Laying claim to an entire zone?

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Originally Posted by DarthMartigan [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I think the "first come first serve" mindset in BW is one that you can argue against by server rules, but if you want to be a bard that swarms you should abide by it. At 56, I get 2 blue bubs or so on a pull of all of BW, so if someone else is about the same level doing the same thing it's a waste of time for both of us. A swarm of 40 mobs takes the same amount of time as 80.

I think if you are a bard in BW and want to be a decent human being, the following two things are super helpful:

1. Don't play /role or /anon. Yesterday a dude got killed trying to respond to me asking if he was swarming. I felt a little bad, but had he just owned that he was a bard pulling a zone no one would have minded. No one on this server is trying to level off hornets/skellies/apes that isn't a bard (or if they are, they aren't doing it often).

2. Respect other bards. If someone is in zone already, send them a tell asking to let you know when they leave. If you are in the zone and someone enters, politely ask them to leave. If they don't, they are terrible. Maybe send them a tell asking to go every other, but that sucks.

It sucks that the community hates us because some bards are pretty awful people, but we shouldn't treat each other (or the community) the same way back. We pull whole zones, and when the zone are empty, it's fine. We should be able to do it with some level of politeness towards each other.

If more necros, mages, other camp classes did this at camps it would save a lot of wasted journeys and prevent you losing part of what you're camping in some instances.