The general player base needs to improve

[Gallus]

Can hardly call it baseless, but whatever, didn't mean to hurt anyone's feelings, when your opinion differs from the other one/s accusing them of being something you are against shouldn't be all that terrible. Maybe I could've been a bit more civilized with the "angry bullies" part, just replace those words for "temperamental folks" so that we don't have to go on an endless discussion about how disrespectful and terribly mean I've been by saying what I said, but just like I'm ignoring all the posts insulting, mocking or calling me toxic, TC can do exactly the same if he/she knows I'm wrong about him/her (in fact, I think himself/herself has done a much better work at that than the rest of the people). I don't think what I said was as terrible as you are making it out to be anyway.

You'll be amazed at how quickly people motivate themselves when reasonably pushed.

Gordias and A3S are a good example. People were surely very motivated with those turns and their tight DPS checks. They were so motivated that more than half the playerbase quitted the game. The term "reasonably" is ambiguous.

You realize the inherent hypocrisy here, yes? By casting a wide, generalizing net, you look just as toxic as the players you're accusing. When people cite those "refusing to learn," they mean dungeon runs where DPS will not AoE no matter how often they are asked; any job who has not even the basic idea how their job works despite being at max level. In plenty of cases, it's these people who get the most irate despite causing the problem. Or am I an "angry bully" for expecting you to press your AoE abilities when I pull ten mobs and you're wearing better gear than I am?

So what if they don't want to AOE, what are you going to do about it? Ask SE to make people use AOE actions on your dungeon runs? There's a limit to what SE can do. You guys think it's SE who is spoiling people by making things too easy. I don't agree with that. I think what we have now is what most people legit want, and I think you are in the minority here. Hunts are a good example of this. They are extremely easy content with high reward. At times, they are so crowded my screen can't even load the amount of people that are gathered next to them.