Man, today has been an awful day.
I've been grumpy all day long, and 2 people seem to have been dropped from their static without warning and 1 was stolen into an static. Also, a friend has full VM gear and nothing else to do in the game so he's going to stop playing for a bit.
Doesn't help that someone stepped down from being an officer due to the one being stolen and I'm worried about one that was dropped from the static.
Never a dull day in this game. *sigh*
TERA can be a roller coaster sometimes. Tuesday was pretty sad.
We gathered a large guild group for Nexus and NT, all decked out in our PVE gear, and just minutes before Nexus begins, everyone in our raid group starts randomly dying. I barely have time to react before I see a swarm of red arrows and then a resurrection prompt. The Nexus node that we were at was locked and it seems that a douchebag guild called Shatter decided to declare on us randomly in order to try and wipe us out and get the quest for their members. What those idiots didn't know is that you don't lose the quest when you die. Unfortunately, anyone that resurrected back to town lost the quest and was unable to do Nexus or NT. In a panic, I think several members ended up resurrecting. I resurrected back to try and concede the war so the rest of us could continue our Nexus uninterrupted but it seems the game makes you wait an hour before you can concede.
One of their officers whispered me the reason for the declaration and a sincere apology but it was still a pretty bitch move.
After Nexus we put a hunting party together to try and get some revenge on Shatter but it was mostly a failure. These scumbags would run into safe zones as quickly as possible and everyone that we found out in the open world, away from safe zones, kept getting summoned and disappeared or unstucked back to town. One Lancer in particular must have been dual boxing with a healer alt or had a healer in their PT. We found him on 3 different occasions and every single time he instantly vanished just before he was about to die.
He actually fell down the cliff side once and clipped through the side of the mountain. We were beating on him while he was stuck there but he eventually freed himself and fell down to the bottom. In a rush to try and finish him off, we all followed him down and with everyone at 1 HP, he managed to clip and kill one of our members before getting summoned out of the zone.
We caught a few more at the gate to Kanstria but some Nerd Rage outlaws decided to interfere and went after us while we were fighting. We killed the Nerd Rage but Shatter made it back to the safe zone with their tail between their legs.
After wasting a few hours on this, I just conceded the war because it was pointless. On the bright side, we did kill a ton of Asylum members. They are a notorious PK guild and right up there with some of the most hated guilds on the server. As a whole, their combined members have infinitely better gear than our combined members but we still managed to wipe them twice and kill some of their stragglers here and there. They did come back and revenge wipe us after the first time we wiped them but they had a couple more people than us.
A Focused Archer decided to try and randomly kill me at the Kanstria gate and when some guild members came out to help he called them all "shitty", I guess because he didn't get to kill me. Pretty much all my plans for Nexus, farming, and dungeons was shot so I did some BGs instead. I lost about 4-5 matches in a row on consistently shitty teams so I decided to just call it a night.
Yesterday was a good day but right at the end of the night after winning several consecutive BGs, we landed on a team with a really annoying player. He kept whispering me and calling our other members "bad". The score against the other team was actually really close despite our team's gear deficit. He had a couple more kills than I did but I had like 4 caps to his 0 and he had the balls to whisper me directly, "get a fucking clue kid", as I'm off alone, fighting someone off of one of our pyres. He was complaining about the rest of the team earlier. I usually don't respond to crap like this but it made me mad that he was trash talking the rest of our team, so I called him out on it. I just blocked him after the match and logged.
I love the game but this fucking community. My god. To be expected with F2P, I guess. Gotta' take the good with the bad.
