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Yesterday, I was in a PT on my WAR, slaughtering innocent beetles and such. PT breaks up, and I ask the WHM to give me a teledem. I was planning on doing some light farming and skilling up Great Axe some (i've been neglecting it, there's a seperate thread in the WAR forums if you want to complain about that).
I go to the northwestern section, since I know it has reliable Water Ele and Bogy spawns. I go to work killing them, and the nearby leeches and crawlers while I wait on spawns. Now, since the ponds in the marshlands can be a pain to follow mobs through, i'd use voke to get them to come to me.
Apperently, this is natively wrong, and a mithra who showed up after I had started (an overwelmingly gimp BLU41/NIN15) started cursing me out because they were "her mobs" and provoke was "playing dirty".
At first, I try to tell her that an unclaimed mob is an unclaimed mob, and it's free to anyone until it's claimed. Typically, i'm not the asshole who takes your mob while you're behind it and using SA to get in a nice first shot, unless it's an NM. Now after this she goes insane, and starts saying things like "people like u have f***ed ffxi" and "u r a dearty old bich"(not kidding).
Now, this was becoming entertaining. A friend of mine even came out to help me claim mobs. At one point, we had 4 mobs attacking us at once. He'd cast on some, i'd provoke one, sturmwind another. Make sure we had more hate than they did. I know this wasn't entirely mature, but I was content to killing one mob at a time (and not using provoke when they're already running after it) until they decided to be assholes, and noobs on top of that. (a 50WHM/SMN friend of the BLU joined later)
Honestly, I don't see why they'd get so upset over it, the drop rate there sucked anyway (Without my THF sub at least. And neither of them had /THF, infact the BLU went to town once to change to /WAR9 so she could "beat me"), I was taking maybe one out of every three mobs at first, and there were three of us there, it was fair.
In short: don't complain about people 'playing dirty', and don't be suprised when they actually start.
I go to the northwestern section, since I know it has reliable Water Ele and Bogy spawns. I go to work killing them, and the nearby leeches and crawlers while I wait on spawns. Now, since the ponds in the marshlands can be a pain to follow mobs through, i'd use voke to get them to come to me.
Apperently, this is natively wrong, and a mithra who showed up after I had started (an overwelmingly gimp BLU41/NIN15) started cursing me out because they were "her mobs" and provoke was "playing dirty".
At first, I try to tell her that an unclaimed mob is an unclaimed mob, and it's free to anyone until it's claimed. Typically, i'm not the asshole who takes your mob while you're behind it and using SA to get in a nice first shot, unless it's an NM. Now after this she goes insane, and starts saying things like "people like u have f***ed ffxi" and "u r a dearty old bich"(not kidding).
Now, this was becoming entertaining. A friend of mine even came out to help me claim mobs. At one point, we had 4 mobs attacking us at once. He'd cast on some, i'd provoke one, sturmwind another. Make sure we had more hate than they did. I know this wasn't entirely mature, but I was content to killing one mob at a time (and not using provoke when they're already running after it) until they decided to be assholes, and noobs on top of that. (a 50WHM/SMN friend of the BLU joined later)
Honestly, I don't see why they'd get so upset over it, the drop rate there sucked anyway (Without my THF sub at least. And neither of them had /THF, infact the BLU went to town once to change to /WAR9 so she could "beat me"), I was taking maybe one out of every three mobs at first, and there were three of us there, it was fair.
In short: don't complain about people 'playing dirty', and don't be suprised when they actually start.
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