Grief play has been a part of every MMO since the dawn of time – if someone can screw you over in-game in some way without any gain for themselves or just to get a rise out of you it’s called griefing. In a hard-core PvP game like Darkfall Online where you can literally kill anyone and take their gear, grief play almost has no place because when you kill someone there is always a gain. However, there is one flaw with DFO – okay more than one but one we’ll focus on today – mount killing. Not mount killing to catch a fleeing opponent or to gain a strategic position in battle but killing the mount of a friendly player just because you can. There is no gain for you and little risk either.
Last night while returning to Idawoll in the Dwarven Lands I met a player who started chasing me when I approached the town. I assumed he was following me to wait for me to dismount so he could try to steal my mount, a perfectly legitamate style of play – that is exceptable in DFO and I’ve come to expect it. Unfortunately, when I stopped for a second to pull-up my skill window he caught up to me and pulled out a sword and started slashing at my mount. We were inside of tower range, so had he hit me he would have gone grey and been killed by the guard towers – but hitting my mount gave him no penalty and had he managed to kill it my chat window would have been flooded with “lolz”. Instead with his failure he was sending me tells of “you’re lucky this…” and “I wasn’t trying…”, etc. After looping him around time in my successful attempt to evade him and save my mount I went and banked all my gear and my mount.
A few minutes later I ran out of the city to see where he was, lucky me this jack-hole was at the goblin spawn nearby stealing loot off of other players kills. He was hiding behind a tree not fighting any goblins himself but would run out when a kill was scored and snag the loot while players were busy fighting other goblins. I bided my time and waited until the other player got tired of this griefer and cleared out. While he was still hiding behind the tree I ran up on him and used my knockback skill on my greatsword – marking me grey for 15 seconds and sending him out into the middle of goblin central. The silly noob started fighting them off.
By the time I got to where he was fighting the goblins I had already returned to blue status and jumped into a few of his swings, causing him to go grey in turn and began to attack. My initial thought was to kill this griefer out of thoughts of revenge. But as he stood there parrying my blows I came up with a better idea – I tagged a couple of the goblins and let them pound away on me since he had no interest. My health eventually got down to about 25 percent and I just became to juicy of a target for this unguilded griefer. He moved in and returned fire – quickly taking me down and killing me. Just as I had hoped – he immediatlely turned red. ”Lolz” and “I pwned you d00d” immediately started coming through on chat as I quietly made my way from the bindstone back out to the goblin spawns. I reached him with about 50 percent health and managed to dispatch him quite easily – sending him rebound to some chaos stone out in the world – no longer with the tower protection and safe zones to continue his griefing.
My only reply – “Good luck out in the wild ‘red’…”
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3 comments so far
Haha this is awesome. Well done, sir!
May 28th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
Classic way to wreck someone’s day.
I remember back around launch I would stand in front of people who were tapping people to go gray and have towers hit them with block up. Making them go red was the highlight of my day. 
May 30th, 2009 at 12:47 am
Good article.
August 3rd, 2009 at 1:51 am
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