i'll right my point up here first in case no one reads the story.
this is not a complaint post cuz i know it's all part of the game. it's just a funny story with a sour turn of events. should i expect griefing(i know this isn't 100% grief, but it's the best title i could think of) like this throughout my entire experience in L2? is it just bartz? or just unlucky turn of events?
i'm in a party with a handful of people all within the range of levels 27-32 just leveling fast in EG. some dwarf came over and flagged one of the dagger users so we all wail on him. end of story right? no, we were on the lookout for him to return with friends or something.
then suddenly a DA appears with duals (had panther) and his name was similar to that of the dwarf's. he just starts flagging on us so we all start wailing back. he was in c grade and we slept him and took out the panther then got to work on him. we only survived because of numbers. he finally managed to SoE on his 2nd attempt without us breaking it. so we thought it was over.
the group leaves and it's just 3 of us left. the SO goes down instantly. i run over there and see a red sorc in karmian and wham i'm down. the rogue ended up evading the clutches of the sorc with a similar name to the dwarf and DA.
so we get rez'd and then an artisan comes out of no where and starts wailing on us. then she runs far enough so that she turns white but we kept hitting her. my 2 party members helped me work off the karma and everything was good but we SoE'd just in case there was more to come.