My first griefing experience

[nomaddog]

I've been playing DDO for a little over a year now. During that time, I've run with some really nice people, some huge jerks, and the occasional wierdo. What happened to me last night really threw me though.

I was running my lvl 5 Paladin and saw an LFM up for Harbor quests. When I joined, there was a sorc (party leader), a cleric and another pallie, all lvls 4 and 5. They wanted to do Kobold's New Ringleader, which I had no problems with. We run through the quest and when we get to the end fight, the sorc starts spamming grease throughout the entire room. I continuously fall down and get owned by Bloodknuckles. I try running to the shrine, but I am JUST out of reach. As I rubberband back, I noticed that the other paladin had picked up my soulstone and I figured he was running me back to the shrine to rez. Instead, they took me to the room opposite the final chest and dropped my stone.

When I rubberbanded back, all three of them were dancing around my dropped stone. The leader says to me that I needed to get my balance up. I rezzed out of the quest and they said 'What happened with that guy?' and then booted me from the group.

I kept an eye on their LFM and noticed that another melee character had joined them and that they were doing Kobold's New Ringleader also. What was interesting was that all of them were out of the quest and he was the only one in. I sent him a tell asking if what had happened to me had also happened to him and he answered in the affirmative.

As much as I like to play this game, it's people like that who really make me rethink why it is I play.

[Falco_Easts]

Report for griefing. Suggest the other person do the same. Those 3 might take a little enforced holiday.

[Dulcimerist]

Wow! I wish a caster had dropped a fireball on all of that grease and burnt all of those punks to a crisp!

[AndyD47]

Question,The three of them weren't in the same guild were they?

If so,might want to have a chat with that guild leader.

[melkor1702]

Question,The three of them weren't in the same guild were they?

If so,might want to have a chat with that guild leader.

It's probably a guild of three and one of them being the guild leader.

[NinjaNeed]

Can you PM me their names please?

[LightInDark]

Report for griefing and move on.

You will meet people like this in life, best to try and put it behind you otherwise they win again

[Postumus]

I guess there's always one trd in the PUGbowl.


Sorry about that. I would have burned those names into my brain and filed that one under "to be continued..."

[d4rkstars]

lol what a terrible story... cant help laughing at it, but i m sure being part of it must have been more stressing

anyway, you are a vet obvisouly, so you should survive missing one chest in a lvl 2 quest, you got the xp, the reward and can probably afford the repair bill.

report them for their attitude, make sure their guild is known for being absolute ass and moove on

[vVAnjilaVv]

Wow, I really hope you took SS's and reported this.

Agree with what was said here, don't play into their game, many times manipulating piles of garbage like this will turn things around and end up making the victim turn into the guilty.

I'd say what I would love to do to people like this but it would get me infraction points.......let's just say it would be sadistic and I wouldn't feel a shred of guilt about it at all.


Most people are pretty cool in this game....almost all of them are, but there are some losers who have absolutely no life and this is there "safe" place to cause trouble. Most cyber-bullies are absolute spineless cowards in real life....take comfort in that at least.

[pMagic]

Please PM their names and report them.

[tunabomber]

I've been playing DDO for a little over a year now. During that time, I've run with some really nice people, some huge jerks, and the occasional wierdo. What happened to me last night really threw me though.

I was running my lvl 5 Paladin and saw an LFM up for Harbor quests. When I joined, there was a sorc (party leader), a cleric and another pallie, all lvls 4 and 5. They wanted to do Kobold's New Ringleader, which I had no problems with. We run through the quest and when we get to the end fight, the sorc starts spamming grease throughout the entire room. I continuously fall down and get owned by Bloodknuckles. I try running to the shrine, but I am JUST out of reach. As I rubberband back, I noticed that the other paladin had picked up my soulstone and I figured he was running me back to the shrine to rez. Instead, they took me to the room opposite the final chest and dropped my stone.

When I rubberbanded back, all three of them were dancing around my dropped stone. The leader says to me that I needed to get my balance up. I rezzed out of the quest and they said 'What happened with that guy?' and then booted me from the group.

I kept an eye on their LFM and noticed that another melee character had joined them and that they were doing Kobold's New Ringleader also. What was interesting was that all of them were out of the quest and he was the only one in. I sent him a tell asking if what had happened to me had also happened to him and he answered in the affirmative.

