Looting Rant

[SoulEdge]

It's been done to me, so I do it to them. Even better if they're Alliance, because then I kill them and camp them until they get the hell away from MY mineral nodes.

:unsure: I do not like it when it happened to me, why would I want to do that to the others? Just because the others are behaving badly doesn't mean we have to sink to thier level.

Also the corpse camping reminded me of similar incidence I encountered, some Horde players decided to invade Loch Modan, some Alliance players protected the area and killed them. The Horde resurrected and were killed again, it repeated for a few times, at first I thought the Horde players were not giving up, so I was glad there were players who enjoy PvP and were dealing with the invasion. Until it became apparent in the general chat that those Horde players were actually trying to run away but the Alliance players were camping their corpses. It disturbed me that those Alliance players were boasting about the whole camping thing.

So I said:

"Isn't corpse camping a form of grieving?"

"What's grieving?"

Some other player chimed in: "Yea, let them go. They are just trying to hearth out."

I really wouldn't like to be in that situation.

Mining in actual mines never works, unless you're much higher level, for just the reason you described. It's far better to go for nodes on mountainsides.

Thanks for the tips on going for nodes on mountainsides, had more success doing that.

And if you go back when you are a higher level, you're screwing people over just like you were screwed over and the cycle starts over again. 

Couldn't agree more!

I generally stay at area with enemies appropriate to my level, and I work on my secondary professions as I quest and level, single-minded grinding just to skill up a profession is not fun to me, and going back to low level area to rob the low level characters of their resources is just not right IMHO.


But not all hope is lost! Here's a decent encounter, well, kind of.

While I was working on the Bingle's supplies quest, I came upon a paladin who had three enemies on her and seemed to be in trouble, I pulled one of the enemies off her and placed some curses on the others she already engaged (those with grey background names). After we killed the enemies, she thanked me and asked me to roll for the chest nearby. I told her it's all hers, she was there first and I was just there for Bingle's supplies. She said she was there for the supplies too. While we were chatting, an enemy spawned near me, so I engaged it and the paladin kindly assisted.

It's really great to meet nice player.

While we were fighting the spawned enemy, someone ran in and looted the chest.

Oh well...