Does no one help people unconditonally anymore?Follow

Of course ppl still help out,im one of em. Ive lended a hand a bunch of times with Rank missions, Genkai, NM's, escorts, etc. Im not the strongest player ever, just a lowly PLD with no cool little tricks or incredible WS's. But im damn good at keeping ppl alive, mainly by throwing myself in the path of whatever big nasty decides to try and eat the intensitnes of the one nooblet im with. Im no super powered RDM with bunches of fancy spells that basically make them a solo death machine, but i lend help where and when i can. And thats my two cents.

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Grivvon

PLD at yer service, ready to be stabbed, mutilated, blowed up real good, skewered, beaten, and overall really hurt for your safety.

Funny how things where in the begining and how it's changed so much in a few years.

I was the same way, sorta am still when i feel like it, when i helped ppl i did it cause ppl would help me and they would always tell me " I don't need a reward, just always help those that are not so fortunate when you reach 75." and so i did. Yet there was one small problem....they asked for more help and more help and then it got to the point ppl were telling others about me and so forth..so i had bunch of /tell for help to solo things being i was 75rdm/37nin.

So i did what i could do so i wouldn't get more /tell....I charged ppl cause at times it cost me money for buying foods,nin tools,ect..and so i charged.

Well that didn't work. LOL they paid what my offer was. So i charged them more and then it soloed down. Last /tell i got and helped with was soloing avatars for 100-150 each avatar. I made a killing soloing avatars.

Other then that....you want help, put some gil behind the help. U'll be lucky if you find ppl that still do it cause they are nice.

[quote=xbobx]Never ever help anyone in this game, if you do they will expect you to be at their beckon call, then when you want to do something else that you want to do they will be pissed at you.

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Hee hee... Guess who helped me get my magicked skull while I was an utterly new citizen of Vana'diel? Oh wait that was you, Shuffles!

Anyway, to some extent it's true. You can build helpful, healthy relationships to some people by helping them, but others will just be there every day requiring stuff. I'm so tired of spending two hours for one person in my relatively large friendlist to get ingredients the cheapest place possible, then synth and then get paid expenses only.

I'm also a bit tired of helping people. Camping coffers with a person for 12 hours straight, then finally get it. The moment of bliss. Then they quit the game out of impulse a week later. The moment of realization. (Nice way to spend your saturday afternoon, evening and night, btw lol)

What I did today was delete my entire friend list (95 people) and then delete my old handle and make a new one. From now I'll just add my real friends in this game. This probably sound a bit hostile. It's more of a practical move to avoid exhaustion from extensive chatting than trying to become asocial though ^^

I don't mind helping people. I think very few does mind. It can be fun, you can either show off, skill up, explore or all of the above. Seems some people even fall in love with eachother. The tiresome part is when you have an evergrowing list of good people that occasionally needs something important done and you also have those 3-5 leeches that hastily /tells you about their agenda for today and then ask how you're going to solve it - as soon as you log on. 3 leeches can really <Energy Drain> you to <death> when there's so many normal, wonderful players you'd so much rather spend time with.

Thank God for /blacklist add name! ^^

Being a 45 paladin I can not help much, but I always am happy to throw a cure or provoke a monster off a lower level person who calls for help or was atacked.

I have been helped a lot over the year I have played, free money, equipment, lots of tips and so on. I've helped a few people do low level missions over the last few months, but aside from that I am not much of a help lol.

I've often found it quite relaxing to hang out in like the 2nd jungle just making sure no one dies from gobbies or whatever. Used to do that at qufim too, but all the times I checked recently, there never seemed to be as many problems. Whereas in the jungle little mishaps still happen - and harder to escape to safety.

I agree with Fujitaru's well written post. It's quite accurate. But still, helping ppl with your new high lvl job can be a lot of fun. :)

{/cheer? Fuzzbox on!!! I think your comment hits the mark.

I think people dread helping out when the person requesting the assistance then asks "what do we do next" .... /d'oh.

It would, had I a 60+ NIN ^^;

I've tried tanking THF AF3 before (as PLD), while not impossible it is VERY difficult due to the constraints placed upon you (cannot pull with magic, if it blows up you fail, etc.).

Yeah, the bomb likes to blow up...a lot. In fact, 5 of the 6 times I fought him, he started self-destruct right from the start before anyone even hit him. So the BLM wouldn't be for nuking so much as they'd be there to Stun the bomb when it tried to blow up.

In the end, an awesome NIN/DRK tanked for me, and even though he pulled the bomb with Stun, the ash or coal or whatever the old ******* in Mhaura wanted dropped. <(^.^)>

Still, the quest is a royal pain.

Hate to inform, but it seems that the "really vague shout for help" problem is seeping down into the newbier levels.

I recently got mugged on by someone asking for "six elvaans to complete a quest." I basically ignored the shout because I figured there was no way I'd be able to help with anything, and then the dude jumped me by the fountain in N Sandy with the same request. He didn't say which quest he was looking to complete ("Introduction to Teamwork"), called me a "nob" (whatever that means), and acted all huffy when it took me a second to figure out how to join the party (my retarded controller-typing also didn't help, but that's my problem). By this point, I'm like "ho kay".

He gets, like, four of us together, then says, "Let's go to the tower!" and runs off. I'm like, "Wait a second... which tower where? A tower out in Ronfaure? Didn't he need six of us? What is this person talking about?" Finally, after limping around confused for a while, I got tired of feeling stupid and bailed.

Not more than two hours later, I got up into the watchtower and activated the quest and when it dawned on me what had happened, I very nearly sent that dude a /t letting him know that if he'd have made more sense in the first place, we'd have all gotten ahead. Third-Rate Organizer indeed.

But to answer the original question, I'm perfectly willing to help out the "random person", but if I'm not going to harbor a whole bunch of guilt for backing away from something I don't understand or know I can't do. Pretending to be something you aren't is the epitome of jackassery (IMO). If people want to take my silence as me ignoring their call for help, so be it, but there are times when I know my "help" can't possibly be enough. But I also know that once I *can* be of help, I certainly will try.

Oh god no. that thing isn't worth 50 cents.. full of mis info.. youd be better off just browsing alla for info on whatever you need

yeah but if you Alt+tab your game closes in FFXI. I liked the spell charts for when I was leveling whm..I liked the guide. I would also take notes and write stuff in it (silly I know but helped me)