April 5, 2012

Jerk in Eden Eternal

I was playing as a Thief (my usual class) in the game when I asked for some aid for a dungeon. I could do a 1-player dungeon, but won't really get anything out of it. 1-player dungeon is mainly for quests, no exp, money or drops are given. In encourages partying basically. So I ask a bit for some aid, repeat it after some time passes by... then I decided to just go do a 1-player dungeon.

As I started I see in the chat iBugs is looking for a party as well. I leave the dungeon and ask for an invite. Got invited and changed the channel to 1, by request of Brul, a Ursun with a character level in his mid 40's, who is the leader of the party.

Brul and iBugs belong to the guild Dominate. iBugs was around my level, played the Bard role for the dungeon. Brul played Engineer (at start), Martial Artist (M.A., briefly in the middle then back to Engi) and Bard (at end) roles.

During the dungeon run, I took notice I wasn't getting any EXP from the kills, which is odd in a non-1player dungeon. Brul said, in a bit of broken english, that this was only a run to finish a quest, not EXP. I replied that while that is true, I would also expect to get EXP as well. The distribution was set at evenly distributed, despite he was doing all the damage and killing as a Engi and M.A. I tried to help too, but there wasn't much room for me to do much damage, just barely.

There was a time I would get the agro, being a DPS class I usually get the agro so I was doing my role right. However, iBugs didn't bother to heal me and kept healing Brul, who is level forty-something while the monsters are at level 27 or around despite I tried to run away for the Engi/M.A. to get the agro instead. After I died, spawned outside of the dungeon, and ran back inside, Brul says to not act so bravely. Of course that ticked me off. Telling a DPS class to not act bravely is like telling a supporting class not to be a healer but a fighter.

After the first boss (sub-boss basically), getting some character exp from it, and dying only once so far, we, mainly Brul, made our way to the second boss. He crushes the small fries like they were nothing... again no exp from them which is disappointing for me and I'm sure iBugs is just being spoiled.

We finally stand in front of the second, and last, boss of the dungeon. A little discussion is being made between them if iBugs has "Burning Metal", but his Bard level is too low to get it. Brul decides to go Bard then and tells iBugs, still a Bard, to heal him. In my mind I'm going, "What are you, stupid?! A healing class is a supporting class, not a DPS class."

I let Brul take the agro first before I joined in. I start slashing away the monster with my skills when I suddenly get the agro, which again is part of the role if no tank is in the party. I run for a chance to get healed, but I don't. iBugs just keeps healing Brul, who really doesn't need any heals, he barely got damaged so far since I got the agro anyway, and ignoring me saying "Or heal me!"

I died again, run back and this is what Brul said, still as a Bard. "I told you not act so bravely" and then " sit in entrance if you need so" I refused, saying "I'm dps man... what do you expect?" and charged right back in. "a dead dps" he replied. Then he says to iBugs, "try not inviting unimportan[t] person such that bugs".

Despite all the damage he did as a bard, I got the last hit on the monster. (You get an announcement, locally when in dungeon, on who got the last hit.) Did the loot choosing and such, and then I get kicked out of the party with a 30 second warning to leave the site. Doesn't matter to me. Got what I wanted: finished the quest (main goal) and got some good loot. I showed myself the exit. Next thing I know I get a whisper from Brul calling me a "noob". I replied, "news flash! DPS = MALICE. Not my problem. Healing classes aren't exactly fighting classes anyway."

Needless to say, I wasn't really having fun as this was becoming too easy... and the lack of EXP was just depressing as well. I'm sure in his mind he was "helping", but to me it was just showing off his skills. iBugs shouldn't be hanging with a jerk like him, he's a bad influence.

Here's screenshots of the chat that is left in the log.
Chat Log 1
Chat Log 2
Chat Log 3
Chat Log 4 (Look in whisper, pinkish-purple)
Chat Log 5 (Look in whisper, pinkish-purple)

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