Funny Story !!!

Draxuul · August 2014

Here i was galloping in StormHaven towards my next quest when a dark portal opens right above me . I immediatly got off my horse and prepare for battle .

Two fire Atronachs and and a Dremora appear , i think to myself :" Meh, that won't be too hard , let's do this " .

So i of course engage in battle and everything is going well but then i catch a glimpse of another player coming my way. I automaticly assumed that he was going to join the fight because that's usually what happens . But as the fight goes on, i see no sign of anyone else fighting . As i look around i see that guy simply standing there watching me .

So i then think to myself :" OK , so this guy wants a show, i'll give him a show ".

I make quick work of what was left from the first wave , then the second wave comes which i remember included an Ogrim and two more Dremoras.

Anyways , after a pretty decent display of my abilities , switching between my resto staff and my destruction staff , using knock backs and throwing in a few heals when needed , i stand there , victorious and very proud of the way things turned out .

I then proceed to loot the corpses and then turn my attention to my spectator only to find out that he is lvl 11 . I'm lvl 25 and the creatures i was fighting were lvl 23 if i recall correctly.

So i of course ask him what he's doing here and he replies to me by saying :" Lvl me up , i'll follow you".

So my reply to him was :" Hah !! you're a very funny person , but nice try". I turn my back to him and continue on my way towards my quest which was to gather 5 glowdusts from the nearby Willowisps.

As i look back , no surprise there, that guy is obviously following me but i don't care. I simply pay no attention to him and proceed to pull my first Wisp. Very easy kill but of course my new friend had made sure to throw in one attack to secure his share of the loot and experience.

I didn't care , i simply kept ignoring him and went on minding my own buisness. After my fifth kill, i was of course done with my quest but before i could do anything else, i see that guy pulling another wisp. I don't think i need to remind you all that this guy was only lvl 11 and that those wisps were twice his lvl.

My reaction was to laugh, summon my horse and sprint out of there , leaving him to die .

I don't know what went on in this guy's head but i had clearly refused to power lvl him and he chose to follow me around anyways and then he decided that he would speed things up by pulling monsters to me . You all simply cannot imagine how happy i was to have this perfect oppertunity to teach him this well deserved lesson.

I often intervene when i see someone struggling in a fight , being a healer myself, i saved many lives and received many thanks in my travels and i would normaly never leave a person to die like that . But i'm sure the majority of you will agree with me when i say that this guy had this one coming .

This little adventure seriously made my day . It's not everyday that i get the chance to really punish a troll , today was my day hehe.

Hope you all enjoyed this little story

Draxuul

CPTproton · August 2014

Hahaha. Made me lol

LordEcks · August 2014

The term troll gets used rather loosely in contrast to its original meaning....

I wouldnt say this guy was a troll. Just a lazy n00b.

I dont fault your decision, I probably would've done the same.

The sad truth is that some of these players are simply kids. Who played other MMOs with their friends/family/etc who leveled them up in a similar fashion.

They either dont want to do it themselves, or simply arent capable enough to do it, or simply unwilling to learn (by themselves).

Pele · August 2014

It was once impossible to gain XP if the gap between you and the mob was greater than 5. Have they changed this?

Chubbaz · August 2014

Plot twist! What if OP was the actual level 11 and this was a well-disguised "Nerf the content" thread?

stefan.gustavsonb16_ESO · August 2014

It was once impossible to gain XP if the gap between you and the mob was greater than 5. Have they changed this?

The mobs were like 10-12 levels higher than that lvl 11 player. Not a problem then.

Pele · August 2014

stefan.gustavsonb16_ESO wrote: »

It was once impossible to gain XP if the gap between you and the mob was greater than 5. Have they changed this?

The mobs were like 10-12 levels higher than that lvl 11 player. Not a problem then.

Yes. Which is why I asked. Unless they have changed things, it would've been impossible for the level 11 player to gain anything as the content was far beyond him.

TheAmu · August 2014

If he'd asked nicely I would have helped him. But if he just demanded it like that, sure.

I try to help out anyone where I can. And I thank anyone who comes out of nowhere to help me. Even if that wasn't their intention.

Your story merely illustrates the appalling manners of kids today. No please and thank you. Just "Do this for me now." Terrible.

