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[DaSantis]

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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

I guess idiocy knows no server-bounds

but i guarantee that the story you gave was absolutely identical to one I had to put up with (in what I call my worse party every), down to the leeches and all!

[Ellipses]

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Too many to remember them all. To date, not counting not wanting to XP or not having time or whatever, I have turned down one party (they had a PL at level 40), and left one party for being a crappy party. The rest I've stuck with. This is the one party I left, reposted from elsewhere. This is from sometime during the Halloween event.

So, it's time to take Bard through the Dunes. Went there at 13 Monday night, and after a full party wipe and disband on the first battle (yes, you really should wait for a healer, no matter how awesome you think you are), I joined up with a DRK and a WHM to trio in La Theine instead, ending up 41 tnl.

Tuesday, throw up search comments and flag. Same leader who got everyone killed the night before invites me. So, warning sign number one, but what the hell. Join up and check the party list. Myself, two subless red mages, a subless black mage, a subless white mage. Hmm. I'm about to mention getting a tank when a 6th member pops up. THF/WAR.

Okay, so... I should have disbanded, but what the hell, they're all new, I should at least get a story to tell out of it. The WHM and I make it to camp, over near the Konschtat zone, and after buffs, we fight two lizards, no problems at all. I ding and use my Empress band. The puller goes out to look, and insists after about 30 seconds that there's nothing out there and he knows somewhere else we can level.

Where? East. Specifically, Korroloka Tunnel. I've only been in there once before, and that was a very good experience, though I don't remember what level that party started at. So why not? The WHM had never been there, and the assinine party leader didn't think it was important to wait and show him the way, calling him a retard instead ("lol jk"). The THF and I stayed behind a bit in Konschtat to make sure he made it.

We make it to Bastok, though the WHM obviously isn't happy with how far from the Dunes we are. The puller (who had a 47 WHM before, honest!) assures him it's worth it. Once everyone's gathered, after the leader takes some time to try on a Yagudo costume and talk about how cool he looks, we head into the mines. But wait! The THF can't make it through the gate. Turns out he doesn't have Zilart registered and doesn't have the reg. codes where he is.

So the puller takes leader and invites a ninja in North Gustaberg. While he's on his way, the old leader dies. So I go back to MH and switch to WHM to come raise him. I think I'm the only one who set my homepoint in the mines. While I'm in the middle of casting that raise, the WHM dies. So another raise, then go back to switch back to BRD.

Eventually, we do make our way back into the worm room, where the party leader proceeds to poke and slap Heavenvku about fifty times for no apparent reason, other than he's a ninja. I think it's a hobby, as he was doing it to the DRK he got killed Monday night too. Once everybody's ready and buffed up, we fight a worm. We manage to kill it, but the two that linked are clearly going to wipe us out.

So everybody tries to run out of range, but the ninja and I get bound, and die. As does the WHM. The ninja reraises, but is killed in the middle of his raise animation. He and I homepoint to Bastok Mines, as does the WHM, to Selbina. The puller, now leader, snares a nother ninja in Gustaberg somehow. The old leader asks five or six times if any of us want to play SOCOM2, then just says he's going to play SOCOM2 and disbands (without logging out). Since I only have about half an hour left, I tell the puller it's just not going to work and disband myself, wishing him good luck.

So total XP for that hour and a half, with Empress Band activated, was a smashing 64. But, like I said, got a story out of it.

[Telera]

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I have a rather infurating little story.

My rl boyfriend and I, after duoing on our shiny new advanced jobs to level 11 or so, decided it was time to return to the dunes once more. He was a dragoon. I was a fledgling summoner. We did a world search which didn't turn up enough people of the right jobs to build a party with, so we decided to sit in Selbina, watch the boat come and go, and wait for an invite. Interestingly enough, we managed to get an invite to the same party, which we both accepted. I check the party list, it's just four of us so far. Myself, my b/f, the leader, and his 'friend'. Both of the latter have underleveled subjobs. Vastly underlevelled. But I decided to give them the benefit of the doubt and just go with it. The leader informs me he has a 'power leveller'. Which turned out to be a early 20's White Mage. A little... unorthodox, but again, I'll go with it. Surely between the two of us, we'll be just peachy. Summoners have a nice MP pool.

One ranger and thief later, the leader announces that we're going to go kill pugs! x_x At lvl 11-12. 'We've got pl, we'll be okay. You can heal, can't you Telera? You've got whm sub.'

