Wednesday, April 8, 2009

On-again, off-again PLD + asking for help

Kinda funny... I went on PLD in a real (non-PL) party for the first time on Saturday, found that I liked it and that I was fairly decent at holding hate while staying alive... Good Qufim party, then I had a decent jungle party on Sunday. Sunday night, I saw Dexie on PLD, inspiring me to go take the job to 75.

Then came Tuesday which I met the party of fail. 2x RDMs in Qufim (level 19 & 20), neither of which cast enfeebling spells, neither of which knew how to manage MP, standing up and cure bombing me with Cure II constantly. Worst of all, neither was meleeing, both standing back and pretending to be... well, I can't even say WHM here because any good WHM would be casting basic enfeebles like Paralyze.

Oh, and the THF that aggroed unnecessary, even when I was carefully showing people how to walk around mobs... Jungle party had a THF that refused to pull, which was strange, but there was a 2nd THF so I didn't immediately /blist.

So... Chainmail armor is with the storage NPC again until I build up enough tolerance to possibly deal with idiots. Seems like I have to get past level 37 before dumb players stop partying. Playing with strangers is always annoying since you never know what you're going to get, which brings me to...

Asking for help
Kind of a follow-up to the comments from my previous blog post... I have to agree that shouting for help almost never goes well. That's why I've never EVER shouted for help in Whitegate... the most I've done is responded to someone's shout, and even then, it's a hit-or-miss proposition.

How it relates to you all... well, why don't you ask US for help? We're on shell, we're around, sometimes on AIM, and often we're not doing anything. We'd be willing to help you, but you have to let us know what you want to do and when.

I've asked for help tons of times... here's a list of what I've asked for and accomplished almost purely with AP members:
- Many, MANY BLU spells... Refueling anyone? Cannonball?
- Subligar farming
- Swift Belt (soooooooooooooo many times)
- CoP, ZM, ToAU missions till completion
- BLU testimony (I think I stopped at 7)
- Unlocking Blue Mage
- Getting ToAU access in the first place (thanks Syrinx!)
- Teleport scroll quests (thanks Utty!)
- Even now: MMM marble farming

And of course, helping with lots of similar things... lots of subligar, random missions & quests, NM fights, and making sure people get up-to-date on WotG missions, doing the dragon BC countless times, and dragging people around the past when they just got the expansion.

So... for those of you who want help for things... why not approach one of us? Or all of us? Ask on shell, send a /tell... you more or less know our schedules. Catch us online, set a time and get things done!

Also, let us know what you need done. I did Divine Might completely out of the blue cos AP members knew I needed it, and they knew a group going. If I had known Karou needed the last ZM mission, I could have told you that Lyric was doing it just last Sunday and was talking about gathering people on vent during Dynamis on Saturday. And of course, it helps to be reachable... like I couldn't tell Zurar that there was a ZM mission going on cos he wasn't online.

Well, going forward, I'll probably be doing WotG missions in the next few weeks to see what's been pushed along in the plot. So... come along with me!

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