I don't understand...

I've been running a lot of expert duty roulette lately, and I've encounter people that just doesn't care about their performance.

Just earlier, a black mage NEVER uses Fire III/Blizzard III and use tranpose and build up stacks with Fire I/Blizzard I.

And then a day ago, a dragoon using chaos thrust without their combo.

Then there's also white mages that just use Cure II and Cure III as single heal.

What surprise me about them all is that they're all atleast i90, and some even has a whooping 7 sold pieces.

I just don't understand, why don't people just atleast try? I don't really care for speed runs, but I don't find it enjoyable when dungeons take 40 - 50 minutes. And I highly doubt anyone can consider that fun.

And I am by no mean claiming myself to be some sort of "great player", but atleast I do my best to maximize my DPS when I do play.

/rant

That's because most probably fate spammed with no concept of what most of the skills/combos do. I also had a few runs where the Drg didnt use HV and spammed ROT only, and only used FT combo on single targets. And one smn who only single target DOT and no shadow flare etc. Also a BRD who would use Battle voice without a song and said it increases all the parties stats (as a FC member told him).

So its quite common to see these in roulette. The only thing you can do is coach them but it seems 75% don't listen or tell you they know what they are doing.

I run Expert roulette on daily basis and runs are really smooth and fast for me... Sometimes too silent too... The "Everyone knows what to do because they ran it 9999 times already" silence...

I keep seeing these threads pop about the expert roulette so maybe I'm just lucky lol...

I'd say maybe in 1/4 the ones I do between expert, high, and trials I get the ones who have no clue what they are doing and make me shake my head.

Well that's what happens when you have a game where you can level from 1-50 in a week and then once you get to 50 the game hands out good gear so that any braindead idiot can get it.

Because not everyone plays for the sole reason to be #1 and have an obsession over max number dps rotations.

This is why I prefer the old format for grouping which consisted on just getting the bodies to do the content and having a blast.

As for people complaining about bads, take into consideration that they are the ones funding your current habits as well.

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Originally Posted by RegnumMagik

And then a day ago, a dragoon using chaos thrust without their combo.

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I ran into this when High roulette was still relevant. I'll never forget how hilarious it was

The DRG had very missmatched gear, just randomly spammed skills, I asked why they did that they said "just let me play! god!"

My only response was "Well if you're going to be like that, then I don't have to play with you if I don't want to" and left the dungeon (I was on BLM at the time)

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Originally Posted by RegnumMagik

Then there's also white mages that just use Cure II and Cure III as single heal.

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My personal favourite. Then they yell at the tank for being too squishy, at the bard for not playing ballad for every second of the duty, at all the other DPS for not being good enough to kill everything before they run out of MP, and at the other healer for not doing their share of healing. :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Gormogon

Because not everyone plays for the sole reason to be #1 and have an obsession over max number dps rotations.

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Yeah, those other 3 people in your party? Who cares what THEY think. I mean, they're just NPCs, right?

Sarcasm aside, there's a hefty difference between "obsession with max number dps rotations" and "trying". When you go into a party and screw around, refuse to take advice and generally drag everyone else down you're essentially sacrificing everyone else's fun for your own. Which is fine, just do everyone a favor and stay out of parties.

So glad I haven't run into too much of that. Just did a DF the other night with an I58 PLD in Amdapor. I praised them for holding hate against all my I96 SMN DoTs. They weren't just spamming Flash either.
The only BAD parties I've been in tend to be Primal EX Farm parties. Where it seems all DDs are looking for a carry, and I swear must just be AAing to try and dodge.