A Bard's Tale

[LiQuid]

Yesterday in OT while I was circling around a lower level AE kite on my bard, Rojas sent me a tell "Hey are you going to be here long?" I didn't reply because I was busy, but the second I got done he is standing over my kite and says something like "Oh so you're ignoring me, fine you want to be a dick we can be dicks." and I'm like "dude, I was in the middle of a kite lol" He proceeded to pull all the mobs on the low level side to PL his Iksar SK client, but only did it once and seemed like he cooled off as I talked to him.

I would have taken some screenshots but I was too busy being over it. My wizard friend that I was with was a lot more upset about it calling him arrogant, etc, but I chalked it up to bards being bards. It did strike me as weird that Rojas was the one to make this thread and try to be the bards' ambassador when he is the only bard to date I've met in game that got nuts over nonsense.

Wish all bards could be as chill as Zanderr. Server would def be a better place IMO.

[Flamewraith]

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

Wish all bards could be as chill as Zanderr. Server would def be a better place IMO.

Agreed.

[Dostarr]

Your kill had been dead a bit...seeing as how I was invis watching; I had only messaged in an attempt to be respectful. Way to piecemeal and pull out of context things that were said. I obviously am aware that its next to impossible to msg while snaring//swarming. But it had been dead, and didnt come in with "if you wanna be dicks we can be dicks that was after other conversation. I came in with "so not gonna respond" over a minute after your swarm was dead (inb4 loot; they weren't). You then proceeded to talk in a dick-ish tone...whereas before I was gonna just leave, I decided I would in fact pull there as well and we would just have to share hence the "wanna be a dick, lets be dicks" But don't act like I ran up to you and mid swarm said HEY HEY HEY HEY HEY RESPOND NOW OR IMA BE A DOUCHE..seriously, grow up. P.S. this guy rolled a bard because of me, and now that he's gotta compete with the big boys he's makeing half-truths on the forums. Go figure.

[Dostarr]

First let me inform you ignorant ponce's before you use what limited knowledge you actually have about how game mechanics works... Yes that SS is legitimate, I did in fact post that and I remember the guy well.

First...I didnt have every mob in the zone locked up, but I had been there for hours I knew PRECISELY how many people had been pulling and how clear the zone was...I have done this over 200 hours NATURALLY I'm good at gauging how many mobs there are in the zone..In fact, little fun fact between WW/FM corner to Outpost there are roughly 150-160 mobs up when nobody is present at all. I had been pulling for 15-20 minutes which means..I was basically done with my pull. Since I usually kill in <2mm I pretty much pull everything thats not being killed and drop it instantly, leaving just enough mobs to carry the groups over til the next respawn cycle. This guy comes hauling ass past me low hp with at least 80 mobs on him. IT was a feasible impossibility for him to have accumulated that many mobs, WITHOUT taking them off me.

Now as for the education on HOW this happens.. naturally you cant just aoe snare in the middle of a swarm you will die... Say one bard is low hp'n (that douchebag who piecemealed) and you are pulling 5 sarnaks and 5 cacti.. if he accidently socials a sarnak or you both tag the same cacti AKA you are both on the aggro tables, when HE goes low hp every cacti or sarnak you have will rush over to him. This makes it incredibly easy to snag entire swarms from bards, tag a cacti, cock, sarnak, and go below 20% BAM.. whole swarm is yours. I called him out on it and yes I was pissed off, he did it so blatantly, and then had the audacity to claim he hadn't.

[Purdee]

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

Your kill had been dead a bit...seeing as how I was invis watching; I had only messaged in an attempt to be respectful. Way to piecemeal and pull out of context things that were said. I obviously am aware that its next to impossible to msg while snaring//swarming. But it had been dead, and didnt come in with "if you wanna be dicks we can be dicks that was after other conversation. I came in with "so not gonna respond" over a minute after your swarm was dead (inb4 loot; they weren't). You then proceeded to talk in a dick-ish tone...whereas before I was gonna just leave, I decided I would in fact pull there as well and we would just have to share hence the "wanna be a dick, lets be dicks" But don't act like I ran up to you and mid swarm said HEY HEY HEY HEY HEY RESPOND NOW OR IMA BE A DOUCHE..seriously, grow up. P.S. this guy rolled a bard because of me, and now that he's gotta compete with the big boys he's makeing half-truths on the forums. Go figure.

yeah you sound like a stand up guy! really, I'm going to give two shits about anything you say. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Dostarr]

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

It wasn't "classic" to have ONE BARD swarm kite the whole Overthere zone during Live. It was the NORM for people to group, for people to solo as well as the quad kiters. They ALL were able to live a hell of alot more harmoniously in a zone where one selfish prick didn't tie up all the mobs, and then take half an hour to do so.

Oh, and then that selfish prick starts up spontaneous monologues in OT ooc, lamenting about oh how EVERYONE HATES him and he's SUCH a martyr and SO FALSELY ACCUSED and he's is just about the NICEST BESTEST person on the whole server!

If you have to start up a defensive, spammy diatribe on OOC (and here) with your propaganda, to try to make people like you, you must have a justifiably horrible rep.

