When we finally find a camping spot (Both jungles are packed and jobs of all kinds are LFG in droves, hordes, even!) so we find a camp, I suggest our leader simply be a DD for the time being so the SAM pulls. I explained to everyone where I needed them for songs and I explained to the leader in /tell why.
Things go pretty good until the SAM decides to try a Goblin, against most of the party's wishes. First one Mijin Gakure's and we get 250 experience points on average. So he decides to get a second and I tried in vain to explain that not all Goblin's will do that. Sure enough, second and third (He pulled right after second died) resulted in two deaths and everyone using 2 hour abilities. WHM faked a D/C and those that had died HP'd and disbanded.
The leader apologized to those who remained and said he felt it would be best if we disbanded since he had to leave in an hour. No one was sore at him about it. All of our anger was at the SAM who put us in that situation.
The leader personally thanked me and said that from now on he's gonna invite Bards to all of his parties. I couldn't help but laugh and told him due to high demand that a Bard will level quickly and they are hard to find. He was quite surprised to find out that in the hour I had been in his party that I had turned down at least 10 invites!
In the end, I had made a new friend and I feel the knowledge I had given him would be taken to heart. So now on Phoenix we have one less n00b. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have work to do
P.S. Please, if you have a new person in your party be patient with them and explain things to them. Last thing we need is more WHM/NIN with underleveled subs wearing level 1 RSE and spamming their highest level cure.
