Two Hundred Sixty Second Entry
I have some drama to tell from MapleStory, my boring game -____________-
I think you guys still remember I told you my job in the game was a priest.
For the ones who don't know what a priest does, a priest can heal you (save you hp pots), bless you (add attack accuracy, weapon defense, magic defense, avoidability), increase the experience you get from killing monsters (which make a lot of high lvls LOVE you since after you reach 100, even if you train hard you will likely get 3-5% per hour, which means you hardly go to higher level without a priest).
So there I am, a priest, a high level priest, high enough to make every non priest player look at me and scream "Priest! Priest!"
Okay enough bragging. Out of all those fames (ha ha ha), I gain a lot of friends. But I soon realize that they all want me for what I can and not what I am. It kinda turns out stupid since I want them for what they are and not what they can -_______-
There is this guy, who shows so many compassion toward my complaints about people using me as a tool and not seeing me as a normal human being. Ha. Turns out he's the same kind.
I should have realized it sooner. He had quite some problems with priests other than me because he was, like, asking more than he could get and got angry if he didn't get what he wanted,
In high-level-training parties, priest's main task is to bless and increase experience (a skill named Holy Symbol, abbr. HS) and go through whole map to give away skills. NOT HEALING, although of course, we can. But it is not our main task.
He was in this party with his priest buddy, and the priest, I don't know why, didn't heal him as he was surrounded by monsters, which resulted in his death (10% loss, for him a big loss). I suppose the priest was busy chatting. I do that too. Chatting, I mean. Giving away skills only and not attacking is really boring, so I become chatty during my training time. When you chat, of course, you hardly pay attention at whatever happens around you, especially if it doesn't concern you.
So this guy was fighting at the bottom and the priest was above him, hanging on a rope. The guy apparently expected the priest to come to his rescue, since he stopped supplying his character with hp pots. Result? Well he died.
Then he started bitching around in the buddy talk : All priests are stupid, what kind of friend are you? Why don't you heal me? Dammit I lost 10%!!!! You have NO idea how much 10% is because you only lose 5%!!!
As a third party but intending to explain things to him, I interfered and told him starightforwardly that it wasn't a priest's task in such party to heal. if a priest heals, then its BONUS. A priest's main task is to bless and HS. That's all.
But he refused to understand. Well. Then the priest deleted him from his buddy list and the guy came to me whining. I was like, "I don't blame the priest" inside my heart. He praised me with 1000 compliments calling me the best priest ever in MapleStory. Heh.
It was during this double experience event (self-explaining) that it dawned on me that he wasn't that good a friend I thought he was.
We were partying before (training), and he suddenly signed off. The event was coming near and everyone in the party told me we have to get one more person in order to get the best experience out of the event. So I, as party leader, expelled him and replaced him with another attacker. One hour later he came back in, and flamed me for expelling him out of the party. The conversation went like this :
Me : I am sorry I had to replace you, but we waited for you quite a long time, so we all assumed you weren't coming back.
Him : You know me. You know I will come back. I also never boot you out of a party because you disconnect.
Me : Well disconnect is like, 5 min max gone. You were off 1 hour long.
Him : I had computer problems. I had to defragment my hard discs.
Me : Too bad then, I don't know that.
Him : Yeah, because you never have to defragment your discs.
Me : I am sorry? I do have computer problems and sometimes I have to be off long time as well. The difference is, I don't mind being booted because it is after all, my problem.
Him : ..........
Me : What do you want from me? To abandon my party and wait for you until you come back, whenever it is?
Him : ...........
Him : .......... Thanks for everything.
Me : Don't thank me, I know you are not thankful.
Him : No, I say that because I am going to delete you from my buddy list now.
Me : If that's what you want.
Then he deleted me.
Next day, he whispered me and said he was having a "bad day" and therefore he "accidentally deleted" me off his buddy list so he asked if I could add him back. Surprise. I didn't.
I want him to learn out of this.
Compared to other priests my level, I am really a very nice priest in person. I don't bitch around when I have to give away skills by going up and down a map and I don't act like an ass only because a lot of people need me. He also said that himself. I just don't understand why he still gets angry at me that easily. Heh.
I remember that I was always there for him. Whenever he died in many occasions I comforted him and sort. I remember once I died in a miserable way at Zakum (the boss monster) and I was totally devastated. Another guy who wasn't even my buddy tried his best to comfort me. And this buddy? He came to us, start comparing his equips and skills with the guy and ignored me. I left the map because I was hurt. And the guy excused himself from my buddy to come to me and comfort me. Funny eh? So much to a friendship.
