We all know that grinding can seem pretty endless, and you can get bored and feel stuck. But every now and then something happens that puts a smile on your face, and I thought we could share moments like that here.
Earlier today I was killing Earth Taoists/Magicians, trying to finish one of the Bad Charm quests. I've been grinding away for a while, and I only have about ten charms left, when all of a sudden a sword/shield nuker comes and starts killstealing like a maniac.
Everything I attack, he nukes if I can't kill it fast enough. I assume it's a bot, because I haven't seen players act that stupid in a while. I hit him with Cold Wave Arrest, and he gets frostbite, I go pink. He doesn't respond or hit back, so I repeat it again, and again. Then he nukes me.
Oh shit, I think, he's not a bot. I start running away, and I manage to evade his attacks until he fires off a nuke that hits me when I'm back to white again, and he becomes an offender. I turn around, hit my zerk and start running towards him. He hits me with a nuke, but he's in his low 30's (I was lvl 29), and it doesn't do much more than 1000 damage, which in much less than half my HP.
I expect him to switch to sword-based attacks, knock me down and use those few seconds to get his nukes in on me...but he doesn't. Instead he tried to nuke me again and again. All I have to do is smile, open my inventory and use a HP pot every time a nuke hits me, and he can't kill me, even if he crits. I knock him down, stab him and hit him with a chain that freezes him AND crits, and he goes down. I try to res him but he teleports back to town.
A few minutes later he comes back and says something in a language I can't understand (why do they always assume you can speak their language? I don't run around speaking Swedish), and I tell him to speak English. He says "pwp", which I guess means "PvP", so I tell him to run along and play with someone else, because I already kicked his ass and didn't go below 50% HP.
He gets pissed off and tries to KS again, but I switch my attacks around so my knockdown happens in the time it takes him to start his nuke, so most of the time his attack is aborted and I get the kill anyway. He keeps on following me and I laugh a bit because he can't KS me, and I finish my quest and lvl to 30.
tl;dr - guy killsteals, I trick him into attacking me and kill him, he gets pissed off