Rofl

They want to play their way, and you say that makes them assholes. But YOU want them to play YOUR way... what does that make you?

Also a butthole eh

No...no it's not.

Benefits are much better exp, not worrying about some noob wiping you, and being able pay as little or as much attention as you please. For instance, if I were to watch a movie or go bang Christina Hendricks while in a group people would rage at me.

That being said I still group sometimes for the nostalgia and to be social when I feel like it.

I don't usually gear my alts very hard but I work my ass off in groups and I rage when everyone isn't doing the same. Often best for me to just solo or duo with like minded people.

I.E.
Group Comp is: SK tank, Enchanter (me!), cleric, druid, rogue, mage. The druid needs to get off his ass and pull so we can chain kill but they never do. The cleric is sitting there with full mana not nuking. Comes down to the enchanter (and his trusty pet) pulling until pet breaks in the middle of a pull and you know how that ends. No thanks, I'd rather be 80% afk, get a kill every 6 minutes and get 70% or more of the exp for 1/10th of the work/risk.

I have this same problem sometimes... When I am playing a character pre 20 I don't really care what happens and people goofing off and half ass playing. But when level 20+ hits, I get focused and want the people in my group focused as well. I'm not super OCD or anything, but I hate it when everyone afk's for 5-8 minutes here and there every hour or so. It just makes me want to afk to earn some of my time back or just go back to soloing again.

It all comes back to the same thing, a good group is a good and a bad one makes you want to do your own thing again. I never get mad though when I see people out soloing, twinked or in rags.

Troll

My issue with twinks soloing is so often they choose to do it and take camps / xp away from legitimate non twinked groups. Between them and plvlers it is harder to get XP at times than it was in original EQ in 99 and that is ridiculous!

If you want to solo on your twink, fine, move along somewhere else where there aren't legitimate groups trying to solo on the same mobs. Or do you really think your twink 's exp (which in most cases is a 2nd character at the least) is more valuable than up to 6 other peoples first characters (or at least non twinked alts, but for me and my group of 4 other friends they are all our first characters)? If you do think that, then that is where you get the titles of "dick" and "asshole".

And a note to the plvlers because this has happened way to many times in the 20 levels I've gotten so far. If the zone is crowded, and an area is camped by a group, move somewhere else. So many times I've seen the plvlers just come in and start slaughtering everything in the area that the groups are camping / killing. It is quite annoying and makes the plvlers even bigger dicks / assholes than the soloing twinks.

It's pretty rare that grouping beats soloing or duo/trioing for exp.

Also as others mentioned, soloing means:

• I can AFK when I want. Meaning I can handle RL/Work issues as they arise without impeding anyone's EXP time
• I don't have to worry about someone else being AFK impeding my EXP time
• Often times the exp far exceeds that of full group - there definitely are exceptions
• I keep all the loots
• Your class doesn't duo or trio well with whatever I'm doing -- dear rogue twinks, just because you have an epic it doesn't mean you're extremely useful to my cleric/enchanter duo that is cycling pets. Until a pet can hold aggro over you, you would do nothing but slow down and disrupt my kill style in a dungeon.

I can AFK when I want. Meaning I can handle RL/Work issues as they arise without impeding anyone's EXP time

This ^^^

I know personally I get a lot of tells on my cleric twink for groups, truth is most of the time I need to be able to get up from the computer immediately if my son wakes up crying (I only play when he's napping or outright sleeping) and because of that I just don't group often. Thing is if you need a cleric you need heals, and I personally can't wait until the pull is over to get up and leave, if I'm soloing at least I just kill myself...and do, frequently!!

I guess what I'm saying is we aren't all assholes some of us just play under extremely tough circumstances.