I think you guys still remember I told you my job in the game was a priest.
For the ones who don't know what a priest does, a priest can heal you (save you hp pots), bless you (add attack accuracy, weapon defense, magic defense, avoidability), increase the experience you get from killing monsters (which make a lot of high lvls LOVE you since after you reach 100, even if you train hard you will likely get 3-5% per hour, which means you hardly go to higher level without a priest).
So there I am, a priest, a high level priest, high enough to make every non priest player look at me and scream "Priest! Priest!"
Okay enough bragging. Out of all those fames (ha ha ha), I gain a lot of friends. But I soon realize that they all want me for what I can and not what I am. It kinda turns out stupid since I want them for what they are and not what they can -_______-
There is this guy, who shows so many compassion toward my complaints about people using me as a tool and not seeing me as a normal human being. Ha. Turns out he's the same kind.
I should have realized it sooner. He had quite some problems with priests other than me because he was, like, asking more than he could get and got angry if he didn't get what he wanted,
In high-level-training parties, priest's main task is to bless and increase experience (a skill named Holy Symbol, abbr. HS) and go through whole map to give away skills. NOT HEALING, although of course, we can. But it is not our main task.
He was in this party with his priest buddy, and the priest, I don't know why, didn't heal him as he was surrounded by monsters, which resulted in his death (10% loss, for him a big loss). I suppose the priest was busy chatting. I do that too. Chatting, I mean. Giving away skills only and not attacking is really boring, so I become chatty during my training time. When you chat, of course, you hardly pay attention at whatever happens around you, especially if it doesn't concern you.
So this guy was fighting at the bottom and the priest was above him, hanging on a rope. The guy apparently expected the priest to come to his rescue, since he stopped supplying his character with hp pots. Result? Well he died.
Then he started bitching around in the buddy talk : All priests are stupid, what kind of friend are you? Why don't you heal me? Dammit I lost 10%!!!! You have NO idea how much 10% is because you only lose 5%!!!
As a third party but intending to explain things to him, I interfered and told him starightforwardly that it wasn't a priest's task in such party to heal. if a priest heals, then its BONUS. A priest's main task is to bless and HS. That's all.
But he refused to understand. Well. Then the priest deleted him from his buddy list and the guy came to me whining. I was like, "I don't blame the priest" inside my heart. He praised me with 1000 compliments calling me the best priest ever in MapleStory. Heh.
It was during this double experience event (self-explaining) that it dawned on me that he wasn't that good a friend I thought he was.
We were partying before (training), and he suddenly signed off. The event was coming near and everyone in the party told me we have to get one more person in order to get the best experience out of the event. So I, as party leader, expelled him and replaced him with another attacker. One hour later he came back in, and flamed me for expelling him out of the party. The conversation went like this :
Me : I am sorry I had to replace you, but we waited for you quite a long time, so we all assumed you weren't coming back.
Him : You know me. You know I will come back. I also never boot you out of a party because you disconnect.
Me : Well disconnect is like, 5 min max gone. You were off 1 hour long.
Him : I had computer problems. I had to defragment my hard discs.
Me : Too bad then, I don't know that.
Him : Yeah, because you never have to defragment your discs.
Me : I am sorry? I do have computer problems and sometimes I have to be off long time as well. The difference is, I don't mind being booted because it is after all, my problem.
Him : ..........
Me : What do you want from me? To abandon my party and wait for you until you come back, whenever it is?
Him : ...........
Him : .......... Thanks for everything.
Me : Don't thank me, I know you are not thankful.
Him : No, I say that because I am going to delete you from my buddy list now.
Me : If that's what you want.
Then he deleted me.
Next day, he whispered me and said he was having a "bad day" and therefore he "accidentally deleted" me off his buddy list so he asked if I could add him back. Surprise. I didn't.
I want him to learn out of this.
Compared to other priests my level, I am really a very nice priest in person. I don't bitch around when I have to give away skills by going up and down a map and I don't act like an ass only because a lot of people need me. He also said that himself. I just don't understand why he still gets angry at me that easily. Heh.
I remember that I was always there for him. Whenever he died in many occasions I comforted him and sort. I remember once I died in a miserable way at Zakum (the boss monster) and I was totally devastated. Another guy who wasn't even my buddy tried his best to comfort me. And this buddy? He came to us, start comparing his equips and skills with the guy and ignored me. I left the map because I was hurt. And the guy excused himself from my buddy to come to me and comfort me. Funny eh? So much to a friendship.