As much as I like to play this game, it's people like that who really make me rethink why it is I play.

Thats a bummer dude,like others have said report them,on another note if you are ever lookin for someone to group up with let me know.I have a lowbie that just made level 8 yesterday. smashabomber is his name.send me a message in game if im on him and I will help you if ya want

[Dex]

One of my guild mates told a story of a similar thing happening at the end of Crucible in the chest area. Just this last weekend. It is regrettable that we cannot name these buggers and identify them for who they are. Turbine really needs to revisit that policy.

Report them, that is all you can do.

[Nines9]

That sucks, but it does happen.

Please PM me names if you don't mind.

[Astraghal]

lol what a terrible story... cant help laughing at it, but i m sure being part of it must have been more stressing

anyway, you are a vet obvisouly, so you should survive missing one chest in a lvl 2 quest, you got the xp, the reward and can probably afford the repair bill.

report them for their attitude, make sure their guild is known for being absolute ass and moove on

I don't understand how you can find this story the least bit amusing.

Then you attempt to trivialize the incident with your subsequent comments.

I find it completely incomprehensible how you can take such a dismissive and apologist stance over such blatantly obvious bullying behaviour.

That sucks, but it does happen.

Please PM me names if you don't mind.

There are no buts, it just sucks that people would put time and energy into being this nasty to another person.

If I saw someone push you over on the street and laugh at you, after helping you up I wouldn't say to you 'hey that sucks, but it happens', I'd be calling the police to report that I'd just witnessed an assault.

[Pape_27]

I've been playing DDO for a little over a year now. During that time, I've run with some really nice people, some huge jerks, and the occasional wierdo. What happened to me last night really threw me though.

I was running my lvl 5 Paladin and saw an LFM up for Harbor quests. When I joined, there was a sorc (party leader), a cleric and another pallie, all lvls 4 and 5. They wanted to do Kobold's New Ringleader, which I had no problems with. We run through the quest and when we get to the end fight, the sorc starts spamming grease throughout the entire room. I continuously fall down and get owned by Bloodknuckles. I try running to the shrine, but I am JUST out of reach. As I rubberband back, I noticed that the other paladin had picked up my soulstone and I figured he was running me back to the shrine to rez. Instead, they took me to the room opposite the final chest and dropped my stone.

When I rubberbanded back, all three of them were dancing around my dropped stone. The leader says to me that I needed to get my balance up. I rezzed out of the quest and they said 'What happened with that guy?' and then booted me from the group.

I kept an eye on their LFM and noticed that another melee character had joined them and that they were doing Kobold's New Ringleader also. What was interesting was that all of them were out of the quest and he was the only one in. I sent him a tell asking if what had happened to me had also happened to him and he answered in the affirmative.

As much as I like to play this game, it's people like that who really make me rethink why it is I play.

Please pm me the names/guild

[der_kluge]

Please PM their names and report them.

Yes, PM me their names, and/or the guild.

I just started a new veteran cleric to play with my friends since they are low level. And she's right in that level range. No way would I want to play with these jerks.

[Kawabonga]

Bullies...
Meanies...
Manipulators...

When someone needs to make someone else smaller in order to feel better about themselves, it must be that deep inside they really are wussy beings without a glimpse of self confidence...

Once you look at it that way, you will start just being sorry for them.

/Squelsh

/Move on

[Irinis]

I find it completely incomprehensible how you can take such a dismissive and apologist stance over such blatantly obvious bullying behaviour.

Don't you know it's just a game and anything's fine as long as it's funny to someone. Getting annoyed by people on the internet no matter what they do just means you're too sensitive!

For more information on bullying, there are a few excellent websites out there.

Bullies...
Meanies...
Manipulators...

When someone needs to make someone else smaller in order to feel better about themselves, it must be that deep inside they really are wussy beings without a glimpse of self confidence...

Once you look at it that way, you will start just being sorry for them.

/Squelsh

/Move on

No.

/report (autosquelch)

if bullies look likely to do this to other people too:
/warnothers

then
/moveon

Which is exactly what the OP did. Enough reports and even pathetic bullies can learn to exhibit appropriate behaviour. Or not.

PM names and guild please, I do sometimes play on Cannith.

[SeqenenreTao]

These guys are in my level range, can you please PM me names (to avoid their PUGS).

Thanks.

ps. very annoying to be sure.