jdotmi | Oct. 21st, 2003

Ok. So, if you don't know EverQuest this post will make about as much sense to you as a discussion about the finer points of quantum physics in the Star Trek universe. Actually, that might make sense...

Anyrate.

So, picture this group setup. 36 Warrior. 32 Bard. 36 Necro. 34 Necro. 30 Necro. 31 Druid (me). We're going to go beat up on lots of Undead things. The Druid (me) should have had no stress at all with this setup. Crowd control, good tanking, great pulling, and lots of incoming mana should I need it. Right? ... RIGHT???

...

Wrong...

First off. Bard? AC and hitpoints around the level of a wet glob of snot. The few times he actually got hit I saw huge drops in HP levels. Nevermind I don't think he figured out they moved his auto-attack key a week ago. Pretty sure he got powerleveled from 1 to 30 without ever upgrading his equipment after level 15. He had know idea what songs to use. Never once tried to do crowd control. Could not play a song and attack at the same time. In general, he sucked.

Necro1. This guy rocked. This guy went on my friends list. I had played with him before and he was very good about telling me exactly how things would work. He did an excellent job. He gave me mana. He only got aggro once, and that was because if he didn't we probably would have lost the Warrior. In general, great player.

Necro2. ... I don't know what this guys problem was. He was meleeing the mobs. He was using his gutter heal spell on ME of all people. He was wasting time bandaging people instead of medding up so he could transfer mana to the Druid who could heal 300 hp per spellcast. He spent most of the beginning of the adventure asking for rusties for his pet.

Necro3. ... I don't think this guy did anything other than sit down in bad spots. He did eventually start giving me mana. His pet did decent damage. He rarely got aggro'd on, aside from when he wouldn't sit down and let the tanks pull.

Warrior. ... Ok. Picture this. You are at 50% health. You're in a group with 1 other possible tank who has already proven that he can't even pretend to tank. Yeah, it's a bard and shouldn't be expected to, but if need be it could. Nevermind the guy didn't know how to turn on autoattack or use Chant of Battle (or whatever the current level of that song was). Now imagine, if you will, that your only healer, who happens to be THE DRUID, says "10mana". What would you do? Seriously? What would you do? "Pulling. Probably gonna be two."

At this point, Necro1 and I start exchanging tells. Stupid factor got to both of us. Thankfully, we all managed to survive long enough to complete the collection on the Adventure. Sadly, the Warrior opted to pull while at 60 health and we got a wanderer in our room at just that time. There were 3 mobs at that point. Then two more show up.

I hit the key marked "evac".

Warrior had 17% left when we reloaded at zone in.

Warrior congratulated me on a well timed evac.

Warrior is lucky we don't live on a Zek.