Karma

Despite my last rant about botting I find that usually Karma happens! I try to help new players that try to help themselves. If I see a player struggling with something (mogguns for example) I might offer to help. Recently I spent about an hour hunting mogguns with Kotex (upping his coal collection from 17 to 40 and getting him his first diamond). The only thing I grabbed was a few white fur and a second diamond that showed up. Last night I spent a bit more time helping Kotex in the graveyard (imaging going from mogguns to the graveyard - a pretty big step) along with MoonWolf (a mage who also seems particularly helpful).

I also gave away my (rare) staff to a player who had helped me out a bunch of times before and who I've mentioned in this blog a couple of times before. At some point I might do the mage thing, but for now I still prefer the warrior route. As a rule I don't give away rares, or items of particular value, and I especially don't give items to people begging for it (it just encourages more begging). Earn it! The player I gave the staff to was a mage and he certainly earned it with all his help.

As I started to mention karma seems to come back... Sugar, Prsm and I went Jacko hunting and they allowed me to pick all the drops. I had previously fought jacko 4 times, all of which only resulted in a soul drop, and were difficult because I had to consume a lot of healing. Rikle joined us for a bit and provided healing.

Sugar previously helped me with an Infantry Helment when I needed one for the steel shield quest. I returned it in the form of an extra crusader helmet I had. But Sugar has helped me a few times before, including when I first started blogging about TMW (a previous Tarq character before the wipe).

Prsm helped me brew monster oil for my setzer and with coal. I was really impressed when I was hunting mogguns one time and he came in and killed one in a group I was working on and took the coal, then apologized profusely. Just the apology was nice, especially since I could barely kill mogguns at the time.  But he also gave me 10 coal that allowed me to finally get my warlord plate. It's players like Prsm and Sugar that inspire me to help players like Kotex. But they too deserve a big thanks... so Prsm and Sugar, thank you... your karma kick is coming.