The Scourge of Eorzea: Fair Weather Tanks

My BF, an Astrologian, queues up for his daily Trial Roulette. It's Bismarck! There's one new player, a Monk. I watch over his shoulder as both tanks see that notice and leave. Then the other healer. Then the rest of the DPSes, so the only ones standing before the might of Bismarck are a pope-hatted catboy and a crouching punch-mechanic who probably didn't see the "Warrior of Light's various allies cower and leave" plot twist coming.

I immediately log in, slap into the queue for an in-progress fight, the others filter in within a minute and we make light work of the thing. Five minutes, maybe. This is what they were afraid of?

Don't roll tank if you don't wanna fight shit! >=I

WHAT AN INTERESTING AND FASCINATING TALE PLEASE TELL US MORE.

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Originally Posted by Dhex

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Okay! Then I met this goofy monkey-faced kid who couldn't find his shift key!

SHIFT WHATS SHIFT?

Come on, the story can't end there, Can it!? What happened to this Shift-unfinding monkey-face goofus?

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Originally Posted by Phoenicia

Come on, the story can't end there, Can it!? What happened to this Shift-unfinding monkey-face goofus?

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They say he still roams the land to this day, looking for his beloved lost Shift key...

Such.... a sad tale.

Was one of them named Brave Sir Robin?

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Originally Posted by Kumori_Kumo

I immediately log in, slap into the queue for an in-progress fight, the others filter in within a minute and we make light work of the thing. Five minutes, maybe. This is what they were afraid of?

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Because a lot of the filthy casuals out there are still coping with their PSTD of Bismark when they first attempted it as young and innocent level 57s while still clutching to their i130 Dreadwyrm gear like some kind of safety-blanket, only to have Almighty Bismark make them his property in a very rough and non-pleasurable way. Their torment, it seemed like it would never end until one day, in one lucky DF, A-Guy-Who-Knew-What-He-Was-Doing delivered them from this evil flying whale. Since that day, each of the filthy casuals swore they will never face the dreaded Bismark again... Until one day, DF placed them in a group to face their nightmares again. With AGWKWHWD nowhere in sight, needless to say, the group of filthy casuals fled in order to scoop their feces out of their pants.

Not only Bismark, but you will also find this kind of behavior in Ravana, Steps of Faith, Chrystalis, King Moggle Mog, Titan... and their first guildhest.

TLDR: Working as intended

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Originally Posted by Heavensword

Because a lot of the filthy casuals out there are still coping with their PSTD of Bismark when they first attempted it as young and innocent level 57s while still clutching to their i130 Dreadwyrm gear like some kind of safety-blanket, only to have Almighty Bismark make them his property in a very rough and non-pleasurable way. Their torment, it seemed like it would never end until one day, in one lucky DF, A-Guy-Who-Knew-What-He-Was-Doing delivered them from this evil flying whale. Since that day, each of the filthy casuals swore they will never face the dreaded Bismark again... Until one day, DF placed them in a group to face their nightmares again. With AGWKWHWD nowhere in sight, needless to say, the group of filthy casuals fled in order to scoop their feces out of their pants.

Not only Bismark, but you will also find this kind of behavior in Ravana, Steps of Faith, Chrystalis, King Moggle Mog, Titan... and their first guildhest.

TLDR: Working as intended

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Yup, they should make it so that the one you get into for the day, is the one and only.

if you get out, better luck for a different dungeon/trial tomorrow, it's your loss of tomes and gil.

then, perhaps then, people will leave a whole lot less.

*By the way, I don't approve of your "filthy Casuals" bashing. Lots comes from Veterans/hardcore players that are too bored with trying to re-explain the fight, or fed up with the same trial over-and-over, or simply just don't care.

Some of us Casuals are trying our best, and I for one, will stay until the timer can go off, unless it's obvious that after 3 attempts, there ain't no way to make it, and then vote abandon is your ally.

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Originally Posted by Heavensword

Because a lot of the filthy casuals out there are still coping with their PSTD of Bismarck

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Those casuals must have been pretty filthy if they are catching something like that from Bismark.

P.S. It's PTSD, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

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Originally Posted by KingOfAbyss

Yup, they should make it so that the one you get into for the day, is the one and only.

if you get out, better luck for a different dungeon/trial tomorrow, it's your loss of tomes and gil.

then, perhaps then, people will leave a whole lot less.

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I agree, only if the DF penalty also applies to any subsequent players who leaves also. The current system is that after the first person leaves, rest of the group can ditch the DF group without any consequence at all. Simply changing the system where rest of the leavers also suffer 30 min lockout after the first person leaves, in itself, will deter a lot of people from leaving.

As for the casual-bashing,I was just following the "age old tradition" of player base schism. Not that I am trying to justify its inappropriateness, oh no, but in my previous post I was role-playing as No-Lyfe HURDCORE who deem all game mechanics are "trivial" and "too easy" while wondering why "Filthy Casuals" are even fit to breathe the same air as "Us, No-Lyfe HURDCOREs". Personally, I view players as "Competent" and "Non-competent" and throughout my decade of playing various MMOs on the market, I seen both types of players on both side of Casual/Hardcore divide.

