With a knick-knack-paddy-wack shooting arrows made of bone.

This hume ranger no longer calls 'Dunes home...

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Hmm... on my 16th job leveled through the dunes (15 "complete" as drg is 15 and can stay that way) I finaly got a good a.k.a. "Smooth" dunes party.

Yes it had a PL, but not an over zealous PL.
It was not a PL tanks the dunes set up, the nin and war tanked 90%+ losing hate from big cures mostly.

It was however a 5 man dunes wrecking crew ^^.

I almost DB'd from the start, I was actualy trying to solo the last 300 to 16 so I could log out for the night when I got the tell for it.
Him>> Party?
Me>> OK
Did a quick check on him and saw 14 Nin/War
aww crap, maybe the party is 15-16 and well... its the dunes if it sucks I snag my level and head out.
Took invite, checked pt 14, 14, 14, 14, Me 15 200 tnl -> 16 . aww crap the options now are over camping or severly under camping for the tanks.
Checked again 1 blm, no other mage jobs.
aww crap.
PT Lead>> bleh still need a whm.
aww crap. Finger on the DB button I ran to camp, imagine my suprise a high lvl brd was there.
Party sits around for a while in dead silence so I asked if brd was PL? Yes. Cool I said, I'm gonna start pulling.
And pull I did. The lead never bothered to find a sixth once we got rolling, no need for it. It was a smooth pt start to finish, not a zomg 12k per hr pt it was a good old 5k little to no flux party. Nobody begging to over camp, nobody bitching about 50-60exp T's we just killed as fast as I could get mobs to camp and I kept them as "simple" as possible since the nin was dual-boxing the bard and I have (had) almost 0 experience pulling next thing I know 4+ hours had passed and we had every Pt member to 20 (I hit 21!!). I guess the zomg part was not only keeping a party together in the dunes built of random invites but the fact that they came there to exp, not to piss and moan, brag, cry , whine, complain fake DC, drop party and so on.. and we all understood the reward was getting the hell out of there a.s.a.p.

The 3 parts of a Random Invite Smooth Party, from Xylos's Point of View:
1. Does not always mean "Uber" or "Standard" some of the smoothest parties will break the standard set, even spit in the face of party set logic, the exp flow ranges from average to zomg.
2. Does not require the "best" players, it requires the best teamwork. It does not take a Rank 10 multi 75 player to operate smooth, it takes the willingness to work with the strengths and weaknesses of your pt mates, sometimes it seems that the less people are set in their ways the better.
3. Requires a bit of tact. If the party is maintaining good exp per hour the smooth party players dont piss and moan about a few bad moments. (this happens to be my favorite part about JP pt's, not that they dont complain, I'm sure they do.. but that I cant read it so I dont get caught up in someone elses knotted pantyhose.) In my p.o.v. if a party memberticks around but runs their mouth complaining etc... the bad attitude spreads and it seems that sooner or later the majority of the party gets salty also, myself included.


So yeah, 5 crappy parties and a good chunk of solo to get from 11-15 and one good party to make up for all the frustrtation.

mwwwaaa haaaa haaaa rng does sick damage in the dunes, if he can hit anything ^^.