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Note beforehand I'm a RDM and low level (19).
I think the lack of WHMs, at least on my server,
is because a significant amount of people treat
healers like crap, and don't understand the aspect
of healing. I have seen this happen to a significant
amount of WHM, myself, and some RDM.
For instance, last night I was in the dunes
(the pit of all evil), and the puller pulls
an IT pugil when my mp, the other RDMs mp, is 1/2 full.
The tank, a paladin, starts cursing at me when
he is dying, and I have 0 mp, and I'm resting
to try to save the rest of the party,
Right after that, I use up nearly 1/2 of mp casting
protect and shell on everyone, then sit down to rest.
Immediatly I hear, "pulling pugil!" without even a
warning. Tank cursed at me again as 1/2 the party is
nearly dead and I have 0 mp.
Normally I would have disbanded, but we were getting
decent xp and the rest of the party was cool. I didn't
have a problem with the puller because I asked him
to please watch my mp before pulling, and maybe we
should stay away from pugils, and he was cool with that.
So then the tank decides he's the puller for now on
and orders me to debuff, then immediatly start resting
to get mp back on all further mobs. So he then
pulls two IT flies, I debuff, and I start to rest
because the other RDM is healing. Well, the paladin
didn't provoke (warrior sub) and the other RDM
casting was interupted, and the paladin curses at me again
because I was resting. By the time the other RDM was nearly out
of mp I was back at full, and saved everyones *** because
I actually had mp. (Honestly one person did die, but only
because he was poisoned and died before the spell hit him.)
I still think that is pretty decent for two IT mobs.
It would be one thing if this was a novice, but it was
a paladin; rank 3. This isnt even an isolated incident,
this stuff happens all the time. People also dont understand
that while you're resting their is a 4 second delay
to get up and start casting.
I think I'm switching to blm to avoid dealing with these idiots.
Just a bunch of noobs who have no clue how to play. Just ignore them man. You usually get to know the group after a few battles. If I sense that a few guys have no clue what they are doing I usually just leave the party. It’s not worth the trouble of putting up with them. On my server I have joined these groups and tried to tell them what they are doing wrong. 99.9% of the time they are so ignorant they will argue with you like they are doing things just fine and its you who are the problem or will say you are just whining. They cannot fathom that it is them who are compromising the group. You should not only leave the group with these people but black list them.
An example. I was in a group with a white mage and a summoner/whm. We were in the crawlers nest and having trouble pulling w/o links. So I ask the summoner to pull with carbuncle so they don’t add on us. The white mage immediately says "wtf you talking about, I have summoner and you can’t pull w/o links" I try to explain you can and how it works. But the white mage will hear nothing of it. I see this same white mage in Jeuno a couple days later, and I /say to her. "so did you ask around about the summoner pulling yet" she then goes to shouts saying that I'm a noob and everyone hates me and she will pay people to help get me killed in groups. :) Sadly this is why I turn down most NA groups now. 99% of my fellow NA's are like this and I am ashamed to be known as one of them. I try my best not to group with them now :(
I don’t know if you guys have noticed or not but it also seems all these ignorant idiots are friends with each other, most know each other and hang around each other. A lot are even in the same linkshells.