Quote Originally Posted by Stimulus View Post
I'm the guy who died.

The server is slowing down, and you sometimes have to run with uh... special people. That's par for the course imo, but Homeskillet here has presented a fairly inaccurate recounting of events.

For context, he is one of those hang back, last to engage, semi-afk players that makes your shoulders ache. Also, I was playing a bard/rog with 137 hp with ship buffs only. You can cross-reference this info with his earlier claims and reach your own conclusions about how observant he is.

For my part, I try to buff whoever doesn't leeroy out of range at the start of every zone (blur, song, resists, bless clicky if your noncleric has an allergy to casting it), and I did the same in D@D.

Anyway, I was around the corner from the Obituary room, spot healing people while los-ing the shaman, and somehow ate a splinter bolt. I backed up a bit more trying to heal myself, and ended up beside the op who wasn't actually doing anything. Kept trying to heal myself and died. So, I sent him a much nicer tell than he deserved. It struck a chord, so he came here. Tbh, I already feel my work is done.

I'm not much for Final Thoughts, but I have 2 takeaways for the tl;dr crowd:

1. Lie effectively plz. People have screenshots and stuff.
2. If you get into a group with people who just hang back and don't do anything, or with sluggish tunnelvisioners, just leave.

Bye.

I'm sorry you died and sorry you blame me for your death. I would have healed you had I noticed you were in trouble, but you were dead before I knew it.

Your /tell at the time of course struck a nerve as nobody likes to be badly thought of on hardcore where grouping is so crucial.

As to your comments about my playstyle, I always stay behind the trapper when moving and back from combat as I am playing ranged DPS. This just seems sensible to me.

As to 'doing nothing', kill counts may be an imperfect gauge but as I was second I guess I was doing 'something'.

Everyone hates dying on hardcore, I'm on my fourth toon and totally get it, so no hard feelings from me. Good luck and I hope you reach your goals.