Yes, i would rather group with a good player with crap skills than a newbie with good skills under certain circumstances.
But not others, if i needed a tank, i could care less if he doesnt know how to walk to the past, he just needs to be the tank. Why do i need someone who can lead and has experienced when i am doing that myself? If he takes too long to attack the mob you can teach him to attack faster. I am sick to death of grouping with arial sword specs that tank worst than me.

Your comparing newbie/good skills and expert/crap skills, what about if you compare expert/crap skills and expert/good skills?

Its about knowing which spells you need mastered. Your necro, its find not to master crimson, energy drain, pwk, as long as they in the 90's. YOU MUST MASTER word, tele and sleep for instance.

Let me just sort something out for you Valg, PK ratios are completly ilrelevant to PKing. You can get a good pk ratio with the following, Experience, Powerful combo and a good link. Unless Jullias changes to a total pkwin vs total pklosses you really cant get all that much from the pk ratio. Having spent quite a bit of time with you as Joeter, i can safely say you arent a pker, which is fair enough since you would likely agree with that. Nor were some of your other chars, after all your more of a roleplayer. I am out of my league compared to you in the area of roleplay, imagination and 'fluff'. Now your an imm you would have more of a handle of the game mechanics, however, you still have little experience thinking like a pker. Skills are important.

I agree with you in that newbies do fall in to the practicing trap. They should become experts first, then bot.