Was my leader wrong to do this?

[Annahya]

Have you joined many pickup xp groups? I'd say you are extremely lucky if 1-2 have any atmas at all, try what you just said with 2 DD and a mage with no atmas. Also it's kinda different for 1-2 people to do it than 1/3 of the alliance (some possibly on hard to rep jobs) and even worse to do it to a friend, basically making them replace your group that just bailed on them...this aside from the fact they pretty much did nothing for the xp alliance at all since once they capped lights they bailed. I would of at least stayed an hour or so to give something back to the people I leeched off.

This is no different than joining a pickup group for seals and bailing right after you get that 1 seal you needed, nevermind you are the only healer or on an important proc job. You can rep them but it's still rude and selfish and even worse to do it to a friend.

This argument holds weight in a situation where there was not an existing agreement - which in this instance, there supposedly was. Also, the OP did not do it to a friend, the party lead and previous alliance lead did it to the new alliance lead. Nothing about this states whether or not the new alliance lead was friends with the people "at fault" here. I suppose a compassionate gesture could have been done by the OP, such as leaving the party and returning to the alliance, but if all things considered are true, then this would have been charitable, but not socially required.

Again, your analogy does not work. It would be appropriate if we were discussing a seal party in which there was an understanding that the leaving member would only be staying long enough to get their own seals. Now, not many seal parties would like this arrangement, but if they agreed to it and invited said player, they really have no room to complain when said player leaves. But, as I said previously, if the leader of this party changes, it is the responsiblity of the outgoing leader to explain any deals like this to their replacement - so that if the replacement lead wants to address the issue they can.

While you may disagree with this practice, you cannot lose sight of the fact that in this situation there was (supposedly) a pre-existing agreement that changes the dynamic. In many (not all) situations, I would disagree with this practice, and would not have included members in my alliance who intended to do such; but in the situation given, the alliance leader chose to include them, (allegedly) understanding this would come to pass.

All things considered, there was no wrong-doing in leaving - only in how that leaving was handled (including the new alliance lead).