The Worst PT Contest! *sign up today*

[Ryouken]

I think everyone can agree that not every PT in FFXI is perfect, in fact it's not very common to get a great PT going unless you're teaming up with friends or fellow LS members...

And it's a proven fact that the worst PT's ever created tend to occur in the one place in the game where true hell is unleashed... the dunes! lol

So here is what I'm proposing:

Ever been peeved about a terrible PT you've been in?

Feel like ranting about that one noob in your last PT that got you killed on purpose?

Do you like running around with underwear on your head?

If you've answered yes on the first two and no on the third then you're a perfect candidate for the Worst PT Contest! (If you answered yes on the third question... you should probably see a psychiatrist...)

All you have to do is tell a story about the WORST PT you've ever been in (no making up stories!)

The winner will recieve my undying sympathy and a box full of KFC fried chicken (who can say no to KFC... honestly?)!!!!

(NOTE that Ryouken is not responsible for any injury/death that occurs during the Worst PT Contest, if such an event does occur then you're basically screwed...) XD

LET THE RANTING BEGIN!

[Jei]

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a thf leader, 21. invited all fighters 21 thf war cor. And 2 mages 24 smn whm...

exp was around 400-500/hour.

Then, after 2 hours or so the war left. So the Thf leader got a new replacement, another war.

The war started to come to us from Jeuno. And the THF kept pulling. 1 mob after the war joined, the Thf levelled up.

And as you might guess...
"gtg thx for PT"
"Jaza ur leader"
/logout

I was like... wtf?

[Matera]

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I tend to drop shitty parties like pigeons drop turds, so I don't have stories.

But there's been a people I've seen...

Galka 22Whm/8Blm with Cotton Doublet, Ash pole and Str Rings.

Rank 7 17 Warrior with scale armor, Butterfly Axe (Level 5) And woodsman's ring, and a bunch of other expensive shit in his bazaar. I PTed with him, and he blew.

[Mikh07]

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hm worse pt member would be a thief that used hand-to-hand was was /whm - he healed too and helped with banish lol

never been in a PT that only got 500 xp an hour

[Ryouken]

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Looks like I'll go XD

One time in the dunes I was invited into a PT by a friend of mine, I PT with her before so I was pretty confident that this PT would be pretty good... but sadly it wasn't

One of the members (I think he was a THF, I can't really remember), kept complaining about the poor exp we were getting (we were fighting gobs, and the exp wasn't really that great, but it wasn't terrible either...)...

So my friend, who is one of the nicest ppl ever, instead of kicking him for his constant whining, said that we'll just move camp and start fighting flies instead of gobs.

So we moved to the oasis and began fighting flies instead... big mistake >_<

The flies were too difficult and my friend kept getting KO due to massive hate and a shortage of voking (she was a WHT mage) and a the occasional KO from one of our other PT memebers (including me)...

So we all agreed to stop fighting the flies and stick with exp chaining gobs, which would be safer and we would still get decent exp, but the THF however, didn't agree with us...

He told us that flies gave great exp and we should keep fighting (naturally he hadn't KO'd yet) despite the fact that our other PT members where losing valuable exp every time they KO'd

Our leader tried to be nice and explain that we can't keep fighting flies because the rest of us our losing more exp than gaining it... that's when the THF did it...

After telling us that "This is the sh**iest PT I've ever been in!", he aggroed two thread leeches and disbanded, ditching us... and of course shouting "I HATE NOOBS!!!" as he ran off toward Selbina...

To sum it up, our PT got wiped out due to those thread leeches, it took us 20 min to either get raises or to come back to the oasis if we had warped to our HP...

We disbanded shortly after, which I agreed was the best thing to do...

I still PT with my friend though, I figure that PTing with your friends is worth accidentally getting a bad PT now and then. XD

[Asir]

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The dunes. The sand was scorching our feet through the thick soles of our boots and a couple of us lacked the much needed subjob. We were a rag tag group, never met before the leader asked for our assistance in exterminating the infestation of lizards. A passing mage of the healer variety offered to join our little group and we headed out to find a place to slaughter the lizards. Everything looked fine on the surface and our healer casted some spells to aid us in our fights.