I nodded and replied, "Yes. I can main heal if that is what you're asking. I don't mind that. What I'd like to point out is that I only have Cure at the moment, and you will take more damage than I can fix against pugs. It's a one step forward, two steps back thing. There is a very high chance that you will die. Repeatedly."

He laughs this off and once again points out our barely-out-of-the-Dunes-herself PL. I shrug, decide the best way this guy is gonna learn is to see it for himself. Sometimes you gotta get your face busted in by a smelly giant fish to learn. So we get down there. He pulls a pug. He's getting hit for 50+ damage a hit, and my cure is doing ~30 HP recovery. I even Blood Pact Carbuncle's Healing Ruby to help, but it's not enough. And our PL? ...yeah, not so hot at WHM it seems. She tosses out two or three cures, and sure enough, our lil war leader/tank falls dead. Pug naturally turns next to me, and I'm beaten into the sands of Valkurm before I can even make three steps towards the Selbina zone. The others manage to escape, thankfully. So I HP Selbina, try to keep my nice attitude going, shrug it off 'Don't worry about it.' and decide I'll give this guy and his 'PL' one more shot. So our super-smart leader decides that was just 'bad luck' and we'll try again. By this point, my bf is sending me /tells saying we should just go, that the leader's clearly a n00b. But I tell him to just try again, that maybe we can show this guy that it's not going to work, and maybe the guy will learn something in the process. So... leader pulls another pug. PL once again seems to be pseudo-afk, tosses one or two cures at the start, and then vanishes as the war's hp begins to steadily drop while I spam Cure in hopes of averting disaster. Well... I pulled hate for all the spamming, and was one shotted with Screwdriver. Naturally the Warrior and a few others follow, with a handful escaping.

The whm PL then proceeds to tell me I can't do my job worth a shit, that I let that guy die twice. She warps and is gone. Whatever.

The leader then decides to go to Secret Beach... and what possessed me to follow is beyond me. Desperation? Faint hope? Thinking maybe he'd at least try clippers instead of pugs. Well, we get there, he starts to pulls another pug, and my boyfriend finally says "Do that and Telera and I are both gone. You've nearly gotten us wiped twice now. We can't take pugs, don't you get that yet?" At this point, one of the other members (who had miraculously remained silent for it all) says they have to leave and disbands. Leader disbands the pt, and Valdir and I start back towards Selbina when he suddenly halts in his steps and sends me a /tell "That little fucker..." I simply respond with "?" And he tells me the leader just sent him a /tell asking if he wanted back in the party, but that I couldn't come because I couldn't do my job. Val then proceeded to tell him that there was no way I could keep them alive against pugs, that the fault lay with him and not me, and if he hadn't learned that yet he wasn't going to get anywhere in the dunes. Pugs put out more damage than a lvl 11smn/5whm could cure. And then blacklisted him.

...damned n00b. It's simple. When a mob hits for 60+ damage, and I can only cure 29-30 at a time with nothing but Cure, nevermind when you get raped by Screwdriver, then yes, you're going to die. Repeatedly, like I told you. I spammed my heart out, didn't touch my avatars, just Cure, Cure, Cure until I pulled hate and died. I tried, he wouldn't listen. I think I gained a grand total of about 80exp in that party. >.<

[Asir]

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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.

I have been thinking about starting up a blog page for some of my FFXI related writings. Once I find a good spot to build one then I'll add a link to it in my signature.

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

Hehe, I already have 3 novels I'm working on when the family gives me time alone. A fantasy/medieval story, a sci-fi story and a paranormal mystery story. Once they're finished, I'm hoping they're good enough to be published.

[Kenichii]

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I remember a horrible party I had in Quicksand Caves when I was high-40's or low-50's on Summoner. I had a dumbass leader (Pandemonium Server ). I had all the avatars except for Diabolos, and he decided that because 2 other summoners were seeking and both had Diabolos, he'd invite them, because obviously Diabolos owns everything. So, there we were, in Quicksands Caves with 3 Summoners doing bullshit damage, a White Mage, a stupid Warrior that thought he knew everything and wore a Dream Hat to exp, and something else, I really don't remember. Anyway, we died so many times, it just made me mad. It's good to know *blank* stopped playing Warrior, he's an okay guy, but a little stupid and wasn't the FFXI player he claimed to be...

[ValisOfValefor]

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Worst party i ever had was in the dunes (of course), well i was lvling drg, it was a party with me a sam, nin, whm, blm, and a thf. Well i get into the party and the ninjas like.

