Originally Posted by
Shiyo
I'm going to have to disagree with this for a few reasons.
The people shouting on Valefor are nearly always looking to be CARRIED, not helped. A great example is a few days ago a BLM was shouting for reisen NMs while having 3 pieces of sparks, non-ambu cape and a +2 int neck. There is no way that person can contribute to the bosses death on that job - yet they still shouted AND fought the boss on that job. They were literally carried through content they shouldn't be allowed to do on their BLM. If they wanted to ask for help, they'd play a support or a job that can actually CONTRIBUTE to the mob dying and not have floored magical accuracy.
I examined them today and they now have merlinc hood from the NM they were shouting for with 2 pieces of sparks gear instead of 3. Since they were carried, they now think it's ok to ask to get carried more. They will keep expecting it, and instead of leveling a support like geo or brd or even WHM like a good player would do before they gear their dds/nukers, they instead just show up contributing nothing thinking it's ok because they were carried once, and now that's their expectation.
Helping anyone asking for help, while an extremely nice thing to do, doesn't actually build better players or make things better. That person will eventually reach a wall where they can't be carried, get frustrated because so used to being carried, then either quit or transfer to asura and get carried more. They also skip so much character progression that they'll run out of things to do and quit much earlier, meaning helping that person did nothing good for the server or your community.
Players should be taught, not given free things.