As for parties ...
I like to only party with people that I know. I think it was shadow_shot that started his thread of archer help in the outspark forums? Can't remember @__@ I asked him if I should accept pick up parties or not, and he said yes. I told him that I normally only solo/party with friends/guildies, and he said that if you party more, people that were once just "pick up groups" have now become "friends." And I reasoned that he was right. However, I don't want to party. At times, I have to irregularly log off without warning. I'm an archer, so that's not bad, but what if I was the tank? The cleric? Ouch >3<
I would rather solo than let someone else down.
And there are also a group of friends that always solo.
I don't understand why you worry about it Yosei. They are a group of friends - they party, because they're friends. They probably understand each other more than other people do, and when one of them makes a mistake it's easy to trust why they did it and forgive them. With pick up groups, it's harder to trust and harder to understand their grinding patterns and habits. There's a reason why they have formed their own "posse."
If someone accepts me into a party, alright =) Thank you, and I'll try my best to DD/tank! But if no one offers, alright then, I'll go back to soloing. I don't have a permanent party right now, not even someone to duo with. I know that soloing is impractical at your level, duo's aren't bad. And I guess you'll just have to be lucky and shout for a party or meet up with another lonely person, then you'll have a group back again.
So I don't blame people for having a group they constantly grind with. Are you going to hate them because they have friends?
As for Inferno:
Wow @__@
Mages were always pretty impressive in my eyes, it's amazing now that they can be called useless when they don't have one skill. I guess just keep pounding away at it /shrug. There HAS to be someone that will party even if you don't have inferno xD
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