Barnum & Bailey once said ................

[randdo]

Barnum & Bailey of the Barnum & Bailey, Ringling Brothers fame, came out with a saying back in the 1800's.
"You can fool all of the people some of the time, you can fool some of the people all of the time, but you can never fool all the people all of the time."

Yet there are some who play NS4 who think they can fool everyone all the time. Do not miss understand this post, it is not a whine or a complaint, but is merely posted to linform those who think they are fooling all the people all of the time, that they are not.

This pertains to "some" casters, who seem to crash several times only during a PvP dual or relic raid, whereas they normal would crash once maybe twice in a long time when doing PvM if they crash at all. These crashing casters tend to be combination builds using other classes as well in their builds.

So here's how it looks from my end. I see the caster cast 3 time stops and maybe a couple of other level 9 spells, no scrolls, along with a bunch of other lower level spells. I already know that the particular caster has only 19 or 20 casting levels from information I gathered on log-in. They then seem to lock up and stand completely still for a couple of minutes while their "buddies" keep you busy. Then "poof" they disappear as they log out. Instead of coming back in a few seconds, minutes will pass. Now this does happen on occasion as one's system locks up and needs to be hard booted. But taking a long time to come back into play several times during an encounter is a bit of a tell-tail sign. Specially when now they have a full load of spells and buffs back. One could wonder as to what is going on with that person(s) and begin to pay specail attention to them, watching very closely.

What really gives it away, is now instead of casting 3 time stops and a couple of other level nine spells, they miraculously now have 3 wails and a couple of different level 9 spells that were not used before, all this, without using scrolls to cast. Amazing how they appear to have 10, 15 or even 20 level 9 spell slots.

This little "Opps I crashed" trick, does not go unotice. So these casters who think they are "fooling all of the people all of the time" start to get a high rate of pk's or people "running - disappearing" on them, it's not because your that good. Probably the player your up against just doesn't want to bother with cheaters, because it gets old pretty fast and is just not worth the time or effort. Only a few are guilty of this and they know who they are.

Just keep in mind that if a player can see what your doing... guess who else might be watching.