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It's always the Dunes isn't it....apologies for the rant, this is probably the most annoyed I've been since I started playing so prepare for chapter 1 to 8 of War and Peace... >.<
Player names are substituted for their jobs, you'll know if you come across either of these two on Bismarck... >.<
Levelling BLM as a break for a few hours from PLD yesterday, I get a pt with one of my LS guys who fancied a break from the job he was doing, we both happen to have other jobs at 17 (BLM for me and THF for him) so we get a pt together and get started. We get a pt together after a few minutes. The pt setup wasn't textbook because there were very few people available but it was working fairly well to start with. There's 2 BLM's, 2 THF's, one WHM and a NIN. It's going well for the first couple of fights, then the 2nd BLM starts using Stonega with other mobs around, fortunately the other mobs are just outside the AoE. After the fight a couple of us ask him politely not to use it again but he ignores us. I've had my share of pt wipes from BLM's using Stonega in the Dunes (I refuse to macro it because there's too much risk with so many mobs around) so at this point I see the warning signs appearing but continue onwards as there weren't many other people available at the time and I really wanted to try and get at least a level up that day. Then we get agro from a goblin, no-one saw it sneaking up on us craftily. Whether or not it was hit with Stonega I couldn't say as I didn't see, but anyway BLM 2 eats dirt followed by WHM and tank, the rest of us scarper to safety at Selbina. With BLM 2 going down first I guess it could have been Stonega that caused the problem, but like I said, I didn't see it so I'm not 100% sure. So three down and three left standing, I'm down to about 10% HP left and there's no raise available at the time so we get chatting - it went a little like this:
ME: It'll probably be faster if you guys HP
BLM 2: Err....
ME: Where's your HP?
BLM 2: Bastok lol
Me: Bastok? Why didn't you set your HP somewhere here?
BLM 2: Why should I? I'm going to do the game without re-setting my HP lol
Me: Are you serious?
BLM 2: Yes
Me: That's a bad decision. Really bad.
THF: Agreed.
NIN: Totally agree.
WHM: You really need to reset your HP here while you level. You can get a tele out afterwards if you need one.
BLM 2: Whatever lol
THF: What if we don't get a raise?
BLM 2: I'll HP! I'll run back! lol
THF 2: My HP is Bastok too and I'm not setting my HP here either.
Me: >.<
THF: >.<
NIN. >.<
WHM: >.<
After 10 mins or so everyone gets a raise and when they're all recovered we start again. Roughly 15 mins downtime already.
First fight, very first one and THF goes off and pulls a Pugil, sweet, back on track again...until I notice that BLM 2 has gone AWOL, then I see this pop up on the chatlog, I know we're in trouble again:
BLM 2: Incoming Snipper!!
The rest of us are a bit surprised to say the least! After 30 secs half of us are KO'd again, BLM 2 goes down first rapidly followed by WHM, As a Galka I know I can handle a few hits more than the rest of the pt, even as a mage I can take it longer than the others, so I cast bind on it hopeing it'll take off after me when it wears off but it doesn't stick and I'm getting a beating now. A passing BLM/RDM passes at a very lucky time and drops a bunch of Cure II's on the remaining members and eventually the Pugil goes down followed by the snipper. Great, back to square 1. 3 members down again.
NIN: WTF were you doing?
THF 2: Why did you pull?!
THF 2: Are you trying to get us killed?
THF 2: You're a mage, not a puller!
THF 2: Don't pull again!
BLM 2: I pulled first, then you pulled a Pugil after I had the snipper so it's your fault
BLM 2: I had the snipper way before you had the Pugil
NIN: We had the Pugil for 30 secs before you pulled the snipper
NIN: I was watching you.
THF 2: You are not the puller, don't pull!
BLM 2 decides keeping himself quiet is the best course of action. At this point I asked my LS friend to ask him politely one last time to change his HP to Selbina or Valkurm Outpost once he gets a raise.
THF: Please change your HP when you get a raise
BLM 2: No, I've already said that's not happening
BLM 2: I need to keep my HP to Bastok so I can get warped back there to sell stuff
THF 2: Leave him alone, if he doesn't want to change his HP then it's up to him
THF 2: And I'm not changing my HP either
I couldn't believe what I was reading, the pt is going nowhere because two members can't be bothered to run for 30 seconds to reset their HP to benefit the pt, everytime they die we have 15 mins or so downtime instead of 30 secs to HP and come back. I've been exchanging tells with some of the other pt members and everyone agrees that BLM 2 has to go. Lead doesn't want to be the one to kick him though so I pull the short straw and volunteer to do it. Lead is passed to me. It's been 30 mins now and we've had got through 2 mobs with two partial pt wipeouts. It's just not working.
Me: BLM 2, This really is for the good of the pt
Me: We've had half a party wipe out twice now in almost no time
Me: You won't stop using Stonega even though we've asked
Me: You got us killed by pulling when we already had a mob
Me: And you refuse to reset your HP. That's all a bit n00bish.
BLM 2: I didn't kill us the first time!
Me: Sorry.
BLM 2: lol
THF 2: OMG
THF 2: **** you you idiot
BLM 2 is kicked from the pt, THF 2 disbands.
THF: What happened to THF 2?
NIN: This happened yesterday when I pt'd with her, she gets like this.
NIN: Someone said something she didn't like and she went all emo and disbanded.
I send a tell to THF 2
Me: It's cool, BLM 2 is gone now, you can come back
THF 2: It's you I'm pissed at
Me: Why? Cos I kicked a n00b that was getting us killed?
THF 2: You said that I was a n00b for not resetting my HP
THF 2: And I'm not a n00b
Me: Look, I was talking to BLM 2, not you, I don't have a problem with you, you're not trying to kill us.
Me: Resetting your HP would be really helpful though.
And it was the silent treatment after that.
/blist add BLM 2 and THF 2 - I later took THF 2 off the list, I have hope they'll see the light and get better....I don't see much hope for BLM 2 though.
God I hate the Dunes....sorry about the rant, I feel better now! >.<
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