Quote Originally Posted by Aleczan View Post
People are amazing. Making me wonder if they even read the situation that the OP was explaining so elaborately. Making me wonder if you even try to understand what we're saying.








The OP was saying he was forced to leave the party, or got his party members stolen from him because someone brought a PL in, in the middle of normal EXP party.

You guys think it's fair to spend an hour or so trying to put together a party, and then in the middle of it, party had to break into halves or disband because someone suddenly remembers that they wanted a PL and decides to bring in a PL? Now look who's killing the fun of other people.

I am not saying they should not be allowed to EXP in a normal party, but at least they should have enough manner not to ruin someone else's party by suddenly bringing in a PL.


If you want to have a PL, fine. Just go and stay with your PL. If you want to join a normal EXP party, that's fine too. But joining a normal EXP party without any notification in advance that "I am bringing in a PL" and then by doing so, you end up crippling the party, making it break, or causing it to disband IS NOT FINE.
How exactly does one "steal your party members". I'm asking because I have put together a great number of EXP parties over the years. An EXP party is:
  • Generally a pick up group.
  • It is maybe rude to leave it unannounced.
  • It is rude to leech if you are expected to be pulling your weight.
  • It is not an agreement to do whatever the Party Leader says because it is his/her party.
  • People can leave parties if they don't like what the leader is doing.
  • Party leaders can remove people they don't want in their party, and then recruit others to replace them.

People joined your random EXP party, probably from a shout in Ul'dah, they didn't elect you their moral compass.