Quote Originally Posted by Lambdafish View Post
I don't think the word hypocritical applies when you are talking about a large group of people, all with differing opinions.

The problem lies with the theme park design of the game giving conflicting impressions on how a player should be playing their role. People do dungeons and then expect to be able to do all content that way, and the early game does nothing to eliminate this playstyle or line of thinking.
eg, POTD = Everyone's a dps, press x to win.
24-man alliance = Who's a good main tank, yes you are. Hey healers... Alliance C is dead can you... maybe? (Alliance C remains dead for the entire fight)
8-main raid = git gud or don't play, ever.
MSQ light party = Could you maybe not pull everything wall to wall with new players kthx.
PvP = Win trading and bots, who actually plays this content for serious?
LoV = More win trading.

Like there's at least 4 different combat styles (Zerg, Meta, BigPull and MSQ) and they don't work well together.


The duty recorder has a lot of potential, but right now it's basically not usable. Even going beyond combat, it could be used for players doing machinima-style things if some editing tools are provided to protect the privacy of players in the background by default.

It should be turned on by default on all duties, and players who don't opt in, are replaced with scions or other storyline-relevant NPC's.