I agree. I usually find myself joining pickup groups. What I have found is
that in pickup groups, players tend to look out for themselves before
considering the welfare of the party. To add salt to the wound, the problem is
magnified because of the time I usually log on. I live in Hawaii so when I play
its usually after midnight on the mainland on weeknights. When a pull turns bad
and someone dies, especially if it is a melee class bound in a zone far away,
the party usually either breaks up because its so late at night or the casters
leave the group because it will take the melee class too long to get back to the
zone they died in.

I think its safe to say that Verant doesn't take situations like this into
consideration when they have the mythical class balance tuning sessions. I
think they just assume everyone has a regular group/guild that they play with
all the time and as a result they are focused on group welfare vs personal
welfare.

Galtin of E'ci

> If the casters in your group gate out and leave you to die, they are not good
> groupies.
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