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HAHAHAHAHA, thank you.. this is precisely my point. False assumptions and ignorance combined with a low intelligence produces shitty conclusions... First, bards easily could swarm entire zones in Classic, my bard did.. including the DL bug where you could run em into the KC wall and go afk with aoe dmg on while they ran face first into the wall.. WRONG; second I take AT MOST 5 minutes to kill a swarm and that is ONLY when someone 50-60 physically damages the mobs causing them to run at 30-35%, typically its <2m.. so half an hour WRONG; tying up all the mobs in the zone WRONG. I spend hours talking with groups and quadders insuring they have plenty of mobs during both pull and kill phase and during the "respawn phase" for my swarm.
Next point of facetious bullshit; The only people that "dislike me" are one's like you..and low hp'n bards/bad bards who I consistently bitch at for doing all the things you are complaining about (tying up zone, taking hour to kill) in fact today I spent 2 hours working with a bard to teach him to kill faster so he'd tie up less mobs.

Next point of facetious bullshit; I didnt make this thread because I'm an innocent martyr (I've definitely lost it, take the SS for example, and I've also never hidden that fact I lose my temper; read through my posts) I didnt make this thread to get people to like me, I could give a shit TBH..I have plenty of good friends in all sorts of places [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] no concerns there.. I made this post because even I am getting to my wits end with the ignorance and stupid claims people like you are making with absolutely no evidence or even solid logic on an incessant basis.. and it's not just me. Though certainly, I'm one of the few bards who takes any time to even respond to it, hence the publicity. The rest, simply ignore it and continue being douches.

This next part is to prove a point and is not how I actually feel.
Tbh, this thread has pretty much convinced me I should pull the whole zone, why not!? I'm being called out for doing it even when I'm not..so why not screw people and make more plat in the process..either way I get called a douchebard who pulls everything right?
End <---This shit is the line of thought the way you people stupidly treat bards for absolutely no reason (of that particular bard) not in all cases ofc.. sometimes there is a history.

I shouldn't bother wasting the time on these threads to explain anything.. I should just make a shitty piecemeal copypasta and tell people half the story so incite more tribulation for everyone.. GENIUS!!!!

[Dostarr]

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

yeah you sound like a stand up guy! really, I'm going to give two shits about anything you say. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It gets old, I'm already getting less and less patient. I am a stand up guy, skype with me sometime. I have yet to meet a person who's taken more than a "/who bard" and a predisposed opinion on all bards, facetiously based, who hasn't liked me lol.

[Dostarr]

And on that note I'm just gonna say, I understand 100% why the bards who've been pl'n a long time just don't give a shit and do pull the whole zone now. I'm sure with time, should this continue with absolutely no sign of a better outcome, I'll be joining them. I said what I came here to say.. I'm out, msg me in game if ya need a PL.

[Gadwen]

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

And on that note I'm just gonna say, I understand 100% why the bards who've been pl'n a long time just don't give a shit and do pull the whole zone now. I'm sure with time, should this continue with absolutely no sign of a better outcome, I'll be joining them. I said what I came here to say.. I'm out, msg me in game if ya need a PL.

Grats, almost got an entire page of rants. You are really winning hearts and minds here buddy. Keep it up!

[LiQuid]

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

Your kill had been dead a bit...seeing as how I was invis watching; I had only messaged in an attempt to be respectful. Way to piecemeal and pull out of context things that were said. I obviously am aware that its next to impossible to msg while snaring//swarming. But it had been dead, and didnt come in with "if you wanna be dicks we can be dicks that was after other conversation. I came in with "so not gonna respond" over a minute after your swarm was dead (inb4 loot; they weren't). You then proceeded to talk in a dick-ish tone...whereas before I was gonna just leave, I decided I would in fact pull there as well and we would just have to share hence the "wanna be a dick, lets be dicks" But don't act like I ran up to you and mid swarm said HEY HEY HEY HEY HEY RESPOND NOW OR IMA BE A DOUCHE..seriously, grow up.

When you accused me of ignoring you in /say I was still chasing down runners. I'm sorry that you felt you demanded my immediate attention, but I was busy.

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

P.S. this guy rolled a bard because of me, and now that he's gotta compete with the big boys he's makeing half-truths on the forums. Go figure.

The amount of standoffishness and arrogance you're displaying here is pretty much confirming every negative thing people are saying about you. You aren't one of the good guys and you really don't deserve to be treated with any kind of respect.

And I didn't roll a bard because of you. Ciscio has been my tunnel mule for over a year. I leveled him to 15 and got him a DE mask and some cool armor and he's just been sitting around unplayed ever since. A month or two ago on my wizard over the course of a week or two I was PL'd by a handful of bards, including you, Musique and Zanderr and when I saw that a friend of mine was playing a wizard I decided to bring him out of retirement and see if my computer was up to the task of doing some AE kites duo with her.

I only play him a few hours a week at most. I'm not on a fast track to 60, I'm not greedy about pulling mobs and usually leave when I see a lot of other bards or soloers/groups leveling in the zones I'm in so I don't see how that can be construed as "competing with the big boys." Any competition you're seeing is of your own design. It sounds to me like you see "lesser" bards than yourself as bad guys here. I defended you in the past, and I will continue to defend bards but as well intentioned as you are, your attitude is toxic.