Random act of kindness....

Hi folks, still new at the game, playing about a year off and on. First forum post. Just curious about something.

Say I'm running through the central shroud, see a lower level player and decide to cast protect on them to help out. Is that allowed? Do I need to form a party to do that? Can I just randomly help out? Or is that frowned upon?

Feel free to cast protect on anyone you like :)
Stoneskin however will only work on party members.

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Originally Posted by Lelila38

Feel free to cast protect on anyone you like :)
Stoneskin however will only work on party members.

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Actually that's the other way around - Protect only works on party members, Stoneskin can be cast on others outside your party. ;)

But yes, random acts of kindness are definetely not frowned upon - whether someone will thank you though is another thing sadly. But don't let that discourage you from helping anyone you meet. Who knows, you might just make a new friend out of it! :D

Whoops sorry, got that mixed up. Of course you are right.

The only thing you need to be careful about is healing someone if you are a lot higher level than them. You'll probably get hate on the enemy and they will run over to you which can potentially be annoying to the other player.

Great, thanks for satisfying my curiosity. I thought as much, but wasn't sure.

There's a string of achievements (The Kindness of Strangers) for raising players that aren't in your party. (200 times for the fifth such achievement and you get the title: Good Samaritan)

Healing or buffing random players is generally encouraged as well (though as Estellios mentioned, try not to draw hate with over-healing unless the player appears to be in trouble and really need it).

Good to know about the healing. Thanks to you and Estellios.