Yes another swarm kite post

[Nixtar]

And bards wonder why so many people hate them.

PRO TIP: When you act like a colossal douche to an entire zone, guess what? People will have an issue with you. If you want to level up on being a complete asshole, do like this bard, and go to a zone which often have lots of groups of people competing for mobs and ruin their day. Works every time, people will despise you in no-time!

Same thing applies to those friendly PLing bards(or PLers in general) picking popular zones
as their playground.

Or you can simply try not be a jerk but apparently that's asking too much from certain people.

[Menden]

What I like to do is if player A has more than 4 mobs on them, and Player B pulls a single off. I would rule in the favor of player B. If I see a bard swarm kiting and I notice lag in the zone, I ask them to knock their numbers down. I'll check back and if they are still kiting larger numbers, I tell them to leave the zone.

You are responsible for your kite, if your kite kills someone, then we have a problem. It's reckless behavior and disrupts people's fun. You're lucky, I wanted to cause people to go LD, and let them die after a warning, but Senior Guides told me no. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Swarm kite all you want, just don't do anything to disrupt other players, it's simple as that. I don't want to see any swarms coming remotely close to another player's camp(looking at you DL wall). You are all over the place, it is your responsibility to have control of your mobs. I'm tired of the "well they shouldn't have gotten in the way".

It all falls under fair play and frankly, just don't be a douche. In the example of City of Mist, I would have told the bard to leave the zone.

[iruinedyourday]

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

What I like to do is if player A has more than 4 mobs on them, and Player B pulls a single off. I would rule in the favor of player B. If I see a bard swarm kiting and I notice lag in the zone, I ask them to knock their numbers down. I'll check back and if they are still kiting larger numbers, I tell them to leave the zone.

You are responsible for your kite, if your kite kills someone, then we have a problem. It's reckless behavior and disrupts people's fun. You're lucky, I wanted to cause people to go LD, and let them die after a warning, but Senior Guides told me no. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Swarm kite all you want, just don't do anything to disrupt other players, it's simple as that. I don't want to see any swarms coming remotely close to another player's camp(looking at you DL wall). You are all over the place, it is your responsibility to have control of your mobs. I'm tired of the "well they shouldn't have gotten in the way".

It all falls under fair play and frankly, just don't be a douche. In the example of City of Mist, I would have told the bard to leave the zone.

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[Dolalin]

Well, just to add some authenticity to this post, versus the unsubstantiated rant fest that has been going on, I met the bard in question last night while grouped at arena, and he invited our entire group for his PBAoE pull. All of us, 40ish, got a yellow in our prospective levels, and the bard was a really nice guy. He trained no one. I think this thread has been blown pretty far out of proportion. Most bards aren't arseholes. Let's keep it real.

[MiRo2]

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

I met the bard in question last night while grouped at arena, and he invited our entire group for his PBAoE pull. All of us, 40ish, got a yellow in our prospective levels, and the bard was a really nice guy. He trained no one. I think this thread has been blown pretty far out of proportion. Most bards aren't arseholes. Let's keep it real.

Intent versus impact. He was doing the same the other night, inviting lower people in for a pull and letting shamans loot pages off his mobs, while simultaneously taking mobs from the higher level groups, and creating crippling lag for half the people in the zone. Its still zone disruption, I'm sure there were more than 6 people in the zone when he did this for your group.

[Swish]

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

Well, just to add some authenticity to this post, versus the unsubstantiated rant fest that has been going on, I met the bard in question last night while grouped at arena, and he invited our entire group for his PBAoE pull. All of us, 40ish, got a yellow in our prospective levels, and the bard was a really nice guy. He trained no one. I think this thread has been blown pretty far out of proportion. Most bards aren't arseholes. Let's keep it real.

Have you seen the PL'ing ones in OT? Well...

[iruinedyourday]

Originally Posted by MiRo2 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

letting shamans loot pages off his mobs.

Lmao. "I'm gonna loot everyone of these corpses and delete the thousands of lbs of copper & silver and while I'm doing that I'll delete all the pages, JUST SO YOU CANT HAVE EM!"

Lmao lets be real you don't let shamans loot bard kites, they just do /shrug

[Bionic]

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

Some Bard was swarming orcs in Oasis the other day while there was a grp at Orc hwy and I was soloing orcs off to the side on an alt. He was starving both of us out. So I kindly reminded everyone in /ooc that it was perfectly legal to pull singles off of a kite of more than 4 mobs.

Bard wasn't happy with me but it made me laugh and who doesn't like seeing scummy Bards get their parades rained on? He left after 2 more pull attempts and everyone rejoiced.

First time you did that to me I would have just zoned and let you have ALL of the mobs. You're lucky he was willing to be respectable, even though you weren't.

Don't get me wrong here, if there are groups present the bard should really limit his kite to allow there to be enough mobs for the others to exp off of, but if you look for opportunities come in and take mobs that any bard has rightfully pulled and AoE'd down, simply because he has more than 4, you're a scumbag.

[Pokesan]

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

First time you did that to me I would have just zoned and let you have ALL of the mobs. You're lucky he was willing to be respectable, even though you weren't.

Don't get me wrong here, if there are groups present the bard should really limit his kite to allow there to be enough mobs for the others to exp off of, but if you look for opportunities come in and take mobs that any bard has rightfully pulled and AoE'd down, simply because he has more than 4, you're a scumbag.

This would get you suspended, tough guy.