I don't see any reason why they would be so hostile towards you. A minor suggestion though, try a Deadshot cloak in place of the Silvermail. It gives Undead Bonus Medium with all weapons, as well as a Gun Attack Speed Low. Normal/Shadow tends to be more useful than Piercing/Shadow, certainly in end-game. As for the AP, nice as it is, does lack a bit of... oomph. Have you tried any Alchemers? If not, no worries, the AP is a solid gun, especially with that UV. As for your shields, as you reach your skill plateau with guns, I suggest giving the Swiftstrike Buckler a spin. It makes a noticeable difference in both attack and reload speed. It's also only a three-star shield, so you wouldn't have wasted much if you end up not liking it. My guess is that you're just having horrible luck with pub matches. I suggest you run FSC primarily with your guild (if applicable) in the future.

Situations like you have experienced are why I no longer do boss runs or danger missions with people I don't know. I suppose it might be the lack of new content causing people to become more competitive in their grinding for profit, but I have been kicked countless times recently without a reason (often I have been carrying the team when it happened). What is even worse is when I am helping new players and they think I am "hogging their materials" and kick :/ Likely your party decided they could win without you and did not care if you suffered (or perhaps enjoyed that fact slightly). Not having you in their party increased the chances that they would be the recipient of any rare item at the end. I don't think there is any category that this appropriately falls under for reporting though. However, don't take it personally, there are nice people out there but a lot of the people who used to play for the love of the game are long gone.

This is why I always make sure I'm the leader or more likely I just do runs with friends.
Occasionally I will just join a group, but not usually.
I hate it when I'm heating something and I get kicked at the end of a level for no reason. Because the only reason I was doing that level was for heat, and just because some stupid party leader wanted me out of the group for some stupid reason I lost my heat.
I don't know why they implemented heat loss if you go solo/get kicked out of a group. It's very, very frustrating.
Also, if you'd like to do some FSC runs without the risk of getting kicked, then shoot Grimranger a friend request.

Yeah I can confirm this, I do a lot of Random RJP just to help people out (and cause I'm bored, obviously :D) and I often gets kicked right before JK...

Even though I'm 5* and wear my awesome santy kit and they are 3-4*

So I'm left faced to RJP with my Acheron and my Combuster on a solo fight... the horror!!! *GASP*

I do believe some people just like to have "power" and use it upon "weak" people since they don't have it in real life... That's just my opinion though

I know how you feel, and frankly, I've gotten used to the fact that random parties might kick you for the slightest of reasons.

And you know what I did? I learned to hog pills, blow up explosive blocks next to annoying teammates, and trigger all the monster spawns possible. Of course, I also run with wrong-type weapons and use flashy weapons that deal no damage like Cold Snap.

Here's an explanation.
Imagine a party of 3 Knights (rank) or Knight Elites who want to farm RJP for money. Now imagine a Vanguard pops in, still in his FSC set. Suddenly everyone's like "oh yey we win lets go hurry up don't change get on the elevator or i kick"... Now imagine the run. One of them runs into the fray, while the other 2 are running in circles, not even charging, watching me dish out 5* damage. So what do I do? Kill everything. THEN they start telling me to hurry up and get on the button or they'll kick me. At this point I'm just considering going solo.
Oh how it grinds my gears. So of course, I decided to put these knights in the fight of their lives. 2nd floor, I trigger all the spawns in all the rooms within 15 seconds and run away happily with my pills and hearts. Lo and behold everyone wipes except me, who is happily munching on flaming jellies. The guys start pestering me to rev, one of the things i hate the most in parties, and start threatening to kick me. So of course i ignore them and clear the room, and then explain that if they kicked me they'd have to waste 40 energy a piece reving themselves. That shut them up pretty well. So I rev'd the least noisy of the trio and we were off!

TLDR I'm a [redacted] don't ever run RJP with me. Ever.

That sounds like a good strategy to deal with 'em.

I just wear my snarby with shadow dwings or storm mantle and any PUG I join is just about worshipping me...

...or I run with guildies because sometimes running with PUGs that need reving every 2 minutes gets annoying

it just a small group of players that are racists in Spanish Haven and i know because, well you can check their forums, most of their posters said something like "i just like to do this in the english forum because i like to annoy "gringos" but leaving that aside, that kind of thinking its spreading on the spanish haven thanks to that. and well some of them dont like "english players" because they cant talk english.

im not saying all Spanish are like that (there a few good people) but prolly you got into a group that belongs in that guild with a "hateful attitude" towards english players (there a few guilds in spanish haven which hate english players for some reason).

Now about if you wear an expensive costume you get worshipped by those players... well will work with some but not with all, sometimes you will get even more hate if you wear something expensive (there a thread of someone who make "fun" of mullet just because he use expensive stuff).

Your best Bet it just play with friend or guild groups or well do your own vanaduke group. because the kind of person you would meet in Pick Up Groups which most of the time would be people like them. (even sometimes they are racist themselves. but sometimes they just do "hate" for fun like one day i was on AH trying to find something interesting to buy until a "certain player" start talking trash about me but he dont said my nick but i know was about me because he do this all the time where i am, and just because i buy elevator pass... so go figure the kind of people we have in spanish havens :/) even they dont like read LONG POSTS... so you can see the kind of attitude they have there.

but oh well thats the sad but true reality of my haven.

@Batabii:

Oh Larry....

Just because you don't have friends to play with, doesn't mean that everyone is like you. I have handful amount of people that can play any time I ask them.

I would be sad too if I was alone facing vanaduke 18 months ago, but not anymore. My suggestion is to learn how to solo vanaduke. It may be tough at first, but you should be able to do it eventually if you keep doing PUGs. There will always be some douchebag that will ruin your FSC run so you should be prepared for anything.

You can also try to avoid getting ppl mad, but that seems impossible. There are many things that can iritate ppl like using nitronome or levi to push slags into people, breaking the heart boxes in depth 25 without letting ppl know, aggroing the rocket puppy when someone is in the room killing the slags, wasting a poison vial when some guy really wanted it, using the AP on vanaduke when someone is using a shiv on him, throwing water on the mask when water was already thrown on it, following some dude in depth 25 even though everyone agreed to do the rooms solo, telling people what to do even though they already know what to do, etc.

Your best bet is to run with your friends or guildmates. They can probably help you transition into PUGs since they would probably give you advice if you are doing something annoying.

I haven't gotten kicked out of a FSC run for awhile now so I must be doing something right. I usually get friend invites rather than kicks so just be respectful to other people.

For your certain case, it is probably racism. I was never really fond of running with people who don't speak much English. I remember playing with some French dude and he was yelling hurry up and he was rushing and dying even though its the Silent Legion mission and I obviously need to take my time. He screams for a rev too so my health was always low so I ended up going up after finishing the first depth. Good luck on the rest of the mission French dude.

You're Larry, it's the nickname given to you in an earlier thread.

Also, @Apophis, for soloing Vana, you generally need to solo the whole run before, which takes longer than in a 4-person party

I don't know how you guys have all these problems. I just be nice to people and keep my "party with own language" on... :3

I kind of like "Larry".

On topic:

Personally, If I get a bad group that makes me do all the work or insults me, I just note "Going solo" and then do so. I once got a tell from a RM after doing so complaining about how they all died and how I made them waste mist. My sanity is more important than the mist of someone that actively tries to disrespect me, or wastes my time.

Sometimes, though, you can make good friends/allies by just doing PUGs and being lucky.