Dynamis and Painful Duties

Honestly is it just me or is this DC completely hopeless when it comes to duties? I don't mean like "Savage" or "Extreme" or "Ultimate" sort of duties either. I mean like Leveling roulette levels of difficulty.

I'm aware this DC is full of new players and sprouts, but they're not the problem. I'm talking people who are high enough level to know better, and still fail to perform the core basics of their role. Tanks who don't turn stance on, don't use mitigation. Healers who let tanks die on single packs of mobs, DPS who may as well be AFK for how long it takes bosses to die. Parties that need mechanics explained to them, and they completely ignore the explanation to die repeatedly anyway. So I put a danger dorito on myself which still doesn't save them.

Honestly I feel that the Trust NPC's are better than the majority of people I've had in my duties lately. I don't have a problem explaining things to people who are willing to listen and capable of learning, but there is only so much I can do when people can't seem to grasp the basics of what is expected from their chosen role. Tell me I'm not going insane.

I have an alt there and I haven't been on her much since DT dropped but prior to that it wasn't too horrible. Is this something that happened more recently? I'll have to check it out myself. Maybe an influx of new folks with DT? Level might not really mean a lot on that DC since it has the Road to 90 buff.

I should go to Dynamis for a while. As a healer I have the most fun in trainwrecks.

You will have no shortage of trainwrecks I assure you

DC has a lot of new people so expect roulette to be filled with those that don't know what is going on. I have definately seen more wipes on duties compared to other DCs.

that's why I moved and not gonna lie even as a healer it reached a point of what the heck is going on when you have warrior warriors of all people that die to everything and still use mitigation

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Originally Posted by Archeron

You will have no shortage of trainwrecks I assure you

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I'm gonna queue for Dun Scaith and Orbonne just to mess with Dynamis.

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Originally Posted by lolnotacat

I should go to Dynamis for a while. As a healer I have the most fun in trainwrecks.

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This guy gets it. This is what it's all about.

My Savage static has been using Dynamis to gather since we're coming from all the other DCs and travel is still hit or miss.

A few times I've forgotten to return home to Lamia after we're done for the night and I'll run my roulettes there.

I haven't seen a particularly egregious difference in quality of players but I usually run as a warrior (and I'm in Savage tanking gear...) so my own immortality is probably coloring that perception.

Now that you mention it, I'll both make it a point to run roulettes over there more often, and to scope out how the locals perform.

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Originally Posted by lolnotacat

I'm gonna queue for Dun Scaith and Orbonne just to mess with Dynamis.

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go puppet bunker haha trust me it get interesting way to quickly xx)

This game is terrible at teaching players ANYTHING with MSQ duties, and alliance are designed that some players are always able to be carried through - admitted by Yoshi-P.
Making it to max level doesn't mean anything if they're still new.
By new I mean starting in the last six months.

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Originally Posted by Nero-Voidstails

go puppet bunker haha trust me it get interesting way to quickly xx)

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I don't see how queuing into an incredibly boring raid is gonna help?

I've seen some people say that a lot of new players come from games where you basically have to buy a bunch of stuff just to have fun, therefore they immediately buy both MSQ and Job skips which creates this mass influx of high-level/low-skill players. I'm not sure how true it is since almost all of it is basically hearsay.

On the flipside, I've had more horrendous Alliance Raid roulettes on Aether than I have anywhere else so take what you will of that.

The only difference I see personally in comparison to say Aether is if you get a bad group it's REALLY bad rather then just bad lol but as far as amount, bout the same as other NA servers.

I see Legend-title/Ultimate weapon-havers regularly failing basic gameplay mechanics like never using AOEs skills on trash or spamming things like Cure 1 or Physick in level 90+ content, not knowing what invulns are on tanks (mainly a healer issue, good luck getting to use Living Dead), making bizarre rotational choices even after every job has been reduced to "press the flashing button". I've seen so many bad "legend" players after coming back to the game for DT that it's beginning to feel like the same situation as mentor crown users. And this is happening on Primal, a very old and populated DC. It's honestly been a bit of culture shock in a way from the last time I played where people were typically fairly competent and you'd almost never see a Cure 1. I've seen easily 10+ healers using their basic GCD heals on all varieties of healer. Probably similar numbers of DPS players not using AOE skills on trash.

I think the issue is that the general quality of the playerbase's skill level has just continued to erode even further. My theory on this is because SE continues to remove any form of consequences from not knowing how to play a job correctly. They removed essentially every single upkeep timer/DOT in the game now, managing resources is a joke to the point that even the MP bar has become totally superfluous for every caster. The game does not encourage players to put any thought into why they are using certain skills or what their skills even do. All they do is "press shiny button" now. I never thought them removing TP would lead to all of this.

Me and my friends have started calling them "Dynamis moments".

We moved around the start of DawnTrail...but we're seriously considering moving back because it's awful.

Its not nearly as bad as it was when Dynamis first opened as many people made housing characters and were queueing for the required (for housing/GC rank up quests) dungeons through Duty Finder as undergeared/no jobstone characters.

That was an experience.

I moved to Dynamis from Primal and love it. The "worst" experience by far is alliance raid. I have seen multiple total wipes on first boss of World of Darkness like 5 times in a row in the same run even on Dynamis. I have seen -A- wipe on first boss in WoD on Primal but on several occasions. Outside of that,yes I ran a dungeon a couple of times where the tank involved thought they had to switch tank stance on and off as part of some weird rotation but the groupI was in was me another fc member and 2 duty finder randos. We were able to talk that person through how to tank calmly and they are a friend of mine now.

I have been on Dynamis for months and now my fc has about 15 regular people (didnt have an fc at all when I came), and the only thing we dc hop for now is Alliance raid and pvp eoulettes. I have no real complaints other than that