{"id":627,"date":"2009-06-27T22:11:03","date_gmt":"2009-06-28T06:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doink.mreh.net\/?p=627"},"modified":"2009-06-27T22:11:03","modified_gmt":"2009-06-28T06:11:03","slug":"mages-are-not-your-bots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mreh.net\/?p=627","title":{"rendered":"Mages are NOT your bots!"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a former WHM, I was always so damn annoyed when more than half the party would announce that Protect just<\/em> went down as though I couldn’t see the lines of text that just announced that Mr. or Ms. Melee-With-A-Stick-Up-Their-Damn-Ass just had their Protect wear off. Same goes for status effects which I was usually on top of when I was playing my best as a WHM. Sure, way back when (and even at present) there were some really horrible mages than needed to be told this, but when it came from players you partied with several times or even for a dozen of levels? It would drive me nuts! Had they been paying attention, they would have noticed I was actually on my game and not picking my nose going “dur… lets see this here purty mob go boom with a ball of this here light!” or that I had cast Finale or that Bar spell even when I was a BRD or… heaven forbid… just trust that I am actually doing my job.<\/p>\n

I play my job how I play it, and I let people play their jobs how they see fit unless: a.) they ask me to critique them or b.) something bad is going on, and I’m totally spazzing out. And, no, I don’t mean bad as in you have Protect down for a few seconds but something like the mob smacking someone’s head around and the only person who has Provoke isn’t Provoking no matter how many times we ask them to.<\/p>\n

I think that is why it really grates on my nerves to see when other mages are being treated like they are slaves to melee, since I see it (and your experiences may vary) happening more often than not. If you are demanding a Haste or a -na, then my answer to you is to go buy yourself another account, dual box it, and have your own personal healer that you can do with at your disposal instead of having the audacity to send a \/tell to the person demanding a Haste because you did not have it RIGHT AT THAT VERY SECOND LIKE OMG. Even going “Haste?” in LS\/Party chat is damn rude. If that’s the game people are going to play, then I claim the right to flood people’s \/tell stream with PROVOKE PROVOKE PROVOKE when someone isn’t Provoking when they should.<\/p>\n

My point? Be kind to people. Pay it forward. Mages don’t treat Melee like shit, and Melee don’t treat Mages like you are\u00a0 the Goddess Alatana’s gift to the world. I don’t care how damn important you are at x, y, or z or if you do a, b, c, and maybe even z; there are people behind those screens and they aren’t your damn bots! \/rant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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