Sorim Grapes is Wronged

34.

[Whisper/Beombiga: Foi raids are designed so that even 4 players at the appropriate level can’t clear them, so it’s difficult to do alone due to lack of DPS]

[Whisper/Beombiga: As the level increases, raid difficulty also increases..]

[Whisper/Beombiga: Later on, there’s a limit to just communicating via chat, so people start using voice chat too]

[Whisper/To Beombiga: I want to do it alone]

[Whisper/Beombiga: Yeah 🙂 I thought you’d say that. But try experiencing teamplay this time]

[Whisper/Beombiga: An MMORPG is ultimately a game where you play together with other people..]

[Whisper/Beombiga: Of course, solo play is fun too, but the real fun comes from team play]

[Whisper/Beombiga: I really hope you’ll try playing the game together with other people..]

Reading the chat, I remembered hearing similar words not long ago.

“It’s more fun when you do it together.”

“Not all games are like this, but MMORPGs are more fun when you play with other people.”

Kwon Je-beom had said something like this. Back then, I didn’t even know what an MMORPG was, but now I do.

I thought these must be professional gamers or game streamers, people who are serious about games.

My expectation for “together with people” isn’t just zero, it’s plummeting towards negative, but everyone keeps saying raids are the real deal, that you can only say you’re really playing the game if you do raids, so I became a bit curious.

Rather than thinking “What’s with this meddling?”, I found myself wondering “Just how fun is it?”

Is it really more fun than this?

What if it’s not?

What if I’m disappointed?

What if I just end up realizing once again that I shouldn’t do anything “together” with others… Even though neither Kwon Je-beom nor Beombiga have any obligation to take responsibility for their words.

[Whisper/Beombiga: It’s better to watch strategy videos before doing raids. There’s fun in figuring it out yourself, but]

[Whisper/Beombiga: If party members don’t know the patterns at all, it makes it hard for other party members.. It’s about cooperation.]

[Whisper/To Beombiga: I think solo play would be better after all]

[Whisper/Beombiga: Hahaha]

[Whisper/Beombiga: Ah, but Angryy doesn’t need to worry about that]

[Whisper/Beombiga: Because I’ll be doing it together with Angryy]

[Whisper/Beombiga: You don’t need to watch strategy videos, it’s totally fine :)]

[Whisper/To Beombiga: Are you going to carry me?]

[Whisper/Beombiga: Ah]

[Whisper/Beombiga: You even know what “carry” means ㅠㅠ]

[Whisper/Beombiga: It feels like just yesterday when our Angryy didn’t even know how to send whispers… Time flies…]

“Our Angryy”… it feels strangely ticklish.

[Whisper/To Beombiga: But I don’t like being carried. I want to fight myself]

[Whisper/Beombiga: I thought you’d say that :)]

[Whisper/Beombiga: I’ll drive just at the right level to keep it exciting. I’m a pro]

[Whisper/Beombiga: I’ve been wanting to see Angryy’s actual specs for a while, and I finally get to..]

[Whisper/Beombiga: Hurry and reach level 50 so we can go raiding :)]

I remembered the chat going wild and users flocking when Beombiga appeared.

[Whisper/To Beombiga: I think I’ll get too much attention if I’m in the same party as you]

[Whisper/Beombiga: .Ah]

[Whisper/Beombiga: I often raid with newbies, so it’s fine]

[Whisper/Beombiga: And I won’t be streaming, so if we don’t tell anyone, no one will know]

[Whisper/Beombiga: You can’t abandon me now]

[Whisper/Beombiga: If you reject me, I’ll post on Sasage]

[Whisper/To Beombiga: What exactly is Sasage?]

[Whisper/Beombiga: Sasage is a place where you report when you’ve been wronged.]

[Whisper/Beombiga: I’d be very wronged if I can’t go raiding with Angryy]

[Whisper/Beombiga: You must go with me…]

[Whisper/Beombiga: I’ve been playing this game to raid with Angryy…]

[Whisper/Beombiga: Don’t make everything meaningless….]

[Whisper/To Beombiga: Okay, don’t overdo it lol]

In the end, I promised to definitely do raids together with Beombiga. And I listened to explanations about other things I should do in the future.

Come to think of it, I clearly told Beombiga that I was going to quit after reaching level 50, but he’s talking about raids as if it’s a given.

[Whisper/Beombiga: Since we’re on the topic, do you want to try a raid for real?]

[Whisper/To Beombiga: I’m not 50 yet though?]

[Whisper/Beombiga: We can practice]

[Whisper/Beombiga: I’m not streaming either]

[Whisper/To Beombiga: Let me look at some strategies first]

Although there’s fun in figuring things out on your own without looking at strategies, I’m sure I’ll get angry, so I decided to look at strategies.

