Ulegearand Range [Huh?]

Black Mage:56 White Mage:51 Warrior:55 Thief:60

This was a great party experience. I am on my way to the campsite here and I have to tell you it ws very easy experience points here. We must have gone thru at least 14k exp in one night. All campsites should be like this. We were pulling raptors and having no difficulty with the pulls at all.

Yesterday however, in this new party, I was the puller of what I thought would be a great party in Monastic Cavern and it went south quickly. First of all I didn't have someone giving me Sneak. I guess I could have used oil but I consider using Silent Oil in a party kind of like, charging for Warp 2! You gotta go HMM?!

Well I tell them to invis me and then they(BLM mainly) tell me to Hide so I hide so it wears and then I aggro like 5 orcs conning DC to me. I zone and luckily they miss the crap out of me with my high evasion. Still, that set the tone for a bad experience in a party. I almost died. I generally don't mind dying, esp if I am saving the party from a bad link or something like that, but to die because somebody didn't give you Invisible, makes you wanna bring back the bacon and his daddy!

I usually do a good job with pulling and as a THF in general. As I did with the party in the picture, chain 4s with no problem and a chain 5 once just to show them we could. I have learned to watch the WHM and RDM mp(magic points) bar, make sure the PLD has at least 130 or so mp and to watch my SATA timer so that I don't blow too much time and spoil the exp chain.

Normally, my normal setup is to explain how I pull, hit the SATA(Sneak Attack/Trick Attack) macro, and hit my Ranged Accuracy macro to switch in my Ranged Accuracy rings, then shoot the mob and hopefully skill up, then run back and hit my DEX rings macro. Then I wait for the first voker to voke and then the tank lines up behind the mob and I SATA. Well the DRK was someone that I had partied with before so he did his job fine, but this time I forgot to SATA before the pull. This was bad. When I forget to SATA I have to delay the tank from voking a long while before I realize that either it wore off or that I didn't hit it before the pull.

What's worse is that I had my Ranged Accuracy rings on during the entire fight. Since it was the first fight I thought that these mobs were just too tough for me since I was level 60 and the party was 60-62. Well I planned to use Bream Sushi as soon as the fight was over since I may have gone with Meat Miths if I gained tp as fast as the drk. But the BLM was a donkey. TP calls, wth comments... he was riding me and soon I found out why, he has a 64 THF of his own. He was languishing over his missed nukes from sc even though somebody over there kept pulling the mob away from the tank which, as I have said before, makes a THF wanna go "lend" a BLM his dagger. >.<

In the end the BLM said he had to go and gave everyone Warp2s. I would have been happy to stay but it was 6am.

In retrospect, I think he would have been fine had we done the Burst chain that he wanted to do. We also would have done much better if ppl would have given me some Sneak and treated me like part of the team from the getgo.