Whats a good party size?

silverhawk282 · Post by **silverhawk282** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 4:23 pm

For the past couple days I have been grinding crabs with random parties. The group starts off nice and small, but then it soon maxes out to a party of eight in no time. At this point I get pissed off for three reasons.

1) Sure, there may be a lot of people doing damage, but I aint geting jack XP.
2) Questing is slow. Your drop rate for quest items decreases and as a support character not every monster kill your party makes goes towards your quest target.
3) Im bored. The party isnt really a challenge when there are 8 L21 characters moping the floor with crabs. I can usually keep the party up by watching a movie while playing, only giving a group heal every 5 mins.

My preferred party consists of 1 Warrior, 2 Wizards and 1 Cleric.

Anyone else have a preferred party size that isnt an 8 man team?

pengachu · Post by **pengachu** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 4:35 pm

is this is the case, i strongly recommend u guys go grind in area with STRONGER monsters

with euro 8 member party grinding, the amount of exp and sp u get should be lightning fast

justaskphil · Post by **justaskphil** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 4:59 pm

As long as you have balanced crew and everyone is working as a team, then everyone should be okay. Just move up to higher lvl mobs when the xp/sxp is getting smaller.

A nice 6 member squad is 2 Clerics, 1 tank, 2 wizards, and a bard, or another tank. If your cleric goes down, cleric #2 to the rescue.

Good 5 member is 2 tanks 2 wizard, 1 cleric, but you have to protect the holy man, lol.

Vandall · Post by **Vandall** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 5:29 pm

pengachu wrote:is this is the case, i strongly recommend u guys go grind in area with STRONGER monsters

with euro 8 member party grinding, the amount of exp and sp u get should be lightning fast

+1

and honestly if ur watching a movie while playing, u shouldnt be playing at all. if its not fun for u, dont play...its as simple as that.

and btw u are wrong about the item drop rate. if u are in a good party with item auto-share u should finish that quest in no time

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tbh i prefer a full 8 man party with item-auto share. if we are all around the same lvl we can go grind on red mobs

. that means TONS of exp/min.

caseyd4 · Post by **caseyd4** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 6:12 pm

2

1 Cleric 1 Chinese Bow =

silverhawk282 · Post by **silverhawk282** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 7:04 pm

+1

and honestly if ur watching a movie while playing, u shouldnt be playing at all. if its not fun for u, dont play...its as simple as that.

Maybe you missed the part where I exaggerated... You seriously think a party could go without heals for 5 mins while fighting? I was only re-enforcing my statement that against white mobs in an 8 man party, there isnt much of a challenge.

And I still stand by my statement that drops does not increase with party size. Kill rate does, but not the amount of stuff monsters drop. The only variable is General/Champion/Giant/Party. If you can kill quite fast with a 4 man party, thats what I would do.

MrFudge · Post by **MrFudge** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 7:14 pm

never have 2 clerics.

have 2 bards, because there are AMAZING bard buffs that you can only do if you have 2 bards in the party, if you have 1 they dont work.

always have a sub cleric though, to res the cleric if they cleric dies.

Vandall · Post by **Vandall** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 7:54 pm

silverhawk282 wrote:
+1

and honestly if ur watching a movie while playing, u shouldnt be playing at all. if its not fun for u, dont play...its as simple as that.

Maybe you missed the part where I exaggerated... You seriously think a party could go without heals for 5 mins while fighting? I was only re-enforcing my statement that against white mobs in an 8 man party, there isnt much of a challenge.

And I still stand by my statement that drops does not increase with party size. Kill rate does, but not the amount of stuff monsters drop. The only variable is General/Champion/Giant/Party. If you can kill quite fast with a 4 man party, thats what I would do.

and i still stand by my statement that drop rate increases, meaning u get same amount of drops as u would if it wasnt an item auto-share party. BUT the big diff. is the clerics/bards actually get drops :shock:

Fireblazer · Post by **Fireblazer** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 1:20 am

How about 2 bards for the buffs, 1cleric, 2 tanks, 1warlock, 2 wizards. And grind on high lvl mobs.

suntroman · Post by **suntroman** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 4:20 am

8 : fastest killing = most xp + most drops.

Meow · Post by **Meow** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 5:14 am

Hershey wrote:8 man

2bard..2cleric...2tank..2wizard

+ infinity

Ell · Post by **Ell** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 5:25 am

You can grind at least orange mobs at a good rate with a nice 8 man pt.

alZen · Post by **alZen** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 6:05 am

8 wizards with sub cleric? will this burn a hole in the area?

MrFudge · Post by **MrFudge** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 8:26 am

Meow wrote:
Hershey wrote:8 man

2bard..2cleric...2tank..2wizard

+ infinity

are you guys serious?

maybe youre like lvl 30.

after lvl 42, you need 2 bards, 1 cleric, 2 tanks, 3 wizards