Legitimacy when it comes to leeching?

Out of curiosity, what are everyone's views upon leeching? When I say leeching, I meant afk'ing in one single spot while having a 4th job ArchMage or Bishop spamming at:

-Wolf Spiders
-Newties
-Skelegons
-Harps
-And so on.

In doing so, the person paying (by mesos) for the service gets a godly EXP rate per hour, and the Bishop/ArchMage gets mesos per hour, which lets them able to afford their potions, so they can train.

I know a couple friends that are against it, especially some of my Bishop friends because they say that we're not helping the current generation of Maplers by spoiling them, secondly, it makes the 4th job AMs/Bishops looks bad.

Where as other Bishops that I know, would argue against that and say that there's absolutely nothing wrong with it, because most people can't afford potions to train, and it's a good way to make Mesos?

At first, I was against it. Now I'm just neutral, because it's hard to just pick a side. -shrugs-

Also, Nexon said that it was legit to leech, as long as you're not paying actual money for it. But users can think differently, so what's everyone else's opinions on this matter? I'd like to read some if you have anything good and reasonable to type about.

I think it's just the lazy ass route to 120. But if I had the connections I'd probably leech too.

I'm against players that do it being listed on the rankings.

Don't mind if they do it, but they shouldn't get ranks for it.

Botting: Yes.
Regular old grinding: No.

I do think it should be a heck of a lot more expensive, though.

It's your own money...plus, when you do reach a high level, you'll probably be too lazy and quit.

Not to mention the fact that anyone who does leech will have no freaking clue how to play their own character effectively, so they will probably fail at really training when they need to and quit. Not to mention the fact that they'll suck at bossing and be idiotic about it. <_<

As most people are, I'm indifferent. Let them leech and let them gain their "high" levels. It's an incredible waste of mesos in the end. The only thing they are doing is speeding up the process.

I don't really mind. If people wanna waste their playing experience be my guest. Of course i can't say this either because my ranger leeches too =P

I get free leech, so it's not that big of a deal to me (and if you say i haven't learned to play my character, I'll tell you I played my character for a good 107 levels before i started leeching.)

Yes the process is sped up. I get a LOT better % per hour leeching than if i were training by myself. 20-24% per hour is really good compared to my measley 12-15% per hour solo...

Very interesting responses, now to the readers, how do you feel about the person that is selling the leeching services? Would that be legit?

I think less of people who leech their way through levels, but I don't catagorize them with hackers/glitchers. However, if someone already has a non-leeched character higher level than the character he or she is leeching, then I think it's totally fine.

What if I leech MYSELF at anegos/skeles? =]

[COLOR="Red"]Well I'm against leechers, I see lvl 13x, 14x shadowers or dark knights buying leech

There's really high level people leeching, like bawble (19x dark knight)getting leeched by two bishops or his wife(mollypop 19x archmage) and a bishop or just her, I think this is pretty sad, but this is my opinion

It's like sharing accounts to get trained by someone else, I'm against it as well[/COLOR]

I'm not for paying someone to leech your character for you, but I guess that's kind of what I did getting my bishop to it's level in a few weeks.

However, I leeched myself with other high level accounts that I had access to from guild, lol.

I leeched Kaseys at skelegons with a Power Guard HP warrior from level 30 til about 70. Then I leeched zakum on 2x til around 90. Then I actually trained at himes for a little until I leeched myself at newties, haha. x]

I know how to play bishop characters though. And I didn't pay anyone to leech me. Me and my boyfriend just AFK'd our characters on the rope of skelegons and he went on the HP warrior and powerguarded, while I followed healing him on a 17x bishop that was able to 1-hit skelegons. Then I would just genesis. I did this until level 120 on my bishop, at which point it had enough genesis to 3 hit skelegons, so I was able to train there from 120+ until I got lazy, lol.

I guess you could say it was "wrong" to do this because I had an unfair advantage over other players. But I was on the bishop leeching myself, for hours and hours and hours.... So It's not like I don't know how to play the class, and It's not like I'm not doing all the work, hehe. :]

Wasn't there already a giant debate/discussion on this? http://www.southperry.net/forums/showthr...t=leeching

If you aren't gonna be playing, why are you 'playing'?

If you aren't gonna be playing, why are you 'playing'?

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This is FULL of win[/COLOR]

This is FULL of win

Quitter ihu. Err... So any complaints to leeching yourself? f3 I'd still be the one playing I guess! ;D

Quitter ihu. Err... So any complaints to leeching yourself? f3 I'd still be the one playing I guess! ;D

Leeching yourself is WIN also F3

Im against selling it and what not, but if its your own character or you're just helping a friend who needs some EXP but cant afford it, its fine to me. :] When my bros comp is fixed ill be leeching to lv60 with my arch mage + fp wizard so that i can get max PB *i went FA medi max tele, 60mp is way too much* and then ill be training @ DTs. By 60 ill have : zhelm 6/11 earrings a 10int cape and prolly 3int12 speed YSS.. :] so yeah leeching is totally cool.

I do believe that people are becoming more idiotic, and as you said, spoiling is no good. The other day I was doing a quest in herb town and a buddy i met in CPQ comes online and is like, where u train. i said herb town ~i was training~ he asked where it was and i said take the Hak bird to mu lung then herb town. he said how?

theres too many PQs these days, people who are not rich will most likely quit their characters at/before 70, maybe 100 if they enjoy PPQ. Leeching is fine as someone else said if you have a respectable-leveled char. *at least 100 so you kno what hardkor is like* :] i have an arch mage so i get free =p

I am totally for it because it's probably the only way I'll ever reach level 100.

I'm normally against it... however, I've been offered help from a friend of mine to let me leech off of him until I got to the level I got hacked on. In that case, I'm somewhat neutral but I'll most likely not go for it and just train my way back up there. I got up there once, I can do it again, right?

Selling leech, I'm against that. That's like paying someone to give you EXP while you sit around, really. It just looks like another reason to say that you need money to get far. :|

Question, though; I was told about doing this as well but I don't know if it counts as leeching or not. Arrow Raining on Himes to aggro them to a corner while a Bishop spams Genesis; would that count as leeching since you're not doing the actual killing or would it not since you're actually doing some kind of work?