There are several things I have noticed that makes grouping a big pain. If people just worked harder at helping the group, they'd realize they'd get xp two or three times faster. I once did an example with a group, after everyone was basically botting... I told everyone to blast and pay attention and the mob died twice as fast.
People have to realize that evey little bit of blasting helps. If we have 10 people in the group at full mana for an hour and only 1 or 2 people are healing... then those people need to blast, destructions or dispel evil, whatever, they need to blast. I was killing dragon mountain with a HUGE group and it was taking forever to kill the black dragons. We weren't dying, far from it, we had thousands of mana of people that didn't have mage... they were necro/druid/clerics who were just waiting to heal. Well sometimes you gotta just blast.. blast out and the mob will die twice as fast. Have druids shapeshift, necros cast destruction, dispel evil, do whatever you can to hurt the mob. It helps. There has to be a balance to healing you need and blasting you need.
Also, when people join groups and do nothing, you have to yell at them to enter portals 100 times... it's no wonder no one feels like leading. I know people like to not pay attention, to watch tv or read stuff in another window. That's cool, I do that from time to time. But you have to pay attention as much as possible... there has got to be a line between being distracted for a second and not paying attention for a whole minute or more. (this is not botting, this is people joining and just not paying attention.. I call em scabs- don't be a scab)
As far as tanking goes, I never wanted to play a tank all the time. I only made Toxis to tank on days when we needed a tank.. but it just seems you can't get halfway decent tank now. I feel stuck in Toxis just for the mud's sake, I guess that's wrong thinking on my part but... is that a problem with warriors? Or is that because we can't group without a tank? I mean, what is the problem and how can we compensate for it?
People feel we can't have a tank unless they're -11, I think that's just far from the truth. I see no reason why a -9 or -10 can't tank mh and dmount, no reason... everyone flocks to those groups anyway so there is plenty of healing... I just very rarely see a halfway decent tank on that wants to group. Either they're not on or they're busy and don't want to tank for xp.
[pri sec ter qua] Players
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[ *Wizard* ] Lis *Battle Mage* ~[DoW]~
[ *Hierarch* ] Doc wa
[ *Arch-Lich* ] Adagio please vote
[ *Grand Druid* ] Stryx ~[DoW]~
[ *Juggernaut* ] Rodek Lord Rockarm ~[Dow]~
[ *Harvester* ] Elwin <~Knights~>
[ *Diabolist* ] Zero ..
[ *Burglar* ] Cizin [[[CSK]]]
[ *Bandit* ] Restive ... Who moved my cheese?!?
[40t 40m 40c 38d] Kokoro [[[CSK]]] now hates Atlas
[40c 40d 40n 35b] Nakita ---
[40n 40d 38m 22b] Kraz Loves dead trees and a Frostbolt SB
[40b 40m 37c 23o] Afea .
[40c 38m 22t 15w] Java *
[36o 30c 23m 16d] Mangrove .
[20m 20d 20c 19n] Eta .
[11o 4w 0m 0c] Vander
[ 5w 1t 1n 1c] Nimski the Untitled
I asked Rodek if he was there and wanted to tank but he was afk. I guess Nimski is batter up.

Now I'm joking, and it's only 3pm eastern so not many people are on but you can see the ratio to non casters/casters. I bet we could get Afea to tank
-Toxis