I never thought I'd get to this point. Bah...

[thistlechaser]

I always figured that I'd play WoW till my interest in FFXI returned, but today I found myself bored out of my mind with both games.

I spent many hours on WoW this morning, mostly leveling/doing quests. Fluffy and I both hit 18. He got yet another mega-upgrade to both attack and defense. Fluffy can now easily kill things 2-3 levels above me with almost no assistance from me. With "rested XP", I get 350 XP per kill. Non-rested I get less, but still a crapload.

What the heck is the deal with this? Am I doing something wrong or is this just how the game is? There I am, Fluffy and I happily killing something, and Joe Randomplayer runs up and hits it... thus I get no XP from the kill. Don't you "own" a mob once you hit it? People can run up and hit it just to screw you over? Is there a way to stop that?

The WoW AH is driving me insane. It is Annoying As Hell to have to look items up on Alla to get a general idea of what I should list it for. How in the world do you deal with the AH when there's no price history kept? And if there's none of that item currently for sale, zero idea of prices?

About the only WoW fun I had today was interacting with players on the other side. I really, really like how you can't talk to them. I giggled lots as I /flirted at the male invading characters. :P I left them /blinking and /panicking at me, then when they ran off I chased them and /mooed at them. (But later some stupid NE chick kept following me as I was trying to XP. She would land one hit on each mob, thus I'd get nothing. :/ )

I'm logged on to FFXI right now, but haven't been doing anything but sitting in my MH for the hour or so I've been on.

No screenshots today. Just bored, bored, bored.

Edit: Ha ha ha, this game rocks!



You have to guess who on your flist made the post. I got 18/20 right, but the two I got wrong weren't really fair (one was blank (no subject or title), the other was was a broken meme). Funny, but one post had a "LOL" in it, and that's so rare on my flist I was able to guess based solely on that. And in one question, I was one of the choices! Hee.

Comments

[wazsgirl.livejournal.com]

Maybe I'm missing something. But my experience has always been, unless you're grouped, whoever hits a mob first gets the xp. Which can be annoying in a high pop area when you're trying to get a certain named mob.

That's reeeeeally weird.

And honestly? with the right equipment, I can take a 44 as a 41. So I wouldn't say it's that weird.

[kalin-nestar.livejournal.com]

*steals the banner*

I got 10/12..and I'm positive I got yours right. You're the only one who writes about FFXI :D

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Hee! It was nice when someone mentioned a SO or some other unique thing. I have way too many HP fans on my list -- that made some of the guesses harder!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_orz/]

Yeah, whoever tags the mob first gets the loot and the xp. If you're ungrouped and fighting a mob, and someone else runs up and attacks it, then you receive an xp penalty for the extra "help" you received. The player who joined in the fight receives 0 xp, since the mob was claimed as yours.

It's one way WoW tries to prevent powerleveling. *In my experience*, I have never seen people use it to grief. Either they do it because they think they're helping you, or they didn't notice the mob was tagged. Also, some Chinese gold farmers will attack anything in their path, whether it is claimed or not (I'm pretty sure the ones who do this are bots). The only way to stop it is to ask the person not to do it anymore, which isn't much help if people on the other faction are the ones doing to. =/

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ah, that makes sense. Some of the first few times it happened, I wasn't sure if someone was honestly trying to "help" or not.

The NE chick who did it last night wasn't trying, for sure. :P She was probably trying to get me to attack her or something, then she could just kill me.

[wanderingscribe.livejournal.com]

Heh. I played that last night and ended up with 9/10. It's fun, though I have a sneaky suspicion that the 'LOL' probably came from me. I usually use netspeak sarcastically in my posts. :D

As for WoW, can't you kill players who try that stuff? I know it sounds harsh, but it's really assy to steal someone's target when there's not exactly a shortage of monsters around, y'know? Plus, it's not like you'd screw someone over if they died like you would in FFXI.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Nope! Someone used it in a non-sarcastic way. Not you! :)

As for WoW, can't you kill players who try that stuff?

On some servers, yeah. The player vs player ones. I'm not on one of those though (on purpose, I don't need the stress of watching for mobs and people trying to kill me!).

[epyonmk3.livejournal.com]

Oddly, I've had the situation where my pet has killed a mob without any help from me, and I've not been able to loot or skin it. I'm guessing your pet doesn't 'tag' things for you. Either that, or it's because of the help that you get reduced experience. I wish I'd known that before, people are likely to be really irritated at me. ^^;

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yes! I noticed that as well: If you don't land a hit, the kill seems not to belong to you. Very odd and not very handy at all.