Originally Posted by Isildur The Paladin

Some people even got banned for the strike

Originally Posted by Str0b0

See now I think all this," It was all in fun." is just a cop out. It seems to me that everytime someone's stupid idea comes back to bite them in their proverbial asses their characteristic reaction is to immediately say." Hey I was just joking. Can't you take a joke?" It's a redirection tactic and nothing more. It's meant to throw the spotlight off their stupid idea and onto the new "bad guy with no sense of humor." Now while a lot of people did manage to make light of the situation in the form of the fake news reports and some of the more interesting strike slogans I still firmly believe, based simply on my own observations of the American people and in particular those who choose to play this game, that some moron got a burr up their butt about some jerk in a party blaming the failure of the mission on them and so the wannabe Spartacus decides he's going to organize a strike. Now see while the majority of us probably find this laughable when written out our young Rebel leader here no doubt took himself very seriously. What makes matters worse is that in any significantly large group of Americans there will always be those that will cling to any cause just for the sake of getting involved in something which promises to bring them some attention. Whether they believe in the cause or not is immaterial. All that matters is that they get attention. Now if this had been a relatively small group of three or so then it would have been funny. The thing that made it sad, deplorable, and annoying is the scale that it was allowed to grow to. Now I'm not blaming ANet staff on that one. I blame the players themselves. All it usually takes is one well placed jibe to bring little goobers like Spartacus to a crashing halt. In fact a sarcastic Spartacus reference might have done the trick nicely. So who was looking out today in THK? Hmm? Where was that lone voice of contempt to shut down this little movement before it even got started? Now by the time Anet people got there they just made a bad situation worse. They could have either put some soothing PR balm on those poor irritated little monk backsides by promising some updates to affect the balance and so on and so forth or they could have bruised some monk backsides by shutting it down with bans. While admittedly the latter option is a little harsh I'm trying to cover both ends of a broad spectrum of responses. However from everything I read and saw they didn't really do much but agg it on. A clear message should have been sent one way or the other. Admittedly Gaile did try to move it to LA which at least would have kept things moving along in THK , but alas it was too little too late for the beast had grown beyond the abilities of her PR prowess to control. And so it then devolved into name calling flaming and racial slurs at which point they stepped in and started banning. Keep in mind while I think the entire thing was foolish and childish don't get me wrong. The initial act was stupid, but thankfully stupidity isn't a crime otherwise we'd have a prison population explosion based off this incident alone. So if you want to organize goofy strikes and protests in game go right ahead the only problem is those stupid little childish acts will almost always end up just like this one ended up, another name calling fight that only ends when ANet has to lay the smack down. So keep that in mind all you future Sparatacus wannabes before you start your own little revolution.

Originally Posted by Serafita Kayin

Respect.

Nobody gets it cause nobody gives it.

I went to UW last night. Paid for the group. Had to, cause I'm the ranger. Trapper, BTW. Full WS and high expertise, can solo trap enough to lay waste to a group of Aatxes. But I'm not a solo player, I enjoy camaraderie in group and besides, I need backup (rangers, the do anything class, do need help sometimes) so I was carrying other people. I ended up getting through 4 groups of mobs because our warriors were drawing ALL the aatxes to the traps meant for one group.

The nuker refused to nuke, the mesmer tripped over their skill bar (backfiring an aatxe?) and the poor poor monk was stuck with trying to manage all that.

But, NOBODY listened to the directions I was calling, EVERYONE ran in eight different directions, and without my spike build I couldn't drop them fast enough for us to survive.

If people (monks, rangers, whatever) want respect, they have to earn it. I wanted to throw rocks at everyone in that group.

Besides, you want an underappreciated group, take rangers. We can replace wa/mos any day (yes, I can out-dps a hammer warrior.), know all about energy conservation and aggro control, can interrupt, spike, trap, prevent resurrection (can a monk do that?), pull, call and generally be a team unto ourselves (seen it with 8 man trapper teams). Yet we're called ineffective and stupid because a few of us wanna be rambo.

We have been consistently denied groups since the release, yet we still continue to play. Most of us don't even say anything about not being able to find a group, we call guildies/take henches cause we KNOW unless it's something special nobody wants us.

Maybe we should strike.

Originally Posted by Avarre

Can I arrest monks for countering spells (spell breaker ftw) without a mesmer permit?