I hear that....I've been in pickup groups from level 4ish on through 15 or
so when I decided to hell with it and started soloing reavers. When I
started I had to kite them most of the way, but I was still doing better
than I had been in my pickup groups and constant death. I eventually got
tired of soloing (I'm 19th now) and started to wander a bit....I headed to
Permafrost got in a pickup group and had immediate party death. (Camping
the prophet the others in the group told the puller not to use his bow to
pull, sure enough he does and brings hell and high water at us....*Foomf*)
CR and we decide to back out to the alcove in the banner room, I pull out
my horn and play Clouding to scout about a bit, counting 7 goblins, 3 of
which are casters, I say, 'We should move to the hall (back towards the
entrance) and pull those front three' out walks the tank and around the
corner and pulls all 7...mind you, our 'healers' numbered three, a ranger,
a paladin, and myself. Needless to say, after my CR I left.
I can go on and on...."Let's goto Runnyeye" they say, two CR's later,
maybe the eyes in the gorge would be better.
I suppose that this is more of a rant and I apologize, but I wanted to let
you know that there are others like you who, when grouping, get stuck in
piss poor pickup groups that couldn't fight there way out of a cardboard
box in the slums of Freeport after a downpour....
Timmian Trueheart
Erollisi Marr
> From: Papa Legba <legba@...>
> For example Monday I was with two others (enchanter and shaman) who I
> had done great with the night before. We picked up three tanks (A
> uber-twinkie warrior, exec axe/crafted at lvl 17, monk and a ranger).
> Playing it safe ( I thought) we were turbo pulling on orc highway (if
> you dont know they are lvl 12-16ish with an occasional "a orc warrior"
> which are like lvl 20 I think, red to me at 15).
>
> Fifteen minutes in (the enchant, shaman and I had been together for an
> hour Monday, but a lvl 15 bard is a flimsy tank against DW caimians and
> crocs). We heard a "xxxx yells for help". All but the monk (out
> pulling) get up, and see the usual. A soloist mistakingly pulled on of
> the "a orc"s. We pile on, as the shaman warns the puller we have a big
> fight (these are pretty rough even with a full group). We have it
> beaten down, both casters OOM, but health is fine, when I look up from
> key mashing and see mine dropping. Ugh, DB skel decided he didnt like
> my music. Three /g's of "Help the bard" from our shaman (he's good!
> noticed my health before I did), and I am still solo on the DB down to
> 1.5 bubs. Eventually the enchanter's pet manages to get the DB off
> me(lucky I guess). At which point the ranger says "Anthem!". (I assume
> he finally noticed all the nifty flashing icons were off his screen, as
> I was getting the crap stunned out of me). Shaman reminds the tank that
> their fair haired bard is the lowest lvl in the group and not much good
> at absorbing damage. (I tend to not say anything, so he has taken on
> the role for me)