I actually had to abandon a party for once. Holy hell what a bad run this turned out to be. Queued into Doma Castle to get my WAR up to level 69, had a WHM, BLM, and a SAM. The first trash pack took forever to kill. Not the usual double pull there with the large group of adds - no, literally the first three adds. I went through five CDs. FIVE! Anticipation, Raw Intuition + Awareness, Rampart, Vengeance, back to Anticipation - just like that. And even by then, even with me going Berserk + Steel Cyclone x 3, there was still an add at nearly half health by the time I got back to Anticipation again. I don't make a habit to really saying any particular player is bad but omg, this was bad. The WHM ...I don't even know what even the hell they were doing, but I ended up dying on a double pull right before the first boss.
The six adds that you have in total after the Iron Colossus? Yeah, that's where I died. Even with using Holmgang to give the healer some extra time to...do something. Looking at their profile, the only problem is they were walking about with a 260 weapon. Or maybe they were bad at healing, I dunno. The other gear they were wearing were 360 and above. To say nothing of the SAM and the BLM - both of whom single-targeted a lot, more so the BLM. Smh.
The straw that finally broke the camel's back was the last boss. One of them, I don't know who, dropped the proximity marker right on top of the boss, right in the corner where I was tanking them. So I said something in chat. "Really?" Because no - really, why would you do something stupid like that? I was already so damn annoyed with this group that I barely moved the boss, because what was the point.
Naturally, I ate big damage, the healer ate big damage because for whatever reason, they didn't get away from the proximity - nor did they heal themselves, and thus died to the gatling gun's bullets. Then I died because I had to Holmgang the spider add outside of the boss room.
Then the BLM died. Then the SAM. It was at that moment I just finally admitted to myself that I might have run into some of the true bads that I hear a lot of about, but never really seen. I've played with some below average players before...but this run took the damn cake and ran with it, in my personal experience.
So I asked for a kick. As I was doing that, the WHM raged quit. Which suited me just fine because I was gonna try to kick them anyways if nobody would kick me. When I noticed that the WHM had left, I didn't waste any time.
I dipped out of that instance immediately. The WHM was one of the problems - the other two were the SAM and BLM. So nope - they can figure it out on their own. This tank is gone from them.
Gotta remember to blacklist them next time I log on.