How to invite a WHM?

[Yuanlung]

Well, would you rather go wait around in a party of 2, or wait for an invite from a more complete party, if you know you will be getting other invites soon anyways? "If you do not join NOW, I am not going to invite you (if I ever get a party togather)" from a 1-man party just isn't all that attractive, especially to people with other options.

The fact is, idealogy aside, some jobs are more wanted/needed at certain levels then others. WHM at the beginning, RDM and BRD later on. This gives them a leg up on others when it comes to party selections. You can scream and moan all you want about how it's not fair, but hey, life is not fair, and this is the way the game's set up to be.

A party does have to start up somewhere, which was what I tried to address. After 30, 40 levels of playing, you are bound to run into some good players. These are people who you'd want to invite first. Hopefully, you have made a good impression on them as well from the partying, so they'd be inclined to join your 1 man party.

After 40, I don't even bother try to start a party from 0 (or 1, rather) If I do not see 2 or so people I know around who'd like to party with me, I just go farming and wait for an invite. I tend to get better group dunamics this way too.

After 40~50, random invites and standing LFG just doesn't work all that well. Which is why you really should start get to know the people who have compatible schedules and are at similar levels. Forming a static is even better. If you are having trouble doing that... you are going to have some serious proplem in this game as a conventional job... and might find BST an easier job to play.

[Balgas]

Screaming and moaning? Wow I think you need to re-read the post. I wasn't complaining about anything not being fair and I most certainly do not have a problem with my job. Why would I change to BST? For an "easier" job? I didn't say I wanted an easy job, as for static parties I have one for my WHM job thank you, and it's kind of time consuming having two static parties for two different jobs.

This topic was created in hopes to find out how to invite **stuck up WHM's** into starting a party, not a pity party for myself, but now you've shown us all the only way to do it is to get a complete party together, minus the stuck up WHM, and then bow down and beg to be graced by their presence if they can spare the time from such a busy schedule of denying invites left and right from incomplete parties.

**Disclaimer: Please note that not all WHM's are stuck up, only a select few whom I have talked to, the rest are wonderful people who have no qualms with. If from reading this you result in depression, light headedness, fatigue, or erectile disfunction, please consult your family physician immediatly.

[Yuanlung]

Originally posted by Balgas
but now you've shown us all the only way to do it is to get a complete party together, minus the stuck up WHM, and then bow down and beg to be graced by their presence if they can spare the time from such a busy schedule of denying invites left and right from incomplete parties.

Yeah, pretty much. I am not saying I like it any more than you do, but that's how the way it is. Same goes for RDM's after 41 and BRD's after 55. It's not because they are 'stuck up'. It's just that they have more option then you do.

On Ramuh, at my level, RDM, BRD, and now PLD and NIN, are often snatched up within a minute or so after flagging up. They don't really have a reason to be sitting around waiting around for a 1-man party to recruit.

There is not much anyone can do about it. This is just how life works.

[Karinya]

*After* flagging up? I have logged on in my mog house and gotten tells asking me to exp parties before I finished checking delivery box and gardening. More than once. I've started going /anon if I actually want to solo. On the other hand, I wouldn't refuse invites from a partial party unless I thought there was no good way to complete it. I do ask for jobs and levels if they weren't in the initial tell, though. You'd be surprised what some people try to throw together even post-50.

If you're going to form up a party, try to line up a tank and a healer right away. Once you have those it usually isn't too hard to fill the remaining slots (sometimes you'll have trouble finding a blm).

On Carbuncle it's usually the tank that is the hard one to find. Few NA are rich enough to NIN blink tank and most JP don't want to play with us... so that leaves PLD, some WAR, and a very few MNK (it takes an extra effort to tank as MNK, most don't bother to try).