Kcttocs · August 2014

Great story. I sometimes offer my VR12 help with non Vet instanced dungeons after waiting an hour or more in group finder for the VR leveled Dungeons. I miss how easy it was to find a group in the non Vet instanced dungeons. Guess it's time to reroll.

killedbyping · August 2014

Since when it is possible to get any xp or loot from mobs with more then 5 level difference ?
Or may be that guy simply wasnt aware of that ?
You cant even do any dmg to high level mobs. You just cant.

stefan.gustavsonb16_ESO · August 2014

Since when it is possible to get any xp or loot from mobs with more then 5 level difference?
Or may be that guy simply wasnt aware of that ?
You cant even do any dmg to high level mobs. You just cant.

What? I have gone to higher level zones just for fun a few times, and I can definitely deal some damage to mobs that are higher level than me. People have been doing the vampire questline at very low levels, and there are people who rush through zones and skip most quests who find themselves underleveled by more than 5 levels when they are in their last few non-vet zones. It's difficult to keep up, but there is no mechanism that stops you from trying.

The only hard blocker I know of is that you won't get any experience or loot from mobs that are way below your level. You can't go to your starter zone at level 40 and one-shot wolves for XP, but it's definitely possible to power level a character by grouping up with higher level players that carry you through fights, or just leech in on someone elses's fight by getting a single hit in, as the OP described.

(Edit: typo)

Pele · August 2014

stefan.gustavsonb16_ESO wrote: »

The only hard blocker I know of is that you won't get any experience or loot from mobs that are way below your level. You can't go to your starter zone at level 40 and one-shot wolves for XP, but it's definitely possible to power level a character by grouping up with higher level players that carry you through fights, or just leech in on someone elses's fight by getting a single hit in, as the OP described.

(Edit: typo)

So they have changed it. It was once impossible for lowbies to gain XP or loot from mobs far beyond their level; even the chests were locked to them and labeled, "Impossible".

Merlin13KAGL · August 2014

Pele wrote: »

stefan.gustavsonb16_ESO wrote: »

The only hard blocker I know of is that you won't get any experience or loot from mobs that are way below your level. You can't go to your starter zone at level 40 and one-shot wolves for XP, but it's definitely possible to power level a character by grouping up with higher level players that carry you through fights, or just leech in on someone elses's fight by getting a single hit in, as the OP described.

(Edit: typo)

So they have changed it. It was once impossible for lowbies to gain XP or loot from mobs far beyond their level; even the chests were locked to them and labeled, "Impossible".

@Pele, you've always been able to get XP's so long as you are not more than five levels above the mob.

If you could drop it, you could have it. Death usually prevented this from happening very often though.

There was tremendous benefit to sneaking into higher level zones, as the drops were good (quality and gold + mats). There was also the challenge of it and the new change of scenery. I recall perusing Rivenspire when I was halfway through Stormhaven, just for the gathering purposes.

Things like what the OP mentions are common. If the individual kept lingering, I believe I probably would have brought the fight to him though - let him earn it.

falcuk · August 2014

I was in Greenshade is it? the zone after Grahtwood yesterday on my Templar, the big rock storm world boss was up and i was there alone, tried to solo it and got my butt kicked so i /zone looking for help with Pelda Tarn boss.

I get some guy say "i'll help" and then send me tells asking where it was, is it the one south of Labrinth? yep i said, figuring if he knows that much he will have a half decent clue what he's doing.

Anyhow a few mins later i get a tell from him "im here, where are you?" im at the south side of the boss area i reply, 10 seconds later a lvl8 appears...

I said umm sorry man but your going to get killed, your too low for this, and asked in guild for someone to give me a hand, after a minute or so a guildy turns up and we kill it, i loot the corpse and get a tell from this guy

"WTF?? NO F***KIN LOOT?? ARE YOU F***IN KIDDING ME?"

I kinda laughed and went off on my way, he then shoots me another tell asking me to help him with a quest, sure i say which quest? the quest where you build your own Warder.. so i say sorry man but i think your kinda a bit too low for here, you should maybe try Auridon, to which he replied "yeah can you help me power level then?"

I didnt think these kind of people actually existed until last night lol

purple-magicb16_ESO · August 2014

Draxuul wrote: »

Here i was galloping in StormHaven towards my next quest when a dark portal opens right above me . I immediatly got off my horse and prepare for battle .

Two fire Atronachs and and a Dremora appear , i think to myself :" Meh, that won't be too hard , let's do this " .

