{Teamwork}{Can I have it?}{Please}

For those that don't know what MMORPG stands for, it means Mass Multi-player Online Role Playing Game. This implies, that you will be playing among other players. Yes there are things you can do solo in MMO's, but generally these games are designed for teamwork, as you're playing with other players.

Well, last night I ended up partying with someone who apparently didn't understand that concept, nor the concept of "communication".

Like all monday nights, I got setup with my static that consists of me (WAR), Xean (THF), Annabelle (RDM), and Soulstar (SMN). We couldn't find a tank, so we decided to grab another WAR and have me and the other dual blink tank. I'm not fond of this, but I figured i'd do my best and try it anyways.

So, we decide to go to The Bohyada Tree. When we get there, I ask the other WAR if he has a macro set to let me know when his shadows are down, so that I can provoke immediately and avoid him taking any damage. His response is "No". I then asked him if he could make one so that I know when his shadows are down, and he then says "When I take dmg".

"..."

Yeah ok, so lets waste some MP so that you can get hit so that I know when to provoke? Riiight. I then tried explaining to him that if he made a macro, this would help me and possibly avoid him taking any damage period, to which he said "we will take damage, we have 3 shadows".

Oye.... I'm thinking to myself, does this guy not know that when casted properly, you can actually get off 6 shadows? Which is what I told him. He never responded. Now i'm usually not one to look down on people that don't know something, but this guy was already talking as if he knew better than me, and considering he's probably one of those WAR that never touched a Greataxe, and had NIN sub since dunes (people people.... MNK sub when tanking, THF sub when DD up until lvl 50!!!!!!) so with all of us being at lvl 55, I would assume he knew the 6 shadow trick... apparently not.

Well anyways, I just left it as is, and when we finally get to camp, first thing he says is {Haste}{Please}. I'm thinking to myself, "Um, give the mages a second? They're not retarded, they know to haste. Be patient -_-". A moment goes by while Annabelle, our RDM starts getting the refresh cycle started and buffs, and he says it again. My bf Feli (Xean) then told him to wait, and he went quiet. Then he said he was going to pull, and the rest of us were a little curious as to why, considering we did have Xean as THF in our party which meant that usually it would be his responsibility... but ok.

Well, first pull he ends up bringing a link. This pull was just a dumb one, there were two crawlers side by side. I have no idea why he pulled, but luckily we were all good in the end. Then about the third pull, Feli decides to go help pull. Well, the WAR pulls at the precise moment Feli does... only the WAR doesn't have a macro setup to warn us, and all you see is Feli's macro. Great, link again!

Finally, after some discussion as to who should pull and the fact that he should have a macro set to let us know when he's pulled, its decided that Feli will do the pulling. I think at this point he said something to the effect of us singling him out, to which Soulstar told him that he was only singling himself out by not communicating... and oh! That brings me to another point!

We had initially planned to have each WAR sc with Soulstar's Carbuncle (Poison Nails + Rampage = Distortion MB x 2 as we had a BLM and RDM) but the war had pretty much said he was going to solo his sc's for the most part. Well turns out he was soloing his rampage ALL the time, because he did not once communicate with Soulstar, as to when he had TP so that we could do a skillchain. This meant that we lost an easy +400 dmg with the sc........

Eventually, the guy ended up saying that I b***** too much, because I had said something to the effect that people should learn to use their macros to communicate and other comments had been made about no teamwork happening. I then responded "Yeah, I do when dealing with incompetence". Well, he ended up warping out and leaving party after that, lol.

Good news is that we got a PLD Sethypoo, who did a good tanking job and I ended up getting my WAR to 56!! Now I just have something like 14k tnl though *cries*