Hey your gonna pull right? >.>

Me> Well we have a thf, and a sam who should have ranged weapons right?

thf> Notz me

sam> ran out of arrows last party

Me> Ill try.

So i pulled using jump, the gobs would tear me to shreads. The Blm was pretty much leeching off us casting a spell everyonce and a while. The whm was hitting on nearly everone in the party, and wasnt curing very well. The ninja was having trouble keeping hate off me for some reason (he would cast utsu, then voke ever minute or two) I ended up tanking too. When I died like 2 times im like.

Me> Screw you guys im hping (hp then disband)

Appaerently there was no one else lfg at that moment. So I had to blacklist all of them to stop them from trying to convince me to come back

[Fether]

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Heres the pt im in right now... I get invited to the pt, then precede to have to wait 20 mins through random afk's someone went to sandy to change jobs, we are in the dunes mind you. (mmm subjob curse) Well i forgot to check the pt makeup, my fault i know but i wasn't the party leader. Leader pulls a fly, i toss a few heals its on me....then i realize its still on me....and still....we don't have anyone with provoke....no tank. So we wipe....fun!

[Ryouken]

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*bump*

Come on guys, there has to be someone else with a good story about a... er... terrible PT...

<------- Keep Ranting! lol

[PTT]

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I don't remember hardly anything about this party, as nobody spent much time in it after this happened. The only thing I remember was that this party had this Whitemage in it, who seemed very unloving and noncommital to his job.

I don't even recall what we were fighting, or what job I was at the time. Who knows? It's lost in the blinding white sands of Valkurm now. It's not important to the story anyway.

So, we've just finished a battle, and we rest to full. Before anyone stands back up, I hear some tingly sound effects, and everyone is bathed in a yellow/green light.

Player 1/2/3/4/5/6 recovers 0 HP.

(me): Did.... did you just use Benediction?
(party): Why did you waste it?!
(WHM): I was bored.

So once the shock of that wore off, we continue as normal, and the very next fight...

(Puller): Incoming Goblin-whatever-it-was! (Probably a Gambler)

Boom! Psh! Explosions, Fireworks!

So there we were, eating dirt after some horrendously quick bomb tosses. If only there was a way to recharge everyone's HP as a last ditch effor-oh wait.

That White Mage, and the party, didn't last very long after that.
******

In my worst RECENT dunes party, I never even made it to camp! I was levelling my own White Mage, and was in the middle of Latheine Plateau, running towards Valkurm, not /anon, and without my party flag on (I was going to wait till I set my HP in Selbina before I threw it up.)

So, still in the middle of Latheine, I get a blind invite. Red flag number one, I know... the Leader then /tells me 'Party?' or 'PT?' or something like that (Sorry, my memory's a very spotty thing,) and I change my mind, and accept the invite.

After the (hello!)'s were dispensed, I tell them I'm on foot, and it'll be a bit before I can get there. Alright.

I zone into Valkurm. "I need to go set my homepoint in Selbina, I'll be there as soon as I can." -Silence-

A little later... "I'm almost to Selbina, almost done!" -Silence-

Having set my homepoint, I zone out into Valkurm Dunes, and.... I'm not in a party anymore. I assume I've been booted for taking too long to get there, as I was on foot for a long time, but I had to know...

/tell Partyleader >> Why was I kicked? -Silence from his end.-
/tell Partyleader >> Hello?

Your tell was not received...

So, on a lark, I "/sea all" for the other party members from that party. One of them wasn't online, and the others had their party flags up.

Was it a disconnect? Did the leader/members have no faith in the party? Were they mad that I took too long, even though I was in the middle of another zone, on foot?! I'll never know @_@

[Ellipses]

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Was it a disconnect? Did the leader/members have no faith in the party? Were they mad that I took too long, even though I was in the middle of another zone, on foot?! I'll never know @_@

Don't know if you know this and were just going for more humor, but it was definitely a disband. If it was just the leader disconnecting, the party would still be together, with leader automatically passed to someone else.