So i of course engage in battle and everything is going well but then i catch a glimpse of another player coming my way. I automaticly assumed that he was going to join the fight because that's usually what happens . But as the fight goes on, i see no sign of anyone else fighting . As i look around i see that guy simply standing there watching me .

So i then think to myself :" OK , so this guy wants a show, i'll give him a show ".

I make quick work of what was left from the first wave , then the second wave comes which i remember included an Ogrim and two more Dremoras.

Anyways , after a pretty decent display of my abilities , switching between my resto staff and my destruction staff , using knock backs and throwing in a few heals when needed , i stand there , victorious and very proud of the way things turned out .

I then proceed to loot the corpses and then turn my attention to my spectator only to find out that he is lvl 11 . I'm lvl 25 and the creatures i was fighting were lvl 23 if i recall correctly.

So i of course ask him what he's doing here and he replies to me by saying :" Lvl me up , i'll follow you".

So my reply to him was :" Hah !! you're a very funny person , but nice try". I turn my back to him and continue on my way towards my quest which was to gather 5 glowdusts from the nearby Willowisps.

As i look back , no surprise there, that guy is obviously following me but i don't care. I simply pay no attention to him and proceed to pull my first Wisp. Very easy kill but of course my new friend had made sure to throw in one attack to secure his share of the loot and experience.

I didn't care , i simply kept ignoring him and went on minding my own buisness. After my fifth kill, i was of course done with my quest but before i could do anything else, i see that guy pulling another wisp. I don't think i need to remind you all that this guy was only lvl 11 and that those wisps were twice his lvl.

My reaction was to laugh, summon my horse and sprint out of there , leaving him to die .

I don't know what went on in this guy's head but i had clearly refused to power lvl him and he chose to follow me around anyways and then he decided that he would speed things up by pulling monsters to me . You all simply cannot imagine how happy i was to have this perfect oppertunity to teach him this well deserved lesson.

I often intervene when i see someone struggling in a fight , being a healer myself, i saved many lives and received many thanks in my travels and i would normaly never leave a person to die like that . But i'm sure the majority of you will agree with me when i say that this guy had this one coming .

This little adventure seriously made my day . It's not everyday that i get the chance to really punish a troll , today was my day hehe.

Hope you all enjoyed this little story

Draxuul

People are getting lazy. This has happened to me a number of times lately. Some of them the same [SNIP]s that refused to group with me. Not much you can do about them following you to power level except logout or wayshrine it somewhere else, but then again that interferes with our questing. I just try not to let it bother me.

Makkir · August 2014

Hey purple...in your sig....it's "lay" not "lies"

Evandus · August 2014

I've seen a lot of what the OP describes while leveling up my main, and three alts. It is silly for sure. Think the biggest laugh I had in this game was a guy following me around when I was doing world bosses in Rivenspire.

I had a guy following me that would wait until I engaged a boss, then shoot it a couple of times with a bow to get credit. That was mildly annoying. What got me to the point of irritation was him running up in front of my character and doing the /laugh emote each time. So I decided I can be a jerk too.

Next boss I went to, I did a line of sight aggro and just activated a defensive ability. His two shot strategy pulled the boss to him, and he promptly died. IIRC, it was the Nerid boss. Been awhile, but I think it took 5 times dying in this fashion before he moved on. It was funny to watch.

On the other hand, if someone sends a group request and actually participates I don't mind a bit. Don't mind if they don't either, as long as they aren't following sponging xp and such.

MeowGinger · August 2014

I don't mind helping out players underleveled for a zone. I do mind when they're rude (like this guy...) and demanding (ordering you around like this guy...).

I absolutely love (sarcasm) when they place blame on the person they're with for not healing them in such a way as to prevent them from getting one-shot-killed. Also when they want other people to use their soul gems to resurrect them instead of using their own or wayshrining (my limit was 11 resurrections on the same person).

If someone's doing what this guy did, without even asking me if I'm okay with it (this is the worst part -- a little politeness goes kiloparsecs), I just hold block. I will survive. As for the other person...

OrangeTheCat · August 2014

Not very funny really. You come across as childish and catty. The decent thing to do would have been to save him and then let him know you were leaving.

purple-magicb16_ESO · August 2014

Makkir wrote: »

Hey purple...in your sig....it's "lay" not "lies"

This one believes it is all in one's perspective ~ M'aiq the Liar

Draxuul · August 2014

OrangeTheCat wrote: »

Not very funny really. You come across as childish and catty. The decent thing to do would have been to save him and then let him know you were leaving.

