Alexander: Who thought this was a good idea??

[Xairos]

I know "do it with friends" feels like a cop out, but SE hasn't really pushed us players to play together when in reality, that would fix so much frustration in this game.

I was pony farming with a horrible tank who won the only drop we saw. I was livid. I should have done it with friends.

[RiceisNice]

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It's more on a meta thing of the playerbase than what the developers push for. I mean they designed content in mind that we'd have the dedency to band together and achieve that goal. At least speaking for my server, we have players who sneak into farm parties, players who lie about how far they've seen the fight, players who sell runs, and in general players who can't be assed to play their job properly in a given circumstance. Just yesterday my friend was doing a learning party for Thordan, but the overall dps was so terrible that they could not get past sacred cross. The entire party was equipped with esotaric weapons.

Honestly we shouldn't need the game developers to "push" us to have human decency in an online environment, not completely forego it in favor of being jackasses or benefiting the fruit without the labor. I mean, more often than not, we're seeing people in alexander who can't work their basic job mechanics (like maintaing GL or astral/umbral cycles, and this is something that's introduced to them as early as level 4) or straight up alt-tabbing during a boss fight.