Dealing with idiots

Another horrible party last night... DRK, PLD, WHM, BLM, SMN and me on DNC. Let's see what went wrong.

• Overcamping... as usual... for some reason, we went to Aydeewa Subterrane to fight Defoliators. I've actually only been to this zone twice, once for BLU quest, and once for the COR quest. We're a level 57-58 party, going to fight level 68-71 crawlers. Lack of dispel on Cocoon generally sucks, but at least I can hit easily enough with accuracy gear + food... of course the first mob takes 7 minutes to kill, drains all the MP for all the mages, and the only reason why the party isn't dead is cos of a Dancer's infinite healing potential without the need to rest


• So, since that doesn't work, we try Puktraps. These are level 67-70 fly-type mobs. They don't hit as hard, and are a little squishier, but guess what move they have? Yup, the most powerful Blue Mage sleep spell Soporfic. There's a reason why we set this spell when we want to sleep mobs for long periods of time. It's almost as potent as Sleepga II. So of course everyone gets slept except the PLD... Since I'm sitting on over 100% TP and my heals are instant, I ask to be woken up so I can wake everyone up with a simple Divine Waltz... nope, PLD actually cures himself, then the WHM... then the WHM cures the PLD and the rest of us remain sleeping for a while longer... so down goes the PLD (no Invincible to save his own skin, guess his 2-hr was down), then the fly goes after the DRK. Just like a typical bad player, our DRK uses Blood Weapon about 1 hit before the flytrap kills him, which he does. At this point, the flytrap is going after me... It takes out my shadows and FINALLY wakes me up, and I wake up the mages with Divine Waltz. Despite not being able to get Utsusemi up, a Dancer can last a long time just blood tanking on Waltzes. With a Summoner and White Mage to back me up, well... maybe that last 15% of the Fly can be killed after all... if the BLM wasn't afk -.- Well, he ended up getting to his feet right when I died just in time to do an ES Sleep. The Summoner and Black Mage cast sneak and ran away, while the White Mage... rested... with an IT++ flytrap sitting there... I suggested that he zone, which he got up to cast sneak and promptly got one-shot by the waking flytrap


• So, at my urging, we move outside of the area and start working on Lesser Colibri. I figure that even a gimp 57-58 party should have no problems chaining these... which we don't, except that the PLD can't keep hate against either me, or the DRK. What's worse is that the DRK isn't casting a single spell... nope, zero, not a one, MP was always at full. The PLD barely used his MP at all either, at most for Flash, and was always late on the Provoke. SMN, WHM & BLM all had 75-100% MP at all times since I was handling a good portion of the curing. One of the mages had to be educated that Lesser Colibri don't reflect magic, but hey, exp is exp, right?


• Nope! Barely 15 minutes into actually getting POSITIVE exp for a change, the PLD goes "I have to go in 5 minutes". Now this hits a pet peeve of mine... I don't mind if you show up with gimp equipment, or if you're new to your job and you're trying to learn... I don't mind if you don't use food, or even have a gimp subjob, as long as you're doing your best, and you show consideration for other people! If you have less than an hour to party, TAKE YOUR FRAKKING FLAG down and don't accept party invites! It takes an average party a good 15-20 minutes to gather everyone, get to camp and start to get into a rhythm! Accepting an invite with less than 60 minutes of playtime wastes everyone's time and is criminal!

With that said, the name of this incompetent Galka Paladin is.... ask me personally if you want to know. Chances are he'll be able to gimp it to at least level 65 since there are absolutely NO tanks leveling anymore. My other exp party pet peeve is people not paying attention to what they're doing. This is very obvious in many cases... like people who don't move to keep up the mob and only auto-attack, don't use any abilities or spells.

I deal with enough idiots at work. I don't need to deal with idiots in FFXI. When I leveled BLU, I did a good portion with a trio and only formed a few limited burn-type parties instead of seeking for pickup parties. I also campaigned for most of 65-75 since that was so new and interesting. Leveling Dancer from 37-57 as confirmed one of my favorite sayings yet again... Think about the average person(player) and how intelligent they are... now keep in mind that half the people out there are dumber than the average person. Depressing, isn't it?

As such, Dancer will be the last job I level past subjob level unless it's with a static with people I know and with the necessary jobs (tank, healer, support + DD). Dealing with idiots just isn't worth it. I'd much rather do something else than have to deal with the average FFXI player. -.-