Inconsiderate!

[Kensagaku]

why does a champion boxer take on 1:1 when his mates could beat him up quicker. Wheres the skill involved if you want everyone to stand around and watch a tank die and wait for the next tank in the group to take over. Why do people climb mount everest? Because they can and its there. Some times its about proving what you can do without others, other times its about what you can do as a group, neither way is right or wrong. How you know if your gear choice is right, you ask your friends, but what if they give you bad advice for your style of play, its all a game. Choice is one of the fun part of ffxi.

T.T I need to stop reading the OF in the morning, it's a headache. But its like a car wreck; you can't help but stop and stare in horror, like it's morbidly attracting.

Anywho, bolded the point I wanted to make. Choice is part of the game? Well it's a person's choice whether or not to take a mob that has gone white. If it's white? To me, it's fair game. If a person simply lost hold of it for a second (i.e. got knocked back and accidentally disengaged) then yeah, I'll leave it be. But if they're apoc-zombieing or have died? Fair game. It's a freebie. My choice would be to take it. Hey look at that, choice can be used by both sides of the argument.

Also, what makes you think it's any less inconsiderate for you to be taking the time to solo when there's another group waiting? You are wasting time by taking a half hour to solo a mob that a moderately skilled group can kill in minutes. You're right, a skilled soloist is better than a below-average alliance that just tosses pink and blue bodies at a mob; you'd likely win, they'd simply have it depop. But a moderate group is going to kill faster than you, is going to do so without wiping (though a few members might die from bad moves), and above all, will be less likely to lose claim on a mob.

When you choose to solo, you also take the risk that being KO'd (even with infinite reraises) means that your mob goes white, and by SE's rules, it is fair game. If you farmed the pop set solo but couldn't take the NM? That's your fault, because either you were underprepared, underskilled, or you just didn't stand a chance. Any GM will tell you that such a mob would be free for anyone to claim, because you no longer have claim over it. You can say "but it was my popset, therefore it is my monster and no one else can have it!" Wrong. The monster belongs to you as long as its name is red (or purple if an alliance member has it, come to think of it why don't they make that red to prevent confusion?), but once it goes white, it is a free game NM for anyone to claim.

Trust me, I like to solo to prove myself too. I've soloed NIN/DNC, I've soloed things on BST, and I've soloed things on BLU. But it's not worth slowing people down or risk losing an NM with good drops to "prove myself". To who, for that matter? The same people whose help you shunned? If I recall correctly you yourself said it's nothing but a game... so why bother proving yourself if it doesn't matter, hm? Either way, soloing is a good way to deal with things if you can't get help, but it's slow, inefficient, and holds up other people and wastes their time. You're welcome to make the choice to do so if you still wish to, but don't go whining when you wipe and someone takes your mob; you wasting their time is just as inconsiderate as them taking "your" mob.