[Tomato_Kai]

This is a great guide.

I, like several people, don't necessarily see much harm in asking folks not lfg if they'd like to group. Generally, people who absolutely do not want to be disturbed are DND/ANON, and that's fine.

Even myself on my Samurai just last night, OP Warped back from Valkurm after a fantastic party. Just sitting in my Mog House, I was getting tells from about 4 different folks who wanted me to join their party. I guess it was a busy night, or low on DD's or something, because that was out of the norm. But, I politely declined all of them and went to bed and got a good night's rest. I didn't mind the tells, I just declined them.


Another point of note is just that some people in parties don't care for idle talk, and other folks do. Don't try and keep "everyone quiet" or keep "everyone talking" just because you're particularly swayed one way or another. Me, I really don't chat at all during parties. I like being quiet, but I sure as heck don't want people telling everyone to "just shut up" or something. Likewise, people bothering folks in the middle of a fight is also really ridiculous, and actually fairly common.

Another thing I think should be in this guide:

AFK's.

People who fight during AFKs, people who try and move the party with people AFK, people who AFK all of the sudden, and other such party killing atrocities.