I don't want to seem like a b***h, but does anyone else HATE PTing with Empyrean users? They like 1-shot everything and make over half of the alliance look useless.
Depends on the emp, on most it's easy to not ruby. If you have somone with a Ukon the decision is WS and 1 shot the majority of stuff you fight regardless of hp or don't ever WS.

Truth be told, the only reason they are there is to show off the emp and make most normal players look like crap lol XP is so easy that geared players don't need merits at all anymore, you can pretty much cap out just killing all the crap to get the emp.

I understand it can be annoying but there are very few parties you join that will have people like that unless they are skilling up and just show off for a bit at the start, or people that are really really reallllly bored and have nothing better to do.