What is it with some tanks, healers, and dps?

[Kaethra]

Aside from the players who do not want to learn their role and class, the game itself does not teach you alot about playing your class/role.

No game does. All of these tab target games took the gamestyle model from EQ/WoW. Tank, Healer, DPS are actually originated from social constructs. Originally player created roles. If you played EQ in 1999-2001 you'd be hard pressed to say what a tank was. Anything in plate? Does that make clerics tanks? Anything with a taunt? That includes Rangers. What about heals? Well the game was originally designed with spells and abilities in such a way that you could take 6 of just about anything and do something with it.

Holy Trinity came later and was devised by players. WoW in 2004 took it a step further and specialized the roles. But there is one issue. As social constructs originally fabricated by players, the roles were meant to be taught to players by players. The system merely exists outside of that.

As a newer gen MMORPG. FFXIV has more clearly defined roles than previous games. It still suffers from the fact that rotations, even within defined roles are taught by players. Look at your rotation for example. Did SE make that rotation? Or was it theory crafters? And I'm speaking of the rotation that gives the highest results.

When a rotation is derived from an outside parser, or changes depending on gear or group make up. That makes it a social construct and not a developer one. So how could SE teach that? They can't. We have to figure it out, then teach it to others. By throwing up our hands and complaining that someone didn't learn their class. We shoot ourselves in the foot. Its our responsibility to teach them. -We- made the optimal rotations after all. If we don't share that information, how else will they learn?

Unless we want SE to make buttons light up for us, indicating the best ability to use at the time. They could do that. It won't be as optimal as our own rotation. But they could do that. I don't want that though.

[Fluffernuff]

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No game truly can teach it's inner workings to the players. Even if it could, the human brain is a bit better at ripping things apart than machines, anyway(at least for now). But I'll throw my 2 cents following this train of thought.

It's just a shame that the "great community" we have isn't as front and center as it's touted. I mean, not in the content most of us find ourselves in. I simply love the novice network on Goblin and the helpfulness I can offer and receive from those social avenues. It's such a different picture than is painted on the forums.

Yet, in the same vein, I will inevitably find myself required to use the Duty Finder, and all that shine melts away. Very rarely words will be shared. When they are, they tend to be negative- chastising others, singling people out. It's really no wonder both sides of this... "Debate" are so clearly divided. (most of the time it's just complaining)

One side simply complains of the other. "you're bad." "can you even read your tooltips?" "stop being lazy." How does any of that foster any willingness to learn or improve? How does any of that help recognize constructive criticism? It's no wonder that nuetral toned responses to one's play are viewed as attacks.

With the introduction of Palace of the Dead, and more new players being introduced to these endgame skills, of COURSE they wouldnt have the insight on how theyre are used. But- "Might as well roll my eyes and keep my mouth shut. If I ignore, it will disappear after this duty." The mentality seems to be to scoff at these players, or not even bother with them.

There's not really a simple or easy fix for what we find ourselves in... but I really don't think complaining or keeping quiet is going to help matters. If this is how we treat PotD, I can only imagine the state Stormblood will be in with those leveling potions. I feel more of us need to stock up on olive branches in the next 3 months, because I don't see this "problem" going away without them.

[HiroKirito]

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I appreciate the point about sharing information but ultimately only the players who care will look it up. You could argue it\\'s the responsibility of the player base to pass this on in game especially as a "mentor" system exists.

My example today pulled a duty with another mentor who happened to be running the job I main, I checked thier search info and you know the type "Main: X Job, other mains: *list every other job IG with some random ilvl attached*"

I dont expect randoms to be at AS level its DF after all but I expect, especially from another mentor atleast a basic understanding of how to play thier job.

Long story short I after watching him ignore all mechs for 5 mins, eat every aoe, I can only determine that his opener and rotation consists of smashing his face against the keyboard.

These are the people the game determines qualified to teach and I pray no one has every been "taught" anything by that guy.

[Kaethra]

I appreciate the point about sharing information but ultimately only the players who care will look it up. You could argue it\\'s the responsibility of the player base to pass this on in game especially as a "mentor" system exists.

That is actually the real problem truth be told. As I've said, good players 'get it' and do what they're supposed to do. What this thread does is confuses the bad players, the ones who also 'get it' but don't do as they should, either because someone else will or they can't be bothered. With the ones who are ignorant. This thread complains about ignorant players 'leveling too fast'. When I have yet to see evidence of that being the cause of group issues.

My experience with bad players has been most recently of one calling me names and other insults because I didn't do something he wanted (it would have wiped the group if I did what he requested). He knew his class, he knew the fights. But he wanted to be in the spotlight and got himself dead because of it. Palace of the Dead didn't cause that. Leveling too fast didn't cause that. His mother and father not using protection caused that.