God damn gil farmers! God damn expensive accuracy gear! God damn Square-Enix for giving exp monsters such insanely high evasion!
I miss playing DRK in an EXP PT. It requires lots of concentration; Timing my weaponskills for skillchain, watch out Berserk for recast, keep an eye on the monster and stun him when he readies his area-of-effect attacks, stun the monster when the NIN tank is casting Utsusemi, stun the monster when the PLD is casting Cure magic on himself, make sure everyone else’s health is high – Souleater + Blood Weapon when things look bad. It’s fun when everyone does their part well.
My recent EXP PT was terrible. Even though I was able to hit well enough to gain TP, the whole session sucked because of the other members. Firstly, the DRK who invited me. He subbed THF at level 56. He left his scythe in his mog house and used great sword. Nevermind that, not critical. He could still do some damage with Sneak Attack + Hard Slash, the worse thing about him is he was the puller and always returned to camp with dangerously low health. I was never there to witness how he pulled each monster. But he really sucked at pulling. I suspect he did a Sneak Attack on the target.
We had no BLM to magic burst Freeze. Only a RDM with Blizzard II. RDM’s Gravity would rarely go through. Most of them, resisted. Gravity lowers the target’s evasion, enough for me to hit well.
The worst was the RNG. The first I’ve seen to deal less than 100 points of damage with Barrage. We were doing Sidewinder > Vorpal Scythe for Distortion. But 3 out of 5 times of his Sidewinder would miss.
Camping at the tunnels next to the beaches of Cape Terrigan sucked. There were 3 other PTs in the same tunnel. Occasionally someone would zone a raptor-type monster and everyone else had to zone because that monster aggros by sight, and is a lot stronger than us. The next worse thing that happened is we waited 30 minutes for a replacement PLD. He came, fought 2 battles, and left saying he had something to do. The JP WAR/NIN was pissed at this point. So he left too and went back to Jeuno with his Looking for Party flag up and “English PT:X” in his search comment. (meaning he doesn’t want to play with english players anymore.)
POINT OF THIS ENTRY: IF YOU CAN’T STAY IN AN EXP PT FOR AT LEAST 2 HOURS, DO NOT PUT UP YOUR SEEK FLAG! {/fume} [>(]
Eventually, I suggested that we disband, despite the fact I only needed 480 more experience points to get to 57. Everyone else agreed with disbanding, thank goodness. For this EXP session, I gained 3000 experience points over 4 hours. An average PT does 2000/hour. A good one can go from 3000-4000/hour. Do the math!