anywhere else in the zone, along with many other zones, to have an uncontested camp.

Solution 4: Get good. Learn how to compete. Alter your strategies to monopolize the mobs that you're after or to make it more difficult for others that also want to compete in that area. Let's be honest the majority of players on P99 are weak willed and when you actually are capable of standing your ground in a way that's not productive for them to also be there they usually leave fairly quickly.

Ahh another dumb comment and logic. Why is it the accounts that are newer are the ones who make troll statements?

Entitled you say? So asking a bard to not pull mobs above me on a camp I've held down for hours all by myself with no troubles at all is me being entitled. How about the bards stop feeling entitled to do as they wish?

I hold my camp down just fine even with a bard in the zone. Asking for courtesy though so we players do not have to put in extra work to hold something down we have already been holding down for hours.

Why should I go somewhere else? Why should the bard who has not been in the zone for hours win? Why should they get all the mobs? Why are they not looking like ok crap I see CE or frenzy is camped I better just pull the bottom floor. Instead they pull everything with no care in the world nor warnings.

If you find me entitled for asking bards to not mess with the camp I'm killing then your brain is just broken not even a little but completely.

Again I'm asked why I'm in velks.... Because I effin can be? Why do I kill the mobs I do? Because I effin can. Velks is a very viable and smart choice of a exping zone. You have a bank and merchants who are not kos to anyone other than those who wreck their faction. You have risk free banking. You have armor gems that drop that will be needed to make said armor.

So my big question to you is.... why even speak if your gonna make moronic comments and logics.

As an enchanter we leave multiple mobs up at once for a reason. We have pets we leave in place to not mess with the 27 minute spawn rotations. We can only kill so fast. We can easily clear CE to the top with no issues. But, there are those times you get up to piss or grab a snack and you have a few extra spawns than normal. So you end up needing to paci to get things back in rotation. So during times I let a mob or two spawn paci is needed at that point. You should try and enchanter some day and in velks. My camps named stay dead. My camps trash normally stays dead unless i miss a rotation which is quickly fixed.

Now to the bigger point. I kill all my mobs just fine. This DOES NOT cancel out the bards mobs from pathing top to bottom. So in my spot in my camp where I can not be in illusion and be just fine that is wrecked. I now have to ensure my illusion is on because the bards mobs are pathing through my area that's cleared noticing me either killing me then or possibly returning if the bard fails the kite. Which this risk would be non-existent in a normal eq setting. But, because the bard wants to swarm I'm put at a greater risk if they fail their kite.

Do you even brain?

[cd288]

Originally Posted by nvidor [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Ahh another dumb comment and logic. Why is it the accounts that are newer are the ones who make troll statements?

Because he's obviously someone who was banned on his last account and has so little going on in his life that his response to being banned isn't to move on, it's to make another account. This is probably like his 4th or 5th forum account if I had to guess.

As for your other points, you're absolutely correct. Hence why I said that guy sounds like he hasn't spent much time in Velks (or even playing certain classes).