I don't judge people based on the numbers of hours they spend in game, rather on their performance as I witness them on my screen. More often then not, I find "New/Casual" players who are just brilliant, only thing they needed is a few tips here and there to make them even more potent.

As for veteran/hardcore players not bothering to explain fights because laziness, boredom etc. is just selfish, mean and irresponsible. None of the trial or even raid encounters are so complicated that they can't be summarized in a couple of sentence or less. Hell, depending on the trial, I can finish explaining an entire fight before the WHM is done hard-casting Stoneskin II. I believe that if anyone is as "veteran/hardcore" as they think they are they can fully explain any encounter in game in a minute or less, because they understands the mechanics so well. But, that's just me.

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Originally Posted by TouchandFeel

Those casuals must have been pretty filthy if they are catching something like that from Bismark.

P.S. It's PTSD, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

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Oh yeah, I did meant PTSD, I am surprised that I missed it when I proof-read my post... twice! >.<

^^^

I just found the typo to be funny since it sort of resulted in a different acronym that still fit yet drastically changed the meaning of the statement.

I'm confused, people do trial roulette?

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Originally Posted by StouterTaru

I'm confused, people do trial roulette?

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It's 10 esos and maybe 20 minutes of your time if you get like, Steps or something. Why wouldn't you?

Also, you have a chance of getting Singularity Reactor for another 6 esos...

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Originally Posted by fm_fenrir

It's 10 esos and maybe 20 minutes of your time if you get like, Steps or something. Why wouldn't you?

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Expert daily roulette is 75 tomes, 45 minutes max including dps wait time. That's 6 days to cap tomes. If I needed 10 eso I'd much rather just do an extra A2 run.

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Originally Posted by StouterTaru

I'm confused, people do trial roulette?

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Yes. In fact, many more people do roulettes than the hardest raid content. Many, many people never even see that content.

Also, for the record, it's the vast majority of casual players who never finish the hardest stuff who enable everyone else to play the game at all. I've seen plenty of super-entitled hardcores fishing for the easy farm as well. My point is that nobody should be queueing up for things they don't plan to finish; it only fosters resentment.

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Originally Posted by StouterTaru

I'm confused, people do trial roulette?

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Ofcourse. You don't have to be lvl 60 to do trial roulette and I'm pretty sure you haven't max all you jobs yet. Doing trial roulette give you experience for non lvl 60 characters. And sometimes you get easy trial not always hard.

I found the shift key. /hipthrust

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Originally Posted by Heavensword

Because a lot of the filthy casuals out there are still coping with their PSTD of Bismark when they first attempted it as young and innocent level 57s while still clutching to their i130 Dreadwyrm gear like some kind of safety-blanket, only to have Almighty Bismark make them his property in a very rough and non-pleasurable way. Their torment, it seemed like it would never end until one day, in one lucky DF, A-Guy-Who-Knew-What-He-Was-Doing delivered them from this evil flying whale. Since that day, each of the filthy casuals swore they will never face the dreaded Bismark again. Until one day DF placed them in a group to face their nightmares again.

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Yeah, filthy casuals! Wait a tic.../checks ilvl (136)... /checks current level (57)... still haven't qued for Bismark... he's talking about me?!?! Better run the vault a few more times I suppose.

I'm amazed that nobody has posted a "Cool Story Bro" image yet

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Originally Posted by Illya

I'm amazed that nobody has posted a "Cool Story Bro" image yet

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Because I almost sympathized with the author! I was also very curious about the shift key unfinding monkey-face goofus plot twist.

One can count the number of people who like the Heavensward trials outside of Singularity Reactor on a single hand. It seems to be inversely proportional to the number of people who enjoy listening to Ravana's tune when doing anything else in the game.

Bimomo did touch upon a point, though; some returning players farmed gear from previously high-end content and then dropped out for a few months before coming back for the expansion and thought themselves hot shit before the new content pounded them into the dirt and put the fear of gods back into them. It just so happens that these individuals are inextricably linked to each other in Duty Finder, sort of like how, every week when farming Alex tokens, some FCmates of mine are doomed to forever be grouped up with at least one of a list of twenty inept and unreceptive people whose names we have all memorized. Some people are just too "bad" to even know what "good" is, and so when they come up against content they can't overcome with their limited ability they immediately assume it too difficult to be overcome without the stars aligning.

When I queue for anything, I fully expect to stay till it's done, or time runs out. Something like what the OP posted? My response has always been, "90 minutes? Plenty of time to die." Folks usually learn better by doing it and it's best to have someone who has at least some idea what to do in the middle of it.

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Originally Posted by Illya

I'm amazed that nobody has posted a "Cool Story Bro" image yet

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Image macros are so last-decade.

Sweat to god these complaint threads are starting to sound like MRA activists complaining about consent laws. “Hey, where you going tank? You can’t leave now, you got me all worked up! Hey, get back here!"

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Originally Posted by Kumori_Kumo

Okay! Then I met this goofy monkey-faced kid who couldn't find his shift key!

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You just permanently won the internet for that.

This is a pretty controversial issue, the release notes of 2.0 had

"Known issues:
- There is an issue in some instances where players are pricks."

But when interviewed at gamescom the devs had changed their mind and said everything was "working as intended"

But doesn't it feel good when they are replaced by level headed badass tanks?