Did you really think drk drg ninja was going to do alot of damage?
I think you were more of the problem than you think you are. IF you know your an elitest like you obviously are then you should know what parties can and cannot work. You just can't sit back and complain and leave when things dont go your way. If your gonna be like that then you should make sure you have an ideal setup before you go out and waste everybody elses time.
I think you should go back please.
If you would've read throughly, you can find where I say I static with a "Good" drg,drk,ninja, and know as a frontline, they can reel in 4k/hr effortlessly with MB(s) and more around 4-6k/hr with bard depending on level. So I have clear cut experience that drg-drk-nin is a potienally great frontline.
How am I supposed to know the drg is a jackass and doesn't know when to start SC and doesn't use food, or the drk doesn't know where to position. Next time I'll get my big crystal ball out "Your group's drg doesn't use food and doesn't start SC at apprioate times, and by the way, the drk is a great example of a high rank noob. Ohhh and by the way, whm doesn't have enough gil for choco or food or certain very average equipment, he doesn't believe in farming"
Me: GEE THANKS CRYSTAL BALL, I OWE YOU ONE!!!!
And as far as me wasting their time, that's kind of funny
It's more like I got sick of carrying 'their' weight around. If you're running in a marthon or something, and someone twists an ankle and can't finish the race, are you going to pick them up and take them to the finish( reward ). Are they completeing the race and earning the experience to become better for next time? I'm a strong believer in team dynamics, and I think everyone should attempt to put in near equal effort, I'm not carrying the lazy people or idiots.
If you know how to get xp like you claim to know, then you should know a possible slower party when you see it and avoid it. Because while you obviously are selfishly thinking of yourself,
If you want to carry people giving half assed efforts on your back, then by all means go ahead. XP is a partnership, it's not when one guy carries the weight of others. FFXI is about interdependence and some people suck too much to fill in their part of the web.
My expections weren't exactly high, unless you consider average high. Expecting everyone to have some form a food, preforming a SC so our mages can MB, and xp mobs that'll give more than 50-100 base xp aren't high standards, are they? What could've I been thinking setting such high standards at level 44-46?
And if you really think I'm the problem, well you had to of been there. When I'm outdamaging one of the DDs sometimes while on tanking duty, that's a problem.
I have put up with 2k/hr parties and such many many many many times over the almost 2 years I've been playing. Infact, I never left a party before because it was bad until this week. I've barely seen others leave parties unless they were a job capable of finding another party or getting a party another time when they wanted, such as ninja and ranger players mostly, followed by rdms, and maybe 1 or 2 blms ever. And rdms-blms are free mid xp minus the food costs we all share, so I would consider a blm-rdm leaving the party rude ( If due to xp alone unless it was beyond bad ) as I would any job dispite the fact they are in fairly good demand.
I have been in bad parties in which rngs-nins have left, and to be honest, it was dissapointing but I never got upset by it. There have been times in which I've even sent /t's "Don't worry about it, that was shitty and I don't blame you for not wanting to piss gil away in vain."
I understand where you assumation about me comes from, but lets make this clear again, this is the first time I've outright left a party for sucking. My patience for this kind of crap is lower on ninja job, and alot of rngs-ninjas seem to agree with me and are stating in their personal experience that once gil becomes involved, the normal set of rules changes.
And for the love of quadav once again, I know first hand drg-drk-nin is the start of a good setup, and I've seen it done without blm effectively even, although blm is better, plus gotta love Jender
The fact I've been in millions of drk-drg-nin parties with 4-6k/hr and with this drk-drg we were around 2.5k/hr shows it was this practicular drg and drk. Whm wasn't too skilled(although nice seeming), but downtime wasn't our problem. And I have nothing bad to say about the rdms that MB's when drg-drk actually got SC right, dispel/refreshed what appeared to be plenty fast, and nuked with spare mp.
And I know it wasn't me because with some friends I got 4k/hr the next day, and that's 4k/hr with some deaths, thanks to good old sickle slash. And the party before the bad one, was around 5k/hr, I wish I could say I made it, but it was a bunch of people that just kicked ass.
