Are the West Karana Bandit Camps really THAT popular?

[Othniel626]

Trying to find a better place to grind to 14 on my Druid than sitting in Blackburrow killing LB's/Green mobs for minimal exp and fangs. Plus, it seems to be plagued with random lvl 20+ twinks two-hitting things, probably for fangs(?). So I decide to have the bright idea of trying out WK; I've never really tried hunting there and it always seemed like it's dead from the few times I've been in it on this server (it was ALWAYS dead on live for me).

I look up the map, find the cozy bandit farm and start killing. Not two minutes into the killing, the ogre that's been two-shotting gnolls in BB for the past few days randomly shows up and starts killing mobs, which prompts me to assert myself into the camp by pulling another one (even though there are bodies strewn along the ground from my previous victims). Of course, I accidentally pull 2 at half mana because I got bullish and ended up wiping. *sigh*.

Ok whatever, let's go for round 2. Run back and loot my corpse and get into a groove of breaking the camp (no ogre in sight). Have the camp for about an hour (there are, surprisingly, a few CC calls in OOC). I return the CC with "Bandit Farm." No problem. Then randomly, during a med, some red con mage comes up and starts destroying the camp (I'm hidden at this point to avoid aggro, but bodies are still around to show someone's there). He cleans the camp. Well, ok, I guess the camp is broken now and the guy runs off somewhere else.

Get about another hour on the camp uninterrupted, end of screwing up another pull and dying. I am gone for all of 5 minutes (bound in Qeynos) on a CR and I come back to two lvl 9's at the camp (and all of these bandits are deep blue or white cons to me at 11/12). I suppose it's theirs now, but geez, are the bandits really THAT popular?

For people who might want to console me by saying, "Why don't you just group with them? You'd be able to get exp and kill mobs faster," I say to you, "No, solo exp is probably much better, I get to keep the loot (and sashes), and I don't have to put effort into typing and being cordial (I'm mostly a casual player who doesn't get time to group, and I'm ok with that).

In closing, let's try not to take camps from people when their bodies are still warm. And yes, I know I could've probably just talked to everyone about not taking from the camp, but I hate conflict and would rather just bottle it up until I explode on a post on some forum or something.

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