...didn't he understand?
Now, you probably read the other recent thread here about fly-by invites and how rude and in-effective they are...
Well, I was in T-Steppes last night, standing at the edge of that open plains area near T-Mist village where the Mighty Griffs and some giants hang out. I was sizing up a yellow Mighty and being careful since I was on the ranger - not the warden, when I get a blind group invite from a character standing a few meters away from me.
I tend to always decline blind invites because how can you really trust the communication skills of someone who can't even manage to say hello before asking you to group!
Anyway, I thought I might relax a bit and give it a go since we were obviously after the same target(s).
So, leaving the invite up on my screen, I shoot him a tell asking if he wants to kill Mightys. He answers yes, so I figure what the heck, we group and all is good... for a while. He mentions that he is 26 and will I help him get to 27... well, I'm 26 too so this could turn out to be a real profitable duo.
We put the big smackdown on the yellow and then do the same for a couple more and things are just starting to get comfortable for me when he asks in group if he can pull a lion.
Now, I have no love for lions and since they're aggro, I know they have no love for me so I say sure go ahead and we kill a few of those.
We had thinned out the field considerably when he runs off a ways and says in g-say "how about some giants?"
I respond, "sure, but no centaurs OK? They still like me."
He says, "LOL, NP. They like me too." and I figure we have an understanding.
We kill a few giants and then he runs off again and I see his health slipping into the yellow. I run towards where he is standing and OH, NO! The only mob anywhere near him is a centaur and it's rearing up on it's hind legs and kicking the heck out of him!
He says "help me" and my first thought is to ungroup, but you can't do that while you're in combat, so thinking fast, (I wanna do something decisive before he kills the thing and they all hate me forever!), I hit evac and we pop back at the tent near the pier.
I explained that if he had killed it I'd be marked too but that didn't seem to be a problem for him! So, I ungroup and put him on ignore.
Next time, maybe I should just decline that blind invite like I used to do!