Speed run etiquette

[Kidblinks]

Wait....you refuse to heal people because they don't say Hi to you?...

[Felis]

Wait....you refuse to heal people because they don't say Hi to you?...

No
Because they run away from him, as if they don't want buffs.

[Maleha]

No
Because they run away from him, as if they don't want buffs.

THIS! So much this! I have been farming for 2 sets of Zodiac items the last few weeks so I have had plenty exposure to some really impatient people. I cannot be the only healer that meets these types of people:
"Circle goes down! Doesn't matter the healer is the last to load in, I need to run out of buffcasting range even though I see them cast, but by the time they finish I am out of range, waiting over there for them!"
Please! Someone explain that logic to me. Can people not stand still for 5 seconds so I can finish Protect and Swiftcast+Stoneskin 2?

[Magusrex]

THIS! So much this! I have been farming for 2 sets of Zodiac items the last few weeks so I have had plenty exposure to some really impatient people. I cannot be the only healer that meets these types of people:
"Circle goes down! Doesn't matter the healer is the last to load in, I need to run out of buffcasting range even though I see them cast, but by the time they finish I am out of range, waiting over there for them!"
Please! Someone explain that logic to me. Can people not stand still for 5 seconds so I can finish Protect and Swiftcast+Stoneskin 2?

TY ..This... I did not articulate you it as well you did

[Magusrex]

Don't get me wrong either...you may not believe it but I am not a scrub, I know I can play. i can heal a speed run quite well, as a matter of fact when playing with good players I get compliments for making it faster. Running off, without a pause, never considering the MP or TP of your group members causing wipes makes the run go SLOWER. A pause here and there, some situational awareness to realize that your group is spread chasing is not optimal for what you are trying to acomplish, click of a regen if before you start pulling again if you can't wait 5 seconds because all the mobs will be on me if you don't.

Besides that, we are real people, why can't we just say hello to one another and communicate for 30 secs? Why do people have sprint off the moment they can?

[Ayrie]

Why must they say hello or hang out with you for 3 more mins while you finish your hulu show? People join for their own reasons, most of these reasons are enablers for another task: soldiery farming, zodiac drops, etc. Efficiency then becomes the main motivator, as completion of the dungeon is not the end of the task, merely the step.

Honestly, if you want to change behavior you have to understand what is enforcing the behavior. Grinding is enforcing this behavior. You cannot change the stimuli, thus you cannot change the root of the behavior.

Trying to do it will just frustrate you. And it will only aleniate the community from each other, like how this topic never fails to polarize the community almost as bad as political affiliation.

So compromise. There will be groups more reasonable to your pleas than others. Enjoy them. Truly. But there will also be others that will stress you. And in those I refer you back to trying to create constructive or positive change.