Quote Originally Posted by RiyahArp View Post
Oh come on, you're exaggerating to heck. I'm on the same data center as you and I do my runs mostly solo, and I never see this, period. And i probably do more overall than you
I'm on your Data Center and I have been on it for 4 years.

I can safely say I have highly likely done more content than you in DF and PF considering the amount of achievements and farming I have done (I collect mounts) and I've leveled an alt.

I have seen a lot of bad runs and a lot of players who are not very good at this game...and I'm being nice on my description. I am not taking into account obviously new players since that obviously wouldn't be fair, everyone was new at one point and didn't understand things etc....I am talking about people with a lot of jobs leveled not new to the content etc and basically don't seem to understand at all how the game works despite how much time they've spent playing it.

I've seen Nidhogg trial runs where there was no new player message and still someone mentions "if you see the big orange circle with the down arrow everyone stack" for his last phase or any other description reminding of that mechanic, and yet we get there and the person who gets the mark runs away with it and dies. I've seen that many many times actually. I've seen people with multiple jobs leveled who don't seem to understand the stack mechanics in a lot of fights even though it is prominent throughout the entire game. They get marked and run away and die with it.

Seen a tank in Bardam's Mettle where I just ended up leaving because they had multiple jobs leveled and are level 66, not new, and couldn't hold hate on anything at all so the healer was dying and we wiped on every pull. Seen another tank in Dusk Vigil who had PLD at 65 and DRK at 70 and didn't know how to maintain aggro. Neither of those players were new.

I can't count how many times I've seen people in Bismarck hitting the Corona from the island and not getting on his back even though no one is new. They sit there and do 0 damage and don't even realize it. Obliviousness is rampant in this game in my experience. I also can't count how many times people have said "you have to get on his back to hit the Corona otherwise you do 0 damage", yet the next time it happens there are still 2 people on the island still trying to DPS him and doing nothing. I've actually seen the island break back in HW because 2 BRD's and a SMN wouldn't get on his back and no matter how many times people said "get on his back" to the point of spamming the entire chat box with it they still wouldn't get on and after we wiped two of them finally said "oh sorry I didn't see" and they WEREN'T NEW. Not to mention when we tried again the two BRD's were still not getting on his back even after all of that.

I could go on, but I'll be here typing for hours on end explaining all of the issues I've seen. People rarely listen to help in my experience too and they get defensive if you dare say anything, either that or as I said in another thread you can only tell someone so many times to put the square peg into the square hole and yet they keep trying to put it into the triangle hole. It ends up being a lost cause sometimes.

So it seems your experience is not the same as mine. Also when it comes to noticing mistakes you kind of have to know a lot about the fight mechanics and/or the jobs being played to pick up on some of them. I am not saying you aren't knowledgeable since this is just a general statement, but some people might not know things are being done incorrectly due to simple ignorance of the mechanic or job. For example, like if you had a BRD who never used Straight Shot for the buff. If you never touched BRD and never knew what Straight Shot was how would you know they were playing incorrectly?

So some people might be like "everyone in my runs are fine and I don't see people making mistakes on mechanics or their jobs", but they may not have the knowledge to understand what mistakes were made. Just because no one died for example doesn't mean people didn't fail mechanics and even if someone dies some people might not understand the "why" behind it.