Stupid *&^*&%%**& Campaign Battles...

There isn't much worse than soloing 3/4 of a mob's hq then have everyone and their dog come start attacking the mob. What may be easy to tank solo is a whole different story with 20 people TPing a mob. And by the time others are attacking the mob, I have so much hate that it wont turn and just spams tp moves. So no, I don't want people to see it and come attack it.

You get more experience for longer battles, since experience calculation is largely based on the duration of your tags. It's more efficient for better experience sticking at a battle longer and having your actions assessed over a larger time frame.

I much prefer longer battles, not only because I know I get more points, but also because they're just more enjoyable. There is no purpose to fighting a monster ten blocks away, you don't get any more experience fighting it over there than near the oustpost. Most of the time I believe people do it just to be ***, to be honest.

A lot of times, yes, I can run to any other country on the map and fight their battles. But a lot of times, there really is literally no other battles on the map, anywhere. Anyways, I don't have a problem with people pulling a mob a little ways away, the NPC's can destroy them so fast that sometimes you really have to be a ways away from them in order to get decent experience. It's just when people pull them so far away that they are not even on the map that annoys me.

I solo in Campaign a lot. All the people that wait for Campaign to literally end are just wasting their time. People solo mobs all the time, you should get used to just getting to the next one.

That being said, people who try to "help" me when I solo are ***. They usually just end up getting me killed with the extra TP they feed to the mob.

So lately I've been soloing really far away from the actual campaign spot. And I'm not kidding. REALLY far away. I had pulled a Moonfang Warrior to the southeast corner of East Ronfaure [S] the other day. People still managed to find me, but not until after they got sick of standing at the OP like dumbasses just staring blankly waiting for it to end.

What part about that makes them dumbasses? That's a little unnecessary.

^This. It's a group event. If you wanna solo, go do some Ops or something.

If you're soloing something and killing it expediently, then it's not as big an issue if you're away from the battle. So either the mob that's being solo'd is damn near dead, so you're not losing out on much when people join in, or then you're not killing them fast enough to justify the amount of time everyone is sitting there waiting for you to be done, and have no right to complain when people swarm you to hasten the end of the battle. I'm certainly not gonna run off searching for that last mob if it gets put down quickly, and I'm sure most aren't either. On lower level jobs, I damn sure don't wanna be too far from the fort when my tags wear off lol

Major gripes about campaign:

1) As it's been stated, selfish people who pull the mob away. You don't own the mob, they're for everybody. When I see it happening, I immediately assist and shout the <pos> so others can come help and end the battle.

2) SE nerfed it, thank god, but those douchebags who would show up to a battle only to sing/buff themselves.

3) Mages, I cannot overstate this. It will not kill you to take a moment to stop what you're doing and raise someone. /WHM likely does not compliment our job, and RR earrings are expensive. Have some consideration for the people out there fighting besides yourself. You will very likely get more exp healing, buffing, and raising than you will doing gimp club/saff damage. And before the inevitable ****storm about this part, I do at times whip out my SCH, and do exactly what I've outlined above.

if anything they need to stop the whole xbox crashs when you break 5k exp in CB /

Ouch, Danagon ; ; /comfort. I have dialup, so um.... I hate it too. :<

Also, regarding this
If they ask you to leave, you could respect their request and move elsewhere, OR you could take Barti's route which I wouldn't, in a normal situation, condone, but the fact that it's Barti saying it makes it that much less ***-ish. XD <3

lol yeah i have to say i take my mob pretty far and i try to hide behind a tree so people dont come after my mob. it sucks soooo bad when mobs start spamming tp moves cause of everyone else. its not like they are going to heal u. just going to mpk u. alot of times if i pull a mob and ppl start attacking it, ill just leave it and grab another one :) pull mobs and wait a few seconds to see if anyone else is gonna engage ur mobs ;D

QFT. Sure, it sucks having to spend MP on a Raise, but just think how happy you made someone that didn't have to lay there dead for 20 minutes.

On the flipside, though, if it's a non-BST controlled zone, get the freaking reraise from the NPC for God's Sake. At least one. It only costs 30 Allied Notes which, for me anyways, is about 3% of what you're gonna come away with at the end.

This is true, anthough I generally only do campaign in Ronfaure cause I farm there, and since I'm allied with Bastok no temp items for me. That's why I only do it when NPCs are present so I can get a quick raise.

Maybe their purpose is to mpk the guy that runs away with a single mob, keeping the rest of the ppl standing around waiting, not knowing if battle is about to end or another wave is otw?

To me, these statements are just as rude as if I was expeing as a PT on lesser colibris, and some level 75 comes and starts killing them solo, and when we ask him WTF he says "just find another camp, what are you complaining about? me? waste your time? that's totally okay... stop complaining guys... i am one person and you are a group of people? i know... relax... take it easy! THERE ARE OTHER OPTIONS...

of course there are other (worse) options... that's not the point

most people there are making an unselfish effort to fight mobs in a way that also allows YOU to participate! why just come in and play differently when you know it's gonna screw everyone up? just because it's legal doesn't mean it's nice

about your argument: "just move on to the next campaign"... there are what ... 20 campaign sites? and usually not more than 25% of them are up at once? what if 5 players on the whole server are doing the same thing at the same time? that screws hundreds of people trying to have some fun? if that's not selfish, i don't know how to call it

Edit: when the music is still going, and because of this, you don't know if there's going to be a next wave, do you enjoy having to change zone and find a new campaign site that's up, not knowing if it's the right decision and sometimes hurting your exp flow? for what? because one person decided to run away with one mob so he'll get a miserable 500 exp more? that's worse than stealing mobs from an exp PT for a crappy little field of valor bonus if ya ask me..

i solo some campaign mobs too, i know it gives more exp, just don't go as far as COMPLAINING about the people who /assist you... what, you want them to /sit while you get all the exp? would YOU wait and watch like an idiot? i don't think so... if you can kill them real fast like you pretend, why do you then feel the need to move so far away so people can't come to "help"?

they want the next wave to come asap, and if there's not going to be one, they want to know, so they can move on too...

If your soloing and have built up a serious amount of hate, when everyone comes to attack it, you can just unlock and run it around. People will just give up and leave you to your soloing when all they can do is chase a mob around and not hit it.

lol guess he never takes a break from this site

I dont see the point in soloing a campaign mob, your not gaining anything at all and you are getting slower xp. So...?

If you want to solo, take a boss and run it far away, nobody would follow you.

yeah lol, take the big bad NM and run it far away from everyone else, I know I wouldn't complain lol

Especially the Warmachine. Or the dragon. I wouldn't mind one bit if they got pulled across the zone lol

This guy:



Get him the hell out of there!!! ^^

Good luck trying to reraise if you die anywhere near him, ain't *** happening lol

Oh, it doesn't even matter, he spams AOE's at like twice the speed of the warmachine. That battle, I got there, got my tags, took 3 steps...immediately AOE'd and dead. Reraised annnnnnd....dead again. Got a raise from some guy annnnnnnd....dead again lol

I literally had to wait for them to leave. 30 minutes of time down the shitter, WOOT! ^^