Ahhh, levelling, such fun. Known as, "grinding" even when its going well. Good god, must be purgatory if it isn't. So anyways, I crafted all last week, good fun, so today I thought I'd go out and level a tad.
Arrive in Valkurm, get an invite from a JP, say I'm english, get the good ole, "Sorry, no english ^^;" Shrug it off, their loss and head to the OP to HP. Sit around for 20 minutes, get an invite, ask if theres a whm, there is. Party range is 17-20 and being 17 I'm getting a tad shafted, but I go with it. Amazing party, I tell you what. The level 19 PALADIN was wearing a DOUBLET AND SHELL SHIELD. That alone is WTF. So we follow the SJless whm, to a, "good camp spot" Turns out its in the middle of a field where gobs spawn. I notice 3-4 wandering about, mention to my party that maybe we ought to find a safer camp. Nah, this is fine they say. So the pally wanders out and pulls a gob, kill it, get 42 exp, kill another 54 exp. He pulls an IT, it kills the whm, brings me to 12 hp and the 2 rdm in our party dont cure anyone -_-. SO that disbanded.
Head over to selbina, going to hop the boat and go to windy for various things. Sitting around I have my flag up, just in case some good party is around to pick me up. BIG mistake^2. Get a tell, tells are good, its a 16 SAM..../WHM....Ok, no problem, ask if he has a WHm, yep he does, ok invite me. Well its 4 people, SJless taru whm, who insists on using emotes constantly and using ^^ or ^^! or ^^; in EVERY SINGLE SENTENCE. Ok, so fine. Final party, 2 SJless RDM, 1 Sjless WAR, 1 SAM/WHM, 1 SJless WHm and me, 17 THF/ 8 WAR <-----enourmous mistake. I have full bone armor and a fish scale shield, warrior has scale junk on. SAm obviously cant voke. Oh yes, the warrior is fascinated by berserk, and has a very nice macro for it....but no provoke macro.
So it ends up with me tanking...3 fights go past, slowly, given that, as tank, I cannot use sneak attack, can I? So then the SAM pulls an IT, uses cursed sphere twice, everyones yellow, and Im still taking a beating, slip to 78 hp, red. I'm looking frantically at chat box, 2 cure Is, 1 from the SAM, 1 from the whm. That healing is gone in an instant of course. I die, 10 seconds later the WHM dies. I dont bother waiting for a raise, what nonsense, ask the WHm, "Why didn't you use cure II? When someones hp is red you need to slap heavy cure on them so they dont die, cure I doesn't cut it." She responds, "I cant heal everyone!" Yeah, everyone, maybe the main tank, sheeze. Then, "I'm leaving, Winter doesn't appreciate me, I'll find a party that does." Thank you stuck up, deluded WHM, please jump off a cliff.
So....long story short, I quit partying, forever, until i find some reliable people to group with(read, Japanese, Opps, I mean, polite, non racist Japanese). So I'm off to do the beastmaster quest, thanks all, its long I know, so
----->>>>>PARAPHRASE HERE VVVVVV
N00bs, who do not listen to the simplest suggestions, suck. I quit trying to help innatentive, intractable idiots.
This has gotta be one of the reasons JP hate partying with us. And no I'm not a JP lover, I think they're incredibly arrogant, but at least they know how to play the game.