Kill stealing

[chierii]

So, flist, tell me this:

You're heading back towards Arcadia after killing your targets. You've got an Odin next to you so there's no way you need Blobs for your quest.

There's a Blob with very low health moving towards a player with full health. Okay, maybe the other player hasn't loaded yet so you can't see he's countering.

But still. Demon with low health + nearby player = they're fighting, right? What could possess someone to take away that last chunk of HP (and the kill credit)?

And I wasn't at low health myself so I clearly didn't need any "help".

What the fuck is wrong with people?

Comments

[knuddeluff.livejournal.com]

Dicks just being dicks, mostly. Kill stealing pretty rampant back when I played Ragnarok Online.

One time I got KOd on Imagine and this guy came over. I thought, "How nice but there's no need to bother reviving! I'll just respawn to last saved point, exp loss or no." Turns out he was just came over to laugh at me. That was just one time out of many, though.

[chierii]

That's kind of strange. The one thing I can say most players aren't jerks about is providing resurrection, given that it's fairly easy to put Recarm in a fusion line and revival items are cheap. It's one of the few things I'm proud to be part of the game for.

(Also around level 30 on you're going to want to have someone/thing else revive you because the XP loss is...not fun at that point.)