Cowards Abound

[Novaura]

Over the last week, I have got Steps of Faith in my Trial roulette 3 times. Every single time I have got it for my roulette, everyone suddenly leaves, choosing to take the 30 minute penalty instead. I know that it is a difficult trial, but to just simply refuse to play it, especially when we know that there are many players who have not yet cleared, is unacceptable.

No one seems to object to doing any other duty, hunt or trial and everyone stays to the end, but give them Steps of Faith and suddenly, you discover a level of cowardice that is unlike anything else in the game. You better get used to the Steps of Faith being a part of the trial roulette because it is not going anywhere, so unless your are willing to swallow your pride, stop running with your tail between your legs and show up to fight.

[HakuroDK]

The problem with Steps of Faith is that it's a very long duty that relies very heavily on mechanics. If there's a wipe, the trial doesn't start over.

It's not that people are cowards per se, they just don't want to deal with a trial that doesn't reset on a wipe. People are more impatient than they are cowardly.

[CatsBesErrwhere]

I no rite?! No more beating fearless knight hearts with boiling hot blood running thru them left anywhere

[Raiya]

And thus the Steps of Ragequit cometh,
and many a player fell before this challenge,
Alas a victor was not to be,
The mechanics of RNGesus defeat ye,
And thus Tis easier to ragequit like thee,
As the 30min penalty was easiest for me!

[CatsBesErrwhere]

Only a bunch of sissys errwhere that will reroll to AuRa soon as heavensward hits.

[Seiryuukishi]

Or they can do as they please, leave and eat the penalty. Their choice ultimately. I just avoid trial roulette altogether because the last one I did I got Steps of Faith and stuck around. Half the group were such douche bags to the people that hadn't cleared it that I decided to stay away from trial. If my desire to play in as much of a stress free environment as possible is cowardice then so be it. Now if none of that made sense I am afraid you have worse things to deal with other than what people choose to do freely. You can't stop it, won't stop it, and crying about it on here will get you nothing.

[JimboTCB]

Trials Roulette usually puts me in one of the easier primals, presumably because there's so many people farming light to complete relics before 3.0. But if you queue for in progress, you're pretty much guaranteed to get Steps, as it's about the only one people actually quit out of.

The problem is that even on a good run it takes longer than anything else in the Trials Roulette pool, and it's never a good run because everyone who already knows the fight avoids it like the plague. Given the choice between eating a half hour debuff, or spending maybe twice that long waiting out the timer on attempts that are inevitably going to fail before we can re-start it and still not actually complete the damn thing successfully, I'm out of there.

[Magistrella]

Only the first one that leaves gets the penalty - and if someone does - i will leave too. My free time off work is too precious for me to deal with people that probably haven't even read up on content and need at least one wipe to clear it which will result in a 15-20 minute trial instead of a 3-5 one.

I rather dig up my treasure map while i wait the next 1-3 min in que as dps

If you want to call people like me cowards - go ahead. I'm just time efficient from my point of view and i as hell will not stand around waiting for someone to join an instance that no one wants to do. It is the most tedious one and has the worst time/reward ratio in the whole roulette.

Greetz from the other side of the table ('-')/

[Reokudo]

I don't do trial roulette, and if I did, I'd avoid SoF as well. Most people you meet in DF can't seem to understand simple mechanics and explanations. So it's better to eat a 30 min penalty than die horribly.

[VanilleFang]

But it's not hard... It just requires communication. Which DF hates.