Check Your Team's Gear Before Showing Off

[Phx]

The issue is the people... and for whatever reason, the 'community' seems a lot less co-operative, patient, and communicative now than they did in 1.0

We had a conversation about this just the other day... You are not the only one who has noticed or been bothered by it. The fan base in 1.0 were the true FF gamers/fans and I will even go as far to say we are the true hard core players. With the release of 2.0 we picked up an overwhelming number of WoW players as well as recreational players, with that and the game going from more of a hard core state to the "lets make everything easy so those who can't hang can now keep up". If the game was harder like FFXI then it would not be an issue. Bring back the days of running dungeons for 2 weeks just to get one RARE drop and the player base would change drastically.

[Ronzeru]

Just cuz they are geared and show off, doesn't mean its easy to keep them up. There are plenty of geared ones that show off, who in reality, are retards that eat every single broadcasted move, yet plan on being healed through all of it after pulling every thing from the entrance, all the way to the first boss room.

[Mitski]

If no one communicates and you wipe, it's everyone's fault.

[Orophin]

I don't think people should have the mindset of going forward with a speed run if they're queuing the last person through the DF. I joined an AK group through the DF last night and ended up with a BLM who had never done it before and a WHM without relic. You never know what you're going to get through the DF so I always assume the worst and just treat things like a normal run when queuing in DF. It's probably the reason I always choose AK over WP as well because people usually don't try to do anything out of the ordinary.

[Ryios]

Just let them all die, and they can leave. I don't leave dungeons on idiots. I just nonchalantly continue to heal them like nothing is wrong until they rage out on me. Then I just blow it off like a cool cat, "Oh, I'm sorry. I will try harder ok, pull again". And each and every time I'll be like "Ok I got it this time, I promise", "Oh so sorry, I hit protect instead of medica, my bad". I just continue on like I'm trying and nothing is wrong until they crack and leave.

I'm close to 50 on my new character, an alt, WHM. I'm sure I'll have this same problem when I get there next week.

Tempted to just farm philo mats on my main and have someone make me a full vanya HQ set and have a friend mail it to my WHM

[Astarica]

There are the guys who say they never wipe with a PUG and then there are the guys who actually never wipe with a PUG. The latter is elite, while the former is not.

For all the talks about being efficient and awesome, there sure are a lot of people who don't realize that dying tends to cause the greatest amount of downtime. These guys also tend to be the ones that take a 30 seconds detour to avoid a mob that can be killed in 20 seconds and rage when you do have to fight the mob.

People seem to think elite players ought to play with surgical precision like a ninja, even though it is far safer to simply destroy everything in a methodicial manner when you're playing with players of unknown skill level. It's easy to screw up fancy moves, but even bad players generally know how to kill everything from point A to point B. Part of being elite is realizing the limitation of a group so you don't waste time doing fancy stuff.

[Molly_Millions]

LOL I always assume the people in my party in the DF have no idea what they are doing. I don't care if they have full myth gear and relic +1. If they want me to pull faster after they have proven otherwise, then great. Generally, in DF parties, I'm the best geared one by far.

[Velveteer]

Bring back the days of running dungeons for 2 weeks just to get one RARE drop and the player base would change drastically.

But muh real life responsibilities.

TBH, most of the older generation that plays mmos like this (because the younger folks flock to things like LoL, minecraft or TF2) would find it a bit... difficult in terms of trying to keep up in gear-wise.
But I do get what you're saying.

[Doo]

It's mostly Titan run buyers that probably play like that! That's why buying titan runs = bad.

With great gear, comes great responsibilities.

[ApolloGenX]

Honestly, if the team was as geared as you say, then there's no reason you should have had any issue. Well geared people don't take much healing.

Most people who act like idiots "showing off" are actually terrible and take tons of avoidable damage. They aren't good, and end up being carried by healers that are forced to try to heal their stupidity.

I don't care if you have a relic +1 (I have one, too)... don't stand in fire. Use defensive CDs. Stop being an idiot. You aren't saving time, you are just being a sloppy idiot that takes as much damage as a noob tank, but think it's "okay" because you're so cool in your gear.

No- you are proof that even a total failure can wear high end gear.

-and "teehee" to the idiot jumping ranged dps that pulls and tries to "tank" because they are so geared... they survive because they have a top notch healer that can spam "curemoron", not because they are any good.