Feel so broke up, I wanna go home.

[Nhin Impious]

Being a cleric sucks.

I'm sick and tired of playing an hour at a time, desperately needing both cash and experience, and not being able to find anything I can do in that short amount of time for either.

I'm level 50. No AA's until 51, no GMing brewing, so everything else I have to work on is either costly or takes more time than... an hour.

I'm tired of being told that I'm unreasonably demanding for expecting to be treated in a fair and courteous manner; to have my guildmates and groupmates restrain themselves from personal comments, and after being asked, to quit telling me the minutiae of how to play my character. I do think that possibly by level 50 I might have learned to sit down and med, or to heal someone when they need it. And no, I don't think it's rude to respond to "Heal plz" with "Tank plz."

Tonight I got called a racist, and then told I must be a Mexican because I objected to the term (the context was mentioning that I, a dark elf, am not on friendly terms with high elves). Tonight I offered a corpse drag and rez to a level 13 enchantress who got killed in Crushbone and couldn't find anyone to help her out. The response to my offer was "What %?" (I don't /anon or /role.) Tonight someone that I consider a friend told me he'd group with me, I mentioned that I had an hour and a half before time to leave for work, and he said "Sure, hang on a few"... 15 minutes before time to go, I asked him and he said he'd been busy.

I'm tired of being called a nag, a female dog, of being told I'm jumping down someone's throat when I tell them what they say isn't very nice; I'm tired of children being excused by their guild leaders from knowing the meaning and usage of the words "please" and "thank you."

At the current rate, it would take me approximately two months to get to level 51, and then more time on top of that to get the AA's I need to start brewing again. I've been playing for 18 months now, and leveling slow is fine, but this is... too much.

I give up. I just give up. With about ten exceptions, I hate every single person that plays the game with a passion third only to heady kiolas and picnic baskets (and you ten folks, I merely mildly dislike, right now), I hate the gimme-gimme attitude, I hate being a serious player with a casual-player time allotment. I hate my character, I hate everything she does and the way she does it. I hate losing experience and plat every day, I hate trying to fight for a spot in the bazaar every night. I hate it ALL.

No, wait. HERE is how BAD IT REALLY IS.

Today's thought: Druids are actually kind of cool. They take you to their bodies when they want a rez. That's nice of them.

I like druids. Innoruuk must be horrified.

See y'all on the flip side,

Nhinx Aphsion, (retired) Cleric of Innoruuk, awaiting the lightning bolt

[Cigarskunk]

I'm tired of being told that I'm unreasonably demanding for expecting to be treated in a fair and courteous manner; to have my guildmates and groupmates restrain themselves from personal comments, and after being asked, to quit telling me the minutiae of how to play my character.

That's the life of a cleric for you, sadly, sounds like you might need a change of class and maybe a change of guild though.

And no, I don't think it's rude to respond to "Heal plz" with "Tank plz."

ROTFLMAO - that's GREAT!!!!!!! - I LOVE IT - if that exchange happened in my group I'd be down for a solid five minutes laughing - anyone who doesn't think that's funny isn't someone worth dealing with.

Tonight I got called a racist, and then told I must be a Mexican because I objected to the term (the context was mentioning that I, a dark elf, am not on friendly terms with high elves).

LOL - it's no big deal - as someone who's of jewish birth, I always laugh hardest when some yahoo calls me a member of the political party which ran Germany during WWII (****ed work filters).

Tonight I offered a corpse drag and rez to a level 13 enchantress who got killed in Crushbone and couldn't find anyone to help her out. The response to my offer was "What %?" (I don't /anon or /role.)

Grin - and now you know why no one would help him - I would have told the sucker 10% after that BS.

I'm tired of being called a nag, a female dog, of being told I'm jumping down someone's throat when I tell them what they say isn't very nice; I'm tired of children being excused by their guild leaders from knowing the meaning and usage of the words "please" and "thank you."

Yeah, sounds like you definately are in need of a new guild.

I give up.

No biggy - burn out can happen - especially when you hit the higher levels and don't have the time to make the commitment that you need to make in order to XP up.

You should probobly either take a break from the game for a bit until your time is more in line with what you need to play effectively or take a vacation from your character and start an alt - maybe even hit a new server - mess around on one of the PVP or RP servers or something else funky that won't matter to you.

Today's thought: Druids are actually kind of cool. They take you to their bodies when they want a rez. That's nice of them.

LOL - after watching the hell my brother has gone through doing rezzes at times, I think that this is a very fair thought.

[Lilosh]

I love you too, Nhin-come-poop!

*hug*

I'm burning out too.

I was 55 for 5-6 weeks.
I've been 56 for 2-4 weeks.

Levelling is slow, groups are rare (and only with my guild), and everything seems to annoy me as of late.

Oh, and Sony recently seems to have decided that experience at the high end was going TOO fast, so they've been doing stuff about that. (charm exp change of months ago, PoP ZEM decrease, which hurt solo classes, and city zone ZEM decrease)

If this continues, I dont know If I can manage the enthusiasm to play. Even PLing my chanter is starting to lose it's appeal.


*SIGH*
-Lilosh

[Lilosh]

And yes, Druids kick butt.

[Lothay]

If EQ isn't fun, then it's not worth playing.

Seriously.

If all it does is make you angry, don't play. Maybe just for a while, or maybe forver.

If you don't get along with certain people, quit playing with them. If you have game-play needs that aren't met by in-game friends, make new friends.

The game is about fun and social interaction. If you miss out on the fun and the social interaction, then it's nothing but a waste fo your time and money.

Harsh, but true.

[Fiigmo]

When I get to the stage that I find EQ hard work I usually take a break for a week or 2.

