Yes, people are awful. What I find most appalling personally are the people who want to be carried through everything. Today I had a BLM in my Shiva EX who just cast Fire 3, waited 1-3 seconds after his cast was done, then cast Bliz 3, then waited 1-3 seconds after his cast was done, then cast Fire 3, etc. etc. Really only cast Fire 3/Bliz 3, and took long pauses between casts. You don't need a parser to know his dps was absolute garbage. Calling him out made him say other people were stupid, because hey you ought to try this really awesome method of maximizing dps! lol...

I really have zero sympathy for newbies and their desire for others to pass gear for them. I'm not running content for charity. "Throwing items away" for GC seals and desynth? OP clearly has no idea how many GC seals crafter/gatherers need (or people working on relic, for that matter). Relic is 80k GC seals. Each Lucis tool is 80k GC seals. That's... quite a lot of GC seals. Desynth at higher levels is pretty expensive, so it is desirable to desynth dungeon gear instead. Plus, people may also want glamours, you know? I can't tell you how many runs it took me to get my Divine Death gear, or how many runs I take each week to get a piece of gear I want from WoD. Think I should do another 50 runs that week because someone might want that casting skirt? Yeah, no. Hope for luck like everyone else, newbies.

If you want to talk about gear, I hate situations like some scrub NIN who is dead the entire run in Shiva EX thinks he's entitled to roll on the mount when it drops even though his contribution to the run was mostly negative, and we'd have done better going in as 7. You have no idea how often terrible players get loot when they straight up got carried through the run. Have some respect for yourself and others. Don't just participate - contribute.