Bard AoE kiting How-to & Screenshots

[Kraftwerk]

Just a heads up fellow Bards, we're not all saints so it seems and I wanted to let you guys know about a Bard I met today who was nothing but rude to me and the zone I was in. As we all know Overthere is Bard heaven, but we have to be considerate as well, I personally take anywhere from 10 to 20 minutes gathering, then 5-8 minutes killing my kite. I start, and 30 min later my kite is dead. I rarely hear any chatter in ooc about mob disruption and things generally go smoothly. Today I logged into OT with plans to do a kite or two depending on who was online (I have a few OT regulars I like to invite to group and help lvl from my kites).

Anyways, I noticed a bard named Hellic was running around with a sizeable kite, this was around 7:10 PM so he had probably started at 6:50-6:55 gathering. I started collecting and was running around near the pillars in front of SF and saw Hellic still running around with his pack, this was at ~7:25. He was running towards mobs getting prox/social agro using his pack. I noted this and kept gathering what I could. By about 7:30 I was heading to my spot (on the north shore just east of Outpost), I got there and noticed he was there just starting to kill his kite. It was at this point that OOC began to get rowdy and people were complaining that a bard had killed their group was deprived of mobs for the past few hours, etc.

I remembered that Hellic had spent quite a long time (maybe 40min) before he had started killing his pack and used social agro instead of a chant on some of his mobs. I then saw Hellic's corpse nearby and saw that he had died recently so I figured maybe he was relatively new to kiting and needed a few pointers. During my lvling up and expanding of my AE kiting knowledge I've had bards ask me for advice and I've offered it to others. I've only ever encountered polite and nice Bards - Jonahlee, Tewaz, Brezner, Cutco, Lightspeed, Zalgyr, the list goes on and on and I couldn't possibly name them all. Hellic rubbed me the wrong way, I don't appreciate his disdain for the rest of people in Overthere, or his responses to me after approaching him with advice. Read below, and stear CLEAR of HELLIC:

What I said first:

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His response:

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I apologize for sullying this good thread with these non-kite pictures, but I wanted to be sure others knew about this.