TheAbyss Wrote:Well, you can change almost whatever you want in the partying rules, it won't change the fact that most people don't party. I myself find partying tedius and a waste of time o.o
If your partner goes AFK for 5 minutes, you have to go AFK with him. If one person runs out of supplies, everybody??has to wait. If one person dies, everybody has to wait.
Unless you add an exp. boost that can make partying faster than soloing, nobody (except for a select few who are bored) is going to party.
It all really comes back to the idea of PvP, we all want to do well and be better than the next guy, therefore we want the fastest way up to a high lvl... its all competitive really
For certain classes and certain builds parties already produce more XP than soloing. It's a lot easier for a priest in certain builds to keep a party alive and share XP than to try to solo and get XP. Also with the right parties and people in that party being unselfish you don't need to wait for people being dead, running low on HP or SP, or any other complaint. If the party is well balanced you can get along a lot longer than had you just soloed and spammed fish in the same area.
You might hate parties, while other people love them and wish they would happen more. The biggest problem I see with any of this is that most people don't understand or have first hand seen the joys of parties and just what can happen with a good party. Also because of some very strong feelings between guilds thanks to WoE some individuals don't want to commit to parties with other guilds because they're suddenly helping the enemy. Think to yourself how strange a party of two or even three members of Apoc, LW, DD, Behemoth, and we'll throw in BS in there as well, would be. You're asking for rivals every Wednesday and Sunday to be friends throughout the rest of the week.
The only other problem that I've ever ran into with parties is that because this server has been so strongly populated with solo players, we don't know how to make a party to kill a group of monsters. Certain classes are so use to just running in and killing things then spamming fish, that they waste resources and the healer's time in the party. I'll admit that I'm guilty of a crime like this because I am so use to soloing that I'm use to getting off spells as soon as things start following me instead of letting the tanks take agro and then blowing things up. People are so bent on PvP and soloing that they've never spent the time to learn how to kill monsters in a group setting, and that poses a problem to this push to make more parties.
Personally I love parties and support this idea even though I have come up with all of these other ideas about this. I say put it in, I plan to use it as much as I can and as often as I can as soon as it gets implimented.
