Bard swarm kiting or zone disruption?

[Ciderpress]

For the willfully obtuse salty bards: don't bard in a way that is obviously insanely annoying to other people in the zone. This rule needed to be implemented because you couldn't just do this on your own, apparently.

Woah, woah woah I can't understand, is it okay for me to swarm in velks if I'm helping a group level, who is obviously okay with me doing that and actively wants me to do it??? Isn't that like, kiiiiinda the same as me swarming com and training the shit out of everyone?? Boy, I don't understand this mysterious new ruling!

[Talerain]

I've asked several different people and have got several different answers. I definitely can see if someone is being a Jerk to the entire zone who continuously does the same thing for hours on end. I'm talking limited once in like 2 - 3 hour crap when 1 mob gets stuck somewhere up top and just starts social aggroing everything.

In 7 hours today in Velks, I only had 1 pull which ended up with like 7+ mobs but they just kept coming in waves of 2 - 3 for about 3 waves. Now can I use my DPS songs or not in this scenario?

[cd288]

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

I've asked several different people and have got several different answers. I definitely can see if someone is being a Jerk to the entire zone who continuously does the same thing for hours on end. I'm talking limited once in like 2 - 3 hour crap when 1 mob gets stuck somewhere up top and just starts social aggroing everything.

In 7 hours today in Velks, I only had 1 pull which ended up with like 7+ mobs but they just kept coming in waves of 2 - 3 for about 3 waves. Now can I use my DPS songs or not in this scenario?

The staff are not going to punish you for pulling in a group and pulling a bunch of mobs that you and your group then kill (including with you using your AoE song if needed) - assuming that you're not stealing mobs from another person/group's camp. They would likely punish you if you repeatedly caused trains with your pulling that screwed up other people, but that's not a Bard issue they would do that to any puller.

[cd288]

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

For the willfully obtuse salty bards: don't bard in a way that is obviously insanely annoying to other people in the zone. This rule needed to be implemented because you couldn't just do this on your own, apparently.

Woah, woah woah I can't understand, is it okay for me to swarm in velks if I'm helping a group level, who is obviously okay with me doing that and actively wants me to do it??? Isn't that like, kiiiiinda the same as me swarming com and training the shit out of everyone?? Boy, I don't understand this mysterious new ruling!

This is well said. It's pretty freaking obvious what the staff is talking about here. And the group angle technically has nothing to do with Bards...any puller could pull a shit ton of mobs and cause zone disruption and they'd be in trouble, this isn't anything new.