[GentleGiant]

Willing to bet your life on that statement? I have 144 screenshots that beg to differ...

The past 12 robos....

TWELVE!

I have made it to two minutes....
I died at the two minute marker....
Was unable to get a rez and released with 30 seconds untill victory.

So basicly two minutes are all that stand between me and my first successful KQ since my second gold hill at level 34.

***KQ Starts***
Everything goes GREAT. Everyone always does their job untill some idiot decides to start attacking Robo. Thats when it breaks down.
***Six minutes to go***
I do what my party asks me to do. Attack vivis. Next thing I know 20 colls and 12 skeletons are barreling down on me and I cant move fast enough. I die.
***Four Minutes to go***
I somehow aggro robo. From ACROSS THE MAP! Im doing nothing, trying to survive. BAM DEAD.
***Two minutes to go***
Right when I think im gonna squeeeeeeak by with a win. One win is all I ever asked for. No. DD's decide to fight over whos gonna kill robo. Mobs spawn. I die.

The last two minutes are always spent the same. Desperately pleading for a raise while clerics just stand there, assured of their victory, dancing the stupid freggin soulja boi dance and molesting the gem again (didnt get a screenie this time I was too mad and too far away) while I beg and plead for a raise from my party and then the room. I always release to roumen with 30 seconds left. ALWAYS. Twelve times. I have tried to give Robo a chance TWELVE MOTHER LOVING TIMES. And then it dawns on me...

Its not the KQ...

Its the players. No one EVER wants to work together. The only thing anyone wants to know is "Who is gonna tank robo?"

Bijou is full of some of the greediest, egomaniacal, self centered players I have ever met. And you know what. I wanted to quit. This morning. 7 hours ago. I was going to quit playing. But then I overheard one of my guildies talking in roumen about how I help them out alot whenever they need it and I remembered all of the awesome players I have met on bijou, and I suddenly realized that if I quit, if I give up, then they win. That will be one less higher leveled player for newer players to look out for if they need help. And the one thing that makes good players shine even more is all the trash floating around.

So let them be the way they are. So long as I know there are other players out there that care about more than the fake money in their digital storage, or the little yellow letters floating by their pseudonymn, I wont quit playing. Bad players or good players, it is what it is.

And I just made level 45 sucka!

The difference between my success rate when I'm on my main fighter and my wife is beside me playing her cleric, and my success when I'm playing alone on either my mage or archer, is HUGE! And it's for many of the same reasons you've stated, plus a healthy dose of player incompetence thrown in.

If I give my all on either of my solo toons and end up dying early, with my pleas for a rez going unanswered, I go into what I call "protective mode" where I all but shut down. I spend the rest of my time in the KQ barely doing any damage to anything because if the consequence is going to be that I die then what's the point? It's amazing just how easy it is to fail the Gold Hill and Mara KQs when people don't know what they're doing, or just don't care.

But my wife and I? We ended up in a Gold Hill KQ about a week ago with only FIVE people in it. Me and my wife, two other clerics, and a level 20 fighter. The ONLY reason we failed was due to lack of time because there wasn't any real DPS output on the mobs. Otherwise we would have breezed through the whole thing... because we all made a commitment from the start to stick it out and do our collective best! Nobody gave up!

Old man (turning 40 in a month) that I am, I don't mean to sound disrespectful to all younger players when I say this, but the childishness and immaturity shown by a lot of members of this community need to be cut way back on. That would make it a lot more fun for everyone, I think.