"We have to kill these things one by one," the Fearless Leader spoke, "They like to group up and kill anything that threatens one of them." Since most of us didn't like to fight on an empty stomach, we had a quick snack while our thief went out to find a suitable lizard. We were all confident we could defeat anything the thief managed to bring to us and chatted amongst each other about our goals until we heard the shout.

"Incoming! Prepare for battle!" We looked up and saw the thief running towards us at high speed, sweat pouring off the mithra's face from the heat and exertion of running. The fighters drew their weapons as we mages shifted behind them to avoid getting stomped as we cast our spells. Everything seemed fine until I realized that our healer was up front with the fighters. That little taru was standing beside the warrior, swinging his little club at the lizard while the warrior was screaming for someone to cast a spell to heal his wounds. The red mage beside me stopped what he was doing and started casting his healing spells on the warrior. I wished I could do something to help improve our chances but I only knew the destructive powers of the black arts.

The first battle seemed to go smoothly. Covered in lizard blood, we cheered ourselves on as the thief went out after another lizard. If things continued to go our way, we would be rid of the flesh eating lizards and could continue in our explorations of the world. Once more we heard the cry for battle from our thief and prepared ourselves. The taru healer was once more beside the warrior, swinging his toothpick of a club at the lizard in spite of our need for his healing magic. I think it was a male taru, hard to tell when they wear those tunics.

For a little while, things seemed to be going in our way. The lizard was heavily wounded and we were doing fine in spite of the taru's lack of healing. "I think we're gonna do it!" I shouted. That's when things went wrong. A lizard saw us beating on one of it's own and came to lend support to it's injured pack member. A goblin mage in metal armor saw what we were doing and seemed to have come out of nowhere to join the fight. Our healer and warrior died a horribly agonizing death and the rest of the fighters soon followed in spite of my encouragements to run away.

With only myself and the red mage standing, we thought we could lose the lizards and goblins if we ran for the highlands. Our hopes were in vain though. The two lizards dropped the red mage quickly and began feasting on his remains as the goblin mage felled me with a painful dose of poison. I died running, the line of grass indicating the highlands being nearby was just inches from my prone body. I had almost made it but almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.

[kiffkin]

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I posted my most recent party experience here...

My last dunes oddity was an 18THF/1WHM lfp. We'd just had a party member leave and needed a replacement. This guy was stood next to us asking to join. We all decided very quickly to carry on with just the 5 of us.

[Neomage]

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Bah... I have so many bad paty stories I can't remember what happened in which one >.>

[durecellrabbit]

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I've only had two bad parties in the dunes. The first was my first party ever which was going well until the our whm left and got us a rdm relacement to main heal, which the rdm agreed to. After a fight with a lizard some high level players where poisoned and the rdm refused to heal them until poison wore off and quit the party, had full mana too. The high level players quit and then harassed me through tells. I started again as a whm because of that party. The other bad party in the dunes was just some players who could not could hate properly and took too much damage. I just quit it because I kept dying. I don't mind the dunes anymore because most of my good parties have been there and I now know about /blist. I don't like Qufim though, had a lot of bad parties there.

[DaSantis]

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One of the members (I think he was a THF, I can't really remember), kept complaining about the poor exp we were getting (we were fighting gobs, and the exp wasn't really that great, but it wasn't terrible either...)...

So my friend, who is one of the nicest ppl ever, instead of kicking him for his constant whining, said that we'll just move camp and start fighting flies instead of gobs.

So we moved to the oasis and began fighting flies instead... big mistake >_<

The flies were too difficult and my friend kept getting KO due to massive hate and a shortage of voking (she was a WHT mage) and a the occasional KO from one of our other PT memebers (including me)...

So we all agreed to stop fighting the flies and stick with exp chaining gobs, which would be safer and we would still get decent exp, but the THF however, didn't agree with us...

