Hi hi~ I got a question about general etiquette in the TI dungeons.
I am fairly new to the TI but from what I can see, normally in the low tier TI dungeon, a mass of people in different classes and from all different parties tend to clump tightly together in a big group somewhere a little down from the entrance. I gather that this is because the place gets pretty mobby with aggro monsters. People who are really strong would walk around the map but I guess those who are less strong feels safer clumped together for protection. Things get pretty busy around this massive group and everyone is just killing everything they see as fast as possible and lots of AOE skills.
Normally if I am playing with my GX or ranger I would venture around the map since I am fairly confident to handle the mobs. But yesterday I was doing the low TI with my high wizard for the first time. I was in a party with my friends. We aren't too confident about straying too far away so we were clumped together in that large group with a mix of other people. There were all different parties there and a mixture of different classes. There were alch/biochem/gene with their homunculi, priests, hunter/snipers, wizards etc. Everyone was just killing everything and a lot of AOE stuffs were happening - wizards were continuously casting storm gusts, LoV, ranger doing arrow storm, homunculus S using their AOE skills etc etc. It's pretty chaotic (as it usually is!) with lots of AOEs happening and lots of homunculi running after monsters.
I was casting storm gusts like the other wizards on the map when suddenly I saw one alchemist put up a chat window (using it as a sign) saying that I was ksing off homunculus. When I saw that my first reaction was to apologize. I was pretty embarrassed because he pretty much put up a public sign saying I was ksing and it is never my intention to ks anyone ever. So I apologized and left the map immediately because I really did feel ashamed by the sign. It all happened really quickly and I don’t even know if anyone else saw the chat sign but I was embarrassed anyway. I just wanted to get out of there asap.
But after I got out, I was thinking about it… and I am not sure if I could be considered ksing. I mean it’s pretty common for wizards to cast AOEs there. They are just continuously casting it. Sometimes I don’t even know if it is my own storm gust or someone else’s because things just get so busy there. And there are other classes doing AOEs there as well, like rangers were arrow storming and geneticists were cart cannoning. Everyone is just killing everything in sight. And it’s not like everyone standing there is from the one party so it’s not like I was intruding on one party. It’s literally a big clump of people there tightly packed together! I mean if you want to call it ksing then isn’t everyone technically “ksing” off everyone else? Everyone is AOEing and attacking over each other. In a way, is this not the point why people stand together in a tight pack like this in the first place? The people who are standing in this big pack are all in a way relying on everyone else’s “ksing” to keep everyone alive with a collective effort to kill everything in sight because they cannot handle it away from the big group. If you were confident you could handle it then you would move away to a less populated spot right? Ironically this alchemist who was saying I was ksing actually couldn’t handle the mobs and he kept running right inside the big group for protection every time he was getting mobbed hoping that the other people standing there would save him. Technically speaking can I not also say he was “ksing” me since I started casting my storm gust already and his homunculus started attacking monsters that were already in my AOE space?
So now I am really confused and I don’t want to go back into the TI with my high wizard until I find out what the etiquette is. I mean I have never considered anyone else to be ksing off me in the TI and especially if you choose to stand in the big group just a bit down the entrance where a lot of action is happening. It’s just so busy there! But I don’t want to be accused of ksing myself so I wish there is some kind of clarification so I know what I can and cannot do. For example, is there a rule as to who can stand in that big group down from the entrance? And are people not allowed to cast AOE skills there? (Because casting AOE standing there you are inevitably going to be “ksing” someone since everyone is killing everything that comes near.)
