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lecompte a nicer version of me who speaks the wise.

Listen, here's my point without my usual ire - you can blame someone for failing to let the group know they plan to leave. Ok, I'm on board with that. If there's no heads-up and they just fall off the radar and leave a group in a poor position, that's inconsiderate.

If this is a continuous problem for you, though, you need to assume some responsibility and come up with a solution. You are very much at fault if your own game is routinely jeopardized by people leaving your group. Saying things like "not everyone has an emergency" might validate your blame in your own mind, but that doesn't fill group spots or experience bars, does it?

This has been an occurrence since the beginning of grouping. I've never been so fucked over that I had to go post about it on the boards - I checked LFG, threw out a couple guildchat and ooc messages, got resourceful. I've had the bard tank, the ranger (lecompte!) heal...all kinds of crap. I just moved on.

I'm pretty sure we're playing the same game, so...I dunno, try something new if this is such a problem. Don't be a hypocrite and blame other people for not being responsible or well-raised whilst failing to control your situation as well. Maybe they suddenly got strep throat.