Aye. Sadly I was grouped with a group of casters and tanks the other night
killing Seafury Cyclops. The rogue in our group just *would not* lay off
the Backstab button. He was routinely getting pounded by the clops
significantly worse than the rest of us, and the problem was that *I* was
the primary healer. So after a fight the rogue would be at two bubbles of
health and the rest of us are down maybe one at most. So now the whole
group is waiting several minutes on the rogue to heal after fights. So as
politely as I know how I asked him to maybe not BS anymore - of course he
got pissed that I was telling him how to run his class. /sigh

[44 Bard] Crier (Half Elf) <Seekers of Norrath> ZONE: work

> I have to agree with Athren. A player (of any type) who jumps
> into battle with
> guns a-blazin' and doesn't know when to back off is one of the
> more annoying
> player types to have to group with. This is particularly true in
> any party with
> a healing shortage. By judiciously backing out when I start to
> attract too much
> attention, I've cut my personal death rate enormously (5 in six
> levels, all due
> to other groups' trains), which, IMHO, is a big benefit to any
> party. If they
> have to try to continue without me, or wait for me to return,
> it's a lot worse
> for them than getting a bit less assistance from me in any one
> particular fight.
> (And it's more fun for me, too.)
>
> I've also learned to make more liberal use of:
> /g RUN
> <shift-up><ENTER>
> <shift-up><ENTER>
> <shift-up><ENTER>
>
> Those "glorious"
> everyone-down-to-one-bubble-surrounded-by-a-pile-of-dead-MOBs
> fights do not make up for the far more frequent 2-people-deads.
>
> Kenross Cantoforjado, 40 songs, Innoruuk