03-30-2005, 08:52 AM
Well, I'll add my worst experience in a group, which was way back in the open beta, in the first instance I ever played (deadmines).
I joined a group led by a higher lvl mage and his warrior as a lvl 20ish hunter. They had obviously been there before and knew more-or-less what they were doing, unlike me. Now I will admit some culpability -- early on, I hit a few sheep (I didn't know polymorph even existed at the time); ok, I learned quickly that wasn't a good thing to do, and stopped targeting any sheep. :)
Things proceeded a bit better after that; or least as well as they could in a party with 2 other complete newbies like myself, and two less complete newbies, including one egomaniac.
Then we got to the shredder room. The mage, who was doing all the pulling, opened the doors, and I hung well back with the priest trying to attack at range. The next thing I see is two goblins rushing through the door toward me and the priest, with the other forward party members fighting more goblins at the door.
I waited a second or so to see if help was coming, which it wasn't, then set my pet (who was on passive and under manual control) on one goblin, and fired at the other. The good news was that I aggro'd both goblins; the bad news was that neither me nor my pet were a great match for them. I was running around in a panic (I would try not to do that now ;) ) being chased by a goblin or two when the rest of the party arrived back from the door.
"What the $%#& are you doing hunter?" yells the mage. I was dead by the time the rest of the party finished off the goblins (the priest didn't get scratched), and I started back from the grave yard looking at a conversation in which the mage says "It was the hunter's fault", and one or two of the party at least say "That was a lousy pull."
While running back through the mines I get disbanded from the group, receiving a somewhat apologetic whisper from the warrior, and a whispered lecture from the mage telling me to "Learn how to control your arrows and your pet before you join a group."
I joined a group led by a higher lvl mage and his warrior as a lvl 20ish hunter. They had obviously been there before and knew more-or-less what they were doing, unlike me. Now I will admit some culpability -- early on, I hit a few sheep (I didn't know polymorph even existed at the time); ok, I learned quickly that wasn't a good thing to do, and stopped targeting any sheep. :)
Things proceeded a bit better after that; or least as well as they could in a party with 2 other complete newbies like myself, and two less complete newbies, including one egomaniac.
Then we got to the shredder room. The mage, who was doing all the pulling, opened the doors, and I hung well back with the priest trying to attack at range. The next thing I see is two goblins rushing through the door toward me and the priest, with the other forward party members fighting more goblins at the door.
I waited a second or so to see if help was coming, which it wasn't, then set my pet (who was on passive and under manual control) on one goblin, and fired at the other. The good news was that I aggro'd both goblins; the bad news was that neither me nor my pet were a great match for them. I was running around in a panic (I would try not to do that now ;) ) being chased by a goblin or two when the rest of the party arrived back from the door.
"What the $%#& are you doing hunter?" yells the mage. I was dead by the time the rest of the party finished off the goblins (the priest didn't get scratched), and I started back from the grave yard looking at a conversation in which the mage says "It was the hunter's fault", and one or two of the party at least say "That was a lousy pull."
While running back through the mines I get disbanded from the group, receiving a somewhat apologetic whisper from the warrior, and a whispered lecture from the mage telling me to "Learn how to control your arrows and your pet before you join a group."