The point of my post was not to flame, but to perhaps suggest that a player can learn from his mistakes.
Since the questions you asked had already been answered, I was going more for the "teach a man to help himself" broad suggestion. If you took offense, then I appologize. I *honestly* was flabbergasted by two components of your post:
1. You failed to mention at all what you attempted or planned to do. You specifically mentioned "running laps" around the zone while trying to figure out what to do, but never listed what you came up with, what you tried, what didn't work, etc. Except for attempting to zone out in the normal manner of course.
2. You then asked for advice about the instance. The first question you posed is perfectly sensible and of no relevance to my response. The second one just floored me. You asked how someone can get out of the zone. Since the *only* mention of an attempt to leave was you trying to run through where the zone would normally be, I was left to assume that it simply never occured to you to use gate or port.
Together, this implied to me that even after dying, and having time to think about it, you still hadn't figured out a handful of *extremely obvious* ways to manage that situation. I even mentioned it in my post. I granted the fact that at the time you died the first time, you may not have had the correct spells loaded. I don't blame people for not knowing what to do beforehand. I *do* question people when after the fact they don't seem to be able to figure out how to avoid the problem they just faced.
I wasn't flaming you for dying. I was "flaming" you because it most certainly appeared from you post that you didn't know how to avoid dying the next time. Given that you play a druid, and druids get gate, ports, and succors, it just seemed amazing to me that you didn't post something like: "I know that I can just gate or port out, and can use succor to clear agro so we can avoid that problem the next time, but what other mechanisms exist to exit the zone?". That would have been a reasonable question. The way you phrased it made it sound like despite being a druid, and presumably understanding what all of those spells do, you were still sitting around scratching you head wondering how to get out of the zone...
I also don't agree that my post had no value and provided no information. I described in detail *exactly* what succor does and how it can be used to avoid the problem you had in your original post. How is that not "useful"? If someone else had posted this exact thread before you did your first unrest instance, and had read my post, would you have died? Likely not. You'd have made sure to load up succor and been ready to use it to clear agro in exactly the manner I suggested. I don't just post on this forum to answer direct questions posed by individual posters. I post in a manner intended to inform a broad number of people about how to overcome obstacles in the game. To me, providing players with the tools and knowledge to solve their own problems is more valuable then just directly answering the single questions they ask.
Zero value and contribution? I think not...
Again. I appologize if my post bothered you. But honestly, my first reaction after reading your thread was "How could anyone who plays a level 63 druid not know how he should have handled that situation?". Perhaps you did know how to manage it. That's great. But you didn't post that, so I have to assume you are still not sure. I also have to assume that there are other players out there who might not know what they should do in that situation either. So if I offended you while informing them, then I'm sorry, but this is a game site dedicated to providing information about playing the game. You're not the only person I may be considering when I post.
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