I'm a little weary about obligations and expectations geared towards support classes, namely: Priest, High Priest and Arch Bishops. Though they're quite a few dozen threads in the past, I haven't found a very good way to address my issues. Whenever I play any character of that class type I run into a bit of a wall. First off, it seems I'm expected to buff and heal everyone out there, even those outside of my party; regardless if I'm a NON-FS build. Every few minutes I get some kind of request for healing/buffing, and they'll spam me if I'm AFK to the point my older messages blank out. If I'm presently there and just ignore them, they'd come out on a SC or some crap and try to grief me or follow me around on alts, KSing crap. I normally made it a policy to never join/buff someone that has previously KSed me (strictly when it comes to leveling), but it's gotten to such a point where I'll abandon parties that pick up previous griefers. Many times if I leave, people would start messaging me as to why, and even the previous griefer would as well.. though sadly most of the time the griefer doesn't even remember the grief they've invoked. If I choose to respond to them, they ask me how I knew it's them and I simply respond ROPD (though sometimes it's their name styling/typing style). This kind of behavior makes me wonder what's in the mindset of other players and their expectations, not as RO gamers, but rather as human beings. So far I end up just RO-replay recording every so often and noting the time of said grief action, then --> reporting (it's not a lot of work but there's a cluster of replay file being built up).
Then there's people who ask for warps that I don't even have, like Orcs/GH. I can't seem to picture why ABs in particular would have said warps unless it's for Orc Lord/Hero or Raydric/Reno. Sometimes they ask me again, maybe 1-3 minutes after they've messaged me before. Knowing this I should probably /exall but then it'd be a heck of a lot harder for some people to leave me messages while I afk (as most do not mail, especially for simple things). Though I've come to the realization since most of those people asking probably never played or own these character types, they don't seem to realize "warp" and "resu" = 1 bgem. As trivial as the cost is, it still adds up. Ten warp/resus = 10 gems and lets say gems cost 600 (normal) * 10 = 6k [If it were discounted 24%, 600 * .76 = 456, so 4.56k]. The cost comes out of my pocket, so I think I should have the full right to choose whether or not to 'help out.' Another small thing would be after getting DB killed and respawning, people would ask me for AGI AGI. Increase AGI takes some HP to cast, and being at 1HP when respawning, I can't even begin to heal myself without getting spam sometimes. There are other options besides bothering me like, Fiolina in Prontera for your buff/heal needs. Lastly, of the people who ask me, sometimes I see no point in helping them, as they'd never help me if the situation were <---> switched. I'm primarily a PvM kind of player and people who are already 150 doing their MvP, PvP or guild thing--> that won't level other characters; of which I probably would never encounter in any other situation, why should I buff these people? There is no direct or even indirect obligation to help these people out, especially if I know they're -_-heads. With all this said, all this crap doesn't bother me too much, but it does tire me sometimes.
This is a help thread to aid people in coping with their RO issues. If you intend to cause conflicts, I ask that you please take your Jerry Springer fighting elsewhere.
