Filthy killstealers

I don't have a widescreen display, so every now and then I'll zero in on a street mob and start hitting them just as someone else swoops in from offscreen with the same idea. That kind of thing always brings out my inner Englishman, causing me to apologize for something I don't actually think is my fault.

One time I had a high level guy send one of my lowbie characters an SG invite. I declined, so the dude followed me around spamming SG invites and killing any mob that I tried to fight. I had to log off and log back on as a different character to keep playing.

I love running around with my illusionist/empath and throwing buffs. I have on ocassion(I16...phantasm follows every were...must remember) forgotten to dismiss my phantasm with the resault I have apologize and skulk away feeling like an idiot. Unfortunately,with this many people involved in game there going to be some braying donkeys running around who think it is fun to annoy people. By all means report such idiots. It has really been going down, not nearly as bad as it was years ago. But we must kep vilgilant, or they will start to multiply again.

I was on a lowbie brute over in Virtue earlier this week, just after i16 hit live.. I was level three, going toe to toe against some level four Snakes in Mercy, a "eh, why not?" sort of moment while heading to another mission. I got the lieutenant down to just a sliver of hp when this level one stalker comes up and gets a lucky shot in and kills him, and then runs on his way.

I only lost 1exp over it, but it annoyed me enough to one star the guy with a reason why, although I really shouldn't expect everyone to be courteous in the game. But for the most part, if I am looking to street sweep I'll normally go to areas that see little traffic. I play to relax and have fun, getting annoyed is counterproductive. >>

I have trouble finding the balance between "don't kill-steal" and "I have a right to work on my badges too" with the Troll Raves in Skyway. If see another high-level toon there, I don't worry about it much, since neither of us are getting xp, drops, or anything but kill-count. But for lower-level toons, especially teams, I feel guilty wiping out large numbers of the trolls with one blow. On the other hand, it's not fair for me to have to give up the opportunity to work on my badge just because someone else is there too. I mostly try to stay on the far side of the action, avoiding spawns that seem like someone else is also targeting.

As for buffs, since some people like them and some don't, and the fact that most of my toons don't have them (I play mostly melee types), I just hand out insps, especially greens and purples.

I remember a while ago seeing another player trying to take on 3 or so guys at once and was losing the fight, so I decided to jump in on one of my characters with a taunt power (honestly can't remember what AT.. or why i'd take one) and started taunting. Only then did I realize he was like 3 levels higher than me

We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.

I enjoy hitting the lowbie zones and sleeping +3 mobs for the street sweepers, Siphon Speed on the runners, hitting Transfusion and Transference as needed, running in and Siphon Power so they get the benefit.

Only one or twice have I oopsed, and impale a foe with and arrow.

Ah, all the people are coming out of the AE buildings.

I think that if you score a hit on a MOB, you will get credit for it for a hunting mission. If not, then just try to find some out of the way place where you can hunt on your own. Fortunately they don't last long, you can be done with the "Kill X" missions and back to instanced missions quickly enough in the low levels. Don't forget you usually also have a choice of missions, you can do all the instanced ones first, and save the "Kill X" for hours when there aren't a lot of other folks on.

If all else fails, try one shotting greys. Just don't kill steal from the lowbies who validly need to kill them themselves.

If there is someone following you around and constantly killing your foes, then /petition him. "Kill stealing" is not against the TOS, but harassment IS, and if someone is repeatedly kill stealing you in order to make you mad, then they are harassing you. Normally I find that if I and someone else both run into a MOB at the same time, I shoot back a quick, "Sorry, didn't see you" and head in another direction. 9 times out of 10 the other guy will go the other way, and we won't run into each other again. If he follows you, then he's probably looking for trouble. (Or maybe a team. Honestly, though, I've almost never run into this. Folks putting together a team use the search feature, they don't run around looking for other players)

I had a level 50 fire blaster following me around for a haf hour a while back.

Every time I started to head toward a mob he'd launch a Fireball into it, oneshotting the whole spawn.

I asked him politely to stop doing that. His response was: lulz nub

My next tell was telling him to remember this when he gets the email from Support.
He said: lulz wut?
I say: That means I just reported you for harrassment. Have fun now!

I have an AR/Dev Blaster named Agent Locksley with a costume that is fairly close to a Longbow uniform. While street sweeping some Hellions in Atlas I had another hero following me and attacking groups I'd already aggro'd. After several groups I turned and went down another street and he didn't follow. A couple of minutes later I received a tell from him:

"Sorry about that. I thought you were an NPC."

I took those kill steals as a compliment to my costume design