It's not like death has very severe consequences in this game . Worst case scenario, he had to respawn at a wayshrine .

Like i mentioned at the end of the story, i usually help people who seem to need it . And i have saved many lives for sure .

I really am not the kind of person to act like a jerk most of the time. But i will also not encourage lazyness and i will not power level a total stranger who wasn't even nice enough to say please .

Would i do it for a friend ? yes !! Would i do it for a person who helped me kill a world boss or simply saved my butt in a previous fight ? Yes , for a while at least .
And if i have to leave i will of course let him or her know that i'm leaving .

But why should i spend my own time and resources helping a person who is simply too lazy to level up his own character .

I remember , many years back , when i played WoW, a guy came to me and asked me if i could run him through a dungeon that was way lower lvl than i was . Knowing that this zone was pretty much dead a the time and groups were rather hard to find i accepted . But maybe 1/4 through the dungeon i realise that he had simply set his character to auto follow me and that he wasn't even fighting at all . He actually expected me to simply do all the work for him while he just lays back and enjoy the sun or something , i immediatly disbanded the group and "recalled" out of the dungeon and left him to rot.

I seriously have no respect and no tollerance for lazyness. If you want to call me a jerk because of it , then so be it .

Draxuul

SirAndy · August 2014

There is also a XP/Loot cap going upward, but it is more than 5 levels.

I'm one of those people who does go into higher level zones just to see how much i can get away with before things become impossible.

I have been able to kill and loot mobs that were 10+ levels above me and they did give me XP, but as mentioned above by someone, there is a point where you simply stop doing *any* damage at all to mobs and there is no XP or loot.

I'm not sure about the exact level delta at which this occurs, i'll have to do some more testing ...
;-)

nicholaspingasb16_ESO · August 2014

There's nothing wrong with power leveling. Good job, though...

SirenofEntropy · August 2014

SirAndy wrote: »

There is also a XP/Loot cap going upward, but it is more than 5 levels.

I'm one of those people who does go into higher level zones just to see how much i can get away with before things become impossible.

I have been able to kill and loot mobs that were 10+ levels above me and they did give me XP, but as mentioned above by someone, there is a point where you simply stop doing *any* damage at all to mobs and there is no XP or loot.

I'm not sure about the exact level delta at which this occurs, i'll have to do some more testing ...
;-)

I don't know if that is exactly true, since I did the vampire quest at level 15 killing level 42 mobs, and I definitely did get loot from them, and obviously I was able to do damage to them since I was able to complete the quest.

Whether I got XP from them I can't say because I wasn't really paying attention to that.

Though it could be that the vamp quest, being a solo quest, is a special case.

Venereous44 · August 2014

Yep, good job. The only thing you missed was the teabag.

It was a good story too!

DuelWieldingCheesyPoofs · August 2014

I enjoyed this story

Draxuul · August 2014

Thanks to those who posted nice comments , i've read all replies , i understand some of you didn't like it as much as some others . It's totally understandable and thanks for sharing your thoughts either way.

Draxuul

Pele · August 2014

Merlin13KAGL wrote: »

Pele wrote: »

stefan.gustavsonb16_ESO wrote: »

The only hard blocker I know of is that you won't get any experience or loot from mobs that are way below your level. You can't go to your starter zone at level 40 and one-shot wolves for XP, but it's definitely possible to power level a character by grouping up with higher level players that carry you through fights, or just leech in on someone elses's fight by getting a single hit in, as the OP described.

(Edit: typo)

So they have changed it. It was once impossible for lowbies to gain XP or loot from mobs far beyond their level; even the chests were locked to them and labeled, "Impossible".

@Pele, you've always been able to get XP's so long as you are not more than five levels above the mob.

If you could drop it, you could have it. Death usually prevented this from happening very often though.

There was tremendous benefit to sneaking into higher level zones, as the drops were good (quality and gold + mats). There was also the challenge of it and the new change of scenery. I recall perusing Rivenspire when I was halfway through Stormhaven, just for the gathering purposes.

Things like what the OP mentions are common. If the individual kept lingering, I believe I probably would have brought the fight to him though - let him earn it.

Odd. I took my baby EP toon, level 7, to The Rift to get a vampire bite. I got nothing from the mobs I killed. I could not even open the chests as they were all labeled: Impossible. The only XP I received was from exploration, but it was lower than usual.