I can't stand some people. Follow

The BLM may have been there first. The BLU duo may have been there first. Who can really say who was there first but the parties involved? What we can say is that both parties were there for the exp. Why was the higher level person there? To say "I am sticking up for my friend! If the BLM can't have what the BLM wants, NO ONE CAN HAVE IT! RAWR!!!" sounds about right. I am not sure if sticking up for your friends should be done like that. Maybe we should all go play WoW to eliminate such behavior. Lord knows that stuff doesn't happen on WoW. . . Or in real life. FFXI is where it started and where it should die.

This thread's turning into a nice juicy derailment target.

I am fairly sure that Myst not being there means that Myst (the BLM we've been talking about) was not there.




Valuing a friendship is nice and all. . . But what happens when they are totally wrong? I am not saying that anyone was wrong in THIS instance. I am asking about all possible instances. Would you still stick up for your friend if they were 100% wrong and the hard time is justified (or not even a hard time in the first place)?

Feel free to correct me if this is too far off topic, but I don't understand people's thinking behind "OMG SOLOING IS THE ONLY WAY TO GET 75 NOWADAYS!!" I can definately understand if you prefer soloing, but that is not to say that it is the only way to get a job to 75. I find that if I've spent more than 30 minutes lfg, I start my own party. Yeah, it's led to some outside-the-box parties on occasion, but they were probably some of the most fun I've had during the level grind.

As far as asshats go, it sucks, but you're going to run into them everywhere and that isn't limited to just FFXI. Props to you for doing something about it, but realize this isn't the last time it will happen to your friend or you. /blist and move on. It's really the best way to maintain peace of mind with so many unfriendly players out there.

LMAO, I'm sorry, but that was wayyy to funny.

I know what you're talking about Steg.

I was in a 73-75 party yesterday, I'm a bard, we were at the Mamool Staging Point zone, there was only 1 party there, plenty of open spaces and a few safe camps open. I found us a camp far away from the other party, but the leader, said "we're camping on top of them, steal all their mobs and drive them out."

He was serious. It pissed me off. So, there they go, voking and grabbing everything, our WHM was crawling up the melee's **** to cast curaga...guess she didn't know you can stand further back and cast it....

I didn't say anything, even when she cried she wasn't getting ballad, I didn't have the heart to tell her why. As if 3 monks in epeen Osode's would appreciate ballad songs...(And as a disclaimer, I am a 75 monk, I have an Osode, and honestly, wearing only that isn't the most effective gear...It's more of a Look At Me!)

So I tried to convince the WHM to stay put in one spot, but she laughed at me and said how was she able to cure her party if she stands by me....Cure does have a range.....Guess she didn't realize that either.

So I equipped my harpe so ballad could get her from far away and in case she moved around, which she did, but because the melee moved close to me as well, they got ballad too. Then, they decided to criticize me for using a harp and laughed at me....

So considering they had no problem ruining another party's good time, and stole mobs away from that party as if they were the only mobs we'd see until tomorrow, and because they were jerks and completely unskilled, laughing at me as if I were the one who was an idiot as I was trying to accomodate their stupidity, for the first time in my career of 4 years playing, I left the party.

I decided from now on, I will be more selective who I party with. If a leader wants to camp on top of a group when there's plenty of mobs and space, I'm out. I treat competing parties the way I would want to be treated.

I also had a run-in similar to yours. Merit pt in Nyzul Isle on the 2nd tier. Anyway, we were the only pt there for about an hour or so. We were making good xp and all of a sudden the chains stop.

So, we see the said bright-yellow shell camping by the pond. Not only was their Brd pulling, but the entire pt was out prowling for birds. The leader of my pt said he was friends with some of them too.


Anyway, to make a long story short, after about 20mins or so competeing for claims, our pt just disbanded and left.

Sure, I like to see huge chain #'s and what not, but not if it's gonna ***** another pt over.

bst isnt the job it once was, with the new (easy) even match update its very possible to hit 35 without even charming, just slug away with str gear and a jugpet.. as such you cant expect the old bst code to kick in till 40, maybe 50, when those A.D.D. kids give up. Seriously ive taken 3 characters to 40 bst now and i swear this latest (all after patch) took less time to hit 40 than the first one did to get to 20.. no more charming DC rabbits to fight DC lizards just so you can hit lv 18 in like 5 hours.

Sorry for what that happened to you but don't forget there are good people too.
One day i went to that exact same camp and a blu was there, one sec before i used warp he sent me a /tell saying that he knows another camp HE can lvl in so i can have this camp.
And he really went to another camp leaving this camp for me, after that happened i met him a few times and we always found solution for our camp problem.
Wish i could remember his name, a good man.