[Whisper/Beombiga: If you search for Foi raid strategies on GemTube, a lot will come up]

[Whisper/To Beombiga: Okay]

I told Gakjong and MinoIsMine that I’d be away, and then entered a video site called ‘GemTube’ on my phone.

A raid refers to content where multiple users kill a ferocious and giant monster together, and the first monster I would kill was ‘Silent Medusa’.

I was surprised when I saw the name. Because Silent Medusa was an ‘ancient monster’ said to have existed long before the Sausage Empire appeared in the Western Continent. This terrible monster was sealed in a space-time rift by an ancient hero, but due to the human-demon war that lasted a hundred years, cracks formed in space-time, and it was released from its seal.

It’s not completely free yet, the seal is still shaking, so when the monster tries to escape, you have to enter the space-time rift and defeat it, but even this doesn’t kill it completely. It’s just put to sleep, so after some time passes, it wakes up and struggles again. That time is one day in real time. In other words, you have to do the raid once a day.

This is the ‘Ancient Raid’, and there’s also a ‘Legendary Raid’, which is content to stabilize the seal of legendary monsters even stronger than ancient monsters. Legendary Raids are for levels in the 200s, so I’m still far from that.

Surely I’m not going to play this game until level 200.

[Whisper/Beombiga: Did you look it up?]

[Whisper/To Beombiga: I’m looking at it now]

[Whisper/To Beombiga: If raids are like this… I won’t do it today, but I’ll definitely have to do it someday]

[Whisper/Beombiga: Haha]

[Whisper/Beombiga: Looks fun, right?]

[Whisper/To Beombiga: If Medusa is completely freed from the seal, not only Mino and Lido guild, and the Sausage Empire, but the entire Western Continent will be in danger… We can’t just stand by and watch.]

I wrote a long sentence and pressed enter before reading Beombiga’s whisper.

[Whisper/To Beombiga: Looks fun? Are you serious?]

[Whisper/Beombiga: Of course not, how could I talk about fun when the fate of the continent is at stake]

[Whisper/Beombiga: I also approached it seriously when I first encountered the story..]

[Whisper/Beombiga: Even now, I’m always purifying through appropriate level raids without fail.]

[Whisper/To Beombiga: Right, let’s work hard for the peace of the Sausage Empire]

[Whisper/Beombiga: Sojisis…]

[Whisper/Beombiga: Yes… Let’s work hard together to protect peace]

I watched a few videos, and indeed, raids were different from what I’ve experienced so far. If Medusa makes a certain sound, it means you should use a certain item, if it strikes the ground twice with its tail, it means it will use petrification breath next, if it strikes the ground once heavily with its tail, it means it will jump high… Unfamiliar words like gimmick and pattern came up.

While watching with interest, I found a video posted by ‘Beombiga’.

I played the video as if entranced. It wasn’t a video of defeating Silent Medusa, but of solo clearing a higher-level raid.

The outfit was the same as when I saw it before. A completely black robe with a hood covering the face. If you met them by chance in the game world, you might mistake them for ‘Black Light’. Beombiga, an Eastern Continent character, used skills that could appear in a martial arts novel and occasionally used something like Taoist magic.

I watched that video and a few related videos.

The comments were all admiration. They marveled at how there was no DPS loss at all, and poured out questions about how he could predict patterns even before they appeared.

I can certainly see that Beombiga responds quickly to patterns. But because the battle flows so smoothly, it’s hard to grasp just how good he is.

I feel like I could do this too…

If I just memorize the patterns, that is.

No, honestly, if you know that the monster will do this action after this motion, why do people get hit by the monster? It’s not like they’re letting themselves get hit on purpose…

Thinking like this, I watched a few more videos. The comments were full of envy for solo clearing. No, it was closer to lament.

┗ I envy people who can clear raids solo the most ㅠㅠ Public parties are just ㅅㅂ destruction and doom

┗ For real;; I told them three times in one round to dodge far away when it strikes the ground once heavily with its tail, but all three times they didn’t listen and died alone…

┗ Raids are… team projects and group assignments… Just as I’ve never seen a team project without freeloaders.. raids are the same…. When doing raids… you need to empty your mind…. Ah, that healer is going to place a healing field where the monster breathes… Ah, that DPS is definitely going to waste their ultimate… Ah, that tank is going to bring all~~ the minions to fight together and then die….

┗ Foi seems to have more villains than other games, maybe because there are more newbies. Even now, if you look at Sasage, it’s all talk about raid villains lol I’ve been a victim once too. Honestly, I think even if you’re a newbie, you should watch at least one strategy video before coming to a raid, but it’s annoying to see people come without knowing anything, just dying blankly and then taking rewards,, lol