I find that by doing this when I start playing again I enjoy it.

I have also been in 3 guilds that had some people with the gimmie gimmie attitude, so I did the simple thing after they annoyed me - I left.

[Nhin Impious]

Perspective.

The game is about fun and social interaction. If you miss out on the fun and the social interaction, then it's nothing but a waste fo your time and money.

For the amount of fun I've had in EQ, I could pay for six months of being torqued beyond reason one night in three, and STILL come out ahead. And to be truthful... it wasn't a Brave Exit Speech™. Just a "don't wanna play this way no more" speech. And it's all about perspective.

On the way to work tonight, I had my laptop in the passenger seat. Since somebody in this house decided to put COOKIES in my padded laptop bag, it was riding naked. Then, someone decided to make an emergency stop right in front of me... I guess the lure of Long John Silver's grease-dipped fish was too much for them... and the laptop ditched itself into the floorboard.

Screen side down, of course. That's sort of like "butter side down" except a lot more potentially expensive.

The good news. Laptop survived intact and in working order (well, ok, it's Windows 98, but you know what I mean). Apparently the thick layer of empty plastic soda bottles in the floorboard provided some kind of rudimentary airbag system (and that's my excuse next time I don't feel like cleaning the car out) and other than the loud CRUNCH noise as it plummeted 8" onto the bottles, and of course MY NERVES for the remainder of the 30 minute drive to work, all was well.

But it's all perspective, now... I was considering on the way to work how the most reasonable "worst case" was a toasted screen, and how to get my data off the hard drive, and whether I would have the money to fix the lappy in the next...oh...YEAR, and honestly, you know what? Six weeks to two months of leveling slower than a Troll folds laundry doesn't look so bad anymore.

If I get too fed up with it all, I'll go park in Scarlet Desert like I did last level, and just solo and death-kite (pop at bind point, mem DD and root, walk back to mob at 40%, /ooc Naked, ticked off cleric on a revenge streak!, DD, DD, loot corpse, and THEN rez self) until I make 51. Level 49 wasn't really too bad, and only took me a week.

And I came up with a really good plan for the stress thing! Since I'm sick of being a group-dependent, weak-soloing class, with less HP than the next person and a weight limit of a ham sandwich and a clean pair of socks, I want to start a whole new class and learn to play and enjoy it when I need a break from my cleric. Also, I'd like a class that isn't whined at by every other class in the game.

So, I'm gonna make an enchanter this morning....

Nhinx, who still believes, in spite of everything, that players are really good at heart

[kiztent]

Re: Perspective.

Originally posted by Nhin Impious
And I came up with a really good plan for the stress thing! Since I'm sick of being a group-dependent, weak-soloing class, with less HP than the next person and a weight limit of a ham sandwich and a clean pair of socks, I want to start a whole new class and learn to play and enjoy it when I need a break from my cleric. Also, I'd like a class that isn't whined at by every other class in the game.

The ranks of shadowknight and monk twinks are filled with people like you.

[Traska]

Nhin,

Why not go for complete opposite end of the spectrum? You're a Dark Elf Cleric now... play what is said to be just about the least group-dependent class there is.

Be a Wood Elf Druid. =) Or, for that extra leveling oomph, be a halfling druid.

[Balkin]

Or as Kiztent said, maybe a melee???

I personally wouldn't think that an enchanter would be that much of a break from a cleric, but that's me.

I love my SK He's an alt, so he doesn't get played all that much, but I always have a good time with him.

Of course, my main is a warrior, not a cleric. *shrug* I'm just more of a melee oriented player.

[Velurian]

Re: Perspective.

Originally posted by Nhin Impious


And I came up with a really good plan for the stress thing! Since I'm sick of being [...] a class, with less HP than the next person and a weight limit of a ham sandwich and a clean pair of socks, I want to start a whole new class and learn to play and enjoy it when I need a break from my cleric. Also, I'd like a class that isn't whined at by every other class in the game.

So, I'm gonna make an enchanter this morning....

*giggle*

*chuckle*

*belly laugh*

*falls on the floor*

Really, tell me another one.

(Don't get me wrong, it's an uproariously fun class to play sometimes...but if you're looking to get away from the hassles of playing a cleric...this ain't the direction to head.)

[Nhin Impious]

(Don't get me wrong, it's an uproariously fun class to play sometimes...but if you're looking to get away from the hassles of playing a cleric...this ain't the direction to head.)

Heh. I see someone's sarcasm meter is working this morning too!

Yeah, folks, I'm not HONESTLY dense enough to think that an enchanter is a cool uber-strong soloable un-whine-at-able melee class.

Most days I'm not that dense.

Shut up, Lilosh.

And in better news...hit Jewelcraft (101) today...7th of 7 tradeskills mastered. Only a skazillion more combines to go!

Nhinx "What? I am smiling..." Aphsion

[Itzena]

Re: Re: Perspective.

Originally posted by kiztent
The ranks of shadowknight and monk twinks are filled with people like you.

Most of the monk twinks rerolled as beastlords or bards, I think.

[Xxyl]

Most of the monk twinks rerolled as beastlords or bards, I think.

Who wouldn't? >.< Sooo don't like Monks. Dunno why but never could get into playing one and I tried numerous times.

[Railina]

weak-soloing class, with less HP than the next person and a weight limit of a ham sandwich and a clean pair of socks,

+

[The ranks of shadowknight and monk twinks are filled with people like you.

Bwahahahaha

Weak soloing class with less hp than the next person and a weight limit (24 lbs at level60, 14 at level 1) is the monk class, for almost a year now, since the nerf.