Anecdote thread

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This isn't my story, but some guy in Qufim (while partying) told me about it. His friend was leveling BST and some kid kept taking all of the mobs so the BST couldn't level, and the kid kept laughing at him. So the BST came back as his 50BLM and killed every single thing in sight, and the kid kept saying stuff like "I'm not leaving!" blah blah blah.

So you know what the BLM did? He invite the kid to party... stupidly the kid accepted and then the BLM casted WarpII on him. =D It's even fuinnier because his HP was in Bastok.

[Garland]

The kid got off easy. Many Beast Masters would've just charmed and released a train on the idiot. Sure, it's against the rules, but I've seen first hand, that in practice, training mobs is never punished. By that, I mean, I was doing my typical off-levelling hobby of raising people in Shakrami. This Beast Master (and I would assume a friend or two) were repeatedly dragging dozens of scorpions, upper-tier gobs, and undead to the entrance, where they would decimate every maze resident on their return trip, and deny entry to any less than uber player wanting in. It happenned for about three hours - the place was in lockdown. I died about three times. My friend (a raise capable Rdm who took up my hobby as well), and I (living on sneak and invisibility) were frantically trying to kill off the mobs and raise the dead (and each other). Eventually, higher level help took on killing mobs, and my friend and I ran all corners of the maze giving raises. The number of requests got so high that I had to write a list on a sheet of paper to get everyone before the earlier raise requests were outscrolled in the chat log. Raising isn't quick, after all, but the shouting was.

[Citizen Bleys]

I bloody hate trains, but at least with a train, there's someone to blame...

I was levelling my subjob on Liosliath in the Horutoto Ruins last night--I snuck into that secret area where Nana Mihgo's hideout was and started killing skeletons there (The skels check as Tough to a lv 7 whm/3blm, which is what I was, but because I was a whm and had Divine and Healing magic, I could cut through them like nothing.

As I was finishing the first tough, another one spawned right on top of me. Fine, I can take two, I just turn my attention to the next one, fire off Bene (my HP and MP were low, so I figured I'd use the MP for Banish instead of Cure) and get the second skel down to half life, and then a bloody balloon spawns right on top of me.

Game over, and I couldn't even blame anyone but dumb luck. Spawns aren't supposed to happen that fast in one tight area where you can't run away or otherwise avoid the bad guys.

[Ouch!]

I hate people who train things to the exit. I say if you're stupid enough to get more than one or two on you, you shouldn't escape. Usually, if I get in such a situation, I just let myself die. There's no need to cause problems for anyone else because you made a mistake.

[Ichy]

In AO we had a saying... "Be a man, die where you stand." Nothing applies more in a zone with 300+ people in it, or at least should... but this is not the case in FFXI. Seems almost everybody trains things, so naturally, if my PT picks up and runs, I run with them. Sux when you hit annother group on the way by, but the bottom line is that noone's ever turned around and died to save me and I'll not likely do the same for anyone else. What I have, though, is go hang out in lowbie zones and kill trains as they head for the zone, my little way of showing appreciation for all the help I've ever recieved, as well as give thanks to everyone's patience from those times where it was my turn to train.

Now... in regards to people training for the purpose of killing you or your PT specifically, you can have them banned for it, but you require irrevocable evidence. If you ever see this happening to you again, have some of your filters turned off so you can see them casting their spells and spam screenshots, be sure to get a shot of the chat log, too, and BE SURE TO USE CIVIL LANGUAGE DURING THE PROCESS. Submit that to a GM and he'll get a *strict* reprimand, or maybe even a ban.