torinchibi wrote:
.....A lot of you guys haven't experienced partying at higher lvl mobs it seems. Back when I was 72 with a warrior and wizard (me being the cleric), we quickly realized how bad having chinese in the parties is. Even level 80 Chinese nukers are super weak to wizards in comparison. They also screw up the aggro on the mobs, so the wizards and clerics keep getting mobbed badly even when they have protect on. You end up having someone that is more of a liability than an asset. Chinese tankers? Maybe if you kill 1 mob at a time...and a blader just can't keep his aggro high enough to tank for a wizard. A warrior can keep those 10 mobs on them with their taunts, so it's not really a problem for the wizards to make full use of their aoe attacks and kill 5 at a time.
If you've partied at the generals at the low 70's, you would know that a chinese in a euro party causes death and just leeches xp.
However, if you are not grinding and doing PvP instead, having some chinese is a good way to distract the oponents. Throw 1 chinese at each oponent and let the euros take them out one by one. A full Euro party would still be better than a mixed euro and chinese party though... they just have more to offer even if the cleric would have to heal them, at 80 it's really not that big of a problem when you have healing orbit.
EXACTLY - Not only that, if you party with your guildies a lot then you know your role in the pt very well. You PVP almost the same way you PVE and by the time you are in your 40s, its a well oiled machine. We keep to mobs 11 lvls higher than us all the time. We can easily kill them. If those mobs were Chinese chars, especially botted ones, we can wipe them out just on the basis of being so used to working together.
Euros are meant to be in a group. All their skills, except attack skills and even some of them, are meant for a group. Chinese chars dont really have much to offer a Euro pt. They even give an XP penalty. Go try it out and see.
