How do you Help Others?Follow

The recent post concerning the combat changes brought up the point that it's hard to help others.

If someone is in combat, you can't cast into the fray or even lob a heal onto the poor sap to help him out. Because of this, the culture that has been fostered is one of, "Since I can't help, I don't try."

And that's a bad thing.

I know that it's hard to complete many steps of a difficult quest, and there's always people in /ooc asking for members to help with this and that.

Here's what I do:

I zoned into Lavastorm to go knock out a writ, and saw a 43 Brigand hanging out at the shoreline. She was nervously looking around, knowing that one bad step would bring agro and death.
I was about to run into the tunnel to go to the writ area, stopped, and turned around. I asked her if she'd like to join me for some writ action inside.

She was more than happy to get the invite. I explained how I would pull and where it was safe, and we went inside. We spent the next 30 minutes killing everything in sight, and even though I was not able to get any exp (level 50) I knew she was. I purposely pulled ^^ mobs for extra loot and exp, and she used her Tracking to help me find my target writ mob. A 43 Assassin also showed up LFG so I scooped him up.

Well, if you've ever seen 3 DPS classes go at it against mobs, it's a wonderful sight. I not only used the pet to target mobs and keep agro, but I had to watch over my 2 party members, ensuring that I tossed a damage shield when they needed.

The Assassin needed a particular mob for a writ, so we wiped those also.

I purposely declined almost every loot that popped up, allowing the others a chance to get some cash.

Everyone was done, happy, and fat. We gave our celebratory gratz, thanks, good jobs, night. All told it took less than an hour.

There were no hand-outs, no PL'ing, no twinking. Just old fashioned help to someone that needed it.

And if nothing else, it was a seed. A seed of go-and-help-someone that may grow and flourish.

What do you do?

There were some occasions, in Stormhold for instance, trying to help some players to finish the access quest for Tomb of Valor. It was fun to do, because I knew myself that getting it done wasn't really easy.

But in the big zones, I haven't really had the same feeling as I had in EQ. I'm quite certain that will change after the patch, then I'll be able to just stand by a stranger, watch his health and give a heal when needed. That's something I always liked, just a heal out of the blue.

For eny one from the gold ol days of eq1 you remember how it was like to be fighting a tough mob and getin ready to run to zone and hope you live, when outa the blue you geta heal and a damage sheild form a passing druid....... i play a pally and i used to love running bye and buffing and healing random people that i saw. i think with out the chance to do this the comunity is starting to be less close-nit as it was in eq1.
As for my helping story...... when ever i am in TS i am costantly seeing a person or duolooking for more people for bloodtalon. if you have ever camped blood talon and tryed to take down with say 3 lvl 23-25 you will know that its impossible. so when ever i see a group in-need of help i offer my services as a 29 pally. i tank and some times heal so they can get bloodtalon. iv died many time doing this but in the end each time they got him. it just makes me smile when ever i am able to help some one else when they are in need.
i allso met this one mage who had just done the citizenship quest and was compleatly lost. i gave advice ran him around and have him 4 of my 6-slot bags. i allso got him set up in his room with billboard and vault. i have no clue what his name was but i hope ware ever he ist hat hes doing good and killing many things.

P.S. i gave him 4 6-slot bags becaseu i hadent bought eny higher slots yet.... even at 27...... i know im sad and stinge