lol not really, but it does work as a type of stress relief. Mostly I stay with groups to avoid being an asshole. I'm actually pretty amiable when I'm actually in the PTs and will only occasionally give advice in /tell.
Here's a slightly less bitter story ^^
So I helped some guy get started a while back. I've tried to teach him a lot about the finer points of the game. I've tried telling him that especially at lower levels he should stick to mobs he can kill very easily and very quickly with little down time. Once you're level 5-8 you really need to almost stick to EPs. Depending on your job you can 1-2 shot them and have almost zero downtime etc etc.
Well he keeps telling me that it seems like it's coming in faster when it comes in huge chunks so he keeps fighting EMs and Ts and dying constantly. He's leveled about 5 jobs to 10+ now.
Well, he was in Ghelsba leveling his DRK and ddin't know that Lizards linked. He was chatting with me in /tell while XPing. He told me what happened... he attacked one... they all linked and came to eat him. However, they were lowish EP and he quickly dispatched all 5 and made a fair sum of XP and didn't even have to rest afterward.
He was absolutely amazed at how much XP he'd made in such a short time. I had to say, "I told you so" and we had a good laugh. Instead of dying for the rest of the day he quickly made two more levels and got some farming done in the process.
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