He told us that flies gave great exp and we should keep fighting (naturally he hadn't KO'd yet) despite the fact that our other PT members where losing valuable exp every time they KO'd=

Ryuo... please tell me this was on Ifrit? Because if it was, I was one of the guys in your party that this happened to... (it was the 2 leeches comment that just seemed to remind me).

Figured I'd ask, as you have Alexander as your main server.. but if true and elsewhere, that's just too weird to be coinciental...

[Mog]

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The dunes. The sand was scorching our feet through the thick soles of our boots and a couple of us lacked the much needed subjob. We were a rag tag group, never met before the leader asked for our assistance in exterminating the infestation of lizards. A passing mage of the healer variety offered to join our little group and we headed out to find a place to slaughter the lizards. Everything looked fine on the surface and our healer casted some spells to aid us in our fights.

"We have to kill these things one by one," the Fearless Leader spoke, "They like to group up and kill anything that threatens one of them." Since most of us didn't like to fight on an empty stomach, we had a quick snack while our thief went out to find a suitable lizard. We were all confident we could defeat anything the thief managed to bring to us and chatted amongst each other about our goals until we heard the shout.

"Incoming! Prepare for battle!" We looked up and saw the thief running towards us at high speed, sweat pouring off the mithra's face from the heat and exertion of running. The fighters drew their weapons as we mages shifted behind them to avoid getting stomped as we cast our spells. Everything seemed fine until I realized that our healer was up front with the fighters. That little taru was standing beside the warrior, swinging his little club at the lizard while the warrior was screaming for someone to cast a spell to heal his wounds. The red mage beside me stopped what he was doing and started casting his healing spells on the warrior. I wished I could do something to help improve our chances but I only knew the destructive powers of the black arts.

The first battle seemed to go smoothly. Covered in lizard blood, we cheered ourselves on as the thief went out after another lizard. If things continued to go our way, we would be rid of the flesh eating lizards and could continue in our explorations of the world. Once more we heard the cry for battle from our thief and prepared ourselves. The taru healer was once more beside the warrior, swinging his toothpick of a club at the lizard in spite of our need for his healing magic. I think it was a male taru, hard to tell when they wear those tunics.

For a little while, things seemed to be going in our way. The lizard was heavily wounded and we were doing fine in spite of the taru's lack of healing. "I think we're gonna do it!" I shouted. That's when things went wrong. A lizard saw us beating on one of it's own and came to lend support to it's injured pack member. A goblin mage in metal armor saw what we were doing and seemed to have come out of nowhere to join the fight. Our healer and warrior died a horribly agonizing death and the rest of the fighters soon followed in spite of my encouragements to run away.

With only myself and the red mage standing, we thought we could lose the lizards and goblins if we ran for the highlands. Our hopes were in vain though. The two lizards dropped the red mage quickly and began feasting on his remains as the goblin mage felled me with a painful dose of poison. I died running, the line of grass indicating the highlands being nearby was just inches from my prone body. I had almost made it but almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.

Feels like I'm reading a novel. Ever consider getting a job as a writer for a living? (if you haven't already)

As for the crappiest party, I'll redirect you here:

http://www.ffxionline.com/forums/general.ffxi.discussion/53321-did.i.do.right.thing.htm

http://www.ffxionline.com/forums/whi...arty.ever.htmll

[Ryouken]

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lol XD

Sorry Desantis but this did happen on Alexander, not Ifrit. But I agree its really weird how it happened on both servers... lol

I don't wanna say who the guy was who aggroed the leeches but I can say that my pal Mitokko was the one who invited me to PT with her (If your reading this Mitokko, I'd like to say... HELLO!)...

I guess it goes to show that noobs of a feather... both aggro leeches to get revenge on their PT's together... lol XD

[Aksannyi]

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Asir, your writing is quite good. You should start an RP/fan-fiction type blog or something. I've been wanting to for some time now, but, well, I have very little time anymore as it is. Maybe during semester break.

[Eohmer]

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Here's my story...

