Lilaznpride
Hume war/something. I forget. I had made a party yesterday, lvl 31-33. Were all set to leave, and the pld DC'd (we had a nin too, so I decided to look for another dd melee) Grabbed the war, lilaznpride. He was lfp at garlaige. I told him we were on our way. First he starts asking me an insane amount of questions. What ranks everyone is, what jobs they are, etc. I was fine at first; I would have done the same thing. Then he asked if whm was good or not. Um... I don't know; I've never partied with the whm.
So we all head to GC. 3 of us are from linkshell, so we talked in LS chat most of the time. (about party setup and whatnot)We get there, and there are 3 camps there. (I had suggested Sea Serpent Grotto, but noone wanted to travel that far). So I sneak oil myself and find camp at banishing gate. The rest of the party soon follows. Lilaznpride gets aggro at camp bc he walked up to a Borer Beetle (he wasn't invisible). Instead of him just running for the zone, he vokes it, causing it to become red and the rest of the party's problem. I cast Escape, but it's not fast enough, so 3 people die. While Lilaznpride is waiting for raise, the other 2 that died decide to HP. (It would have been faster that way). Then he finally HP's. So we're waiting yet again. We find a different camp, one in the hall where one beetle pops sometimes. 2nd fight, a bat aggros, while we're fighting a beetle. We were doing fine, one of the pty members was actually starting to zone it, and it was following. Lilaznpride friggin provokes it! (This is after we are told - I'll brb, Im going to zone it! and everyone goes [Understood] bc it wasn't that big of a threat and we were doing fine with the beetle.) So now it's the party's problem, once again, We all take off, but yet another pty member dies (unfortunatly it’s my fiance and he's died 2 times in the past 10 minutes and not too happy). Well the whm goes back to raise him, and Lilaznpride goes "Ok, I guess I'm done for the night" and just leaves/DC's. This is while people in the party are yelling at him.
Ugh, it just pissed me off, because he made the same mistake twice, and after he made the first mistake, we explained to him how links/aggros are supposed to be handled (he was only rank 3, so we were giving him the benefit of the doubt of maybe he hadn't been to GC before) He snaps back "yeah I know about links, you don’t have to explain"... and then the same mistake happens? Ugh. It was just annoying.
We picked up another war and went to Altep and everyone leveled and had a great time. It's amazing how one person can totally ruin a party experience. Maybe I'm just whining/complaining. But wouldn't you be upset? You start forming the party at 7:45pm. You don't start really partying until 9:30ish? That's unacceptable. Oh well. I added him to my blacklist.