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- Mar 2, 2010
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I didn't really want to create a new thread, but I thought that this wouldn't really belong to any of the ongoing threads either, so here I go. I invite any other Midgard refugee to share your experiences in here, as well as any of our hosts to share your experiences and views with us.
Today I had an experience that went from bad to sort of amusing.
I'm not sure how's the relationship with Japanese players in Quetz, but I can't recall having a bad experience with them on Midgard. I helped them some and they sometimes helped me, we even teamed up to kill Nidhogg or formed a suicide trio party to kite Fafnir around the Aery for laughs. Some ended in my friendlist and we have small chats with the autotranslator from time to time.
I went to duo an orc in the past version of the glacier for a wotg mission with a linkshell mate, she coming as Ninja and me as Red Mage. Mighty Strikes + getting stunned from Battle Dance got us both killed when we got it at about 10%. Not having used Reraise, I decide to come back as White Mage to raise my dead partner and give it another try with a ls Rdm that would be joining us.
While I’m making my way to the spot where my dead friend was, two Japanese players show up there, also a Rdm and a Nin, named Ascari and Rna respectively. My dead partner politely asks them for a raise. She gets neither reply nor raise.
I end up arriving where her body lies, raise her and while she gets unweakened our ls Red Mage joins us. The Japanese duo popped the orc and I try to ask them politely with the autotranslator if they want to team up (so we don’t have to wait for the time they would take to duo it and to have more chance of success for both groups). Again, we don’t get a reply.
An interesting note is that when my dead friend saw them they were wearing linkshell pearls but when I got there and asked them to team up they weren't wearing their pearls anymore and had activated their mentor status, as if they intended to hide that fact.
At this point I decide not to raise them if they die, and it turns out that the Nin dies more or less the same way that we did at about 5%. The Red Mage manages to survive thanks to his Nin sub and kites the mob a bit hoping that bio will end up killing it. The Ninja reraises while he’s doing that, the Rdm gets killed and the Ninja finally uses his 2-hour on the Orc, killing it. He apparently used Reraise again, but the Rdm is still dead and he has no way of raising him.
Right when they killed it we went to the spot where it’s popped, as while all this happened, another Japanese group was gathering there. We didn’t want to wait again if they turned out to be as unsupportive as the previous duo so we popped it as quick as we could. This seemingly prevented Rna to get the cutscene from killing the orc, although this was unintended. It also confused the other group, who believed that we just fought it with the Rna and Ascari and were popping it again for some weird reason.
Right after we engage the Orc I invite the newcomer group to join us, and we form an alliance that swiftly deals with it.
Once we are done, Rna attempts getting the cutscene again, resulting in him popping the Orc and having to run for his life. With the ally, we watch the Orc slowly walk back from the zoneline to his spawning point before leaving. We congratulate each other and leave courteously. I don’t know the fate of the Red Mage, as he wasn’t at the spot where he died, but my guess is that he home pointed; couldn't have raised him then regardless if I wanted or not.
My first thoughts were: that wouldn’t have happened in Midgard, at least not on a mission nm that doesn’t drop anything. So I went to check in ffxiah and both Rna and Ascari turned out to be Quetzalcoatl natives. I also checked the members from the party we ended teaming with and three of them were from Midgard while the other two were from Quetz.
This behavior shocked me, and I would like to know if, in here, it’s more commonplace that I’m used to or I just had really bad luck with one of my first experiences in my new home.
Today I had an experience that went from bad to sort of amusing.
I'm not sure how's the relationship with Japanese players in Quetz, but I can't recall having a bad experience with them on Midgard. I helped them some and they sometimes helped me, we even teamed up to kill Nidhogg or formed a suicide trio party to kite Fafnir around the Aery for laughs. Some ended in my friendlist and we have small chats with the autotranslator from time to time.
I went to duo an orc in the past version of the glacier for a wotg mission with a linkshell mate, she coming as Ninja and me as Red Mage. Mighty Strikes + getting stunned from Battle Dance got us both killed when we got it at about 10%. Not having used Reraise, I decide to come back as White Mage to raise my dead partner and give it another try with a ls Rdm that would be joining us.
While I’m making my way to the spot where my dead friend was, two Japanese players show up there, also a Rdm and a Nin, named Ascari and Rna respectively. My dead partner politely asks them for a raise. She gets neither reply nor raise.
I end up arriving where her body lies, raise her and while she gets unweakened our ls Red Mage joins us. The Japanese duo popped the orc and I try to ask them politely with the autotranslator if they want to team up (so we don’t have to wait for the time they would take to duo it and to have more chance of success for both groups). Again, we don’t get a reply.
An interesting note is that when my dead friend saw them they were wearing linkshell pearls but when I got there and asked them to team up they weren't wearing their pearls anymore and had activated their mentor status, as if they intended to hide that fact.
At this point I decide not to raise them if they die, and it turns out that the Nin dies more or less the same way that we did at about 5%. The Red Mage manages to survive thanks to his Nin sub and kites the mob a bit hoping that bio will end up killing it. The Ninja reraises while he’s doing that, the Rdm gets killed and the Ninja finally uses his 2-hour on the Orc, killing it. He apparently used Reraise again, but the Rdm is still dead and he has no way of raising him.
Right when they killed it we went to the spot where it’s popped, as while all this happened, another Japanese group was gathering there. We didn’t want to wait again if they turned out to be as unsupportive as the previous duo so we popped it as quick as we could. This seemingly prevented Rna to get the cutscene from killing the orc, although this was unintended. It also confused the other group, who believed that we just fought it with the Rna and Ascari and were popping it again for some weird reason.
Right after we engage the Orc I invite the newcomer group to join us, and we form an alliance that swiftly deals with it.
Once we are done, Rna attempts getting the cutscene again, resulting in him popping the Orc and having to run for his life. With the ally, we watch the Orc slowly walk back from the zoneline to his spawning point before leaving. We congratulate each other and leave courteously. I don’t know the fate of the Red Mage, as he wasn’t at the spot where he died, but my guess is that he home pointed; couldn't have raised him then regardless if I wanted or not.
My first thoughts were: that wouldn’t have happened in Midgard, at least not on a mission nm that doesn’t drop anything. So I went to check in ffxiah and both Rna and Ascari turned out to be Quetzalcoatl natives. I also checked the members from the party we ended teaming with and three of them were from Midgard while the other two were from Quetz.
This behavior shocked me, and I would like to know if, in here, it’s more commonplace that I’m used to or I just had really bad luck with one of my first experiences in my new home.
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. At one point I even /poked a passing taru blm that looked like me :wink:, he paused on the other side of the b.mines ah wall for a long while before entering mh.
