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how do you survive the dunes?
How do you survive the dunes with out giving in and going insane?...
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I've spent my two nights online this week leveling WAR from 12 to 16 (nearly). And i'm extremely frustrated. The parties i've got into have either been full of people who don't have a clue (which i can tolerate) or don't give two stuffs. They show up with gimpy gear, faff around going afk every two mins (obviously as soon as every one else gets back) , take forever to get to a camp, have their home point the other side of the world (and no way of raising themselves, they just expect you to shout for a raise while they sod off for a fag).
Either that or if the party contains anyone who is either newbie or n00by at the game they mysteriously DC or just straight up disband.
When eventually you do weed out all the people who'd rather go get a sandwich than pull and all the primadonnas who'd rather unplug their computer than boot someone from a party or try and actually teach someone new how to improve their game, you get six people capable of actually getting experience points instead of losing them. Then the PL (which one of them invited along with out checking if people wanted it first) shows up ten mins after you get into the party and kills anything like fun, adventure or risk. Of course most of the party think this great! Suddenly the exp is through the roof, if you don't want the PL you are doomed to go back to LFG-with-the-n00b-you-just-kicked-from-the-party-land. Anyone who doesn't want the PL will pretty much suck it up and stick with it, cos at least it'll get you out of there. (this is where i am currently)
How do you do it? I don't want to be one of those people who just DC out of a party as soon as anything looks a bit N00by (although if it preserves my sanity i can see why people would do this). I don't want to be dragged through in a power-leveled-gimp-skilled-when-i-get-to-Quifm-zombie state. I'd rather not solo grind my way to 20.
I want a party like you get parties everywhere else in the game. Where people take some pride in themselves, in doing their job, having up to date gear. Where people have fun (gasp!) But because "the dunes suck" noone puts in the effort and it makes them suck so much more!
It's not just this run through thats lead me to these conclusions, but pretty much every run since my first two (when i was a newbie, and even then "the dunes experience" was sorely lacking in fun).
Worst part is i've still several jobs to take through those levels. But playing that way just isn't my idea of fun in any way.
How do you keep sane? Should i just give myself over to the power levelers? Sit there mindlessly for however many dozens of hours it will take me to get all the jobs i want through there? And only start learning how to party properly with my new job when i get to quifm? Should i start DCing anytime things looks less than premium? Or is there a better way?
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[rant]
I've spent my two nights online this week leveling WAR from 12 to 16 (nearly). And i'm extremely frustrated. The parties i've got into have either been full of people who don't have a clue (which i can tolerate) or don't give two stuffs. They show up with gimpy gear, faff around going afk every two mins (obviously as soon as every one else gets back) , take forever to get to a camp, have their home point the other side of the world (and no way of raising themselves, they just expect you to shout for a raise while they sod off for a fag).
Either that or if the party contains anyone who is either newbie or n00by at the game they mysteriously DC or just straight up disband.
When eventually you do weed out all the people who'd rather go get a sandwich than pull and all the primadonnas who'd rather unplug their computer than boot someone from a party or try and actually teach someone new how to improve their game, you get six people capable of actually getting experience points instead of losing them. Then the PL (which one of them invited along with out checking if people wanted it first) shows up ten mins after you get into the party and kills anything like fun, adventure or risk. Of course most of the party think this great! Suddenly the exp is through the roof, if you don't want the PL you are doomed to go back to LFG-with-the-n00b-you-just-kicked-from-the-party-land. Anyone who doesn't want the PL will pretty much suck it up and stick with it, cos at least it'll get you out of there. (this is where i am currently)
How do you do it? I don't want to be one of those people who just DC out of a party as soon as anything looks a bit N00by (although if it preserves my sanity i can see why people would do this). I don't want to be dragged through in a power-leveled-gimp-skilled-when-i-get-to-Quifm-zombie state. I'd rather not solo grind my way to 20.
I want a party like you get parties everywhere else in the game. Where people take some pride in themselves, in doing their job, having up to date gear. Where people have fun (gasp!) But because "the dunes suck" noone puts in the effort and it makes them suck so much more!
It's not just this run through thats lead me to these conclusions, but pretty much every run since my first two (when i was a newbie, and even then "the dunes experience" was sorely lacking in fun).
Worst part is i've still several jobs to take through those levels. But playing that way just isn't my idea of fun in any way.
How do you keep sane? Should i just give myself over to the power levelers? Sit there mindlessly for however many dozens of hours it will take me to get all the jobs i want through there? And only start learning how to party properly with my new job when i get to quifm? Should i start DCing anytime things looks less than premium? Or is there a better way?
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