The Unspoken Rudeness

[NyarukoW]

..... "Carry me I don't want to put any effort into learning lol" attitude is so overwhelming that is permeates our culture like a stink cloud.

That is your own false interpretation and then using it for your own false indignation and insulting everyone else. It does NOT matter if there are a select few that want to troll or want to be carried, given a large enough player population, a seven sigmas away from norm, you are bound to encounter one of these, but the vast majority of players are not like that at all.

Since clearing T9 at the end of November, I've been helping others clear T9. What you find more commonly is overconfidence, people who over-rate their skill or knowledge, and then find themselves quickly over there heads. Having watched a video does not equal "know the mechanics", and without practice no player will know or be able to internalize the timing of mechanics at all even if it is something completely scripted like T9. If you have a group of 7 are trying to work on fire-in/fire-out/thunder and someone who is dying to lunar dynamo over and over, you just have to kindly ask them to leave. If they want to be mean and nasty about it, there is always the vote kick. But the one thing that really helps, is getting everyone in on voice chat (mumble/TS/etc.) and being able to talk will alleviate any of this kind of misunderstanding, and players will usually volunteer to leave after seeing that they do not understand it as well as they think.

....The video gives you immediate familiarity to the pacing and key mechanics. ....

Videos can't teach you pacing at all the stuff has all been edited to point out certain aspects or point of views. And the videos typically makes no sense and often is just information overload. I encourage people to run it once blind wipe for 20 minutes or so and then go watch the videos now with some awareness as to what to look for in the video.

...you're costing the other 7 members of your DF party up to 90 minutes each...

This is a game, game time is people playing together, wiping and having fun. "90 minutes each" of fun playing time is not a cost. If players are thinking about it as a cost like a job, need to paid, etc. then go do something else.

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But it's not only those who join, theres many who actually start farm parties with no clue on the fight also just hoping for 7 others to join to carry them.

This happens quite often actually. Instead of getting mad at the PF or other players, just realize you can NOT farm on the PF, you need a static to farm. You can recruit for your static and do tryouts and go from there.

... twist this into another "nobody helps noobs" thread...Everyone has the right to make a pf with any requirements they see fit...

That is such a false misrepresentation. First of all PF = Pseudo-Farm at best, I've seen so call farm parties with so called top players, at least in their own words, fail and wipe over and over and then get into a pissing match. If you want to farm, get your static together and farm, but do not expect the PF to magically supply you 7 other players. If you are using the PF, you are begging for others to assist you and unreasonable requires simply can not be met.

The thread was never a bout "nobody helps noobs", but rather it is about "no noobs wanted" and that is not acceptable. The OP started out on a neutral stance, but by the 3rd post, it betrayed the OP's real intent with the "stink cloud". Stop hating on the noobs. The unspoken rudeness is why people think it is ok ot hate on the noobs.

[Elusana_Celah]

huge misunderstanding

I think you are greatly misunderstanding the point of this post. I don't use voice chat because it ruins my gaming experience since the only reason I play an MMO is for the immersion and while this may not hurt other people's immersion, it does with mine. I learn everything about a fight including all of the triggers and do what I am supposed to do and never require babysitting. I am past T10 now just haven't made any learning parties for T11 yet.

Not gonna turn this into a VOIP discussion, to each their own. But again, I will make party finders, if other people want to get on a VOIP that's fine, I will not. But I shouldn't be obligated to do something I don't want to do in a party finder that I hosted simply because it might increase the chances of success with people who aren't really confident in the fight.

People usually get pissed off when I say this but I feel if I have to babysit someone in a voice chat and handfeed them every mechanic right before it's happening instead of them keeping focused and preparing for it on their own, it is STILL carrying them.

Some more appropriate uses of voice chat:

Discuss pre-battle strategies. Not everyone is a fast typer and some people understand better while listening than reading. I am one of those people who will lose focus on what's being said to me if someone is talking a lot so I need to read opposed to listen to the strategy.

People playing tank and offtank to call out provoke times to each other in the event that reading macros is too difficult. Not being sarcastic but I guess some people literally can't focus on a fight and glance over at a chat at the same time so whatever works for them.

Perhaps healers can use it to coordinate with each other in real time to make more effective use of their heals.
It is debatable whether it can speed up learning... or it could make them completely dependent on being told the mechanics so that's debatable usefulness.
It just aids synergy in some cases though I tried the voice chat with my friends to help them out of T9 and all we did was wipe for 6 hours so guess that didn't help them at all lol.

But I guess if you can lead people and think it'll help you get the job done by helping people out of 'tunnelvision' to get them to focus better then all the more power to you. I just don't want the extra stress by playing fight-mechanic babysitter.

[Frozenbear]

So you say this:"Not gonna turn this into a VOIP discussion, "
and then you say all this plus more:
"People usually get pissed off when I say this but I feel if I have to babysit someone in a voice chat"
"It is debatable whether it can speed up learning... or them completely dependent on being told the mechanics . "
"People playing tank and offtank to call out in the event that reading macros is too difficult."
"I tried the voice chat all we did was wipe for 6 hours so guess that didn't help them at all lol."
"But I guess if you can lead people and think it'll help by helping people focus better (not what voip is for btw~FB) more power to you. I just don't want the extra stress by playing fight-mechanic babysitter. "

clearly, you think people who use voip are inferior. I think people who derail other peoples threads are inferior.
please go start a voip opinion thread so we can continue this discussion there, and i can ask you how kb is more efficient than sound.

[Frozenbear]

This thread has it.