Leveling & Player Skill in PotD - am I the odd one out?

[Faliandra]

Some people seem to insinuate that it's PotD's fault when people only know how to press 1 2 3 on their job, but that's simply not true. It's their own fault.

You are right, I agree it's people's fault.
But the game is allowing it to happen and actually encourages new players to spend a good amount of time in it because:
"OMG, I can level in there and get a good weapon?!"


And Idk if you noticed but I sure have, that during the last few months, DF player quality has dropped drastically.
I do not remember it being nearly as bad before.

Also take into account, that PotD got nerfed quite a bit when they introduced floors 51+, so it became even easier.
Before that, it wasnt too uncommon to wipe in floors 31+ when people became too reckless.
Now hardly anything bad can happen in PotD that will really make you use all of your abilities.

Monk is probably the best example. PotD has no positional requirements, and keeping your Greased Lightning stacks for very long is basically impossible. These are important skills for Monk and simple cannot be learned in PotD, no matter how long you spend in there.

I made exactly that mistake and spent most of my time with my MNK in PotD. Now, I am one of those people who just wanted it at 60 for the sake of having it at 60. I do not enjoy melee classes in particular,
I am absolutely NOT used to positionals etc. And really, mobs in PotD die before i can even build up my buffs and they usually run out before we get to attack the next mob.
Trying to keep your stuff up absolutely doesnt work there as people mostly just do SINGLE pulls that are killed in 2 seconds. I would like to do better as a MNK,
I even have a nice spreadsheet with rota and opener of monks, but I'll be frank, I just cant memorize it along with the positionals. I just dont care enough
because I wont ever play my monk.

I definitely wouldnt call myself a bad player, but I'm a bad monk. And you know what? When I did do a few normal dungeons in the end to get it to lvl 60, it wasnt too
uncommon for me to still be first in DPS. That was scary AF and I have no idea how its even possible.