PF is not just bad at times, it's unfair (rant)

I shrug my shoulder. It's PF. I usually don't keep a high expectation, but PF has many decent players. For example, I'm trying to clear M11S now and several PF groups pushed my prog point to 0.6% now. Everyone plays hard so I constantly re-assess my play style and have improved a lot. There are players not doing their best. Usually I say nothing and just politely leave. In the meantime when I progged FRU, I've met so many understanding players and we became friends and we stayed together. I cleared FRU during last pull in 2 lockout with PF players (well I made friends through using PF and friends found other PF friends who helped me). Clearing FRU was the best experience I had with PF. There are PF players who like to kick other players because they don't perform those pulls up to PF leaders' expectation. I'd say that don't take it too hard as it reminds me to re-assess myself and do better. Regardless playing PF is also one way to have fun. If there is no fun, I recommend to pause a while and try again. Using PF, my thought is keeping expectation low but assess self more. If things won't work, don't worry too much. Move on. In the meantime I always keep an open mind and can make friends using PF.

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Originally Posted by GraceHorizon

For what it’s worth, I find Endwalker duties mostly easier than Shadowbringers. The dev team got very good at their visual language of telegraphs in boss fights; it’s usually fairly clear what you’re expected to do, and you have enough time to do it. There are a couple solo duties that can take some work, but if you’re having fun in the rest of the game you can always dial down the difficulty to get through them.

As for party finder … I hear nothing but horror stories about it. My only actual experience with it has been with people using it to do normal difficulty duties for the first time on Dynamis, but I can well imagine it’s no fun with a group of cranky elite players trying to clear a high end duty. (I’ve certainly had enough experience with badly behaved elite players in normal duties that I don’t want to spend time in a party full of them.) From all I’ve heard, statics are the most successful way to clear high end duties, and they also seem like a good way to find a group you’re okay spending time with.

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It still comes down to how I can't be trusted to be good at content and don't trust most others to be good at being people, so I just keep to myself whenever possible because its just trouble otherwise.