I don't care about the public areas, I'll run past those. There aren't a lot of them anyway. I'm talking about spots like the first room on the valus strike and after you kill the ogre and knight on the summoning pits. I'll stick to killing everything. If the other player is a dick and keeps dying to bring me up to them I'll just get to the boss, sit in a corner, and let them do all the work. I'm not gonna let somebody force me into playing the game the way they want me to.