Monk Charging Service - How much? (If your against charging - Dont come here)

Reiz

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jun 2005

St. Louis

Xenia Barbarike

R/Me

20 Jul 2005 at 19:05 - 121
Quote:
Originally Posted by MuKen
1) There is a lack of monks compared to other classes in the endgame, causing a lot of people to wait around for groups to form.
2) There is a portion of players (not specifically monks) that aim to make money.
3) Monks can farm for money way faster than whatever they have been getting paid in groups.
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Thank you, My monk doesn't like to farm and she doesn't try to rip people off, she wants to help people in the game and the little extra money from materials (either in selling them or just not having to buy them) makes it so she can keep helping people instead of having to take a break to farm so she can stay competitive (IE upgrading armor, and weapons.).

Dax

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2005

20 Jul 2005 at 19:10 - 122
Exscuse me, did I just read the promise of some human company? lol. Shouldn't people log off and go out to get human company? Besides, can't you chat with people while your farming?

Algren Cole

Algren Cole

Banned

Join Date: Jun 2005

20 Jul 2005 at 19:16 - 123
Quote:
Originally Posted by MuKen
Ok, look, I don't think you completely understand the situation, so I'm going to lay it out.

1) There is a lack of monks compared to other classes in the endgame, causing a lot of people to wait around for groups to form.
2) There is a portion of players (not specifically monks) that aim to make money.
3) Monks can farm for money way faster than whatever they have been getting paid in groups.

The concept of paying monks, in all likelihood, did not come from a monk. It started with a group, wanting a monk badly enough to offer money as enticement. Now, a large part of the community wants to offer money to monks so as to solve issue (1) by drawing monks away from point (3).

You seem to think you're on some crusade against greedy monks, which is ridiculous, because if all they care about is money they'd be way better off farming for it. I (and I don't play a monk btw), would much rather offer them 1-2k an hour if it's going to pull in some small portion of the farmers and increase the monk pool by that much more.

And guess what? They're still losing out, because they don't make money as fast as if they just went and farmed on their own. I just hope that with some amount of monetary compensation for their farming time lost, along with the promise of some human company, will be sufficient to pull them away from their farming activities.

Your crusade is not against greedy monks, if you get your way they will actually make more money. Your crusade is only hurting needy non-monks. If I'm looking to pay a monk, I'm happy when a money-accepting monk advertises themselves. If a monk is looking to get hired, he's happy to find me. Both of us are very much not happy with you if you're being a dick about a transaction that doesn't concern you at all.

uhm....thanks for the clarification?

Wrane Latrobe

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jul 2005

Wood

E/Me

20 Jul 2005 at 22:10 - 124
My monk has retired after opening all skills and elites for her primary and secondary class. Through the normal course of gameplay she has gathered enough weapons and gold to support the rest of her family and only comes out to move items to and from storage. She can be lured out of retirement to help guildmates and friends with specific missions/cap runs; but mostly she is skiing in the south shiverpeaks.