It has been awhile but I am back. I have been busy leveling up a new enchanter on the vulak server. He is level eighteen now and has been the member of a few dungeon groups. I now understand the pain of enchanters everywhere when melee and dps casters break all of the mezzes you spent all that mana casting. I think I will take this opportunity to cover proper group/dungeon etiquette.
Now, by this time I think we all know how to properly do things. If you are buffing, either keep timers or cast on yourself so you know when to rebuff. If you are dps, use assist blah, blah, blah. All of these topics have been covered endlessly. My rehashing them here would serve no purpose and for my tens of readers that is not what you have come to expect. I need to discuss things that are new and fresh.
What is that you say? There is no topic in EQ dungeon etiquette that has not already been covered. Come on now, you have that little faith in me as your avatar spiritual leader and the shining light in your online entertainment desolate night. I have, after tireless research, found a topic not covered anywhere in your eq strategy guides. Read on brave soul, read on to take your game to new heights. To take your skills to the next level.
The etiquette I am referring to of course is the establishment of a “pee corner”. When you are in a group there have been thousands of occasions over the years when someone in the group calls for a “bio break” or some derivative thereof. That is all well and good and proper. However, as we all know no one likes to sit in pee, and yet these players do not move to any corner to conduct this biological transaction. How disgusting. As an enchanter I spend a lot of time backed into a corner on my butt medding. I would like to have the peace of mind that I am not sitting in the non designated, but still used by some, corner. Therefore, the establishment of the pee corner is essential so that I may rest my mind from worrying about getting unsightly stains on my fancy robe and concentrate on the group tacticals.
I know some of you are saying, “But you are speaking from a strictly role-playing point of view Rownin. I am just interested in grinding and going on my way.” Well, you little min/maxer you, I am not forgetting your viewpoint. Consider this, my number crunching friend, you are in the middle of a big fight on a five mob pull and as soon as, or right before the mobs are all dead someone calls bio break and heads afk. Since you are concerned only about xp gain /hour you are not paying close attention and pull the next set of five mobs. Now, let us suppose that person calling the break was the crowd control. Well here comes the melee port to bind for your whole group. That is what can and does happen when a pee corner is not established.
Over half of the game is visual cues and we are trained as players to react to most situations based on what visual cues we have. If there is a mob we see it and react. If there is a spell effect we go through our mental images and figure out what spell it was to see if we need to change our tactics. By establishing a pee corner and having everyone who is afk on a bio break head into that corner you can, at a glance, determine your current party strength and whether or not it is safe to pull. Simple, straightforward, and easy to enforce.
Now down to some specifics about the pee corner. The corner in question should be out of the way of the incoming pulls but easily within view of the area where you are fighting. It should be always downhill and away from the wind for obvious reasons. Ideally there should be a raised portion of ground or a rock in the corner for those of a feminine persuasion. Also, at no time should someone be standing in the pee corner unless they are in fact relieving themselves. For one, ewww. For two, this will cause confusion for the puller and whoever else is charged or feels the need to monitor current party attendance if people are standing in the corner who are, in fact, not actually using the corner for its intended purpose.
By following the few simple procedures I have laid out we will all benefit by adding an extra simple visual cue to our repertoire. By using this system we create yet another useful tool from something the developers never intended us to gain an advantage from…the corner. Now in the future I do fully expect developers to try to combat this by making all walls and rooms rounded. Do not worry about this future event as I have a plan for that as well but am keeping it under wraps to combat the developers’ evil machinations.
Thank you for reading
Rownin 25th monk
Alayan 18th enchanter
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