Well... i guess i fall into the category of princess bard then...
BTW, I totally think you should change your title to Princess BRD. It'd be funny. XD
As far as this subject is concerned though. It is irritating to have to change your job or go anon just because you are standing in town... the problem is that even with taking both of these steps i still get merit party invites where i am asked to change to bard.
Someone who asks you to change jobs to go merit (that isn't a friend or a linkshell mate) is kind of a different situation IMO.
The problem is the only way to get people to actually leave you alone is to be an asshole...
I don't think that is the case for the majority of players. With most, a "No thanks." or something similar will work just fine. There are people who don't want to take no for an answer, and that is also a different story.
If you really wanted to be left alone, being an asshole right off the bat probably isn't the way to go. I mean, most people tend to be an asshole right back when you're an asshole first, even the ones who would have initially responded "kthx ^^" when you declined. But you wind up with a bunch of rude tells going back and forth generally when someone decides to respond that negatively.
You ignore them and they keep sending tells... You respond nicely and they ask you again 30 minutes later or send you a mean tell when they see you doing something else. I had a guy bitch me out a few days ago because he asked me if i wanted to merit and i responded nope then i decided to do xp on a lower level job and he thought it was disrespectful of me to be on bard and then switch jobs and xp on it when i told him i didn't feel like meriting.
This really happens to you non-stop? Maybe you're right, its because I don't have BRD. But I do know quite a few BRDs, and while they're hassled when they're not in a party (whether they're in a city or not), none of them say that they're harassed like that, at least not regularly. People like the guy in your example make my blacklist. I don't care to argue with idiots who can't take no for an answer...
Whats funny is that everyone here who said that it was rude and that pal's flame was a reasonable one has not leveled bard so far as i can tell. It is extremely fucking annoying when you get invited to like half of the merit parties that leave Whitegate and the fact that we may get a bit angry when we don't want a party... should be understood.
The OP has BRD. >_> And a few of the people who have responded saying it was rude have BRD, too.
Guess what people i have both BRD and COR leveled.
I don't have BRD, I do think it was a little rude, but I don't really think it was flame-worthy, either. Of course, I don't think that 95% of the flames here are flame-worthy, so...
Seriously, though. Change your title to Princess BRD. :biggrin: