I was in such a good party before this crap started happening. I'm on Torama's now >< and that is NO FUN AT ALL. But we were a happy go lucky crew so it wasn't all so bad. Our party set up was
PLD, RNG, DRK, RDM, RDM, WHM<----(me!!!!)
But first, let me have a digression. We're killing and killing and killing when suddenly our first party member lags out and dies (OH NO!!!!) and we wonder if she'll be back. It was a THF named Cat...something (oh god i'm drawing a blank...i'm so sorry!). So, she disappears after she is dead and we sit around for like 20 minutes waiting for her. It was then that the RNG came in.
We were killing like mad! Torama's were going down like weeds, WEEDS!!!! When the first message comes across. We keep hoping that the thf would log in and we could at least raise II her before maintenence. We got about 3k xp in the 45 minutes or so leading up to the maintenence. Right before we escape Onzozo, OSE spawns.....but we were too weak and there was no alliance around at all to help kill it.
It was a sad day for assault jerkin!
When all was said and done I got about 10,000 xp in the course of 3 hours of partying. I'm 2000 from 61! 5000 from a good death pad, and I can finally stop leveling whm for a while so i can max out smn and blm subs.
But I can't hit 61 because of stupid maintenence! I hate you SQUEEEEENIX!!!!