Pretty sure there are Japanese players that does the exact same thing. But if you don't speak Japanese..you probably wouldn't know.
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Had this discussion with sum of the nin in my fc, the gen feeling is that you should have *some* idea when a goad might be helpfull (example: huge pulls that force a melee to use aoes or anytime you have a war in the party) instead you have a legion of narutards who just dont.
I let people play w/e they want. For Causal content, I really don't see the issue. For something like Coil or EXs, that's completely different. The way this game has become a "Oh view a guide on how to play and stuff" is really sickening. I shouldn't have to review a guide to play the game. Everything is view a guide, view a guide. Many people (myself included) don't learn from watching a damn guide. Some learn more when actually doing the fight. Who is honestly gonna sit there viewing and studying everything in the guide?
That's different. That's easy to gauge that any melee class is gonna need TP soon. But come to a boss fight, it's hard to tell cause my TP like never goes lower than 840.
It's pretty hard to do this in FCOB at least, but yea in some lesser content it's easier. *edit-in, in reference to the idea of having 'more than two people who need Goad'*
In a full party / Raid of FCOB, you will have (at max) 3 TP users. Bard, Melee1, Melee2. Seeing as how you have a Ninja, you only have 2 partners - Bard and Melee 1.
This is why as a NIN, you run a cycle. At the start of the fight, use Goad on Melee #1. When it comes off cooldown, use it on the bard. This doesn't account for if your WAR/PLD burns his TP out, but extending these two classes like this is the most common method for Goad use.
I don't like to generalize and stereotyping, but I have made characters in 5 US servers - and had to transfer 2 of them, while the rest stay unplayed for the reasons I listed before. Too many trolls, RMT tells, and just general shenanigans. You could be in a good server with polite US players and great FC, but if you keep encountering trolls on duty finder, or half the time, your groups does not know how to play their roles properly, there is only so many "good faith" I have left lol.
I think there is a Redit post that summarize it, Japanese players use party finder to practice and find out the mechanic (even for dungeons) - and US players use duty finder to "figure out how to play". Also most US players do not bother reading description of abilities, have no clue on how to properly do their combo rotation, very few even bother researching what their jobs need to do, and half of them always come under geared - and you have a nice hot mess of a disaster stew waiting to explode.