How long do you stay in a bad party?Follow

Today, I get a invite and wait for about an hour before we head-out. We waited for a LS friend of the party leader to get there.
Then we head to Kuftal Tunnel for some crab killin.

First pull is an add that a promptly sleep II, then while we fighting the first crab and second is sleeping, the black mage casts poisonaga and adds a lizzy and wakes the crab so we escape with no death. Next we rest up, and start over, we pull a crab and we are doing fine. Then the dark uses Shockwave and adds a lizzy. So, we Escape again, and rest up. We run in and finally start exping, but then the dark knight who was the puller aggros a Haunt, and we have to zone. We wait for a while zone in and the dark, who wasn't fully healed runs in and aggros another haunt. We zone out and there are 2 mantocores and 2 Ants waiting there. Finally, I threw up my hands and told them I had to go. I warp out and a LS mate sees me and asked what happend. I type in that "I was just in a bad party", I then notice that I'm still in party chat, and still in party.
I usually have a very high tolerance for bad party's and I feel bad for what I said.
So, my Question is long do you stay in a bad party.

Edited, Mon Dec 20 00:53:15 2004 by Dimmauk

I stay long enough to try and be fair. If things aren't working out, and try and determine why. If it's because of a bad camp, I recommend to the party that we explore other options. If I know other options are available, and they refuse to move, I leave.

If it's just 1 or 2 bad players not pulling their weight, I evaluate the exp we're earning. If it's less than 2.5-3k exp/hour, I leave. (Having recently hit lvl 61, however, my expectation will be 3.5-4k exp/hour, with very few exceptions).

If the problem is a bad puller like in your party, I'll try to be the puller myself. But if it's more people and the party isn't just working out, I'll stay for a little while and leave. Fortunately, I haven't had really bad parties since less than 30ish.

If I am leveling Ninja or Ranger, I will not stay in a bad party more than 10 minutes, Period.

I am not willing to spend huge sums of money for bad exp.

I agree with Hangook. If i'm leveling either ranger or ninja i have very little tolerance for bad parties. A decent party, or an okay party - i'll stick it through.

But if the people are being rude or stupid and the exp is crap, i just won't stick around. I can spend my time better than just getting frustrated and angry.

Until I know this party isn't going anywhere...one party I was in in Kazham, 3 hours 800 xp. I also usually wait for someone I ask if they have room to invite me. Let's face it. 800 xp is bette rthan no xp

I usually find that it is not everyone in the party that sucks, but usually generally 1 or 2 people that suck. If you replace those with better players, then the party gets on a roll.

Don't give up hope on the party.

Why say "I have to go" when you don't have to? Just say the party is making you crazy and you're leaving.

Some parties suck because everyone sucks, but some suck because there's a weak link. A tank who doesn't hold agro, or a puller who is bad at the job are examples of weak links. Generally the damage dealers are never the weak link becuase if one guy is not doing his fair share of damage then he's a free rider, yes, but the other damage dealers will take up the slack.

The majority of people tend to stick with the bad party and the weak link rather than kicking him out. Although often it's hard to get rid of a bad tank because there's no other tank to replace him with.

They usually deterioriate on their own before too long.

wow...thanks that made my day, laughed so hard :)

I usually have a very good inclination about how the party is going to unfold as we gather in Jeuno (or whatever other zone), and even if I have a really bad feeling, I will stick it out, atleast till we get somewhere to fight, becuase hey, they might suprise me. However, usually they do not, and the party sucks. I will probably stay around for an average of 5 pulls, and then disband and either seek, or go farm or something else.

Not to make this a crying fest, but I consider myself a very good DRK, but we have a bad rep, so like a few people said any XP is good XP, while in my case, yes this is very true, I don't feel it is worth the stress and aggravation from these incompetent people that just can't get it together.

So I'd say, I will stay in a bad party for an average of 5 pulls, some leeway would be applied if people are starting to listen, or the problems seem to be zone/wrong macro/coincidence related. Most of the time...it is just dumb people.

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