I've had a shitload of bad parties lately. Anywhere from how they invite to their performance.
I start seeking on my 68 WHM. First party I get is with Marohaung. He actually waits until I say "yes, please" before he invites me. We end up with Maro (NIN), me (WHM), Sassy (BLM), Lizard (DRG), Kizaryo (WAR), and Kote (DRG).
We go down to Den of Rancor for Tormentors. It takes Maro 15 minutes to pull the first one. Then, he can't keep hate for anything the rest of the party. Sassy only casted regen on people (including people I've already regen III'd) and drain when he got hit then rested for the rest of the battles. Lizard was fine except she NEVER Spirit linked causing her Wyvern to die pretty quickly. Kizaryo was trying to keep hate off of me the best he could. Kiz was the only person in the party I have no complaints about. He's on my friends list now, too. Kote would only fight once every 3-4 battles. After 2 hours of exping and gaining a whole 3k exp, we left.
I seek later and get an invite from Elveengirl that went like this :
Elveengirl>> pt?
Elveengirl invites you to her party.
I accept anyway. Soon she invites Lawrnz (a good friend of mine) then after 20 minutes of waiting around, she finally invites Marohaung and Asurathief. Then she invites Sassy but he left soon after being invited. Then she invited a MNK. We get everyone together and head out. We tele-altep, me, the MNK, and Lawrnz all start running to Rabao. Soon Asura, Elveen, and Maro disappear. All 3 of them offline. We wait 10 minutes then decide to warp.
I sit in my MH for 10 minutes and see "Elveengirl invites you to her party". I had a doctors appointment in an hour and a half and decided not to join so they don't have to find another whm so soon so I tell her no thanks, /decline and she invites again within 5 seconds of me declining. For the next 30 minutes, me and her go back and forth with the invites and /decline and she finally gives up.
I go to the doctors, sleep a while, get up, and start seeking on my 53 BLM. I get a blind invite. They expected me to main heal. Needless to say, we disband before the party left Jeuno.
I seek again, get an invite, and joined. We go out to Boyahda Tree to kill spiders. Double Freeze at end, me and the other BLM doing 90% of the damage, everything was going good. Soon our puller decides she's going to kickbox her friend IRL while in the party so we end up waiting 10 minutes between pulls. Then our DRK falls asleep and his brother comes and plays his character with no knowledge of DRK. He kept voking. Finally after DRK left and we got tired of THF's absense all the time, we were done. I d2'd everyone but the THF at first because he kept DEMANDING a D2. I told him I'd D2 him as soon as he could ask nicely, and we ended up there for 20 minutes waiting for him to say please. Finally he did, I d2'd, d2'd Dowzer, warped myself and took a break.
I seek some more and get another "PtyLeader>> pty?" "PtyLeader invites you to his party". I join, they ask me TNL. What the hell? It was in my search comment and you had to /sea all Lv - Lv inv and click on my name to invite me which would of brought my TNL up. I told them, they kicked me.
Finally Kabrina invites me. /hurray. We do awesome. Had Double Freeze mb going, everything. Then our PLD asks our RDM "Black Mage Amateur?". Uhh... how are we amateurs? We are making sure all the debuffs stay on and do more than our share of damage WITHOUT getting hate. He didn't know how to cover when one of our Freeze's went off and the other didn't have MP. I don't know how many times me and Kabby were below 50 HP due to him not using cover. He leaves, we bring in another PLD. He only stays for 30 minutes then says he has to go so we just disband.
I decide to try on my 37 BRD. I get an invite. All's well until I see that we have no WHM, RDM, BLM, or SMN with a PLD tank. I asked and they told me I should main heal. I disband. Sorry but a Lv. 37 BRD with MP food still doesn't have enough to main heal with.
So I hop on my 20 DRG, get an invite the second I hit seek party. That one was awesome. We were doing perfect. Bringing in loads of exp, barely any downtime, everything. The NIN leaves. They expect me to tank now. I figured just try it. I did good tanking for a while but died a few fights later. They blamed me for being a sucky tank and that I should quit DRG because I can't tank for shit.
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What is with the "pt?" "so and so invites you to their party" without waiting on a response now?
What's with the idiots in higher levels? I've seen more and more BLMs not do their job lately.
What's with everyone thinking everyone else sucks at their job?
What's with people thinking a BRD with 156 MP with MP+ food on can main heal?
Since when were DRG's tanks?
What has happened to everyone on Quetzy's IQ? It seems to have dropped to 5 for everyone. Is it the weather changing? People slacking because they have school off and don't have a care in the world?
Just annoys me how a while ago, I got invites like crazy on WHM and could get in to a decent party that all knew their job and tried their best at it but now I get in to a party and everyone seems to have forgotten how to play their jobs and how to ask someone nicely if they'd like to party. Is it just me running in to this? x.x;
I start seeking on my 68 WHM. First party I get is with Marohaung. He actually waits until I say "yes, please" before he invites me. We end up with Maro (NIN), me (WHM), Sassy (BLM), Lizard (DRG), Kizaryo (WAR), and Kote (DRG).
