Quote Originally Posted by Elazu View Post
Yes, it should. Everyone is expected to carry their own weight, if someone doesn't out of sheer laziness he has no place in party-based content.
^ This.

Theres way too many people who are just plain lazy and cause dungeon runs to go from 15 mins or so to up to 30. I miss when mmos actually made you do crap in a pt often and required teamwork, most of them now are just single player games that lump people into pts rarely and then half the playerbase still tries to play like they're solo, bringing down the whole pt :/ I miss when everyone would pull their weight because they knew if they didn't, it'd drag down the rest of the pt.

Like today while doing expert, I had a i199 brd in my pt. The run was going incredibly slow, as in, almost 30 mins and barely passed the 2nd boss, so I look at what he's doing... Only spamming straight shot and thats it. So I ask why he's only doing that. "So I can crit". So I mention how heavy shot is what procs straight shot, not to mention the potency is lower on straight shot. His reply? "I'm not an elite player, only casual". That, in no way, is a viable excuse for being that lazy. Dude had 9 60s. Was he so casual he couldn't even read what a skill did, that specifically shows it can proc another skill and has higher potency?

I know people are going to rage at me, but I really feel there should be some sort of lockout to participate in content if you can't even reach the minimum amount of dps required. As in, a quest before they can unlock expert, raids or ex primals, that requires them to reach a minimum of X dps. If they fail, they're locked out of that quest until the next day, so they can figure out what they did wrong and improve. I, like many others, am tired of trying to complete content, but keep getting held back by those 3-4 people who aren't pulling their weight who are hoping to get carried.

I'm not saying it has to be some hardcore quest that only a few can complete to unlock endgame, I'm just saying it needs to be difficult enough so someone who has no idea what they're doing / doesn't intend to learn, can't jump into content and ruin it for others who actually want to complete it, but easy enough so someone who has a basic understanding of their job, can do it.