I just wanna doublecheck something (BLM)

[Karilyn]

Hi! I am BLM main too but I won't be answering your question. I just want to point out that you should report them for abusing the votekick. Votekick, currently, is not used for this subject of matter. It's rude to kick someone merely for this. Don't you think so?

Yeah. I wasn't even being rude. I think what I said was something like "Correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that it only becomes advantageous to use AOEs if there are at least 4 mobs, and that for 3 or less mobs you should stick to single target attacks." (I think this misconception might have been formed out of my main class being PLD and Flash's threat being astonishingly piss terrible) And then it was just all like "You were removed from the group." I've never exactly been known for being a rude person, and I usually pride myself on learning and being the best I can be at all times. So it really gave me a bit of an anxiety overload.

That being said I can't report him as I didn't take down his name, and I wouldn't want to get him in trouble with Square anyway. I've been trying to tell myself that him and the other two party members were friends who queued together and that they had been talking to each other in private about how bad they thought I was, instead of just being upfront and talking to me, and thus they worked up in their minds that I was worse than I actually was. That would mean it wasn't personal and was only just a big misunderstanding. They were right, I was playing badly because I didn't know BLM as well as I thought, and the only misunderstanding was in that they thought I wasn't willing to learn.

The most frustrating part of it was we were literally two pulls away from Aiatar, and both of the last two pulls are 2 mob pulls, so the argument didn't even matter anyway cause there was nothing left to AOE :/

EDIT: That being said, I now realize that Fire II does a lot more damage than I thought it did and I'll start using it on 3 mob pulls if the tank seems to be able to comfortably manage their threat. I'm still... uncomfortable with this, because as a PLD main, I'd prefer if players DoT'd everything then single target downed the mobs one at a time if there's only 3 mobs, not for threat reasons, but just because that feels faster. But if AOE is better then it's better, there's no arguing with that. I should give a deeper look at the AOEs of all the classes I play. (It feels REALLY weird AOEing only 3 mobs. Doesn't feel like an AOE spell in an MMO should be powerful enough for that to be viable.)