I get a /tell from a PLD asking if I want to PT. Sure... he's lvl 46 and I'm lvl 44THF. Not too bad. He then proceeds to invite 2 more 44's, a whm and drg. Fine. Then he invites a lvl 47 BLU. Ok... now I'm beginning to doubt the PLD.
I tell the PLD I don't have my empress band ready, and a couple minutes later, after already experience low XP, he proceeds to use his.

So we get down to figuring out the SC... BLU's Screwdriver with my Viper Bite.

At this point, I'm getting because people apparently forget how SATA works, so I had a really hard time trying to get it done due to bad positioning on the parts of the PLD and DRG... He said I can sata on the BLU. I asked, "Are you sure? I'd rather the DRG provoke first so I can SATA on to you."

The PLD says, "Yes I'm sure. Hate won't be taken away from me."

Ok fine, so I did, and the BLU almost died, and of course the BLU got pissy and got on the PLD for saying that. Then DRG couldn't get the hang of voking first and just didn't get the positioning right, even after constant training.

After a while, the 47 BLU offers to leave due to bad exp. I said, "Ok DRG, now that the BLU left, it's up to you and I to SC."

DRG says, "Ok, but I don't have screwdriver."

Oh dear me... /sigh

PLD leader then gets another RDM, 46, who's close to getting 47.

DING, RDM lvls, and he says, "I'm sleepy" and disbands.

Then the PLD sends me a /tell telling me he knows how hard SATA is because he's a THF himself. If he is, then he would have agree in the beginning to let DRG voke first. Oh well. He then tells me, "Why don't you do the quest for your Marauder's Knife again so you can have 2?"

Is he serious? I didn't know there was an update that allows you to carry 2 rare/ex items. (Please note the sarcasm)

So we start fighting with 5 people... Soldier Crawlers... still low XP but were staying alive. Then the PLD says, "I have to go soon". This was a couple of minutes after he said he had 400 TNL. How "convenient" if you ask me.

He then also proceeds to disband when he lvls. During this time I am now leader and start searching for a rdm and a tank. WHM asks if she can go down to look for the Crawler's Next Coffer while we wait. We agreed to let her go, so she did.

I find a RDM, and she comes over to the secret room. Next thing you know, I see fighting text in my log. Apparently the RDM pulled it and started fighting. I dropped my search box and went to attack it. She didn't bother telling anyone, just went on and did it. WHM was no where near and we didn't even have a tank yet. I asked politely, "Why did you do that? WHM wasn't near us and we have no tank."

"Oh, I like to pull and fight while I wait. "

"Well, if you want to do that, can you atleast do it out of PT then?"

RDM starts casting Warp.
RDM vanishes.

/sigh

Of course, she also disbanded... all without a word. WOW... just amazing.

Needless to say the PT didn't last too long after.

Atleast one good thing came out of all that... WHM and I became friends. We were talking smack about those people through out the PT... heh, so that kept me sane for a while.

So after that, I go seeking again. I'm still lvl 44 at this point.

A RNG invites me to a PT.... then a RDM, then a DRK, then a... I forgot... BLU I think. We didn't have a main heal and no tank. I bring it up to the PT leader, and he simply said, "It's ok... RDM can main heal."

I suggested that he get another healer to help the rdm atleast, and he said no.
What puzzles me is that even the RDM said in the PT chat, "plz get another healer."

Of course, Mr. Rank 10 RNG said no and wanted to get a WAR. Hmm, this PT isn't sounding very good at all. Then the DRK says, "Eohmer is sounding very noobish."

"Fine, call me a noob. All I know is I don't want to die." I don't want to disband because then I would like a jerk, so I wait until they kick me, which they did. I didn't care.

It's amazing how people can be nowadays. /sigh I think I'm done for the day. I just wanted to rant and see what you guys think.

/end rant

It was actually 2 PT's, I suppose... both in the same day though. >.<

[Jei]

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"Ok DRG, now that the BLU left, it's up to you and I to SC."

DRG says, "Ok, but I don't have screwdriver."

now that's as good as goblin smithy's blog...