Quote Originally Posted by Lux_Rayna View Post
If only everyone could have a nice party experience like that. Keep plugging away on your anti-PL campaign. For most ppl the story would read more: "I stood in uldah for 5 hours looking for a pt, got an invite, stood there another 2 hours trying to recruit more members. One guy's dog crapped on the floor so he had to leave, two more members gave up and decided to hit the tavern, and I just wasted 7 hours of my life getting no experience points. Can't wait for tomorrow."

I'm glad you had a good experience though. The point you seem to miss over and over and over again (because your stubborn, stupid, or a troll) is that the game does not allow for pleasant party experiences, or *any* party experiences, very often. The only periods where partying is actually viable (as in realistic) is 30-50. The 30 range is iffy sometimes, but the influx of players make finding a 30+ party not very hard....sometimes. It just depends.

Long story short, that experience is not even close to the norm, and you can stop pretending that it is. Even if you do get in a good party, 90% of the time its boring grind (all my parties have been this way).

Oh yeah, and I've had similarly awesome experiences running Ifrit a bunch of times with strangers after getting PLed. Made a lot of friends, got in a few linkshells, had a lot of laughs....so glad I skipped the grind for that! Way better than any experience party ive ever been in. Have fun on your campaign. Just make sure to remember, a good experience can be found anywhere.
This is why I hate forums and what is wrong with gaming today. How can you call the OP a troll when all he is doing is sharing a good leveling experience and you swoop in with your trolling expertise. Obviously you're a negative person and I was glad to see that you are not on my server. I'm not going to say I haven't PL'd at all or helped some friends with leveling so that we could share some benefit of having higher classes. Your post amazes me that someone could be this much of an ass to take a great post of an experience and bring down your negative rant. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

Great story Zaaku, these are the experiences I hope to have when 2.0 comes out and they fix the leveling. I remember the same feeling after a good grind session in FFXI. And no, I don't want FFXI-2, I just want that same feeling of accomplishment when good people gather together and have a good EXP PT. Good mixture of DMG, healing, and support and flowing EXP.