For some godforsaken reason, I neglected to go /anon when I logged in last night and, on a whim, accepted an invitation to party in the Crawler's Nest.
I was on a bit early, and I figured it would be a good way to play EXP-catchup with the Roughnecks static. Of course, both Lexxi and Murrdoc got on earlier than I expected, and within minutes of accepting the invitation, Feon & Coz also invited me on another Titan Prime run.
I made a stupid decision and remained with the party.
When I got out there, I was absolutely stunned to find a powerleveler. We had a Bard, we had decent DD, we had a Paladin. Why this 75 RDM? I was so flustered, I forgot to even buff the party when I got there, not that it would have made a difference. I never got a chance to throw on a decent cure except during the off moments when the PL slipped up. At least I was allowed to remove status ailments, but ... that was about it. I came very, very close to just running in and meleeing the mob out of boredom.
And of course, as with most PL'd parties I've experienced, people died or came close to dying on more than one occasion, and the EXP sucked, for the usual reasons.
A. Overcamping. We were stationed in the 'hidden' chamber. The first pull was an Exoray (our level range was 37-39), which took a good 5 minutes to kill. Subsequent pulls were mostly IT++ Flies which were taking several minutes to kill, with the occasional Crawler (which we should have been targeting exclusively).
B. No communication with the PL. Downtime would suddenly be interrupted by some insane pull hitting the WAR/NIN (sans shadows) for massive HP and no response from the PL (ostensibly AFK) and myself fumbling for the Cure3 and pulling hate, or not being fast enough and watching the puller die.
C. No hate management. The PLD was always in the white and was losing hate to the MNK constantly.
D. Boring the living shit out of the WHM. The status ailments were all that kept me awake, and this boredom would really backfire when the PL would go AFK without announcing it.
So I reached level 39 tonight without earning it. /hurray for powerleveling.
No more pickups for awhile for me...
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It happens to the best of us :) We missed ya!
ARGH MMORPG BLOGGING, I wasn't looking for this, you ruined my day, cheers.
I'm so sorry...
Sorry that you phail at google. =/
Mad...Martigan...? couldn't be.
aniwazes: This is the path of the WHM pre-50. No more pickups. Unless you know one person there. Other wise say that you are teletaxi'n But haste makes power level parties a bit better. A bit. Oh, and erase.
Ah, the pains of that...it only gets more fun post 41, when everyone prefers a RDM to a WHM, it seems, LOL...such my RDM hit 75 and my WHM limps along at 63 xD
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