On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Steven S. Klug wrote:

>
> OUCH! Really sorry to hear about that. Though don't feel
> too bad, I'm sure we've all dropped our MM drum or some
> other valuable weapon before. Sucks that you couldn't
> find it though!

Yeah. I guess I complacent having a wakizashi and gypsy lute,
both of which are no-drop.

> I can certainly comisserate with you about jerks
> complaining about you "hogging" the giants. I did this a
> lot between levels 30 and 32 (made a bunch of plat, and
> got real bored with it). Generally I could get people off
> my back by informing them how to get more giants to spawn.
> There is the potential for WAY more giants spawning than
> you can handle with charm. I still remember the time I

Yeah, after I had my little talk with them, I wished them good
luck and went back to my corner of the zone. I got a /tell
from the bard in their group a few minutes later that the
group had decided to leave. For the next hour, there were
like 4-8 giants up at any one time - way more than my group
could kill even though I was grabbing a new one as soon as one
died (and having my group members do the looting and coin
split instead of me). It was bad enough that I stopped
killing trash mobs. If that's any indication, they were
killing 2-3 times more giants than we were.

--
John H. Kim
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