(First time posting on the forums in months and it's about bad lowbies. Yaaaay.)
Yeah, I know, lowbies. Level 10 Black Talon. Not a big deal, but oh wow this person made me more than a little annoyed.
So I started a new Merc, since 3.0 happened and my lv 55 Merc was basically unplayable, due to my badness. Wanted to do some flashpoints during my leveling process, because I thought it might help me get over my crippling social anxiety if I grouped up. So I started with BT.
I was grouped up (playing a lv 13 Mercenary) with a lv 11 Marauder. I knew it wouldn't have been the best Black Talon ever because the Marauder (let's call them JaneDoe) said nothing. No 'hello', nothing. We run in and JaneDoe never skips a single scene, which I was okay with. It's their first time, I don't care.
Whatever.
We get to the first fight, still nothing in group chat (even checked to see if it was enabled in Chat Settings. It was.) They're surprisingly diplomatic in dialogue for a Sith.
First couple fights go well... then that changes. They don't even wait for me, and instead run ahead like a tank and aggro ALL THE THINGS. Sometimes they didn't even wait for them to die before attacking new enemies. I was spec'd for heals (although that means diddly squat at lv 13 with no CSC or good heat management) so I could at least throw some RSs down to keep JaneDoe the Marauderp alive.
As we fought through the enemies, JaneDoe rolled Need on EVERYTHING. Even the Aim stuff, which I really could've used for my Treek. They even acquired a Cunning chest. And equipped it to themselves, not Vette.
This is when I could've chimed in with a 'Hey, Warriors use Strength and Vette uses Cunning. Also, I could use the Aim.' and a bit of an explanation on what Need and Greed meant. But, y'know, Social Anxiety made me recede into my human turtle shell and I said nothing.
JaneDoe continues to attack like a crazy person and even engages an Elite while I was fighting a separate one. Heals happened, yadda yadda. (Oh and did I mention they used Channel Hatred about... 0 times?)
We get to Yadira Ban and she never runs out of Cyclone Nova. I had no time to type a tip or two because they auto-rushed in there like a bad AI. They rolled Need yet again on a purple Aim barrel after we killed Yadira, which is when I truly gave up and just rushed through the rest of the FP, killing things left and right.
In hindsight I could've given out tips but I doubt they would've listened.
I'm trying Hammer Station as heals when I hit 15. I might have another insanely long post for that one, though I hope not.
So TL;DR: Lowbies suck, Marauders are derpy and I really really really hate the Need button now. Also, Social Anxiety sucks lamps.
Whoops, sorry for the long post got a bit ranty