silverraven
05-08-2007, 08:48 AM
My title will become evident towards the end of my story and names have been omitted as I'd rank this as one of my worst experiences. Feel free to add your own experiences to my little thread.
Once upon a time there was a guy named Fred, who wanted to run the VON series with a guildie and joined a group. They ran the first two pretty easy until disaster struck in VON 3.
One of the tanks died, did not rez, nor did they respond to any of the group. Undaunted the party continued on and defeated all the beholders with a five man team and the help of Cloud-Kill. As they neared the end they hit the proverbial wall when a number of drow gave them a whooping. For those of you who have run VON you know the area to which I refer by the shrine. They made it to the shrine but couldn't rez due to a drow patrol. A Dimensional Door was used to transport them to the beginning and two of the party recalled out(the Wizard and the Cleric) for spell points and to replace their errant colleague.
It was at this time the leader made a HUGE mistake; inviting a tank with the capability to kill and the level to Power level:eek:. For those of you who have died a few times on high level you know that the XP penality can reach the thousands, and as was the case with this party they relied on the huge XP available on VON 3 (10,000+), to even things out. The leader did this without asking anybody and caused moral to plummet.
The three heroes fought their way through trolls, towards the entrance to VON3 with little difficulty. As the trio were zoning to the instance, one of there party members decided that they were unhappy with the situation and bailed. :confused: Thereby denying the party the ability the get a replacement and thus forcing them to not only fight as five, but for nothing as they were being power leveled.
As we approached the end area, I happened to fall into the area that had enough creatures to pose a problem for me, but only a little for a few of us. After I died I was taken to the shrine by my guildie and we proceeded to the boss fight and were at last victorious with only one casualty, my guild mate. "I'm taking him to the shrine," I exclaimed. (No-one bothered to mention that the place was now lined with elementals)
All told I had 4k XP debt, empty of wands, and a massive Migraine. The point of this story is to highlight this: It is the leader's responsibility to keep moral up in the face of adversity and to always get the party's permission before getting them power leveled. :mad:
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Don't get me wrong, it wasn't solely the party leader's fault, as people were bailing across the board, but it didn't help the cause that he power-leveled everybody and defeated the purpose of sticking together through a tough quest with a massive XP debt.
Thank you for listening, and please tell me of your own worst experiences... BTW did I mention that the quest took 198mins?( 3 hours and 18 minutes for VON 3 and 6 hours for VON 1 thru 3)
Once upon a time there was a guy named Fred, who wanted to run the VON series with a guildie and joined a group. They ran the first two pretty easy until disaster struck in VON 3.
One of the tanks died, did not rez, nor did they respond to any of the group. Undaunted the party continued on and defeated all the beholders with a five man team and the help of Cloud-Kill. As they neared the end they hit the proverbial wall when a number of drow gave them a whooping. For those of you who have run VON you know the area to which I refer by the shrine. They made it to the shrine but couldn't rez due to a drow patrol. A Dimensional Door was used to transport them to the beginning and two of the party recalled out(the Wizard and the Cleric) for spell points and to replace their errant colleague.
It was at this time the leader made a HUGE mistake; inviting a tank with the capability to kill and the level to Power level:eek:. For those of you who have died a few times on high level you know that the XP penality can reach the thousands, and as was the case with this party they relied on the huge XP available on VON 3 (10,000+), to even things out. The leader did this without asking anybody and caused moral to plummet.
The three heroes fought their way through trolls, towards the entrance to VON3 with little difficulty. As the trio were zoning to the instance, one of there party members decided that they were unhappy with the situation and bailed. :confused: Thereby denying the party the ability the get a replacement and thus forcing them to not only fight as five, but for nothing as they were being power leveled.
As we approached the end area, I happened to fall into the area that had enough creatures to pose a problem for me, but only a little for a few of us. After I died I was taken to the shrine by my guildie and we proceeded to the boss fight and were at last victorious with only one casualty, my guild mate. "I'm taking him to the shrine," I exclaimed. (No-one bothered to mention that the place was now lined with elementals)
All told I had 4k XP debt, empty of wands, and a massive Migraine. The point of this story is to highlight this: It is the leader's responsibility to keep moral up in the face of adversity and to always get the party's permission before getting them power leveled. :mad:
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Don't get me wrong, it wasn't solely the party leader's fault, as people were bailing across the board, but it didn't help the cause that he power-leveled everybody and defeated the purpose of sticking together through a tough quest with a massive XP debt.
Thank you for listening, and please tell me of your own worst experiences... BTW did I mention that the quest took 198mins?( 3 hours and 18 minutes for VON 3 and 6 hours for VON 1 thru 3)