We go down to Den of Rancor for Tormentors. It takes Maro 15 minutes to pull the first one. Then, he can't keep hate for anything the rest of the party. Sassy only casted regen on people (including people I've already regen III'd) and drain when he got hit then rested for the rest of the battles. Lizard was fine except she NEVER Spirit linked causing her Wyvern to die pretty quickly. Kizaryo was trying to keep hate off of me the best he could. Kiz was the only person in the party I have no complaints about. He's on my friends list now, too. Kote would only fight once every 3-4 battles. After 2 hours of exping and gaining a whole 3k exp, we left.
I seek later and get an invite from Elveengirl that went like this :
Elveengirl>> pt?
Elveengirl invites you to her party.
I accept anyway. Soon she invites Lawrnz (a good friend of mine) then after 20 minutes of waiting around, she finally invites Marohaung and Asurathief. Then she invites Sassy but he left soon after being invited. Then she invited a MNK. We get everyone together and head out. We tele-altep, me, the MNK, and Lawrnz all start running to Rabao. Soon Asura, Elveen, and Maro disappear. All 3 of them offline. We wait 10 minutes then decide to warp.
I sit in my MH for 10 minutes and see "Elveengirl invites you to her party". I had a doctors appointment in an hour and a half and decided not to join so they don't have to find another whm so soon so I tell her no thanks, /decline and she invites again within 5 seconds of me declining. For the next 30 minutes, me and her go back and forth with the invites and /decline and she finally gives up.
I go to the doctors, sleep a while, get up, and start seeking on my 53 BLM. I get a blind invite. They expected me to main heal. Needless to say, we disband before the party left Jeuno.
I seek again, get an invite, and joined. We go out to Boyahda Tree to kill spiders. Double Freeze at end, me and the other BLM doing 90% of the damage, everything was going good. Soon our puller decides she's going to kickbox her friend IRL while in the party so we end up waiting 10 minutes between pulls. Then our DRK falls asleep and his brother comes and plays his character with no knowledge of DRK. He kept voking. Finally after DRK left and we got tired of THF's absense all the time, we were done. I d2'd everyone but the THF at first because he kept DEMANDING a D2. I told him I'd D2 him as soon as he could ask nicely, and we ended up there for 20 minutes waiting for him to say please. Finally he did, I d2'd, d2'd Dowzer, warped myself and took a break.
I seek some more and get another "PtyLeader>> pty?" "PtyLeader invites you to his party". I join, they ask me TNL. What the hell? It was in my search comment and you had to /sea all Lv - Lv inv and click on my name to invite me which would of brought my TNL up. I told them, they kicked me.
Finally Kabrina invites me. /hurray. We do awesome. Had Double Freeze mb going, everything. Then our PLD asks our RDM "Black Mage Amateur?". Uhh... how are we amateurs? We are making sure all the debuffs stay on and do more than our share of damage WITHOUT getting hate. He didn't know how to cover when one of our Freeze's went off and the other didn't have MP. I don't know how many times me and Kabby were below 50 HP due to him not using cover. He leaves, we bring in another PLD. He only stays for 30 minutes then says he has to go so we just disband.
I decide to try on my 37 BRD. I get an invite. All's well until I see that we have no WHM, RDM, BLM, or SMN with a PLD tank. I asked and they told me I should main heal. I disband. Sorry but a Lv. 37 BRD with MP food still doesn't have enough to main heal with.
So I hop on my 20 DRG, get an invite the second I hit seek party. That one was awesome. We were doing perfect. Bringing in loads of exp, barely any downtime, everything. The NIN leaves. They expect me to tank now. I figured just try it. I did good tanking for a while but died a few fights later. They blamed me for being a sucky tank and that I should quit DRG because I can't tank for shit.
;;What is with the "pt?" "so and so invites you to their party" without waiting on a response now?
What's with the idiots in higher levels? I've seen more and more BLMs not do their job lately.
What's with everyone thinking everyone else sucks at their job?
What's with people thinking a BRD with 156 MP with MP+ food on can main heal?
Since when were DRG's tanks?
What has happened to everyone on Quetzy's IQ? It seems to have dropped to 5 for everyone. Is it the weather changing? People slacking because they have school off and don't have a care in the world?
Just annoys me how a while ago, I got invites like crazy on WHM and could get in to a decent party that all knew their job and tried their best at it but now I get in to a party and everyone seems to have forgotten how to play their jobs and how to ask someone nicely if they'd like to party. Is it just me running in to this? x.x;
Like you said, perhaps most of Quetzy's IQ has dropped. Probably right. I've decline many parties, simply because a lot of people don't understand which jobs work best with each other. PLD > RDM and NIN > BRD...I always try to match those up. Unless I get crafty, I'll keep the regular setup for a good skillchain with magic burst, healer, tank, and refresher. 
Give it a try again, you're one of the few who understands how good party's work 
