How a Meridianum and Praetoreum run should be!

[szalkerous]

People wouldn't think twice about it at all. They just wouldnt do the duty and new people would be sitting in DF for hours on end talking about how square needs to incentivize the story dungeons.

If you want to watch the cutscenes from front to back then make a pf for the duty. If you are going into DF you get what you get. That's just how it is.

This. I'm already on the brink of not doing MS roulette because of the obnoxious delays that I may or may not have to deal with when someone wants to be a white knight and hold the entire group hostage. I will never queue as a DPS again for that. As healer I can force the group to go or be left behind, as long as I have at least one tank and a DPS or two with the same mindset. Take that away and I will boycott that roulette entirely, and you can watch the L50's sit and cry about being stuck in the MSQ. THOSE are your options.

As it is, I'm tempted to do all my other roulettes first so I can dump any carebear group in the MS roulette I get stuck with. I'd rather eat the penalty than waste my time, and I am far, far, FAR from the only person who feels that way.

While there is no right way to run any content, there IS a wrong way. Too many dungeons that have had the unfortunate luck of being on 'farm' are too often ran the wrong way. You've got people trying to push speedruns, people who lack the patience to let others watch cutscenes, kicking people for being undergeared... All manner of wrong ways. Only takes a little decency to not do it wrong.

Decency works both ways. A first-timer could have the decency to not hold back 7 other people, by showing the courtesy in skipping cutscenes, and knowing the group won't hold it against them if they get lost, die, or otherwise don't contribute. I'll say it again, on my first time I was asked to skip all and I did. Now I make it a personal point to use my commendation for the first timers that play ball with the group (not that it really amounts to much, but it's the thought that counts).