Grouping: Basic things to remember...Follow

Great advice. One "little thing" which I really appreciate is having another char hold doors open behind me!

My Pally is usually pulling, MA, and MT in LDoN. Most of the time I'm using Pacify on a room full of mobs. The door shuts behind me. By the time I turn click on the door and wait for it to open the mob is on me and doing damage.

You have to stay far enough out of the way to not get agro, but that's usually not a problem as long as you are standing.

It's often the little things that make a difference.

You're right, and for most people it is. Are you really having to BEG, or are you perhaps being impatient if the cast doesn't come in the second you ask for it?

Conversly, if you ask for a fresh mod rod or buff mid-fight, it's very possible the caster didn't see your request the first time. Mod rods are also not cheap mana wise, so if the magician's running close to OOM (very common in LDoN), it may take a minute for them to be able to whip one up. Be patient.

If you're freshly rezzed and your corpse is looted, hit that mod rod as soon as you're at full health. You're going to be sitting for a minute anyway waiting for rez effects to wear off. People forget this one all the time.

On regeant eating spells: Many of my cleric friends have a habit of casting temp or virtue on me every time they see me, even just standing around PoK. Stop that! It's sweet as pie, but it's entirely possible I'm not going into combat any time soon. Now I feel bad because you just wasted a dot. If you're one of those kind hearted clerics who casts these buffs without having been asked, don't be suprised that your peridot expendatures are high.

Nobody except for my husband ever gives me pearls to cover the cost of CoTH (Call of the Hero), which I am asked to use pretty frequently. I don't expect reimbursement, but I wouldn't mind if groups tossed me a pearl now and then.

I've noticed of late, that the more I join people in pick-up groups, the less they automatically buff everyone.
For me it's an automatic thing to buff the group, especially if I've just joined it.
Yes quite often I'm finding that I do have to "beg" to get any type of buffs, especially when playing my Warrior.
Sadly I'm getting the feeling, that people, espcially sub-46, are realying more and more on their gear and less on available buffs. It's almost like buffing and the time required to med back the mana, is "bad", because it deals getting exp and killing mobs.

I'm old school: I like to see buffs, I don't care how good your gear is...

I'm reading a lot of posts on these boards saying things like,"The enchanter can make suggestions about what to attack next, but it's the MT(or MA, I'm not picky;)'s decision on what he's going to attack".

That makes it sound like the enchanter is sitting there telling the group,"I think we should kill the enchanted latrine digger next because he's wearing a blue jacket". There's a very good reason that enchanters(or any crowd control designated person) would want a specific mob targetted first. It's because they know what spells they've casted, when they were cast, and how long those spells will last.

Case in point...you've got an enchanter who's doing crowd control and slowing. The group gets several adds. The enchanter mezzes the adds, everything is going great. Now, most enchanters understand that thier slow spells aren't terribly long duration spells(They usually last long enough for one fight. Funny how that works out:), so in order to save mana an enchanter is not going to slow every mob right when it's mezzed, waste of mana. Usually slowing the mob when the current target is down to 20% or so does the trick. So, if the MT decides that he's going to pull whatever mob he wants regardless of what the enchanter says, and he doesn't happen to pick the one that the enchanter slowed...he just caused the enchanter to use that much more mana to slow the new target, throw extra mezzes on the one that would have worn off sooner ect. If the enchanter says,"soandso is slowed, please attack him next", or even "please attack soandso next", there's usually a good reason for it.

Oh and one last thing, if the enchanter does ask that a specific target be attacked next...please use /assist to see what he/she is targetting. Trying to guess which of the 3 screeching wombats the enchanter was talking about doesn't work too well