Part 1
Ok, This morning is the second time I've logged on to QA. The first time I didn't even play, I just looked at the hacker nerfs with great joy. I couldn't do much as my knifer tree was still loaded, I couldn't unload it, but I could throw knives. I hit an NPC with crippling throw for 5606 dmg... I figured I better not pvp on QA till that was fixed. After that was corrected, I was quite happy to log in and begin to test. I quickly threw on a duelist/MA build and when to work. After an hour of messing around I decided to pull some missions and test things out on some lvl 51 npcs. I went up to the mission floor in the elevator, and I left myself in the elevator and went and grabbed a drink. I was flagged at this point, and one of the recursionites that vector had been abusing followed me into the building. He apparently went floor by floor to find me, and by the time I got back he had gotten a couple of attacks off. I turn around and kill him. I say gf, and he comes back in a matter of seconds, I still don't know how he came back that fast, but I was by no means ready, as he had full health and IS and I was about half, so I roll and go in my mission area, while he "lol"'s at me. I heal up and come back out and he's still waiting out in the elevator. I kill him again, and I give him a little 'lol' and he starts complaining saying everyone from vector uses duelist. Seriously though... does it matter? you knew I was duelist before you attacked me. If you had such a problem with the tree do not hunt down and attack a duelist... and then attack again after you've been killed. Furthermore, the trees are f'ed up and unbalanced, I don't think I should be able to kill a level 50 in two hits, but I can... Why complain at this point, use the bug report, that's the whole point of QA.
I'm taken back to the cries of the ganked of the past several months:
OMG ZERG I CAN"T WAIT FOR NEW COMBAT SYSTEM! NO MORE 5 ON 1
OMG KNIFER NOOB I CAN'T WAIT FOR NEW COMBAT SYSTEM!
OMG HAX! THAT'S GONNA GET NERFED THEN I WILL PWN YOU
BLAH! BLAH! BLAH!
Well QA is here and the more things change, the more they stay the same, you'll still get hacked, zerged, stabbed, ganked, and killed. In fact, you'll be killed in a much more effecient manner without multi-on-one interlock. You will have to find new things to **bleep** about.. I suspect it will be OMG I HATE THIS NEW SYSTEM IT SUCKS!!!! Why? Because some fail to realize that the system does not make a player good. What makes a good player is strategy, adaptability, resourcefulness, and reflexes. Even if MXO goes to static rolls, this will still hold true. Some people have it, some don't. Bottom line, don't **bleep**. Develop a sense of humor, a healthy sense of self, and Learn to play.
Part 2
On another note, I've found that there are quite a few expert riflemen/hyperjump grandmaster/master hypersprinter hybrids out there on QA. I caught up with one who was shooting from the bridge, broke his shield and killed him. He came back on the bridge, and I killed him again. Then, this lovely discussion began:
I'm not sure what's funnier:
The whole "If I don't know how to do it it's an exploit!" idea, or
the idea that Vector has some jazzy little exploit that *gasp* LET'S YOU USE YOUR **bleep**ING ABILITIES IN INTERLOCK THE WAY THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE USED!!!!!
Then there's the fact that he used "shake a stick at", "girlyman", and "pansy" (seriously, does he have a problem with women?) in a sentence in the year 2006.
The fact that he tried to set me up in sai kung, then came to mara as a GM and lost to me again.
The fact that he threw ever accusation in the book at me to justify his loss.
He accepted the duel knowing I had evade up, and didn't say anything about it untill after he lost the duel.
He thought he was going to embarrass me somehow... I wonder how because that never happened.
The fact that he said "2 twices buffed to the *CENSORED*" like I'm supposed to understand what the **bleep** he was trying to say.
The fact that he thought he was gonna have the last word and put me on ignore, but I ended up getting the last word and putting him on ignore first. If you're trying to be a bad *CENSORED*, never reveal your evil plot until it is too late to stop it...
The icing: After all that talk of pansies and such (I think this dude has some personal issues for real) I catch up with this guy again in mara, he's a rifleman again, I break his shield and he starts doing that thing where he flips around to try to prevent me interlocking, but I catch him under the bridge in mara, beat him again, and drop a "LMAO!!!" in area chat, and the last thing I caught as a walked away... "f u"
I laughed so hard tears came to my eyes.
I hope you brought backup, cuz if I catch you alone... it's a wrap.
