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    Dal S'ta
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    Gilgamesh
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    Bard Lv 98
    Quote Originally Posted by Adire View Post
    If these kinds of things are acceptable, I don't even know why I bother playing at my best in dungeons any more. I've given plenty of free rides, maybe it's time I get some free rides myself.
    People who have played other MMOs come into this one with the expectation that the whole player base should immediately be as experienced as they are. It's an easy assumption to make, and almost entirely useless. Some things that make that assumption less than useful include:

    Lack of experience with another MMO
    Lack of information about all those wonderful sites that tell you "how to get good" (in my experience, none of them do that well)
    Lack of Youtube videos geared to inexperienced players.
    Dearth of forum posts that discuss class/job rotations intelligently at anything under max level
    Lack of a manual explaining what advantage that brand new spell you just received gives you, and how to work it into your rotation.

    Add to that the wonderful level 60 changes to your rotation [Black mages, you have my sympathies] and you have players who Adire, for one, apparently can't stand to be around.

    I wonder just how many "free rides" commentators had back in the days when all MMOs were new. It took me, for example, six months to learn there was an Auction House in WoW back in BC. Of course, back then there wasn't a Youtube, there weren't game databases, everything you learned was as God and the Developers (same thing, mostly) intended -- by making mistakes, and sometimes being taught by veteran players who didn't believe that they were giving a "free ride" by taking the time to work with inexperienced players.

    Some advice, Adire. Get some "free rides" from others in a dungeon instance now and then. It may surprise you to learn that story dungeons might take a little longer, but they're not entirely hopeless.

    And, of course, if you only mean 'hard mode' or 'expert' dungeon queues ... none of this really applies to the OP, does it? ARF is a story mode instance.
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    Last edited by DPZ2; 03-02-2017 at 10:15 AM.