Halloween Event; It's like the Jerk Store had a sale on their no. 1 all time best seller

I post on videos too... but you can't ignore the vast majority of the people posting are absolutely retarded (within given circumstances, obviously). You don't get too many trolls on a discussion between Richard Dawkins and Neil Tysson, it just doesn't happen that way.
But more often than not- trolls. They love their mudkips.

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Originally Posted by Iggy_Kamakaze I hate to be the bringer of bad news... but Willpower sucks!!! you're better off rolling a regen

People who throw out insults so readily in the game are nothing more than cyberbullies. It's unfortunate as unlike traditional bullying, there is very little supervision online. Bullies and victims can hide the bullying and even if they report it there are very little consequences to it. At the very worst a closing of an account. I would say that this is a problem of kids, but I see adults engage in cyberbullying too.

I have to admit that I am somewhat mystified here...

Not by the complaints, but by what people have actually been doing.

Team ToT? Actually taking on the Deadly Apocalypse, not just ignoring it?

Wow... I feel entirely gypped.

Here I spend all weekend farming things solo, trying to find a team... and I can't find enough people in the zones to put together a full team.

Is this just the whole Red Side vs. Blue Side thing? Or is this an Under level 40 thing? Because my Brute was having no luck in the Rogue Isles...

Now all I need are Deadly Apocalypse badges (and the ones for the Unseelie, but I wouldn't be holding my breath over that one...) and I swear there is no way I'll be getting those any time soon...

(PS - for anyone ToTing in the Rouge Isles, 30-40 range - the doors inside the Golden Giza in St. Martial are an excellent place to do so. The doors in the hallways may look like double doors, but each side counts as a separate door for knocking, and you don't have to stop for any event outside...)

Although I generally agree with Hamster on this issue, I have to say to this e-rage post:

With the lowering of door cool downs and my personal reinvestment in the PvE game, I've moved out of the arena to join open street ToT teams for the first time in a couple years. It's been an enjoyable experience, and outside of someone complaining about me dropping 53s on his lv40-something team (fear not, I cleared them), I haven't heard anyone complain about door possession other than you, Ham.

Case in point, last night our team was the only one at the Curry Cove marker for a time, and some of us eventually started using utilizing doors on both sides of the plaza. Before long another team moved into over to our weaker side, and you asked your team to stay on the side we started on because "that was their door."

What made it their door and not ours? Couldn't you make the case that our team had dibs on both sets of doors and the other team had showed poor form in moving into our spot? Or can a team not arbitrarily own more than one set of doors at a time?

I'm not trying to play devil's advocate here, I'm geniuinely curious about this. I don't feel anyone was in the wrong last night - you know as much from our conversation. (And unless you were privy to some /tells I wasn't, I wasn't hearing any complaints about what we were doing.)

I would guess you aren't part of the jerk store if you had a civil conversation with Ham, heh. But who knows, he's a goofy guy.

I'd say for that one just have one team on each set of doors. You don't need both of them the way it works now. Easy peasy. Heck, I don't even know why any of this can be an issue for people: but I've always one of those people that doesn't have issues with sharing.

Who's E-raging, Inviegle? The guy who couldn't find teams, or Ham? Either one isn't worthy of that, but whatever, it's in keeping with your history. Sheesh, people complaining about finding a team or jerk behavior in an MMO are both completely unsuprising. It happens.

Binds, the Unseelie Court is always hard to find, as people pick those mobs off from around Jack and don't bother to defeat Jack. Makes it hard for everyone, even though the Halloween event has been going for years. Finding teams has generally been a little trickier redside, but it's not usually hard to find ToT or Banner teams in peak hours: are you using our chat channels to find teams? If not, check them out in the "Welcome to Victory" thread stickied in our forums, and join them in game.

What I'm saying is that Ham is right, its annoying as hell during a run to have to deal with people messing up the spawn or jumping in without asking for an invite.

But its kind of expected in an MMO, and no need to e-rage about it on the forums. It's going to happen every time some sort of badge or loot is involved.

"It's not really a rule... more of a... guideline."

Our team was at the plaza first, and I don't remember seeing anyone clicking the other set of doors before we started working them. If that wasn't clear last night, my bad.

Re: kill-stealing, if I'm following a ToT team in King's Row and fireballing their tricks, that's classless. No argument there. What I actually see happening in-game seems like something that benefits everyone by creating a fun quasi-competition that has both teams racing to defeat trick spawns. It's less poaching and more Zombie/Rikti invasion-y, with nothing malicious about it.

Even in your example with a lowbie clicking your doors, how is that necessarily a bad thing? They're just helping you get your defeat X badges sooner, right?

The jerks always seem to come out in droves for this event. Was on a very low level character trying to get some Halloween salvage yesterday and had a level 10 jump in and wipe out my spawns in one shot...then try to Global Friend me.

havent really had any issues with this, i know plenty of good ToT spots so when me and friends cant ToT in one spot we got to another, one of my fav spots is in RWZ (no zone events there and the spot is just outside the vanguard base so easy to go and QM the junk)

on another interesting note you can investigate the halloween tips in RWZ as well

Next time someone does this to you SH, let them have the space and then grab a stone tank and pull a few GMs from monster isle on top of them for payback.

Banner event going on in PI. I log in to join a team. Banners become vulnerable, broadcast calls out for Red banner to take out first. Most of the participants converge and take it out. Next banner is called out and most head there.

Guy on my team asks "what's going on? I don't think this is being coordinated at all. This isn't going anywhere".

I tells him, I says, "follow broadcast"
Dude says, "There isn't anything in broadcast" (even though 3 out of 4 banners were defeated at this time)
I tells him, I says, "....yes there is"
Another member says "sure there is"
Dude says, "I guess I have that guy on ignore"
I tells him, I says, "Satanic hamster, probably do"
Dude says, "Oh hell yes I do. I really dislike that player".


Ya know, some of the little things in life can bring just the biggest smiles. He didn't act like he didn't get badge credit so it should have counted for the team as a whole. I've done a couple of banners now with Shamster either on the team or on another team, and I generally try to help out with direction if someone hasn't already done so. Shamster likes to try to step on my toes and complain about the direction even though it couldn't be simpler. I can't say I really blame the guy on my team in this instance.

I've already forgotten about most of you

Voodoo's idea of banners:
Do the colors from left to right, regardless of where they actually are on a map.

Hamster's idea:
Do them in a line from where they actually are on a map.

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If banners no. 1 and 3 are right next to each other and 2 and 4 are paired up across the zone , I don't see a reason to go 1.5 miles over to no. 2 then back and then etc etc, just because Vood wants to go "in order."

Vood = noob. Voonoob.

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