[Illuen]

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Qufim, without a doubt. The party was full of idiots, and I mean STUPID STUPID STUPID. It was WAR PLD NIN WAR BLM BLM(me) Now, this party also had a level 60 WHM Partyleveler. I am invited, and I begin to do my job, and I am making sure not to overnuke because the partylever seems to be a bastard. So I am barely nuking, perhaps two-three spells per battle. I am still being hit. The Party leveler, who was a prick, refused to heal me. He would heal the WAR who was only -10 HP instead of me, who was in the red. I died three times. By the end of the party, we were in the tower, and I was TANKING. A BLM TANKING! I was spending the whole time healing myself because the Partyleveler refused to heal me, and I was taking so much hate from spamming CureII on me I kept being hit. Finally, I was pissed. I was going to bloodport, because I didn't have Warp yet, and I didn't have a map for the tower and was slightly lost. So I provoke a Giant. THE PARTYLEVELER BEGINS TO HEAL ME! Seriously, he was spamming cureIII on me, and I could not get out of there. I /tell him four times I am bloodporting, I get the message "I know". Finally, I just get pissed and begin to walk out, at which point the party leveler begins to follow me x.x. Finally, I have a NM hitting me and I FINALLY bloodport. The worst thing, is that the Partyleveler is the boyfriend of a LS member, and they are having an in game wedding soon. I don't know what I am going to do about it...

[PTT]

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@Ellipses

Actually, that's just something I never thought about until you pointed it out. I -know- these kind of things, but I don't -remember- them sometimes... you know?

Anyways, if a leader disbands an entire party before they assemble, or (if I was a replacement) the replacement arrives... it's probably better off the party didn't happen at all

Lessee, back on topic... bad parties... bad parties...

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Levelling my Paladin through the dunes a good while back, I got invited to a party that, when I checked the member list, had only melee and perhaps a BLM or something.

One of the members quickly points out "We don't have a healer."

"Oh, we're fine," the party leader states. "Wev here can main heal. He's a Paladin"

I politely stated that I wasn't the job for the... er... job, and apologized and disbanded.

[Suichi]

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Uh... worst pt.. hmm...


I don't know the entire specs of the group, leader was anon.


Leader: I'm tank.
Me: Cool, < job>?
Leader: WHM15/WAR5
Me: /pcmd leave

Ugh..

[Vyuru]

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Let's see, I was a level 61 dragoon at the time, and i got an invite to a party, needless to say that I am rather pleasently surprised and accept. The party makeup was: whm, bst, blm, nin, drg, rdm. And off we go to the Valley of the damne.... Uh, Sorrows and start fighting raptors. I'm a little worried because the ninja is wearing full AF, but I don't know the stats, and I'm not inclined to /check her, so I'm indifferent, might be good tanking gear for all I know (doubt it though) And besides, I'm wearing some of my AF as well, so i don't feel it's my place to judge her right off the bat.

The ninja couldn't tank worth beans.... Blm would get hate fast from casting only a few nukes (and not her most powerfull ones either) whm would get hate from keeping blm alive, ninja is sitting there doing nothing, and I have to provoke the raptor off the blm.

Now keep in mind, I am a dragoon, I have crap for def and I have only mediocre vitality, not the best of tanks. Ninja lets the raptor beat me up for a bit, before NOW casting utsusemi, and then a ninja enfeeble, followed by a provoke.

Next fight I happen to get in a few criticals early in the fight, and get hate fast. My skillchain partner is the bst, we're doing skewer > some Axe WS (raging rush? rampage? not sure) I'm forced to use super jump to avoid being killed, as soon as I do, the bst announces he has 100%tp, great I think, I should be far enough below the hate line that it won't matter if I use a WS, I use skewer, do some pathetically low damage (I missed 2 of the three hits) and instantly pull hate -.-

It's shortly after this that I tossed on all of my +vit gear from my warrior job (gotta love tanking as war/mnk) for roughly +20vit total, along with the rest of my AF, and try my hand at tanking. Ironically, while the whm is calling me a MP sponge (I pointed out that drg > mp sponge than blms are) I am doing a better job at tanking than the ninja. I'm taking LESS damage/hit and keeping hate better. This seems to motivate the ninja to do better for a bit, and she /checked me now too and saw all of my +vit gear, that provoked some interesting debate

After a few more fights with hate bouncing all over the place, our ninja announces that she is going afk about 10 seconds after the bst announces that he is pulling a mob back to camp, we zone, and come back. Once we're back, the bst and the ninja are argueing about her going afk, she says he shouldn't have pulled, he says that she left after he said he was pulling, etc.

Party disbands, and as she leaves, the ninja asked how I was able to get hate off of her so many times with so much +vit, my answer:

It's the AF

:D

[Jei]

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the ninja asked how I was able to get hate off of her so many times with so much +vit

I'm so tempted to do this...
ctrl+r you suck <enter>